A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and ranked one of the “50 Leading Female Futurists” in the world by Forbes, April Rinne (pronounced Rih-Nee) is a trusted advisor to well-known brands and organizations including Airbnb, Nike, Intuit, the...
Dr. Rebecca Parsons is the Chief Technology Officer at Thoughtworks (TWKS), a global software consultancy. Dr. Parsons has deep technical expertise, including leading the creation of large-scale distributed applications and the integration of...
We don’t know about you, but we’ve been spending more time at home this year, which has made us highly cognizant of how reliant we are on physical spaces that are in need of being serviced on an ongoing basis. One company trying to disrupt the home...
Victoria Montgomery-Brown is CEO and co-founder of Big Think, the knowledge company that makes people and companies smarter and faster through short-form video with the world’s best thinkers and doers. Since founding Big Think in 2007, Victoria...
Celebrating 100 Episodes of FUTURPROOF For our 100th episode, we wanted to try something a little different. You’re going to hear what the team behind this show has found most interesting from the conversations we’ve had with futurists and leaders...
If there’s anything we’ve noticed from our work on this show, it’s that sometimes society focuses on the bright, shiny object instead of the quote-unquote unsexy technologies and products we as humans need to survive. One of those unsexy...
Women have made strides in the workplace over the last few decades, but there’s still plenty of progress yet to be made. In particular, women are underrepresented within executive leadership of many organizations. Is that going to change in our...