Techonomy

Our continuing CDX Digital Roundtable series recently welcomed innovation and emerging product executives from the banking giant Citi and the new regional bank Truist (formed by the merger of SunTrust and BB&T).

Last week, Clarim Media’s new Chief Content Officer and fintech expert James Ledbetter shared a highly informative and insightful conversation on the GameStop saga with Alexis Goldstein and Christine Lagorio-Chafkin.

Universities and colleges are facing momentous new challenges as they respond to the Covid-19 crisis. For one, they are undergoing rapid technologization, almost overnight. In a recent Techonomy roundtable, a panel of three experienced educators addressed the new obstacles and what the future of higher learning AC (after-Covid) may look like.

Techonomy recently hosted a conversation about the dramatic rise of nonfungible tokens (NFT) and what they mean for the future of blockchain-driven technologies in general, and the art market in particular.

“This is the first time in history when the entire world essentially stopped at the same time,” said Rishad Tobaccowala during a powerful conversation in a CDX digital roundtable recently. “Unlike other crises such as The Great Depression or 9/11, this is a global, simultaneous political, financial, and humanitarian crisis…it’s the equivalent of an asteroid hitting the earth… this will move all of us to rethink everything, which is why I call it the Great Reinvention.”

In 2018, Morgan Stanley launched its Multicultural Innovation Lab, an innovative in-house accelerator for tech-enabled companies that have a female or multicultural founder.

I was fortunate to land a lengthy interview with Jalak Jobanputra, the founder and managing partner of FuturePerfect Venture. We spoke during a roundtable discussion hosted by Techonomy, in front of a live digital audience.