Drew Ianni

We are awash in personal and customer data. And as privacy, cybersecurity and growing regulations around artificial intelligence remain front-and-center issues, how does a data goliath like Mastercard manage its data strategy to benefit its customers while respecting privacy and insuring security?

Managing day-to-day operations is challenging enough during this extended crisis but how can global organizations continue to drive innovation-at-scale given the many organizational and cultural hurdles that lie ahead?

Since Covid, IBM’s AI ethics committee, chaired by Montgomery, meets twice weekly. And IBM recently announced it would no longer offer facial recognition software. What is the future of privacy as tech innovations accelerate and, with Covid-19, risk becoming more intrusive?

Innovation Endeavors is a VC firm that funds companies that seek solutions to social problems, even global ones. One theme: super evolution–the idea that startups can now harness rapid prototyping and vast pools of data to develop radical new business models quickly and at scale.

Even as US/China tech relations remain fraught, the country is at the cutting edge of AI, e-commerce, and mobile payments, among others. China investing expert Yeung tells us how to think about the country and where it shows the most promise. The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading.   […]

Agile started as a software technique–to move quickly and iterate to achieve breakthroughs. Now entire companies can use the approach to make themselves more innovative. How does it work? The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading.   Drew Ianni: Good segue from digital transformation of New York City to—we’re […]