Episode 40 - Charlie Oliver on Tech 2025, Open and Thought Provoking Conversations about our Near Future
Tech 2025's Charlie Oliver stops by the Foursquare office to discuss her approach to engaging and energizing the public with topics on emerging technology. We discuss:
- The evolving attitudes of some of the industry leaders and technical experts, and the disconnect between themselves and the people affects by their creations.
- How to engage the public on topics like Machine Learning, AI, and Blockchain without going the route of the "technical boring lecture"
- How passions and emotions can be stirred up by product creation; and can take the creators completely by surprise.
This is a packed episode. Check out tech2025.com, and enjoy!
Articles Mentioned
Let’s Stop Freaking out about AI (Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun) - an article that did not sit well with Charlie, but inspired her to start tech 2025.
Dr. James Fan
Joe Rickets
Civil Media
Self Driving Trucks Tech2025 Episode
Related Episodes
Episode 38 on Technology Predictions
Episode 29 with Clyde Vanel on Blockchain
Episode 26 with Chris Messina on Product Trends
Episode 10 about the Mark Zuckerberg congressional testimony
About the Guest
Check out the tech 2025 podcast
Charlie’s twitter Account
Charlie’s years of experience in the trenches of old media include working in advertising in New York at such media goliaths as BBDO Worldwide and Condé Nast, to producing sitcoms and dramas at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks and Oscar-award winning indie production companies, to event management at the Sundance Film Festival.
After spending several years in corporate law in document review at global firms (White & Case, Clifford Chance and Wachtel Lipton, to name a few), Charlie segued seamlessly into tech and new media as a web video producer where she co-created and co-produced experimental web video projects. Soon thereafter, Charlie launched Art of Talk TV (a web video platform that brought the world of talk shows online).
Served Fresh Media™ (a New York-based company that provides digital media strategy, product development, and branding across platforms including social media, mobile, and live-events) was a natural next step in her evolution. At Served Fresh Media, Charlie and her team provide digital strategy, senior management advisory, team building and training, strategic partnerships, and product development for companies. Clients Served Fresh Media has worked with include IBM, New York Press Club, Digital Media Wire, Digital Flash, and It’s About Time, among others.
In the Fall of 2016, Charlie launched Tech 2025 to educate entrepreneurs and consumers on the next wave of disruptive, emerging technologies that are expected to drastically change our world in the next decade (AI, machine learning, driverless vehicles, IoT, blockchain, VR, etc.), through live-events and interactive workshops with industry experts. The mission of Tech 2025 is to help entrepreneurs and the general public to understand and embrace emerging technologies.
