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The Australian

20 episodes

6 months ago

Change is coming faster than ever in 2020 as a global crisis forces the world to grapple with a host of issues. New vaccines. New ways to work. Entirely new industries. So how can technology help us steer through the turbulence, and perhaps even land on a fairer, safer future?

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Change is coming faster than ever in 2020 as a global crisis forces the world to grapple with a host of issues. New vaccines. New ways to work. Entirely new industries. So how can technology help us steer through the turbulence, and perhaps even land on a fairer, safer future?

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Episodes (20/20)

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/bonus preview of Beyond COVID: Emerging Smarter

4 years ago

15 minutes

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4 years ago

23 minutes

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In the final episode of season one, Atlassian chief executive and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes speaks at length about technology and leadership in Australia, how he balances his own advocacy against running one of the country's hottest companies...

4 years ago

41 minutes

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Covid 19 has brought disruption to many industries, but disruption is increasingly common to all business and that will continue beyond the coronavirus. That’s why IBM have designed specific Cloud solutions for heavily regulated industries, helping org...

4 years ago

12 minutes

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What happens when your booming company loses 80 per cent of its business overnight? Airbnb cofounder Brian Chesky was already planning for a busy 2020 with an IPO on the cards, but the COVID-19 turned everything upside down. In this exclusive interview...

4 years ago

44 minutes

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/bonus blockchain

One of the areas where blockchain is being applied is in the simplification of the bank guarantee process. It’s a complex, paper based process that can take up to a month to issue due to the fact that multiple parties are often involved. With Lygon, IB...

4 years ago

11 minutes

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In 2017, cryptocurrency looked like another story of tech success. Skyrocketing prices for Bitcoin and other digital currencies turned early adopters into millionaires, and a niche product quickly gained mainstream appeal. But the infrastructure around...

4 years ago

38 minutes

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/bonus manufacturing

So called Exponential technologies like Artificial Intelligence, 5G telecommunications, Internet of things and automation will mean the manufacturing plant of the future will look very different. Manish Chawla IBM's Global Managing Direct...

4 years ago

13 minutes

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Manufacturing is often seen as a holy grail industry that provides long-term high paying jobs, imbues a country with a sense of pride (even if misplaced) and reassures the public that we are going to be self-sufficient in a crisis. But manufacturing as...

4 years ago

39 minutes

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/bonus carbon data

Digitisation has brought the world to our fingertips and created enormous economic efficiencies and opportunities. But all those apps and analytics and APIs have to run on servers somewhere and as our usage grows, so too does the energy needed to power...

4 years ago

7 minutes

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Solar generation is an Australian success story. We're innovators, adopters, and exporters of technology and expertise. But experts are now warning that Australia now risks being left behind, just as a tidal wave of demand appears on the horizon.

4 years ago

32 minutes

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/bonus AI for the eye

Following on from our episode on artificial intelligence and the dangers of bias, in this bonus episode we are looking at ways that AI can help predict diseases far earlier, and how researchers at IBM are removing bias from the model.

4 years ago

16 minutes

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From facial recognition to predictive policing to approving a loan, AI is touted as a solution that is faster, cheaper and more effective. But it also has the potential to get it wrong, and regulators are worried. So if Artificial Intelligence is analy...

4 years ago

32 minutes

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/bonus payments

The growth of buy now pay later firms like afterpay and zip has driven home the fundamental gap between millennial expectations of simplified financial services, and what the big banks are offering. In this bonus episode we look at what incumbents need...

5 years ago

11 minutes

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Buy now, pay later companies are eating up an increasing share of the retail transaction market at a time when credit cards are on the wane. It's another example of neglected customers finding a better experience with an innovative start-up produc...

5 years ago

25 minutes

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/bonus cybersecurity

One of the difficulties of editing together a series like this is all the great material left on the cutting room floor, so we're going to start releasing some extra interviews with IBM's team of experts and insiders in-between the remaining ...

5 years ago

14 minutes

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The group of parties who have benefited from 2020 is an extremely exclusive club. But one clear standout has been the hackers making hay in a global crisis. Experts say they've never seen a widespread cybersecurity campaign like the one unleashed ...

5 years ago

25 minutes

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Working from home has created a whole new dynamic at the bargaining table between employer and employee. Would you be prepared to concede some elements of your privacy in exchange for a flexible environment that puts you in charge of how you work? Th...

5 years ago

26 minutes

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When will we get a COVID-19 vaccine? There's never been a question more people around the world have asked at the same time. Those on the frontlines of this search for a cure are under enormous pressure to deliver a safe solution in record time, a...

5 years ago

30 minutes

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2020 has seen the world reshaped at an unprecedented pace. Eras that once spanned a decade fly past in the space of a month. Trends that lasted weeks are lucky to survive an entire day. Technology is accelerating a lot of these changes, but could it ...

5 years ago

1 minute