Michael Gale's Futures In Focus

Mark Bunting, the entrepreneur behind Sky TV and the CMO of cloud pioneer Rackspace talks about the ideal CMO ten years from now and how AI is evolving.

Phil McKinney , former Head of Innovation at HP shares loads of ideas about the future of many things including the cable industry, how best to learn and healthcare for the elderly. Plus, Star Trek's wondrous holodecks might become real at last. 

David Bray , former CIO of the FCC and executive director of the People Centered Internet Coalition. Listen as Bray talks about major shifts in how we should be thinking about governance of ourselves, our companies, our governments, and our communities. He puts some ideas out there that are vastly different to what we think now but make amazing sense.  

Guido Jouret , Chief Digital Officer for ABB engineering, is right in the center of how we re-thing and re-engineer buildings and the power grid for the next decade. Neither will look or feel the same as now according to Jouret. Enjoy the idea of organistic buildings and rooms adjusting to you.

Mick Ebeling , founder of Not Impossible Labs, says technology should be far more focused on solving impossible challenges that will get only more challenging over time. Hear how tech can improve access, medical and social issues going forward.

Mo Katibeh , president and CMO of AT&T business talks about possibilities far closer than we might have thought possible. 5G is merely the tip of the iceberg for a latency-free world of cloud applications and experiences that feel as fast and as personal as our imaginations will allow.

Andrew Swinand, CEO of Leo Burnett USA, talks about changes in how marketing agencies have to think and design for success, as we enter an age where one big idea, one great piece of creative is not enough. 

Anton Andrews , Head of Envisioning for Modern, Work and Life Microsoft Imagine an office where the walls are your laptop and your hands, voice and eyes are your new keyboards.  Listen to Anton Andrews, Head of Envisioning for Modern, Work and Life Microsoft, as he talks about the possibilities of "the office" in ten years time.

Rich McBee, the CEO of Mitel, talks about amazing ways the Internet of Things is being used now and what these early leaders are showing us -- from restaurants to pest control companies to major corporations.    

Brad Barbera is the Director of Innovation at the Good Food Institute. Brad talks about a future where what we eat, as well as how it is manufactured, is going to be noticeably different.  

Michael Schrage - MIT Media Labs and Imperial College visiting professor who sees the future of work and self in a very unique way.

This is the original launch episode of Michael Gale's Futures In Focus.