The Futurist

In this episode, i speak with globally recognized Futurist Hannes Sapiens, also a co-contributor to the recent book "After Shock". Bio Hannes Sapiens Sjoblad is an internationally recognised thought leader, media commentator and professional advisor on biohacking, human augmentation and the impact of exponential technologies on the human condition. As a campaigner and activist he works t...

Cat Tully, Founder School of International Futures, with Futurist Ian Khan In this episode, i speak with Cat Tully, an accomplished Futurist and Educator. Bio Cat Tully is the founder of SOIF, the School of International Futures. Cat has extensive experience as a practitioner, helping governments, civil society and businesses to be more strategic, more effective, and better prepared for the future...

Ignacio Peña, Singularity University, XPRIZE, Wharton with Futurist Ian Khan In this episode, i speak with Ignacio Peña Bio Ignacio Peña is a strategist, an innovator, an advisor and an international speaker. He founded Surfing Tsunamis, a catalyst of abundance, inclusion and regeneration based on the power of transformational innovation. Recent initiatives range from putting in motion Open Space...

Welcome to a new episode of the Ian Khan Show. In this special "After Shock" series, I am interviewing with one of the world's Top 50 futurists. This week I am speaking to Paul Stimers, a globally recognised Futurist, Founder of the Davinci Institute and CSP. About Paul Stimers Mr. Stimers focuses his policy advocacy efforts on matters related to emerging technologies, such as comme...

About Jerome Glenn Jerome C. Glenn is the co-founder (1996) and CEO of The Millennium Project (on global futures research) and lead-author with Elizabeth Florescu, and The Millennium Project Team of the State of the Future 19.1 report of The Millennium Project and 18 other State of the Future reports for the past twenty years. He was the Washington, DC representative for the United Nations Univers...

About Rebecca D Costa Rebecca D. Costa is an American sociobiologist and futurist. She is the preeminent global expert on the subject of "fast adaptation" and recipient of the prestigious Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Award. Her career spans four decades of working with founders, executives and leading venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Costa's work has been featured...

This week I am speaking with Dr. Aris Persidis. About Aris Persidis Dr. Persidis is President and co-founder of Biovista. He has also served as Senior Vice President at Upstate/Serologicals, Managing Director and President of RHeoGene, and Assistant Director-Medical School Technology Transfer Program – and Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the Entrepreneurial Center of the Wharton School of Busines...

About JOSÉ MOREY, MD., IS the Chief Medical Innovation Officer for Liberty BioSecurity where he helps drive innovation across world leading multidisciplinary teams that sit at the epicenter of genetic intelligence, national defense biotechnologies, precision medicine and augmented human performance. Previous to this, Dr. Morey served as Associated Chief Health Officer for IBM Watson Health leading...

Welcome to a new episode of the Ian Khan Show. In this episode i interview Dr. Jonathan Venn. Dr. Venn is a contributor to After Shock and has been a clinical psychologist for over 49 years. Dr. Venn has 49 years of experience providing psychological services. In that time he has been a military officer, served for four years on the staff of a Fortune 500 Corporation, served on the staffs or facul...

Welcome to a fresh new episode of the Ian Khan Show. This weeks episode is a conversion with Parag Khanna. About Parag Khanna Parag Khanna is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. Parag's newest book is The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Cultur...

About Nell Watson Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson is a Machine Intelligence research who helped to pioneer Deep Machine Vision at her company QuantaCorp, which enables fast and accurate body measurement from just two photos. In sharing her knowledge as AI Faculty at Singularity University and author of Machine Intelligence courseware for O’Reilly Media, she  realised the importance of protecting human right...

This week I speak with co-collaborator and contributor to "After Shock", Rohit Bhargava. Rohit Bhargava believes the world needs more non-obvious thinking. He is an innovation and marketing expert, skilled facilitator, and keynote speaker. After a successful 15 year career as a brand and marketing strategist at two of the largest agencies in the world (Ogilvy and Leo Burnett), Rohit beca...

About Bill Diamond Bill Diamond is President and CEO of the SETI Institute, which he joined in 2015.  He has worked predominantly in applied technologies with over 20 years’ experience in photonics and optical communications, and more than a decade in X-ray and semiconductor processing technologies.   His corporate background spans the spectrum from venture-backed start-ups to Fortune 100 multinat...

About Barry O’Reilly Barry O’Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. Barry works with business leaders and teams from global organizations that seek to invent the future, not fear it. Every day, Barry helps with many of the world’s leading companie...

About Moon Ribas Moon Ribas is a Catalan avant-garde artist and cyborg activist best known for developing the Seismic Sense, an online seismic sensor once implanted in her feet that allowed her to perceive earthquakes taking place anywhere in the planet through vibrations in real time. In order to share her experience, she then translated her seismic sense on stage. Ribas transposed the earthquake...

About Anders Sörman-Nilsson Anders Sörman-Nilsson (LLB / EMBA) is a global futurist and innovation strategist who helps leaders decode trends, decipher what’s next and turn provocative questions into proactive strategies. With an average of 240 international travel days a year, Anders’ view is that the future and the now are converging in a city or start-up near you, giving the curious, the creati...

I am thrilled to have Dr. Anita Sengupta on the Ian Khan Show in an After Shock special episode. Bio - Dr Anita Sengupta Dr. Anita Sengupta is a rocket scientist and aerospace engineer who for over 20 years has been developing technologies that have enabled the exploration of Mars, Asteroids, and Deep Space. She started her career working on the launch vehicles and communications satellites at Boe...

About Joe Tankersley Joe Tankersley is a writer, futurist, and former Walt Disney Imagineer. He combines his broad experience as a storyteller with a deep knowledge of strategic foresight to help organizations create compelling visions for better tomorrows. During his 20 years at Walt Disney Imagineering, Joe led creative teams on projects for Epcot, Magic Kingdom Park, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Di...

In this episode of the Ian Khan show, and a special After Shock series, Ian speaks to fellow Futurist and contributor Bryan Alexander. Bryan Alexander is an award–winning, internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher, working in the field of higher education’s future. He completed his English language and literature PhD at the University of Michigan in 1997,...

About Sohail Inayatullah Professor Sohail Inayatullah /sə'heɪl ɪnaɪʌ'tʊla/, a political scientist, is Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies) and Associate, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne. From 2001-2020, he was Adjunct Professor from the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. From 2011-2014, he was Adjunct Professor a...

In this episode of the Ian Khan show, an After Shock Special" I spoke with "The Real Life Iron Man" Richard Browning. Richard is an inventor and founded Gravity Industries. Gravity Industries, founded in 2017 has grown from its humble beginnings into a multi-million dollar organisation whose influence spans the globe. Led by the Founder Richard Browning who dared to ask ‘what if’. &...

World Bank Chief Economist in Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation, Wolfgang Fengler, joined Ian Khan on the Ian Khan show. Discussing the current state of the world and the future. Wolfgang Fengler is the World Bank’s Lead Economist in Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation. A native German, Wolfgang has been a staff member of the World Bank for more than 18 years, during which he lived i...

About Dr. Vikram Mansharamani Dr. Vikram Mansharamani is a global trend-watcher who shows people how to anticipate the future, manage risk, and spot opportunities. He is the author of the recently-released THINK FOR YOURSELF: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence and BOOMBUSTOLOGY: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst.  He has been a frequent commentator o...

Deborah Westphal is on the Ian Khan show. It’s such a pleasure to speak to someone who has worked so closely with Alvin Toffler and Toffler Assocates. This episode is a special After Shock episode and Deborah’s insights have been so exciting. Bio Deborah Westphal is a passionate humanist who has guided our era’s top minds and leaders to challenge biases, ignite ideas, and build connections and res...

In this episode i speak with Rodrigo Nieto, also a co-contributor to the recent book "After Shock". Bio Dr. Rodrigo Nieto is a geostrategist and defense futurist focused on the consequences of the accelerating pace of change in homeland security and policing environments. He is a research professor at the National Security Affairs Department and at the Center for Homeland Defense and Sec...