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Ep. 26 – The Future of Tech Transfer
D'vorah Graeser started programming when she was 16 before earning a PhD in pharmacology. She went on to become a U.S. patent agent and, while immersed in the patent world, she noticed that many of the brilliant...
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Ep. 25 – The Professor and the Philosopher
This week, host Peter Bittner welcomes back artist, innovator and friend of The Upgrade Kris Krug. Over the last year, Peter and Kris have run courses together that help mediamakers, creatives and working...
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Ep. 24 – Is the Google Antitrust Ruling the End of Big Tech?
Ricky Sutton began his journalism career as a war correspondent in the Balkans before taking on roles as a news editor and founder of Oovvuu, a company that formerly helped publishers and broadcasters to better reach...
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Ep. 23 – Navigating the AI Revolution in Journalism
Nick Petrie has spent his career in journalism working to help news organizations like The Times and Sunday Times and Reuters figure out the relationship between newsrooms and product development as well as building...
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Ep. 22 – Human in the Loop: A Conversation with Noah Kravitz
Noah Kravitz started out as a stringer for a local newspaper in high school before moving out to the Bay Area to pursue a career covering tech. After years of writing product reviews he fell into a dream job hosting...
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Ep. 21 – The Scorpion and the Frog
Tamara McCleary started her career as a trauma nurse in the 1980s rescuing patients in helicopters and performing end of life care through hospice – an experience that gave her a keen interest in existential topics...
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Ep. 20 – Tech Goes Hollywood
Jagger Waters is a storyteller, writer and producer with a background in theater and comedy who spent her childhood behind the scenes at various local broadcast news stations, tagging along with parents who worked in...
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Ep. 19 – How AI is Shaking Up Marketing
Eldad Sotnick-Yogev was working in fine dining back in the late ‘90s when some friends told him about a new, and at the time little-known, search engine called Google. He started playing around with Google search and...
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Ep. 18 – Unleashing AI in Video with Stacie Chan
Stacie Chan has worked as a television and voiceover actor, reporter in California, Google Product Partnerships Manager, and as the recently exited co-founder of the successful text-to-video startup Vidiofy.ai. But...
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Ep. 17 – Is My Boss Using AI to Spy on Me?
Hilke Schellmann never saw herself as a tech reporter. As a journalism professor at NYU who has covered subjects like sexual violence in Pakistan, Hilke first got interested in AI during a chance encounter with a Lyft...
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Ep. 16 – Gucci in the Forest: A Psychedelic Journey with Generative AI
Kevin Broome is a graphic designer and brand strategist in British Columbia who started playing around with AI image-generating technology as a way to process the experiences he had during a three-day ayahuasca...
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Ep. 15 – A Small Newsroom's Guide to AI
The unofficial slogan of the Center for Cooperative Media at Monclair State University is collaborate or die. The Center, which works to help small newsrooms both in New Jersey and around the world to succeed,...
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