Exponential View with Azeem Azhar

Parag Khanna is a leading international relations expert, who recently published a new book "The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century". Azeem and Parag discuss the law of technology diffusion, break common myths about Asia's development, and question whether the future belongs to cities or nation-states. www.exponentialview.co

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish author and human rights activist. She has published 16 books, 10 of which are novels. The New York Review of Books called her latest novel "Three Daughters of Eve" a 'marvelous lesson in multiculturalist angst, the clash between modernity and tradition, and the vicissitudes of personal struggle'. www.exponentialview.co

Marietje Schaake is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). The Wall Street Journal called her "Europe's most wired politician", and Politico named her the "ultimate digital MEP". Marietje is the Member of the Committee on International Trade, Vice-Chair of the Delegation for Relations with the US, and she established a Digital Agenda intergroup, gathering Members of the Parliament who are interested in addressing the future of digital technologies. www.exponentialview.co

Emil Eifrem is the CEO and co-founder of Neo4j, the graph database platform powering some of the largest companies today. Emil is the creator of the property graph model and he coined the term "graph database" to describe the technology that would change how we understand big data. Neo4j's technology was used to reveal the rogue offshore financial relationships in the largest journalist leak ever, the Panama Papers. www.exponentialview.co

Jack Clark is Policy Director at OpenAI. He has contributed to the development of the AI Index, an AI forecasting and progress initiative that is part of the Stanford One Hundred Year Study on AI. Azeem and Jack discuss the state of artificial intelligence development, the geopolitics of technology, and the implications of automation on the society. www.exponentialview.co

Gina Neff is a Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute and at the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. She studies innovation, the digital transformation of industries, and how new technologies impact work. Gina and Azeem discuss technology development from a sociological perspective, and the implications of self-tracking and quantified self for the individual, as well as the society. www.exponentialview.co

Michael Liebreich is a leading global expert on clean energy and transportation, smart infrastructure, technology, climate finance and sustainable development. He founded New Energy Finance in 2004, which was acquired by Bloomberg in 2009. Michael and Azeem discuss the significance of the US National Climate Assessment and IPCC's report, staying below two degrees, and the role of exponential technologies in transitioning to renewables. www.exponentialview.co

Casper Klynge is the world's first Tech Ambassador. His appointment in 2017 marked a new phase in diplomacy and international relations, and the first time a nation state deployed an Ambassador to represent its citizens to the world's most powerful technology companies. Casper and Azeem assess the current alignment between some of the largest technology companies and nation states, and discuss the role of technology in fostering democracy. www.exponentialview.co

Kate Raworth is a Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute. Kate is focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges. In this episode, Kate and Azeem discuss the Doughnut economics framework, as the essence of rethinking economics for the world inhabited by 10 billion people, hit by climate change, and social justice struggles. www.exponentialview.co

Anousheh Ansari is the world's first female private space explorer. She is the CEO of X Prize, an organisation which supports radical breakthrough solutions to some of today's greatest challenges. Azeem and Anousheh discuss the ways space development could help us tackle climate change, pollution, and achieve sustainable crypto mining. Anousheh shares her journey to becoming a space explorer, her time on the International Space Station, as well as her role as the CEO of X Prize. www.exponentialview.co

Lisa Witter is an award-winning executive, serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Apolitical: a network connecting impactful public servants around the world to share inspiring ideas, solutions to challenges, and professional resources. Azeem and Lisa discuss reviving trust in government, roadmap for building a public service workforce of the future, and the role of agile framework in governance. www.exponentialview.co

Matthew Taylor speaks with Azeem. Matthew Taylor is the Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts, a UK organisation committed to finding practical solutions to societal problems. Before leading the RSA, Matthew was the Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to UK's Prime Minister Tony Blair. In this conversation, Azeem and Matthew discuss the well-being economy, the meaning of good work in an age of automation, and the state of democracy. www.exponentialview.co

Andrew Yang speaks with Azeem. Andrew is an entrepreneur and author, who is standing for President in the 2020 U.S. elections. At the heart of Andrew's platform is the "freedom dividend", a universal basic income of $1,000, payable to all Americans every month. In this episode, Azeem and Andrew discuss core ideas behind Andrew's platform, why they are necessary, and how to get there. www.exponentialview.co

Reid Hoffman speaks with Azeem. Reid is an internet entrepreneur, executive and investor, best known as the co-founder of LinkedIn and widely known as "The Sage of Silicon Valley. In this episode, Reid and Azeem discuss the business culture of Silicon Valley, in particular the concept of "blitzscaling". They also dive deep into Silicon Valley's attitudes towards government, the role of the state in innovation, and maintaining techno-optimism. www.exponentialview.co

Elad Gil speaks with Azeem. Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, investor and advisor to private companies including Airbnb, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe. Elad was the VP of corporate strategy at Twitter, and previously on the mobile team at Google. In this episode Azeem and Elad speak about Silicon Valley, scaling companies from 10 to 10,000 employees, the state of blockchain, and how blockchain and artificial intelligence will overlap. www.exponentialview.co