What if your computer could understand how you felt? We spend so much time with technology, so should our smart homes, phones and computers be in tune with our feelings? Or if smart fridges could assess our stress level to perhaps prevent binge eating by auto-locking the fridge. This is what Rana El Kaliouby has made her mission to find out. She has led the world’s largest emotion data database to find out how to analyze complex emotions and cognitive states from face and voice. 

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#30 Rana El Kaliouby: The Mission to Humanize Technology

A crowd favorite from Oslo Business Forum joins Future Forecast. London Business School professor, Costas Markides explains what ‘disruption’ really means, and why business leaders need to prioritize finding out what disruptions they may face. The solution will lie within the problem and will break the disruption; he calls this “disrupting the disruptors.” Tune in to this episode to learn how to create an emotional connection with your customers, how to develop your passion and more.

#29 Costas Markides: Disrupting the disruptors

In this episode of Future Forecast, Isabelle Ringnes is joined by Nathan Furr, a professor of innovation and strategy at INSEAD, to talk about how companies can navigate through technological change and be innovative in a way that will work. Furr is an award-winning author on innovation and sits on the investment board of the Kickstart Seed Fund. He has a PhD from Stanford University and he is the founder of the International Business Model Competition.

#28 Nathan Furr: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Top Leaders

CTO, Paul Scanlan, heads the technology division of the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, Huawei. With a global market share of 30% last year, and the world’s second-largest smartphone manufacturer, he has been part of Huawei for more than 10 years and the company today has 180 000 employees. Scanlan joins Future Forecast to talk about 5G, the controversy surrounding Huawei and the questions every business leader should ask themselves.     

#27 Paul Scanlan: The Future of 5G

We sat down with Mette Lykke, one of Scandinavia's most impressive entrepreneurs. She co-founded the wildly popular sports-app Endomono just at the peak of adoption of apps and later sold for $85 million dollars, and is now founder and CEO of the food waste saving company, Too Good To Go.  The startup is based in Copenhagen and has scaled the business to 12 countries, raised a total of €16 million, and is on her way to save 20 million meals per year. Tune in to hear her keys to success as an entrepreneur, the challenges she faced and how she overcomes them, and the leadership skills she finds necessary to build an outstanding team.

#26 Mette Lykke: Creating Startups for the Greater Good

Tanya Accone works with the United Nations Children’s Fund, also known as UNICEF, as a Senior Advisor on Innovation. She established and led UNICEF’s global human capital futures and analytics portfolio in her role as Chief of Strategic Planning and Operation. She has spearheaded the development of Internet businesses and content portals throughout the African continent, was the Internet Editor of southern Africa’s largest newspaper and worked at the Washington Post. This episode discusses urbanization, climate change, widening inequality, and the backlashes of rapid technological evolution.

#25 Tanya Accone: Solving the world's biggest problems with innovation and tech

Tune in to hear from the CMO at the global fin-tech unicorn, Klarna. He is the man behind the Snoop Dog branding and essentially making marketing a bank fun (it's possible, trust us).  David shares some insightful trends and emphasizes that leaders should look to incorporate marketing influencers, whether celebrity or social media, to maximize attention, create trust and relatability.

#24 David Sandström: Creating a Brand that People Talk About

Award-winning Industry 4.0 Futurist, Shivvy Jervis, shares her riveting insights into emotive AI, Haptics, VR and bio identity- basically all the technical reasons you should be excited about our future.

#23 Shivvy Jervis: The Immersive Workplace of the Future

Author, keynote speaker and renowned evangelist, Guy Kawasaki talks about his time at Apple, the dangers of being a student of Steve Jobs, when to listen to the customer, what true innovation means, and sushi. 

#22 Guy Kawasaki: How Real Innovation Happens

Dr. Chris Kutarna accurately predicted Brexit and the election of Donald Trump points out that “history rhymes,” where historical patterns of human behavior can be applied to present-day movements. He uses maps as a metaphor to explain his thinking, and says that we need to renew our societal maps to shape our future by “looking at the world with a lens that is updated.” 

#21 Chris Kutarna: Predictor of the Future

We are talking to one of the most visible, inspiring and outspoken women on diversity in tech, Tracy Chou. Tracy is a software engineer from Stanford and was one of the first hires at Quora and Pinterest and has internship experience from Rocket Fuel, Google and Facebook. She’s headed several impactful initiatives highlighting the lack of diversity in tech and has spoken at stages all over the globe, including Vogue Australia conference, Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought leader series and tech crunch disrupt in SF. In 2012, just 25 years old, she was named one of the most 25 Powerful Women Engineers In Tech.

#20 Tracy Chou: The Battle for Diversity in Tech

Aksel Lund Svindal: many consider him the best Norwegian alpine skier ever. During his career, he won nine World Championship medals, four Olympic medals, two overall World Cup and nine discipline titles. He now focuses his attention on new ventures; he is a keen start-up investor, has launched a sustainable clothing brand and is writing a book. He shares the parallels between top sports and business and teamwork. He translates risk-taking into a business where leaders should manage risk according to inevitable setbacks. 

#19 Aksel Lund Svindal: Hear It from a Skier: Take a Risk for a Big Reward

Top performers work intensely for a short period of time, followed by a break, and don't work more than 8 hrs a day. We're joined by Morten Hansen who reveals the true meaning of smart working. Morten, a well-known leadership expert and an award-winning researcher, applies his effective working methods to everything he tackles. His philosophy is to scrap the long working hours and “do less, then obsess,” which is one of his key principles of working better.

#18 Morten Hansen: Do Less, Then Obsess. How to Work Smarter

We're joined by Sahar Hashemi, a commended start-up entrepreneur and author, who shared her insights on the importance of entrepreneurial mindset in large companies. Sahar calls herself an accidental entrepreneur because she randomly fell into running a business after a trip to New York. She was amazed by the choice and variety of coffee there, so she and her brother decided to bring the coffee-bar concept over the pond. That’s how Coffee Republic, one of the U.K.’s major coffee bars, was born.

#17 Sahar Hashemi: Bringing Entrepreneurial Spirit to Big Business

Does the Norwegian concept of janteloven hold business leaders back? Cross-cultural expert, Pellegrino Riccardi explores Scandinavian leadership, the importance of business diversity and what successful company culture looks like.     

#16 Pellegrino Riccardi: Doing Business in Scandinavia

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