Kishau Rogers is the Founder and CEO of Websmith Group. She's a twenty-year programming veteran. She talks to Scott about the importance of teaching "Systems Thinking" over just Learning to Code. How do our solutions change when we better understand how they fit into the big picture?
Aug 13
Robots, Nukes, and AI: A Career at the Frontier with Maynard Holliday
Maynard Holliday spent 30+ years at the intersection of robotics, nuclear security, and defense technology, most recently serving as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies. He's worked on everything from helping remediate Three Mile Island to securing tons o ... Show More
35m 37s
Aug 6
Language Model Builder with Felix Rieseberg
Felix Rieseberg came to computing through poetry, and that background gives him a unique lens for explaining language models. A longtime engineer, Felix now gets to watch AI evolve from the inside. In this episode, Scott and Felix explore why language models are surprisingly easy ... Show More
35m 47s
Jun 2022
What to Teach the World of the Future
<p>While the world races ahead into the metaverse, education remains rooted in the era of neat orderly rows of desks and lesson plans. In this wide-ranging conversation, Leila Hoteit, the managing director and senior partner who leads BCG’s education, employment, and welfare work ... Show More
20m 38s
Oct 2025
Building Systems to Transform Large Companies with Breeze Dong
How do you nudge a 13,000-person organization to move from managing change to creating the conditions for change?In this conversation, Chun Feng “Breeze” Dong, Associate Director of Organizational Development at Roche, joins Marilyn Zakhour to share how she and her team applied s ... Show More
57m 13s
Apr 2022
Systems Thinking with Diana Montalion
<p>Diana Montalion shares how we think of, and design, sources of information to accommodate for what we want as users, depending on the context we’re in. It requires a way of thinking we’re not used to: systems thinking, or non-linear thinking. But doing so and adapting the soft ... Show More
1h 6m
Oct 2023
Tomorrow's Classroom: Digital Transformation through Systems Thinking
In this episode of the SDG Learncast, we feature Breanne Pitt, a researcher and educator, on the concept of systems thinking and its vital role in modern education. They explore the challenges and complexities of the digital age, discuss the impact of standardized testing, and de ... Show More
16m 10s
<p><strong>Jill Shepherd</strong> discusses the role of learning in successful digital transformation. Jill is practice director at <a href="https://QA.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">QA Limited</a>, a tech training and talent services provider. She has a PhD in innovation an ... Show More
