Gil Beyda, Managing Director of Comcast Ventures
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
As Director of Comcast Ventures, Gil Beyda is interested in "hard technology problems." Comcast Ventures is the investment arm of Comcast/NBC Universal and according to Beyda, he is incredibly "excited" about blockchain technology and the potential for new business models.
Comcast Ventures works with a diverse range of products and businesses, but Beyda is mostly involved in B to B enterprises that deal with hard technology including cybersecurity, "the internet of things", blockchains and IT. According to Beyda, the cybersecurity space is quite interesting today because of the "cat and mouse game" that allows hackers to use the same tools that enterprises benefit from such as cloud storage and open source applications.
As for blockchain technology, Beyda predicts the core blockchain technology will be able to accelerate many business and act as a springboard to new products and services. He sees tremendous potential in the use of blockchain in advertising, loyalty/reward programs, and "the internet of things."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.6 | Future technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.8 | We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:32.2 | Coming to Dallas, Texas, September 14th, 15th, and 16th, 2018, the Blockchain and Future Tech |
| 0:39.5 | Expo. |
| 0:40.6 | This is going to be a gigantic conference of over 5,000 people. |
| 0:44.7 | We're going to be talking about blockchain and its applications. |
| 0:47.6 | We're going to be talking about quantum computing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, |
| 0:52.0 | and several other future technologies that are poised to and |
| 0:56.4 | actually changing our lives as we speak. Here's why you should attend. As you may know, |
| 1:01.7 | early adopters are the ones that investigated and profited from things like the gold rush |
| 1:06.7 | in the 1800s, from the dot-com boom in the 1990s, from the internet boom in 2005, from the |
| 1:13.5 | smartphone explosion in 2007, from the real estate boom that ended in 2008, and of course, |
| 1:19.5 | from the Bitcoin boom that started in 2012. Early adopters act now, they don't wait until |
| 1:25.0 | later. They go out west first and they're covered wagons. They |
| 1:28.4 | find the biggest gold nuggets. If you consider yourself an early adopter and you want to find |
| 1:33.5 | the biggest nuggets, then you owe it to yourself to attend this upcoming conference. Blockchain |
| 1:38.2 | is going to affect how we control and store our medical data, how we send money around the world, |
| 1:43.9 | how we bank, and more. |
| 1:45.8 | But artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cybersecurity will play a pivotal role |
| 1:50.7 | in our lives as well. |
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