Universities and the Innovation Landscape
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
EPIIPLUS 1 Ltd / Azeem Azhar
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's no shortage of tech podcasts, but few give you a true dose of the future. |
| 0:06.0 | The A16Z podcast is an exception. |
| 0:09.0 | It takes you straight to the innovators behind new materials, data centers, self-driving cars, |
| 0:14.0 | even electric boats, eavesdrop on the future with the A16Z podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | HBR presents. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi there, I'm Azim Azar and you're listening to the Exponential View podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Now every week I go into deep conversation with a brilliant mind and we dissect our world and it's dance with technology. |
| 0:47.0 | Now if you like these conversations, please take a few seconds to rate and review us. |
| 0:51.0 | It really does help us reach new audiences. |
| 0:54.0 | Now we're about a year into this coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns have accompanied it around the world. |
| 1:00.0 | One sector that's been hugely affected has been universities forced to pivot online at no notice and deliver to millions of students around the globe. |
| 1:08.0 | I was curious about how they did it and what insight it might give us into the shape of university education as we enter the exponential age. |
| 1:17.0 | Now my guest today is perfectly placed to help us answer that question. |
| 1:20.0 | Geraint Reese's Pro Vice Provost, Artificial Intelligence and Dean of Life Sciences at UCL, |
| 1:26.0 | one of the world's top 10 universities based here in London. |
| 1:30.0 | He is the university's strategic lead for artificial intelligence and director of UCL Business, |
| 1:36.0 | which is responsible for the university's technology transfer. |
| 1:40.0 | He was trained as a neurologist and neuroscientist in his research seeks to understand the neural basis of human cognition. |
| 1:46.0 | He was also one of the doctoral supervisors to one of our previous guests, Demis Hassabis of Deep Mind. |
| 1:52.0 | Finally, Geraint has also a long time reader of exponential view and weekly newsletter. |
| 1:57.0 | And that's a pretty strong recommendation. |
| 1:59.0 | So if you want to find out more, you should visit www.exponentialview.co. |
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