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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Universities and the Innovation Landscape

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What are universities for? Are they an elite pipeline for elite jobs, or can they meet the needs of societies transforming amid technological advances? Azeem Azhar explores the role of higher education in research, innovation, and progress with Geraint Rees, Dean of Faculty of Life Sciences at University College London and a leader of their AI strategy.

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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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