Disruptive Technologists, Inc. interviews NYC’s most innovative minds. Directly from our events, we bring you conversations from the people behind the most forward-focused start-ups and established businesses throughout industry today. Listen in on conversations with groundbreaking founders and leaders, as Disruptive Technologists, Inc. takes you into the new world of change and growth as seen through their eyes.
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Interview with Scot Moss, Founder of Sidewalk College
Scott Moss; Founder of Sidewalk College
Date: November 19, 2020
Location: Zoom
Length: 35:41
Scott Moss discusses his experiences from starting his first company with a $5,000 bank loan and key lessons he's learned along the way from taking the company to $1 billion in revenue to his latest venture called Sidewalk College. He shares some traits he finds indispensable for entrepreneurship such as using Excel, having the hunger to succeed, and communication. "The one thing I would recommend for everyone out there. It doesn't matter what business you're in, it doesn't matter what education level you're at or trying to obtain, communication is the number one thing." We go into many topics including his early education experiences, hiring a staff, and why he doesn't fund raise for his companies.
Podcast Interviewer: Hassan Karimi -
Interview with Rebecca Costa, Sociobiologist & Futurist | Jun 18, 2020
Rebecca Costa: Sociobiologist & Futurist
Date: June 18, 2020
Rebecca Costa discusses her journey out of college leading to establishing her marketing firm and later on becoming a futurist. She generously shares her experiences and advice on creating innovative cultures while touching on some challenges emerging around COVID-19. "What you find in fast adaptation in critical situations, two things occur: Complexity goes up and the amount of real data you have that's relevant to making a decision goes down... When COVID hit, complexity went way up. Think about it, the velocity of change, the urgency of decision making, new demands, new stakeholders. I mean all of this goes up suddenly overnight and historical data wasn't that relevant."
Rebecca draws lessons from the diversity we find in nature and how organizations need to think to not only survive but to innovate and excel.
Podcast Interviewer: Hassan Karimi
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Interview with David Sorin; Managing Partner, Chair of Venture Capital at McCarter & English
David Sorin; Managing Partner, Chair of Venture Capital and Emerging Growth Companies at McCarter & English
Date: June 1, 2020
David Sorin discusses his journey from an accountant to becoming a partner in a law firm where he works with entrepreneurs and start-ups at all phases of their endeavors. He discusses how traditional law firms are incompatible with the needs of entrepreneurs and how he has created a model that works at McCarter & English, “We are not investors in the traditional sense, we are not writing the checks, but we are investing in our clients through the use of time and skill knowing that not all start-ups will succeed. Not all businesses are a finance-able one and so we rely on our expertise in attracting the right clients and in turn choosing the right clients to represent.”
Listen to David share about the changes he’s witnessed in NY/NJ start-up scene, his concerns about the aftermath of COVID-19, the importance of diversity for start-ups, and his thoughts on where the future is headed.
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Interview with Arnell Milhouse, CEO of CareerDevs | May 11, 2020
Disruptive Technologists Interview with Arnell Milhouse, CEO of CareerDevs
Date: Monday, May 11th, 2020
Arnell Milhouse is the CEO at CareerDevs, a 12 month rigorous and immersive computer science program that is designed for the layperson in the U.S. CareerDevs guarantees every graduate will earn a job paying $50k-$80k within 6 months or their money back. Arnell also has the role of Entrepreneur In Residence at Brown University where he works with students, sculpting their ideas to scale as businesses.
In this conversation, Arnell shares his insights into entrepreneurship and his road to creating CareerDevs. Watch as he breaks down his definition of entrepreneurship, why CareerDevs is well-positioned for diversity, and why a money-back guarantee makes more sense as a business than traditional school tuition. Arnell's passion shines throughout the whole conversation and you truly get a sense that he's passionate about his work and the people he gets to impact.
Podcast Interviewer: Hassan Karimi -
2019 December 18th Podcast: Dana Corriel MD, Founder of SoMeDocs; Healthcare Social Media Consultant
Dana Corriel, MD
Date: December 18th, 2019
Location: Times Square, NYC
Length: 6 minutes 40 seconds
Dana Corriel talks about her work as a Medical Doctor and in social media. She discusses how she merges healthcare and the online world with the use of new technology: "I was very interested in forming a brand — and connecting with an audience — in a way I could not do behind the closed door of an exam room. Social media technology has made it possible.”
She is keen on combating the pseudoscience that online personalities are stating as "facts" — without actual evidence-based practice —explaining how large amounts of misinformation harms the health of many patients.
Podcast Interviewer: Dania Hammad -
2019 December 18th Podcast: Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville.
Esther Dyson : Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Investor, Square & Factual; Credo Ventures, Advisory Board Chair
Date: December 18th, 2019
Location: Times Square, NYC
Length: 7 minutes 11 seconds
Esther Dyson talks about her work in many industries such as 3D printing and Artificial Intelligence. She finds it interesting that, “Using AI exposes our biases, because you look at the AI and ask why they did it, and you realize that the lack of optimal results were a consequence of the biases of the individuals. This all reflects the judgement of the decisions that people have been making.”
Esther thrives on the fact that she has vast knowledge on several different topics throughout her life by having numerous unexpected and spontaneous conversations.
Podcast Interviewer: Dania Hammad -
2019 September 16th Podcast: Caitlyn Kuan Founder of Biz Bites by CKA - Pre-Interview
Websites: https://www.facebook.com/BizBitesCKA/
https://twitter.com/BizBitesCKA
https://www.instagram.com/bizbitescka/
Disruptive Technologists event on September 16th.
Health and Wellness professionals and organizations face unprecedented challenges to improve quality, reduce harm, improve access, increase efficiency, eliminate waste and lower costs. Tech innovation is a major focus and the industry is welcoming an explosion of innovations designed to improve, among other things, life expectancy and quality of life. Radical, transformational and exponential innovations are fundamentally disrupting old systems, creating new market constituents and new markets, while marginalizing old ones. Technologies nonlinear pace of progress will almost certainly create substantial disruption in health, wellness and medical processes, technologies, and business models.
Podcast Interviewer: Dania Hammad -
2019 September 16th Podcast: Marlin Jenkins Founder and CEO of Neture, Inc.
Marlin Jenkins, Founder, and CEO of Neture, Inc.
Date: September 18, 2019
Location: Times Square, NYC
Length: 6 minutes 24 seconds
Marlin Jenkins discusses his position of being an underrepresented CEO in New York City, the large number of obstacles he faced to become one, the importance of his company to underserved minorities in New York City and the advice he has received from his advisors throughout his career. Website: https://neture.co/about/
Marlin is very interested in continue to work in bridging gaps between communities and their lack of access to information, health, technology, and opportunities.
“When I started Neture, I looked and researched what areas that we could make a difference in the underserved communities. We discovered that a main area of importance is the lack of internet access that these underserved communities in New York City faced, which is extremely important since its correlated with lack of information, education, and progression in their lives, so, we wanted to find a way of connecting them with Hospitals and Health Organizations to bring those services to underserved communities” he said.
Podcast Interviewer: Dania Hammad -
2019 September 16th Podcast - Nina Knox Strategic Advisor Healthereum blockchain
Health and Wellness professionals and organizations face unprecedented challenges to improve quality, reduce harm, improve access, increase efficiency, eliminate waste and lower costs. Tech innovation is a major focus and the industry is welcoming an explosion of innovations designed to improve, among other things, life expectancy and quality of life. Radical, transformational and exponential innovations are fundamentally disrupting old systems, creating new market constituents and new markets, while marginalizing old ones. Technologies nonlinear pace of progress will almost certainly create substantial disruption in health, wellness and medical processes, technologies, and business models. -
2019 Sept 16th Podcast: Paul Sohmer, CEO & Board Director, SRI International Biosciences Division.
Health and Wellness professionals and organizations face unprecedented challenges to improve quality, reduce harm, improve access, increase efficiency, eliminate waste and lower costs. Tech innovation is a major focus and the industry is welcoming an explosion of innovations designed to improve, among other things, life expectancy and quality of life. Radical, transformational and exponential innovations are fundamentally disrupting old systems, creating new market constituents and new markets, while marginalizing old ones. Technologies nonlinear pace of progress will almost certainly create substantial disruption in health, wellness and medical processes, technologies, and business models. -
2019 July 29th Podcast: Pete Dorogoff, Microsoft’s Global Digital Advisors.
Grappling w/ the Economic Impact of AI & Automation Spread
Details
SPONSORED BY MCCARTER & ENGLISH
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WITH Microsoft Reactor
#MSFTReactor #ReactorNYC
—6:15pm to 9:00pm
***The Business of Disruptive Techies: Grappling with the economic impact of automation & the spread of AI***
• Robots replacing jobs
• Who will dominate AI by 2030
• Global diversity - catalyst for innovation or unwelcome change?
• Investing in disruptive technologists
Followed by a fireside chat for an even deeper dive (8:30pm to 8:50pm).
Our Expert Panelists:
• Rachel Loui, Google International Growth
• Ram V. Iyer, Business Thinking Institute, Diversity & Business Success Expert
• David S. Rose, Gust / NY York Angels
• Mark Mattingley-Scott, IBM, Ambassador, Quantum Computing
• Pete Dorogoff, one of Microsoft’s elite team of Global Digital Advisors defining premier customers‘ digital strategy with innovative biz models & executing on business transformation.
Microsoft Reactor Host:
Sep DiMeglio, developer audiences & AI Advocate, Microsoft.
Moderator:
Oliver Christie, AI Strategist & Founder, Foxy Machine: Artificial Intelligence consulting, strategy, research.
Fireside Chat Moderator:
Bruce Epstein, Knowledge Wizard, Aebis, leveraging critical info through AI.
Master of Ceremonies:
Jim Williams, Physics/Chemistry
Interactive Videographer:
Jeffrey Paul & Steve Durham from Viziotag: advanced interactive deep tagging.
Podcast Host:
Dania Hammad
Drinks & Munchies: Pizza �� Soda & Brownies from Microsoft Reactor; Essence Water from Hint �� Gourmet Sandwiches & Beer �� from McCarter & English; + Wine from Dana & Special Gin Liquor from The Finnish The Long Drink��
**EXTRA Special Thanks to our Disruptive Technologists® Think Tank Council & Events Sponsor-Partner: McCarter & English and David Sorin, Partner & Chair - Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Company Practices
** AND EXTRA Special Thanks to Microsoft Reactor
Disruptive Technologists Think Tank and Organization members are the people that interrupt the normal course or unity with technology -- disrupters. Among many of our projects that include podcasts, newsletters, and online media, we host events at Microsoft in NYC where you can meet and learn from them -- the game-changers, the brilliant thinkers, the hackers, the founders, and the people that finance them.
Our attendees (300 per event), members (3,500), newsletter & website readers (8,000), social media followers (10,000) and professional team (30) are made up of developers, founders, investors, hackers, startups, professors, students, journalists, new media experts, vendors, corporate leaders, and entrepreneurs. If you are interested in participating, sponsoring, or other ways of being involved, please contact:
Lauren Keyson at lkeyson@disruptivetechnologists.com or
Luigi Pesce at lpesceibarra@disruptivetechnologists.com
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2019 July 29th Podcast: Rachel Loui, Google International Growth.
Rachel Loui, Google International Growth Director and Author of “Why the Chicken Crossed the World”.
Date: August 5, 2019
Location: Times Square, NYC
Length: 2 minutes, 15 seconds.
Rachel Loui wrote a very interesting book regarding her home country China and the things people are both curious and afraid to ask about China. “I am very impressed with the professionals joining this conference and I think the audience will love the panelists and the topic” she said.
Regarding the automatization of jobs she explained that “people get nervous regarding the rise in new technology because they might replace jobs, but people do not realize how much our lives have improved due to the current modern technologies we have, and we were nervous before, even though there might be some changes in our workforce we need to be aware that they complement our lives”.
Podcast Interviewer: Dania Hammad
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