Interviews and Podcasts

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.

Podcast Interviewer: Hassan Karimi

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

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

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

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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

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

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.

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.

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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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