Best Dean Anand Podcasts (2025)

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The confluence of Big Data and AI can do a lot of good 43:56

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In this episode of Future of Humanity, we will be talking with Professor Margret Bjarnadottir, one of the world's leading experts on using big data and analytics for doing good. With a Ph.D. from MIT, Margret has used big data and AI to improve opioid prescriptions, predict colorectal cancer mortality, design drug surveillance mechanisms, and patie…

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Human-Centered Artificial Inteligence: An Idea Whose Time Has Come 38:53

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As artificial intelligence-based applications are becoming pervasive in every sphere of life, there is a movement to make it more "human-centered". We will be talking with Ben Shneiderman whose pioneering work has led to the Human-Centered AI movement. He is passionate about innovation and the good that AI can do in making our lives much better. He…

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Global Inequality in COVID Vaccine and Drug Availability 48:48

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Turns out, the global covid pandemic could be mitigated much faster if only we had a more equitable distribution of vaccines across the world. There were more 5-year-olds being vaccinated in the U.S. than vulnerable people in places like India and Brazil causing the prolonging of the health impacts for even residents of America. We will be talking …

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Cultivated Meats: What the future holds for the way we eat. 38:37

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In order to provide animal protein (egg, poultry, and meat) we humans use a third of the earth's landmass to feed the animals. In most countries, these animals are factory farmed in horrible conditions and then slaughtered to enable us to eat chicken sandwiches and steaks. There seems to be a way to cultivate meat, save the planet and pursue our va…

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Climate Change: Technology and Finance Can Easily Mitigate Global Warming Today 48:18

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My guest on this episode devoted to Climate Change will be Dipak Dasgupta who is working with IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) on Climate Finance. Turns out that the $3-$4 trillion needed across the world to mitigate global warming dwarfs in comparison to the approx $21 trillion return on the investment made by global financial inst…

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Dealing with Rare and Orphan Diseases:The Technology Imperative 43:41

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In this episode of Future of Humanity, we will be talking about Rare Diseases with Dr. Vijay Chandru, the Founder and Executive-Chairman of Strand Life Sciences based in Bangalore, India. The fact is that very few people, mostly children, get these diseases due primarily to random faulty genes. Given that the market size is small, pharmaceutical co…

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The Impact of AI in Medicine 38:34

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In this episode of Future of Humanity, we will be talking about AI in Medicine with Ritu Agarwal and Gordon Gao, both professors at the University of Maryland who are moving on to Johns Hopkins University. Ritu and Gordon have a long successful history of doing research on the interface of technology and medicine and are experts on AI in Medicine. …

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Medicine and Engineering will Partner to enhance the Future of Humanity 41:24

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Our guest is Dr. Dermot Kelleher who will discuss how creating partnerships between engineering and medicine will yield new methods of attacking several important diseases affecting humanity. Dermot is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. who has also been Dean at Imperial College, London, …

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Synthetic Biology and CRISPR Will Revolutionize Food and Agriculture 43:18

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We will discuss the promises and perils of synthetic biology, CRISPR and genetic engineering with our guest Kimberly Wagner (PhD in medical sciences, Harvard University) who is a scientist, entrepreneur, and business leader with experience advising companies in the agriculture, food, and healthcare sectors on technology and new product development.…

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Big Data Revolution: Old Wine in New Bottles 46:39

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We have a long and engaging conversation with Guy Filipelli, Managing Partner of Squadra Ventures, previously the co-founder and CEO of RedOwl Analytics who takes the mystery out of the big data revolution, and of using AI for data driven decision making. With degrees from West Point and Oxford University, and a long stint as an intelligence office…

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Robotics and Automation Will Change the World 39:06

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In this podcast, we will be talking to Professor Vijay Kumar, the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dean Kumar is one of the world's leading experts on robotics and automation, and has been doing some pioneering work on micro-automation and drones. He will talk to us about some truly exciting a…

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Blockchain Business Imperative 37:35

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In this episode, we talk about Blockchain and its impact on the business world in the future. Being the underlying technology that powers bitcoin, blockchain seems to be sweeping the world and getting people quite excited about its endless applications. So many companies are popping up to try and take advantage of blockchain to power supply chains,…

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New Age of Journalism Impacted by Technology: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly 43:03

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Journalism has radically changed because of the internet, social media and big data. We have already seen conspiracy theories propagated through Facebook, new age therapies suggested to deal with the COVID crisis, and, of course, several sources of information that cannot be controlled by governments and have been the fuel of democracy movements. O…

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The Impact of Technology on the Restaurant and Hospitality Industries 31:28

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The restaurants and hospitality industries worldwide are being transformed radically by technology, accelerated by the COVID pandemic. We will be speaking with Tim McLaughlin, the founder CEO of GoTab, a FinTech company based in Arlington, Virginia that is tackling numerous challenges in the hospitality space using digital technology. Using QR code…

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Technology and the Future Management of Healthcare 44:19

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The healthcare industry in the United States and the world is going to be transformed radically by technology. We will be speaking with Stuart McGuigan who has a long history of working on digital transformation in healthcare in several key companies including Medco Health Solutions, Johnson and Johnson, CVS Caremark and was recently the Chief Info…

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Universities and Shaping the Future 28:30

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In the near future, there will be more than 1.8 billion young people on the planet. Universities are critical in influencing them to lead the future of humanity to a better place. In the U.S. we are currently dealing with three pandemics: COVID-19, racism and a threat to democracy. University of Maryland President Darryll Pines talks about his visi…

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The Trailer 1:58

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Discuss the impact of emerging new technologies and economic and political landscape in the world on the future of humanity in the next 20 to 50 years.By Anand