Hidden In Plain Sight
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Hidden In Plain Sight
Long-form conversations with the executives, innovators, and thought leaders who are working to predict, solve, and preempt some of humanity’s most complex problems.
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49 episodes
The Lost Art of Breath: A Conversation with James Nestor
You've been doing it since you were born, but how much do you really know about breathing? Do you know that you are most likely doing it wrong -- that...
Learning By Doing: When the Real and Virtual Worlds Collide with Derek Belch
Ready Player One, The Eye of Minds, and Pygmalion’s Spectacles. For years humanity has written about the allure of a virtual world. But what if the vi...
Merging Mission with Margin: A Conversation with Katherine Boyle
In the words of today’s guest, “Great companies and great stories have the same key elements: universal appeal, imperfect protagonists and an importan...
Ally or Enemy: The Rise of New Technologies with Stacey Shulman
Artificial intelligence. Machine learning. Connected devices. And endless amounts of data.
For years, an idea has lingered that these technolog...
The Future of Work with Mariesa Coughanour
What happens when the world is forced to hit pause? When cities, states, and entire countries come to a screeching standstill? As the world struggled...
Data as the Key to Customer Discovery with Deanie Elsner
America’s hemp industry is booming, but despite it’s growth in recent years, it remains unregulated and saturated with a wealth of companies competing...
The Battle for Scale with David Kidder
What happens when legacy companies find themselves at a war with growth? When innovative new methods run up against outdated bureaucracy?
Scale...
Fueled by Data with Ashim Bose
The transportation industry lies at a crossroads. One road, the path to the future. The other, the path to the past and ultimately to obsolescence. N...
Alpha Storytelling with Julian Guthrie
What happens when you dig just a little bit deeper? When you refuse to simply tell the tale that’s on the surface level? You find the real story, the...
Deep Learning is Eating The World
A.I. and machine learning are poised to change the world. These tools have placed us at the precipice of the next stage in software evolution, and it’...
Taking Agency Over Your Health with Peter Foley
What if testing and health screenings were integrated into our daily lives? How many diagnoses could be treated sooner and how many lives could be sav...
The Secret Formula to High-ROI Digital Transformations with GE Digital CEO Pat Byrne
What happens when one of the world's most powerful companies is forced to ideate on the fly? Tremendous technical innovation that should take years co...
Creating a Better Internet with Anneka Gupta
What does the internet of tomorrow look like? How does it ensure privacy, create space for freedom of speech, and better serve its users? On this epis...
Entering the Data Age with Doug Merritt
Data is changing the way we do everything. But to tap into that power, a new mindset is needed – one that puts data at the center of every decision we...
A New Approach to Mental Health with MAPS’ Rick Doblin
Does a banned ‘party’ drug with a bad rep have the potential to change lives? Learn how psychedelics are changing not just how we treat mental illness...
Using Data for Good with Dionna McPhatter
Data for good is a catchphrase that’s easy to say, but hard to do. Armed with the power of storytelling, analytics, and math, learn how one company us...
Stop Talking and Start Planting with Felix Finkbeiner
The reforestation of spaceship Earth is under attack. Every year the Earth loses 15 billion trees, but we only plant 5 billion. How do we close this g...
The Hybridization of Higher Education
Higher education is due for a digital makeover. Learn how one company is combining community-building with technology and data to create a new kind of...
Gamifying Our Financial System with Richard Craib
What if the way to streamline our current financial system was to turn it into a game? Learn how one business is using gamification to radically trans...
Becoming a Super Learner with Ruben Harris
The "traditional" career path is on its way out the door. Taking its place is a new model that places lifelong learning and collaboration at its cente...
Solving The Largest Existential Threats with Bill Goldstein, Director of LLNL
From securing the nuclear stockpile, to stopping a pandemic, to uncovering the mysteries of the genome, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is brid...
On a Mission to Level 5 with Aicha Evans
The future of self-driving is closer than we think... and it may look different than we've ever imagined. AI needs sensors and cameras, not windows or...
The State of Natural Language Processing with Mike Tamir
Natural language processing is transforming how we communicate with machines and how they communicate with us. Learn how NLP works and what it means f...
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at National Defense with Annie Jacobsen
We all want a more peaceful world. But what if finding peace today lies in understanding our not-so-peaceful past? Tune in for a hard look at the hist...
The Critical Art of Data Preparation with Dean Abbott
It is not enough to collect data for the sake of it. How we collect, prepare, and interpret data is a fine art, and here to teach us is a master.
The Future of Quantification with Jordyn Bonds
Whether it’s diet or exercise, tracking what you’re up to isn’t easy. Learn how intuitive technology and applications are making tracking your everyda...
An Athlete’s Approach to Data with Adam Stepanovic
80% of runners will get hurt this year. Of those injuries, 70% are preventable. Running isn't the problem – how we train is. Luckily, there's a future...
Developing a Global Security Perspective with Mick Baccio of Splunk
Government agencies collect massive amounts of data – a cornucopia of knowledge that countless bad actors want access to. Learn about the security inf...
Becoming a Troublemaker with Leslie Berlin
Do you know the real origin story of Silicon Valley? Learn the true tale of the wallflowers, the wildcards, and the troublemakers who were behind it a...
Collecting Data From Above with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Dr. Andy Brooks
As far back as WWI, geospatial technology and imagery have been used for the purposes of national defense. Today, that tech and its uses are evolving...
Chaotic Good: The Ethics of Technology with Joseph Menn
As technology has evolved, so too has the moral crisis surrounding it. What does it mean to be 'good' or 'bad,' and how do these ethics apply to our t...
A Data-Driven Approach to Workplace Culture with Janine Yancey
Learn how a team of researchers is using data to provide objective insights into one of the most subjective things: human behavior.
Hear from Fo...
Democratizing Political Power by Liberating Opportunity with Matt Stoller
How do we dismantle monopoly power to better democratize opportunity? History holds the answer to this question and more.
Hear from analyst and...
Deep Learning Illustrated with Jon Krohn
Deep learning and AI have the potential to augment every aspect of our lives, but not necessarily in the out-of-reach or dangerous ways we tend to thi...
The Art Behind Data Science and Machine Learning with Dr. Jesse Spencer-Smith
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data are changing how we think about everything, even drawing into question the true nature of human cr...
Becoming Great by Choice with Jim Collins
The explosion of data in business offers us opportunities like never before. However, if we don’t learn the art of asking better questions, our abilit...
Forecasting the Future with Amber Case
Worlds exist at the edges of the internet. Few dare venture into them, but today, one brave explorer joins us to share her deep insights.
Hear f...
Viewing the Pandemic Through a Sci-Fi Lens with A.G. Riddle
As we tackle some of the world's most complex problems, an unsuspecting, but critical tool stands out to help us identify key solutions: Science Ficti...
Hidden in Plain Sight is Back!
New season. New topics. News guests. New format.
Listen to learn more about Season 2 of Hidden in Plain Sight.
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Into the Data: An Aftershow with Sophia Bush
This behind-the-scenes episode of Hidden in Plain Sight brings you an exclusive interview with actress, activist, and our host, Sophia Bush. Mission p...