We dialog with young edtech entrepreneur Danish Dhamani, whose Philly-based start-up, Orai (‘Oral’ + ‘AI’), offers a speech coach on your cell. Dhamani, a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University, tells us about how he built a business out of his own fear of public speaking before he goes on to tell us it’s like to have done a TED talk that’s had over a million views, the benefits of tech incubators, and other topics that include his personal journey from Pakistan to Philadelphia via Tanzania - and from Mechanical Engineer to Speech Coach; why speaking well in public is very far from being a ‘soft’ skill; why developers sit in different kinds of office spaces now; how saying ‘um’ can lose you a life (as it were!); more on that biggie, the problem of bias in AI; and the precise percentage of smile-degree you need to optimize for.

Learning 4 Good - Or, ‘How Learning Helps Those Who Do Good, Do It Better’

‘Learning Is the New Working’ is a new podcast from Chris Pirie, ex-Microsoft Chief Learning Officer and now independent investigator of The Future of Workplace Learning. A set of stimulating conversations with some of the leading thinkers and edge practitioners in the modern Workplace Learning space, from Chief Learning Officers  to Learning Experience Designers, from Neuroscientists  to Technologists, vendors of Learning Tech, and the HR leaders charged with developing human capital potential.  Our topics are everything from the American skills crisis to our scary, but fascinating, century: how the rise of the robots, AI, employment and demographic change are re-shaping all our lives - in work and out of it. We will also explore how the process of Learning is itself changing with current and emerging technology, share war stories about which new ways of delivering Learning work, what Sales Enablement is versus what it could be, what a ‘Learning Science’ might offer… all with the ultimate aim of empowering the CLO.