- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on Zoom.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Viraj Patwardhan
Vice president, Academic Digital Learning
Thomas Jefferson University
Viraj is a passionate designer who likes to design for common-user needs. He has always believed that to create holistic solutions, he needs to understand the user’s world from their perspective. With a bachelor’s degree in architecture and a master’s degree in human-centered design, Viraj’s skills include research, strategy, and user/consumer-focused solutions.
Creating transformational student and patient experiences is one of his strongholds. At Jefferson, Viraj works with academic faculty, administrators, multimedia & instructional designers, researchers, and leadership to deliver seamless digital solutions for Jefferson’s consumers. With over 20+ years of experience, Viraj is able to bring ideas from different industries to reimagine learning by DESIGN.
Follow him on Twitter: @Viraj_says
Angela Blanchard
Senior Fellow
Watson Institute Brown University
Angela Blanchard is a globally recognized expert practitioner in community development. From long-term disaster recovery, to effective integration of immigrants and refugees, Blanchard’s evolutionary strategies have successfully revitalized neighborhoods, while providing a powerful roadmap for cities around the world. Angela works with business, civic, and nonprofit leaders tackling complex challenges of community transformation, long term recovery and resettlement. Her clients include housing developers, nonprofit boards and CEOs, public sector leaders and social impact entrepreneurs.
Angela has spoken to audiences on six continents, in dozens of cities on the role of cities in welcoming and resettling inflows of people, helping dozens of organizations navigate upheaval. Her work and her wisdom have been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company Magazine, The Atlantic, Places Journal, CNN, NPR, Federal Reserve – “What Works in American Communities” Brown University, Watson Institute and Taubman Center, and numerous other national programs and publications. She was recognized multiple times by the Obama White House. Angela was awarded the prestigious Heinz Prize for Improving the Human Condition while also serving as a Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution. For her advocacy on behalf of refugees and immigrants she has received several awards including the Underground Railroad Award, NCJW Hannah G. Solomon Award, Chinese Community Center Compassion Award. The Rice University Kinder Institute awarded her the Steven L. Klineberg Award for urban development.
Follow her on Twitter: @CajunAngela
Valter Adao
Chief Digital & Innovation Officer at Deloitte Africa
Faculty Member at Singularity University South Africa
Valter Adão is recognised as an expert in the fields of disruptive innovation, business re-imagination and emerging technologies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where he does most of his work.
Valter is the Chief Executive, and Digital Leader for Cadena Growth Partners, a digital and innovation advisory, and venturing organisation that operates at the intersect of strategic and innovation thinking with emerging digital technologies and rapid commercialisation.
He guides organisations beyond potential disruption, towards creating new opportunities for relevance, growth and expansion by contextualising and leveraging the potential and economics of emerging technologies and disruptive trends.
He has extensive experience in venturing and commercialising businesses across a number of industries, and works with the CEOs of leading organisations to, conceive, develop and scale innovative opportunities and IP into high growth, sustainable businesses.
He is the former Chief Digital and Innovation officer for Deloitte, managing and founding partner for Monitor Deloitte and managing partner for Deloitte Digital in Africa. He was also part of Deloitte’s Global Innovation Executive.
He is a faculty member of Singularity University and a Tedx Speaker, the recipient of the Constellation Transformation 150 award, which recognises the top global executives leading digital business transformation efforts, and a Professor of Practice at the Johannesburg Business School.
He was recently recognized as the Big 4 professional-of-the-year, by The South African Professional Services Academy, who also recognized him as a top Professional in South Africa’s Digital Industry