- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly podcast 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 StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Christopher Lockhead
Thirteen-time #1 bestselling CoAuthor, #1 charting business dialogue podcaster, co-creator of Category Pirates
and is best known as a "godfather" of Category Design
Christopher Lochhead is a thirteen-time #1 bestselling CoAuthor, #1 charting business dialogue podcaster, co-creator of Category Pirates and is best known as a "godfather" of Category Design. He’s been an advisor to over 50 venture-backed startups, is a venture capital limited partner, who is a former three-time Silicon Valley public company CMO (Mercury Interactive, Scient, Vantive).
Born in Montreal Canada, Lochhead is a dyslexic paperboy who got thrown out of school at 18. With few options, he became an entrepreneur. The Marketing Journal calls him, “one of the best minds in marketing”, NBA Legend Bill Walton calls him a “quasar” and The Economist calls him, “off putting to some”. Podcaster Neil Pearlberg calls Follow Your Different, "the worst business podcast" and Podcast Magazine calls Follow Your Different, "the best business podcast".
Twitter: @lochhead
Matt Beane
Author of The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines
Matt Beane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology Management Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Matt studies deviance in work involving machine intelligence – and specifically robotics. He asks when, where and how workers, organizations and even AI defy norms and rules in the 21st century. Matt has done extensive field research in settings such as robotic pick and pack work in fulfillment centers, robotic surgery, robotic materials transport, and robotic telepresence in healthcare, elder care, and knowledge work. He received his Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Information Technologies department. His research on robotic surgery was published in 2019 at Administrative Science Quarterly and Harvard Business Review, his related TED talk has over 1.8 million views, and his work on robotic telepresence was published in 2014 in Organization Science. He was selected in 2012 as a Human Robot Interaction Pioneer and is a regular contributor to popular outlets such as Wired, MIT’s Technology Review, TechCrunch, Forbes and Robohub. Matt also took a two-year hiatus from his doctoral studies to help found and fund Humatics, an MIT-connected, full-stack IoT startup, and he is a Digital Fellow at Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy.
Twitter: @mattbeane
