This week on the GeekWire Podcast: How the pandemic is changing attitudes toward work, jobs, geography. Plus, the market for IPOs and acquisitions, and the future of downtown Seattle from the perspective of a newly public company.

Our guest, Zig Serafin, has a unique window into all of these topics as the CEO of Qualtrics, the experience management technology company based in Seattle and Provo, Utah. Qualtrics’ technology helps companies survey employees, customers and other stakeholders, and take action on the resulting insights.

With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. Produced and edited by Curt Milton. Theme music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell.

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: How the pandemic is changing attitudes toward work, jobs, geography. Plus, the market for IPOs and acquisitions, and the future of downtown Seattle from the perspective of a newly public company.
Our guest, Zig Serafin, has a unique window into all of these topics as the CEO of <a href="https://www.qualtrics.com/">Qualtrics</a>, the experience management technology company based in Seattle and Provo, Utah. Qualtrics&rsquo; technology helps companies survey employees, customers and other stakeholders, and take action on the resulting insights.
With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. Produced and edited by Curt Milton. Theme music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell.

GeekWire brings you the week's latest technology news, trends and insights, covering the world of technology from our home base in Seattle. Our regular news podcast features commentary and analysis from our editors and reporters, plus interviews with special guests.

GeekWire reporters John Cook, Todd Bishop and guests talk about the latest tech news and trends.

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The new era of work, with Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin

It was a big week for cybersecurity for Seattle's tech giants. Microsoft President Brad Smith was in Washington D.C., testifying before the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee about the Redmond company's security challenges. Listen for highlights at the end of the show. 

Meanwhile, Amazon held its annual AWS re:Inforce cloud security conference in Philadelphia.The rise of AI has added some big new wrinkles to the issue of cybersecurity, and AI was one of the main topics in a conversation that I had a few weeks ago with one of the people who keynoted the AWS event this week, Steve Schmidt, Amazon's chief security officer.

Hosted by Todd Bishop; edited by Curt Milton.

It was a big week for cybersecurity for Seattle's tech giants. Microsoft President Brad Smith was in Washington D.C., <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/kB2GCmasH4c?si=A1o4FjSHpCuR0rdY">testifying before the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee</a> about <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2024/congressional-hearing-will-pit-microsofts-actions-vs-words-in-public-grilling-over-security-failures/">the Redmond company's security challenges</a>. Listen for highlights at the end of the show. 
Meanwhile, Amazon <a href="https://reinforce.awsevents.com/">held its annual AWS re:Inforce cloud security conference</a> in Philadelphia.The rise of AI has added some big new wrinkles to the issue of cybersecurity, and AI was one of the main topics in a conversation that I had a few weeks ago with one of the people who <a href="https://youtu.be/skH3Q90llss?si=9b19EFgngezU80H6">keynoted the AWS event this week</a>, Steve Schmidt, Amazon's chief security officer.
Hosted by Todd Bishop; edited by Curt Milton.

Cybersecurity in the age of AI, with Steve Schmidt, Amazon's chief security officer

Our guest this week on the GeekWire Podcast is Léonard Boussioux, an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, and adjunct assistant professor at the UW Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.

Boussioux received his doctorate in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research combines areas including machine learning and AI with a focus on healthcare and sustainability. Last year he launched a class called "Generative AI in the Era of Cloud Computing" at the Foster School.
Foster School: A New Era Of AI And Human Ingenuity In The Classroom
Boussioux's website, including photography and AI art: www.leobix.us
TEDxMIT Salon presentation: Let Art Be Your Superpower
TEDxBoston: How to Solve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in 5 mins.

Related Story: How a photo of OpenAI’s Sam Altman, enhanced by AI, sparked a journalistic debate at GeekWire

With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop; Edited by Curt Milton.

Our guest this week on the GeekWire Podcast is <a href="https://www.leobix.us/">Léonard Boussioux</a>, an <a href="https://foster.uw.edu/faculty-research/directory/leonard-boussioux/">assistant professor</a> in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, and adjunct assistant professor at the UW Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.
Boussioux received his doctorate in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research combines areas including machine learning and AI with a focus on healthcare and sustainability. Last year he launched a class called "Generative AI in the Era of Cloud Computing" at the Foster School.
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<li>Foster School: <a href="https://magazine.foster.uw.edu/features/teaching-ai-business-school/">A New Era Of AI And Human Ingenuity In The Classroom</a></li>
<li>Boussioux's website, including photography and AI art: <a href="https://www.leobix.us/">www.leobix.us</a></li>
<li>TEDxMIT Salon presentation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap5HMhnYUVc">Let Art Be Your Superpower</a></li>
<li>TEDxBoston: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0vCXMfXl0k">How to Solve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in 5 mins.</a></li>
</ul>
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With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop; Edited by Curt Milton.

How this professor teaches AI and thinks about human creativity

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the frontier of crowd-augmented cognition, the concept of humans working together with the help of technology, including new ways that artificial intelligence is changing the field.

Our guest is Aniket (Niki) Kittur, a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where his research focuses on new methods of augmenting human intellect using crowds and computation.

We also talk about a related project that Kittur and his colleagues developed called Skeema, a browser tab manager that helped users organize their work, projects, and ultimately their brains in the process. 

With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. Edited by Curt Milton.

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the frontier of crowd-augmented cognition, the concept of humans working together with the help of technology, including new ways that artificial intelligence is changing the field.
Our guest is <a href="https://hcii.cmu.edu/people/aniket-kittur">Aniket (Niki) Kittur</a>, a professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where his research focuses on new methods of augmenting human intellect using crowds and computation.
We also talk about a related project that Kittur and his colleagues developed called <a href="https://www.skeema.com/">Skeema</a>, a browser tab manager that helped users organize their work, projects, and ultimately their brains in the process. 
With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. Edited by Curt Milton.

The new era of work, with Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin

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