The Tonya Hall Innovation Show

Tonya Hall interviews technology and innovation newsmakers across multiple fields including AI, machine learning, cloud computing, programming and digital health as well as a wide range of enterprise issues.

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Call for Code 2019: Solving human problems
Tonya Hall sits down with David Clark, creator of Call for Code, to learn more about the global competition that's used to solve human problems.
8 min
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The evolution of e-sports
The evolution of e-sports Dennis Fong, entrepreneur and professional gamer, tells Tonya Hall about the evolution of e-sports, including the changes in marketing strategies.
19 min
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What the ideal voting system looks like
Sami Saydjari, president at Cyber Defense Agency, tells Tonya Hall that individual voting machines were not built to withstand a cyberattack, but explains ways that voting systems can be better prepared for one.
9 min
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The data science behind making eclipse maps
Tonya Hall talks to Michael Zeiler, eclipse cartographer, to learn about how eclipse maps are made and the data that goes into it.
9 min
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Power up: A field guide to being a woman in the...
Tonya Hall sits down with Magdalena Yesil, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author, to learn more about her advice for women on how to best navigate the workplace.
10 min
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A close call: An asteroid came within 55,000 mi...
Dr. Alan Duffy, Swinburne astronomer, talks to Tonya Hall about how an asteroid came within 55,000 miles of Earth earlier in 2019 and what steps need to be taken in order to better detect potential threats.
10 min
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Introducing STEAM to kids through sports
Marque Cornblatt, founder, CCO, & CIO at the Museum of Future Sports, sits down to talk to Tonya Hall about the importance of STEAM and the best way to get kids to appreciate its components through their love of sports and competition.
11 min
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Do Not Call: How the FTC aims to reduce unneces...
Tonya Hall sits down with Ian Barlow, Do Not Call program coordinator at The Federal Trade Commission, to talk more about how he is going about enforcing the Do Not Call program and the technology behind it.
11 min
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How neuroscience is used to design a happy work...
Nicole Lazzaro, preisdent of XEODesign, talks with Tonya Hall about how companies now have the ability to design games and workplaces with neuroscience in mind to increase the opportunity to create happiness.
17 min
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How human-centric AI can improve transportation
Tonya Hall and Rana El Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, sit down to discuss the potential improvements to transportation if human-centric AI is further developed.
11 min
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The evolution of NASA instruments used to measu...
Dr. Alex Young, associate director for science, heliophysics science division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, tells Tonya Hall about his experiences seeing solar eclipses and how the tools that measure them have evolved.
12 min
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Turning NASA data into videos, maps, and pictures
Tonya Hall sits down with Ernie Wright, visualizer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to learn more about the process of transforming data into useful visual aids.
12 min
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How NASA uses LRO to study the moon today
Tonya Hall talks to Dr. Noah Petro, project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to learn more about what LRO is and what we have learned so far about the moon.
11 min
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How IBM Watson powers Acoustic's AI
Mark Simpson, CEO at Acoustic, talks to Tonya Hall about how open platforms and data security work within Acoustic's AI.
9 min
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What the Gorgon Stare project is and how it works
Arthur Holland Michel, co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at NY's Bard College, explains to Tonya Hall what the Gorgon Stare project is and its importance.
16 min
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Want to be more effective? Then be less busy
Tonya Hall talks to Jason Fried, founder and CEO of Basecamp, about ways that enterprises and individuals can be more efficient
18 min
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Why scientists are studying forests from space
Dr. Paul Montesano, senior research scientist at the Science Systems and Applications, Inc., tells Tonya Hall what a satellite measurement of forests offers that ground-based observations can't tell us.
12 min
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Using AI to reduce human trafficking
Brandon Wirtz, founder and CEO at Recognant, tells Tonya Hall how natural language processing can detect anomalies in ads, which is allowing AI to aid in the effort to reduce human trafficking.
15 min
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Four women who changed tech for the better
Tonya Hall sits down with Julian Guthrie, journalist and author of "Alpha Girls - The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime," to learn more about the lessons learned from writing her book.
15 min
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Digital transformation of the wine industry
Paul Mabray, CEO of Emetry, tells Tonya Hall about the new digital transformation opportunities that lie within the wine industry.
11 min
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GDPR one year later: The challenges organizatio...
As GDPR celebrates it's year of existence, Tonya Hall talks to Peter Yared, founder and CEO of InCountry, to learn more about how the struggles companies have faced in the last year as they try to maintain data security compliancy.
8 min
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Digital transformation: Four most disruptive te...
Thomas Siebel, author and CEO of C3.ai, tells Tonya Hall about four of the most disruptive technologies in digital transformation and their effects in the tech industry.
11 min
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How AI is used for building security and manage...
Brent Boekestein, co-founder and CEO of Vintra Inc., tells Tonya Hall about ways that AI technology is now being used for building security and management, but also highlights the importance of these companies maintaining facial recognition ethics.
11 min
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The benefits and challenges of launching rocket...
Tonya Hall sits down with Adam Gilmour, CEO and founder of Gilmour Space Technologies, to learn more about the pros and cons that comes with launching rockets from Australia.
8 min
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Who owns your health data?
Dr. Brooke Grindlinger, chief scientific officer at The New York Academy of Sciences, informs Tonya Hall that there are some health privacy laws that haven't been changed since 1996 and what steps are being taken to change that.
10 min