Lux and Friends
The world of luxury has never been so timeless and contemporary as today.Luxury Industry veteran Carlo Pignataro takes a deep dive into the forces at play, and invites some of its most brilliant minds to join his lively conversations.MISSION: to explain complexity in a crisp and entertaining way.
Lux and Friends
#16: INNOVATION with Alec Ross, author of " The industries of the future" and former advisor for innovation to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
Getting to know, and understand the industries of the future is not only a moral imperative for anyone willing to gain or keep their relevance in an ever changing world, but also the smartest thing to do to try and catch the opportunities the not so silent technical revolution we are experiencing has has to offer, and minimize the risk of being, personally and professionally, left out.
If you don’t know yet how robots and automation will transform humanity, if you still look at money simply as a traditional storage of wealth, if you need to google the word Genomics when you hear it and if you think the world’s economical and political power is still in the firm hands of one, maybe two, superpower, you’ll benefit immensely from listening to the episode of the podcast.
My guest of today, Alec Ross, is the author of the of the New York Times best-seller, The Industries of the Future which has been translated into 24 languages and been a best-seller on 4 continents.
He has served as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and as a Senior Fellow at the Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs.
During the Obama Administration, he served as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, a role created for him to help modernize the practice of diplomacy and bring innovative solutions to advance America’s foreign policy interests.
Alec served as the Convener for the Technology & Media Policy Committee on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.
He co-founded and helped lead a technology-focused social enterprise and grew it from modest origins in a basement into a global organization serving millions of low-income people, with programs on four continents.
He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bologna Business School of l’Universitá di Bologna at work on a book about the collision that has taken place at the intersection of government, business and citizens which will publish in 2021.
