Season 5 Technology Innovation Episode 10: Creative Conversation and Connection with Heather Maio-Smith, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Visionary Officer at StoryFile

11/29/22 • 45 min

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“As human beings our identity is made up of all the people that lived before us. The ability to have continued conversations with people either living or not in an interactive platform, is a blessing, “ Says my next guest Heather Smith. She drives a deeper connection with family, business, and people through conversational video services.

Heather Smith is an experiential exhibit designer who has exhibited in Los Angeles, Cuba, and The United Nations. Heather was the concept creator and producer of New Dimensions in Testimony, the technology behind future generations being able to have a conversation with a Holocaust survivor. Heather partnered with USC Shoah Foundation on New Dimensions in Testimony to develop a new interview methodology. Heather now serves as the CVO of StoryFile, an interactive Conversational Video AI Platform that uses advanced natural language processing and artificial intelligence to make video interaction feel just like a real conversation. StoryFile’s technology will allow people to have conversations with video, removing the boundaries of time and space, so that we can experience all kinds of conversations and learn from individuals whenever and wherever we want. At the heart of Heather’s work is the underlying need to share, preserve and learn from the human experience. Heather’s work has been featured on NBC’s The Today Show, The New Yorker, The BBC and on 60 Minutes.

Heather had always intended to use the interactive concept she had created to preserve the stories of humanity for future generations. In 2017, she launched StoryFile to create a cloud-based, no-code, automatic platform that would bring the power of conversational video into everyone’s hands.

StoryFile is revolutionizing the way we connect with each other by introducing conversational video with Audio Visual technology at the forefront of this generation. StoryFile magically turns video into a conversation through the click of a button. This next generation of technology uses artificial intelligence to support video conversations on any device. StoryFile transforms traditional one-way video into a two-way conversation. This is the biggest audio-visual evolution since video was first created.

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Season 6 Executive Presence Episode 8: Global Inclusive Leadership featuring Douglas Perry Freeman President of Global Reflections & Inclusive Leadership Practice at UniWorldGroup-a WPP company

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Every 37 minutes of an hour, advertising in the world is done by a WPP company. According to my next guest Douglas Freeman. From eCommerce business development to delivering DEI speeches in the United Nations, Douglas Freeman frames a unique story of his rise to prominence.

Missed diversity opportunities led him to understand how to leverage diversity for valuable returns for cost-saving, productivity gains, and revenue. Specifically leveraging diversity to show business impact. Diversity best practice dialogues allowed him to work globally by focusing on impactful global frameworks. His job is to scale out the knowledge and shift the mindset about the DEI success model.

Douglas C. Freeman is the President of the Global Reflections and Inclusive Leadership inclusion practice at UniWorld Group, Inc. a global, multicultural, communication and advertising firm. UWG at 51 years old is the oldest Multicultural/DEI firm in the United States. Global Reflections is a sophisticated line of client offerings that provides corporations with a deep portfolio of holistic diversity and inclusion best practices, customized to the client’s specific business needs. Mr. Freeman and UWG have completed diversity and inclusion projects for some of the world’s leading organizations, from Disney and Major League Baseball to Morgan Stanley and the European Union Commission in Brussels.

Mr. Freeman has served as Vice Chairman of the United Nations Gender Equality Experts Panel, was named a 40Under40 business leader by the NYC Network Journal, and is a former board trustee of Georgetown College (US educational partner of Regents Park College, Oxford University). He recently served on the Dean’s Alumni Leadership Council at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University.

Mr. Freeman holds a master’s in public policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University, an MBA Essentials credential from the London School of Economics, along with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Freeman attended Harvard University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, completed his graduate degree focused on International Trade and Finance, and received the top grade (“A”) for his master’s thesis work.

He is a two-time British Columbia Under-19 Rugby All-Star; is a two-time Canadian Universities “All-Canadian” (Ontario Universities) and was selected for the Canada Under-21 team as a Rugby All-Star. Mr. Freeman is the son of Emmy Award-winning conductor Maestro Paul Freeman, the first African American to lead a Canadian Symphony Orchestra.

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Season 5 Technology Innovation Episode 11: Cryptic Chronicles featuring Keith D. Smith CEO of Wavelink

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What is the value of digital assets in a technological society? Companies like Amazon, Apple and Meta have generated billions in the Web 2.0 platform of digital platforms. Will Web 3.0 give rise to an entirely new generation of incredible wealth?

My next guest Keith D Smith CEO of Wavelink, says we must all participate in this next platform of technology to change the human experience.

Keith has served as a strategic business consultant for companies focusing on financial technology and distributed systems. Keith is the Founder of Wavelink, a Web 3.0 infrastructure company providing connectivity services between large financial institutions and Web 3.0 applications. Keith is also the Founder of Yield Media Group, where he manages marketing communications for fintech organizations such as NEAR Protocol.

Today’s databases are vulnerable, fragmented, and expensive to maintain. In a world where everything and everyone is connected to the internet and where user data is maliciously used as a form of political currency, asset tokenization, and decentralized ledger technology (DLT). Blockchain middleware solutions help individuals and businesses to benefit from the unlocked value that interoperability and improved transparency may offer in our increasingly open society in need of a focus on stakeholder capitalism.

It is estimated that nearly 50% of the world’s 1.7B unbanked population own a smartphone or other smart device. Innovation in open banking and decentralized finance allows anyone with an internet connection to trade new classes of assets and utilize complex financial instruments that are revolutionizing financial markets in real time. Decentralized exchanges, allowing citizens around the world to trade digital assets without any intermediary, and the tokenization (and fractionalization) of traditional assets, such as real estate and other traditional equity investments, truly demonstrate the opportunity for internet users.

Keith D Smith has a deep passion for the potential democratization of financial services and the internet by the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), and the tokenization of traditional financial assets drives him daily to learn how to help deliver a world where power rests at the fingertips of the people.

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