Risk Stories!

Today’s episode highlights the good news and the bad news about the current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Dr. Ron Baecker. Dr. Baecker is an author, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Toronto University, and Founder and Chairman of the non-profit Computers and Society Organization.

Ron explains how some areas of AI are mature and working successfully. However, there are other areas of AI that Ron considers immature, and at this point, unrealistic. There’s also an ethical side of decision making within some areas of AI that Ron finds disturbing.

Listen in as Ron and Michael discuss the joys and the horrors of the next phase of the AI era.

Ron can be reached by email at [email protected] or on LinkedIn. Ron’s non-profit collective can be accessed at www.computers-society.org. Also, Ron’s latest book “Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What Must We Do” is available at www.compsocietytexts.com.

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What do cave diving, nursing and data analysis have in common? Meet Sari Megan Kern, CEO of Alpha Data Strategies.

Many calculations go into determining the critical factors necessary for a safe and successful dive. Nursing and dealing with medical issues is also based on strong data. As Sari explains, you cannot make good decisions without data! Data maximizes your opportunities for success, and data drives decision making – in diving, in nursing, and especially in business!

Data must be aligned with your “North Star” goals. Unfortunately, many companies run the risk of what Sari calls “technical debt,” where they didn’t take the time to invest in data practices and at some point, the costs become clear.

Sari can be reached through her website www.alphadatastrategies.com or via email at [email protected]. Sari is also available on LinkedIn.

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In this episode, Michael talks with Belle Walker, founder of Belleview Consulting.

Risks can be found in the darkest corners of a business. And, all too often organization dynamics, including poorly defined reporting structures, inefficient approval processes, and overly complicated product manufacturing programs act as silent killers -- quietly and methodically sapping the life of a business and its employees.

Belle is an Organizational Efficiency Engineer, and she will be the first to tell you she takes firms From Friction to Function. In short, Belle specializes in taking a company from operational chaos and inefficiency to a smoothly functioning organization by aligning structures and processes with strategy.

Listen in as Belle describes these underlying business risks, and some unique stories about business owners who have come to her with “their hair on fire.”

Belle can be reached through her website belleviewconsulting.com or on LinkedIn.

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Today’s episode focuses on the legal side of cyberattacks and threats.

Robert Braun, an attorney who specializes in cybersecurity and privacy, talks with Michael about the risks involved when a breach happens. Robert explains that even though more and more companies are becoming security and privacy aware, many still don’t understand the real threats involved with “bad” security.

The decisions regarding privacy and security must be made at the highest levels of a business with assigned accountability to make sure the impact is felt and owned.

Robert also discusses the importance of running simulations, and building a business form of muscle memory helping people function through panic. Planning can result in acquiring better cyber insurance, avoiding embarrassment, and reducing the costs of potential litigation and downstream settlements.

Listen in to find out how to prepare for that call with your attorney.

Robert can be reached by cell phone at 310-785-5331 or by email at [email protected].

Deploying clean power starts with people, money, and culture. And then there’s the hardware: solar panels, batteries, wind turbines, transmission lines, and charging stations. Solving the puzzle to reverse the effects of climate change rests on making the economics of clean power work.

Every day, Trenton Allen, CEO of Sustainable Capital Advisors, and advisory board member to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, works to build a climate-resilient future through financial advisory services for sustainable infrastructure projects.
Implementing clean power on its own won’t achieve critical mass unless the economics make sense to a wide gamut of stakeholders. Trenton discusses industry changes in the clean energy investment marketplace, the concept of the “energy burden” and how it varies across the US, and he relays some of the energy and policy focus areas of the Biden Administration.

Trenton also provides his perspective on the recent solar industry disruption that literally shutdown the solar marketplace for the last 3 months.

Trenton Allen can be reached at [email protected] or through his company’s website at sustainablecap.com

Made possible by a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, AskSustainable.com, a website that recognizes climate-friendly investment choices, is going live later this summer.

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