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Could the EU's new AI Act be the cornerstone of global AI regulation? That's what we're here to unpack with the expert insight of Flick Fisher, a leading privacy specialist and partner at Fieldfisher. As the digital age accelerates, the European Union is setting a precedent with the AI Act, a groundbreaking legislation designed to navigate the complex terrain of artificial intelligence. Flick and I dissect the Act's risk-based approach, dissecting the prohibited and high-risk AI systems categories, while giving a nod to the lighter touch on low-risk innovations. Our conversation delves into how this monumental regulation could shape data privacy and ethical AI practices on the world stage.

Join us as we explore not only the definitions and distinctions within the AI Act but also its everyday implications for business operations, from HR decisions to the product safety landscape. With generative AI technologies like ChatGPT on the rise, understanding the nuances of this legislative framework has never been more crucial. We'll navigate the potential new compliance roles the Act may create and predict whether this regulatory move could become the global gold standard. Tune in for a comprehensive analysis that will equip COOs and business leaders with the foresight needed to thrive in an AI-governed future.

(00:06) EU AI Act and Its Impact

(11:50) Regulations and Definitions of AI

(27:38) The Implications of the AI Act

Links

Episode link: https://www.betweentwocoos.com/the-eu-vs-ai-the-legal-opinion-with-flick-fisher-partner-at-fieldfisher/

Flick's previous episode on GDPR: https://www.betweentwocoos.com/data-privacy-gdpr-flick-fisher/

Flick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felicityfisher/

Fieldfisher: https://www.fieldfisher.com/

Between Two COO's: https://www.betweentwocoos.com/

Michael Koenig on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-koenig514/

We're excited to have another industry leader, John Wall, Sr. VP and Head of BlackBerry QNX, join Eric to talk about the software-defined vehicle. Eric and John touch on a lot of current topics, including challenges that need to be addressed to make the software-defined vehicle a reality, realistic timing in terms of when we will see true software-defined vehicles, the industry's mindset on change, open-source software, and what role QNX is playing in the software-defined vehicle space. They pack a lot of valuable insight into 25 minutes! 

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Will Twitter ever be the same since Elon Musk’s takeover? And what impact will his changes have on users, free speech and (dis)information?     

Twitter is one of the most influential speech platforms in the world – as of 2022, it had approximately 450million monthly active users. But its takeover by Elon Musk has sparked concerns about social media regulation and Twitter’s ability to remain a ‘proxy for public opinion’. 

To explore this topic, Sarah is joined by Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University. 

• Why does Twitter matter? [00:48]
• Elon rewinds content regulation [06:54]
• Twitter’s political clout [10:16]
• Make the internet democratic again [11:28]
• What is Mastodon? [15:29]
• Can we ever really trust the internet? [17:47]

Learn more

• Elon Musk, Twitter and the Declaration of the Future of the Internet impact

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Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University.

Tama Leaver’s research interests include children’s data, privacy and rights in an online world, visual social media, the activity and regulation of big social media companies, and the social, casual and mobile gaming landscape.

He is the President of the Association of Internet Researchers, a regular media commentator and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child.

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Host: Sarah Taillier

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• Why Procrastinators Procrastinate - https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html
• Tailwind UI - https://tailwindui.com/

A career open-source software advocate, Mike founded HotWax Systems in 1997. For over 20 years he has led high-profile web software projects for numerous national and global brands. His passion for sharing knowledge led him to a teaching position at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, where he also had earned a Summa Cum Laude B.A. in International Studies and an MBA in International Management. Mike is a Leadership Utah alumnus and works to support the International Rescue Committee. Mike appreciates the Oxford comma and enjoys sharing global experiences together with his children.

 Since he is my brother, Mike also knows my Dad, who was my guest on episode 27 and we discuss some more of his great leadership lessons. 

Learn more about HotWax Systems at HotWaxsystems.com. Connect with Mike on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Building a blockchain startup is hard enough. How do you educate the market around the technology itself? How do you communicate the business case for your product? But if you’re really looking for a challenge, build a company with a focus on innovation in the healthcare space—an industry notoriously slow to adopt advanced technology!
Katherine Kuzmeskas is the founder and CEO of SimplyVital Health, a startup building the blockchain infrastructure for healthcare. By way of open source and proprietary software, SimplyVital leverages the blockchain as a tool to increase data access and decrease the cost of healthcare, globally. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Kat cut her teeth in hospital administration, serving as Program Manager and Strategic Planner for the Yale New Haven Health system.
Today, Kat joins us to discuss the challenges of innovating in the healthcare space, describing the market’s slow adoption of advanced technology and the reteaching necessary around the role of the blockchain. She shares her interest in healthcare administration and explains how a year with Teach for America led to her idea for SimplyVital Health. Listen in for Kat’s insight on leading a global company and learn how persistence, organization and the will to win lend to her success as a startup founder.

Topics Covered

The function of SimplyVital
Blockchain infrastructure for healthcare
Proprietary and open-source software
Data access to decrease costs globally

Kat’s insight on leadership
Solo musician/athlete vs. band/team
Compare to CEO of global company

The challenges of innovating in healthcare
Slow to adopt advanced technology
Must understand business perspective

Kat’s advice for startups in the healthcare space
Identify customers, run product by them first
Remember that healthcare is business (ROI)

Kat’s path to founding SimplyVital Health
Clinical rotations in Ecuador
Interest in operations, administration
Teach for America student dashboard
Apply data-driven decision-making to healthcare

Kat’s strengths as a startup founder
Persistence (outwork others)
Extremely organized
Competitive, curious

How Kat educates the healthcare market on blockchain
Recognize long sales cycle
Reteach as necessary
Consulting arm, course on Udemy

How Kat financed SimplyVital
Self-funded first year
Equity round with venture investors
Revenue from purchase of tokens

Kat’s definition of success
Personal fulfillment
Doing good in world

Connect with Kat

SimplyVital Health https://www.simplyvitalhealth.com/

SimplyVital on Twitter https://twitter.com/SimplyVitalHQ

SimplyVital on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SimplyVitalHealth/

SimplyVital on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/simplyvital-health/

Kat on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinekuzmeskas/

Kat on Twitter https://twitter.com/kkuzmesk?lang=en

Resources

Blockchain and Healthcare on Udemy https://www.udemy.com/blockchain-and-healthcare/

Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century by Chuck Klosterman

http://chuckklostermanauthor.com/books/chuck-klosterman-x-tr/chuck-klosterman-x-hc

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The beauty of open-source software lies in its efficiency. If two companies, building different solutions, work together on the parts of the projects that overlap, they accomplish more in less time. The Hyperledger Project is an open-source collaboration working to build a set of blockchain technologies that can be used in a variety of industries and embedded in the emerging internet technology stack.

Brian Behlendorf is the Executive Director of the Hyperledger Project for The Linux Foundation. Brian has dedicated his career to connecting and empowering the free and open-source software community to solve difficult problems. Early in his career, Brian was a primary developer of the Apache Web server and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He was also the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum. Today, Brian serves on the board of the Mozilla Foundation as well as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Prior to joining Hyperledger, Brian was a managing director at Mithril Capital Management, a global technology investment firm.

Brian joins us to explain the relationship between the Linux Foundation and Hyperledger, describing the venture’s subscription-based business model and several of the projects being built with its open-source blockchain technology. He walks us through the benefits of Hyperledger over public blockchains, discussing the business community’s preference for anonymity and the right to fork if data is misused. Listen in for Brian’s insight around measuring the progress of community-building and learn how open-source software helps us go further, faster.

Connect with Brian

• Hyperledger https://www.hyperledger.org/
• Hyperledger on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_X0WkMtkWzaVUKF-PRBNQ
• Hyperledger on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hyperledger
• Hyperledger on Twitter https://twitter.com/hyperledger
• Brian on Twitter https://twitter.com/brianbehlendorf
• Brian on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbehlendorf/
• Brian’s Website http://brian.behlendorf.com/

Resources

• Netcraft https://www.netcraft.com/
• ‘Fighting the Seed Monopoly’ in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/seed-monopoly-free-seeds-farm-monsanto-dupont
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami https://www.amazon.com/Wind-Up-Bird-Chronicle-Novel/dp/0679775439
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567

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