What’s required to strengthen the workers movement in an era of automation? How can tech, risk, and experimentation unlock power for the working class? Carmen Rojas, CEO of the Workers Lab, and Aki Ito, Bloomberg Tech Editor, discuss. This is a

Can Tech Defend Our Civil Liberties?

May 7th, 2019 27m 13s

The “Trump Bump” was real, and catapulted the ACLU into a tech-driven civic engagement strategy. How can digital tools and open data advance democracy? ACLU CTO Marco Carbone, ACLU Product Design Lead Allen Tan, and Senior TechCrunch Reporter M

Mission: Possible

May 6th, 2019 25m 31s

7 years ago Evan Marwell set out to connect all students in U.S. public schools with high-speed internet. Today, 97% of students are connected. What does it take to reach coveted mission achievement? Evan Marwell, Founder and CEO of EducationSu

Can AI Stop Sex Trafficking?

May 6th, 2019 26m 19s

The Internet enabled a new era of child sexual abuse. Now tech nonprofits, tech giants, and the latest advances in artificial intelligence have set out to defeat it. Julie Cordua, CEO of Thorn, and Megan Rose Dickey, Senior Reporter at TechCrun

Recoding Tech's Incentives

May 6th, 2019 27m 7s

Tech promises to improve our lives, but in many cases has done the inverse by exploiting human behavior. How can we rethink tech’s incentives to create more ethical products? Tristan Harris, Co-Founder of The Center for Humane Technology, and L

Why Open Source is More Important Now Than Ever

May 3rd, 2019 25m 32s

Tech nonprofits are tackling problems so immense, they may not be solved in our lifetimes. Can open sourcing be the answer to expedited impact? Katharina Borchert, Chief Innovation Officer at Mozilla; Admas Kanyagia, Director of Social Impact,

Dethroning the Master Algorithm

May 3rd, 2019 26m 46s

What role can policy, government, and tech nonprofits play to build tech that is optimized to benefit society and our economy? Tim O’Reilly, Founder & CEO, O’Reilly Media, and James Slavet, Greylock Partner, discuss. This is a recording from th

Why Discontent Just Might be a Good Thing

May 3rd, 2019 26m 9s

Movement building leaders, DoSomething.org CEO Aria Finger, GoFundMe CMO Raquel Rozas, and Head of Eventbrite Social Innovation Caroline Barlerin, discuss what it takes to channel adversity into action, and how platforms enable anyone to cataly

Audacious Impact: The Road to 1 Billion

May 2nd, 2019 26m 51s

From pre-IPO to an audacious goal of 1 billion lives touched, how do you build a company, product, and philanthropic strategy that maximizes social impact? Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio, and Kevin Barenblat, Co-Founder & President of Fast Forward,

The Future of Free Knowledge

May 1st, 2019 26m 25s

Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive's Founder & Digital Librarian, has spent his career dedicated to universal access to knowledge. In an age of digital distrust, can we course correct as we pursue an open Internet? Brewster discusses with Lora Ko

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