Joining Microsoft as an intern in 1988, Phil Spencer has been part of the company’s entire gaming journey. Now, as CEO of Microsoft Gaming, he tells Ed about the company’s commitment to making sure that the folks making their products reflect t

Herman Narula: The Metaverse, At Scale

Aug 14th, 2022 48m 15s

Today Ed is joined by a long-time colleague, Herman Narula, CEO and co-Founder at Improbable.io - one of Europe's most successful and best-known tech companies. For over a decade the company has built the foundational technology to support scal

Kai-Fu Lee: The Benevolent Side of Artificial Intelligence

Jul 17th, 2022 43m 53s

Ed has an in-depth chat with AI expert and CEO of Chinese deep tech VC Sinovation Ventures, Kai-Fu Lee. His extensive knowledge of AI is matched by an innate ability to explain its advantages and pitfalls in plain language. As Ed learns, there

Melissa Di Donato: The Open Source Revolution is Already Here

May 8th, 2022 46m 9s

SUSE CEO Melissa Di Donato joins Ed for an invaluable conversation about the role Open Source software is playing across organizations and governments worldwide. Noting that 35% of all enterprise software contains open source-derived code, Meli

Priya Lakhani and Gauthier Van Malderen: EdTech’s Real-Time Data Revolution

Feb 6th, 2022 46m 36s

Talk about a masterclass! Ed catches up with Priya Lakhani OBE, CEO at CENTURY Tech and Gauthier Van Malderen, Founder & CEO at Perlego, for a razor-sharp discussion about how data is transforming EdTech right now. Priya, who also serves as non

Jimmy McLoughlin and Scott Vincent: How Do We Fill All These New Roles?

Nov 21st, 2021 42m 47s

Ed faces down another rival podcaster - Jimmy’s Jobs Of The Future host Jimmy McLoughlin OBE - along with Digital Futures CEO Scott Vincent to discuss how to fill all the new roles coming online as the economy modernizes. McLoughlin, a veteran

Natasha De Teran and Gottfried Leibbrandt: How We Get Paid, and Why It Matters

Nov 7th, 2021 47m 53s

Today Ed sits down with a pair of authors who’ve managed to do the impossible: make the mechanics of financial transactions fascinating. The pair’s recently published book, “The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything,” (https:/

William Tunstall-Pedoe: Giving Voice to Alexa and Charting AI’s Future

Oct 3rd, 2021 47m 35s

Ed returns to the mic with his second-ever in-person interview - and it’s a great one. William Tunstall-Pedo, a tech pioneer and AI guru, sold his Cambridge, England-based tech company Evi to Amazon; together, they built Alexa - one of the most

Damian Bradfield: Creating a New Vision for Our Digital Lives

Aug 8th, 2021 42m 49s

Ed sits with a big thinker (and rival podcaster), Damian Bradfield, the Chief Creative Officer and co-Founder of WeTransfer and WePresent. While he is focused on tools that empower creativity, he’s taking the long view on what our digital futur

Matthew Barzun: Neither Top-Down Nor Bottom-Up

Jul 25th, 2021 44m 13s

Ed has a revealing conversation with Matthew Barzun, the former US Ambassador to the UK and, prior to that, Sweden. A former CNET executive and campaign strategist credited with creating the ‘citizen fundraisers’ that fueled Obama’s rise, Barzu

Noreena Hertz: Can Tech Teach Us To Read a Room, or Each Other?

Jul 11th, 2021 44m 6s

Best-selling author Noreena Hertz provides an eye-opening look at the epidemic of loneliness afflicting many of us, and engages Ed in a discussion about what tech’s role could be in addressing a situation that it has played no small role in cre

Doug Gurr: Evolving Museums To Address Tomorrow’s Challenges

Jun 27th, 2021 31m 31s

Ed returns to in-person recording with an eye-opening conversation with Doug Gurr, the former head of Amazon UK who now serves as Director of the Natural History Museum in London. Braving the aging infrastructure of the building as well as a su

Tim Davie: Evolving the BBC in Today’s Media Scrum

Jun 13th, 2021 41m 29s

Tune in for an insightful conversation between Ed and Tim Davie CBE, who is the 17th Director-General (CEO and Editor-In-Chief) of the storied media institution. Tim’s keen understanding of the media firmament is driving the organization’s inno

Mark Carney: The Dollars and Sense Behind Net Zero

May 30th, 2021 49m 24s

Today, Ed is joined by LionTree and Kindred Media CEO and Founder Aryeh B. Bourkoff for a crucial conversation with Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England who’s now serving as the UN's Special Envoy on Climate Action and Financ

Theo Blackwell: Moving London Forward, Efficiently and Ethically

May 23rd, 2021 39m 51s

Ed welcomes Theo Blackwell MBE, whose job Ed (only half jokingly) covets; Theo is London’s first Chief Digital Officer, appointed in 2017. His role is a delicate balancing act between federal, local and commercial stakeholders and the populace.

Saul Klein: King’s Cross is the New Palo Alto

May 9th, 2021 46m 44s

Saul Klein is one of the UK's best known serial entrepreneurs and seed investors. A Founding Partner at seed fund Localglobe, his previous roles include: Partner at Index Ventures; co-Founder of Lovefilm (acquired by Amazon); and part of the or

Malcolm Turnbull: Australia’s Prime Mover

Apr 18th, 2021 38m 38s

Ed welcomes Australia’s former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who led the country between 2015 and 2018. Turnbull was already a successful tech investor before he became PM, and like Ed, had also served as his country's tech minister. Their d

Ron Kalifa OBE: England’s Sunny FinTech Outlook

Mar 21st, 2021 35m

Ed is joined by Ron Kalifa, who chairs both Network International and FutureLearn, and served as the CEO and Vice Chairman of UK payments powerhouse Worldpay. He shares findings from the report he recently submitted to UK finance minister Rishi

Will Page: Swinging For The Next Vine In Our Tarzan Economy

Mar 7th, 2021 46m 31s

If keen insight and quick wit are your thing, then you’ll want to catch Ed’s conversation with Will Page. As Chief Economist at Spotify, he’s had a front row seat as the first industry to suffer digital disruption has reinvented itself. He’s ba

Jim Mellon: Out of the Lab and Into Our Mouths

Feb 21st, 2021 34m 15s

Philanthropist and Burnbrae Group Chairman Jim Mellon takes Ed on a whirlwind tour of the very near future of agritech, spanning everything from the meatless burgers that are virtually mainstream; through the rapid transition of the milk market

Phaedra Chrousos & Daniel Korski CBE: Taking The Gov Out Of GovTech

Feb 7th, 2021 36m 6s

It’s hard to imagine two more qualified guests to discuss the good, bad and ugly of government tech initiatives – one of Ed’s favorite topics. Phaedra, who now serves as Chief Strategy Officer of Libra Group, is a veteran of the Obama administr

Leo Ringer & Sal Churi: Can Innovation Disrupt Regulation?

Jan 24th, 2021 43m 43s

Ed hosts a trans-Atlantic discussion with Form Ventures co-Founder Leo Ringer and Trust Ventures Founder and General Partner Sal Churi, a former professor of law at the University of Chicago’s Law School’s Innovation Clinic. The topic – one of

Natalia Brzezinski: Klarna’s US Strategy Lead on Swedish Entrepreneurs and Biden’s Sage Words

Jan 10th, 2021 46m 20s

Leaning into his second season, Ed welcomes Natalia Brzezinski, who recounts her amazing journey from a hardscrabble Chicago upbringing to becoming America’s co-ambassador to Sweden (with her husband), focusing on tech. Now, as Head of US Strat

Azeem Azhar: Collaboration, Innovation and The Ethics of Longevity

Dec 7th, 2020 40m 57s

Ed wraps up the first season of The Vaizey View with an intriguing conversation with Azeem Azhar, the entrepreneur, investor and advisor whose Exponential View newsletter (nearly 200K subs) is a must-read on all things tech. They cover a broad

Tabitha Goldstaub: Don’t Call Her a Guru (But She Is)

Nov 23rd, 2020 31m 48s

Ed sits with serial entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub, who in addition to co-founding the knowledge network Cognition X is the Chair of the UK Government's AI Council. A restless champion of the practical business applications of Artificial Intell