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SmarterMarkets™
Hosted by Abaxx Technologies Inc. · EN
SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including the energy transformation and the transition to an AI-augmented economy.
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How to Raise Your Agent Episode 6 | Joyce Shen, Managing Partner at Together Expedition & AI Professor at UC Berkeley
3d ago00:43:35Tap to summarizeWe continue our How to Raise Your Agent series this week with Joyce Shen, Managing Partner at Together Expedition and AI Professor at UC Berkeley. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Joyce to discuss how AI is rewiring work, what we can learn from past tech transformations, and what's different this time from the perspective of a business practitioner, tech investor, and educator.
Transcribe →How to Raise Your Agent Episode 5 | Daniel Solove, Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property & Technology Law at George Washington University Law School
1w ago00:53:56Tap to summarizeOn this week’s installment of How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Daniel Solove into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Daniel is the Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property & Technology Law at George Washington University Law School. David Greely sits down with Daniel to discuss how AI isn't so much opening up new problems in privacy, but exposing and amplifying the old ones – and how we need to change our legal approach to privacy to solve these problems and take us out of the digital fishbowl we find ourselves in.
Transcribe →How to Raise Your Agent Episode 4 | Alec Coughlin, Principal at BairesDev & Host of “AI with Alec”
2w ago00:45:44Tap to summarizeThis week on How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Alec Coughlin, Principal at BairesDev and host of AI with Alec, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Alec to discuss the challenges on the journey to integrating AI and AI agents into your business, offering practical advice for navigating that transformation.
Transcribe →How to Raise Your Agent Episode 3 | Ryan Kurt, Founder & CEO, The AI Lab
3w ago00:40:48Tap to summarizeWe continue our series How to Raise Your Agent with Ryan Kurt, Founder & CEO of The AI Lab. David Greely sits down with Ryan to discuss how AI and AI agents are transforming our companies and our economy. They talk about the big questions that business leaders should be asking right now and what the companies that are successfully navigating this moment are doing differently.
Transcribe →Special Episode | SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating with Michael DiRienzo, President & CEO, The Silver Institute
May 2300:32:44Tap to summarizeThis week, we present SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating. We’re bringing back an episode that we brought you last May with Michael DiRienzo, President & CEO at The Silver Institute. During the conversation, David Greely and Michael discuss the outlook for silver, its role in the energy transition, and the role it can and should play in investor portfolios and in our financial system in the 21st century. Those topics are as relevant now as they were last year. One update: last year, we discussed that at the time, silver appeared undervalued as it took 100 ounces of silver to buy 1 ounce of gold. Of course, silver prices have climbed over the past year. Now it only takes roughly 60 ounces of silver to buy 1 ounce of gold in the physically deliverable gold and silver futures markets now trading on Abaxx Exchange in Singapore.
Transcribe →How to Raise Your Agent Episode 2 | Michelle Finneran Dennedy, Chief Data Strategy Officer, Abaxx Technologies
May 1600:46:14Tap to summarizeOn our second installment of How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Michelle Finneran Dennedy back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Michelle is Chief Data Strategy Officer at Abaxx Technologies. David Greely sits down with Michelle to discuss what business leaders and managers will need to do to adapt to a world where their teams include both people and agents – and how they should be thinking about integrating agents into their teams, including how to raise and govern them.
Transcribe →How to Raise Your Agent Episode 1 | Ian Forester, Head of Abaxx Labs at Abaxx Technologies
May 900:40:32Tap to summarizeThis week, we kick off our new series, How to Raise Your Agent, with Ian Forester, Head of the recently launched Abaxx Labs at Abaxx Technologies. David Greely sits down with Ian to discuss how AI agents are changing how humans interact with computers and the internet – and why Abaxx Labs introduced its Agents++™ open source library for using digital identity and verifiable credentials for the identity and authorization infrastructure needed for working with agents.
Transcribe →Special Episode | Scenes from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026
May 200:44:34Tap to summarizeWe present a Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026. SmarterMarkets™ returned to Lausanne, Switzerland for the 15th edition of the Financial Times Commodities Global Summit, where we caught up with summit participants on the important issues of the day. The theme for this year's summit was ‘finding the advantage in a fragmented world.’ The conversations were focused on the state of our supply chains and the increasing stakes of the ongoing conflict in Iran. We've compiled a selection of those interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. If you would like to listen to the full interviews, they are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal. They’re also available on our second podcast channel, SmarterMarkets™ Presents. Our guests are: Leslie Hook – Natural Resources Editor, Financial Times Helima Croft – Managing Director and the Head of Global Commodity Strategy and MENA Research, RBC Capital Markets Robert Friedland – Executive Co-Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines & Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, I-Pulse Brian Menell – CEO & Chairman, TechMet Gracelin Baskaran – Founding Director, Critical Minerals Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies Ruth Crowell – CEO, LBMA Alasdair Were – Head of Environmental Markets, Abaxx Exchange
Transcribe →Special Episode | Subterranean Supply Chain Blues: Live from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026 with Robert Friedland, Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines
Apr 2500:44:35Tap to summarizeThis week on SmarterMarkets™, we present a special episode Subterranean Supply Chain Blues with Robert Friedland, recorded this past week at the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Robert is Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines and Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sat down with Robert after his keynote at the FT Summit, where he shared his perspectives on the state of the world and the current role of metals, mining, and markets.
Transcribe →Weathering Decarbonization Episode 7 | Martin Malinow, CEO, Parameter Climate
Apr 1800:43:19Tap to summarizeOn this week’s installment of Weathering Decarbonization, we welcome Martin Malinow, CEO of Parameter Climate, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Martin to discuss his work building weather and climate risk transfer markets from the days of Enron to today. They talk about where these markets are now, where they're going, and what we need to be doing to get them there.
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