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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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Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 4 | Mark Lewis, Partner and Managing Director, Climate Finance Partners LLC
6d ago00:49:14Tap to summarizeOur Summer Playlist rolls on this week with Mark Lewis, Partner and Managing Director at Climate Finance Partners LLC. David Greely sits down with Mark to discuss the recently released European Commission's EU ETS review proposals and what they'll mean for the outlook for the EU ETS and other carbon markets.
Transcribe →Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 3 | Arjun Murti, Partner at Veriten & Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack
2w ago00:39:20Tap to summarizeThis week on our Summer Playlist, we welcome Arjun Murti back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Arjun is Partner at Veriten and Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack. David Greely sits down with Arjun to discuss the lessons learned from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the risk of a super spike should the conflict continue, and the key themes he'll be following in the second half of 2026.
Transcribe →Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 2 | Joe Raia, Thomas McMahon, & Russell Robertson from the Abaxx Team
3w ago00:46:07Tap to summarizeOn the second installment of our Summer Playlist this week, we welcome Thomas McMahon, Joe Raia, and Russell Robertson into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Thomas is Co-Founder of Abaxx Technologies; Joe and Russell are Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Business Development Officer at Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse. David Greely sits down with them in Singapore to discuss their experiences in building new commodities futures markets from first trades to commercial adoption over the past five decades – and the opportunities they see ahead.
Transcribe →Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 1 | Samantha Dart, Co-Head of Global Commodities Research, Goldman Sachs
4w ago00:40:32Tap to summarizeWe kick off our Summer Playlist this week by welcoming Samantha Dart back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Samantha is Co-Head of Global Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs. David Greely sits down with Samantha to discuss the state of the energy markets given the ongoing conflict in Iran, the risks posed by the weather this summer and next winter, and how the increasing demand for electricity is shaping power markets, metals demand, and inflation.
Transcribe →How to Raise Your Agent Episode 8 | Matthew Cheung, CEO, ipushpull
Jul 400:44:06Tap to summarizeThis week, we close out our How to Raise Your Agent series with Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull. David Greely sits down with Matthew to discuss how chat won the interface war in financial services, how AI is unlocking a trove of chat data for enterprise use, and why governance will be the key to who wins in a world of messaging and AI agents.
Transcribe →How to Raise Your Agent Episode 7 | Tom Redman, "The Data Doc" & President, Data Quality Solutions
Jun 2700:39:07Tap to summarizeThis week on How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Tom Redman into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Tom is "The Data Doc" and President of Data Quality Solutions. David Greely sits down with Tom to discuss how, in his view, AI is data, how much of our data is not fit for purpose, and how the solution begins with keeping the focus on the customer – and getting people and their AI agents to see themselves as part of a system in which they are both the data creators and customers.
Transcribe →How to Raise Your Agent Episode 6 | Joyce Shen, Managing Partner at Together Expedition & AI Professor at UC Berkeley
Jun 2000:43:35Tap 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
Jun 1300:53:56Tap 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”
Jun 600:45:44Tap 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
May 3000:40:48Tap 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.
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