The Promontory: Recent Episodes
Kevin Mark Lodie
Technology today is a hyperobject: we live with it and within it. Our interactions with systems and devices powered by computation are more ubiquitous, bi-directional, and integrated than ever before. Reality as we know it – spaces, communication, cause-and-effect – is experienced as a mix of the organic and the artificial.
A generation of natives navigates this hybrid world fluidly while also aware of its paradoxes: connective but isolating; expansive but tethered; vivid, yet merely a pixeled shadow. What are the possible outcomes of this novel and deepening relationship between humans and technology.
In this episode, you’ll hear innovators from the arts and sciences whose work focuses on this relationship and its potential to not just advance humankind, but to enhance the human experience as an end in itself.
- Elizabeth Murnane – Empower Labs, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth https://empower-lab.emurnane.host.dartmouth.edu/
- Lonneke Gordijn – Drift https://www.studiodrift.com/
- Skip Rizzo – Medical Virtual Reality Lab, Institute for Creative Technologies at USC https://ict.usc.edu/groups/medical-vr/
Funding is the essential fuel of a mission-driven organization, but activating programs and serving beneficiaries also calls for boots-on-the-ground. In this re-cast of a discussion before a live audience, you'll discover how dollars and deeds can drive corporate social responsibility, cultivate public+private partnerships and leverage the powers of both government bureaucracy and celebrity endorsement.
Featured:
- Haylen van Koppen, Chief Human Resources Officer, Legendary Entertainment; former Executive Vice President, Lionsgate
- Sarah Adolphson, co-CEO, Artemis Agency; former Executive Director, William Morris Endeavor Foundation
- Joanne Kozberg, Partner, California Strategies; former Secretary of State, State of California
- Kevin Mark Lodie, Managing Director, Portofino Consulting
This discussion was originally developed as a platform promoting public service for St. Vincent Meals on Wheels. Special thanks to Wolfgang Puck; sponsor, Southern California Gas, a Sempra Energy Company; and media partner, ABC-7.
Thanks for being a part of The Promontory's first episode, "Reversal of Fortune [?]"!
COVID19 has struck a blow to Luxury production and sales, but it's not the only phenomenon driving change in an Industry that left its comfort zone some time ago. For a category built on intangible value, reinvention is a subtle art. How do the world's most coveted brands continue to capture both profits and our imagination?
I am joined by Professor Alberto Festa whose career in the Luxury Industry includes C-level roles at divisions of LVMH, including Loro Piana and, for over 15 years, at Bulgari. He is currently a consultant to Kering, the luxury group that includes Gucci, Saint Laurent and a dozen more leading brands. Since 2008, Professor Festa has taught Luxury and Fashion at universities and business schools in his native Italy and abroad.