Podcasts by The IQT Podcast

IQT Explains: How Resilient is America’s Positioning, Navigation,&Timing Data? from 2023-11-28T06:00

This episode of The IQT Podcast delves into the world of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) data, which plays a critical part in supporting modern economies and infrastructure. This often...

IQT Explains: The Future of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) from 2023-11-21T12:00

In this episode of The IQT Podcast, host Dr. Sarah Sewall is joined by guests Dr. Scott Pace and Steve Poizner to discuss the future of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS). They delve into ...

IQT Explains: Fintech from 2023-10-24T06:00

In this episode of IQT Explains, Rita Waite and Ming Luo join our Vishal Sandesara to discuss fintech from their unique perspectives as an investor and technologist, re...

The Intersection Podcast: Exploring the Nexus of AI&Quantum from 2023-09-05T06:00

Welcome to the IQT Podcast! In this episode, IQT’s Steve Bowsher hosts SandBoxAQ CEO, Jack Hidary, to explore interdisciplinary collaboration, GPU-driven drug breakthroughs, and SandboxAQ's uniq...

The Intersection: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Ops,&Strategy from 2023-08-01T06:00

In this episode of The Intersection, IQT's Steve Bowsher is joined by Dr. Michael Vickers, a former special forces and CIA operations officer, who shares experiences from his 40+ year career in ...

IQT Explains: The Art of Investing for National Security from 2023-03-22T14:23:31

In 1999, a global technology revolution was underway and the U.S. government saw an opportunity to harness the power of startup technology to enhance national security. The outcome? IQT was foun...

The Intersection: Exploring a Path Forward for America’s Technological Future from 2023-02-28T06:00

The United States is facing a significant challenge in competing with China on technological innovation, cybersecurity, and national security issues. With China's rapid rise as a global technolo...

The Intersection: Espionage Threats, Tech, and Algorithms from 2022-10-18T09:19:21

The history of the intelligence community is long and complex. As the world becomes increasingly digital, open communication is more important than ever. Today, intelligence agencies rely heavil...

What Does the Future Hold for the U.S. Bioeconomy? from 2022-09-29T06:00

On September 12, 2022, President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy. The EO a...

The Intersection: Nuclear power is en vogue? from 2022-09-27T06:00

Energy fuels so many things in our daily lives, including the device you are reading this on right now, but do you ever pause to wonder: where exactly does this energy come from? In this episode...

The Intersection: Who Charges Your Batteries? from 2022-09-13T06:00

In this episode of The Intersection series, we are joined by battery and electric vehicles expert Steve LeVine, author and editor of The Electric, to explore how important batteries are and thei...

The Intersection: Taking Calculated Venture Capital Risks and Navigating Market Downturns from 2022-08-30T07:00

In this episode of The Intersection, Steve Bowsher is joined by Bilal Zuberi, co-founder and partner at Lux Capital. Recorded at an event held in May, this discussion draws from Bilal's experien...

The Intersection: Over the Horizon Technologies to Help Shape a Better World from 2022-08-16T09:08:15

This episode of The Intersection shares a discussion between In-Q-Tel's Dr. Megan Anderson and Dr. Sarah Sewall recorded at an event held back in May. Tune in to hear them explore innovative sol...

The Intersection: Diversity&the Workplace from 2022-05-10T09:43:18

In this episode, Steve Bowsher is joined by John Rice, Founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow, a national non-profit organization that empowers a new generation of diverse leaders...

IQT Explains: Climate Tech from 2022-03-31T10:25:20

The climate technology sector is a mature asset class that provides investors with considerable financial returns as well as the potential for outsized environmental and social impact. In this e...

IQT Explains: The Importance of Bias Testing in AI Assurance from 2022-02-15T08:58:13

The rising use of artificial intelligence in sensitive industries such as recruitment, criminal justice, and healthcare has raised debate about bias and impartiality. However, human decision-mak...

IQT Explains: AI Assurance from 2022-02-08T10:23:34

When it comes to software, one thing we know for sure is that sometimes our tools are going to fail, and introducing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning into software tools creates addi...

The Intersection: How Technological Conflict Could Reshape the World Order from 2021-12-20T09:15:52

This week on The Intersection Podcast, IQT's Steve Bowsher talks with Jacob Helberg, author of The Wires of War, about how technology plays a key role in the global struggle for power and what o...

IQT Explains: The Future of Space Technology from 2021-09-21T09:39:49

In the final episode of our three-part space podcast series, host Vishal Sandesara is joined by Kristi Bradford, Tom Gillespie, and Clayton Williams to explore the future of space. Hear from the...

IQT Explains: Current Space Innovations from 2021-09-14T06:00

Interested in learning how IQT approaches its space investments? In part two of our three-part space series, host Vishal Sandesara is joined by IQT's Kristi Bradford and Kevin Schaeffer to explo...

IQT Explains: Space Origins&The Startup Ecosystem from 2021-09-07T10:16:04

This episode kicks off a three-part space series featuring some of IQT's domain experts to explore IQT’s space efforts through the years and how they've helped enhance national security. In this...

IQT Explains: Advanced Materials Innovation from 2021-07-27T09:00:44

Materials innovation touches almost every aspect of our daily lives, and the materials we rely on are advancing at an exponential pace. On this week's IQT Explores episode, Vishal Sandesara is j...

IQT Explains: Advanced Materials Innovation from 2021-07-27T09:00:44

Materials innovation touches almost every aspect of our daily lives, and the materials we rely on are advancing at an exponential pace. On this week's IQT Explores episode, Vishal Sandesara is j...

IQT Explains: Digital Health Tools to Support National Security from 2021-07-22T10:07:21

As health threats continuously evolve in the 21st century, so too has digital health technology. This podcast offers insights from IQT's Dan Hanfling and Eugene Chiu about how utilizing a wide a...

IQT Explains: Digital Health Tools to Support National Security from 2021-07-22T10:07:21

As health threats continuously evolve in the 21st century, so too has digital health technology. This podcast offers insights from IQT's Dan Hanfling and Eugene Chiu about how utilizing a wide a...

The Intersection: Technology, Economic Growth,&National Security from 2021-07-19T09:29:49

This week on The Intersection, IQT's Steve Bowsher talks with Eli Dourado, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, about the future of cutting...

The Intersection: Transitioning from government to startups from 2021-06-22T09:33

This week’s episode of The Intersection features a conversation between Steve Bowsher and Dr. Ellison Anne Williams, CEO and Founder of Enveil. Tune in to hear their discussion on the challenges...

The Intersection: The Future of Disruptive Innovations from 2021-06-10T09:01:33

On this episode of The Intersection series, Steve Bowsher speaks with Chris Brose, Chief Strategy Officer of Anduril and author of “The Kill Chain.” Listen in as they discuss the future of disru...

The Intersection: Tech Entrepreneurs&The Government Market from 2021-04-08T14:29:40

This week in The Intersection, listen in as Steve Bowsher talks with Mike Appelbaum, two-time CEO of In-Q-Tel portfolio companies, to discuss why startups should consider the government market. ...

The Intersection (debut): Startups and Working with the Government from 2021-03-25T11:49:47

The debut of The Intersection: Mission Investing for National Security. Hosted by IQT President Steve Bowsher, the inaugural pod with TJ Rylander from Next47 features insights about sourcing and...

Synthetic Biology for Enhanced Biosecurity:  New Genetic Circuits and Switches from 2021-01-26T11:19:26

As synthetic biology continues to evolve, the ability to control engineered organisms is more important now than ever. In this episode, B.Next's Dr. Kevin O'Connell is joined by Gabriel Lopez, t...

Getting Back to Work and School:  Enhancing Access to COVID-19 Testing from 2021-01-19T11:20:41

In the era of COVID-19, how do we create safe environments for people to return to work, school, and their daily lives? B.Next's Dr. Kevin O'Connell is joined by Troy Moore, Chief Scientific Off...

Synthetic Biology:  A Core Capability for Biosecurity from 2021-01-12T09:18:18

B.Next's Dr. Kevin O'Connell is joined by Jason Kelly, Founder of Ginkgo Bioworks, an In-Q-Tel portfolio company using the most advanced technology on the planet—biology—to grow better products....

Navigating Available Testing for COVID-19 - Introducing the IQT Testing Database from 2021-01-05T13:25:35

With an abundance of information available on COVID-19 testing, where should one even begin? B.Next's Dr. Kevin O'Connell is joined by In-Q-Tel's Tommy Jones and Chenny Zhang to explore diagnost...

Building Blocks for Precise Location Data and Powerful Developer Tools, with Mapbox’s Mikel Maron from 2020-08-18T11:11:04

In the final episode of the B.Next Outbreak Analytics & Forecasting series, Drs. Dylan George and Caitlin Rivers are joined by Mikel Maron, Community Team Lead at Mapbox, a company offering loca...

How Technology is Augmenting Public Health, with OmniSci’s Todd Mostak from 2020-08-18T11:10:27

In this episode of the B.Next Outbreak Analytics & Forecasting series, Todd Mostak, CEO and Founder of OmniSci, an In-Q-Tel portfolio company focused on massively accelerated analytics and data ...

Visualizing Data During a Pandemic, with Plotly’s Nicolas Kruchten from 2020-08-18T11:09:34

In this episode of the B.Next Outbreak Analytics & Forecasting series, Dr. Dylan George is joined by Nicolas Kruchten, VP of Product at Plotly, an In-Q-Tel portfolio company helping leading orga...

Risk Analytics in a Pandemic, with Metabiota’s Nathan Wolfe from 2020-08-18T11:08:35

In this episode of the B.Next Outbreak Analytics & Forecasting series, B.Next’s Dr. Dylan George and IQT’s Ryan Lewis are joined by Nathan Wolfe of In-Q-Tel portfolio company Metabiota. Tune in ...

The Effect Disease Modeling Has on Interventions and Planning Scenarios, with Marc Lipsitch from 2020-08-11T09:16:37

Marc Lipsitch, Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard University, and Director of the Center for Communicable Diseases and Dynamics joins ...

Using AI to Identify Valuable Patterns in Data, with Outlier.AI’s Sean Byrnes from 2020-08-11T09:16:18

In this episode of the B.Next Outbreak Analytics & Forecasting Series, Dr. Dylan George sits down with Sean Byrnes, CEO of Outlier.AI, (an In-Q-Tel portfolio company) in a discussion about looki...

Catastrophic Modeling and Risk Analytics, with Metabiota’s Nita Madhav from 2020-08-11T09:15:57

In this episode of the B.Next Outbreak Analytics & Forecasting series, Drs. Dylan George and Caitlin Rivers are joined by Nita Madhav, CEO of Metabiota, an In-Q-Tel portfolio company working to ...

The Value of Data and Analytics in Outbreak Response, with Dr. Tom Frieden from 2020-08-04T09:58:51

Data plus analytics (with human intelligence) will yield better informed decision making. Join Dr. Tom Frieden, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and former Commi...

Advanced Concepts in Outbreak Analytics Modeling, with Dr. Marita Zimmermann from 2020-08-04T09:58:22

Modeling is vital to understanding disease spread and optimal interventions. In this episode of the B.Next Outbreak Analytics & Forecasting series, Dr. Marita Zimmermann, Affiliate Assistant Pro...

How Disease Modeling Can Help Inform Public Health Decision Making, with Dr. Nick Reich from 2020-08-04T09:57:55

In this episode of the B.Next Outbreak Analytics & Forecasting series, Drs. Dylan George and Caitlin Rivers are joined by Dr. Nick Reich, one of the leading researchers who is building operation...

Call for a National Forecasting Center from 2020-07-28T09:02:44

Today, weather forecasters can spot the development of a tropical storm and use models to help determine its path and strength, which is incredibly important to protect those in its path. In epi...

Exploring the Value Proposition for Better Disease Outbreak Data and Forecasting, with Dr. Steven Riley from 2020-07-28T09:02:32

Episode three of the B.Next Outbreak Analytics & Forecasting series features Dr. Steven Riley from Imperial College of London, with Drs. Dylan George and Caitlin Rivers exploring the importance ...

Infectious Disease Modeling&Forecasting, with Dr. Jeff Shaman from 2020-07-28T09:02:13

Episode two of the B.Next Outbreak Analytics & Forecasting series features Dr. Dylan George discussing simulated forecasting in infectious disease with Dr. Jeff Shaman, professor at Columbia Uni...

Disease Outbreak Analytics&Forecasting 101 from 2020-07-28T09:01:51

In the era of COVID-19, you’ve likely heard the terms outbreak analytics and forecasting being used more frequently. This episode kicks off a special B.Next series that will investigate outbreak...

Good Data is Hard, but the Training Must Go On from 2020-06-01T15:46:58

When it comes to good datasets, which is more important: quality or quantity? This episode explores three different IQT Labs projects across different domains, specifically examining quality and...

B.Next Breaks Down COVID-19 – Testing Technologies from 2020-05-28T11:39:48

What are some of the challenges associated with diagnostics and testing surrounding COVID-19? B.Next’s Drs. Kevin O’Connell and Dylan George discuss recent pandemic developments and explore the ...

Leveraging Sensors to Monitor Patient Health Remotely from 2020-05-27T18:06:34

Hospitals across the world are operating under a contingency standard of care due to COVID-19. Could the strain of resources be alleviated through remote monitoring of patients through their wea...

B.Next Breaks Down COVID-19 - Vaccines 101 from 2020-05-20T17:42:41

What goes into the development of vaccines, specifically ones to combat COVID-19? B.Next Drs. Kevin O’Connell and Dylan George are joined by Dr. Luciana Borio to discuss the technology and facto...

B.Next Breaks Down COVID-19 - A Q&A from 2020-05-13T17:35:38

B.Next Drs. Kevin O’Connell, Dylan George, and Dan Hanfling are back to help break down the COVID-19 outbreak and the role of technology in defeating the pandemic. This week the trio answers lis...

B.Next Breaks Down COVID-19 – Visualizing Data Surrounding a Pandemic from 2020-05-05T11:39:56

B.Next’s Drs. Kevin O’Connell and Dylan George are joined by IQT Labs’ visualization expert, Andrea Brennen, to discuss the importance of visualizing data to help better absorb and understand ep...

B.Next Breaks Down COVID-19 with Ginkgo Bioworks from 2020-04-28T15:34:54

B.Next’s Dr. Kevin O’Connell is joined by Patrick Boyle, Head of Codebase at Ginkgo Bioworks, the organism company that uses the most advanced technology on the planet—biology—to grow better pro...

B.Next Breaks Down COVID-19 – Physical Distancing&Contact Tracing Technologies from 2020-04-13T10:57:10

B.Next Drs. Dylan George and Dan Hanfling explore the impact of physical distancing and the contact tracing technologies that can be helpful for COVID-19 response. B.Next works at the intersecti...

B.Next Breaks Down COVID-19 – Crisis Standards of Care from 2020-03-31T09:26:23

B.Next Drs. Kevin O’Connell, Dylan George, and Dan Hanfling join the podcast to discuss the importance of public health measures, including social distancing, and provide an understanding of the...

B.Next Breaks Down COVID-19 – Epidemiology, Diagnostic Tools,&Testing from 2020-03-24T12:54:16

How can we prepare for, and combat, infectious disease outbreaks? B.Next’s Kevin O’Connell and Dylan George join the podcast to discuss the epidemiology, diagnostic tools, and testing surroundin...

Autonomous Delivery: Beyond the Self-Driving Car from 2020-02-27T15:41:30

There’s a lot of talk about self-driving cars, yet autonomy includes far more than cars. There's a great amount of interest and development in autonomous delivery, which offers solutions that tr...

Spatial Computing in a 3D World from 2020-01-24T10:00:26

With geospatial technologies and 3D data collection platforms like LiDAR and photogrammetry becoming more mainstream, the pieces of a larger tech confluence are already in place and starting to ...

State of affAIrs from 2020-01-21T15:39:46

Artificial intelligence (AI) is baked into virtually every modern software application we use. From automatic spam filters in your email account, to recommending movies to watch on Netflix or pr...

Trust Me…Privacy and Security in Data Science from 2020-01-21T15:37:43

This episode explores the field of data science and privacy and how laws like GDPR are changing the market and technology landscape.

This podcast originally aired in April 2019 and some c...

Give Us Some (Social) Credit! from 2020-01-21T15:35:44

Can futuristic technology depicted in pop culture come to fruition? This episode explores the technology behind the popular “Black Mirror” episode, “Nosedive”, and aspects of ethical decision ma...

Training an Autonomous Agent from 2020-01-21T15:34:21

IQT’s Lab41 discusses how reinforcement learning can be used to train an autonomous agent to play their all-time favorite 1st person shooter video game: Doom! Listen in as they discuss some of t...

Open Data, AWS, and the VOiCES Dataset from 2020-01-21T15:30:35

The Voices Obscured in Complex Environmental Settings (VOiCES) corpus is a creative commons speech dataset targeting acoustically challenging and reverberant environments with robust labels and ...

The Rise and Importance of Synthetic Biology from 2020-01-21T15:28:47

Nature.com describes synthetic biology as the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems…and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes....

Filling the Data Void: The Importance of Synthetic Data in Machine Learning from 2020-01-21T15:26:07

Why is synthetic data important to certain kinds of machine learning applications? This episode dives into the technology trends and circumstances associated with the rise of synthetic data.

The Commercial Space Between Us from 2020-01-21T15:23:29

This episode provides an overview of IQT’s research and knowledge about commercial space, rocket launches, satellite constellations, and more.

This podcast originally aired in November 20...

5G&Me from 2020-01-21T15:16:39

5G, the 5th generation mobile network, is expected to take a much larger role than previous generations. This episode explores the evolution of 5G, including its implications, use cases, and wha...

Can We Learn a System’s Optimal Behavior? from 2020-01-21T15:02:54

What is reinforcement learning? You may be wondering the answer to this given the wealth of discussion around Machine Learning (ML). This podcast dives into reinforcement learning (RL), a subfie...

Social Bots: The Emerging Social AI Market from 2020-01-21T14:51:48

A discussion about the proliferation and growth of social bots, agents that communicate autonomously on social media, often with the task of influencing the course of discussion and/or the opini...