Season 3: The Metaverse

About Season 3: The Metaverse

Who will finance the building of the massive computer infrastructure? Who will drive the innovation necessary to create these new virtual worlds? There is foundation already built and some might argue that the metaverse is already here. Yet there is still a massive amount of development and innovation to truly deliver on the vision. Join us for a “deeper dive” into the metaverse in this amazing 5 part series.

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Deeper Dive 5G: Beginning With the End in Mind: How to Prepare for 5G (Episode 5)

New technologies follow a predictable pattern, and 5G is no exception. Foretelling disruption will not prevent it from happening, but it will buy some...

Deeper Dive 5G: Making a Difference Right Now: Real World Examples of 5G (Episode 4)

With 5G still in the early days, it’s easy to dismiss it as just another generation in a technology evolution that began with 1G...

Deeper Dive 5G: 5G: Up in the Air (Episode 3)

Mountains and valleys have been used as metaphors for everything from money management and marriage to job satisfaction and business success. Gartner took it...

Deeper Dive 5G: Clearing the Air about 5G (Episode 2)

As mobile technologies continue to change the way we connect, communicate, and collaborate, 5G holds the key to the next wave of digital transformation....

Deeper Dive 5G: Making Waves: The Raging Debate About 5G (Episode 1)

Have you seen signs on neighbours’ lawns proclaiming the evils of 5G? Would you like to understand what 5G is, how it works, where...

Deeper Dive: Ready, Set, Go (Episode 5)

Following a brief refresher on classic scenario planning, hosts Jim Love, CIO of ITWC, and Doug Sparkes, a lecturer at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, riff collegially on how to avoid functional fixedness while identifying and developing scenarios.

Deeper Dive: Freeing the corporate imagination (Episode 4)

Amit Majithia, Vice President and Country Head for Wipro Limited Canada, joins co-hosts Jim Love, CIO of ITWC, and Doug Sparkes, a lecturer at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, for this podcast episode that delves deeply into back-casting and other techniques to help organizations prepare for an uncertain future.

Deeper Dive: Scenarios: A how-to guide (Episode 3)

Hosts Jim Love, CIO for ITWC, and Doug Sparkes, a lecturer at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, keep things lively in this 20-minute podcast devoted to the importance of understanding which events in the business environment are inevitable and which are uncertain

Deeper Dive: Scenario Planning Explained (Episode 2)

Hosts Jim Love, CIO for ITWC, and Doug Sparkes, a lecturer at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, open this 17-minute podcast by taking the listener back in time to October 1973, when the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) proclaimed an embargo on oil.

Deeper Dive: You need a new playbook (Episode 1)

Co-hosts Jim Love, CIO of ITWC, and Doug Sparkes, a lecturer at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, open the eight-minute program with an extended football metaphor to describe how things break down – both on the sports field and in business – when someone comes up with a play that isn’t anticipated.  

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