Phil Hardwick, CEO of HCBL, joins host David Greely to kick off our podcast series Demystifying the Carbon Markets. Phil sets the stage and shares the benefits of his more than 15 years of experience in the environmental and carbon markets, working with both carbon project developers and investors to bring investment capital to high quality projects that reduce and remove carbon emissions to fight climate change.

In this third episode of our three-part series, host Grant Williams speaks with the original host of Smarter Markets, Erik Townsend.  Erik and Grant discuss the concept of Smarter Markets, through the lens of financial systems, digital currencies, and NFT’s, and how technological advancements will champion these new currency systems.

In this second episode of our three-part series, host Grant Williams dives into the heart of the matter with Josh Crumb, CEO and Founder of Abaxx Technologies. Josh and Grant discuss the SmarterMarkets vision for how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society's biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition.

For the opening episode of our new series, legendary podcast host Grant Williams welcomes back Jeff Currie, Global Head of Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs, to examine the question “What are Smarter Markets?” What are SmarterMarkets? SmarterMarkets is our vision for using technology to redesign and improve markets to meet society's biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition. SmarterMarkets is also our weekly podcast, bringing 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 three-part series “What are SmarterMarkets?” will include Jeff Currie, Head of Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs, Josh Crumb, CEO and Founder of Abaxx Technologies, and Erik Townsend, host of MACROVoices.

On the series finale of ‘An Energy Transition in Three Corresponding Acts’, host David Greely, Abaxx Chief Economist at Abaxx, welcomes to the studio Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, Global Energy and Climate Innovation Editor at The Economist.

For the penultimate episode of ‘An Energy Transition in Three Corresponding Acts’, host David Greely, Abaxx Chief Economist at Abaxx, is joined by Reid Morrison, Global Energy Advisory Leader, NetZero and ESG, and Global Client Partner at PwC.

On this week’s episode of Smarter Markets, the first hosted by Abaxx Exchange Chief Economist David Greely, we welcome back Ann Rosenberg, SVP of Sustainability at Wood, and Member of World Economic Forum’s Advisory Network on Climate.

As the world’s economies begin to reopen and embrace the post-pandemic era, the energy industry is at a critical juncture. Energy shortages have already gripped Europe and Asia, with LNG spot prices having been driven to record highs. Is this the first major crisis of the energy transition?   While energy shortages and higher prices would normally motivate new investment, the present-day investor is reluctant to finance new fossil fuel projects; a hesitancy driven by both activist calls to decarbonize, and the net zero targets set out by world leaders.   Will the vision of a carbon-free future be lost to the practical reality of energy shortages as countries turn back to coal? Will the political and economic be asserted to drive forward investment in solar and wind projects? And how will the LNG markets navigate between our reliance on fossil fuel energy today and aspirations to transition to a low-carbon energy future?   Join us as host Susan Sakmar, Author of ‘Energy for the 21st Century’ examines the first major crisis of the energy transition with the Head of Global Generating Fuels & Electric Power Pricing at S&P Global Platts, Ira Joseph.

For the fourth episode of ‘An Energy Transition in Three Corresponding Acts’, host Susan Sakmar joins Stephen Stapczynski, Asia LNG Reporter at Bloomberg for a conversation about LNG’s role as a bridge fuel in the energy transition to a net-zero economy.

Joining Susan Sakmar in the Smarter Markets studio this week is Oystein M. Kalleklev, Chief Executive Officer of Flex LNG, a publicly traded LNG shipping company with a fleet of thirteen fuel efficient, fifth generation LNG carriers.

For the second episode of ‘An Energy Transition in Three Corresponding Acts’, host Susan Sakmar welcomes David Greely, Senior Economic Advisor at Abaxx and former Chief Commodities Strategist and Head of Energy Research at Goldman Sachs to Smarter Markets.

Daniel Yergin, Vice-Chair of IHS Markit and Author of ‘The New Map’ returns to the Smarter Markets studios for the premiere episode of ‘An Energy Transition in Three Corresponding Acts’; a ten-part series hosted by Susan Sakmar, former Chair of The Jane Goodall Institute.

On the season finale of ‘Preserving Privacy in the Global Information Economy,’ Michelle Dennedy sits down with Jules Polonetsky, the Founder and CEO of Future of Privacy, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies.

For the eighth episode of ‘Preserving Privacy in the Global Information Economy,’ host Michelle Dennedy sits down with Emma Lindley, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Women in Identity, a not-for-profit organization focused on developing talent and diversity in the digital identity industry.

Dr. Jennifer King, Privacy and Data Policy Fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, joins Michelle Dennedy for the seventh episode of our series examining the role of digital identity in advancing a consent-based economy.

The sixth episode of ‘Preserving Privacy in the Global Information Economy’ brings host Michelle Dennedy and Kunal Anand, Chief Technology Officer at Imperva and former Worldwide Director of Technology at BBC, together to examine how technology can be designed and applied to deliver trust, transparency and consent back into our post-surveillance economy.

For the fifth episode of ‘Preserving Privacy in the Global Information Economy,’ host Michelle Dennedy welcomes Ruby Zefo, Uber’s first Chief Privacy Officer, to examine the future of a consent-based economy and how consumers can take back ownership and control of their personal data and digital identities.

Sarah Clark, Senior Vice President of Digital Identity at Mastercard joins Michelle Dennedy in the studio to examine the evolution of digital identity and how self-sovereign identity, specifically, can help bring trust and privacy back into a consent-based economy.

For the latest chapter of ‘Preserving Privacy in the Global Information Economy,' Michelle Dennedy chats with Tim McCreight, Managing Director of Enterprise Security at CP Rail, to discuss the role of digital identity in securing the modern enterprise.

Our latest series ‘Preserving Privacy in the Global Information Economy’ continues as Michelle Dennedy welcomes Jim Reavis, Co-Founder and CEO of the Cloud Security Alliance to the podcast to examine the role of digital identity management in advancing a secure cloud-based economy.

For the opening episode of ‘Preserving Privacy in the Global Information Economy,' Michelle Dennedy welcomes Kaliya Young, also known as The Identity Woman, to SmarterMarkets for our latest series examining the evolution of digital identity and how self-sovereign identity can advance a consent-based economy.

In this special episode of Smarter Markets TM; the first installment of our ‘Digital Roundtable’ series; we rewind the film back to July 13th’s webinar discussion featuring senior executives from Abaxx, Base Carbon, The Wall Street Green Summit, AirCarbon and Evolution Markets.

For the final episode of ‘The Energy Equation: Commodities, Resources and Geopolitics,' Todd Buchholz welcomes “America’s most influential energy pundit,” Dr. Daniel Yergin, Vice-Chair of IHS Markit, to the podcast.

Susan Sakmar, Former Chair of the Jane Goodall Institute, and one of the world’s leading experts in Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), joins Todd Buchholz as we continue our current series ‘The Energy Equation: Commodities, Resources and Geopolitics.'

Todd Buchholz welcomes Bloomberg’s Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, co-authors of The World for Sale, to SmarterMarkets for the third installment in our latest series ‘The Energy Equation: Commodities, Resources and Geopolitics.'

For the final episode of our five-part series on the role of digital innovation in advancing the ESG economy, Michelle Dennedy joins Beena Ammanath, Executive Director of the Deloitte AI Institute and Global Head of AI Ethics at Deloitte.

On part four of our five-part series on the role of digital innovation in advancing the ESG economy, Michelle Dennedy has an in-depth conversation with Jacquelyn Horton, Social Impact and Sustainability Manager at Dropbox.

Our five-part series on the role of digital innovation in advancing the ESG economy continues as Michelle Dennedy chats with Ann Rosenberg, SVP of Sustainable Development at Wood and former SVP of UN Partnerships and twenty-year veteran at SAP. 

Michelle Dennedy sits down with Greg Lavender, Chief Technology Officer at VMware and former CTO for Cloud Architecture and Technology Engineering at Citigroup to continue the conversation about digital innovation’s role in advancing the ESG Economy. 

Michelle Dennedy is back this week with Gajen Kandiah, CEO of Hitachi Vantara, as they kick-off the first episode in a five-part series about the role of digital innovation in advancing the digital economy.  

Josh Crumb, Founder and CEO of Abaxx Technologies joins us on the podcast for the first time as we conclude our three-part mini-series on the energy industry’s transition to a renewable future. 

On the second of a three-part series on the great energy transition, co-host Todd Buchholz, former Director of Economic Policy at the White House, sits down with renowned energy macro and equity analyst, Arjun Murti. 

In his inaugural episode of SmarterMarkets™, Todd Buchholz, former White House Director of Economic Policy, sits down with Stefan Wieler, Head of Markets Analysis and Meteorology at Axpo Group, for the first in a three-part series about the great energy transition.

Erik Townsend returns to SmarterMarkets™ this week to introduce Michelle Dennedy’s co-host: Todd Buchholz, former Whitehouse Director of Economic Policy and Managing Director of the Acclaimed $15 Billion Tiger Hedge Fund.  

Michelle Dennedy sits down with “Cybersecurity Strategist of the Year” Caroline Wong, Chief Strategy Officer at Cobalt, to examine the question “Who’s responsible for protecting our digital assets of the future?”

Michelle Dennedy, former Chief Privacy Officer of Cisco and Intel, sits down for a refreshingly candid conversation with Jim Whitehurst, President of IBM and former CEO of Red Hat, on her can’t-miss premiere episode of Smarter Markets. 

Erik Townsend interviews new SmarterMarkets host Michelle Dennedy on her own background as a digital privacy activist. This episode is designed to introduce the audience to Michelle herself, and then in coming weeks Michelle will introduce listeners to a side of Silicon Valley most have never seen.

Hedera Hashgraph co-founder Dr. Leemon Baird explains the function distributed ledger technology (DLT) provides, then goes on to outline how DLT needs to evolve in order to scale up to eventually supporting a fully tokenized financial market architecture.

Billionaire financier Robert Friedland returns as Michelle Dennedy joins the SmarterMarkets hosting team. Robert and Erik discuss what it will take to Green the Global Economy in Part 2 of this extensive 2-part interview.

Billionaire financier Robert Friedland returns as Michelle Dennedy joins the Smarter Markets hosting team. Robert and Erik discuss what it will take to Green the Global Economy in Part 1 of this extensive 2-part interview.

AirCarbon Exchange co-founder and COO Bill Pazos joins us this week to discuss the history, present challenges, and future of the carbon credit trading industry.

Goldman Sachs’ global head of sustainable investing practices John Goldstein is this week’s feature interview guest. We discuss how to engage in ESG investing to make a difference by engaging directly with the industries that need reform, rather than avoiding them. John calls this Impact Investing, and we discuss this practice in detail in this episode.

SAP’s chief innovation officer and outspoken green energy proponent Tom Raftery is this week’s feature interview guest. We discuss the coming green energy revolution and what it will mean for markets and the economy as a whole.

In the first episode of a series on Environmental, Socially Responsible, and Governance-focused Investing, SmarterMarkets presents Peter Fusaro, veteran sustainability investor and organizer of the Wall Street Green Investing Conference. We discuss everything relating to ESG investing.

Epsilon Theory founder Dr. Ben Hunt joins Smarter Markets to weigh in on how social media is being used to engineer the narratives which shape both financial markets and society more broadly. We discuss the influence of social media then go on to discuss how financial markets no longer serve society in the way they were intended, and what needs to be done to fix them.

Former senior Twitter executive and current head of Media, Sport & Entertainment for the World Economic Forum Kirstine Stewart weighs in on the growing influence of social media on financial markets and society as a whole, including whether and how social media should be governed to control abuse of its power of influence.

Commodity legend Mark Fisher shares some choice stories, including how the Hudson River can be used as a risk management tool to cure over-trading, then goes on to reflect on how the design of commodities futures markets could be improved.

NEO Stock exchange founder Jos Schmitt explains why most existing stock exchanges give an unfair trading advantage to some customers over others, and explains why he launched a new exchange specifically designed to level the playing field for all investors.