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Executives meet at an IT Senior Management Forum gathering, a group that mentors senior African-American managers in STEM fields
Whose Century Is It?

Black Lives Rising (in STEM)

Great ideas come from diverse minds, and efforts to get more African Americans into cutting edge fields — science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine — are gaining ground, but with considerable challenges. How might efforts to increase this kind of diversity fare under a Trump presidency and beyond? Host Mary Kay Magistad explores.

Indian startup entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to potential investors at the Startup Warehouse in Bangalore
Whose Century Is It?

Prepare to be Bangalore-d: India’s rising challenger to Silicon Valley

Heads up, Silicon Valley, Bangalore’s not just for outsourcing anymore. It’s rising fast as a world-class hub of tech and biotech innovation, pulling successful Indian entrepreneurs back from Silicon Valley, and from around India. It’s part of the story of how the other Asian giant, India, with half its population under age 25, is just getting going in seeing what it can do in this century.

Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, CA
Whose Century Is It?

Seeing into the Future: A Practitioner’s View

The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed, science fiction writer William Gibson has famously said. But how do you separate the signal from the noise? It helps to ask someone who does it for a living. Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future, shares the tricks of the trade, reflects on growing up in the former Soviet Union, and predicts that an age of transformation has just begun.