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Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
Exponential innovation is causing exponential disruption
Like the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Winter of 2020, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are once again serving as the first visible flashpoint in a looming intermodal supply chain disruption, offering an early warning signal of the economic fallout from shifting tariff policies and global supply chain reconfigurations.
Hardware is having a moment in NYC — and these founders are proving it’s possible to build physical products in New York City (which conventional wisdom says would be tough if not impossible. A recent Deep Tech Week NYC panel – hosted by Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism practice – brought together the minds behind New…
In an unprecedented showcase of robotic innovation, Beijing hosted the world’s first Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon.
Recently, the U.S. president signed an executive order (EO) that transferred some of the responsibility to improve their key infrastructure from the federal government to states. The move comes at a time when the current Administration has been cutting federal jobs, some with cybersecurity missions such as at the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency,…
AI models aren’t just autocomplete engines anymore—SweetBench and SuiteAgent are transforming the evaluation of long-context performance for real-world autonomous coding tasks.
The April 2025 OODA Network meeting focused on the operational challenges and strategic promise of the “Golden Dome” initiative—an ambitious U.S. effort to develop a multi-layered, AI-driven space and missile defense shield. The dialogue, anchored by former Space Force CTO Lisa Costa, revealed the strategic, technological, and cultural shifts necessary to confront emerging threats in…
In 2011, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) began sharply prioritizing robotics as a strategic sector, officially declaring it a national priority. Since then, increasingly aggressive goals have been set, and investment in robotics has surged. Today, we are witnessing the early results of this massive effort. With the March 2025 release of the new…
Deep Tech must be sold before it scales. At a recent panel entitled “Commercializing Deep Tech,” leaders from frontier hardware ventures and strategic capital convened to share tactical strategies for turning outlandish ideas into industrial inevitabilities.
Bob Bigman spent a career in the intelligence community. He was the CISO of the CIA where he was tasked with leading efforts to protect the nation’s most sensitive secrets. Since 2012 he has provided direct consulting services to CISOs, CIOs, CTOs and CEOs seeking to reduce risk and improve security programs. Through it all…
In this OODAcast we glean lessons learned and insights into the future of the Metaverse and its implications from Randall Fort. Fort is a seasoned security, intelligence and technology leader known for his grasp of enterprise mission needs and his ability to track the rapid advancing capabilities of technology to meet those needs. His background…
In this OODAcast we examine lessons learned as a startup founder and insights into the future of technology with Amr Awadallah. Amr Awadallah is widely known as a founder of Cloudera. Prior to that he was working on extreme scale data solutions for Yahoo. Most recently he was VP for Developer Relations at Google Cloud.…
Sir David Omand is one of the most respected intelligence professionals in the world and author of the book How Spies Think: Ten lessons in intelligence. His career in intelligence began shortly after graduating from Cambridge in 1969 when he joined the UK’s GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters). He would later become the director of GCHQ.…
Jessica Gulick is widely known for her leadership of the successful growth strategy and marketing firm Katzcy. She is also the Commissioner of the US Cyber Games, a multi-phased cybersecurity program recruiting a US Cyber Team for international competition. She is also the founder of PlayCyber, a new business line promoting cyber games and tournaments.…
Lance Mortlock is a Senior EY Strategy Partner. He is author of the book Disaster Proof: Scenario Planning for Post Pandemic Future, which explores ways scenario planning can help organizations be more resilient. This is a must-read book for anyone in the Risk Management field. It provides practical advice for strategists, planners, executives and board…
Each year, there are one or two books that deeply resonate with me and become sticky in that I’m thinking about the book often, bringing it up in conversations, and sending out unsolicited recommendations for executives and researchers in my network to check it out. Jer Thorp’s “Living in Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a…
Dr. Tony Tether was the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, from 2001 till his retirement in 2009. In this OODAcast we examine some of Dr. Tether’s formative experiences, including a very unique job he held while awaiting entry to Stanford. He was a door to door salesman and while doing that…
In this OODAcast, we talk with renowned counter-terrorism expert and career clandestine services professional Cofer Black. Cofer is best known for having been the Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center on 9/11 and having been part of the intelligence community warning about the near-term threat of terrorism in the United States prior to the attacks.…
Gaurav Banga is the Founder and CEO of Balbix, and serves on the boards of several companies. Before Balbix, Gaurav was the Co-founder & CEO of Bromium and led the company from inception for over 5 years. Earlier in his career, he served in various executive roles at Phoenix Technologies and Intellisync Corporation, and was…
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