Only 0.7% of AI funding went to female founders. Yep you read that right...! We need more women at the forefront of AI, whether that's building AI startups, getting funding, joining AI taskforces within their companies, or simply dabbling with ChatGPT to get the best out of it. In a special bonus episode, Next Big Thing founder Lauren Ingram shares why this is now an urgent need - this year is when the critical conversations are happening about AI, and women need their voices heard in it. LINKS: Lauren Ingram on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingramlauren/  Book a Demystify AI work ..read more

Mike Russell has pivoted his voiceovers business to embed AI into the offering at Music Radio Creative. And alongside his 338,000 followers on his main YouTube channel, Mike has started a spinoff called Creator Magic all about AI tools for content creation. Lauren talks to Mike about the future of the internet, the impact of AI, and possibly even the end of the world... LINKS: Mike Russell on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imikerussell/  Mike’s YouTube channel (338k subscribers) https://www.youtube.com/@MikeRussell  Mike on how to automate a daily podcast: https://www.youtube ..read more

Mike Russell has pivoted his voiceovers business to embed AI into the offering at Music Radio Creative. And alongside his 338,000 followers on his main YouTube channel, Mike has started a spinoff called Creator Magic all about AI tools for content creation. Lauren talks to Mike about the future of the internet, the impact of AI, and possibly even the end of the world... LINKS: Mike Russell on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imikerussell/  Mike’s YouTube channel (338k subscribers) https://www.youtube.com/@MikeRussell  Mike on how to automate a daily podcast: https://www.youtube ..read more

Denzil Eden engineered an amazing conversational AI tool way before ChatGPT hit the news. Her product Smarty can organise your calendar with just a few words, and plays the role of your personal assistant. Denzil has degrees in computer science & AI from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard, but found that the market wasn’t ready for her advanced product for a long time - and that pitching her startup now is a very different process now that people understand slick chatbots. We talk about why AI literacy is so important, and what she would do differently if she started again today (spoiler alert ..read more

Kate Ross has pivoted her digital agency of the last 15 years, called eight&four, to offer its own suite of AI tools because she was frustrated by the limitations of just using ChatGPT. She shares the agency’s successes and the misses in building bespoke AI solutions, such as a tone of voice tool that a large travel brand now lets every employee use. Kate also gives us some good old fashioned British cynicism (or realism!) about the hype and bluster (and even white lies) about some of the AI tools out there. She is also bullish on the future of creativity. So if you’re a marketer, work in ..read more

Samantha G. Wolfe is one of the leading voices in the metaverse space - she is an adjunct professor at NYU's Steinhardt School teaching courses including ‘The Business of the Metaverse, and 'Avatars and Virtual Humans’, and she’s authored two books including ‘Metaversed: See Beyond The Hype’. We cover AI-generated influencers, using tech for good or evil, and - in her position as a leading expert in emerging tech - what she sees as the next big thing. LINKS: Samantha G. Wolfe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthawolfe/  Samantha’s consultancy PitchFWD: https://www.wearepitchfw ..read more

Leanne Elliott Young knows how to capture the zeitgeist, whether at Nike in their highly secretive Rm72 team and collaborating with Virgil Abloh, or now at the helm of the Institute of Digital Fashion (IoDF), as a cofounding team of self-professed “architects of a new digital culture”. Leanne talks through her career, having been approached to join Nike not long after graduating, and spent nearly a decade there before rejecting fashion norms and throwing herself into digital fashion and pioneering bleeding edge tech instead - helping IoDF achieve world firsts such as the first ever NFT worn at ..read more

The interview that changed everything!  Daniel Priestley is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and the author of multiple bestselling books including Key Person of Influence, and Oversubscribed. In this episode Daniel gives step-by-step advice to host Lauren Ingram on how to grow her Women of Web3 business and community - advice that we have now implemented, by launching Next Big Thing. Daniel started his first company at 21 and made over $10 million in just 3 years, so he has a great pedigree in how to grow and scale businesses, and was recently on the Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartl ..read more

You don’t need 50 new AI tools, you just need a few that you know how to use really well. So if the constant tech changes are leaving you with FOMO, we’ve got you covered. Host Lauren Ingram, former women's lead for Meta, interviews leaders about the latest tech and why it matters. Next Big Thing is here to help you not just survive, but thrive in the next internet ..read more

Ashley Gross created her AI-focused business in just 10 days and has a ton of learnings to share with us - in her last role, she rolled out AI tools to over 100 marketers and has taken that experience to grow her own business instead: The Prompt Community. A former community manager for MyBFF, Ashley lives and breathes AI, Web3 and emerging tech and puts inclusion at the centre of what she’s building - as well as adding a more human touch to the usual AI content shared online, with 1970s graphics and fun ideas to try out.  Ashley shares lots of advice on how to make use of AI, especially ..read more