Techtopia with Chitra Ragavan

Techtopia with Chitra Ragavan


Latest Episodes

Ep. 30 — A war photographer’s images from Ukraine capture the toll of war and Ukrainian resilience, and humanity / Lynsey Addario, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist.
November 16, 2022

On March 7, 2022, The front page of the New York Times ran a graphic photograph that summed up the tragic cost of Russias war on innocent Ukrainian civilians. It was a photograph of a mother, her two

Ep. 29 — Ukraine is the future war / Thomas Frey, Founder & Senior Futurist, DaVinci Institute, and Trent Fowler, Author & Keynote Speaker.
September 22, 2022

Russias war on Ukraine has turned a lot of assumptions about the fundamental nature and trajectory of how wars are fought, on its head. For one thing, Ukraines strong defense has upended conventiona

Ep. 28 — An investor’s rejection leads to an epiphany about self and the future of AI-powered digital content creation / Iman Oubou, Founder & CEO, SWAAY, and Author, “The Glass Ledge.”
July 27, 2022

Do you want to be a writer but suffer from writers block? I know I often do! Well, my guest today may have the perfect solution for us the worlds first AI-powered writing and publishing platform

Ep. 27 — The U.S. Government attempts to shape sweeping crypto policies amidst market turbulence and massive ransomware hacks / Carole House, Director of Cybersecurity and Secure Digital Innovation at National Security Council, The White House
July 07, 2022

This past April, the FBI disclosed an astonishing fact about the breach of the blockchain behind the popular play to earn game Axie Infinity a few weeks earlier. The FBI said the hackers who stole $

Ep. 26 — Technology is rewriting how human history is told / Alex Deane and Bryan Cunningham, “Hidden History, Happy Hour”
May 31, 2022

With Russias unprovoked invasion of Ukraine resulting in whats become the first war to be largely televised and video-recorded Ukraine has become Ground Zero for how technology is reshaping hist

Ep. 25 — A disturbing new report on the explosive growth of ransomware attacks and proliferation of Russian ransomware groups / Max Galka, CEO and Founder, Elementus.
May 23, 2022

Its no secret that Russia has become the worlds playground for ransomware groups - and that America is target #1. The threat of ransomware attacks on U.S. businesses and critical infrastructure re

Ep. 24 — An exclusive look at the elite IRS Criminal Investigation where “accountants with guns” solve complex, federal tax crimes, including Russian oligarch sanctions violations /James Robnett, Deputy Chief, IRS Criminal Investigation.
May 05, 2022

Accountants with guns These are the special agents of the Criminal Investigation division of the Internal Revenue Service. Theres 2,000 of them. And they have not only plenty of firepower, but th

Ep. 23 – Another year of death, disruption, and depression from COVID-19 and now, a new variant, Omicron. Is there an end in sight? / Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr, co-hosts, Coronavirus: The Truth.
December 30, 2021

Welcome to the final episode of Season 1 of Techtopia! I thought it would be appropriate to end the year as we began it, talking about Covid-19 and its pernicious impact on our lives, psyche, and the

Ep. 22 — The Role of Technology in Human Trafficking / Anjana Rajan, Chief Technology Officer, Polaris.
December 16, 2021

Jeffrey Epstein never faced the consequences for allegedly trafficking dozens of girls, some as young as age 14, and engaging in sex acts with them. He committed suicide in jail 35 days after he was a

Ep. 21 — The Global AI Arms Race and the Future of Artificial Intelligence / Courtney Bowman, Director of Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering, Palantir Technologies.
December 02, 2021

The world is engaged in a new form of war this one centered around the technology called artificial intelligence which, put simply is the science and art of making machines more human. But at wh