The Actionable Futurist® Podcast

About The Actionable Futurist® Podcast

Digitally Curious is a show all about the near-term future with actionable advice from a range of global experts. Order the book that showcases these episodes at curious.click/order (https://curious.click/order) Who is your host, Andrew Grill? He’s the AI expert (https://actionablefuturist.com/speaking/artificial-intelligence-ai-keynote-speaker) who speaks your business language. After 30+ years building tech solutions at companies like IBM and a range of high-tech startups, Andrew now helps executives navigate AI without getting lost in the complexity. He has held senior leadership roles, including Global Managing Partner at IBM (https://linkedin.com/in/andrewgrill), and has collaborated with C-suite teams from organisations such as Shell, Vodafone, Dell, SAP Concur, Nike, Nestlé, and the NHS. Andrew has delivered 700 keynotes (https://actionablefuturist.com/calendar) in over 50 countries on topics such as generative AI, quantum computing, digital transformation, and the future of work. Ranked among the world’s top 10 futurist speakers and a finalist for AI Expert of the Year, in 2025, he was recognised on the AI 100 UK List (https://awards.digileaders.com/AI100-Home) as one of the country’s leading voices in responsible Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of Digitally Curious (https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Digitally_Curious/j4EYEQAAQBAJ?hl=en) (2024), a bestselling guide to navigating the future of AI and technology, and host of the Digitally Curious Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/digitally-curious/id1464301023) (since 2019), where he translates complex trends into actionable insights. Andrew is a regular media commentator, featured on BBC Television & Radio (https://actionablefuturist.com/bbc), Sky News, LBC, and in publications such as the Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/partnercontent/sps/the-future-of-hybrid-work.html), The Guardian, and The Economist. Find out more about Andrew at actionablefuturist.com (https://actionablefuturist.com/)

Publisher

with Actionable Futurist® Andrew Grill

Category

business · news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 May 2019

Latest episode

14 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 116 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Jun 2026

   S8E5 - From Deadlines to Data: A Journalist's Guide to AI Without Losing Your Judgement

   My guest is Harriet Meyer — award-winning journalist (The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph), AI trainer, and author of the AI for Media newsletter on LinkedIn. Harriet Meyer's career began in the early 2000s at the Daily Telegraph, chasing stories by phone and lunching with contacts. Today she trains media and communications professionals to use AI without surrendering the critical instincts that make great journalism great. In this conversation, Andrew and Harriet explore wher...

2. 

   2 Jun 2026

   S8E4 - Five Minutes to Fifty Years: Two Futurists on What's Actually Coming - Brett King and Andrew Grill

   In this special episode, Andrew is joined by Brett King — bestselling author, founder of the world's first mobile neobank Moven, and of Breaking Banks and The Futurists podcast. Two Australian futurists, one looking five minutes to 18 months ahead and the other five to 50 years, meet in London for a wide-ranging conversation about what is actually coming, and what you should do about it before your organisation is left behind. From the Alibaba AI that broke out of its test environment to...

3. 

   9 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   S8E3 - Work Has Moved Upstream. How AI Demands Better Humans with Simone Carroll

   Host Andrew Grill interviews executive Simone Carroll about how AI demands better humans as work moves upstream, offering insights into organizational change.

Inside a recent episode

S8E3 - Work Has Moved Upstream. How AI Demands Better Humans with Simone Carroll

Published 9 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So, I really needed an exception report rather than an expense report. That's a really inefficient use of a very well -paid manager. Could we actually slice those tasks off to AI, and I look at the exceptions, and I then focus on the parts of my job that I love? So, my question back to you with all of that is, if we're now seeing that AI has exposed massively inefficient processes, it isn't the case, so we just need to get rid of a bunch of people now. How do we redeploy them? How do we use AI as their decision partner to help them make better decision? Because there's this pithy saying, I think Jensen Yang said, AI won't take a job. […]

Who has been a guest on The Actionable Futurist® Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Simone Carroll
• Tim Cook
• Dr Susie Alegre
• Gill Switalski
• Gareth Mitchell

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

74

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

Contact The Actionable Futurist® Podcast

Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

Questions about The Actionable Futurist® Podcast