Welcome to the Arena from ICR – Conversations with Today's Innovators & Business Leaders
ICR
5.0from 113 ratings
- 252
- Episodes
- 56
- Transcribed
- 113
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Welcome to the Arena from ICR – Conversations with Today's Innovators & Business Leaders
In the increasingly crowded and competitive corporate and financial ecosystem, it’s harder than ever for companies to break through the clutter and be heard. The media, investors, agenda-driven influencers, even customers and competitors, are defining your business story on their terms. Therefore, it is imperative that companies take control and proactively drive the conversation with stakeholders in an effort to build & maintain equity value. In Welcome to the Arena from ICR, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of ICR, Tom Ryan, interviews key business and financial players who influence the fate of public or aspiring public companies in the capital markets. As a former Wall Street Journal ranked sell-side equity analyst and the founder of one of the largest strategic communications firms in the world, Tom understands what it takes to navigate this complex environment. This is a forum for CEOs, CFOs, institutional investors, sell-side analysts, financial journalists, private equity professionals and other financial community participants to share their stories and give advice in an open and candid conversation. For more information, visit http://www.icrinc.com
- Publisher
- ICR
- Category
- business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Jul 2021
- Latest episode
- 21 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
56 of 252 episodes have a transcript.
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Andrew Kang, CEO, RoboStrategy — Betting on Bots: Investing in the rise of the robot economy
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Michael Buckley, CEO, True Religion — Tried and True: Redefining a heritage brand’s product and price point for today’s consumer
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Riad Sherif, MD, CEO, Oculis — Eyes on the Prize: Identifying and innovating on unmet needs in ophthalmology and neuro-ophthalmology
Inside a recent episode
Andrew Kang, CEO, RoboStrategy — Betting on Bots: Investing in the rise of the robot economy
Published 21 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. You can make very capable hardware 20 years ago, but if you didn't have the brains to make it work, then it wouldn't be very useful. Now, people have basically figured out, you know, this is the recipe that we can use to architect a robot foundation model to architect the brain of the robot. And now that hardware is very useful. And so there's more energy going into hardware development and scaling manufacturing, but it's because of what's been enabled by the advancements in AI. Yeah. Well, I think you articulated the reasons around founding RoboStrategy, and I think they're great. I think most people, even amateur investors who watch CNBC or they're in the news, everybody wants a part of it. […]
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- Andrew Kang
- Michael Buckley
- Riad Sherif
- Maria Stipp
- John Melby
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- 5.0 / 5
- 84 ratings
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