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Future Forward is a student-led podcast at Cal Poly that focuses on humane and ethical innovation in technology. The podcast explores how technology can support well-being, enhance democracy, provide reliable information, and improve problem-solving skills. It aims to promote awareness and understanding of technology while fostering dialogue and collaboration among different age groups. The podcast will feature episodes on climate-related tech, such as harnessing solar energy, and workplace tech, such as navigating AI and automation in the job market. Experts in the field will be interviewed to provide insights and solutions. Hello, and welcome to Future Forward, Tech for a Better Tomorrow. Future Forward will be a student-led podcast at Cal Poly that explores the evolving landscape of technology with a focus on humane and ethical innovation. Each 30 to 45-minute episode, we delve into how technology can better support our well-being, enhance democracy, ensure a shared and reliable information environment, and bolster our problem-solving skills. So basically, this podcast will highlight the intersection of technology, society, and ethics, fostering insightful conversations among students, faculty, alumni, and industry professionals. So an overarching goal of the podcast would be to promote awareness and understanding of this technology. Another, we create a platform for dialogue and collaboration among these different age groups. A quote from the Center for Humane Technology says, Future Forward technology helps us align our actions with our intentions, enabling us to be more free, focused, patient, and secure, so we solve tough problems together. This really sums up my goal for this podcast. So an episode about specific climate-related tech would be called Harnessing Solar Energy, Innovations in Photovoltaic Technology. In this episode, we explore the advancements in solar energy technology, and specifically discuss this with Dr. Emily Ramirez, who's Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cal Poly. She's expertise in renewable energy systems, and she's conducted extensive research on this topic. This would help increase awareness and understanding about this technology and why it's significant, and really help explain why this will help our environment, and explain why our temperatures in our world are increasing all across the world, especially in India. So an episode with specific workplace tech topic I'll be talking about is Navigating AI and Automation in the Job Market. In this episode, we would explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence. I will talk to Dr. Lisa Chen, a Professor of Computer Science and Director of AI and Robotics Lab at Cal Poly. She's expertise in the artificial intelligence field. And we'll also talk about TechLadies, this paid membership that offers free job markets and weekly job emails to women who are struggling to get into this field, and figure out how to best tackle this huge problem of AI, and how it's changing our workforce. Thanks so much.