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How to Raise Your Agent Episode 8 | Matthew Cheung, CEO, ipushpull

This week, we close out our How to Raise Your Agent series with Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull. David Greely sits down with Matthew to discuss how chat won the interface war in financial services, how AI is unlocking a trove of chat data for enterprise use, and why governance will be the key to who wins in a world of messaging and AI agents.

How to Raise Your Agent Episode 7 | Tom Redman, "The Data Doc" & President, Data Quality Solutions

This week on How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Tom Redman into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Tom is "The Data Doc" and President of Data Quality Solutions. David Greely sits down with Tom to discuss how, in his view, AI is data, how much of our data is not fit for purpose, and how the solution begins with keeping the focus on the customer – and getting people and their AI agents to see themselves as part of a system in which they are both the data creators and customers.

How to Raise Your Agent Episode 6 | Joyce Shen, Managing Partner at Together Expedition & AI Professor at UC Berkeley

We continue our How to Raise Your Agent series this week with Joyce Shen, Managing Partner at Together Expedition and AI Professor at UC Berkeley. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Joyce to discuss how AI is rewiring work, what we can learn from past tech transformations, and what's different this time from the perspective of a business practitioner, tech investor, and educator.

How to Raise Your Agent Episode 5 | Daniel Solove, Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property & Technology Law at George Washington University Law School

On this week’s installment of How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Daniel Solove into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Daniel is the Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property & Technology Law at George Washington University Law School. David Greely sits down with Daniel to discuss how AI isn't so much opening up new problems in privacy, but exposing and amplifying the old ones – and how we need to change our legal approach to privacy to solve these problems and take us out of the digital fishbowl we find ourselves in.

How to Raise Your Agent Episode 4 | Alec Coughlin, Principal at BairesDev & Host of “AI with Alec”

This week on How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Alec Coughlin, Principal at BairesDev and host of AI with Alec, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Alec to discuss the challenges on the journey to integrating AI and AI agents into your business, offering practical advice for navigating that transformation.

How to Raise Your Agent Episode 3 | Ryan Kurt, Founder & CEO, The AI Lab

We continue our series How to Raise Your Agent with Ryan Kurt, Founder & CEO of The AI Lab. David Greely sits down with Ryan to discuss how AI and AI agents are transforming our companies and our economy. They talk about the big questions that business leaders should be asking right now and what the companies that are successfully navigating this moment are doing differently.

Special Episode | SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating with Michael DiRienzo, President & CEO, The Silver Institute

This week, we present SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating. We’re bringing back an episode that we brought you last May with Michael DiRienzo, President & CEO at The Silver Institute.

 

During the conversation, David Greely and Michael discuss the outlook for silver, its role in the energy transition, and the role it can and should play in investor portfolios and in our financial system in the 21st century. Those topics are as relevant now as they were last year.

 

One update: last year, we discussed that at the time, silver appeared undervalued as it took 100 ounces of silver to buy 1 ounce of gold. Of course, silver prices have climbed over the past year. Now it only takes roughly 60 ounces of silver to buy 1 ounce of gold in the physically deliverable gold and silver futures markets now trading on Abaxx Exchange in Singapore.

 

How to Raise Your Agent Episode 2 | Michelle Finneran Dennedy, Chief Data Strategy Officer, Abaxx Technologies

On our second installment of How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Michelle Finneran Dennedy back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Michelle is Chief Data Strategy Officer at Abaxx Technologies. David Greely sits down with Michelle to discuss what business leaders and managers will need to do to adapt to a world where their teams include both people and agents – and how they should be thinking about integrating agents into their teams, including how to raise and govern them.

How to Raise Your Agent Episode 1 | Ian Forester, Head of Abaxx Labs at Abaxx Technologies

This week, we kick off our new series, How to Raise Your Agent, with Ian Forester, Head of the recently launched Abaxx Labs at Abaxx Technologies.

 

David Greely sits down with Ian to discuss how AI agents are changing how humans interact with computers and the internet – and why Abaxx Labs introduced its Agents++™ open source library for using digital identity and verifiable credentials for the identity and authorization infrastructure needed for working with agents.

 

Special Episode | Scenes from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026

We present a Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026.

SmarterMarkets™ returned to Lausanne, Switzerland for the 15th edition of the Financial Times Commodities Global Summit, where we caught up with summit participants on the important issues of the day.

The theme for this year's summit was ‘finding the advantage in a fragmented world.’ The conversations were focused on the state of our supply chains and the increasing stakes of the ongoing conflict in Iran.

We've compiled a selection of those interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. If you would like to listen to the full interviews, they are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal. They’re also available on our second podcast channel, SmarterMarkets™ Presents.

Our guests are:

Leslie Hook – Natural Resources Editor, Financial Times

Helima Croft – Managing Director and the Head of Global Commodity Strategy and MENA Research, RBC Capital Markets

Robert Friedland – Executive Co-Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines & Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, I-Pulse

Brian Menell – CEO & Chairman, TechMet

Gracelin Baskaran – Founding Director, Critical Minerals Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Ruth Crowell – CEO, LBMA

Alasdair Were – Head of Environmental Markets, Abaxx Exchange