How ✨AI is Transforming Podcasting
Is ✨AI transforming podcasts into the new talk radio or something entirely different?
Join us at Betaworks on Monday, February 24th at 6PM, where we'll discuss how ✨AI is offering us new ways to create, discover, edit and ask questions to podcasts. Featuring insights from Kevin Smith, founder of Snipd (the leading ✨AI podcast app), Caleb Bissinger (executive producer, co-host, The Next Big Idea ) and John Borthwick (CEO, Betaworks; user, listener, podcast fan).
Speakers:
Kevin Smith is the founder & CEO of Snipd, an AI-powered podcast app for people who listen to learn something new every day. Kevin and his team have built a large set of AI features to help listeners find, save, and remember the best ideas they hear in podcasts. From AI transcripts, chapters, guest bios and mentioned books, all the way to automatic note taking and chatting with podcasts.
Caleb Bissinger is the executive producer and co-host of LinkedIn’s podcast “The Next Big Idea,” where he’s interviewed celebrated authors like David Grann, Kara Swisher, Sebastian Junger, and Erik Larson. Previously, at Wondery, he co-created the Ambie Award-winning series “Even the Rich” and produced “WeCrashed,” the acclaimed podcast that became a miniseries on Apple TV+.
John Borthwick has been a leader in the New York startup technology business for over two decades. He is the Founder and CEO of Betaworks, a New York-based startup platform that builds, accelerates & invests in early-stage consumer technology. Companies built by Betaworks include Giphy, Dots, bitly, Tweetdeck, and Chartbeat. Investments & accelerated companies include Twitter, Tumblr, Kickstarter, Medium, Anchor, Gimlet and recently Hugging Face, RecRoom, Granola, and XMTP. John is a trustee at WNYC, and serves on the boards of Blade Urban Mobility, New York Public Radio, Tech Policy Press, Data & Society, and several DAOs. John holds an MBA from Wharton and a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University.