By Bob Seeman Today, I had the great privilege of attending, with business leaders from all over the globe, a ‘fireside chat’ with Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the former national security adviser and Secretary of State. The discussion started with Al-Qaida. Dr. Rice explained that, “We were accustomed with Al-Qaida from a very small number of […]
By Bob Seeman (This conference is a private event and invitations are for J.P. Morgan clients only.) I am at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco today where Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan spoke about the global economy and cyber security. He spoke first about his own recent treatment for cancer and […]
By Neil Seeman and Bob Seeman | Originally posted in Canada’s National Post There has been much consternation among privacy samurais and free expression absolutists about the European judicial ruling requiring Google to remove information about individuals who wish that information to be “forgotten.” Some say it is an infringement of freedom of speech and […]
By John R. Graham | Originally posted in Forbes Remember Ebola? Sure, we still here about it once in a while, but it doesn’t scare us like did earlier in the year. A few months ago, the media had many of us convinced that America would turn into an Ebola-ridden wasteland. Although no Ebola outbreak […]
By Neil Seeman and co-authored by Bob Seeman | Originally posted in the Huffington Post Pity Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. An anonymous group calling itself Guardians of Peace exposed her thousands of emails to the world. Ms. Pascal is a member of a large club of senior executives, many of whom are […]
By Neil Seeman and co-authored by Bob Seeman | Originally posted in the Huffington Post Everyone in the technology business knows that many web meet-ups deliver negative value — like getting into discussions about the coolest ‘start-up goatees’ — but at various recent events we have learned that the world is a very dangerous place […]
By Neil Seeman and RIWI’s Editorial Fellow, Laurie Ann Mylroie | Originally posted in Washington Examiner Economic sanctions are not stopping Russia’s assault on Ukraine, and the West’s feeble response may well encourage Russian aggression elsewhere. At the recent G-20 summit, Western leaders personally threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with further sanctions, if he did […]
RIWI is proud to announce Founder and CEO Neil Seeman as the Next Generation Market Research (NGMR) Individual winner of the Disruptive Innovator Award at The Market Research Event in Boca Raton, Florida. The award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding leadership as change agents and made significant contributions to harnessing disruptive innovation – technological, […]
“We are not using the Web to find solutions to Ebola. We should.” – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Oct. 8, 2014, IP Expo Europe, London, UK By Bob Seeman, Chairman, The RIWI Corporation Seeing the man in person who created the World Wide Web was just too much of an attraction to me. I travelled to […]
RIWI & CEO Neil Seeman were selected as finalists for the Disruptive Innovator Award. Congratulations to all other companies and individuals selected! Finalists were chosen being that they demonstrated outstanding leadership as change agents and made significant contributions to harnessing disruptive innovation to drive research industry progress. We are honoured to be selected as […]
Last week World Bank’s Opening Government portal was launched, answering some core questions: What is Open Government? How does it benefit citizens? Why does it promote better governance? For the first time in history, the demand for #OpenGov has been put in numbers. Check out http://t.co/ZsA1nC7ds2 to learn more #OpenGovNow — Opening Government […]
Washington, DC and Toronto, Canada Laurie Mylroie has been appointed as RIWI’s inaugural Editorial Fellow. RIWI is excited to work with global counterterrorist and threat risk expert Dr. Laurie Mylroie, whose focus shall be on providing analytical updates on RIWI’s past and future global data capture projects in the field of geo-political risk as it […]