Frances Valintine is Spark Lab Futures Advisor, and this is her quarterly wrap-up of the biggest global trends shaping the world of work. Hear her insights into how companies are maximising the opportunities that disruptive tech can offer.

In this podcast: The Tech Giants are starting to trample into completely new market segments. Frances looks at Facebook’s planned launch of Libre, a cryptocurrency that could attract billions of users.

The human-computer interactive space is heating up, with major players including NZ’s own Soul Machines, Elon Musk’s Neuralink, and Facebook again, with their plans to... read our minds.

Also in this episode: environment and climate change issues are examined from a range of fronts, and we look at how the ongoing talent shortage is making employers invest significantly more in staff development.