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SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including the energy transformation and the transition to an AI-augmented economy.

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October 17, 2026Episode 30549 min

Special Episode | SmarterMarkets Update: The State of AI with Dr. Tricia Wang, Co-Founder & CEO, Advanced AI Society

This week, we present SmarterMarkets Update: The State of AI. At SmarterMarkets, we've realized that AI, like life, moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. So we'll be bringing you periodic updates on the state of AI interspersed with our regular podcast series. For our first update, our guest is Dr. Tricia Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Advanced AI Society. David Greely sits down with Tricia to discuss how we can rebuild trust in the machine-to-machine age of AI; the role of open verification and proof of control; why the AI world should stop writing off what the crypto world built, and in particular, why the crypto ethos of ‘don't trust, verify’ is critical now for AI safety and adoption.

October 10, 2026Episode 30445 min

Catching Up On Climate 2026 Episode 3 | Peter Zaman, Partner, HFW Singapore

This week on Catching Up On Climate, we welcome Peter Zaman, Partner at HFW Singapore, back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Peter to catch up on how the energy supply disruptions emanating from the conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Russia are changing the geopolitics of the energy transition, and what it means for progress toward net-zero goals.

October 3, 2026Episode 30350 min

Special Episode | Scenes from the IETA North America Climate Summit 2026

We present a special episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the IETA North America Climate Summit 2026. SmarterMarkets™ returned to the IETA North America Climate Summit to catch up with market practitioners on the challenges and opportunities in the development of the carbon markets. This year’s conference focused on the “New Carbon Order: Innovation, Investment, and Interoperability.” In partnership with IETA, we caught up with a cross section of participants about what they and their organizations have been working on, where they see progress, and what we need to be doing next. Some common themes included the ongoing integration of compliance and voluntary markets, the role of AI and digital technology in carbon markets, and the need for standardization and harmonization across the growing network of country and regional emissions schemes. We’ve compiled a selection of those 7 interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. Our guests, in order of appearance, are: Guy Turner – Managing Director, MSCI Carbon Markets Sandeep Roy Choudhury – Co-Founder & Director, VNV Alex Saer – CEO, Cercarbono Alexia Kelly – Managing Director of Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative, High Tide Foundation Mandy Rambharos – CEO, Verra + Candace Vinke – Chief Program Development and Innovation Officer, Verra Benoît Clément – VCM+ Fellow, Financial Infrastructure for Carbon Markets (FICM), Verified Carbon Market Collaborative (VCM+) Thomas McMahon – Co-Founder, Abaxx Technologies

September 26, 2026Episode 30232 min

Catching Up On Climate 2026 Episode 2 | Mandy Rambharos & Candace Vinke from Verra, Live from IETA’s North America Climate Summit

This week on Catching Up On Climate, we welcome Mandy Rambharos and Candace Vinke into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Mandy is CEO at Verra and Candace is Chief Program Development and Innovation Officer at Verra. David Greely sat down with them at IETA’s North America Climate Summit 2026 this week in New York City to discuss Verra’s newest carbon standard, the Scope 3 Standard (S3S) Program – and what it means for carbon markets.

September 19, 2026Episode 30132 min

Catching Up On Climate 2026 Episode 1 | Dirk Forrister, President & CEO, International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)

This week, we kick off Catching Up On Climate 2026 with Dirk Forrister, President & CEO of IETA. David Greely sits down with Dirk to discuss what he and IETA have been focused on this past year – and what he sees as some of the most important things happening in climate and carbon markets ahead of IETA's North America Climate Summit next week in New York City.

September 12, 2026Episode 3001 hr 14 min

Special 300th Episode | Robert Friedland, Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines & Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse

This week we celebrate our 300th episode with Robert Friedland, Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines and Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse. David Greely sits down with Robert to discuss the world’s ever growing hunger for metals and what the mining and tech industries, governments, and markets are doing – and need to be doing – in a week when LME copper prices hit a new record high.

September 5, 2026Episode 29938 min

Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 8 | Ben Hunt, Author of Epsilon Theory & President/Co-Founder of Perscient

We close out our Summer Playlist this week with Ben Hunt, author of Epsilon Theory & President/Co-Founder of Perscient. David Greely sits down with Ben to discuss the insights in his recent Semantic Manifesto. They talk about how AI and LLMs have given us the tools and computing power to map and track the structures of the stories that we tell ourselves in markets – and to explore the invisible, but very real world of stories and semantics.

August 29, 2026Episode 29846 min

Special Episode | SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating with Frances Haugen, Advocate for Accountability and Transparency in Social Media & Author of “The Power of One”

This week, we present SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating. We’re bringing back an older Summer Playlist episode from 2023 with Frances Haugen. Frances is an advocate for accountability and transparency in social media and the author of the memoir, The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook. This past week, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, agreed to an $18 billion dollars settlement with several U.S. states and territories to resolve claims that Facebook and Instagram harm children. They agreed to make a number of changes to its platform and algorithms, including time limits and the ability to choose a feed that is not driven by an algorithm. In this episode, David Greely sat down with Frances to discuss the algorithms designed to capture our and our children's attention, their flaws, and how we can incentivize change and build better social networks. We thought it was timely to give this another listen.

August 22, 2026Episode 29733 min

Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 7 | Russell Robertson, Chief Business Development Officer, Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse

On this week’s installment of our Summer Playlist, we welcome Russell Robertson back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Russell is Chief Business Development Officer at Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse in Singapore. David Greely sits down with Russell to discuss his perspective on India's evolving role in the gold and silver markets and its growing importance to the global commodities derivatives industry. They also talk about the developing new network of markets and trading corridors stretching from India to the Middle East, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Singapore – and the opportunities it creates.

August 15, 2026Episode 29633 min

Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 6 | Sunil Kashyap, Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore

We continue our Summer Playlist this week by welcoming Sunil Kashyap back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Sunil is Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore. David Greely sits down with Sunil to discuss the surge of new developments and new initiatives being announced in Asia's gold and silver markets including the growth in trading activity of Abaxx Exchange’s gold and silver futures markets in Singapore, the Hong Kong Exchange reviving its gold futures market in Hong Kong, and Singapore pursuing an OTC gold clearing initiative to create a Loco Singapore market.