Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

How Adobe Quietly Powers the World (and the AI Fight for Creators)This episode of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future visits Adobe’s London headquarters to explore how Adobe’s influence extends beyond Photoshop and PDFs into marketing technology that powers personalized experiences for major brands and institutions like Tesco, the Premier League, banks, Channel 4, Sky, Disney, and governments.

VP Simon Morris explains Adobe’s creative, document, and marketing solutions, how customer data is unified to deliver tailored communications, and highlights a campaign recreating Edvard Munch’s physical brushes as Photoshop tools. The discussion covers Adobe’s UK-wide initiatives, including tools for Women’s FA Cup clubs, the Adobe Digital Academy, and government skills programs.

Policy lead Stefanie Valdes-Scott addresses AI governance, creator protection, copyright, trust, content attribution via content credentials, and the unresolved tension between AI-enabled creativity and creators’ fear of losing control of their work.

00:00 Adobe Hidden Influence

01:57 Quick Adobe History

02:45 Inside London HQ

04:15 Brands Powered By Adobe

05:40 Premier League Personalization

07:28 Banking Experience Design

10:05 Creativity Meets Data

13:11 Hiring Modern Marketers

14:08 Tools For Everyone

17:33 AI Productivity Debate

20:25 UK Initiatives And Skills

22:32 Creator Copyright Fears

24:01 Policy And AI Governance

25:31 Copyright And New Rights

30:30 Content Credentials Trust

32:55 Final Takeaways

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Currys CEO Alex Baldock & Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson on Retail, Energy, Regulation and AI

Jimmy hosts a panel with Currys CEO Alex Baldock and Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson on how retail and energy drive jobs, growth and prosperity. Baldock outlines Currys’ scale (nearly £10bn sales, 24,000 colleagues) and argues retail employs around 20% of the private sector workforce with rising productivity, but faces policy-driven cost increases, red tape and employment regulation that threaten flexible entry-level jobs. Jackson describes Octopus’ rapid growth (8m UK households, operations in 30 countries), the demerger and valuation of its Kraken platform, and diversification into EV leasing and charging. Both stress competition over heavy regulation, cite inefficiencies and distortions in UK energy pricing, discuss geopolitical risks and electrification, and explain how AI is transforming customer service, operations and energy system optimization.

00:00 Welcome and Introductions
03:06 Currys Retail Snapshot
03:41 Retail Jobs and Productivity
05:10 Octopus Energy and Kraken
08:47 Enterprise and Profit Narrative
12:17 Regulation and Competition
17:10 Energy Shocks and Electrification
21:43 Inflation and Cost Pressures
29:36 Employment Costs and Flex Work
36:09 Work Culture and Transparency
41:44 AI Impact on Retail and Energy
49:27 Closing Thanks and Networking

Credits:
Host / Exec Producer: Jimmy McLoughlin OBE
Producer: Sunny Winter https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunnywinter/
Junior Producer: Thuy Dong

AP: Ethan Pearman

Special thanks to the Margaret Thatcher Conference organising team.
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Thanks to Salesforce for Partnering on this episode, check out our new AI report here: https://www.jobsofthefuture.co/salesforce-ai-poll

In this episode of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future, Jimmy interviews Zahra at Salesforce’s new AI centre in London’s Devonshire Square, discussing careers, AI adoption, and skills. Zahra shares her first job in a pizza place, an early ambition to become a diplomat blocked by 1990s eligibility rules, and a 22-year career at Andersen Consulting/Accenture before moving to Salesforce. They discuss polling with Focal Data showing 51% of people have received no employer AI training and concerns about a widening digital divide. Zahra explains Salesforce’s focus on enterprise AI grounded in trusted company data with guardrails, the value of a physical AI centre for collaboration, and how she uses an internal AI Slackbot for daily task lists and meeting prep while staying critical and authentic. They cover AI benefits for mid-market firms, a Simplyhealth contact-centre example, and Salesforce’s Future Trailblazers schools program and call for a national “front door” for skills like Trailhead.

00:00 Intro
00:50 Inside Salesforce's New AI Centre
01:41 My First Job: Making Pizzas for £5 an Hour
03:48 From Diplomacy Dreams to Big Tech
06:31 Britain's AI Training Problem
09:07 Why Salesforce Built an AI Hub
10:46 How I Use AI Every Day
14:21 Why Authenticity Still Matters
15:07 The Priorities Every CEO Must Balance
16:15 Is an AI Divide Emerging?
17:40 Why Businesses Still Don't Trust AI
19:01 The Companies Winning With AI
22:23 Buy Commodity, Build to Differentiate
23:16 Which Skills Will Matter in the AI Era?
26:24 What I Look For When Hiring
30:07 A National Plan for AI Skills
32:40 Sending 1,000 Employees Into Schools
34:12 My Unexpected Dream Job
35:42 Final Thoughts

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Lord Michael Spencer on the CPS, Conservative Renewal, and Making the Case for Enterprise

Jimmy interviews Lord Michael Spencer at the Centre for Policy Studies’ Margaret Thatcher Enterprise Conference in London, discussing Spencer’s career founding ICAP and his current role chairing the CPS as it recruits a new executive director to succeed Robert Colvile.

Spencer explains what a think tank and its chair do, arguing the CPS should build detailed, sequenced pro-growth policy plans for a Conservative opposition and communicate them more effectively through broadcast media and podcasts.

00:00 Conference Setup
01:44 Meet Lord Spencer
01:52 Building ICAP
03:47 Conservative Party Years
06:42 Leading the CPS
10:17 Hiring New Director
14:36 Making Case for Business
17:38 Westminster Talent Problem
19:17 Think Tanks and Funding
24:15 Closing Thanks
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Former Arsenal F.C. midfielder Mathieu Flamini joins Jimmy to talk about life after elite football, building a global biochemical company, and what Arsène Wenger taught him about leadership, pressure, and winning.

Mathieu opens up about the reality of playing for Arsenal, the loneliness of elite sport, the mentality required to survive at the top level, and why “footballers die twice”. He explains how he went from Premier League football to running a major sustainability business, meeting world leaders, attending Davos, and building a company focused on replacing oil-based chemicals with plant-based alternatives.

They discuss resilience, competition, biohacking, retirement, hiring winners, entrepreneurship, and why most people are too afraid of failure.

00:00 Intro
01:02 Entrepreneur vs Elite Athlete
03:15 What Arsène Wenger Taught Him
05:08 How Football Recruitment Really Works
06:34 Hiring Winners
09:02 Joining Arsenal After The Invincibles
12:02 Starting A Business While Playing Football
14:20 Building A Biochemical Company
16:45 Why Athletes Make Great Entrepreneurs
19:05 Running A Huge Business After Football
22:10 The Loneliness Of Elite Sport
25:00 The Reality Of Being A Footballer
30:08 “Footballers Die Twice”
34:02 Retiring From Football
36:20 Finding Purpose After Arsenal
39:22 Meeting King Charles & World Leaders
40:05 Biohacking & Performance
46:10 Cooking, Health & Longevity
47:40 What The Next 10 Years Look Like
50:15 Why Competition Makes You Better
54:20 How To Hire Great People
57:15 Turning “Impossible” Into Possible
58:40 Quick Fire Questions
59:30 Arsenal, Spurs & Football Today
1:02:10 Advice For Young Footballers

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Junior Producer: Thuy
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