In a recent McKinsey Podcast, Kate Smaje and Rodney Zemmel —global leaders of McKinsey Digital — provide a contemporary update on digital transformation: “what it really means, how to deliver on it, and why it should remain front and center on the CEO agenda.” Interesting topics include “the role of metrics in assessing the success of digital transformation” and “MLOps” (machine learning operations). In the second part of the podcast, Amy Webb, futurist and author of the recently published “The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology” (Hachette Book Group, February 2022), describes the future potential and risks of synthetic biology.