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Andrea Macdonald Creator ideaXme
The humans behind the big ideas shaping our world. Inspiration and help for future creators of big ideas and for all those who love big ideas and great stories.
Neil Koenig Senior TV Series Producer and ideaXme interviewer, in conversation with Benjamina Bollag, founder and CEO of Uncommon.
Neil comments:
As concerns about the sustainability of food production grow, could so-called “cellular agriculture” be part of the answer? A new Cambridge-based startup called Uncommon is one of a host of new players that are trying to find out. Instead of raising pigs on a farm, Uncommon is aiming to produce pork by “growing” it in a lab or factory. So how does the process work? On its website, the company explains that it obtains ”sample cells — specifically stem cells — from a traditionally farmed animal, and then we nurture them to reach a state where they can infinitely grow using a process called reprogramming”. Uncommon believes that the process can result in a product that has “the potential to be the same as traditional meat right down to the molecular level”. It adds that it does “not use genetically modified pork cells or antibiotics in our manufacturing process.” Still, it’s a field that is not without controversy. Some observers worry about issues such as safety and the potential impact on the traditional farming industry; indeed, Florida has recently banned “lab-grown” meat. But enthusiasts believe that products like cultivated meat have a bright future, offering a revolutionary way to produce food in a much more sustainable manner, amongst many other benefits.
I met Uncommon’s founder Benjamina Bollag at this year’s Symposium, organised by the students of St Gallen university in Switzerland. In this interview with me for ideaXme, Benjamina Bollag talks about how the idea for her startup came about, the many challenges involved in creating a radically new type of food, and her hopes and dreams for the future.
LINKS BENJAMINA BOLLAG BIOGRAPHY / benjaminabollag
UNCOMMON https://uncommonbio.co/about-us/
ST GALLEN SYMPOSIUM https://symposium.org/
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Neil Koenig, ideaXme Senior TV Series Producer and interviewer talks with Kilian Kaminski, Co-founder of refurbed. 🪛⚙️🔨 👩💻📲
Neil comments:
Does your home have a drawer with an old smartphone in it? If so, you’re not the only one. According to one study there are some 200 million unused phones in homes in Germany alone: that’s more than two per person. 📱💻 “This is a tragedy” says Kilian Kaminski, because there are “resources in these devices, which are really valuable - gold, silver, copper, and they are just lying around without any usage”. Kilian, along with Peter Windischhofer and Jürgen Riedl, is now trying to do something about the situation. Several years ago the trio founded “refurbed”, a company based in Vienna that renews old electronic devices and makes them usable again.
I caught up with Kilian Kaminski at the 2024 St Gallen Symposium. In this interview with me for ideaXme, he talks about how his enterprise came to be founded, how it is branching out to refurbish a wider range of items such as sports goods and vacuum cleaners, and how he hopes to turn “refurbished” into a new product category that is “the cool, smart choice”, as well being as a vital step in the development of the so-called “circular” economy.
LINKS Refurbed http://www.refurbed.com Kilian Kaminski / kiliankaminski St Gallen Symposium https://symposium.org/ Neil Koenig: / neilkoenig https://twitter.com/neilkoenig?lang=en
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Neil Koenig, Senior TV Series Producer and ideaXme interviewer in conversation with Esther Wojcicki, Chief Education Advisor at Knack and Chief Academic Advisor at Pressto.ai.
Neil Koenig comments:
What’s the most difficult job in the world? President, astronaut, neurosurgeon? No - according to the educator, journalist and author Esther Wojcicki, “it’s being a parent”. As she explains, “most young people don't realise it, but when you become a parent you're signing up for a lifetime of worry…you’re going to want to help your child forever”. But, she adds, the rewards of parenthood far outweigh any downsides: “there’s nothing more exciting than having a great family”. In this interview with me for ideaXme, Esther Wojcicki talks about her career in education; why she believes a more “hands-off” approach is better for kids than being a so-called “helicopter” parent; and some of her many other ventures, such as her work with the Creative Commons project. She also discusses her best-selling book “How to Raise Successful People”, in which she sets out how parents can not only help their children to achieve their full potential, but can also have a great time in the process.
ESTHER WOJCICKI - BIOGRAPHY https://creativecommons.org/person/es... / estherwojcicki BOOK - “HOW TO RAISE SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE” https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Succ...
APP ParentingTrick. Parenting TRICK is an app on the Apple App Store that helps parents learn the TRICK method and prepare their children for success. It is also on the Google Play Store. Pressto.ai: https://www.joinpressto.com
Photograph of Esther by Jo Sittenfeld. Courtesy of Esther Wojcicki.
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Neil Koenig, Senior TV Series Producer and ideaXme board advisor interviews Cynthia Noble, Executive Director, Vornado Arts and ART on THE MART. 🎨 🌍 📣
"Please note that the Poetry Foundation is no longer going ahead this Fall. “The Poetry Foundation collaboration is now going ahead in 2025, however the collaborating artists will be announced next year.” ART on THE MART.
Neil comments:
Think of public art, and sculptures or statues might first come to mind. But how about something bigger than two American football fields? That’s the size of ART on THE MART, one of the largest digital art projects in the world.The endeavour began in 2018, with digital art works being displayed on the facade of Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, at one time the biggest building in the world. For Cynthia Noble, the initiative’s founding executive director, it offers artists the chance to explore what might be described as “a new medium...it offers a great chance to experiment”. Amongst those who have contributed works so far are artists including Charles Atlas, Derrick Adams, Nick Cave, and many more. In this interview with me for ideaXme, Cynthia Noble talks about how she came to be involved with launching ART on THE MART, the role that public art can play in the life of cities everywhere, forthcoming works by artists such as Nora Turato and Yinka Illori, and how she sees the emerging field of “media architecture” developing in the future.
ART on THE MART and Cynthia Noble links:
CYNTHIA NOBLE BIOGRAPHY
https://artonthemart.com/about/people/cynthia-noble PHOTO
CREDITS Cynthia Noble photo by Caroline Manrique
More details: Founded in 2018, the program is a result of a 30-year commitment by THE MART owner Vornado Realty Trust, in close collaboration with the City of Chicago, with a shared goal to provide public access to innovative contemporary art to the thousands of visitors traversing the Chicago Riverwalk each day. Projections are visible from Wacker Drive and along the Riverwalk. The platform is free and open to the public nightly, nine months per year, from April through December.
ideaXme credits and links: Neil Koenig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkoenig/ https://twitter.com/neilkoenig?lang=en
ideaXme introduction voice-over: Nicole Stott, retired NASA Astronaut, founder of Space For Art Foundation and ideaXme board advisor.
Nicole's 🚀 🌍Links: https://www.spaceforartfoundation.org , https://www.npsdiscovery.com , Twitter @Astro_Nicole https://twitter.com/astro_nicole?lang=en
Voice-over for the "please subscribe ending": Neil Koenig, Senior Tv Series Producer and ideaXme interviewer. 🎤 🎬
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ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com ideaXme's founder: Andrea Macdonald info@ideaxme.com ideaXme is a global network that harnesses the power of people who shape the world to reach out across the planet to communicate and encourage participation in ideas that Move the human story forward™. Today, a global podcast on 12 platforms, available in 40 countries, a mentor and creator programme. Soon much more! 20 ambassadors, subject matter experts. 6 board advisors. Mission: Let's Move the human story forward™! Passion: Rich Connectedness.
Neil Koenig, ideaXme Board Advisor and former Senior BBC Series Producer interviews Artist, Anthony McCall.
Neil comments: In the face of today’s flood of information from the internet and social media, it can sometimes take courage to retain belief in the strength of self-generated ideas. But for some, it can pay off. As the British artist Anthony McCall explains, “there's a certain moment in any artist’s life where your own ideas become more vivid than anyone else’s, for yourself”. Anthony McCall is certainly no stranger to vivid ideas. His ground-breaking piece from 1973, “Line Describing a Cone”, has had a big impact not only on his own output, but also on the work of many other artists. After studying graphic design at Ravensbourne college in the 1960s, Anthony McCall moved to New York in the early 1970s, and he has lived and worked there ever since. He is perhaps best known for his “solid light” installations. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions all over the world and can be found in the collections of many major museums. In this interview with me for ideaXme, Anthony McCall talks about how he first became interested in becoming an artist, how he approaches the process of creating his works, and about his future plans, including an upcoming show at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague, and a major exhibition which will be celebrating his work and his influence on other artists, at Tate Modern in London in summer 2024.
ANTHONY McCALL BIOGRAPHY: McCall, was born St Paul’s Cray, England, in 1946. He lives and works in Manhattan. McCall is known for his ‘solid-light’ installations, a series that he began in 1973 with “Line Describing a Cone,” in which a volumetric form composed of projected light slowly evolves in three-dimensional space. More: http://www.anthonymccall.com/about
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https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate...
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Voice over for ideaXme introduction: Neil Koenig Music for ideaXme introduction.
ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com Contact: Andrea Macdonald ideaXme's founder: andrea@ideaxme.com ideaXme is a global network - podcast, mentor programme and creator series. 40 countries. 12 platforms. Mission: To Move the human story forward™. Passion: Rich Connectedness™!
Neil Koenig ideaXme board advisor and former BBC Producer interviews Christina Keller, CEO Cascade Engineering.
Neil comments: As worries about the health of our environment continue to grow, a big concern is the harm caused by plastic waste. Whilst intense efforts to find suitable alternatives continue, the need to recycle existing plastics is becoming ever more urgent. One business that makes extensive use of recycled materials is Cascade Engineering, a family-owned plastics manufacturer based in Michigan, which makes products for a wide range of sectors, including the automotive and furniture-making industries. Cascade’s CEO, Christina Keller, says that the company is keen to play a role in the so-called “circular economy”, in which materials can be recycled almost indefinitely. Cascade Engineering was founded in 1973 by Christina Keller’s father Fred. The enterprise is one of a growing number of businesses that are pursuing a “triple bottom line” approach: putting people and planet first, as well as profits. Ms Keller explains that, aiming for a “triple bottom line” can mean a number of different things in practice: for example, in addition to its push to increase its recycling efforts, the business also takes steps to foster an inclusive and supportive workplace, and to offer employment opportunities to as wide a range of people as possible. I met Christina Keller at this year’s Symposium, a vast annual event organised by the students of the university of St Gallen in Switzerland. In this interview with me for ideaXme, Christina Keller talks about how employing a more diverse workforce can not only benefit employers but society too, how businesses can play a vital part in the circular economy, and the challenges and rewards of running a “triple bottom line” company.
LINKS: Cascade Engineering: https://www.cascadeng.com/
IMAGE CREDITS: Courtesy of Cascade Engineering
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Voice over for ideaXme introduction: Neil Koenig former Senior BBC @BBC producer and journalist and current ideaXme board advisor and guest interviewer.
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ideaXme links: ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com
Contact Andrea Macdonald ideaXme's founder: andrea@ideaxme.com
ideaXme is a global network - podcast on 12 platforms, 40 countries, mentor programme and creator series. Mission: To Move the human story forward™. Our passion: Rich Connectedness™!
Neil Koenig, ideaXme board advisor and former BBC Series Producer interviews Gyri Reiersen, Co-founder and CPO, Tanso.
Neil comments: Despite countless warnings from scientists about the dangers that greenhouse gas emissions pose to our environment, it seems that many businesses have still to wake up to the gravity of the situation. “It always surprises me how little companies know about their emissions” says Gyri Reiersen. An activist, entrepreneur, and self-confessed “nerd”, she is also co-founder of Tanso, a start-up based in Munich that offers software to help industrial companies understand and manage their carbon footprint. Although Tanso was only recently founded, it has attracted support from a range of venture capital and angel investors, whilst its products are already being used by some large German industrial enterprises. I had the chance to interview Gyri at this year’s Symposium, an annual event organised by the students at the university of St Gallen in Switzerland. In this interview for ideaXme, Gyri Reiersen talks about how the idea for her start-up came about, the challenges of helping enterprises to understand the role they need to play in tackling climate change, and her optimistic belief that, if we all work together, we can solve the difficult challenges that lie ahead.
Gyri Reiersen Biography: Gyri is a climate activist, co-founder, and CPO of the ClimateTech startup Tanso. Driven by the urgency and importance of mitigating climate change, Tanso aims to remove the structural barriers that hinder corporations to decarbonize. They leverage the power of data and machine learning to help industrial manufacturing companies transition towards a lower carbon economy. Tanso are a product-driven company using state-of-the-art technology and scientific research to tackle climate change and making sustainability accounting as integrated, transparent, and verifiable as financial accounting. Passionate about leveraging tech and innovation to solve society's largest issues, she recently worked on research together with TUM, ETH Zurich, and MIT using machine learning to estimate carbon storage in reforestation projects through satellite and drone imagery. As an active member of the Global Shapers, an initiative for young leaders, and other organizations, she has launched multiple initiatives to empower founders to tackle climate change, increase diversity in tech, and break the stigma around mental health.
IMAGE CREDITS Portrait of Gyri Reiersen courtesy of Tanso Technologies.
Video credits: Video footage from Canva. Voice over for ideaXme introduction: Neil Koenig former Senior BBC @BBC producer and journalist and current ideaXme board advisor and guest interviewer.
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Neil Koenig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkoenig/ https://twitter.com/neilkoenig?lang=en
ideaXme links: ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com
Founder ideaXme: Andrea Macdonald.
ideaXme is a global network - podcast on 12 platforms, 40 countries, mentor programme and creator series. Mission: To share knowledge of the future. Our passion: Rich Connectedness™!
Loredana Sinardo, BBA student at University of St. Gallen interviews Mme Bineta Diop, Founder and President of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS), an international NGO that seeks to foster, strengthen and promote the leadership role of women in conflict prevention, management and resolution in Africa. This interview took place when ideaXme recently visited the St. Gallen Symposium.
Biography of Mme Bineta Diop:
Studied International Relations and Diplomacy. More than 35 years of experience in women human rights issues, led peace building initiatives, conducted teams to observe elections and facilitated women peace dialogue in Africa. Has played key role in the adoption of many instruments and programmes for women in Africa. Founder and Chair of the Board, Femmes Africa Solidarité, an NGO created in 1996. Currently, Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). Formerly: co-chaired the civil society advisory group to the UN on Security Council Resolution 1325 (WPS); Member, African Union Commission of Enquiry on South Sudan; served on many international executive and advisory boards, such as ICRC and Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; co-chaired the 2014 World Economic Forum on Africa. Recipient of numerous awards, including: Knighted of the French Legion d'Honneur (2013); Jacques Chirac Foundation award (2013). Recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Time Magazine (2011). Doctor Honoris Causa, UN University for Peace, Costa Rica and Middlesex University in UK. Mme Bineta Diop also sits on the global board of The Hunger Project. Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS): FAS develop and implement programmes that fall in 4 main objectives: - Fostering, supporting and promoting women's initiatives in the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts in Africa, and for the respect of their rights; - Strengthening women's leadership capacity, including at the grassroots, to restore and maintain peace in their countries; - Engendering policies, structures, programmes and the peace process for the attainment of durable peace and human security in Africa; - Advocating at the national, regional and international levels for African women's rights and concerns, and their critical role on issues of peace and security.
The Hunger Project: The Hunger Project is a global, non-profit, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. Their mission is to end hunger and poverty by pioneering sustainable, grassroots, women-centered strategies and advocating for their widespread adoption in countries throughout the world.
Interview credit: Loredana Sinardo.
Mme Bineta Diop:
https://lk.linkedin.com/posts/auwpsbi...
https://thp.org/board/bineta-diop/
https://twitter.com/aubinetadiop?lang=en
Loredana Sinardo: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/loredanasi...
Credit: Introduction Neil Koenig:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkoenig/
https://twitter.com/neilkoenig?lang=en
ideaXme links: ideaXme's founder Andrea Macdonald: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrea-mac...
ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com ideaXme is a global network - podcast on 12 platforms, 40 countries, mentor programme and creator series. Mission: To Move the human story forward™ by sharing knowledge of the future. Our passion: Rich Connectedness™!
Neil Koenig, former BBC Series Producer, now ideaXme board advisor interviews Sarah Maria Nordt, founder and CEO, SANOGE.
Neil comments: The fashion industry might be glamorous, but its allure comes at a cost, since it is widely regarded as being one of the world’s biggest sources of pollution. One entrepreneur who is trying to do something to improve the situation is Sarah Maria Nordt. She’s the co-founder of SANOGE, a fashion tech start-up based in Germany that aims to produce clothing in a more sustainable manner. It eschews mass production in favour of making clothes on demand. SANOGE’s website works a bit like a car configurator, with customers having the ability to modify the design of the garments they would like, which are then produced to order. The hope is that this approach will help, amongst other things, to reduce overproduction and return rates. Before launching SANOGE, Sarah Maria Nordt studied at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Every year the university hosts a Symposium, a vast gathering of leaders and thinkers from all over the world, and I caught up with Sarah Maria at this year’s event. In this interview with me for ideaXme, Sarah Maria Nordt talks about how she came to found her enterprise, the daunting challenge of making the fashion industry a more sustainable one, and her hopes and dreams for the future.
SARAH MARIA NORDT - BIOGRAPHY Sarah Maria Nordt is the Founder and CEO of SANOGE, a FashionTech venture founded in 2019. SANOGE's mission is to revolutionize the textile supply chain by turning customers into co-designers of their highly individualized pieces of apparel and using an AI-based on-demand production approach to eliminate overproduction, reduce return rates, and redefine sustainability in the fashion industry. Prior to founding SANOGE, Nordt studied Business Administration and General Management at the University of St. Gallen, and worked in management consulting with a focus on digital transformation. In addition to her work at SANOGE, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Entrepreneurial Finance at the University of St. Gallen.
Sarah Maria Nord/SANOGE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahmari... https://www.instagram.com/sanoge_wear... https://www.sanoge.com/
Neil Koenig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkoenig/ https://twitter.com/neilkoenig?lang=en
ideaXme links: ideaXme's founder Andrea Macdonald: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrea-mac...
ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com ideaXme is a global network - podcast on 12 platforms, 40 countries, mentor programme and creator series. Mission: To Move the human story forward™ by sharing knowledge of the future. Our passion: Rich Connectedness™!
Neil Koenig, former BBC Series Producer, now ideaXme board advisor and interviewer, in conversation with Dr Jan Goetz, Co-founder IQM at The St Gallen Symposium.
Proponents of quantum computing claim that the technology has much to offer, saying that it promises to revolutionise many aspects of our lives such as scientific research, finance, healthcare and much more. So far, the field has been dominated by US-based giants like IBM, but now a new wave of start-ups is emerging in Europe. One of these is IQM Quantum Computers, based in Finland. At the recent Symposium at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, I caught up with IQM’s CEO, Dr. Jan Goetz. In this interview with me for ideaXme, Jan Goetz talks how he first became in quantum computing, the incredible benefits he believes that the field can offer, and how best to navigate the risks and challenges that lie ahead.
JAN GOETZ - BIOGRAPHY
Jan Goetz is a quantum physicist and co-founding CEO of IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), building next-generation quantum computers. He is on the Board of the European Innovation Council (EIC), the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC, a member of the German Federal Economic Senate (Bundeswirtschaftssenat), and a Digital Leader and Global Innovator at the WEF. In 2020, Capital magazine selected him as one of 40 under 40 in Germany, and he received the prestigious entrepreneurship award from the KAUTE Foundation. Mr. Goetz holds a PhD from TU Munich, where he did his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits, and worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent.
IMAGE CREDITS: Portrait of Jan Goetz: courtesy of IQM Quantum Computers.
Jan Goetz:
https://fi.linkedin.com/in/jan-goetz/en
https://twitter.com/jangoetz6?lang=en https://twitter.com/meetIQM?ref_src=t...
www.meetiqm.com
Interview credits, Neil Koenig:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkoenig/
https://twitter.com/neilkoenig?lang=en
ideaXme links: ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com
ideaXme founder: Andrea Macdonald https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrea-mac...
ideaXme is a global network - podcast on 12 platforms, 40 countries, mentor programme and creator series. Mission: To share knowledge of the future. Our passion: Rich Connectedness™!
Neil Koenig, former BBC series producer, now ideaXme board advisor and interviewer, talks with Kristina Lunz, Co-founder Centre For Feminist Foreign Policy.
The battle of women for equality has been underway for centuries. But campaigners believe the rewards of success would be great; as Emily Venturi, a speaker at the 1878 International Congress of Women's Rights in Paris put it, “the world would be transformed”. Today, the push continues. One area where advocates believe progress is being made is in the field of foreign policy. Kristina Lunz is an entrepreneur, author and activist. She is also co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. I caught up with her at this year’s Symposium, an annual event organised by the students of the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. In this interview with me for ideaXme, Kristina Lunz talks about the long history of the struggle for women’s rights, how a feminist approach could transform the practice of foreign policy, and the reasons why she believes that a world where women had more say in how it was run would be a better place.
KRISTINA LUNZ - BIOGRAPHY Kristina Lunz is co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, an award-winning human rights activist and former advisor to the German Foreign Office. She was named one of the 30 under 30 (in Europe and DACH) by Forbes, is Handelsblatt/BCG "Thought Leader 2020", Focus Magazine "100 Women of the Year 2020", and was awarded "Young Elite - Top 40 under 40" by Capital Magazine, Additionally, she is an Atlantik Brücke Young Leader, Ashoka Fellow as well as a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader. Her book "The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist" was published by Econ/Ullstein Verlag in February 2022. She holds a Bachelor's degree in psychology, as well as a Master's degree in global governance and ethics from University College London and another Master's degree from the University of Oxford in Global Governance and Diplomacy. After graduation, she worked for the United Nations in Myanmar and for an NGO in Colombia, among others. Kristina Lunz has (co-)initiated several activist campaigns such as "No means No" and a campaign against sexism in the Bild newspaper.
Centre For Feminist Foreign Policy: A research, advocacy, and consulting organisation dedicated to promoting Feminist Foreign Policy across the globe. https://centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org
IMAGE CREDITS Portraits of Kristina Lunz: courtesy of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy Kristina Lunz: https://twitter.com/Kristina_Lunz https://de.linkedin.com/in/kristina-lunz
Neil Koenig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkoenig/ https://twitter.com/neilkoenig?lang=en
ideaXme links: ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com
ideaXme is a global network - podcast on 12 platforms, 40 countries, mentor programme and creator series. Mission: To share knowledge of the future. Our passion: Rich Connectedness™!
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Stela Solar, Director of National AI Centre, CSIRO Australia. They talk of "Australia's world first" initiative to develop, roll out and manage AI and how Stela Solar leads it.
Biography Stela Solar is the Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Centre, hosted by CSIRO's Data61. In this role, Stela is focused on building value for Australian people, businesses and the country, through use of Artificial Intelligence. Over the past 15 years, Stela has cultivated expertise in capturing new revenue opportunities presented by emerging technologies and business model transformation. Stela is passionate about removing barriers to positive technology adoption and engagement. She leverages her broad experiences across business development, strategy, ecosystem development, marketing and product management to inform her insights surrounding cross-organizational factors affecting an organization’s ability to capture an advantage.
Prior to CSIRO, Stela most recently held the position of Global Director of AI Solutions Sales and Strategy at Microsoft, and before that was with channel partners Ingram Micro, Express Data, and web security startup M86. Stela has recently returned to Australia from 7 years in the US technology industry. She has a Masters of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts from University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of NSW. Outside of work, Stela enjoys competitive sailing and plays cello and piano.
Image credits: Stela Solar portrait: TBA Stela Solar and the National AI Centre CSIRO, Australia and RAIN Links: https://www.csiro.au/en/work-with-us/... https://www.csiro.au/en/work-with-us/... https://twitter.com/stela?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/stelasolar
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Neil Koenig, former BBC Producer/Director and now ideaXme board advisor interviews Chris Stott, Founder, CEO and Chair of Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. Neil comments: Space entrepreneurs often have grand visions. As the billionaire Elon Musk explained, in a BBC Radio 4 documentary I produced some 15 years ago, his dream is to help mankind become a space-faring civilisation by lowering the cost of interplanetary travel. Today, Mr Musk is making progress, as his company SpaceX continues to build ever bigger rockets and win new customers. And according to fellow entrepreneur Chris Stott, there has indeed been a dramatic fall in the cost of space transport, largely because of the work that SpaceX and its rivals have been doing. As a result, many opportunities for new businesses have emerged. Chris Stott has long been fascinated by space, and he has worked in the industry throughout his career; his wife Nicole is a former NASA astronaut. He now has an audacious plan: to put data centres on the Moon. It sounds like a crazy idea, but Mr Stott is deadly serious. He says that, because the costs of space travel have come down so much, the project is now eminently feasible. In this interview with me for ideaXme, Chris Stott talks of his passion for space, why he thinks it is vital for human society to have data backups in places beyond Earth, and why he believes that the survival of human civilisation depends on mankind successfully venturing into space. Official biography Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of profitably working in the space, satellite, and telecommunications industries consistently delivering shareholder value. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Planning, Analytical Skills, and Innovation Management. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a MSS focused in Space Sciences from International Space University. Multi Award winning Documentary Film Maker and Executive Producer. Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. Lonestar has been founded by a proven team of experts from the Cloud and Space verticals to pioneer a future for data at the edge for all of us. Our mission is to apply abundance thinking and exponential technologies to the exploration of the Moon and the endless possibilities of lunar storage for the human race. Lonestar's vision is fueled by remarkable investors led by Scout Ventures, 2 Future Holdings, Seldor Capital, the Veteran Fund. Irongate Global Capital, Atypical Ventures, and Kittyhawk Ventures.
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Neil Koenig, former BBC Producer/Director and now ideaXme board advisor interviews artist Shahzia Sikander.
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One aim of the ideaXme series is to Move the human story forward™. Is that something that art can help with? The artist Shahzia Sikander believes it can: “art is something that we learn to tell stories with. It's a means, a catalyst, but it also is how you are in pursuit of your own truth or a broader truth” she explains, “but then in that journey, what happens is how you negotiate a place in the world for future generations”. Shahzia Sikander was born in Pakistan and has lived and worked in New York since the 1990s.
She has created works in many different forms, from miniatures to animation, sculpture and more. Her first major public art commission, “Havah..to breathe, air, life”, is currently on display in Madison Square Park in the heart of New York City. It includes some dramatic pieces, such as an 18 foot tall sculpture in the centre of the park, and another 8 foot high figure on the roof of a nearby courthouse, where it joins some existing works The show is on view until June 2023, after which it will move on to Houston. In this interview with ideaXme board advisor Neil Koenig, Shahzia Sikander talks about growing up and studying art in Pakistan, her interests in exploring notions of authenticity, assimilation, and “interstitial spaces that are harder to define”, and the role that technology might play in the future development of art.
Biography
Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani, b.1969) is an artist based in New York City best known for her Mughal miniature painting as well as her Persian miniature painting. Sikander is also a performance artist, a muralist, a mixed media artist, and an installation artist. Having been taught the art of miniature painting in the traditional Pakistani technique, she adds her own modern take on the pieces, making her art unique. Religion plays a significant role in her work as well as her personal life, due to her Muslim beliefs. Through her work, she explores how Muslim women are challenged by the Western way of living. She has been known to wear a veil in public, though she did not do so prior to her relocation to the United States. She does so as an experiment to study how Westerners are affected by the tradition. Sikander attended the National College of Arts in Lahore and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1992. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and in 1995 she earned her Master of Fine Arts. Sikander's first solo exhibition took place in 1993 at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D.C. Many solo exhibitions followed, taking her to such places as the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in New York in 2000 and The San Diego Museum of Art in California in 2004. In addition to the solo exhibitions, Sikander also participated in many group exhibitions, including those held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2005 and Museum Ludwig in Germany in 1999. Sikander received a number of awards, including the Shakir Ali Award/Kipling Award from the National College of Arts, Lahore in 1993, The Joan Mitchell Award in 1999, and the MacArthur Fellows Program in 2006. Sikander continues to impart her personal touch and some political and social views into what may be considered to be an impersonal and disciplined tradition. She continues to exhibit work all over the world and adjust her work to reflect the current status of her culture.
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Dr. Jo Zayner, PhD, Biophysics, is a "visionary" biochemist and genetic designer. For over 15 years, they have pioneered work in the field of bioengineering, publishing a number of scientific papers on the topic. Zayner is transgender and uses they/she pronouns advocating for diversity, body autonomy and science for all. Jo received their PhD in Biophysics from the University of Chicago, winning several awards for their work on engineering proteins. They then spearheaded work on developing engineered microbes for Mars terraforming at NASA, eventually leaving to start The ODIN, a bioengineering company based in Austin, Texas that is working to make genetic engineering accessible to everyone. Zayner’s groundbreaking work in human genetic engineering and medicine has been the focus of many documentaries, including the Netflix documentary Unnatural Selection https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/8020... and the NYT documentary Gut Hack https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/op... .
They have been made fun of on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and written about in media all over the world including The New York Times, The New Yorker, El País, Le Monde, Time, Scientific American and NPR, among others. Somehow Jo still finds time to be an accomplished artist whose work has been featured in exhibits at San Francisco MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, NY MoMA, ZKM and the Smithsonian.
The ODIN, team believe the future is going to be dominated by genetic engineering and consumer genetic design will be a big part of that. They are facilitating this by offering tailored biotech kits and tools that allow anyone to make unique and usable organisms at home or in a lab or anywhere. Safely of course! Twitter: @4LovOfScience https://twitter.com/4LOVofScience Instagram: @jzayner https://www.instagram.com/jzayner/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/josiah.zayner Video footage from Canva. Voice over for ideaXme introduction: Neil Koenig former Senior BBC producer and journalist and current ideaXme board advisor and guest interviewer. Music for ideaXme introduction: Music: Space Heroes by MaxKoMusic | https://maxkomusic.com/ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com ideaXme is a global network - podcast on 12 platforms, 40 countries, mentor programme and creator programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward. Our passion: Rich Connectedness!
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New opportunities are waiting for you in the global space industry! Shelli Brunswick, COO Space Foundation. Episode 2, ideaXme Thought Bite. Workforce development roadmap.
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Shelli Brunswick, COO of Space Foundation talks of the Space Economy and improving access to work in the space industry.
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Neil Koenig, ex BBC producer and current ideaXme board advisor and guest interviewer, interviews Mohammed Afkhami, philanthropist and art collector.
If asked to name a country associated with modern art, few people today might think of Iran. The collector Mohammed Afkhami is working hard to change that perception.
In this age that we are in now anything that promotes misunderstood or unknown cultures is a plus. In recent years he has amassed a large collection of Iranian art. Mr Afkhami says his love of art began at an early age: “we used to visit my grandfather's house multiple times a week, and he collected Islamic art and antiquities, Western artworks, Japanese lacquer…it was a fascinating and enchanting house of treasures”. He left Iran as a young child, after the revolution at the end of the 1970s. After embarking on a successful career in finance, he eventually returned in the early 2000s. “It felt like coming home” he explains. Mohammed Afkhami was surprised and delighted by the quality of contemporary art available, even though there were only a small number of galleries open at the time in Tehran. He bought works by Sirak Melkonian and Massoud Arabshahi for around $500 apiece. Since then, the collection has grown to include works by artists such as Shirin Neshat, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Parviz Tanavoli, Abbas Kiarostami and many more. What is the art scene like in Iran today? According to Mr Afkhami it is thriving, despite the impact of sanctions. There are now hundreds of galleries in Tehran, he says: “an artist is lucky to have a show that lasts longer than a month, because there's such a backlog of artists wanting to exhibit”. In an interview with me for ideaXme, Mohammed Afkhami talks about his passion for his country’s art, how he built his collection and how he works with artists and galleries, and how art can serve to broaden understanding and break down cultural barriers. “Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection”, can be seen at the Asia Society in New York until May 2022. Drawing from the collection of financier and philanthropist Mohammed Afkhami, the exhibition comprises paintings, sculptures, photographs, and videos. Of the 23 participating artists, over a third live in Iran, over a third live outside of Iran, and five live in New York City. These established, mid-career, and emerging artists are working from unique vantage points, informed by a rich cultural heritage as well as more recent extensive social and political unrest in Iran. Referencing “contemporary Persians,” the exhibition’s title evokes an ancient culture that is still very much alive today. The curator of the exhibition is Dr. Fereshteh Daftari.
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Neil Koenig, ex BBC producer and current ideaXme board advisor and guest interviewer, interviews curator Marcello Dantas. Are humans the only creatures who can appreciate art? Perhaps not, says Marcello Dantas. His latest project aims to create “art that’s meaningful to other species”, such as birds, bees, or bats. Mr Dantas, a curator who has worked with many internationally known artists, is no stranger to innovative ventures.
In 2021, he was appointed curator of the SFER IK Museion, located in the jungle near Tulum, Mexico - and this might be his most unusual undertaking so far. SFER IK, described as “an interdisciplinary arts centre”, is an unusual structure built largely from natural materials. It’s the creation of the architect and social entrepreneur Roth, who’s also the founder of the nearby Azulik hotel. Although construction was complete by late 2019, the pandemic meant activity had to be paused. The museum is now due to relaunch in March 2022, with a show by Japanese artist Makoto Azuma, known for pioneering work with plants and flowers. The centrepiece will be a 15m high “artificial tree, made of plants” explains Mr Dantas, which will have “a common nutrient body that will feed this amazing biodiversity that will exist inside the museum.” A key goal will be to try to create what he calls “bio-agreeable” art - work in tune with its location, in this case, in the middle of a jungle in which humans are a distinct minority. It’s also one example of the kind of work that Marcello Dantas finds particularly exciting: pieces that are integrated with their setting. Another is an exhibit which will appear soon at SFER IK, by Mexican artist Hector Zamora. This will involve the use of thousands of balls, moving around inside the gallery: “it will be like you are inside of a giant pinball machine’ explains Mr Dantas. “Think about what's the most prohibited thing in a museum, apart from setting it on fire - playing football perhaps? But what if the museum plays football with you?”
For Marcello Dantas, works like these point towards an exciting future for art, and away from the current approach of the modern art world, which he finds a little dispiriting: “you see a painting hanging on a white wall in Hong Kong, and then you see the same painting on a white wall in New York”. For him this model is sterile: “we want to go from sterility to fertility”. In this ideaXme interview, Marcello Dantas talks to producer, journalist and ideaXme board adviser Neil Koenig, about his career in the world of art, his plans for the SFER IK museum, and how he sees the future of art developing. Marcello Dantas is an award-winning curator and artistic director specialising in interdisciplinary practices both in and outside Brazil. He was the name behind the conception of distinct museums and cultural institutions across South America, such as the Museum of Portuguese Language; Japan House Sao Paulo and the Museum of Nature in Brazil; Museo del Caribe and Museo del Carnaval in Colombia; and the Telecommunications Museum in Argentina. In 2021, he was appointed curator of the SFER IK Museion in Tulum, Mexico. He has also curated some of the most popular solo shows of the last decade, including Ai Weiwei’s Raiz, the largest exhibition ever staged by the artist in Brazil in 2018. Marcello Dantas has also curated several solo exhibitions with some of the most influential contemporary artists of today, including Anish Kapoor, Laurie Anderson, Erwin Wurm, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Bill Viola and many more. Since 2014, he has become part of the curatorial board at the Vancouver Biennale, and in 2020, he was appointed curator of the 13th Biennial Mercosul that will take place in Brazil in 2022.
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Neil Koenig, former Senior BBC producer and current ideaXme board advisor and guest interviewer, interviews Daniel Birnbaum, artistic director Acute Art. Chapter headings: 00:00We're here to idea everyone! To fire up your curiosity and connect you with the people and ideas that shape our world.
00:20 Welcome to ideaXme. I'm Neil Koenig.
00:25 For more than 50 years the Serpentine Gallery has shown work by some of the world's most famous contemporary artists.
00:38 This creature is a product of augmented reality.
01:04
A parallel digital version of the show has been launched in Fortnite, a hugely popular video game developed by Epic Games.
01:15 The artistic director of Acute Art and curator of the New Fiction show is Daniel Birnbaum.
38:04 At the centre of the game is a replica of the Serpentine Gallery.
38:57 I think it will be the best attended exhibition ever produced.
39:42 What kind of work is on show in both worlds?
39:52 KAWS, many people know his work. 41:15 On the Acute Art App and you can place those paintings in your living room.
41:26 It is an exhibition that lives in 3 worlds.
51:33 Maybe that hybrid world will be the future of art.
52:45 There will be entirely new kinds of platforms I think.
The pandemic has had an impact on most aspects of our lives, and the art world is no exception. With many galleries and museums closed, there’s an urgent need for new ways to experience art. Technology might provide some answers, and one enterprise at the forefront of developments is Acute Art, which collaborates with artists on projects involving virtual and augmented reality. Acute Art has already worked with many high-profile artists, including Ai Weiwei, Marina Abramović, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Olafur Eliasson, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Bjarne Melgaard, Jeff Koons and many more. The most recent project that Acute Art has been involved in is NEW FICTION, the first major solo exhibition in London by KAWS (Brian Donnelly b.1974). The show, which opened in January 2022 at the Serpentine gallery in London’s Hyde Park, includes new and recent works in physical and augmented reality. A parallel digital version of the exhibition launched simultaneously in Fortnite, the hugely popular video game developed by Epic Games. In addition, an app developed by Acute Art will “offer a bridge between the virtual and the physical worlds”.
All the paintings and sculptures in the exhibition, as well as a miniature version of the entire show, will exist as AR works on the app, which can be viewed at home by audiences around the world, and shared on social media.
In this interview, producer, journalist and ideaXme board adviser Neil Koenig talks to Acute Art’s artistic director, Daniel Birnbaum, about his career in the art world, the creative challenge of curating the NEW FICTION show, and what part technologies such as augmented and virtual reality might play in the future development of art. Before joining Acute Art in January 2019, Daniel Birnbaum was Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Previously, he curated the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), “Airs de Paris” (with Christine Macel) at the Centre Pompidou (2007), the 2nd Yokohama Triennial (2008), and “Zero” (with Tijs Visser) at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (2015). In 2009 he was director of the 53rd Venice Biennale. Daniel Birnbaum co-authored ‘Spacing Philosophy: Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition’ with Swedish philosopher and professor Sven-Olov Wallenstein published by Sternberg Press in September 2019. Video footage of Fortnite game courtesy of Epic Games © Epic Games.
Video stills shot by Neil Koenig.
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Neil Koenig, Producer, Journalist and ideaXme board adviser interviews David Roche, Founder of Independent Strategy and Quantum Economics. The news today is full of stories of fortunes made or lost through investment in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other crypto currencies. But what exactly are these new digital currencies? How did they come about, how do they work, and why are they so popular?
In this interview, David Roche tells the story of the birth and development of this new kind of money, the impact it is already having on global economics and politics, and the reasons why central banks and governments are so worried by the rise of crypto currencies. David Roche is a global investment strategist based in Hong Kong. During a long career he has forecast some of the major turning points that have affected global markets, such as the demise of the Soviet Bloc and the subsequent fall of the Berlin Wall, and the financial crisis that swept Asia in the late 1990s.
David Roche grew up in County Kildare in Ireland. He holds an MA from Trinity College, Dublin and an MBA with the highest distinction from INSEAD. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and has a diploma in accounting and finance from the UK’s Association of Certified Accountants. In his youth he spent time in various countries, including a period in what was then known as the USSR. He says he fell into a career in investment strategy “by accident”. After a spell working for JP Morgan, he joined the multinational financial services enterprise Morgan Stanley, where he was Head of Research and Global Strategist. In 1994, after leaving Morgan Stanley, he founded Independent Strategy, an investment research firm which provides advice to institutional investors and governments. He often contributes to many top financial publications and is also a regular commentator on the BBC, Bloomberg TV and CNBC television networks. He is also the author of several books, including “New Monetarism”, “Sovereign DisCredit!” And “DemoCrisis”.
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Dr Renard Siew, Climate Change Activist and ideaXme Climate Change Ambassador interviews Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries.
Amongst the many subjects discussed, they talk of COP26, climate change activism, key objectives for 2022 and the Commissioner's new legislation relating to deforestation.
Virginijus Sinkevičius biography:
Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries 2019-present
Minister of Economy and Innovation 2017-2019
Member of the Parliament 2016-2019
Chair of the Committee on Economics of the Parliament 2016-2017
Deputy Leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union 2016-present
Team Leader of the Group for Regulatory Affairs, Invest Lithuania 2016
Project Coordinator, Lithuanian Airports 2015-2016
International Group Project Manager, AB Lietuvos Paštas 2014
Assistant Project Manager, Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPÁ), Washington (USA) 2013-2014
Author and Editor of news portal The Lithuanian Tribune 2011-2015
Master of Arts in European Studies, Maastricht University (Netherlands) 2012-2013
Bachelor of Economic and Social Studies, Aberystwyth University (United Kingdom) 2009-2012
Responsibilities of the Commissioner: Ensuring the environment, oceans and fisheries remain at the core of the European Green Deal. Presenting a new Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: from Natura2000, deforestation, species and habitats, to sustainable seas and oceans. Delivering on the Commission’s zero-pollution ambition, including air and water quality and hazardous chemicals. Leading on a Circular Economy Action Plan to promote the use of sustainable resources Promoting plastic-free oceans and proper implementation of legislation on plastics, particularly microplastics. Ensuring full implementation of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy. Effective control and enforcement and respecting the maximum sustainable yield objective. Evaluating the Common Fisheries Policy by 2022, including the social dimension, climate adaptation and clean oceans. Contributing to the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy on sustainable food, maximizing the potential of sustainable seafood and the aquaculture sector. Promoting international ocean governance, playing a lead role in international discussions. Ensuring Europe leads the way to an ambitious agreement at the 2020 Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Taking a zero-tolerance approach to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Contributing to WTO discussions on a global agreement to ban fisheries subsidies that cause overfishing, illegal fishing and overcapacity.
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Neil Koenig, ideaXme interviewer, senior television producer and journalist, interviews Rachel Goslins, Director of the Arts and Industries Building, at the Smithsonian Institution.
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What does the future mean to you? A forthcoming exhibition in America’s capital city will attempt to help visitors to answer this question. The Arts and Industries Building (AIB) in Washington DC is one of the oldest parts of America’s vast Smithsonian Institution. It originally opened in 1881 as the first national museum in the US.
Over the years, millions of visitors have experienced world-changing inventions like the electric light bulb, the steam locomotive and Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone at AIB. After almost a century of showing exhibits such as these, the building’s 100,000 square foot halls closed completely in 2004. AIB will be relaunched soon with a new exhibition, called FUTURES.
This multidisciplinary project will feature artefacts drawn from the Smithsonian’s vast collection and research centres, as well as large-scale commissioned artworks and dozens of interactive exhibits, with the aim of “encouraging visitors to embrace their own role in shaping what is to come”.
In this ideaXme interview, AIB Director Rachel Goslins talks to journalist and producer Neil Koenig about re-launching a museum in the middle of a pandemic; the wider challenges facing the museum sector; and her goals for the FUTURES show, and the original research under-pinning it, which reveals that what most of us want from the future is “not flying cars and robots” but values like “peacefulness and sustainability”.
RACHEL GOSLINS, FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING
Rachel Goslins has more than 20 years of experience across the worlds of art, law and public policy. Before her new role as AIB’s Director, Rachel served as Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, advising the Obama White House on cultural policy from 2009 to 2015. Under her tenure, the Committee spearheaded campaigns of cultural diplomacy and national investment in the arts, including: the Turnaround Arts project, the first federally-led, public-private partnership to introduce arts education programs to low-performing elementary schools, and Film Forward, which recovered and restored Haitian art and artefacts endangered by the 2010 earthquake and its aftermath. Earlier, Rachel founded a documentary production company, directing feature documentaries for the Public Broadcasting Service, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel and History. She is a 2012 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. VIDEO AND IMAGE CREDITS Contemporary images of Arts + Industries Building and portrait of Rachel Goslins by Farrah Sheiky All video b-roll and images courtesy Smithsonian except: Images of FUTURES exhibition, renderings courtesy Rockwell group. me + you in the Smithsonian’s Arts + Industries Building, rendering, courtesy Reddymade. Pegasus' vehicle, 2020, Virgin Hyperloop, courtesy Virgin Hyperloop. Goddard 1935 A-Series Rocket, 1935, Robert H. Goddard, courtesy National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Water Harvester, Waha, Inc. courtesy Waha, Inc.
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Historian and author, Sheila Rowbotham talks of her life and work helping women to shape their own futures.
Neil Koenig, Radio and TV producer and journalist, interviews Sheila Rowbotham, author and historian of feminism and radical social movements. In this interview, Sheila looks back at the early days of the women’s liberation movement in Britain, in which she was a key participant. She recalls the thrill of taking part in Britain’s first women’s liberation conference, held in Oxford in 1970. She remembers the growing excitement as the movement gathered steam, at a time when everything seemed possible; the highs and lows of campaigning on issues such as nurseries, contraception, and better conditions for night cleaners; and the challenges of balancing one’s personal and political life. And she shares her hopes, dreams and fears for the future.
Sheila Rowbotham is the author of many books, including her memoirs of the 1970s, Daring to Hope, which will be published soon by Verso Books. Other titles include: Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties; Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century; and the biography Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography. Sheila Rowbotham is the author of many books, including her memoirs of the 1970s, Daring to Hope, which will be published soon by Verso Books.
Other titles include: Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties; Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century; and the biography Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography. Her poetry and two plays have been published and she has written for newspapers and journals in Britain, the US, Italy, Brazil, Turkey, Sweden and Sri Lanka. She lives in Bristol.
SHEILA ROWBOTHAM LINKS
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3863-daring-to-hope
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003tbv
https://www.bl.uk/people/sheila-rowbotham
Film about the Women’s Liberation Conference, Oxford, March 1970, made by Liberation Films:
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https://lcva.gold.ac.uk/videos/594bba5c1c423d243c1b14a7
PHOTO CREDITS Sheila Rowbotham at Women’s Liberation Conference, Oxford, March 1970 ( Liberation Films ‘A Woman’s Place’) Sheila Rowbotham – credit James Swinson.
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Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest interviewer and strategy executive at Cubaka interviews Marc Oshima, co-founder and chief marketing officer at AeroFarms.
AeroFarms is a Certified B Corporation. They use the latest breakthroughs in indoor vertical farming, artificial intelligence and plant biology to fix our broken food system and improve the way fresh produce is grown and distributed locally and globally. Their objective is to solve both current and future food challenges by producing high quality safe produce using the latest science and technology.
AeroFarms Transforming Agriculture Since 2004:
AeroFarms has been transforming agriculture with people and planet in mind. They have built a proprietary agriculture platform to grow a wide array of products, delivering superior flavour, better quality and improved nutrition with the most sophisticated levels of traceability and food safety in our industry.
AeroFarms' Vision:
To understand plant biology and to be great farmers and solve broader problems in agriculture. To serve communities by leading with brand and providing access to high-quality, consistent, and safe products. To protect the environment for future generations, growing more while using less.
Marc Oshima's biography:
Marc is Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of AeroFarms, a leading clean- technology company that builds and operates responsible, state-of-the-art indoor vertical farms around the world, enabling local production and transforming agriculture. A Certified B Corporation, AeroFarms has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for Food and by Inc. as one of the Top 25 Disruptive Companies. An award-winning marketer with an extensive background in retail, branding, and media, Marc is also passionate about increasing access to healthy food and has led the marketing for major food retailers. Marc has been recognized by Eating Well magazine as one of the 2018 American Food Heroes. With his B.A. from Columbia College and M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, Marc is also Board Co-Chair of Chefs Collaborative, a 25 year old non-profit improving our sustainable food systems, and a member of the United Fresh Produce Marketing & Merchandising Council.
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Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest interviewer and strategist at Cubaka, speaks with David Grinspoon, PhD. astrobiologist, senior scientist at the Planetary Institute and award winning author. They talk of NASA's Davinci+ mission to Venus. Specifically, they discuss: What we can learn from Venus to increase our understanding of climate change on Earth. Further, Grinspoon talks more broadly of how we all need to "human up", his call to action for humans to tackle the geological damage that we have created thus far to ensure our future survival.
ideaXme interview chapters:
00:53 I am interested in worlds, not just this one, at least in the sense of planets.
01:08 I am trained as a planetary scientist.
01:56 I was trained by the people that built these first spacecrafts.
04:13 NASA just selected 2 Venus missions.
07:35 This is the first time that we'll send 21st Century instruments to Venus.
10:46 This is going to launch in 2029.
11:51 For me one of the fascinations in general is with what we call comparative planetology.
Venus It is a treasure of information of how climate works on planets.
21:55 We have to look at all other aspects of how we interact with the planet. 22.51 We need to human-up!
29:40 I had the good fortune of knowing Carl Sagan.
30:07 I don't know if I would be a space scientist if I had not encountered him at an early age.
31:38 I am very grateful for his presence on Earth and his influence.
Biography: David Grinspoon PhD., is an astrobiologist, award-winning science communicator, and prize-winning author. Moreover, he is also a successful musician. Grinspoon's is part of NASA's recently announced Davinci+ mission to explore Venus. "I’ve been pushing for this for literally my entire career. The last U.S. Venus mission launched in 1989, the year I finished grad school. There's so much to learn about climate, history of Earth-like worlds and life in the universe. I can’t describe how thrilled I am". David Grinspoon. His newest book is Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto, co-authored with Alan Stern. He is a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and an Adjunct Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Science at the University of Colorado. His research focuses on climate evolution on Earth-like planets and potential conditions for life elsewhere in the universe. He is involved with several interplanetary spacecraft missions for NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Japanese Space Agency. In 2013, he was appointed as the inaugural Chair of Astrobiology at the U.S. Library of Congress, where he studied the human impact on Earth systems and organized a public symposium on the Longevity of Human Civilization. His technical papers have been published in Nature, Science, and numerous other journals, and he has given invited keynote talks at conferences around the world. David’s popular writing has appeared in Slate, Scientific American, Natural History, Nautilus, Astronomy, Seed, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Sky & Telescope Magazine, where he is a contributing editor and writes the quasi-monthly “Cosmic Relief” column. His book Earth in Human Hands was named a Best Science Book of 2016 by NPR’s Science Friday. His previous book Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life won the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Nonfiction. David has been a recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal for Public Communication of Planetary Science by the American Astronomical Society, and has been honored with the title “Alpha Geek” by Wired magazine. He lectures widely, and appears frequently as a science commentator on television, radio, and podcasts, including as a frequent guest on StarTalk Radio and host of the new spinoff StarTalk All Stars. Also a musician, he currently leads the House Band of the Universe. NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour. The missions' aim is to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like climate.
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Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Adam Rogers award winning author and Senior Correspondent WIRED magazine.
We spoke to Adam about his new book Full Spectrum: How The Science of Color Made Us Modern.
In this interview you'll discover that colour is everything. Moreover, how mankind's need to understand and create colours is at the heart of how our species evolves - from philosophy and culture to science and technology.
Full Spectrum:
Full Spectrum is a a lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which changed the way we see the world, from the best-selling author of Proof: The Science of Booze.
From kelly green to millennial pink, our world is graced with a richness of colors. But our human-made colors haven’t always matched nature’s kaleidoscopic array. To reach those brightest heights required millennia of remarkable innovation and a fascinating exchange of ideas between science and craft that’s allowed for the most luminous manifestations of our built and adorned world.
In Full Spectrum, Rogers takes us on that globe-trotting journey, tracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future. We meet our ancestors mashing charcoal in caves, Silk Road merchants competing for the best ceramics, and textile artists cracking the centuries-old mystery of how colors mix, before shooting to the modern era for high-stakes corporate espionage and the digital revolution that’s rewriting the rules of color forever.
In prose as vibrant as its subject, Rogers opens the door to Oz, sharing the liveliest events of an expansive human quest—to make a brighter, more beautiful world—and along the way, proving why he’s “one of the best science writers around". National Geographic.
From this conversation:
- Who are you?
- I wrote a book called Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern.
- The basic premise of the book is that there is fundamental science and technology behind the way humans both see and make colors and that the pursuit of that technology has been one of the shaping forces behind human history.
- In 2015 you wrote an article that was read by 38 million people around the world. That article focused on the many subjects in this book. Could you talk of that article?
- Sure that article was an article about The Dress.
- Some people saw that dress as being white with brown trim and some people saw it as being blue with black trim.
- It became like the war of the roses with colors. When people looked at the color of the dress their brains made an assumption.
- The colour that people see: The realm of linguistics. An interesting study by Paul Kay and Brent Berlin.
- Sir Isaac Newton: How light is made up of a spectrum of colours. Light shining through these new optical technologies called prisms.
- Stimulating the human brain "to see colours".
- They were able to induce a specific color in the brain.
- Can we talk of exponential technology and how that is both advancing our understanding of colours and how it is producing new colours? Maybe beginning with Michael Foshey's work at MIT?
- Foshey and Shi were trying to create three dimensional colors.
- Their computer knows something about color that no human knows, some fundamental truth about the science of color that no human knows.
- How do you think the science of colour will evolve with more complex exploration of space?
- Recently NASA sent to the Space Station a very powerful digital camera.
- The company is called Red.
- How aliens who live under different stars may see colour. Maybe what they see is fireworks. Maybe what they see periodically is a beautiful light show.
- Colour is this amazing interaction between the world that exists inside our heads and world that exists outside our heads.
Adam Rogers is the New York Times best-selling author of Proof: The Science of Booze, which was a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and won the IACP Award for Best Wine, Beer or Spirits Book as well as the Gourmand Award for Best Spirits Book in the United States. He is a deputy editor at Wired, where his feature story "The Angels' Share" won the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award. Before coming to Wired, he was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT and a writer covering science and technology for Newsweek. He lives in Oakland, CA.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. William A. Haseltine, President ACCESS Health International.
In this interview William Haseltine talks of:
-How Covid-19 has changed science?
-How "unprecedented levels of scientific collaboration" and knowledge sharing were sparked in this crisis and became institutionalised
-The pioneering science that created solutions for a global pandemic
-What we can learn from unprecedented collaboration
-How this collaboration could be used as a blueprint for future moonshots, not limited to science
-The critical role of socio-political systems to tackle the current pandemic and future co-operation
-How the drug companies that have profited from the pandemic could step up to help poor/pressured countries
-Science as a superpower - William Haseltine's new book amazon.com/Science-As-Superpower-Lifelong-Possible-ebook/dp/B096N55DZ6/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1623067428&refinements=p_27%3AWilliam+A.+Haseltine&s=books&sr=1-2
-What the future holds - hope!
Dr William Haseltine's biography:
In Dr. Haseltine’s career at the forefront of medical research and application, he has educated a generation of doctors at Harvard Medical School, designed the strategy to develop the first treatment for HIV/AIDS, is well known for his groundbreaking work on cancer, and led the team that pioneered the development of new drugs based on information from the human genome. His relentless focus on delivering world-changing results led TIME magazine to name him one of the “25 Most Influential Global Business Executives.”
Today, as the Chair and President of ACCESS Health International and an internationally recognized expert on the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Haseltine is dedicated to ensuring that quantum advancements in medical technology translate to improved health outcomes around the world.
Dr. Haseltine has founded more than a dozen biotechnology companies, including Human Genome Sciences, Inc. Eight pharmaceutical products from companies he founded are currently approved by U.S. and international regulatory agencies. He is the author of more than two hundred peer reviewed manuscripts and eleven books, including two books on COVID: A Family Guide to Covid and A Covid Back to School Guide. His autobiography, My Lifelong Fight Against Disease: From Polio and AIDS to COVID-19, was published in October 2020. He is currently chair and president of the global health think tank ACCESS Health International.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. Ayesha Khanna CEO and founder ADDO AI.
In this interview Dr Ayesha Khanna talks of: - Smart Cities and smart nations - opportunities and threats - Singapore, voted as lead smart city - ADDO AI https://www.addo.ai - Ethics and security related to the advancement of exponential technology - Her charity 21st Century Girls 21C Girls http://www.21cgirls.com - Rich Connectedness™ - the impact it has had on her career and especially to the motivation for founding her charity - AI for good - Her new book U and AI to be published in 2022 https://www.ayeshakhanna.com/books
Official Bio:
Dr. Ayesha Khanna is Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions firm and incubator. She has been a strategic advisor on artificial intelligence, smart cities and fintech to leading corporations and governments. Ayesha serves on the Board of Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the Singapore government's agency that develops and regulates its world-class technology sector to drive the country's digital economy and power its Smart Nation vision. Ayesha is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Councils, a community of international experts who provide thought leadership on the impact and governance of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. In 2017, ADDO AI was featured in Forbes magazine as one of four leading artificial intelligence companies in Asia and Ayesha was named one of South East Asia's groundbreaking female entrepreneurs by Forbes magazine in 2018. Her clients have included SMRT, Singapore's largest public transport company; Mercy, one of the largest hospital networks in the United States; Singtel, Singapore's largest telco; SOMPO, Japan's largest insurance firm; Habib Bank, Pakistan's largest bank; and Smart Dubai, the government agency tasked to transform Dubai into a leading smart city. Ayesha serves on the Board of Sport Singapore, the lead government agency tasked with developing a holistic sports culture for the nation. Ayesha was also on the Ministry of Education, Singapore, steering committee that led to the development of SkillsFuture, the country's innovative program for preparing citizens for jobs in the fourth industrial revolution. She serves on the Board of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, a leading polytechnic in Singapore with 44 full-time programs through 9 academic schools and a student population of almost 15,000. Ayesha is the Founder of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding and artificial intelligence classes to girls in Singapore. Programs include Code in the Community, a program sponsored by Google and that has taught thousands of children coding, and Empower, which has partnered with Ngee Ann Polytechnic to teach girls the basics of artificial intelligence. She has been published and quoted on technology, innovation and smart cities in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, TIME, Newsweek, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review. Ayesha has a BA in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University and a PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme interviews Loay Elbasyouni, senior director for engineering at Astrodyne TDI.
Loay was one of the engineers - lead electrical and power electronics engineer (to 2018), on the NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter whilst working for AeroVironment.
In this interview, which took place before the attempted 4th flight of the Mars Helicopter, discover the technical challenges the team faced in building the first powered aircraft to fly on Mars, moreover discover the personal challenges and significant people who were part of Loay's journey to work on this project.
This interview provides more technical details relating to the building of Ingenuity as well as information relating to Loay's personal story.
Loay's detailed role on the NASA Mars Ingenuity helicopter:
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter NASA-JPL - Acted as Power Electronics lead and Electrical lead on Ingenuity Mars Helicopter NASA-JPL. - Lead Ingenuity Propulsion system and design motor controller, inverter, servo controller, motor, and signal management with JPL-NASA avionic box. - Design schematics and layout for Motor controller/inverter servo controller. - Lead all electrical design review with JPL-NASA. - Worked with JPL-NASA control team on motor control algorithm. - Electrical and functional testing for Propulsion motor. - Worked with Perseverance rover team on components selections. - worked on space radiation study to use earth rates components in space applications. Other Projects - Participated in low to High power UAV design with a power level of 100W - 1MW that include sub components such as DC-DC converters, motor, Motor controllers or inverters. - Participated in design review, system specification, components selections such as a generator, Motors, Motor controller, DC-DC and Avionics control systems. - Design HV Power System for Electric planes and ground control stations. - Design high-density isolated DC-DC up to 1KW - Design BLDC Motor controllers 100W-250KW - Design Battery chargers DC-DC charger and AC charger. - Circuits design and simulations. - Systems level simulation - PCB layout designs - Power supply design and optimizations - Used Ii-ion and li-polymer as energy storage - Integrated Solar panels using peak power tracking. - Led Power electronics design effort for Tether UAV - Electrical engineering lead for a Space program, and other earth based UAV. - Design Space Electronics - Worked on products cycle from concept to production. Source: Loay Elbasyouni's Linkedin Profile.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Jekan Thanga, PhD., Head of SpaceTREx laboratory, Principal Investigator of the NASA-funded ASTEROIDS laboratory and Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. They discuss the latest developments at the laboratories. Moreover, ideaXme receives a news exclusive relating to SpaceTREx's proposal to build a "Noah's Ark" on the Moon. Jump to timestamp - 37 minutes to discover that news!
The Lunar Ark:
SpaceTREx in collaboration with the ASTEROIDS laboratory has proposed utilization of lunar lava tubes as a modern day "Lunar Ark." These subsurface lava tubes are only 4-5 days journey from Earth and are hypothesized to have been pristine for 3-4 billion years. These shelters could be the ideal location for preserving seeds, spores sperms, eggs, and DNA of Earth's rich biodiversity. They estimate needing to preserve 6.7 million species of plants, animals and fungi. SpaceTREx: The Space and Terrestrial Robotic Exploration (SpaceTREx) Laboratory at University of Arizona's Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department develop systems engineering design and control solutions for space, planetary and asteroid exploration, using small spacecraft, robots and sensor network devices. Research is focused on developing enabling technologies for extreme environment exploration, interplanetary CubeSat explorers and on-orbit servicing spanning spacecraft constellations, propulsion, power and communications. The laboratory and key personnel have a diverse range of expertise including CubeSat design, development, launch expertise, smart system design and control using bio-inspired and neural network control paradigms, space weather and extreme-environment robotics.
News relating to the Lunar Ark:
Jekan Thanga, Head of SpaceTREx: [37:10] In the next week or so at the Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference, we're going to be giving an update to the world about progress that we've been making on the Lunar Ark project. And I can give you an early indication of what that update will entail. We've branched out into two fronts, further exploring and advancing the Lunar Ark concept. One is, we've been looking at how we could start the Lunar Ark project in the near term. In the original idea we talk of preserving six point seven million species. It's going to take a lot of resources. It's going to require advancement in cryogenic. We think it's at least 30 years away. But can we get started now? Can we at least start to see important bio matter there as we speak? And so that's the second thrust that we're looking at. What would it take specifically to go out and explore these lava tubes in one mission and in that second mission? What would it take to take seed samples just like from Svalbard and deploy them into these laboratories? And so we've been doing some early feasibility studies on those fronts. And on a second thrust, we've been trying to we've been identifying the component technologies that are needed for this whole effort of, you know, the Lunar Arc. And one of that means transport of all this bio matter from Earth on at least a five day journey to the Moon under cryo conditions. And so you need some kind of cryo container that can do that for you. And so we've developed a prototype cryo container experiment. And so we'll be sharing details about that in this upcoming conference. And that, too, is another effort to further build up the building blocks necessary for the bigger project.
Official Bio:
Jekan Thanga heads the Space and Terrestrial Robotic Exploration (SpaceTREx) Laboratory at University of Arizona. He is the Principal Investigator of the NASA-funded ASTEROIDS (Asteroid Science, Technology and Exploration Research Organized by Inclusive eDucation) Laboratory which is in the process of being upgraded into a research center. Jekan Thanga has 20 years of experience working in the aerospace research sector and is a senior member of the AIAA. He has been an expert reviewer for government agencies including NASA and NSF and has been a Subject Matter Expert on space matters for DoD organizations.
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Neil Koenig TV Producer and Journalist interviews David Roche, Founder of Independent Strategy.
Neil Koenig comments:
The great financial crisis that began in 2007 mostly took the world by surprise. And the main reason why so few experts saw it coming, says the global investment strategist David Roche, is that most of our existing tools for analysing how economies work are “useless”. He argues that fresh ideas are needed, building on insights drawn from other fields of study, such as quantum physics. He is well placed to make such a case, having forecast some of the major turning points that have affected global markets, such as the demise of the Soviet Bloc and the subsequent fall of the Berlin Wall, and the financial crisis that swept Asia in the late 1990s. David Roche grew up in County Kildare in Ireland. He holds an MA from Trinity College, Dublin and an MBA with the highest distinction from INSEAD. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and has a diploma in accounting and finance from the UK’s Association of Certified Accountants. In his youth he spent time in various countries, including a period in what was then known as the USSR. He says he fell into a career in investment strategy “by accident”. After a spell working for JP Morgan, he joined the multinational financial services enterprise Morgan Stanley, where he was Head of Research and Global Strategist.
In 1994, after leaving Morgan Stanley, he founded Independent Strategy, an investment research firm which provides advice to institutional investors and governments. He often contributes to many top financial publications and is also a regular commentator on the BBC, Bloomberg TV and CNBC television networks. He is also the author of several books, including “New Monetarism”, “Sovereign DisCredit!” And “DemoCrisis”. For David Roche, “the first thing that's wrong with [conventional] economics is consensus thinking”. The traditional view, he explains, is that human behaviour is consistent, stable and predictable - whereas in fact it is “disruptive”. In this interview he explains why getting to grips with the baffling worlds of quantum physics and mechanics may help economists and forecasters to build models that better reflect the incoherence of today’s economic scene. Credits: Video host, video editing and text by Neil Koenig. TV Producer and Journalist and ideaXme board advisor.
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Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. Kevin Pitts, Chief Research Officer at Fermilab and Physics Professor, University of Illinois.
They spoke of 2 exciting research projects. The first focuses on neutrinos and the second on muons: Will these experiments reveal new laws?
13.8 billion years ago matter pitted against antimatter and won. DUNE, a new experiment in the making, hosted by Fermilab attempts to discover why matter won - that is, why the universe and galaxies exist at all. The current models dictate that the Big Bang created equal parts matter and antimatter. Within a second, all the matter and antimatter should have met and annihilated, leaving behind a universe with nothing but energy in the form of light. The first results for a second experiment from the same lab - Muon g-2 were recently published. Although, at the early stages of the experiment (5 runs in total and less than 10% of the data processed) many believe that the results to date show promise to challenge The Standard Model of Physics. Dr. Kevin Pitts: Kevin Pitts of the University of Illinois has been named chief research officer at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory beginning March 1. His focus will be on oversight for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, including advancing scientific excellence across the laboratory through strong communication, collaboration and coordination with the Department of Energy and other partners. He joins the laboratory as it prepares to usher in a new era of science and innovation in particle physics research and discovery. “We are proud to have Kevin Pitts join Fermilab at a time when DUNE is underway,” said Joe Lykken, deputy director for research at Fermilab. “His leadership and research collaboration with Fermilab make him the ideal person to direct the development of the DUNE research program both at the laboratory and with our partner institutions.” Upon its completion, DUNE, supported by the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, will make Fermilab the premier neutrino research institution globally. DUNE is the first international mega-science project at a DOE lab and Fermilab’s flagship project. Hosted by Fermilab, it comprises over 200 institutions in more than 30 countries. Construction work for LBNF, along with the PIP-II accelerator, are in progress at Fermilab in Illinois and at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. Pitts joins Fermilab after 22 years with the University of Illinois where he was most recently the vice provost for undergraduate education and a professor of physics in the Grainger College of Engineering. He has a long history working on experiments at Fermilab, including participation in the discovery of the top quark in 1995. Additionally, he has been serving on the Long Baseline Neutrino Committee since 2016. “Fermilab has been an important part of the first-half of my career and I am thrilled to be joining the laboratory as chief research officer,” Pitts said. “After numerous Fermilab research projects and collaborations, I am honored to be leading the ball down the field to further the development of DUNE and other neutrino research projects.” He received a B.A. in physics and mathematics from Anderson University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Oregon. Pitts was a research associate at Fermilab on the CDF experiment. He also works on the Muon g-2 experiment. Kevin Pitts is a fellow of the American Physics Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member of the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his research, teaching and advising. Fermilab is supported by the Department of Energy Office of Science. The DOE Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov. Official bio Fermilab.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. LaMesha Craft, all-source intelligence warrant officer (retired) and now contracted faculty member at the National Intelligence University, USA.
Disclaimer: The views expressed by Dr. Craft in this interview do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense, the U.S. Intelligence Community, or the U.S. Government.
Official biography:
LaMesha L. Craft’s background includes 20 years of active military service in the US Army as an all-source intelligence warrant officer. Throughout her career, she provided strategic and operational intelligence analysis of nation-state and nonstate threats to US interests, policy, data, and networks in/around Asia, Europe, the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. She has also worked overseas in Kosovo, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq. Dr. Craft authored a comprehensive guide to conducting intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB) when analyzing threats in cyberspace. It was recognized as a “best practice” by the Center for Army Lessons Learned and played an integral role in developing Appendix D of Army Training Publication 2-01.3, published in March 2019. She currently serves as a faculty member of the Anthony G. Oettinger School of Science and Technology at the National Intelligence University. Dr. Craft’s education includes a PhD in public policy and administration with a concentration in homeland security policy and coordination, Walden University; an MA in international relations and conflict resolution, American Military University; and a BA in international relations and international conflict, American Military University.
Amongst the many subjects covered in this interview:
-Dr. LaMesha Craft's career
-Cyber threats -Exponential technologies, threats and opportunities for the Intelligence Community
-Intelligence successes and learning from failure
-The Introduction to Intelligence book published February 2021. Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc ISBN: 9781544374673 https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/intr...
-Intelligence and machine learning -The structure of the Intelligence Community in the USA -The importance of ethics in the Intelligence Community -The importance of collaboration within the Intelligence Community -New challenges to security looking to the future Links: Dr. LaMesha Craft https://www.linkedin.com/in/lamesha-c...
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Andrea Macdonald, Founder ideaXme interviews John Vickers, Founder and CEO of Blue Abyss.
Blue Abyss will be a high tech pioneering training and extreme adventure centre. It will be "the most comprehensive deep sea and space research, training and test facility of its kind in the world, unmatched in its breadth of configuration".
Blue Abyss’ primary function will be to enable extreme environment development, both human and robotic, ranging from the offshore energy industry through to the growing human spaceflight sector and adventure tourism.
In this interview John Vickers talks of:
The need for his planned facility - from resilience research and human progress and exploration to repositioning the United Kingdom as a world innovator. Blue Abyss, which aims to be a world leading training facility, will cater for both the offshore energy sector and government and commercial space exploration endeavours as well adventure tourism. The gruelling journey to reach this point in the project. His personal resilience, necessary to get this far.
"Here is an opportunity to introduce new robotic technologies that deliver the strong industrial growth the UK seeks. It's an opportunity to give children the skills and training they need to access the science and technology internships and jobs of the future. It's an opportunity to capitalise on the burgeoning human spaceflight market and welcome a new era of space exploration. And it's an opportunity to secure a lasting legacy for today’s society and for future generations to come". John Vickers, Founder and CEO Blue Abyss.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Craig Fugate, former Administrator at FEMA, USA, (2009-2017), reporting to President Barack Obama.
Craig, now Chief Emergency Officer, One Concern, provides his perspective on the recent crisis in Texas - the power grid outage, the current Mexican border refugee challenge (9,500 unaccompanied children at the border in February 2021) and his perspective on working together across nations to build international planetary-wide resilience.
Towards the end of the interview he even provides some tips on how we can as individuals all get through these tough and pressured times to build resilience.
Craig Fugate's Official Biography:
Mr Fugate served as President Barack Obama’s FEMA Administrator from May 2009 to January 2017. Previously, he served as Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s Emergency Management Director from 2001-2009. Fugate led FEMA through multiple record-breaking disaster years and oversaw the Federal Government’s response to major events such as the Joplin and Moore Tornadoes, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Matthew, and the 2016 Louisiana flooding. Prior to his tenure at FEMA, Fugate was widely praised for his management, under Governor Jeb Bush, of the devastating effects of the 2004 and 2005 Florida hurricane seasons (Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne, Dennis, Katrina, and Wilma). During his tenure, Fugate focused not only on restoring FEMA’s response capabilities but on promoting emergency management as a community and shared responsibility. Fugate instituted a permanent effort to build the nation’s capacity to stabilize a catastrophic event within 72 hours. He drove completion of Presidential policy on national preparedness and implemented the National Preparedness System to build unity of effort to address the nation's most significant risks. On Fugate’s watch, FEMA awarded more than $19 billion in preparedness grants, supported more than 700 drills and exercises in 47 states, and had more than 40 million participants take part in grassroots community preparedness drills. During Fugate’s tenure, rates of adoption for disaster resilient building codes nationwide increased from 40% in 2009 to 63% in 2016. Fugate also provided Federal Government-wide leadership on reducing disaster risk through efforts to develop for President Obama’s approval executive orders that reduce the Nation’s flood, earthquake, and wildfire risk through managed Federal investment in hazard-prone areas. FEMA’s use of technology to support operations and enable decision-making flourished under Fugate’s leadership. Prior to his service in the Obama Administration, Fugate served as Florida’s Emergency Management Director. As the State Coordinating Officer for 11 Presidentially-declared disasters, he managed more than $4 billion in Federal disaster assistance. In 2004, Fugate managed the largest Federal disaster response in Florida history as four major hurricanes - Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne - impacted the state in quick succession. In 2005, Florida was again impacted by major disasters when three more hurricanes - Dennis, Katrina, and Wilma - made landfall in the state. The impact from Katrina was felt more strongly in the Gulf coast states to the west but Florida launched the largest mutual aid response in its history in support of those states. Under Fugate’s stewardship, Florida’s emergency management program became the first statewide program in the Nation to receive full accreditation from the Emergency Management Accreditation Program. In 2016, he was the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) Lacy E. Suiter Award honoree for lifetime achievements and contributions in the field of emergency management. In 2017, Fugate formed Craig Fugate Consulting LL. and joined One Concern as Chief Emergency Management Officer.
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In this ideaXme interview Fugate talks of:
The Texas power grid outage.
The current Mexican border refugee challenge.
His career.
And lastly, as mentioned, provides advice to everyone wanting to build resilience in tough times.
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Neil Koenig, TV Producer, Journalist and ideaXme board advisor interviews Keith Clarke CBE, a senior construction industry figure shaping the modern sustainably built world and passionate environmental campaigner.
Keith is currently Chair of Constructionarium, Member of Advisory Board, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University and Director Women in Property Network. Moreover, until recently he was Chairman of the Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainability non-profit.
A 40 Year Career in the International Construction Industry
Over the past 40 years Clarke has worked in all sectors of the UK and international construction industry, including as Executive Vice President of Skanska AB, Chief Executive of Trafalgar House Construction and Chief Executive of Kvaerner Construction.
He has held executive positions at Olympia & York and New York City Public Development Corporation, as well as working as an adviser to the Qatari Government. As Chief Executive of the UK’s largest engineering consultants WS Atkins for the eight years to 2011, Keith led the business to considerable growth, supporting its investment in the Middle East and its involvement in the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. He is also credited with shaping Atkins to respond to opportunities created by the low carbon economy.
Constructionarium:
Constructionarium is a unique learning experience for students studying built environment courses, allowing them to apply the theoretical knowledge in a safe practical setting whist replicating iconic structures from around the world.
The Environmental Change Institute, Oxford:
The Environmental Change Institute, Oxford was established in 1991 'to organize and promote interdisciplinary research on the nature, causes and impact of environmental change and to contribute to the development of management strategies for coping with future environmental change'.
Women in Property Network:
Women in Property Network creates opportunities, expands knowledge and inspires change for women working in the property and construction industry. They believe that success and its rewards should be founded on merit and expertise, rather than gender. They support young females aspiring to a career in the built environment sector, as well as supporting those in ‘mid-career’ and at board level.
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Keith Clarke, Chair of Constructionarium[00:49:51] The good aspect of CO2e, is that you turn it into a singular driver. I think for agriculture and big infrastructure projects, biodiversity net gain is another complexity. So not to belittle that, you've got to deal with the biodiversity issue. But for most buildings or in an urban context, CO2e, carbon dioxide equivalent and greenhouse gas equivalence is a really good singular driver of a new design parameter. It manifests itself in all sorts of ways. Can you reuse the structure? Can you add two floors to the existing foundations?
Keith Clarke, Chair of Constructionarium[00:51:58] . The issues we've had with quality, certainly in the UK have been about standards and we have a disgraceful issue going on with fire protection in the UK and in one particular sector, which is housing. All of those things will have to be addressed. However, decarbonising at speed means you really are going to disrupt the industry. So, embrace it or get left behind.
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What will future space habitats for humans on the Moon or Mars look like? What do we need to consider when we design habitats for outer space? Dr. Samer El Sayary designs future habitats for outer space. He is a practicing Architect and Assistant Professor at the Beirut Arab university. https://www.samerelsayary.com.
Here, Dr Sayary is interviewed by Andrea Macdonald, Founder of ideaXme.
Listen to this interview, not only to hear of his unique approach to designing for both Earth and Space - see his international award winning designs for human space habitats.
Dr. Sayary pushes the boundaries of experimental design combining cutting edge science and technology to produce new realms of architectural design that addresses both problems on earth as well as outer space. Sayary has received over 36 international and national architecture awards. He has been the recipient of the prestigious Hassan Fathy Award twice. His works are recognized and published widely in many local and international media appearances including in Wired Magazine and the Discovery Channel.
Transcript:
Andrea Macdonald, Founder, ideaXme: [00:00:17] It's just a matter of time before humans inhabit the Moon and Mars. But what sort of habitats are we going to design to survive there? I'm here with a multi-award winning architect who has considered this question. In your words, who are you?
Dr. Samer El Sayary, Assistant Professor of Architecture: [00:00:59] My name is Samer El Sayary. I'm an Assistant Professor of architecture, at Beirut Arab University. I'm a researcher and an award-winning architect. I have a special passion for outer space architecture. I graduated 20 years ago in 2001, at the top of my class. Through the years have gained over 36 awards and prizes. Most of them are from international institutes, across four different continents. I served as a Mars City Design ambassador for three years in Los Angeles, and that was because I was awarded the first prize in 2017. I've also served at The Jacques Rougerie Foundation as a junior ambassador in Paris, which I have been doing for the last two years and I still represent them.
Dr. Samer El Sayary, Assistant Professor in Architecture: [00:01:55] I've succeeded in exhibiting my work in several countries, including NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston in 2019. I've exhibited in France twice in 2016 and 2020. In Greece during 2015, in Tunisia during 2011 and in Egypt in 2011 and 2013 during some prestigious awards and honours. My work has been featured in the Discovery Channel UK, on Dutch TV in California Dreamers, Wired Magazine in 2017, Up- Magazine, L’arca magazine, Architectural d'aujordhui, universetoday.com, designboom.com, archdaily.com, spacearchitect.org, among many others.
Dr. Samer El Sayary, Assistant Professor in Architecture: [00:02:33] I see myself belonging to the first generation of space architects who will write the future, turning science fiction into design reality. We see ourselves as the people who will pave the road for humanity to survive and thrive outside of Earth in the near future and on Earth as well, by using existing technologies or near future technologies. Dr. Samer El Sayary, Assistant Professor in Architecture: [00:03:31] I can define myself as a science-tect. It's a new expression that means an experimental architect who uses science in making architecture and then experiments with this architecture and finally, produces scientific papers. As a by-product of the awarded projects, just a couple of weeks ago, I succeeded in publishing in the Q1 Scientific Journal, Solar Energy Journal. I work in a closed loop circular way, starting by reading science, producing architecture and then experimenting with this architecture, reaching new conclusions and then writing new scientific papers.
Dr. Samer El Sayary, Assistant Professor in Architecture: [00:05:20] I do believe that we are living in this era and we have a responsibility to take all of this accumulated science and rethink it, redefine it using cutting edge technology, what we have today and what is available today and to anticipate what will be available in the near future.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Tom Lawry, National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft.
Tom works with providers, health and life science organisations to plan and implement innovative analytical and predictive solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of health services delivered around the globe. At Microsoft, he creates strategies for digital transformation applied to performance optimisation including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Cognitive Services and to move those sectors forward within the context of both individual and population health. This interview is for the technology geeks amongst us as well as the general public who'd like to know more about what's happening next! In this ideaXme interview Tom: Discusses specific examples, from cutting costs of healthcare to reducing fatalities amongst patients, of how AI has performed and delivered results within medicine and healthcare. Moreover, he shares how this is set to improve in the next 10 years. Talks of the specific ways in which AI can improve your health as an individual. The pervasiveness of AI, across most sectors from health to entertainment, in society now. He demystifies the "intelligence" as well as the associated technologies. He sparks curiosity in what's happening next within the sector. He describes his mission to drive AI for the good of humanity "AI for Good" within the sectors of health and life sciences. He talks of the risks which must be mitigated in order to optimise the potential of AI including protecting both organisations' as well as individuals' data. His tells the audience of his national and international work within the sector. His answers questions about book AI in Health: A Leaders Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health. https://www.waterstones.com/book/ai-i...
Lastly, we talk of AI law and ethics.
Tom's Biography Prior to his current position, Lawry was Director of Organizational Performance for Microsoft’s health incubator (Health Solutions Group). Before that he worked as Senior Director at GE Healthcare with global responsibilities for revenue cycle management analytics and operational performance solutions. Lawry also has an entrepreneurial background. He was founder and CEO of Verus, a healthcare software company, one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Washington Companies for three consecutive years and to the Deloitte Fast 500 Technologies list. For twelve years Lawry served in various executive management roles in hospitals and integrated delivery networks. He has published numerous articles on topics relating to use technology and software to innovate healthcare. His new book from HIMSS & CRC Press is: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Leader’s Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health Systems. Representative Keynote Conference Presentations “AI in Health – The Future is not What I Used to be,” Arab Health CEO forum, Dubai, UAE, Feb. 2020. “AI, Digital, and the Creative Destruction of Careers in Healthcare,” Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy, Toronto, Canada, May 2019 “Changing the Face of Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence,” The Intelligent Health Association’s AI in Health Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 2018 “Empowering Healthcare with Systems of Intelligence,” HIMSS, Las Vegas, NV, March 2018 “Digital Transformation in Health – What Can Health Learn from the Private Sector?” The Nobel Forum, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2017 AI is Healthcare’s Next Big Thing,” European Health Innovation Summit, Brussels, Belgium, January 2017 “Health Policy in an Era of Big Data & Digital Transformation,” Commonwealth Fund International Symposium on Health Policy, Washington, D.C., November 2016 “The Transformative Power of Big Data in Health”, Asan International Medical Symposium, Seoul, South Korea, June 2016 “What will the Future of Technology Innovation Bring to Health?”, High Reliability Health Conference, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, February 2016 “Empowering Health – the Innovator’s Perspective”, European Health Summit, Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 2016.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Perry Marshall, founder of Evolution 2.0 Prize and Natural Code LLC.
Perry Marshall Disseminator of Biological and Inorganic Information Systems Perry Marshall is a high level connector and multi-disciplinary disseminator of both biological and inorganic information. He is most recently famous for corralling some of the world's top scientists and entrepreneurs to found the $10 Million Evolution 2.0 Prize, a challenge which focuses on one of the biggest questions: How did DNA get code?
Perry, a former engineer is prolific in the business world. He is one of the most expensive business consultants on the planet. Moreover, authored the world’s best selling books on Google and Facebook advertising. His 80/20 Sales and Marketing is the definitive text of its kind and the rules therein can be applied to business and science alike.
In this ideaXme interview Perry reveals the essential qualities a team or individual will need to win the Evolution 2.0 Prize. What's more, he shares the key role Rich Connectedness and serendipity is anticipated to play in contestants arriving at a solution to the problem set by the Evolution 2.0 Prize organisers.
Evolution 2.0 Prize: The Problem Natural Code LLC is a Private Equity Investment group formed to identify a naturally occurring code. Their mission is to discover, develop and commercialise core principles of nature which give rise to information, consciousness and intelligence.
Natural Code LLC will pay the researcher $100,000 for the initial discovery of such a code. If the newly discovered process is defensibly patentable, they will secure the patent(s).
The discoverer will retain a percentage of ongoing ownership of the technology, sharing in future profits of the company, while benefitting from the extensive finance, marketing and technology experience of our investment group. Prize amount as of May 31, 2019 was $10 million.
Code is absolutely necessary for replication and for life. Code is needed for cells to have instructions to build themselves; code is required for reproduction. Code that has the ability to re-write itself is essential for any kind of evolution to occur.
We define code as a symbolic information passed between an encoder and a decoder (Claude Shannon 1948).
So, where did the information in DNA come from? Currently, no one knows the answer.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Amy Karle BioArtist. https://www.amykarle.com. Listen to the the interview to discover why Amy would like to collaborate with an exponential technologist, furthermore her view on the interface between exponential technology and ethics.
Amy Karle is an internationally award-winning BioArtist working at the nexus of where digital, physical and biological systems merge. Karle is also a provocateur and a futurist, opening future visions of how art, science, and technology could be utilized to support and enhance humanity while making advancements in the technology towards those goals in the process of making her artworks.
Current projects probe who we could become as a result of our exponential technologies and how interventions could alter the course of our future. Karle has shown work in 54 international exhibitions, including at: The Centre Pompidou, France; The Mori Art Museum, Japan; The Smithsonian, USA; Ars Electronica, Austria; Beijing Media Arts Biennale, China; Centrum Nauki Kopernik, Poland; FILE International Electronic Language Festival, Brazil. Karle is also regularly invited to share her innovations and insights as an expert speaker and in think tanks world-wide. She was honored as one of “BBC’s 100 Women”, has been named one of the “Most Influential Women in 3D Printing”, was Grand Prize Winner of the “YouFab Global Creative Award” and is a Fellow with Salzburg Global Seminar. Karle was also an Artist Diplomat through the U.S. Department of State tasked with diplomacy, social innovation, women’s empowerment, and supporting cross disciplinary collaborations using art and technology to address social issues. Her work speaks to a wide audience as it inspires exploration into what it means to be human and encourages us to contemplate the impacts of technology on our future.
The long-term goals of her work are to continue to pioneer in bioart and the art and tech fields and make contributions to the advancement of society, technology and healthcare in the process.
Discussed in this interview:
Amy's human story.
How "rich connectedness" within both her personal and professional life has moved her work forward.
Her work as a bioartist, futurist and explorer. Her invitation to top exponential technologist to collaborate. ideaXme is a global network that promotes knowledge of the future.
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Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews James Thornton CEO ClientEarth to talk of how law can save the planet.
ClientEarth ClientEarth is a non-profit international environmental law firm which employs over 200 people who work in more than 60 countries. The organisation uses the law to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, implementing and enforcing the law, drafting and advising decision-makers on policy, building legal expertise, and ensuring citizens’ access to the laws that defend them.
They take governments and corporations to court – and win. Moreover, force polluting industries to shut down.
Law Protects the Planet ClientEarth protects all living things, forests, oceans, air and vulnerable species. They empower people and NGOs with the legal rights to bring forward environmental battles of their own. Using the law means that they create real, long-lasting and embedded change.
They work to secure a lasting civilisation, an ecological civilisation (as termed by the Chinese government) in which people and nature thrive together.
ClientEarth lawyers work in partnership across borders, systems and sectors, ingeniously using the law to protect life on Earth.
Their work now is particularly important given that we are now in a race against time to clean up the planet. Their objective now is to ensure that governments and companies who have said that they are committed to change and to deliver a green recovery post Covid-19 actually do so.
In this interview James talks of:
His journey to founding ClientEarth.
The innovative methods he and his colleagues use to bring both governments and companies to justice.
His global work with governments and the legal profession in over 60 countries - creating law, training prosecutors and judges.
The key areas that must be addressed to fight climate change, pollution and loss of biodiversity and save our planet.
The people who have helped him create ClientEarth and move his human story forward, including his rich relationship with his husband Martin Goodman with whom he co-authored the book: Client Earth.
He informs us of David Gilmour's generosity in donating £21 million to ClientEarth.
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Richard W Smith, oceanographer and ideaXme world's oceans ambassador interviews John Englander, President and Founder of Rising Seas Institute and author Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level.
Rising Seas Climate change and rising sea levels are changing the boundary lines of our world, and, if left to continue at their current pace, pose considerable financial, ecological, and societal threats.
So how can we combat rising tides in order to build for a better and more resilient future?
To discuss the issue of rising sea levels, the ramifications they cause, and how we can mitigate their threat, oceanographer and ideaXme world's oceans ambassador Richard W Smith sat down with John Englander.
John Englander John Englander is the founder of the Rising Seas Institute, a nonprofit "think tank and resource center" to advance the understanding of potential solutions to future flooding.
Richard W. Smith, ideaXme world's oceans ambassador: [00:01:13] I'm Rick Smith, the ideaXme Oceans ambassador, an oceanographer and aquatic chemist with Global Aquatic Research.
Richard W. Smith, ideaXme world's oceans ambassador: [00:01:25] Today, I'm joined by John Englander. He's an oceanographer, author and a renowned sea level rise expert who helps businesses and communities adapt to a rapidly changing climate. His best-selling book, High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis has been listed by Politico as one of the top 50 books to read. He has a new book coming out April 6th this year, Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward. He's the founder and president of the Rising Seas Institute and was previously the CEO of the International SeaKeepers Society, The Cousteau Society and The Underwater Explorers Society.
John Englander's History of Oceanographic Work Richard W. Smith, ideaXme world's oceans ambassador: [00:02:00] I'd like to explore the relationship between humans and coastlines. I would also like to take a deep dive into your history of oceanographic work and experiences. John, please tell us a little bit about yourself and how you started this very interesting and inspiring career in oceanography.
John Englander, President and Founder of Rising Seas Institute: [00:02:22] Thanks. I'm glad to. My path is very unconventional, but I think more and more, everybody's path these days is unconventional. So, it's perhaps the normal now. I studied Earth Science (or Geology, as it was called at the time) in college and economics – and I was also a scuba diving instructor. This was back in 1972 to kind of date me or age me. The ice ages or the Pleistocene, more properly, or paleo geology was the title of the course. Ancient geology fascinated me because I understood for the first time that ice ages were a recurring cycle in Earth's history and that as the ice sheets waned and grew, that sea level moved up and down 120 meters, about 400 feet and that just kind of blew my mind. Then when I was diving in the Bahamas and the clear water, I was a diving instructor during summer breaks from college, I found an ancient sea level 200 feet underwater and suddenly this clicked. Now, I didn't think it would change in my lifetime. Fast forward and I had decades in the diving industry after I graduated college and then I led a group to Greenland in 2007. It was there that it all kind of came together, that I realized, wait a minute, we are seeing sea level change, the early stage of it and this is something that human civilization has not experienced.
John Englander, President and Founder of Rising Seas Institute: [00:03:55] The last time sea level was higher was 122,000 years ago when it was seven meters or 25 feet higher than today. So that blew my mind and I decided to write a book, but that took a lot more research. Somebody said it was kind of like my doctorate course in effect, which I never did. But writing the book is like that, of course, it's a thesis that is reviewed and vetted. That's been my path. It was kind of one thing leading to another, as happens for so many of us.
Richard W. Smith, ideaXme world's oceans ambassador: [00:04:30] It sounds like you've spent a lot of your lifetime diving and probably have a huge number of experiences, I'm really interested, as an oceanographer, in some of the work that you did with The Cousteau Society and Jacques Cousteau. Could you tell us a little bit about that?
John Englander, President and Founder of Rising Seas Institute: [00:04:48] Sure, Cousteau died in June '97. I was very involved in the diving industry, which he helped create, but he had kind of gone off on his own path for years, but we gave him an award. I was chairman of a group called Ocean Futures at the time, started by the diving industry. I got Jacques to come over to Orlando, Florida, in January of that year; this was a culmination of some meetings we've had where he was going to receive this award. We spent some time together and to my surprise, he asked me to become CEO of The Cousteau Society, which was just something I never would have expected. But I sold my dive business in the Bahamas and Jacques and I spent, I guess, three days, almost day and night talking to each other. Unfortunately, by the time I started working for him, he was in the hospital and three months later after that, he passed away. It was a turning point in my life because here was a guy that probably taught more oceanography to more people than anybody else ever. As you may recall, he had this regular TV program that was just fascinating and he had a great perspective because he'd been doing this for more than 70 years. It's hard to believe. He died at age 87. So, it was a real privilege and inspiration and got me to think of the world differently. He had a unique perspective, and I was privileged to share some of that.
Richard W. Smith, ideaXme world's oceans ambassador: [00:06:24] I know from some of my own personal experiences diving, I'm a recreational diver as well. We will be talking about sea level rise today, but I'd just like to give a quick shout out to diving in coral reefs and I'd just like to say that for me, they've been some of the best opportunities I've ever had.
Richard W. Smith, ideaXme world's oceans ambassador: [00:06:30] What is the current state of diving with some of the changes we've been seeing in the ocean today? We're not going to go too much into this, but things like ocean acidification and warming, just parts of the ocean changing as we know it, how are people adapting to that as divers?
John Englander, President and Founder of Rising Seas Institute: [00:07:06] Well, I'm not involved in the diving industry anymore, and in fact, it's been a year since I did my last dive. So, I still dive occasionally, but having thousands of dives, mostly in the warm waters of the Bahamas, et cetera as well as being under the polar ice cap and in many places in the world, diving has changed quite a bit but the magic of being weightless and the exploration aspects of diving, I think will always be there.
John Englander, President and Founder of Rising Seas Institute: [00:07:32] The reefs have certainly changed, as you've just alluded to, from the warming temperatures, from the excess nutrients that we're putting in the oceans, the various diseases, pathogens that are getting in, the algaes, the changing ecosystem from the demise of sea urchins which used to eat the algaes that suffocate the reef.
So, most of the sea urchins are gone. Most reefs today are covered by this brown green algae or they've turned white from coral bleaching. There have been a lot of things happening to coral reefs, which were a special aspect of the ocean for people like you and me and millions of people, of course, tens of millions of people. Continues....For complete transcript please visit www.radioideaxme.com
Karen Potter, Director of sustainability hub https://sustainability-hub.org and ideaXme sustainability ambassador interviews James Longcroft, Managing Director, CHOOSE Packaging. https://www.choosepackaging.co.uk.
CHOOSE is a packaging development company that is leading the move away from plastic bottling to environmentally friendly options. CHOOSE uses biodegradable materials that are 100% plastic free in all their packaging and is working to help transition businesses from fossil fuel-based products to sustainable solutions. James started CHOOSE as a profitable business venture, in doing so he embarked on a journey with unexpected consequences.
He began selling water in single use plastic bottles and evolved to a business committed to removing plastics from the economy and out of the eco-system. CHOOSE partners with organisations to provide solutions with a global impact. James graduated from Durham University, with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and began his career working with oil companies. Shortly after, he followed his entrepreneurial drive and explored opportunities to begin his own business. From a career rooted in the fossil fuel industry, he now champions business commitment to sustainability and circular economic policies.
Karen is a passionate environment and sustainability campaigner leading Government and Parliamentary efforts to promote Net Zero policy solutions as well as lead on COP26, business, community and civic action. She is a project development specialist with extensive experience in designing and delivering new initiatives to promote sustainability, social responsibility, smart energy, green economy and clean tech investment. Highly experienced in government, NGO and public sector communications, building and managing senior stakeholder relations and media engagement.
In this interview James shares:
His journey from business entrepreneur to philanthropist to leading advocate for a plastic free future. James was moved to action after a trip to Africa revealed how effective modest contributions to safe water and development of infrastructure was in the region. He committed to providing more support and began to move into a sustainable and eco-friendly business model.
Interview credits: Karen Potter, ideaXme sustainability ambassador.
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Dr Merritt Moore, PhD, quantum physicist, ballerina and aspiring astronaut talks with Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme.
Merritt has achieved what some would call ‘the impossible’: a career as both a professional ballet dancer and academic quantum physicist.She plans on adding another profession to her roster and that profession is astronaut!
Background:
Dr. Merritt Moore graduated with Magna Cum Laude Honors in Physics from Harvard and graduated with a PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics from the University of Oxford.
Dr Moore also pursues a professional ballet career, previously with the Zurich Ballet, Boston Ballet, English National Ballet, and Norwegian National Ballet. She was recently awarded Forbes 30 under 30, and she was one of the 12 selected candidates to undergo rigorous astronaut selection on BBC Two "Astronauts: Do you have what it takes?"
Like Leonardo Da Vinci, Merritt urges that the arts and sciences should not be mutually exclusive - that science makes art better and art makes science better.
Merritt inspires young women around the world to pursue their dreams. She has been invited to be the featured speaker at the Forbes Women's Summit in NY, Princeton Physics Department, panelist for the U.S. Embassy 'Women in STEM' Panel in London, and is featured in the bestseller "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls".
Invited as artist-in-residence at Harvard ArtLab, Merritt is creating a duet between human dancer and industrial robotic arm. She explores the future of A.I./ machine learning, specifically with dance, and welcomes all forms of collaboration fusing dance, physics and tech.
Amongst many things discussed in this interview, Dr Merritt Moore talks of:
-How her ballet makes her science better and vice versa.
-Her academic achievements as a quantum physicist.
-How she has fused both her expertise as a dancer and physicist.
-How she aspires to become an astronaut and "how her strength of mind and strength of body" qualifies her to be one.
-Her resilience.
-Who has helped her to become both a physicist and a dancer.
-Her discovery of dance late on in life and her work with the Norwegian National Ballet and English National Ballet.
Find out more about Dr Merritt Moore: physicsonpointe.com
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Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme interviews George Duffield, co-founder Blue Marine Foundation (Blue).
Blue is a marine conservation charity. Its objectives are to ensure the protection of at least 30% of the ocean by 2030. They develop models of sustainable fishing proving that low-impact fishing benefits marine life, local fishers and communities. They restore marine habitats to revive and protect vulnerable and threatened species and to sequester carbon. Moreover, they tackle unsustainable fishing by highlighting poor practice and develop solutions that benefit the oceans and the local people whose livelihood's depend on it.
Mobilising both the public, government and the commercial sector to both understand the sea and change human behaviour are central to all of the above.
In this interview George Duffield talks to ideaXme about:
-The importance of the world's oceans to maintain the health of the planet and all living things on it.
-The threats and obstacles to protecting the world's oceans.
-The challenges of protecting the High Seas, making up the largest portion of the oceans and outside national legal jurisdictions. The UN's objective to create legislation to protect the High Seas by creating a Law of the Oceans in 2021.
-The End of the Line book and documentary that inspired him to co-found Blue Marine Foundation with Chris Gorrel Barnes and Charles Clover who wrote the book and narrated the documentary with Ted Danson.
-How Blue Marine Foundation has secured protection for 4 million square kilometres of ocean.
-He explains, that there's a place for science but we need action now! -Blue Marine Foundation's activities - from campaigning, lobbying and fundraising to creating sustainability models to support local communities whilst protecting the oceans.
-Specific examples where Blue Marine Foundation has directly helped to change policy and subsequent policing of new legislation created by that policy.
- Ascension Island, Chagos and Lyme Bay.
-The recent partnerships created with Barclays Bank and Shackleton clothing to support Blue Marine Foundation's ongoing initiatives to protect the world's ocean.
-Incentivising business, via an oceans fund, to get involved in protecting the world's oceans.
Blue comments: "BLUE is filling a niche in the NGO world, enabling marine conservation to happen fast and effectively. What differentiates BLUE is that we are well connected and determined; we seize opportunities as they arise and get things done. We forge new partnerships and challenge the status quo. BLUE works using a combination of top-down intervention to improve governance of our seas and bottom-up project delivery to help local communities who are at the front line of ocean conservation".
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Xie Rong, Artist and ideaXme Eco Art Ambassador interviews Betsy Damon Artist, Environmental Activist and Founder, Keepers of the Waters.
A journey with water
The supreme goodness is like water.
It benefits all things without contention.
In dwelling, it stays grounded.
In being, it flows to depths.
In expression, it is honest.
In confrontation, it stays gentle.
In governance, it does not control.
In action, it aligns to timing.
It is content with its nature and therefore cannot be faulted.
- Chinese philosopher Lao Zi, 6th-century BC, Tao Te Ching.
Xie Rong comments:
Further to my preparatory research and later interview with Betsy Damon, I have concluded that she is water!
Betsy Damon was my childhood hero. Her design The Living Water Garden is a mini wetland heaven in the middle of my hometown ChengDu. It is a free public park that demonstrates how water cleans itself. From 1995 to1996, Betsy directed two public art events in ChengDu and Tibet that fundamentally changed the government’s as well as general public’s understanding about performance art. Furthermore, it was a groundbreaking moment that introduced rising stars in Chinese contemporary art.
Despite worldwide acclaim, Betsy has remained modest about her art. After decades of work as an artist, she continues to exhibit her work. As the first generation of Eco feminist artists, Betsy chooses to give her life, time and efforts to real water and to build art to inspire the community.
From her gritty 1977 performance in Wall Street, to her large collection of drawings, etchings and video art we see honesty and purity. We witness time and motion! This is art the people of the world should celebrate! Here is a story of a woman who discovered the importance of water. Her journey with water inspires the audience to reflect on our relationship with nature. It draws us from the material world and ego to the art community and selfless activism. It helps us to realise the power of community and the collective mind! This journey is even more important in today’s COVID isolated world. Betsy turned 80 on the 31st of Dec 2020. So, let’s all wish her a very healthy and happy belated birthday! I truly hope you enjoy this interview. It’s hard to convey a lifetime of work in a 52 minute conversation but I hope that this serves as an introduction to Betsy’s life and an invitation to join the Keepers of the Waters! Betsy Damon bio: Betsy Damon is an internationally recognised artist whose public work and living systems, such as the Living Water Garden, have received widespread acclaim.
She directs Keepers of the Waters, a nonprofit focused on ecological planning, advocacy and education. Damon was a semi-finalist for the Buckminster Fuller Award and a finalist for the Stockholm Water Prize. Damon has lectured widely in the U.S, Europe and China. She’s been a visiting artist at countless colleges and universities.
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Dr Renard Siew, Climate Change Advisor, Centre For Governance and Political Studies Kuala Lumpur and ideaXme Climate Change ambassador, interviews Frans Nauta, founder ClimateLaunchpad www.climatelaunchpad.org and Climate-KIC Accelerator.
Climate-KIC Accelerator is the world's largest support program for clean-tech startups. Over its 8 years of operation it supported more than 1.500 startups, that raised over 1,5 B€ in follow on funding.
ClimateLaunchpad, discussed in this interview is the world's largest green business ideas competition. It operates in 60 countries and has supported more than 3.000 teams.
EIT Climate-KIC:
As deputy director Entrepreneurship of EIT Climate-KIC Frans was responsible for the development of the entrepreneurship centres at the Climate-KIC co-locations and regional centres across the EU and the implementation of the Climate-KIC Accelerator Program. He worked as visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and at Cyclotron Road, the tech startup accelerator program of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Frans Nauta's Earlier Career: Before his work with startups, Frans was secretary for Innovation for the Dutch Prime Minister, a professor of Innovation at HAN University in the Netherlands and the founder of Knowledge Land, the leading Dutch think tank on boosting the knowledge economy. He has been teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship since 2007 as lecturer at Utrecht University. Frans has been trained at the Harvard Business School in the teaching case methodology and currently teaches entrepreneurship and innovation in executive education programs at UC Berkeley Extension, the Climate-KIC Business School and in the Masters Program of Utrecht University.
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Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme interviews Dr Pieter Roelfsema Director Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:06:52] Welcome everybody again to another episode of the ideaXme show. I'm Andrea Macdonald, the founder of ideaXme. ideaXme is a global podcast available in 40 countries worldwide, a creator series and mentor program.
[00:07:10] This episode concerns itself with a breakthrough towards developing a technology to restore functional vision to the blind. I'm here with the director of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN). Who are you?
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:07:29] My name is Pieter Roelfsema. I studied medicine but if you feel ill, you don't want me beside your bed. I went into science, studied the visual system. Few years ago, we thought: “Why not use knowledge all that knowledge we have accumulated. Why don't we start thinking about creating a device that restores rudimentary form of vision for blind people?”.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:07:54] There are over 40 million blind people worldwide, over two billion visually impaired, over one billion visually impaired, where this impairment could have been avoided. Could you explain the process through which a human being receives vision, or a non-visually impaired human being receives vision to the brain where it is perceived as such?
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:08:28] So the information that comes into your eyes is a sharp image on the back of your eye where your retina is. Then the information from the retina is sent through the optic nerve to a region in the mid brain called the thalamus. And from there it's sent on to the back of our brain. There's a region that's called primary visual cortex, and that region has a very accurate, two-dimensional representation of the outside world, where two points that are nearby in the outside world will map onto two points in your brain that are also nearby. So, it's a very systematic map of the outside world.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:09:11] And could you talk a little bit about the solution that you are providing and how it doesn't actually deal with addressing issues in the eye it deals with addressing issues in the brain or the back of the brain in the visual cortex?
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:09:34] What we know from previous work is that if you put an electrode in that region that I was just alluding to, the primary visual cortex, then you can put a little bit of current on it and you can stimulate the nerve cells that are nearby. An electrode is just a wire, actually. And so, these nerve cells will become active and a person, this can also be a person who has been blind for several years, will perceive a dot of light at that location that corresponds to the position of these two-dimensional map I was talking about. So, if you then stimulate with another wire, an electrode that is nearby, this person will see a dot of light that is close to the first dot of light. If you then have a whole series of wires, a whole series of electrodes, then you basically are addressing a part of the map and you can place dots in the person's perception at many, many different locations and you can work with it like a matrix board. So, if I'm going to stimulate one electrode, you're going to see a lot of light. But if you stimulate like in a matrix board if you switch on a single bulb you will see a dot. But on a matrix board you can also switch on several bulbs in the shape of a letter or convey other meaningful information. And we could do the same thing if you have many electrodes in the visual cortex, you can just switch on dot perceptions at many different locations and thereby convey meaningful information. Now, if a person would have such a prosthesis, which still needs to be developed further, this person would carry a camera. It could be embedded in glasses, then that kind of camera image will be sent to a processor, maybe the size of a phone that translates these camera images into brain stimulation patterns that are then going to be sent to those electrodes, maybe wirelessly.
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:11:27] So that's something also that needs to be developed. So, right now, the brain computer interfaces, many of them, they actually have a wire coming out of the skull to make the connection to the brain. Now, of course, in the future, a device that is safe and that can be used easily one would like all these things to be completely wireless.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:11:48] Work in this area first started in the 1970s. Could you explain to the audience why the research that you head up represents such a breakthrough?
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:12:02] Yes, so there was a fantastic researcher in the U.K., his name was Giles Brindley, he was already doing this in the 60s and in the early 70s. It's really remarkable because he already made a system that was wireless.
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:12:17] So basically, he had small coils, small kind of wire coils under the skin. Several of them actually more than one hundred.
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:12:26] And he then used a coil on the outside to induce current in a coil under the skin and then he ran a wire to the visual cortex and was able to stimulate brain cells. It was amazing that he could already do this back then, of course, we are now 50 years later, and we have improved technology, so our game is easier. We have better ways to interface with the brain, actually back then, he also put electrodes on the surface of the brain. We have found out that you can get perception's with less current if you have electrodes inside the brain. And that's an advantage. We have actually one thousand electrodes in the experiment that we recently did in monkeys. And so, we have basically more pixels from which we can build a mental image. And of course, there are other advances now. So, it's better electrode technology. We have now wireless chips that can, of course, digest much more information. So, I think this is the right time to make to make this happen.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:13:33] Could you explain a little bit about how the eBrains 3D Brain Atlas has helped you to advance this research?
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:13:45] Yes. So eBrains is part of The Human Brain Project. It is a collection of services that The Human Brain Project or its successor will offer to the neuroscience community. Now, for our research, we have to kind of take the shape of this visual cortex where we want to implant electrodes into account. The shape of the visual cortex is complicated. It has all kinds of folds. We call them sulci. And they are different from one individual to another, so we need to devise a strategy to implant electrodes, a sufficient number of electrodes, we're thinking about thousands of electrodes and we want to make sure that most of them are positioned in the right location. And that's where eBrains is tremendously helpful because they have the anatomical knowledge, and they can also provide some of the tools that allow us to do the correct mapping.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:14:42] And you have mentioned in your paper that there are a number of issues that remain to be addressed.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:14:52] And you've been very open about the fact that once this represents a breakthrough, you know, a lot more work needs to be done in this area. A couple of things you mentioned were a certain specific form of WIFI system needs to be developed. And you also mentioned that the whole area of tissue damage needs to be addressed. Could you talk about those two things, please?
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:15:21] Yes. The electrodes are right now using they are stiff silicon electrodes.
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:15:27] There is a mechanical mismatch between the brain tissue, which is soft and the stiff rods. And the impression has been, although this is not very well documented, is that this mismatch in mechanical properties caused this kind of sort of sliding between the electrodes and the brain tissue that then results in the build-up of tissue, glial tissue, sort of fibrous tissue that pushes the nerve cells away from the electrodes and thereby making it more difficult to stimulate the neurons. So, one way to go that seems promising is to use other materials that are much softer. So, one of them is Polyimide, which is sort of a plastic, which you can make very thin wires. And they seem then to be causing less damage than those silicon rods.
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:16:22] So that's one area where developments are currently taking place that look quite promising. The other point that you asked me to reflect upon is wireless systems. So also, there is tremendous developments there. There are systems that allow researchers to communicate with the brain, putting something under the skin and something above the skin that has enough bandwidth basically to allow communication at a high enough rate to make that possible. But also, there are definitely some developments to be further taken.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:17:05] And the recent research that you've spoken about in your paper, I believe, has focused on using animals to test this technology. At what point, although I know that similar technologies have also been tested in humans, when do you see the earliest time that you can transition from animals to humans?
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:17:28] Because, of course, there are many movements in the world that are against animal testing and whether it causes pain or not. There’s a great deal of discomfort about it. I'm just wondering what the plans are to transition this to humans?
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:17:50] It would not be ethical to just do this in humans and just hope for the best. So, most people I talk to think that you first have to thoroughly test this. And some of this testing involves animals. And in this particular research, we had to use monkeys because they are the closest to humans and in monkeys, we could really test whether if you stimulate a pattern of electrodes in the visual cortex, they could recognize that as a pattern. This could not have been done in another species. Now, in collaboration and actually mainly driven by researchers in Spain, Eduardo Fernandez, who is also a co-author on our paper, we actually tested the same approach already in one human patients. There was an MIT Tech Review about it recently. And the good news is that many of these same stimulation patterns that we tried in monkeys also appeared to work in this in this particular individual. So, we're actually already making this step. But if you want to use other electrode materials and also wireless chips, again, we first have to demonstrate that they can be used safely. And some of these things you can test without animals. But some of these tests really involve animals. And it's even the legal requirement to demonstrate that this works in animals first. And I think that's also only the only ethical way to do it. You cannot just put something in a human and hope for the best.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:19:22] And the ideaXme audience is comprised of the general public, future innovators and creators, as well as the actual people who are shaping our world from the space industry right the way through to science, arts and philosophy. It would be really interesting to hear at this point, particularly for future innovators within your sector, to hear a little bit about your human story and your journey to this point. And as far as who maybe sparked your interest in this area and who influenced you and the choices you made along the way to get here.
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:20:08] Ok, that's a very broad question. And so, I started studying medicine and at some point, I didn't see myself as a medical doctor. So, I was really interested in science. And then I read a book called Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, written by Douglas Hofstadter, which was mainly about consciousness. And I thought, this is a really interesting topic that I want to spend time on. This is what I really would like to do. So then at some point during my studies, I already started to do some neuroscience work just as a volunteer. And then I already applied to do a PhD project with Wolf Singer, Director the Max Planck Research Institute in Frankfurt. He said, well, why don't you first finish your studies? So that's what I did.
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:21:04] I went back to the Netherlands or to where I studied, and I completed my studies hoping that he would remember that he said that I would be welcome in his lab after I completed my studies and he had not forgotten. So, I was really pleased to be part of his lab. And he was probably one of the people who influenced me the most. I had a wonderful time doing PhD research in that lab. And after that, I just continued the neuroscience. I did a lot of work just on pure vision, just trying to understand how vision works.
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:21:43] Through those studies, I think I started to read also more about prosthetics. Another person that I enjoyed talking to and who influenced me was Jens Neumann. He was one of the people in the program of Bill Dobelle, who also had a visual prosthesis program. And was one of the subjects. He had a cortical implant. It didn't work for very long. He's still a very inspiring person. And talking to him also inspired me to continue in this direction.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:22:21] Could you talk a little bit about the team that you're currently working with in their various roles in helping move this forward?
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:22:29] Yes, so we started this visual cortical prosthesis project, I think, in 2014. Then Xing Chen, who is the first author on the paper, joined the group. And with her, we really started to do this work. We got a lot of help from a company, Blackrock Microsystems, which helped us design the implants and make sure that we could do this for 1000 channels because that had not been done before. And after that, several other people joined the lab, Feng Wang who was also a co-author on the paper. We established contact with Eduardo Fernandez, I have already mentioned him. They're doing this work in Spain. And now the team that works on visual prosthesis is about six people in the lab. And we also started a company, Phosphoenix, because we realized that if you really want to put something in patients, you also need a commercial entity for various regulatory issues.
Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:23:29] Pieter Roelfsema, thank you very much for your time and thank you for moving the human story forward. It's been an absolute pleasure.
Pieter Roelfsema Director NIN: [00:23:39] Thanks a lot. My pleasure.
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Tali Ramsey, ideaXme guest contributor and writer specialising in contemporary art, internet culture and society, interviews Tim Robin Reichel, ideaXme’s new Diversity Ambassador.
Everyone looks for something larger than themself
Tim Reichel is a student living in Berlin and studying English as well as Media and Communications. He is also an activist and member of Amnesty International’s queer group in Berlin. His studies focus on diversity and culture, especially questions related to Gender, Queer, and Postcolonial Studies, and he recognises that there is currently a paradigm shift resulting in diversity becoming a focal point in our culture.
His research explores how power relations in society play a key role in shaping culture and how power dynamics influence cultural processes.
The intersection of innovation and diversity in the future
Tim believes that ideaXme is the perfect platform to promote diversity and that diversity is vital in moving our stories forward. If everyone has a seat at the table, true innovation can take place as the result of numerous voices being heard and contributing, allowing new methods and procedures to be developed and evaluated from different perspectives.
On this show Tim Reichel will talk about:
The inevitability of “othering” in order to develop and understand one’s own identity. The concept of agonism, and how it can stop us seeing the other as the enemy. How a synthesis of diverse ideas creates innovation, and the potential this has for culture and society.
He will also discuss who he would like to meet and why and what made him choose to work with ideaXme to pioneer diversity on the platform.
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Amanda Christensen, ideaXme contributor, socio-digital researcher and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Simon Anholt, academic, policy advisor, founder of The Good Country and author The Good Country Equation: How We Can Repair the World in One Generation.
Amanda Christensen Comments:
The Information Age has quite literally brought the world to our fingertips, at a moment’s notice we're now able to tap into major global events, like the U.S. election, Brexit negotiations, protests in Poland, and COVID vaccines being trialed and approved by numerous countries. Not only are we able to witness the news the world over, we're able to take part in the conversation, transforming local and national news and issues into global movements, as we've been seen with the likes of Greta Thunberg and the sustainability movement, Black Lives Matter, and The Facebook Ad Boycott.
The digital era has given us a wealth of insight into national events around the world, from global leaders to news broadcasters to first-hand accounts shared to social media. Armed with this data, how do we both perceive and define what is a "good" country, and how do behavioural shifts like rapid digitisation and the concept of global "netizens" affect this perception?
Simon Anholt:
The Good Country Today I have the pleasure of being joined by political scientist, policy advisor and Founder of The Good Country, Simon Anholt. Anholt has spent the past twenty years advising the Presidents, Prime Ministers, monarchs and governments of fifty-six countries, helping them to engage more productively and imaginatively with the international community. In 2014, he started the Good Country Index, a system which ranks how much a country is contributing to the greater global good, factored against a number of socioeconomic and cultural benchmarks.
Simon has written six books about countries, their brands and their role in the world. His most recent book, The Good Country Equation: How We Can Repair the World in One Generation, explores how his findings in both his research and professional experience can be used to ensure we equip the next generation with the tools to repair and improve the world.
On this episode you'll hear from Simon Anholt about: His background, and his journey from advertising to advising world leaders. His research project, The Good Country Index, and The Good Generation project. His latest book, The Good Country Equation: How We Can Repair the World in One Generation, and if we can indeed repair the world in one generation. His Nations Brands Index project, and an overview of the concept of nations as brands. His thoughts on if rapid digitisation is altering the perception of borders and nations as a whole.
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Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries.
The EU Commission:
The Commission helps to shape the EU's overall strategy, proposes new EU laws and policies, monitors their implementation and manages the EU budget.
It also plays a significant role in supporting international development and delivering aid. Following the result of the European elections, and the mandate received from the European Council and the European Parliament, the Dr Ursula von der Leyen Commission put forward a set of ambitious goals for Europe’s future: climate neutrality by 2050; making the 2020s Europe’s Digital Decade; and making Europe stronger in the world with a more geopolitical approach.
Since Covid-19, the twin green and digital transitions are now even more firmly at the core of their programme, with new resources to accelerate the transformation.
Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius:
Commissioner Sinkevičius is the youngest EU Commissioner appointed to the EU Commission. He is a Lithuanian politician, an European Commissioner since 2019. Prior to his appointment as Commissioner, he was the Minister of the Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania.
His role as EU Commissioner:
-Ensuring the environment, oceans and fisheries remain at the core of the European Green Deal.
-Presenting a new Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: from Natura2000, deforestation, species and habitats, to sustainable seas and oceans.
-Delivering on the Commission’s zero-pollution ambition, including air and water quality and hazardous chemicals.
-Leading on a Circular Economy Action Plan to promote the use of sustainable resources
-Promoting plastic-free oceans and proper implementation of legislation on plastics, particularly microplastics.
-Ensuring full implementation of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy. Effective control and enforcement and respecting the maximum sustainable yield objective.
-Evaluating the Common Fisheries Policy by 2022, including the social dimension, climate adaptation and clean oceans.
-Contributing to the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy on sustainable food, maximizing the potential of sustainable seafood and the aquaculture sector. Promoting international ocean governance, playing a lead role in international discussions.
-Ensuring Europe leads the way to an ambitious agreement at the 2020 Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
-Taking a zero-tolerance approach to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
-Contributing to WTO discussions on a global agreement to ban fisheries subsidies that cause overfishing, illegal fishing and overcapacity.
-Developing a new approach for a sustainable blue economy drawing on research, maritime spatial planning, marine renewable energy, blue investment and regional cooperation.
On this ideaXme show the Commissioner talks of:
- His role as EU Commissioner of the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries - The new plans, policies and laws put in place to protect the environment, oceans and fisheries - The Commissioners work spearheading action on both the European and International levels - How the EU Commission creates laws - The importance of Public participation in the roadmap to creating law to protect the environment, oceans and fisheries
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Ira Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Angela Hughes, is the Global Scientific Advocacy Relations Senior Manager and Veterinary Geneticist at Mars Petcare.
Ira Pastor comments:
The global pet care industry is significantly expanding. To such an extent that it is expected to reach USD 327 billion by 2026. And while we may associate the Mars Corporation, the world's largest candy company, with leading confectionary brands like Milky Way, M&M's, Skittles, Snickers, Twix, etc. They also happen to be one of the world's largest companies in pet care as well. Dr. Angela Hughes, is the Global Scientific Advocacy Relations Senior Manager and Veterinary Geneticist at Mars Petcare. Dr. Hughes is both Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, and a PhD with a focus in Canine Genetics, both from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Hughes also serves as Veterinary Genetics Research Manager of Wisdom Health, a business unit of Mars Petcare, which has developed state-of-the-art genetic tests for companion animals, leading to revolutionary personalized petcare. She also serves as a Veterinary Geneticist of Hughes Veterinary Consulting, focused on small animal and equine genetics and with a special interest in small animal reproduction and pediatrics. Dr Hughes is published in multiple academic journals, including the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and has contributed chapters for publication in Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal Practice: Pediatrics and Large Animal Internal Medicine.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Hughes about: -Her background - how she developed an interest in veterinary medicine and animal genetics, and how she arrived at Mars Petcare -Her role as the senior manager of Global Scientific Advocacy Relations at Mars Petcare -How companion animals are helping address the social isolation and loneliness during the Covid-19 epidemic, and the Mars Petcare collaboration with the Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) -How they are collaboratively studying Human-Animal Interactions proven to be beneficial in other mental health areas -Mars Petcare work in the area of preventive care in veterinary medicine, including the application of tools like AI, genetics and smart devices, including: The Pet Insight Wearables project and the Wisdom genetics panel for dogs, and the RenalTech AI platform for cats Future visions in pet care for the study of healthy animal longevity
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Hugh Herr, Associate Professor MIT Media Lab and head of the Biomechatronics group, MIT Media Lab.
Ira Pastor comments:
Dr. Hugh Herr, is Associate Professor MIT Media Lab and heads the Biomechatronics group at the MIT Media Lab, as well as the Center for Extreme Bionics at MIT, and is creating bionic limbs that emulate the function of natural limbs. In 2011, TIME magazine coined him the “Leader of the Bionic Age” because of his revolutionary work in the emerging field of biomechatronics – technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics. A double amputee himself, Dr Herr is responsible for breakthrough advances in bionic limbs that provide greater mobility and new hope to those with physical disabilities. He is the author and co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and patents, chronicling the science and technology behind his many innovations. These publications span the scientific fields of biomechanics and biological motion control, as well as the technological innovations of human rehabilitation and augmentation technologies. Dr. Herr’s Biomechatronics group has developed gait-adaptive knee prostheses for transfemoral amputees and variable impedance ankle-foot orthoses for patients suffering from drop foot, a gait pathology caused by stroke, cerebral palsy, and multiple sclerosis. He has also designed his own bionic limbs, the world's first bionic lower leg called the BiOM Ankle System. Dr. Herr has received many accolades for his groundbreaking innovations, including the 13th Annual Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment; the Prince Salman Award for Disability Research; the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in Technology; the 14th Innovator of the Year Award; the 41st Inventor of the Year Award; and the 2016 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research. Dr. Herr's story has been told in a National Geographic film, “Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr.” He has also been featured on CNN and other broadcasters and in many press articles, including The Economist, Discover, and Nature. Dr. Herr earned an undergraduate degree in physics at Millersville University, a master's degree in mechanical engineering at MIT, followed by a PhD in biophysics from Harvard University.
On this episode of ideaXme we will hear from Dr. Herr about: His background - how he developed his passion for rock climbing, for science and technology, and his fateful story about being caught in a blizzard during a climbing trip that lead to his double leg amputations An introduction to the topic of Biomechatronics An overview of the BiOM Ankle System, clinically shown to be the first leg prosthesis to achieve biomechanical and physiological normalization, allowing persons with leg amputation to walk with normal levels of speed and metabolism as if their legs were biological once again An overview of Dr. Herr’s team developing the first autonomous exoskeleton to reduce the metabolic cost of human walking, a goal that has eluded scientists for over a century His work with the Haptics program at DARPA The recent Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announcement that it has invalidated a rule adopted by World Athletics (formerly "IAAF") – the international sports federation governing track & field – which imposed the burden of proof on disabled athletes requiring them to prove that their prostheses do not provide them with an overall advantage against able-bodied athletes
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Jiangying Zhou, PhD, DARPA program manager in the Defense Sciences Office, USA.
Ira Pastor comments:
On this episode of ideaXme, we meet again once more with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), but unlike the past few shows where we been spent time with thought leaders from the Biologic Technology Office (BTO), today we’re going to be focused on the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) which identifies and pursues high-risk, high-payoff research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines and transforms them into important, new game-changing technologies for U.S. national security. Current DSO themes include frontiers in math, computation and design, limits of sensing and sensors, complex social systems, and anticipating surprise.
Dr. Jiangying Zhou became a DARPA program manager in the Defense Sciences Office in November 2018, having served as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office (STO) since January 2018. Her areas of research include machine learning, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) exploitation technologies. Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Zhou was a senior engineering manager in the Information Sciences Division at Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC. During her more than ten-year tenure at Teledyne, Dr. Zhou worked on many contract R&D programs from U.S. government funding agencies as well as commercial customers in the areas of sensor exploitation, signal and image processing, and pattern recognition. Dr. Zhou also served as director of R&D of Summus Inc., a small start-up company specializing in contract engineering projects for U.S. Department of Defense and commercial customers in the areas of video and image compression, pattern recognition, and computer vision. Dr. Zhou began her career as a scientist at Panasonic Technologies, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, where she conducted research in the areas of document analysis, handwriting recognition, image analysis, and information retrieval. Dr. Zhou received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science, both in computer science, from Fudan University. She received a doctorate in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Zhou is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Society and also a member of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon international honor society for the computing and information disciplines. On this episode we will hear from Dr. Zhou about - - Her background - how she developed her interests in computer science and electrical engineering, and a little bit of her career path through industry and government - How she is using the theme of Bio-Mimicry (the design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes) per the "Nature as Computer" and μBRAIN programs, where she explores innovative basic research concepts aimed at understanding highly integrated sensory and nervous systems in miniature insects and developing prototype computational models that could be mapped onto suitable hardware to emulate theirfunction - The Time-Aware Machine Intelligence (TAMI) program; an AI system to develop a detailed self-understanding of the time dimensions of its learned knowledge and eventually be able to "think in and about time" when exercising its learned task knowledge in task performance. - The Competency-Aware Machine Learning (CAML) program, enabling learning systems to be aware of their own competency - The Artificial Intelligence Research Associate (AIRA) program, to elevate AI to the role of an insightful and trusted collaborator in the scientific process - Her Post-DARPA interests / visions and new ideas for further pushing AI to be a better collaborative partner - Her thoughts on DARPA-like R&D models being translated into the private sector
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Ali Jawad, Paralympian gold medalist powerlifter and ideaXme interviewer talks with Dr Christian Busch, PhD, author of The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck. Ali asks Christian what inspired him to write his book. Furthermore, is curious to learn: Can we all learn how to create good luck - serendipity?
Christian's career:
Christian directs the CGA Global Economy Program at New York University (NYU) and teaches on purpose-driven business, entrepreneurship, emerging markets, and (social) innovation at NYU and at the London School of Economics (LSE). He served as Inaugural Deputy Director at the LSE's Innovation Centre and is the co-founder of Sandbox Network, a leading community of young innovators, as well as of Leaders on Purpose, an organisation convening leading CEOs.
Dr Busch has been named as 'top emerging management thinker' (Thinkers50) and is among Diplomatic Courier’s 'Top 99 Influencers', The Economist's 'Ideas People', and JCI's 'Ten Outstanding Persons'. He is a TEDster, an 'Institute for the World Economy Fellow', one of the 'Davos 50', and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Christian previously worked in business, the non-profit sector, and consulting in Mexico, Germany, the UK, and the US. He has served as Senior Advisor at multinational companies and the National Entrepreneurs Association, on Ashoka's Selection Panel, on the Global Shapers Steering Committee, and on the Jury of the African Entrepreneurship Award. He is part of the WEF's Expert Forum, and has guest-lectured at Stanford Business School, Peking University, IMD, and Strathmore.
His work has been published by outlets such as Strategic Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, The Handbook of Inclusive Innovation, and IJEV, and was featured by The Guardian, WIRED, among others. In 2016, he received the 'Best Paper Award' (Entrepreneurship) of Emerald Publishing, and the 'Best Social Entrepreneurship Paper Award' of the Academy of Management. He holds a PhD (LSE), MSc (LSE: Management, organizations), B.A. (Hagen: Sociology, psychology) & B.B.A. (Furtwangen & Moscow Business School: Business).
An excerpt from this interview:
Ali Jawad: Christian, what inspired you to write the book?
Dr Christian Busch: I used to be an extremely rebellious teenager. I was kicked out of school. I channeled my energy in very questionable ways. Then I turned 18. I got my first car. Unsurprisingly, my driving style mirrored my approach to life. One day that all changed. I had a car crash. It almost killed me. This event acted as a trigger to set me on a journey in search of meaning. As part of that search, I read Viktor Frankl's wonderful book Man's Search for Meaning, which is all about the idea that you can find meaning even in the most dire of situations......
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and CEO Bioquark interviews Dr. Michelle Francl, the Frank B. Mallory Professor of Chemistry, at Bryn Mawr College, and an adjunct scholar of the Vatican Observatory.
Ira Pastor comments:
Today, we have another fascinating guest working at the intersection of cutting edge science and spirituality Dr. Michelle Francl is the Frank B. Mallory Professor of Chemistry, at Bryn Mawr College, a distinguished women’s college in the suburbs of Philadephia, as well as an adjunct scholar of the Vatican Observatory. Dr. Francl has a Ph.D. in chemistry from University of California, Irvine, did her post-doctoral research at Princeton University, and has taught physical chemistry, general chemistry, and mathematical modeling at Bryn Mawr College since 1986. In addition Dr. Francl has research interests in theoretical and computational chemistry, structures of topologically intriguing molecules (molecules with weird shapes), history and sociology of science, and the rhetoric of science. Dr. Francl is noted for developing new methodologies in computational chemistry, is on a list of the 1,000 most cited chemists, is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, is active in the American Chemical Society, and the author of "The Survival Guide for Physical Chemistry". In 1994, she was awarded the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award by Bryn Mawr College for excellence in teaching. She currently writes for Nature Chemistry on a range of topics including science, culture and policy, and in April 2016, was named one of nine adjunct scholars of the Vatican Observatory.
Dr. Francl was awarded the 2019 American Chemical Society's Philadelphia Section Award which recognizes an individual, "who, by conspicuous scientific achievement through research, has made important contributions to man's knowledge and thereby aided the public appreciation of the profession." Dr. Fancl also writes extensively on spirituality, and has many publications in print including, but not limited to: “Seeking the Face of God: The Lives and Discoveries of Catholic Scientists”, "Not By Bread Alone, Reflections on the Scriptures for Lent 2020", and the Forthcoming “Waiting in Joyful Hope, Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas”, and blogs at her website on "Quantum Theology" On this episode we will hear from Dr. Francl about: - Her background - How she developed an interest in science, in chemistry, and in the computational chemistry of "weird" / quantum structures - An overview of her work in the areas of theoretical / computational / quantum chemistry, also known as "molecular quantum mechanics", a branch of chemistry focused on the application of quantum mechanics in physical models and experiments of chemical systems - - Her role at the Vatican Observatory, as an adjunct scholar, studying the chemistry and material science of meteorites and working with issues of faith and science, from both a historical and philosophical perspective. - An overview of her work in the area of Quantum Theology, drawing parallels between the behavior of subatomic particles and the essence of spirituality - - Her research on the "contemplative mind" in advancing our understanding of both science and spirituality
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and CEO of Bioquark, interviews Philip Lymbery, award winning author of books Farmageddon and Dead Zone and CEO of Compassion in World Farming.
Ira Pastor Comments: Compassion in World Farming (CIWF)is a campaigning and lobbying animal welfare organization which campaigns against the live export of animals, certain methods of livestock slaughter, and all systems of factory farming.
Philip Lymbery, founder of Compassion in World Farming:
Philip Lymbery is the CEO of CIWF, as well as visiting professor at the University of Winchester, ornithologist, photographer, naturalist, self-confessed animal advocate, and award winning author of both Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat (listed as one of The Times Writers Books of the Year) as well as Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were.
Protecting Animals is about Protecting People and the Planet:
Philip has played leading roles in many major animal welfare reforms, including the Europe-wide bans on veal crates for calves and barren battery cages for laying hens. Described as one of the food industry’s most influential people, he has spearheaded CIWF’s engagement work with over 800 food companies worldwide, leading to real improvements in the lives of more than a billion farm animals every year. World's First Extinction and Livestock Conference of 2017: It was also Philip’s vision to set up the world’s first extinction and livestock conference in London in October 2017, bringing together Compassion in World Farming and the World Wildlife Fund, supported by HRH Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation. Philip's awards include Recipient of the ‘Outstanding Campaign’ award by Brussels based Eurogroup for Animals and the 2015 ‘International Golden Dove’ peace prize in Rome.
On this ideaXme episode we hear from Philip Lymbery about:
His background and how he developed a passion for animal welfare and advocacy. The background of Compassion In World Farming and an overview of what constitutes factory farming. Factory farming connections to pandemics, zoonotic diseases, and antibiotic resistance / superbugs. Industrial agriculture and its connection to biodiversity destruction in locations like the Amazon rainforest. Technological solutions such as lab / stem cell grown meats and alternative / plant-based protein sources. Solutions on how to feed the growing population and how we can all make a difference by the food choices we make.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr. Frank D. Marks, MS, ScD, Director of Hurricane Research Division, at NOAA.
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Weather and climate disasters affect the world's population.
The total approximate cost of damages from weather and climate disasters in the U.S. alone from 1980 to 2019, is over $1.75 trillion, and a major component of that damage results from hurricanes. Few things in nature can compare to the destructive force of a hurricane. Called the "Greatest Storm On Earth", a hurricane is capable of annihilating coastal areas with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour or higher, intense areas of rainfall, and a storm surge. In fact, during it's life cycle a hurricane can expend as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs! The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an American scientific agency, within the United States Department of Commerce, that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere. NOAA warns of dangerous weather, charts seas, guides the use and protection of ocean and coastal resources, and conducts research to provide the understanding and improve stewardship of the environment.
Dr. Frank D. Marks, is Director of Hurricane Research Division, at NOAA: Dr. Marks is a recognized expert in tropical cyclones and is the leader of the NOAA tropical cyclone research efforts as the research lead of NOAA is Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP) and the director of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorology Laboratory. Dr. Marks also serves as co-lead of the NOAA Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (OFCM) Working Group for Tropical Cyclone Research (WG/TCR).
His research interests include analyzing meteorological remote sensing (e.g., microwave radar and radiometer) and numerical model data sets, particularly in tropical cyclones and mesoscale convective systems to understand the storm kinematic and precipitation structure. Besides his role within NOAA Dr. Marks is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the University of Miami, as well as a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Marks received a B.S. in Meteorology from Belknap College (1973) and both an M.S. (1975) and Sc.D. (1981) in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Marks is a member of the American Meteorlogical Society (AMS) and became a Fellow of the AMS in 2000. He served as a member of AMS Committee on Radar Meteorology and of the AMS Council.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Marks about:
- His background - how he became interested in science, in meteorology, in hurricane research, and a little bit of his career journey through the academic and government sectors to date - A general introduction to NOAA and specifically the Hurricane Research Division - A discussion of core research priorities of the Hurricane Research Division - Technological developments that Dr. Marks is personally most excited about looking forward over the next decade or two, such as artificial intelligence/ machine learning in the forecasting process - The SUSTAIN lab or the "Surge Structure Atmosphere Interaction" lab - University of Miami US$45 million initiative to produce hurricanes up to a category 5 level (the strongest there is), with wind speeds reaching more than 252 km/h (157 mph). - This history of NOAA attempts to "stop a hurricane in its track" and Project STORMFURY - His experiences with flying into a hurricane on the NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircrafts
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Ira Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Gulden Camci-Unal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department Chemical Engineering, Francis College of Engineering, UMass Lowell.
Ira Pastor comments:
A few episodes ago ideaXme hosted the University of Michigan’s Dr. Bruce Carlson. We spoke to him about the interesting topic of the importance of "substrate" in regenerative processes, for both the maintenance of normal tissue functions, and in the migration of cells or changes to tissue architecture that are part of healing processes. Substrate is broadly defined as the surface or material on, or from which, cells / tissues live, grow, or obtain nourishment, and have both biochemical, as well as biomechanical functions.
Today, on ideaXme we are joined Dr. Gulden Camci-Unal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department Chemical Engineering, Francis College of Engineering, UMass Lowell. Dr Camci-Unal received her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Iowa State University (USA) and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees both in Chemical Engineering at Middle East Technical University (Turkey). Dr. Camci-Unal’s research is at the interface of biomaterials and bioengineering, including the design, synthesis, and characterization of functional biomaterials for applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, development of in vitro disease models for personalized medicine, as well as work in the area low-cost point of care diagnostics.
Her work interestingly brings in another interesting theme that we’ve touched on past shows, that of biomimicry, and looking at structures in nature, such as eggshells, plant leaves, marine sponges, and origami paper(!), to help guide viable and cost-effective bioengineering strategies. The overarching goal of her research is to improve human health and quality of life and she has made important contributions in generation of novel engineered platforms for cardiac, cardiovascular and bone tissue engineering.
Dr. Camci-Unal’s research and teaching achievements include various awards such as the Iowa State University Teaching Excellence Award, Wakonse Fellowship, NSF ADVANCE Travel Award, Chevron-Phillips Award, Procter & Gamble Fellowship, and finalist for BioFlux Innovation Award. Her research has resulted in dozens of published manuscripts and conference abstracts, and patent applications so far. Dr. Camci-Unal’s work has been published in high impact journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Asia Materials, JACS, Biomaterials, Lab on a Chip, Soft Matter, and Tissue Engineering. She is an Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine Research, International Journal of Cardiovascular Research, International Journal of Bioprinting, and Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Camci-Unal about :
- Her background - how she developed an interest in science, in chemical engineering, and in regenerative medicine - An overview of her work in the area of novel bio-materials for regenerative medicine and the importance of inexpensive substrates for wide scale, cost effective use within the global population - An overview of the themes of "origami-inspired tissue engineering", and "organ-on-paper disease models" - Her future visions for clinical translation of such tools - Current work in the field of low-cost point of care diagnostics for Covid-19.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Craig Fugate Chief Emergency Management Officer of One Concern and former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The international context of this interview: In choosing our leaders it is becoming increasingly important to select people who can both anticipate and address and where possible avoid large scale disasters. Here, Craig Fugate discusses evaluating past disasters, planning for future events and reacting to the "unexpected" - "think big and move fast".
Ira Pastor comments: The U.S. has sustained 279 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2020). The total cost of these 279 events exceeds $1.825 trillion. Craig Fugate is the Chief Emergency Management Officer of One Concern, a "Resilience-as-a-Service" solutions company that brings disaster science together with machine learning for better disaster recovery decision making. Craig is the former Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, and former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, whose primary purpose is to coordinate the response to disasters that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities. Mr. Fugate has decades of experience at the local, state, and federal levels in disaster preparedness and management. He has also overseen preparation and response efforts for disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes, health crises, and national security threats. As Florida Director for the Emergency Management Division, he oversaw the "Big 4 of '2004" (Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne) and as the Administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he organized recovery efforts for a record of eighty-seven disasters in 2011.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Mr. Fugate about:
-His background and how he went from a firefighter and emergency paramedic to the country's top emergency manager - An overview of FEMA - An overview of One Concern and novel Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning technologies for disaster recovery - His current work (and learnings from his H1N1 recovery experience) related to Covid-19 / pandemic recovery operations - An overview of his "thunderbolt exercises", where as FEMA administrator, he would declare a fake disasters to test U.S. emergency operations center preparedness -His "Waffle House Index" and "Starbucks Index" as informal metrics to determine the effect of a storm, or an earthquake, and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr Alexander Titus Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI).
Ira Pastor comments:
The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) is one of 14 institutes of the Manufacturing USA network, and is a member-driven, non-profit organization, whose mission is to make practical the large-scale manufacturing of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies. BioFabUSA, created by ARMI, was established to lead the charge in large-scale manufacturing of engineered tissues and regenerative medicine research, turning foundational breakthroughs in the manufacture of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies into life-changing possibilities for everyone. Dr. Alexander Titus is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) where he is part of the leadership team working to advance the U.S. regenerative manufacturing industry, as well as develop technologies for disaster preparedness. Dr. Titus’s career is focused on the intersection of technology and public benefit, with experience spanning the private and public sectors, as well as non-profits and academia. Prior to his role ARMI, Dr Titus was the inaugural Assistant Director for Biotechnology, within the Office of the CTO at the Department of Defense (DoD), where he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense-level senior executive in charge of the DoD’s enterprise strategy for biotechnology, where he led the team developing the biotechnology modernization roadmap for the DoD. Dr. Titus joined the DoD from McKinsey & Company, where he was a management consultant and a member of the inaugural cohort of Defense & Security Specialists working with the national security community on high-priority issues related to organization effectiveness, leadership, and analytics. On the technical side, Dr Titus is a trained data scientist with an expertise at the intersection of AI and biology. Prior to consulting, Dr. Titus was a data scientist at the venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, as a member of their B.Next group, as well as a data scientist at Amazon on the Alexa AI team and at Dartmouth in the Geisel School of Medicine. Alexander holds a PhD in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences from the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth, as well as a BS and BA in biochemistry and biology from the University of Puget Sound. On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Titus about - His background - how he developed an interest in science, biology, biochemistry, quantitiave biomedicine, and a bit of his journey through academia, the military, and the private sector - The background of the Manufacturing USA network - The background of the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) and the BioFabUSA initiative - BioFabUSA's five thrust areas and support technologies related to (1) Cell Selection, Culture and Scale-up, (2) Biomaterial Selection and Scale-up; (3) Tissue Process Automation and Monitoring; (4) Tissue Maturing Technologies and (5) Tissue Preservation and Transport - Visions for the tissues / organs / limbs bio-factory of the future - His work in bio-security and bio-defense Credits: Ira Pastor, ideaXme ambassador interview. Visit ideaXme www.radioideaxme.com Follow ideaXme on Twitter:@ideaxm On Instagram:@ideaxme To discuss collaboration and/or partnerships please contact the founder of ideaXme: andrea@ideaxme.com Find ideaXme across the internet including on iTunes, SoundCloud,Radio Public,TuneIn Radio,I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts and more. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr Adam Freund, PhD, Principal Investigator at Calico Life Sciences (Calico).
Ira Pastor comments:
Calico is a research and development focused biotechnology company founded and backed by Google / Alphabet with the goal of combating aging and associated age-related diseases. Calico has a billion dollar partnership with the bio-pharma giant AbbVie, focused on aging and age-related diseases, such as neuro-degeneration and cancer. Calico also has partnerships with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and 2M Companies (regarding drug development for neurodegenerative disorders), the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (to advance research on age-related diseases and therapeutics), and a partnership with the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Calico has also announced a partnership with the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) based on researching the biology of aging and identifying potential therapeutics for age-related diseases, as well as and one with Ancestry-DNA based on conducting research into the genetics of human lifespan.
Dr. Adam Freund, Ph.D., is a Principal Investigator at Calico Life Sciences studying aging on the systems biology level. With a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology, from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University, Dr. Freund’s lab works to identify and test post-developmental interventions that slow or reverse aspects of aging, as well as understand whether aging is regulated by similar mechanisms in diverse tissue compartments. To accomplish these goals, his lab develops automated, high content methods to quantify longitudinal decline and build tools to modulate targets with spatial and temporal precision in preclinical models, including gene delivery as well as small and large molecules. They use these tools to test hypotheses of aging in rapid, functionally relevant ways. Dr. Freund has studied aspects of the biology of aging throughout his career. His graduate work with Dr. Judy Campisi at the University of California at Berkeley and the Buck Institute focused on the regulation of inflammatory networks during cellular senescence. He then did postdoctoral work with Steven Artandi at Stanford University, where he developed high content screening methods to identify regulators of telomerase.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Freund about:
- His background - how he developed an interest in the sciences, in engineering, in cell biology, and in aging - His top line views on aging biology and the best systems level screening approaches, per his recent paper - "Untangling Aging Using Dynamic, Organism-Level Phenotypic Networks" - His current work on studying the inhibition of the longevity regulator Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein A (PAPP-A) and it's role in modulating multi-tissue homeostasis - Areas of aging biology he is most excited about looking forward, discussing current hot topic areas like insulin/IGF signaling, chronic inflammation, and cellular senescence - The day-to-day research / working culture within the Calico Life Sciences organization
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Daniel Liljenquist, former US Senator and Lead Architect and Board Chair of Civica Rx.
Ira Pastor Comments:
A generic drug is a pharmaceutical drug that contains the same chemical substance as a drug that was originally protected by chemical patents, and are typically allowed for sale after the patents on the original drugs expire. Once generic drugs enter the market, competition often leads to substantially lower prices for both the original brand-name product and its generic equivalents. In 2014, according to an analysis by the Generic Pharmaceutical Association, generic drugs accounted for 88% of the 4.3 billion prescriptions filled in the United States, and the use of generic drugs in the United States led to US$254 billion in health care savings. The global market for generic drugs is estimated to reach $533 billion by 2021, up from $352 billion in 2016, and was growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.7% during that period. Unfortunately, in recent years things have been amiss in the generics drug segment whereby we have been seeing a rapid rise in the prices for many generic drugs that have been around for many years, if not decades.There has been major consolidation, with a handful of major companies dominating the generic drugs market (some units of big pharma), and there is an estimated backlog of 000s of generic drugs awaiting FDA approval. All of these factors have played a role in how both rare and common drugs, such as EpiPens, can shoot up in price so rapidly.
Daniel Liljenquist:
Mr. Daniel Liljenquistis an American businessman and politician, who served in the Utah State Senate, and is the Lead Architect and Board Chair of Civica Rx,a nonprofit generic drug company established to reduce chronic generic drug shortages and price gauging.
Dan also serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Intermountain Healthcare (a not-for-profit healthcare system that is the largest healthcare provider in the Intermountain West region of the United States, provides hospital and other medical services in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada, and has 37,000 employees) where he oversees Intermountain’s Enterprise Initiative and Market Intelligence & Planning Offices. Intermountain was one of the founding groups behind Civica Rx. Dan has degrees in Economics from Brigham Young University, and Law from University of Chicago Law School.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dan about:
His background and his personal journey through the world of economics, law, and politics, and into the world of non-profit healthcare cost containment. The background story leading up to the decision of the formation of Civica Rx. Civica Rx's development from start-up in 2018, to a robust network of 45 health systems, representing 1200 hospitals, with a total of 18 medications in production. Civica Rx's plans to bring over 100 medications to market in the next five years and building its own manufacturing capability. Civica Rx's partnerships on the international manufacturing and regulatory fronts.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Ms Pia Puolakka, Project Manager of the Smart Prison Project, under the Criminal Sanctions Agency, within Finland's Central Administration Unit.
Criminal Sanctions Agency:
Ira Pastor Comments:
In 2018, according to the World Prison Population List, which gives details of the number of prisoners held in 223 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories around the globe, there were close to 11 million people are held in penal institutions, either as pre-trial detainees/remand prisoners or having been convicted and sentenced. About 50% of them were represented by prison populations in the U.S., China, Brazil, Russia and India. Interestingly, a few decades ago, going back to the 1960s, Finland had one of the highest rates of imprisonment in Europe, until researchers across the Nordic countries started investigating how much punishment helped in reducing crime, when they concluded it had minimal effect Over the following three decades, Finland remade its penal policy bit by bit, and by the end of this period of so called “de-carceration," Finland had one of the lowest rates of imprisonment on the continent, and they found that crime didn’t increase as a result. What Finland found out that did work was a gradual reintroduction of prisoners into normal life. About a third of Finnish inmates are housed in an "open prison" (defined as any jail in which the prisoners are trusted to complete their sentences with minimal supervision and perimeter security, are often not locked up in their prison cells, and may be permitted to take up employment while serving their sentence), and Finland’s Criminal Sanctions Agency says inmates who go through open prisons are less likely to be arrested again with a recidivism rate of only 20%. Pia Puolakka and the Smart Prison Project: Ms Pia Puolakka,is the Project Manager of the fascinating Smart Prison Project, under the Criminal Sanctions Agency, of the Central Administration Unit. The Criminal Sanctions Agency is responsible for the enforcement of sentences in Finland. It operates under the direction of the Ministry of Justice and implements the criminal policy defined by the Ministry. Ms Puolakka has been working for the Criminal Sanctions Agency since 2012 where she originally started as a prison psychologist, and since 2017 she has been working in the Central Administration, where she first worked as a senior specialist responsible for rehabilitative services including program work, family work, and psychological and spiritual services in prisons. In 2018 she was appointed as the project manager of the Smart Prison Projectand her current post includes developing digital services for rehabilitative purposes and leading the implementation of the smart prison system. By education, Ms Puolakka is a forensic psychologist and works also as a private psychotherapist and hypnotherapist, with degrees from University of Helsinki and Åbo Akademi. She has also done further studies at Aalto University in Artificial Intelligence and digitalization for the purposes of designing the current Smart Prison Project.
On this episode we will hear from Ms. Puolakka about:
Her background; how she became involved in forensic psychology, psychotherapy, and into the criminal sanctions and rehabilitative services system. About the history of Finland penal system and their de-carceration model. About the Smart Prison Project and some of their educational programs in digitalization and artifical intelligence (AI). Expansion of the Smart Prison Project throughout Finland and to other countries.
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Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor and media and misinformation researcher, interviews Rupert Rixon, founder and Managing Director of digital-first video agency Perspective Pictures.
Amanda Christensen Comments:
The way we watch content is changing, from the big screen, to the small screen, to the endless streaming services - but it's evolving further than that, as we spend more and more of our time online, watching more and more videos on YouTube and social media. While many businesses and organisations have been quick to see where we're watching content, they didn't see how our tastes were changing alongside it. Instead, they were simply taking what's known as "above the line" content, like television adverts and billboard graphics, and putting it straight into the digital world, expecting people to engage with it. However, we don't engage with content online in the same way as television or billboards; what we watch, like, share, and save varies from website to website, app to app. Each platform has a unique content ecosystem, so to speak, with variations in topics, style, length and more. For instance, what you might watch on Facebook could be completely different from what you're watching on YouTube. Knowing how to create content with those online channels in mind can be the difference between connecting with an audience, or being another video people scroll past and ignore.
Rupert Rixon:
To get insight about the changes in how we're consuming content, I had the pleasure of speaking with Rupert Rixon, founder and Managing Director of digital-first video agency Perspective Pictures. Perspective Pictures was founded in 2016, by then 21-year-old Rupert. In the four years since he started the agency, he's grown the business from a shed in his parents' garden to a bustling Central London production hub creating narrative driven, digital-first video content for world-leading brands like Google, TimeOut, the Royal Air Force, and Deliveroo. Before that, Rupert made videos for his successful YouTube channel, which people have now spent over 30 years worth of time watching. He then went on to also create several branded documentaries like “Hitchhiking the Length of India” and “LA to NY,” where Rupert longboarded across the United States to raise money for the charity Teenage Cancer Trust.
On this episode you'll hear from Rupert about:
Rupert's background and journey to starting Perspective Pictures. What it means to be "digital-first." How our content and video viewing trends have evolved alongside the internet and social media. How COVID-19 has affected our viewing trends. Future plans Rupert has for Perspective Pictures. The advice that shaped Rupert as a young creative and entrepreneur.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr Brian Holmes Ph.D., Dean of The National Intelligence University, Anthony G. Oettinger School of Science and Technology Intelligence.
Ira Pastor comments:
The National Intelligence University (NIU), is a federally chartered research university which serves as the United States Intelligence Community's institution for higher learning in fields of study central to the profession of intelligence and national security. National Intelligence University's interdisciplinary programs emphasize education through scholarly and applied research designed to help U.S. intelligence officers better understand the diverse range of geopolitical, strategic, and technological threats and opportunities affecting intelligence and national security.
The university is organized into two separate academic units: the College of Strategic Intelligence and the Oettinger School of Science and Technology Intelligence. Combined, the colleges cover a diverse and evolving range of international affairs issues and adversarial threats and capabilities, from cultural and religious conflicts, to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation, cybersecurity threats, terrorism, transnational crime, and more. NIU is the only university in the United States where students can study and complete research at the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level. The School of Science and Technology Intelligence within the National Intelligence University is focused on science and technical analytic education, research and external engagement across the intelligence and national security communities. Dr. Holmes served as an all-source intelligence analyst and Branch Chief in the Defense Intelligence Agencies’ (DIA) Counter-proliferation Support Office from 2006-2010 before accepting a managerial position in the Directorate for Analysis’ Staff Operations Division. He was a Direct Commission intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, serving from 2007-2011 and reached the rank of Lieutenant. For three years he supported the Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force as an all-source intelligence analyst in DIA’s Directorate for Intelligence. From 2012-2016, Dr. Holmes chaired the Emerging and Disruptive Technology, Geostrategic Resources and Environment, and Weapons of Mass Destruction concentrations in the National Intelligence University. He serves as an executive representative to the Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee (STIC) under the auspices of the National Intelligence Council, and directly supports U.S. National Intelligence Priorities Framework. He primarily focuses his research on "dual use" technologies, and the translation of emerging research and development into advanced materials for military systems. From 2016-2017, Dr. Holmes served as the Associate Dean of the School of Science and Technology Intelligence and then became Dean in Sept 2017 Dr. Holmes holds patents with the U.S. Navy, has published numerous peer reviewed scientific papers, and received the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis Distinguished Analysis Award in addition to a National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation.
On August 07, 2017, Dr. Holmes qualified for the academic title of Professor of Intelligence. Disclaimer - The views expressed on this ideaXme episode are Dr. Holmes alone and do not represent the official policy or position of the National Intelligence University, the Department of Defense or any of its components, or the U.S. Government.
Dr. Holmes talks of:
- His background - how he developed an interest in science, in chemistry, and a little bit of his journey through the worlds of academia, the military, and into the intelligence domain - An introductory walk through the National Intelligence University, it's history, where it sits within the U.S. intelligence community - His job as Dean of the National Intelligence University, some of the different academic programs (with a focus on his domain of Science and Technology Intelligence), and a bit of the profile of typical applicants / admission criteria of NIU - How NIU stays "ahead of the curve" in teaching about both about novel threats, and novel innovations / interventions, in the intelligence space - Some of these "dual use" opportunities he sees emerging from the Science and Technology Intelligence domain which may offer for future benefits in the civilian sector, for areas like global warming and environmental contamination / oils spills
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Bakary Tandia, Co-Founder of the Abolition Institute, a group working to promote awareness of, and dedicated to ending, the practice of slavery in the west African country of Mauritania.
Slavery and enslavement are defined of the state and condition of being a slave, where the individual cannot quit their service to another person and is treated like property. In chattel slavery, the enslaved person is legally rendered the personal property of the slave owner. In economics, the term de facto slavery describes the conditions of unfree labor and forced labor that most slaves endure. In the course of human history, while slavery was often a feature of civilization and legal in most societies, it is now outlawed in all countries of the world. In 2019, approximately 40 million people, of whom 26 percent were children, were enslaved throughout the world despite it being illegal. In the modern world, more than 50 percent of enslaved people provide forced labor, usually in the factories and sweatshops of the private sector of a country's economy.
In the industrialized countries, human trafficking is the modern variety of slavery; in the unindustrialized countries, enslavement by debt bondage is a common form of enslaving a person, such as captive domestic servants, forced marriage, and child soldiers. Modern day slavery is a multibillion-dollar industry with just the forced labor aspect generating US $150 billion each year.
Bakary Tandia:
Bakary Tandia is a well-respected and dynamic human rights advocate with an extensive background in promoting human rights and social justice causes and Co-Founder of the Abolition Institute, a group working to promote awareness of, and dedicated to ending, the practice of slavery in the west African country of Mauritania, where it is estimated that around 90,000 people (over 2% of Mauritania's population) are chattel slaves. Bakary is a graduate of the Global Masters Program in International Affairs, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and holds bachelor degrees in International Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, and Criminology from the University of Abidjan (Ivory Coast). In addition to that, Bakary is a graduate of the Human Rights Advocates Program, at Columbia University, where he served as an Advocacy Workshop facilitator helping to educate and empower human rights activists around the world. Bakary also works as a Case Manager and Policy Advocate at African Services Committee, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and self-sufficiency of the African community in New York City, USA and beyond. Bakary has spoken on human rights issues at more than 100 universities and colleges around the United States and played a leadership role in major conferences and trainings around the world. As a member of the African NGOs Coordinating Committee representing the African Diaspora during the World Conference against Racism, he developed strong relationships with human rights organizations across the continent. Bakary Tandia was recipient of the 2005 New American Leaders Fellowship Program jointly sponsored by Coro Leadership Center and The New York Immigration Coalition and was a participant in the Hamburg-New York 2007 IntegrationXchange 2007, a program jointly sponsored through Department of Child Services by the U.S. State Department and the Koeberg Foundation, Germany.
On this episode we will hear from Bakary Tandia about: His background – how he developed an interest in criminology, criminal justice, and international affairs, and his path towards involvement and advocacy in the modern day abolitionist movement. The background history and current situation related to chattel slavery in Mauritania. The Abolition Institute – its background, funders, and partners. The Abolition Institute's work on slave rehabilitation and activity on the political front. His work with the African Services Committee. Abolition movement synergies with the current Black lives Matter movement.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Will Travers OBE, President of the Born Free Foundation, Born Free USA and Species Survival Network.
Ira Pastor Comments:
The Born Free Foundation is an international wildlife charity that campaigns to "Keep Wildlife in the Wild." Founded by English actors and wildlife campaigners Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, its mission is to protect wild animals in their natural habitat, campaigns against the keeping of wild animals in captivity, and rescues wild animals in need. It also promotes compassionate conservation, which takes into account the welfare of individual animals in conservation initiatives. Born Free: Born Free’s head office is located in West Sussex, southeast England. It also has offices in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa, with representatives in Sri Lanka and Australia. Born Free manages or funds projects in more than 20 countries worldwide – across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas and focuses on ‘nine working priorities’ including: captive wild animal exploitation; trophy and canned hunting; wildlife trade; rescue, care, rehabilitation & release; human-wildlife co-existence and conservation; integrated wildlife protection; trans-boundary programs; UK wildlife protection; and education. Born Free also has its own sanctuaries – two big cat rescue centers at Shamwari Private Game Reserve, in South Africa, Ensessa Kotteh Wildlife Rescue, Conservation & Education Center, in Ethiopia, and Bannerghatta tiger sanctuary, in India.
Will Travers:
Will Travers OBE wis an English director, writer, broadcaster and animal rights activist, and also son of Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. He is President of the Born Free Foundation, Born Free USA and Species Survival Network.
On this episode we will hear from Mr Travers about: His background and how he got involved in the "compassionate conservation" movement. The Born Free Foundation - the genesis of the organization, its team, who sets working priorities, and its supporters. Born Free Foundation's work against the exploitation of wild animals in zoos, aquaria and other captive environments, and a discussion of the psychological condition of Zoochosis. Born Free Foundation's work against illegal wildlife trade, a US$20 billion a year global set of businesses. Their work on the educational front. BFF animal adoptions can be found at www.bornfree.org.uk/adopt BFUSA adoptions can be found www.bornfreeusa.org/adopt/
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews internationally famous advertising executive Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld, MakeLoveNotPorn, and Cindy Gallop LLC.
Ira Pastor Comments:
Cindy Gallop is an internationally famous advertising executive, public speaker, founder and former chair of the US branch of global advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty (now part of French multinational advertising and public relations company Publicis Groupe), and more recently founder of both the IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn companies, as well as her own brand and business innovation consultancy, Cindy Gallop LLC.
Cindy Gallop:
Ms. Gallop joined Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1989, rising to chair of its US unit and was responsible for a range of major corporate accounts including Coca-Cola, Ray-Ban, and Polaroid, and has been given the Advertising Woman of the Year award from the Advertising Women of New York organization. She formed MakeLoveNotPorn in 2009 to provide a platform for people to post real-world sex videos, later published a book, “Make Love Not Porn: Technology's Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior”, and launched MakeLoveNotPorn.tv in 2012, a video sharing site designed to make real world sex socially acceptable and socially shareable.
In January 2010, Ms. Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld, a web platform designed to turn good intentions into action, by allowing people, brands, and companies to easily perform, trade, and coordinate "micro actions."
Ms. Gallop studied English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford University, receiving an MA in English Language and Literature, followed by an MA from Warwick University in Theater of the European Renaissance.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Ms. Gallop about: The origins and ideas behind MakeLoveNotPorn. The burgeoning trillion dollar industry of sex-tech. Her work with AARP on its Disrupt Aging campaign and her mission to eliminate ageism in advertising. About the IfWeRanTheWorld organization.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Sir John Hegarty.
Sir John Hegarty, co-founder of global advertising and communications company BBH (Bartle Bogle Hegarty) and founder of The Garage Soho, Investment Company is one of the world’s most awarded and respected creatives in history.
He has written 2 best-selling books with a possible third in the pipeline. Current books, Creativity: There Are No Rules and Advertising: Turning Intelligence into Magic have not just been benchmarks for both the creative and communications industries, they have inspired disruptors and innovators working across a myriad of seemingly unrelated sectors.
At the heart of Hegarty’s work, his creativity, business ethos and indeed his philosophy of life stands one word. That word is “truth”.
Listen to this ideaXme interview or read the transcript of the interview below to learn of how truth and creativity combined has rocketed Sir John Hegarty to the top of the creative world.
"The foundation of any long-term relationship is probably two things, love and truth. You can't have love without truth. So, truth comes first. What you're trying to do is constantly build the truth." Sir John Hegarty, ideaXme interview. For the full transcript visit www.radioideaxme.com
Sir John Hegarty’s Career:
Hegarty has been at the forefront of the global creative advertising industry for over 50 years, from the early days of Saatchi and Saatchi to Bartle Bogle Hegarty, which was founded in 1982 and sold to Publicis in 2012. In 2014, building on this legacy, Hegarty founded The Garage Soho, an investment company with creativity at its heart.
“Sometimes marketing is not enough. You need to change the product”. Sir John Hegarty, ideaXme interview
The Garage Soho:
The Garage Soho is an early stage investor and brand builder. They invest between £100K - £500K into companies' pre-series A with a focus on technology enabled consumer brands. The team work closely with portfolio companies on their brand strategy, creative and media partnerships from the outset and throughout their journey to exit. Companies are chosen on the basis of “their potential to change the world”.
Bartle Bogle Hegarty:
Sir John Hegarty founded Bartle Bogle Hegarty with John Bartle and Nigel Bogle. The agency soon became one of the most famous and awarded advertising agencies in the world. Today, BBH’s 7 offices worldwide include London, New York, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Mumbai. John, was responsible for campaigns for Levi’s such as the ground-breaking commercial starring an unknown model called Nick Kamen who stripped off down to his boxer shorts in a launderette. As a bi-product sales of boxer shorts went through the roof. He created the tagline 'Vorsprung Durch Technik' for Audi and picked Brad Pitt to star in a commercial for Levi’s. He pioneered the importance of music in commercials, earning BBH nine number 1 hits. John also oversaw the first viral phenomenon to hit the headlines, the furry yellow puppet Flat Eric for Levi’s, who kicked Eminem off the number 1 singles slot in 1999.
"You never really leave BBH" Sir John Hegarty comments on his departure from BBH in 2012, ideaXme interview
Awards: In 2007 he was Knighted in the Queen’s birthday honours. John has also won numerous golds awards at D&AD, Cannes and British Television. He has been bestowed with the D&AD President's Award for outstanding achievement and was admitted to the US One Show Advertising Hall of Fame. Hegarty sits on the Board of Trustees of the Design Museum.
In this interview:
John answers questions from: -Simon Anholt, author, researcher, policy advisor and global intellectual and Alan Firmin, founder and CEO of Tribal Heart, who spent 20 years as a creative director at FCB, Y&R and VML and more recently as a lecturer at University of London. John talks of: His career, philosophy and business ethos as well as the importance of creativity as a force for good. Potential of "truth" to transform not just creativity but the world. His application of "the truth", from his creative work to managing his vineyard in France. What he would like you to see. Where companies should start with Corporate Social Responsibility. Why he'd like you to watch The Romantics tv series His trust in ideas. The one global challenge that he would like to address with his creative power.
Interview credits: Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme.
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Ana Guzman, ideaXme space ambassador and leading space communications and space exploration television producer interviews Caley Burke, Aerospace Engineer and Trajectory Analyst for NASA's Launch Program.
Ana Guzman comments:
In my next interview for ideaXme, I was able to sit down and chat with Caley Burke, aerospace engineer at NASA’s Launch Services Program. She works on the interface between the spacecraft and launch vehicle teams to get the spacecraft delivered to their final destination in space. As part of her work, she analyzes trajectories of the rockets launching NASA and NOAA robotic spacecraft missions. Reducing Risk During Delivery of NASA's Exploratory Missions: Her position contributes to space exploration by providing expertise in reducing risk during the delivery of NASA exploratory missions to space and maintaining a wealth of knowledge in the expendable launch vehicle market. We discuss factors taken into account when deciding which trajectories and rockets are chosen for each mission, launch windows and opportunities from different parts of the world, and why a launch window to Mars occurs only every two years. Caley worked on the launches of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and the Mars 2018 lander, InSight, on an Atlas V, NuSTAR on a Pegasus XL, and Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) on a Delta II. She did early work on the Joint Polar Satellite System 2 (JPSS-2) mission to launch on an Atlas V rocket. NASA Kennedy Space Center: She started her NASA career as a Pathways intern in 2002 at Kennedy Space Center with the International Space Station (ISS) and later transferred to the Launch Services Program in 2003. She attended MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) via the Kennedy Graduate Fellowship Program and performed fluid slosh in microgravity research on the Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) platform on the ISS. For additional information from this interview, visit the following: For visitor and launch schedule info: www.kennedyspacecenter.com NASA Launch Services Program https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/ Social Media: Twitter @NASA_LSP @NASAKennedy @RocketCaley (Personal account; not representing the government) Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NASALSP/ http://www.facebook.com/nasakennedy YouTube http://www.youtube.com/NASAKennedy More NASA Kennedy social media: https://www.nasa.gov/socialmedia/ Interview credit: Ana Guzman ideaXme Space Ambassador.
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Ana is a leading space exploration television producer and space communications expert. She comes to ideaXme with nine years experience working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center serving different roles in their communications and multimedia teams. As part of the ideaXme team, she wishes to continue working in outreach and educating the public in different topics regarding all things space.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr Vitaly Vanchurin, PhD, Associate Professor, Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, at the University of Minnesota (UMN).
The Multiverse, Cosmological Neural Networks and "Space Noodles"
Dr Vanchurin's big questions and the tools we need to answer them:
"What is the origin of our Universe? What determines our vacuum and the cosmological constant that is responsible for the observed accelerated expansion of space? What determines the onset of structure formation and the birth of galaxies in our Universe? Our innate curiosity about our beginnings has been, since time immemorial, and still is, at the heart of every human being. This age old question of our origin can now be addressed by applying the scientific method".
Ira Pastor comments:
Today, we have a really exciting thought leader joining us on ideaXme who spends his time thinking about really BIG questions – Questions like: what is the origin of our Universe? What’s behind the cosmological constant (in Albert Einstein's field equations of general relativity) that is responsible accelerated expansion of space? What determines the onset of structure formation and the birth of galaxies in our Universe? And many other fascinating topics.
Theoretical Physics and Cosmology
Dr. Vitaly Vanchurin, is an Associate Professor, Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Dr. Vanchurin has both a Masters, and Ph.D. in Physics, from Tufts Institute of Cosmology, and did his dissertation on the evolution of cosmic strings. Dr Vanchurin currently spends his time focused on a variety of themes including: cosmic inflation, multiverse cosmology, string theory landscapes, multi-dimensional fluids, gravitational waves, light propagation throughout the universe, and other quite esoteric concepts. Most recently Dr. Vanchurin has been in the scientific press quite a bit regarding a fascinating new theory on “cosmological neural networks”.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Vanchurin about:
- His background - how he developed his interest in science, in theoretical physics, and in cosmology - His current research interests and programs at UMN - A discussion of his most recent research / theories in the area of "cosmological neural networks" and novel ideas surrounding machine learning - His views on the connection of his theories to those in the field of quantum biology (as well as thoughts on consciousness) - His work on multiverse theories and paradoxes - And of course "Space Noodles"
This interview is in American English.
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If you enjoyed this interview you might like our interview with Stephen Furber, ICL Professor of Computer Engineering University of Manchester Super-human like computer.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Rick Bente, MSc, MBA, BS, CEO of Seventh Sense Biosystems.
Ira Pastor Comments:
Getting blood drawn is not a fun activity for many. It can be scary for some (especially if you have children); it can be painful for others (especially where frequent blood draws are required). Studies show that a remarkable 20% of the population has some degree of fear of needles or injections, and 10% within that number suffer from what is known as Trypanophobia (a psychological term for people with an extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles), who on top of their anxiety, completely avoid necessary tests and treatment. In addition to this, it is estimated that needles injure healthcare workers more than 2 million times a year in accidents, with potentially dangerous and deadly outcomes. Drawing blood is likely the most common invasive medical procedure, with an estimated half a billion a year conducted in U.S. hospitals alone, and two to three times this number across all hospitals worldwide annually. On top of that, millions of patients have to prick their fingers daily, multiple times a day, and experience pain each time.
Seventh Sense Biosystems:
Seventh Sense Biosystems is a company that has designed and developed, the world's first push-button blood collection device, called TAP, which aims to make the process simple, convenient, and virtually painless. As $50 billion is spent annually on diagnostics, combined with the fact that consumers are demanding more "quality of life" centric products from the healthcare system, Seventh Sense Biosystems is aiming to create a new standard for blood collection that increases patient compliance with testing orders, leading to faster diagnoses and better outcomes. Seventh Sense Biosystems was actually founded by one of ideaXme's previous guests: chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, and inventor extraodinaire, Dr. Robert Langer, from MIT.
Rick Bente:
Today, we are joined by Mr. Rick Bente, CEO of Seventh Sense Biosystems. Mr. Bente joined Seventh Sense Biosystems in 2019 bringing a strong background in the design, development, and commercialization of disruptive medical devices. With over 15 years of experience, and more than 50 granted US Patents in the wearable medical device space, he has held a range of leadership roles in R&D, Marketing, and Business Development. Mr. Bente most recently held the role of Vice President of Strategic Alliances in Business Development at Insulet Corporation, where he led strategic partnering and collaborations for the world's largest wearable insulin pump company. Before joining Insulet he spent six years at Unilife establishing and scaling the business of novel pre-filled wearable injectors for pharmaceutical customers and 8 years at Medtronic Diabetes designing, developing, and commercializing insulin pumps. Mr. Bente received a BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA, and an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management. On this episode we will hear from Mr. Bente about: His background - how he developed an interest in mechanical engineering and a bit of his path through the bio-medical device segment. The Seventh Sense Biosystems Story including it's founders, investors, mission, and goals. A market overview per "next generation" blood collection technologies with a focus on the TAP technology. A discussion of tele-health, remote diagnostics, and other opportunities related to the future of such tools� in the smart home / smart home care setting - with a focus on Covid-19. Future ideas / Potential "combinatorial" applications with other diagnostic tools and potential consumer applications, such as personalized nutrition and home based genetic analysis. A discussion of mentors and influencers over Rick's career.
This interview is in American English.
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In recent years we have seen the move away from ‘politics as usual’. Non-traditional figures have entered the political arena to disrupt the typical entrenched narratives. The election and worldwide popularity of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister just one example of a new kind of leader who prioritises national wellbeing and happiness in the belief that everything else will follow.
Brigadier General (Retired) Dr. Loree Sutton Next Mayor of New York City?
Brigadier General Dr. Loree Sutton, ex-army general, physician, LGBTQ, mental healthcare advocate, is a further example of a leader who attempts to bridge the gap between people and focus on wellbeing. She is a candidate who is bringing a centrist, holistic, "quality-of-life" based approach to rejuvenating and re-inventing one of the world's major financial, technological, and cultural capitals, New York City. https://loreeformayor.nyc @NYC Mayor's Office
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From Brigadier General to New York City Mayor?
Ira Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews General Dr. Loree Sutton a retired military officer who served as a Brigadier General in the United States Army for over 20 years (one of only 15 female generals out of the 1.3 million soldiers serving in the Army) as well as a medical psychiatrist (for a period of time the Army’s highest-ranking), who was deployed to various locations including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, ad Egypt in support of the first Gulf War and other missions, and is a current candidate in the 2021 New York City mayoral election.
Ira comments:
Over Dr. Sutton's career she has been awarded Legion of Merit (a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements), as well as the Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and Order of Military Medical Merit. Dr. Sutton is also the founding director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, and served as a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. Military Career and New York City Department of Veterans Services Over her career Dr. Sutton also served as Commander of the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Commander of the DeWitt Army Community Hospital, Deputy Commander for clinical services at the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, and a special assistant to the Surgeon General of the United States Army. Dr. Sutton graduated from medical school at Loma Linda University, and completed her internship and residency in psychiatry at Letterman Army Medical Center. She is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, with an M.S. in National Security Strategic Studies, the National War College, and also has an undergraduate degree in business administration. In 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Dr. Sutton as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Veterans' Services, and from 2017 to 2019, she was its Founding Commissioner. She resigned in October 2019 to launch her campaign for Mayor of New York City. A disclaimer, the ideaXme show does not endorse any particular candidate or political party. On this episode we will hear from Brigadier General Dr. Sutton about: - Her background – when she developed an interest in medicine, in psychiatry and mental health, and her journey through the military and public service – What makes an armed forces hero (and successful clinician) want to get into politics - Her plans for "fixing" New York City and dealing with many of its current challenges - Her leadership of New York City Department of Veterans’ Services - Her views on current mental health issues affecting the city and broader society - Her goals to turn New York City into a global tech hub laboratory, especially looking at investing in green jobs, technologies, infrastructure and renewable energy, as well as supporting STEM education
This interview is in American English.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Rachel Ramoni, Chief Research and Development Officer at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
Ira Pastor Comments: The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) @U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs is a federal Cabinet-level agency that provides comprehensive healthcare services to military veterans at over 1,000 VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the US. It also provides several non-healthcare benefits including disability compensation, vocational rehabilitation, education assistance, home loans, and life insurance; and provides burial and memorial benefits to eligible veterans and family members.
The VA serves over 9 million enrolled Veterans each year, employs over 377,000 people and has an annual budget of $200 billion. Within the VA structure, the Office of Research & Development is focused on improving the lives of Veterans, and all Americans, through health care discovery and innovation including: basic, translational, clinical, health services, and rehabilitative research, and applies scientific knowledge to develop effective individualized care solutions.
Dr. Rachel Ramoni:
Dr. Rachel Ramoni, is the Chief Research and Development Officer of the VA, where she oversees the VA's nationwide research enterprise, encompassing some 2,000 active projects at more than 100 sites, with a total budget of $2 billion in both direct VA support, and research funding from outside entities such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other federal agencies, and nonprofit and private organizations.
Dr. Ramoni earned a Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry degree from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, as well as a Master of Science and Doctor of Science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Ramoni was previously on the faculty at New York University College of Dentistry in the department of epidemiology and health promotion, and at Harvard Medical School in the department of biomedical informatics.
While at Harvard @Harvard University , Dr. Ramoni founded and led the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Coordinating Center, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and brings together clinical and research experts from across the U.S. to solve challenging medical mysteries using advanced technologies. Among Dr. Ramoni's research interests are informatics, genomics, and precision medicine.
Prior to her role with the UDN, she was Executive Director of the Substitutable Medical Applications Reusable Technologies project, or SMART. Initially launched with federal funding, SMART aims to make it easier for providers across different health systems to securely share information from electronic health records. The overarching goal is to improve the quality and continuity of care for patients. Dr. Ramoni has also led research projects aimed at improving dental care nationwide. She worked on implementing standardized diagnostic terms for dentistry, and developing a patient safety system that would help dentists identify and prevent adverse events.
She is extensively published and her publications have appeared in Birth Defects Research, Epidemiology, Circulation, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Human Genetics, and numerous other journals.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Ramoni about:
Her background; how she developed an interest in science, in dental medicine, in epidemiology, and a little bit of her journey to her leadership role at the VA. A general discussion about the VA, the VA Research and Development purview, and the general model surrounding how VA research is implemented, both intramural and extramural. She shares with us some of the VA research strategic priorities as it pertains research related to COVID, their precision oncology programs, and rare / mystery disorders such as Gulf War Syndrome. A discussion about the Million Veteran Program and it's relation to the NIH "All-of-Us" program. She tells us of important influencers / mentors during the course of Dr. Ramoni's career.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Imam Sheikh Dr. Usama Hasan, PhD, MSc, MA, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Research Consultant at the Tony Blair Institute For Global Change.
Ira Pastor comments:
Today, on the ideaXme show we are going to segue back towards the fascinating intersection of science and spirituality. We are joined by Imam Sheikh Dr. Usama Hasan, most recently Senior Researcher and Head of Islamic Studies at Quilliam International, a think tank and worlds first counter-extremism organization, where he was a founding advisor to the organization since 2008. Dr. Hasan has a PhD. in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London, an MA in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge, and a MSc in Mathematics from King's College, London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and former planetarium lecturer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Before joining Quilliam, Dr Hasan was a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at Middlesex University, a visiting Associate Professor at Pakistan's National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) and a consultant in artificial intelligence throughout UK industry. Fluent in English, Urdu and Arabic, Dr Hasan completed memorizing the entire Qur'an by the age of 11. He has served as a part-time imam since his teens and is a certified transmitter of the Qur'an and Hadith scriptures and has translated a number of Islamic texts into English, including The Islamic Foundation's "Way of the Prophet". Dr. Hasan is regularly featured on international television channels, including BBC, CNN , Sky News, Al-Jazeera and has also written various columns for The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and the Washington Post. Additionally, Dr. Hasan was a member of the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Projecting British Muslims Delegations to Egypt and Afghanistan, a keynote speaker at the Anglo-Syrian government-sponsored conference "The Message of Peace in Islam", and Patron of both the Forum for the Discussion of Israel and Palestine (FODIP) and Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum. Dr. Hasan was also a speaker at the Google Ideas/Council on Foreign Relations Summit Against Violent Extremism.
On this episode we will hear from Imam Sheikh Dr. Hasan about:
- His early background and development of his passionate interest in of a diverse range of interests including the fields of astronomy, information systems, and Islamic studies - An overview of his development as a thought leader, and campaigning, against extremism (and for) religious reform, within Muslim circles - His arguments for the compatibility of evolutionary theory and Islam - A discussion of some of deeper scientific / technological themes, such as AI, cosmology, and robotics and their connection to Islamic teachings - A Islamic view on the topic of transhumanism - A discussion of his future initiatives / plans
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Mr. Evgeni Borisov, CEO and Co-founder of Vimana Global Inc.
Ira Pastor Comments:
A flying car is a type of personal air vehicle, or "road able" aircraft, that provides door-to-door transportation by both ground and air, and was a popular theme in fantasy and science fiction stories throughout the early 20th century. One of the first debuts of a flying car was that of Henry Ford, back in 1926, when he displayed an experimental single-seat airplane. There were a lot of attempts over the 20th century, but activity has ramped up significantly in the early 21st century, and several groups have brought us close to the true flying car ideal: a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft that can hover, take off, and land vertically.
Vimana Global Founded in 2015,Vimana Global Inc.(named after the mythological flying palaces or chariots described in Hindu texts and Sanskrit epics) is developing a hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (AAV). These Autonomous Aerial Vehicles are intended to address traffic congestion in urban areas by using airspace to move cargo throughout a city, allow first responders a way to get to a location quickly, and ultimately transport commuters. Vimana's AAVs will feature automatic compensation for adverse weather, coordinated flight paths with other AAVs, and the ability to detect objects. The design will use modular construction so that the parts can be shipped to dense urban areas and assembled on the spot where the AAVs are intended to be used. Evgeni Borisov Mr. Evgeni Borisov, is the CEO and Co-founder of Vimana Global Inc., and has more than seventeen years of corporate executive experience, including executive work at Toshiba and other deep tech companies. Mr. Borisov leads Vimana's vision for an Autonomous Dynamic Airspace System global roll-out for transportation of both cargo and passengers. The "Airspace-as-a-Service" infrastructure VIMANA is developing makes all aerial vehicles communicate via a proprietary protocol based on distributed UAS Traffic Management (D-UTM) that enables low-altitude airspace to be used globally as a novel transportation infrastructure and transaction network. Mr. Borisov obtained degrees economic and technical sciences from The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, and Ukhta State Oil & Gas University.
On this episode with will hear from Mr. Borisov about: His background, how he conceived of this unique project and it's long-term vision. About Vimana Global Inc., including the founders, idea, mission, and goals. A market overview for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles. Current Autonomous Dynamic Airspace System pilot programs in Russia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Switzerland. Next steps, corporate partnerships, and investment plans.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Shelley Lyford President and Chief Executive Officer of West Health, the Gary and Mary West Foundation, and the West Health Institute.
Growth in Population of Weak and Vulnerable
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the world is on the brink of a demographic milestone. Since the beginning of recorded history, young children have outnumbered their elders. In about 5 years’ time, the number of people aged 65 or older will outnumber children under age 5. Driven by falling fertility rates and remarkable increases in life expectancy, population aging will continue, and even accelerate. The number of people aged 65 or older is projected to grow from an estimated 524 million in 2010 to nearly 1.5 billion in 2050, with most of the increase in developing countries.
Impact of Aging Population
As these trends occur, key questions arise:
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Will population aging be accompanied by a longer period of good health, a sustained sense of well-being, and extended periods of social engagement and productivity, or will it be associated with more illness, disability, and dependency?
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How will aging affect health care and social costs?
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Are these futures inevitable, or can we act to establish a physical and social infrastructure that might foster better health and wellbeing in older age?
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How will population aging play out differently for low-income countries that will age faster than their counterparts have, but before they become industrialized and wealthy?
These are important questions which require answers, and sooner than later.
Billionaire Philanthropists Gary and Mary West
For Gary and Mary West, what started as an entrepreneurial journey in 1978, when they co-founded a small telemarketing company in the garage of their house in Omaha, Nebraska, turned into the multi-billion $$ American telecommunications company / success story, the West Corporation, employing close to 36,000 people
As wonderful an entrepreneurial success story as that was, what happened next is an equally fascinating story, where this amazing couple has taken major parts of their fortune, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in supporting causes, including, but not limited to, senior citizen wellness and cutting the health care costs for the elderly.
Shelly Lyford, West Health and Gary West Foundation
Shelley Lyford is President and Chief Executive Officer of West Health, the Gary and Mary West Foundation, and the West Health Institute.
Solely funded by the philanthropy of Gary and Mary West, West Health is a family of non-profit, nonpartisan organizations dedicated to lowering healthcare costs to enable seniors to successfully "age in place" with access to high-quality, affordable health and support services that preserve and protect their dignity, quality of life, and independence.
With a master’s degree in international relations and political economics from the University of San Diego, Ms. Lyford has played a critical role in establishing the Gary and Mary West Foundation in 2006, and under her leadership, has to date rewarded grants totalling more than $223 million for applied medical research, policy initiatives and community support and social services for seniors and their caregivers.
Ms. Lyford also leads the Gary and Mary West Health Institute as it conducts research on a wide range of healthcare issues affecting seniors and their families.
Ms. Lyford has spearheaded the development of innovative healthcare delivery ecosystems that serve as national care models of excellence, including the Gary and Mary West Senior Emergency Care Unit at University of California, San Diego Health, California’s first nationally-accredited senior-specific emergency department, and the Gary and Mary West PACE organization in north San Diego, a set of gold standard programs, which help seniors age in place, rather than in a nursing home. Additionally, she oversaw the development of the first of its kind, non-profit Gary and Mary West Senior Dental Center to ensure low-income seniors have access to high-quality, affordable dental care integrated with health and wellness services.
Ms Lyford has been involved in setting up many of the organization's research initiatives and collaborations including those with the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Geriatrics Society, Brown University, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Duke University, Meals on Wheels America, Mount Sinai Health System, UC San Diego Health and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In 2019, Ms. Lyford was appointed for a three-year term as a commissioner on the California Commission on Aging, advising the state’s governor and legislature, along with federal, state and local agencies, on issues, policies, and regulations that affect California’s seniors, and subsequently appointed to California’s Master Plan for Aging Stakeholder Advisory Committee.
Ms. Lyford also serves as vice-chair of the board of directors for CivicaRx, a not-for-profit generic drug company helping patients by addressing shortages and lowering the high prices of lifesaving medications.
Prior to her work with Gary and Mary West, Ms. Lyford was a director at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. She currently sits on the Executive Committee of Grantmakers in Aging.
On this episode of ideaXme we will hear from Ms. Lyford about:
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Her background and fascinating path from growing up on a dairy farm in Vermont to running the West Health network of organizations
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The Gary and Mary West story and why they developed their charitable focus on seniors and aging
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The biggest challenges today facing seniors including the themes of "aging-in-place", geriatric emergency care, and senior oral health
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How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted seniors and aging
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How Tele-Health has emerged as an important option during the pandemic and thoughts about the importance of Tele-Health now and into the future for senior care and monitoring
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The California Master Plan for Aging
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The blossoming cost of prescription drugs and what can be done to bring prices down
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Her overall recommendations for reforming the healthcare system and her outlook for aged-care
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Matthew Richardson a Canadian author "Threatened and Recently extinct Vertebrates of the World", primatologist and conservationist.
"My forthcoming book, Threatened and Recently-extinct Vertebrates of the World, required me to assess and place some 15,000 species and subspecies within an updated biogeographic framework. I also had to coin common names for more than 5,000 of them; figure out an entirely new system of ecoregions based on elevation to nest within my "realms and regions." find a way to standardize language across the globe in a way that would be mostly acceptable to everyone; and somehow make it interesting for the reader. It is twice the length of "War and Peace." I've gone through three publishers, it took me ten years to write, and I've received zero funding in the process" Matthew Richardson.
Ira Pastor comments:
He began his professional career as a writer of historical non-fiction, although for the past several years he has mainly worked on academic projects related to wildlife conservation. In 2001 he published "The Royal Book of Lists: An Irreverent Romp Through Royal History from Alfred the Great to Prince William." For much of the next decade he worked as a primatologist and taxonomist for the U.S.-based NGO Conservation International, co-authoring various books and academic papers. Notable among these were Lemurs of Madagascar (book) and the massive primate volume to the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series (for which he also produced all the maps). He also lived and worked, for a time, at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, named after British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter, Gerald Durrell. In addition to his writing and editing activities, he has consulted with scientists the world over on questions of conservation and taxonomy, helped to catalog the Royal Ontario Museum's primatology collection, gave lectures, and served as an active member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group. He currently has a new book in press entitled “Threatened and Recently-extinct Vertebrates of the World: A Biogeographic Approach” (quote from Matthew above).
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Matthew about:
-His background and how he developed a long standing interest in conservation and taxonomy -An introduction to the topic and importance of biogeography studies within conservation -Interesting learnings and trends in his biogeographic studies -The need to reform the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species -The need to focus on wildlife conservation via protecting areas of strategic, biogeographic importance This interview text is in American English. Credits: Ira Pastor interview video, text, and audio. Visit ideaXme: www.radioideaxme.com Contact the founder of ideaXme: andrea@ideaxme.com
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Professor Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro is the Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, of the Department of Systems Innovation, in the Graduate School of Engineering Science, at Osaka University, Japan.
Professor Ishiguro is also the Director of the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), a private company supported by industry, government and academia, with the aim of promoting fundamental and innovative R&D activities, as well as contributing to society in a wide range of telecommunication fields, and is active in such fields as neuro- / knowledge science, intelligent robotics, machine language translation, and wireless communication. He is also Chief Technology Advisor Vstone Co. Ltd., a commercialization / technology transfer organization set up to promote his inventions. Professor Ishiguro's lab works at the intersection of computer vision, robotics and artificial intelligence, concentrating on the idea of making a robot that is as similar as possible to a live human being, and believes it may be possible to build an android in the near future that is indistinguishable from a human, at least during a brief encounter.
Professor Ishiguro received his Ph. D in Robotics and Computer Sciences from Osaka University, and has attended Yamanashi University, Kyoto University, University of California, and Wakayama University, where he has worked in a range of areas from distributed sensor systems and interactive robotics.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Professor Ishiguro about:
-His background
- How he developed an interest in computer science, robotics, and theatre / the arts.
-The end of the information age, the beginning of the robot age, why our brains are wired to relate to human-human interaction, and why we need "humanized" robots
-The Geminoid Project
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A tele-operated android that has similar appearance of an original person, called Geminoid HI-2, modeled after Prof. Ishiguro
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The CommU Support Project for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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His work in Brain-Computer-Robot interfaces and the principle of body ownership transfer, a phenomenon where the operator feels like the robot is part of their own body
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The Robot Performing Arts Project
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Patrick P. Rose, Science Director for Synthetic Biology at the Office of Naval Research Global, as well as Program Manager, Bio-industrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute at United States Department of Defense.
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an organization within the United States Department of the Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Established by Congress in 1946, ONR's mission is to plan, foster, and encourage scientific research to maintain future naval power and preserve national security. The ONR carries out its mission through funding and collaboration with universities, other government laboratories, non-profit and for-profit organizations, and also oversees the Naval Research Laboratory, the corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps which conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development, and has a prestigious history, including the development of the first U.S. radar system, synthetic lubricants, and surveillance satellites.
On the life sciences front ONR has R&D going on in such areas as Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology, Cognitive Science for Human Machine Teaming, Gut Microbiology for Warfighter Resilience, and Synthetic Biology for Naval Applications including Environmental Surveillance and Synthetic Microbial Electronics. Dr. Patrick Rose: Dr. Patrick P. Rose, is Science Director for Synthetic Biology at the Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global), as well as Program Manager, Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute at United States Department of Defense (DoD). Dr. Rose received his PhD in Molecular Microbiology, with a focus on Virology and Cancer, from Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, did post-doctoral work here in Philadelphia at University of Pennsylvania, and has lectured throughout academia and government on a range of themes including, but not limited to, bio-security, public health, domestic preparedness, pandemic and disaster response, and biological and chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction at various institutions including the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security, the National Defense University, and the Africa Center for Strategic Studies.
Dr. Rose joined ONR in 2016 and became the Program Manager, Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute in 2020 (previously known as the Synthetic Biology Manufacturing Innovation Institute) which is dedicated to a range of synthetic biology applications and specifically promises to scale up a new class of manufacturing that will provide the United States with domestic capabilities to manufacture critical resources and provide supply chain security. Synthetic Biology, a field of science that involves redesigning organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have new abilities, has the potential to create entirely new classes of products with defense applications, such as chemicals and materials with advanced properties that could be used in austere environments for the war fighter, but also which may have dual use future commercial potential for innovations in food, agriculture, fuel, pharmaceuticals, and other consumer products, creating opportunities for U.S. manufacturers.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Rose about:
His background; how he became interested in science, in biology, and in molecular microbiology. A discussion of his career in biosecurity and preparedness. A general discussion about ONR and the current and future roles of synthetic biology across the ONR from health, to energy, to material sciences. An overview of the function / goals of the Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute. A discussion of important influencers and mentors over the course of his career.
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Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, fake news and deep fake researcher, and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Nitendra Rajput, VP and Head of Mastercard's AI Garage.
Amanda Christensen Comments:
Artificial intelligence has become a technological buzzword, often solely referred to AI rather than depicting the possibly infinite amount of practical applications that artificial intelligence can actually provide, or the intricacies involved from industry to industry, and region to region. To discuss some of the many applications for artificial intelligence, as well as some of the considerations to be taken into account to create more accurate and less biased machine learning systems, I had the pleasure of speaking with Nitendra Rajput, VP and Head of Mastercard's AI Garage.
Nitendra Rajput Head of Mastercard's AI Garage:
Nitendra Rajput is the Vice President and Head of Mastercard's AI Garage, setting up the centre to enable it to solve problems across various business verticals globally with machine learning processes, increasing efficiencies across the business as well as mitigating instances of fraud. Nitendra has over 20 years experience working in the fields artificial intelligence, machine learning, and mobile interactions, after realising a gap in the market for developing speech recognition systems for vocally-led countries, such as India.
18 years at IBM Research:
Prior to Mastercard's AI Garage, he spent 18 years at IBM Research, working on different aspects of machine learning, human-computer interaction, software engineering and mobile sensing. He then spent 2.5 years at InfoEdge as EVP and Head of Analytics from 2017 to 2019.
On this show you will hear from Nitendra:
About his background; how he developed an interest in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and mobile interactions. An introduction into the work being undertaken at the Mastercard AI Garage. An introduction to the cultural nuances and ethical processes to be considered when developing artificial intelligence and machine learning processes. Current and possible applications for artificial intelligence relating to COVID-19.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Kim Renard Nazel, rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, founding member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rap group N.W.A. as well as a burgeoning, technologist, venture capitalist, startup mentor and business advisor.
Ira Pastor Comments:
Today, we have a fascinating show for you with a set of truly "convergent" themes where we are going to be discussing music, entertainment, technology, innovation, investing, and social and economic equality. We are joined today on ideaXme by Mr. Kim Renard Nazel, also known by his stage names of Arabian Prince and Professor X.
Kim Renard Nazel:
Mr. Nazel is a rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, founding member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rap group N.W.A. as well as a technologist, venture capitalist, startup mentor, and business advisor. Mr. Nazel has wide ranging interests in Animation, 3D FX, music and computer digital technologies, and is CEO of Mik Lezan Music, Owner of Hypnotic FX and One Fader, President of LA First Tech Challenge Southern California Robotics Competition and Founder and Chief Innovator at Inov8 Next, a Silicon Beach, CA based product innovation incubator and technology center, designed to empower the brightest inventors by leveraging the power of industry experience, strategic resources and advanced mentorship. Some of the publically disclosed investments in Mr. Nazel's portfolio include Streoapp, a live streaming app for nightclubs, bars & festivals, Advrtas, an AI (artificial intelligence) driven VR/AR/360 video ad platform, and Covitech, a cloud-based suite of apps to help small-to-medium size businesses access to COVID-19 screening, testing resources and often hard-to-procure protective equipment. Mr. Nazel's passion for technology led to him create a 3D animation and special effects studio in the 1990’s working with companies like Saban Entertainment and Fox, including the creation of 100+ video game titles for Fox interactive and Vivendi Universal.
On this episode of ideaXme we will hear from Mr. Nazel about:
His background; how he successfully navigated the worlds of rap, hip-hop, music production, and technology development (video games, animation and special effects) all while growing up in an environment of gang violence in 1980's Los Angeles. About Inov8Next, the ideas behind its inception, the development of its strong slate of corporate sponsors (Microsoft, Intel, RedBull, etc.) and the mission and visions going forward to help inner city communities with economic distress. The types of companies Inov8Next works with and some investment examples in the areas of education, gaming and digital health. His passion for empowering students and young entrepreneurs, aimed at using business education to help keep youth off the streets. The importance of STEM education in disrupting outdated business models and benefiting under served communities. How rap and hip-hop music as a platform can help spread awareness of the importance of STEM among youth.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Alexandre Kalache, President of the International Longevity Centre-Brazil (ILC-Brazil).
Ira Pastor Comments:
As we continue our virtual road-trip around the globe per the World Health Organization's (WHO) Age Friendly Cities Global Movement, during the WHO defined “Decade of Healthy Aging”, we are headed down to the southern hemisphere to the country of Brazil.
Dr. Alexandre Kalache:
Dr. Alexandre Kalache is a medical epidemiologist specializing in the study of aging, who is the President of the International Longevity Centre-Brazil (ILC-Brazil), an independent think tank based in Rio de Janeiro that develops and promotes policy related to population aging, and Co-President of the Global Alliance of International Longevity Centres, an international consortium of member organizations with a mission to help societies to address longevity and population aging in positive and productive ways. Dr. Kalache graduated from the medical school of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, gained diplomas in infectious and parasitic diseases and medical education, was awarded a master's degree in Social Medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, his PhD in Epidemi ology at the University of London, and had a long academic career at the Universities of London and Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Dr. Kalache's work in Aging:
Dr. Kalache formerly directed the WHO Global Aging Program, known as the Department of Aging and Life Course, at its Geneva headquarters, which resulted in the development of the assessment tool for use by city planners and advocacy groups, known as the Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide. Dr. Kalache was formerly Senior Policy Advisor to the President on Global Aging, New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), a representative to the United Nations for the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Global Ambassador to HelpAge International, Research Chair Professor in Elderly Health Care Development at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Associate Professor at the Andalusian School of Public Health in Granada, Spain, and member of the Brazilian Delegation to the United Nations' Open-Ended Working Group on the Human Rights of Older People.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Kalache about:
His background; how he developed an interest in medicine, in public health, and in aging research. About ILC Brazil and its mission and focus. About his WHO Global Age-Friendly Cities initiatives in Brazil in the cities of Balneário Camboriú, Jaguariúna, Pato Branco, Esteio, Veranópolis, and Porto Alegre. His views on the Covid-19 situation in Brazil, and other developing countries, exploring issues such as unpreparedness, inequalities, lack of resources, ageism, poor scientific understanding from governments, gender and race issues. Interesting biotechnology research occurring in Brazil.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Eduardo Goncalves, founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting.
Ira Pastor comments:
Trophy hunting is hunting of wild game for human recreation. The trophy is the animal, or part of the animal, kept and usually displayed, to represent the success of the hunt. Over the past decade, hunters have taken home over 1.7 million trophies from animals they have killed for sport, more than 200,000 of them which were from animals in danger of going extinct, including 10,000 lions, such as the well publicized case of Cecil the Lion, from the Hwange National Park in Matabeleland, North Zimbabwe.
CITES:
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals. CITES original aim, a few decades ago, was to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants did not threaten the survival of the species in the wild, and it accords varying degrees of protection to more than 35,000 species of animals and plants. The critically most endangered wildlife at risk: However, a loophole in CITES, allows trophy hunters to kill even the most critically endangered wildlife. A poacher cannot kill an elephant to sell its tusks. But a trophy hunter can kill the same elephant and take the same tusks.
Eduardo Goncalves:
Eduardo Goncalves, is Founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, a non-profit group that believes trophy hunting is cruel, archaic, immoral and unjustified, can inflict significant pain and suffering, undermines genuine conservation, and brings no real benefits to local communities.
Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting:
Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting wants to see an immediate halt to the trade in trophies of vulnerable or threatened species, calls on governments to ban trophy hunting and imports/exports of hunting trophies, and believes there should be a comprehensive global agreement banning trophy hunting, with proper enforcement and penalties.
Prior to the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, Mr. Goncalves was CEO of the League Against Cruel Sports, where he led a successful campaign to stop plans to bring back fox-hunting, as well as to persuade the government to increase jail sentences for dog-fighting and breeding and shipping dogs into the UK for organized fights. He has also spent several years with World Wildlife Fund (WWFP) working on forest conservation and sustainability. Mr. Goncalves' wide-ranging career includes spells as a House of Commons researcher, a radio presenter, an investigative journalist, and as the director of a government department in UAE. In the run-up to the Paris Climate Summit, Mr. Goncalves was International Communications Director at The Climate Group, an influential organization set up with the support of then Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as business and political leaders from around the world. Mr. Goncalves is also the author / co-author of several books, including KILLING GAME: The Extinction Industry, TROPHY HUNTERS EXPOSED: Inside the Big Game Industry, "The WWF Pocket Book of One Planet Living", "The Algarve Tiger", and "Blueprint for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World".
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Mr. Goncalves about:
-His background, how he became interested in sustainability and conservation, and why he formed the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting.
-The structure / goals of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, its backers and its strategic partners.
-Misconceptions of the benefits of Trophy Hunting. -The profile / psychology of the Trophy Hunter.
-The CITES loophole and plans to close off.
-About the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting - Botswana Elephants campaign.
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Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Kazuhiro Gomi (Gomi-san), M.S., CEO and President of NTT Research. Discover how this exciting Silicon Valley start-up plans to upgrade reality.
NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) Global:
NTT Global, the parent company of NTT Research, is a top 5 global technology and business solutions provider with operations in 80 countries worldwide. They service 85% of Fortune Global 100 companies and consider themselves as a big contributor to society by applying "technology for good". Their services include digital business consulting, technology and managed services for cybersecurity, applications, workplace, cloud, data centre and networks.
Kazuhiro Gomi:
Gomi-san has worked at NTT for over 20 years, holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and two M.S. degrees - in both Industrial and Electrical Engineering. Currently, Kazuhiro Gomi is CEO and President of NTT Research, a Silicon Valley start-up. Within just a year of its foundation NTT Research has revealed a number of exciting projects including Digital Twins, a platform which focuses in the first instance on reflecting a twin of the human cardio system to predict, manage and optimise individuals' cardio health. Longterm objectives are broader - to combine digital information which reflect the real world to synthesise diverse virtual worlds, generate novel services and "to upgrade reality".
Kazuhiro Gomi's career to date:
2019: President and CEO. NTT Research.
2012: Board of directors, NTT Communications Corp.
2010: President and Chief Executive Officer, NTT America, Inc.
2009: COO, NTT America, Inc. 2004: VP of Global IP Network Business Unit, NTT America, Inc.
2001: VP of Global Business Department, NTT Communications Corp.
1998: Director of General planning, NTT Cyber Communications Laboratory Group.
About NTT Research and their Mission to "Upgrade Reality":
NTT Research launched in July 2019, comes from a rich lineage of ground-breaking research and development. The NTT Research and Development Lab in Tokyo, Japan boasts over 1600 patents.
NTT Research currently hosts 3 Labs - Phi, MEI and CIS Labs all of which collaborate with leading universities working at the forefront of technology. Although most collaborations are with US Universities, there are plans to reach out to collaborate across the world.
NTT Research Phi Lab:
The Phi Lab's mission is to build simple, efficient and practical solvers for real-world problems in human's information-intensive society. Their objective is to rethink “computation” within the fundamental principles of quantum physics and brain science and to develop hardware and software simultaneously. NTT Research MEI Lab:
MEI Lab is dedicated to the medical and health sciences as they relate to Digital Twin Computing (DTC), part of the IOWN initiative. For on-the-ground medical experimentation, DTC is an ideal application. Imagine administering a treatment to one’s digital twin (alter ego) in the cyber world. If the treatment does not work, doctors can move on quickly to a different approach without risk to their human patient.
NTT Research CIS Lab:
The Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Laboratories focusing on technologies and initiatives which include securing people's data.
The CIS Lab is led by NTT Fellow Tatsuaki Okamoto. Its goals is to become the leading cryptography research laboratory in the world. They explore attribute-based encryption, homomorphic encryption, and functional encryption regarding security and privacy. They utilise quantum computing and blockchain keeping an open mind as to the technologies that deliver trust and security for all users in the future.
ideaXme interview with Kazuhiro Gomi: In this interview Gomi-san discusses the successes of the past year at NTT Research. His upcoming plans for the exciting NTT Silicon Valley start up. He talks of NTT's Digital Twin and NTT Global's IOWN projects, his approach to managing NTT Research and supporting some of the world's most brilliant technologists the opportunity to do work that has the potential to "upgrade reality".
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews John Kiff, Senior Financial Sector Expert at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Financial Stability Division in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
Ira Pastor Comments:
So on past shows as we’ve been profiling many of the novel products and technologies being developed by industry, by academia, and by governments on the healthy aging and longevity front, we’ve also taken time to discuss a range of the traditional and novel funding pools emerging to support these programs, from traditional life science venture capital and private equity, to the public stock markets, to innovative prize models, such as UK Research and Innovation's (UKRI) Healthy Ageing Challenge program and the Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.
Today, we are going to stay on this financial theme, but are going to head in a different direction, to talk to a thought leader who is asking the really big questions today, about what the future of global financial stability looks like, especially in a world where technologies may soon allow for "90 to become the new 50." That people are now living longer, due to science and technology, is very desirable and has greatly improved individual welfare. However, there are financial costs of longer life expectancy, for governments through employee retirement plans and social security schemes, for corporate employers with defined-benefit pension plans, for insurers that sell annuities, and for individuals without guaranteed retirement benefits. The financial implications of longevity risk (defined as the financial implications of people living longer than expected) are very large. It is estimated that if average life spans by 2050 were to increase only 3 years more than now expected, the already vast cost of aging would increase by 50 percent, with private defined benefit pension liabilities alone amounting to greater than $23 trillion. The International Monetary Fund (IMF)is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
John Kiff:
John Kiff is a Senior Financial Sector Expert at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Financial Stability Division in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. As part of this team since 2005, he is involved in producing the IMFS semi-annual Global Financial Stability Report, as well as focusing on OTC derivative market infrastructure, securitization, and longevity risk transfer markets. Mr. Kiff is also focused on fintech and digital asset policy issues, including producing the IMF’s monthly Fintech Update, and co-writing staff discussion notes on central bank digital currency. Prior to the IMF, John worked at the Bank of Canada for 25 years, where he spent most of his time managing the funding and investment of the government’s foreign exchange reserves. On this episode we will hear from Mr. Kiff about: His background; how he developed an interest in economics, in central banking, and how he became focused on the topic of longevity risk management. A general introduction to the IMF as well as its relationship with the World Bank. A general discussion about “Longevity Risk” and the tools of Longevity Bonds and Longevity Swaps. A discussion of some other novel financial instruments and strategies for managing Longevity Risk. His work in the areas of digital currencies.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Al Emondi, Program Manager in the Biological Technologies Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US Department of Defense.
Ira Pastor Comments:
Today, we are going to go down the fascinating pathway of advanced neuro-technologies and in doing so, are going to be joined again by our friends from theDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is an agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) which is responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military with a mission to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security, as well as a tangential mission to formulate and execute research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, often beyond immediate U.S. military requirements.
Brain-Computer Interface:
As some background to our discussion, a brain-computer interface (BCI) broadly refers to a neuro-technology that allows for a direct communication pathway between ones brain and an external device. BCIs differ from neuromodulation in that they allow for bidirectional information flow and are often directed at researching, mapping, assisting, augmenting, or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions.
DARPA:
Over the past couple of decades, DARPA has been working on very sophisticated neuro-technologies that rely on surgically implanted electrodes to interface with the central or peripheral nervous systems, demonstrating achievements such as neural control of prosthetic limbs, restoration of the sense of touch to the users of those limbs, relief of otherwise intractable neuropsychiatric illnesses such as depression, and improvement of memory formation and recall. However, due to the inherent risks of surgery, these invasive technologies have so far been limited to use by volunteers with significant clinical need. For the military's population (as well as the eventual civilian population) to benefit from such advanced neuro-technology, novel non-surgical interfaces are going to be required.
Dr. Al Emondi:
Joining us for this fascinating show today is Dr. Al Emondi, Program Manager in the Biological Technologies Office (BTO) at DARPA who is a thought leader in the space and is working at the "bleeding edge" of such possibilities. Dr. Emondi joined DARPA in June 2017 and his focus is on neuro-technology and human-machine interaction. His current work explores novel neural interface system architectures applicable to broad user populations and improving the performance of neural interfaces and their application potential through the use of third-wave artificial intelligence. Dr. Emondi came to DARPA from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPA-WAR) Atlantic, located in Charleston, South Carolina, where he was the Chief Technology Officer for, and served as deputy CTO to the SPA-WAR HQ CTO for the Atlantic region. He also led the science and technology competency, which included personnel focused on basic and applied sciences, technology transition, and technology transfer. Before his tour at SSC Atlantic, he was an early pioneer for software-defined radio research initiatives at the Air Force Research Lab in Rome, New York. Dr Emondi holds a PhD degree in neuroscience and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Syracuse University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Wilkes University.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Emondi about:
His background; how he developed an interest in science, in electrical engineering and neuroscience, and in exploring the frontiers of such a scientific intersection. The goals of DARPA's Next-Generation Non-Surgical Neuro-technology program. The goals of DARPA's Intelligent Neural Interfaces (INI) program and related applications of DARPA's Third-Wave artificial intelligence platform. The goals of the DARPA Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) program seeking to develop high-resolution neuro-technology capable of mitigating the effects of injury and disease on the visual and auditory systems of military personnel. His work in developing Haptic technologies (referring to any technology that can create an experience of touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions to the user), and the Hand Proprioception & Touch Interfaces for Prosthetic Limbs (HAPTIX) program.
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Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, fake news and deep fake researcher andMarketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Ilan Komargodski, Ph.D., Researcher at the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab at NTT Research.
Amanda Christensen Comments:
Data privacy has long been a topic of contention, and the importance of proper security protocols have never been more needed as we individuals, businesses, and governments have been forced to rapidly digitise everyday interactions as a part of lockdown and COVID-prevention procedures. Recent events like the large-scale account hacking on Twitter,as well as heightened concerned over TikTok's use of datahave heightened these concerns in the public eye. However, at present, there is little we can do to completely protect ourselves from giving up our personal information - if you want to access a website, flick through an app, get directions, or any number of the hundreds of minute tasks we perform digitally every day, you're going to be giving up some degree of your personal data to do so. But what if that didn't need to be the case?
Ilan Komargodski, Ph.D.:
To address this topic, I had the pleasure of speaking with Ilan Komargodski, Ph.D., Researcher at the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab at NTT Research.
As a part of the CIS Lab and NTT Research, Ilan and the CIS Lab team model various scenarios that are threatening data privacy and information security, and then use these models to design cryptography tools and protocols to protect user privacy. With data privacy being a key concern across all sectors, the applications of their work is endless, and can help to facilitate technological innovation by reducing, or potentially eliminating, the key concern and barrier of privacy and information security. Through methods like homomorphic encryption, the CIS Lab and NTT Research are also developing new ways to analyse and compute data without compromising data privacy. Ilan started his career as a Software Engineer in the Israeli Army, leaving to pursue both an M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science doing fundamental research in computer science with an emphasis on cryptography. Prior to joining NTT Research, Ilan was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech.
In this episode we will hear from Ilan about:
His background and how he developed an interest in computer science and cryptography. The research being undertaken in the three labs at NTT Research, as well as a deep dive into the the Cryptography & Information Security Lab. A top-level introduction to cryptography and homomorphic encryption.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Michael Levin, Tufts University Professor who holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair in the Biology Department, and who serves as both the Director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology and Director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts.
Ira Pastor comments:
Form is generally defined as the shape and structure of something as distinguished from the materials that it’s constructed from, and the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with the relationships between their structures, is known as morphology. Every level of the human body requires complex form control mechanisms to be functional throughout a lifetime, across the body's many hierarchies (at the levels of DNA, cells, tissues, organs, limbs, and body segments), in order to accomplish a range of biologic outputs from embryogenesis, to growth, repair and regeneration, to preventing everything from tumor formation to transitions into a range of degenerative disease, to even neuro-plasticity in the human brain. Yet, when it comes to topics like shape, size, polarity, position, where the properties and characteristics of the component parts of a system and the reciprocal interplay of all the components on each across these hierarchies are required, researchers need to go well beyond studying an individual gene or protein or stem cell, to a range of fascinating top-down control processes which control complex biological morphology.
Today, we have the honor of being joined by a true thought leader of this space, Dr. Michael Levin, Tufts University Professor who holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair in the Biology Department, and who serves as both the Director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology and Director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts.
Dr. Levin Researches the Utilization of Bio-electricity for Regeneration:
Dr. Levin’s group's focus is on understanding the biophysical mechanisms that implement decision-making during complex pattern regulation and harnessing endogenous bioelectric dynamics toward rational control of growth and form. Dr. Levin's lab current focus: • Understanding how somatic cells form bioelectrical networks for storing and recalling pattern memories that guide morphogenesis. • Creating next-generation AI tools for helping scientists understand top-down control of pattern regulation (a new bioinformatics of shape). • Using these insights to enable new capabilities in regenerative medicine and engineering. Dr. Levin's recent honors include the Scientist of Vision award and the Distinguished Scholar Award.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Levin about:
His background and how he became interested in computer science, biology, and the extremely frontier science space of biological morphology control. The introductory concept of a “Morphogenetic Field.” An introduction to the theme of "Developmental Bioelectricity" which refers to the regulation of cell, tissue, and organ-level patterning and behavior as the result of endogenous electrically-mediated signaling. A general theme of the ability of morphogenetic fields and developmental bio-electricity to organize in/out required cells, as well as modify the diseased phenotype, as seen in his experiments in “normalizing” cancer. A general theme of the ability of morphogenetic fields and developmental bioelectricity to accomplish complex regeneration. His views on developmental bioelectricity modulating drugs versus using electroceuticals. His model of "Variational Free-Energy Minimization" as a way for human bodies to store complex pattern information. His work in "non-CNS" information processing, storage, and cognition - such as in aneural organisms which do not possess brains, in non-neural human tissues, and in single cell organisms that agglomerate to form multi-cellular structures, like slime moulds. His experiences in fundraising for frontier sciences, such as with The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group (the late Microsoft co-founder) whose mission is to "uncover and make visible the emerging frontiers of science, identifying pioneering explorers to create new knowledge, and produce important solutions that make the world better."
This interview is in American English
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Karen Potter, Director of Sustainability Hub and ideaXme sustainability ambassador interviews Christoph Promberger, M.Sc., Executive Director Foundation Conservation Carpathia (FCC).
Karen Potter comments:
In 2009, the Foundation Conservation Carpathia was founded by a dozen international philanthropists and conservationists with the goal to stop illegal logging and to protect a significant surface of Carpathian forests to form a completely protected area. The FCC was founded in response to the restitution of formerly nationalised forests to private citizens in Romania. This process triggered massive clear-cuts and thousands of hectares of forests were illegally logged, posing a severe threat to the integrity of the Carpathian ecosystem. Wilderness is disappearing globally at an alarming rate, less than 2% of Europe’s surface is still in its original state and the Carpathian Mountains form some of the largest contiguous forests on the continent with the highest percentage of still virgin woodlands; they contain an extraordinarily high number of species.
Karen is a passionate environment and sustainability campaigner leading Government and Parliamentary efforts to promote Net Zero policy solutions as well as lead on COP26, business, community and civic action. She is a project development specialist with extensive experience in designing and delivering new initiatives to promote sustainability, social responsibility, smart energy, the Green Recovery and clean tech investment. She is highly experienced in government, NGO and public sector communications, building and managing senior stakeholder relations and media engagement.
Christoph Shares His Journey of Managing the Yellowstone Park of Europe:
In this interview, Christoph shares his journey from local conservationist to head of the largest conservation project in Romania. Christoph and his wife Barbara started their efforts to protect the Carpathia Mountains against illegal logging and poaching. Romania was losing national forest on a daily basis as logging corruption was rampant. Christoph and Barbara became inspired to fight corruption at the highest level and developed an international network of support which enabled them to purchase the land and protect the habitat. Christoph, Barbara and a team of experts now manage an area they have dubbed the Yellowstone of Europe.
Interview credits: Karen Potter, ideaXme sustainability ambassador.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Debra Houry, MD, MPH, the Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the U.S. CDC.
Ira Pastor comments:
On the U.S. Center’s for Disease Control (CDC) "Ten Leading Causes of Death" list, right beneath the two major categories of heart disease and cancer, there is a category called "Unintentional Injuries" which cumulatively took the lives of over 167,000 Americans in 2018. This category consists of a variety of subcategories such as poisoning, traffic accidents, falls, suffocation, drownings, and fire, just to name a few.
When one goes to visit a parallel list, the "Ten Leading Causes of Non-Fatal Emergency Department Visits" (a non-fatal injury defined as bodily harm resulting from severe exposure to an external force or substance, including mechanical, thermal, electrical, chemical, or radiant, or a submersion), the numbers go through the proverbial roof, with over 25 million cases reported in the U.S. alone in 2018, with combined direct and indirect costs approaching ¾ Trillion dollars per year. Globally these numbers are equally staggering.
Preventing Injury, Violence and Fatalities:
Dr. Debra Houry, MD, MPH, is the Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the U.S. CDC. In this role, Dr. Houry leads innovative research and science-based programs to prevent injuries and violence and to reduce their consequences. Prior to joining CDC, Dr. Houry previously served as Vice-Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and as Associate Professor in the Departments of Behavioral Science and Health Education and in Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Houry also served as an Attending Physician at Emory University Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital and as the Director of Emory Center for Injury Control. Her prior research has focused on injury and violence prevention in addition to the interface between emergency medicine and public health, and the utility of preventative health interventions and screening for high-risk health behaviors. Dr. Houry has received several national awards for her work in the field of injury and violence prevention. She was recently elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), received the first Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award from the Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma, and the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine’s Researcher Award. She is past president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, and Emory University Senate. Dr. Houry has served on numerous other boards and committees within the field of injury and violence prevention. Dr. Houry has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on injury prevention and violence. Dr. Houry received her MD and MPH degrees from Tulane University and completed her residency training in emergency medicine at Denver Health Medical Center.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Houry about:
Her background and how she developed an interest in science, medicine and emergency medicine, and her journey towards her leadership role at U.S. CDC. A general discussion surrounding the "pandemic scale" of injury, both intentional and unintentional, both fatal and non-fatal, and the structures set up at CDC to address these amazing prevalence figures. The CDC's role in combating the opioid epidemic. The CDC's role in combating Unintentional Falls (representing 8+ million of the above-mentioned Nonfatal Emergency Department Visits) and some discussion related to the technological themes of "aging in place" and "smart home care" for the elderly that can help reduce these cases. She will also discuss the CDC's role in combating Sexual Violence and Child Abuse and combating U.S. Gun Violence.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews George "Monk" Foreman III; entrepreneur, professional boxer, trainer, coach, and Founder of Everybody Fights.
Ira Pastor Comments:
We're honored to be joined by Mr. George "Monk" Foreman III; entrepreneur, professional boxer, trainer, coach, son of businessman and former two-time heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, and founder of Everybody Fights, a rapidly expanding chain of high-end, state-of-the-art boxing and fitness gyms. George "Monk" Foreman III: With degrees in Kinesiology and Exercise Science from Rice University, and a Business degree from Pepperdine University, after compiling a record of 16–0 (with 15 knockouts) as a professional boxer, George III went on to serve as the Business Manager of his father's consumer products empire and Executive Vice President of George Foreman Enterprises, Inc., before venturing out on his own to start the Everybody Fights chain.
On this episode, we will hear from Mr. Foreman about:
His background; what it was like growing up in a family of 12 siblings (5 of them also named George), about his early days in running his father's community boxing center, and his initial journey into the world of amateur and professional boxing. What was it like growing up, being trained by, and working as a business partner with his father, former two-time heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman. His journey from a big, established family business to a startup of his own to build from scratch. The expanding public interest in the sport of boxing for fitness and self-defense in people of all ages, especially the aging population. Key learnings from the world of professional boxing that he applies towards the business world.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Matt Kaeberlein, Professor of Pathology, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Oral Health Sciences at the University of Washington.
Dr. Matt Kaeberlein's Cross Species Aging Research:
Dr. Matt Kaeberlein, is Professor of Pathology, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Oral Health Sciences at the University of Washington. With a PhD from MIT in Biology, and post-doctoral work in the Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, his research interests are focused on basic mechanisms of aging in order to facilitate translational interventions that promote healthspan and improve quality of life. Dr. Kaeberlein has published nearly 200 papers in top scientific journals and has been recognized by several prestigious awards, including a Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award, an Alzheimer’s Association Young Investigator Award, an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award, a Murdock Trust Award, a Pioneer in Aging Award, and the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research. Dr. Kaeberlein's contributions have also been recognized with Fellow status in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Aging Association, and the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Kaeberlein is a past President of the American Aging Association and has served on their Executive Committee and Board of Directors since 2012. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and is currently the Chair of the Biological Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America.
Dr. Kaeberlein serves on the editorial boards for several journals, including Science and eLife. Dr. Kaeberlein’s scientific discoveries have generated substantial public interest, with featured stories in major media outlets including appearing on the front page of the New York Times, the Today Show, CNN, the UK Telegraph, Popular Science, Time Magazine, Scientific American, NPR, USA Today, National Geographic, and many others. In addition to his primary appointments, Dr. Kaeberlein is the co-Director of the University of Washington Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, the founding Director of the Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute at the University of Washington, and founder and co-Director of the Dog Aging Project.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Kaeberlein about: His background and how he developed an interest in genomics, in biology, and in aging. His strategy in studying the "conserved" mechanisms of aging across organisms including yeast, nematodes, mice, and dogs. His studies with the drug Rapamycin in rejuvenating oral health in aging mice. His studies on the purification and analysis of nematode extracellular vesicles and their roles in studying the bio-markers of health and disease. His studies on systems biology in yeast to help illuminate mechanisms of personalized aging. His dog aging studies where he will be studying up to 10,000 dogs, in a 10-year effort aimed at tracking their health and identifying factors that can lengthen their lifespan.
This interview is in American English
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Tali Ramsey, ideaXme guest interviewer and society, culture and youth commentator interviews Efe Ezekiel, BEM Youth Mentor, Inspirational Speaker and Founder of Youth Mentoring Company, Ushine Ishine.
Crises Are Times for Transformation We’ve reached a global tipping point. “Unless we take the action necessary and we build in a greener and more sustainable and more inclusive way, we will end up having more and more pandemics and more and more disasters,” urges Prince Charles while discussing The Great Reset.
In the last 6 months the Covid-19 pandemic has irrevocably changed the way we live. Across the world it has resulted in millions of deaths, mass unemployment and job uncertainty. The air we breathe has cleared. Blue skies watch above as millions abandon their cars to stay home and protect themselves and others.
Cycle lanes have opened up to transform city life. We’ve connected with many more people over the internet, conversely living physically more apart. Pressured humans are forced to think more creatively; to survive, invent and change. It is the rocky road of the new normal.
The New Normal There's no doubt that we are being compelled to think better, learn more about the rapidly changing world around us. This time has made us question the truth, question ourselves. We evaluate our politicians with new clarity. Moreover, realise the importance of our scientists not just as academics but as lifesavers.
It is a watershed moment, a reminder of the critical importance of lifelong learning, the impact our choices make, the brands we buy, the experience we have, the politicians we select.
The Great Reset to Address World Challenges Historic flaws in our society are also being revisited with greater intensity. Change in our circumstances is pressuring society. We are seeing our old flaws and indolence with renewed clarity. Racism is no longer acceptable. And people are on the march. Black Lives Matter protestors across the world are demanding change!
Climate Change and The Great Reset All of this and of course there remains the need to act on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, climate change the most pressing. The climate catastrophe is reaching its climax, with experts predicting that we only have six months to save the planet. Widespread civil disobedience is proving that people are no longer willing to tolerate an imbalance in society.
The Great Reset, initiated by The World Economic Forum in partnership with Prince Charles is calling for a reset of capitalism to create a greener, smarter and fairer world, led by The West that focuses on the ‘interdependence of all living things.’
This will be spearheaded by stakeholder capitalism, centred on serving the interests of a business’s stakeholders such as the customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders and local communities. In short, the Reset works towards world governments creating a ‘stakeholder economy,’ as well as implementing reforms that promote more equal outcomes as well as utilising the Fourth Industrial Revolution and tech innovation for public good, such as addressing health and social issues.
Published at the start of June, the World Economic Forum's objective is to create a global system that ensures health, education and care services will not be underfunded again. The Great Reset will be discussed at the World Economic Forum summit in January 2021.
Efe Ezekiel Is an Award-Winning Youth Mentor The Great Reset means that we have a lot of work to do. We need to prepare our children for what is coming next.
Efe Ezekiel created her youth mentoring company, Ushine Ishine in 2009 aiming to assist and awaken aspirations in young people of all ages. Efe’s mission to empower the youth has led her to work with schools, colleges, universities, corporations and charities as well as delivering workshops that endeavour to positively transform the mindset of young people.
In 2018, Efe received a British Empire Medal (BEM) for her service to young people. She has been featured in The Financial Times for her work with working-class boys and assisting them in acquiring various life skills. Efe believes that the younger generation has a completely new perspective to offer society and there has never been a time that young people haven’t been told to be quiet.
A Call for Institutional Change A key point of The Great Reset is addressing the ever-growing gap between the rich and the poor. US senators have been accused of coronavirus insider trading in America and the super-rich have seen their wealth rise by billions during the pandemic. This only highlights how this crisis has actually strengthened this gap. As much as we are seeing unfair racial disparities, there are obvious disparities with class.
The Black Lives Matters protests, in particular, have signalled need for institutional change. In Minneapolis, nine members of the city council have vowed to dismantle the city’s police department and replace it with a new community-based system of public safety. A big part of the ‘defund the police’ campaign is about allocating those funds to education.
What Does Youth Activism Look Like? Millennials have lived through two recessions at two pivotal points in their lives and Gen Z are graduating during this crisis, facing much smaller employment opportunities than the previous generations. Trust in governments and media is eroding as people question where the oligarchs in charge have steered society thus far.
This deterioration of trust has caused a wave of youth activism fuelled by the internet. From calling out and destroying unethical companies on social media to spreading news of protests online. The youth aren’t waiting to inherit a world given to them and instead are taking the future into their own hands.
On this show Efe Ezekiel will talk about: How the lockdown has exasperated mental health and wellbeing issues for some young people and the importance of getting children back into school and routine. She will discuss how all young people can benefit from mentorship, the value of economic education, putting Black history on the curriculum and why she should be at the next World Economic Forum summit in 2021.
This interview is in British English
Credit: Tali Ramsey
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Florian Brand, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ATAI Life Sciences AG. Ira Pastor Comments: On a few recent episodes, we have journeyed into the area psychedelic therapies, which broadly refers to specific therapeutic practices involving pharmacotherapeutic interventions based on psychedelic drugs In psychedelic therapy, in contrast to conventional psychiatric medication taken by the patient regularly or as-needed, patients generally remain in an extended psychotherapy session during the acute psychedelic activity, with additional sessions both before and after, in order to help integrate experiences with the specific drug. Some of our guests on previous episodes who we have discussed specific drug development programs with have included: Dr. Ekaterina Malievskaia MD, Chief Innovation Officer, Co-founder, and Research and Development Director at COMPASS Pathways, currently researching how psilocybin therapy could help people with disorders such as treatment-resistant depression. Dr. Deborah Mash, University of Miami, discussing ibogaine derived therapeutics for opioid addiction withdrawal. Dr. Dennis McKenna, famed American ethnopharmacologist, discussing the entheogenic brew Ayahuasca which is highly rich in the compound Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Today, we are going to go to the next level and talk about how an industrial and investment ecosystem is being developed around this on-going research domain to enable clinical, registrational, and large-scale human use of such products across the patient population. ATAI Life Sciences: ATAI Life Sciences AG (ATAI named after the Africian goddess of creation) is a global biotechnology investment platform and company builder, based in Berlin, London and New York, with a vision of curing a wide range of mental health disorders, enabling people to live healthier and happier lives. ATAI focuses on investing in and developing paradigm-shifting and formerly stigmatized compounds, with prior evidence for efficacy and safety, in humans. Florian Brand is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ATAI Life Sciences and is our guest on the show today. Prior to joining ATAI, Florian was Managing Director of Springlane, Germany’s leading online kitchen appliance retailer. Florian’s experiences seeing his friends and loved ones failed by the mental health system inspired him to join the movement to transform the way we discover and develop novel neuropsychiatric therapeutics. On this episode we will hear from Florian about: His background, education and journey in the business world, and arrival at the epicenter of psychedelic therapy investment and business development. The current state of the psychedelic drug development segment. ATAI's strategy in developing poly-pharmacological drugs that have been de-risked and boast long history of positive anecdotal evidence. Some of ATAI Life Sciences investments and partnerships. The current investment market for psychedelic drug development business models. Regulatory issues surrounding psychedelic drug development. Credits: Ira Pastor interview video, text, and audio. Follow Ira Pastor on Twitter: @IraSamuelPastor Follow ideaXme on Twitter: @ideaxm On Instagram: @ideaxme Find ideaXme across the internet including on iTunes, SoundCloud, Radio Public, TuneIn Radio, I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dean Stott, former British Special Forces soldier, adventurer, philanthropist, author of "Relentless", international speaker, and two time world record holder.
Ira Pastor Comments:
Today we have the honor to be joined on the show by Mr. Dean Stott, former British Special Forces soldier, adventurer, philanthropist, author, international speaker, and two time world record holder in biking on the longest motor road in the world – The Pan American Highway. Dean Stott: Relentless Pursuit of Excellence "By Strength and Guile!": Dean was one of the very first army members to join the Special Boat Service (SBS), which is the special forces unit of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy, and throughout his esteemed military career, conducted deployments to various overseas hostile environments and has been involved in counter-terrorism operations worldwide. Since leaving the military in 2011, after 16 honorable years of service, Dean established a distinguished career in the private security sector where he was renowned for his willing to take on any job, regardless of the level of danger, and would go many places when others would not. Dean has faced extortion, kidnapping, civil war, pirates, military coups and was single handedly responsible for the evacuation of the Canadian Embassy in 2014, rescuing 4 diplomats and 18 military personnel.
Dean's "Civilian" Life:
In 2016, he was ready for a new project where he wanted to use his skills to help others in the civilian world and began training to cycle the longest motor road in the world, the Pan American Highway, for charity purposes. He completed the gruelling 14,000 mile route from Argentina to Alaska in May 2018, and gained two world records and raised an incredible amount of money for mental health charity in the process, passing through 14 countries on his expedition and crossing some of the most dangerous passages in the world.
Dean Stott: "Relentless!":
Dean is now a renowned international speaker, presenting to global companies, sporting bodies, military departments, schools and businesses. Dean continues to live by the Special Forces’ ethos of ‘the unrelenting pursuit of excellence’. He emphasizes his belief that, with the right mindset and plan, the impossible simply means it hasn’t been done yet.
Relentless, by Dean Stott https://www.waterstones.com/book/relentless/dean-stott/9781472266897 :
Dean published Relentless, in 2019 – a book that recounts his experiences and life as a Special Boat Services soldier and when faced with the impossible, he proves that anything is possible.
On this ideaXme episode we hear from Dean about:
His background; where he grew up, his interest in going into military service, and his journey into the special forces. The need for elite soldiers to have strong "mental resilience" along with physical resilience to be successful. His physical injury that resulted from high-altitude, high-opening free-fall parachute jump (a technique used to airdrop personnel at high altitudes when aircraft are unable to fly above enemy skies without posing a threat to the jumpers) which required him to retire from the military and return and adjust to “civilian” life. The development of his own private security company and missions in countries such as Libya and the UAE. His Pan American Highway adventures. His work with at the Heads Together mental health campaign, spearheaded by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, focusing on both civilian and military mental health stigmas and awareness.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Chris Lunt, Chief Technology Officer of the All of Us Research Program run by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Ira Pastor Comments Precision medicine refers to the tailoring of medical treatments to the individual characteristics of each patient and away from the predominant “one-size-fits-all” approach of the last century, with the ability to classify individuals into sub-populations that differ in their susceptibility to a particular disease, the biology or prognosis of those diseases they may develop and their response to a specific treatment. Preventive or therapeutic interventions can then be concentrated on those who will benefit, sparing expense and side effects for those who will not. To make precision medicine a reality, requires extremely large and diverse patient data sets, and the ability to pull actionable information from these data sets. All of Us The All of Us Research Program (previously known as the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program) is a research program run by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and created in 2015 during the presidency of Barack Obama with $130 million in initial funding that aims to make advances in tailoring medical care to the individual. The mission of All of Us is to accelerate health and medical breakthroughs, enabling individualized prevention, treatment and care. The project aims to collect genetic, lifestyle, environmental, and metabolomic data, from one million volunteers, over the course of their lifespans, to accelerate research and improve health outcomes, including (but not limited to) information about personal lifestyle and environment, electronic health records, bio-samples (blood, urine, etc), genomic data, physical measurements, data gathered by wearable devices (Fitbit) and smart phones, and clinical trial data.
Chris Lunt:
Today we have the honor of being joined on ideaXme by Chris Lunt, a veteran technology executive with experience in Silicon Valley and the federal government, and current Chief Technology Officer for the NIH All of Us Research Program. In his CTO role, Chris leads the efforts to build an engagement and digital data platform intended to enable thousands of studies to be performed on the data, creates partnerships nationwide to develop technologies that securely gather and integrate that data into for broad research use, and develops analytic approaches and visualization methods that allow researchers of many types to explore and understand the All of Us data set. Chris joins the NIH from Get Insured, where he served as the vice president of government solutions for the past 4 years. There he worked with the federal government, states, and the vendor community to improve health insurance shopping and enrolment systems. Previously, Chris worked as an HHS entrepreneur. He has also served as the Vice President of engineering at Readyforce, the Chief Executive Officer of Nombray, the founder and Vice President of engineering at Wisdom Ark, and the senior director of engineering at Friendster.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Chris about: His background; how he became interested in information technology, search engine development, social network development, and ultimately arrived at the leadership of this "mega project" integrating info-tech and healthcare. The general structure of the NIH All of Us Research Program. The data collection process and data use process of the NIH All of Us Research Program. Data privacy process of the NIH All of Us Research Program. The implications for advances in precision medicine learnings to lead towards more "personalized medicine" (i.e. treatments and preventions developed uniquely for each individual). His future visions on "what it means to be human in the coming decades" and transhumanism.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Wei-Wu He, Ph.D, Executive Chairman of Human Longevity Inc (HLI).
Ira Pastor Comments:
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calls chronic degenerative disease “the public health challenge of the 21st Century,” especially as 75% of our healthcare spending is on people with chronic degenerative conditions, which are the leading causes of death and disability. Preventative healthcare consists of measures taken for chronic disease prevention. Disease and disability are affected by numerous factors (including the environment, genetic predisposition, disease causative agents, and lifestyle choices), are dynamic processes which begin before individuals realize they are affected, and if we could intervene earlier, we could have significant impact not only on the deaths that could have been prevented, but also the lifelong disability, compromised quality of life, and burgeoning healthcare costs.
Dr. Wei-Wu He:
Dr. Wei-Wu He, Ph.D has been serving as the Executive Chairman of Human Longevity Inc (HLI), a company merging extensive amounts of human genotype and phenotype data with machine learning so that it can help develop new ways to fight and prevent diseases associated with aging), since July 2019. Dr. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine and received an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. Prior to HLI, Dr. He was the CEO of OriGene Technologies, Inc. a company founded as a research tool enterprise focused on the creation of the largest commercial collection of full-length human cDNAs which helps develop products for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic research, and he remains the chairman of the board of directors. Dr. He also is the founder and General Partner of Emerging Technology Partners, LLC (ETP), a life sciences focused venture fund established since 2000. Dr. He has been involved in founding or funding over 60 biotech companies throughout his career, some of which went on to be acquired by significantly larger firms. In the earlier part of his career, Dr. He was one of the first few scientists at Human Genome Sciences, and prior to that, was a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Mayo Clinic. Dr. He is an author to more than 30 research publications and inventor of over 32 issued patents.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. He about:
His Background - how he developed an interest in science, in molecular biology and in cancer biology. Why he transitioned from bio-medical research into venture capital. The HLI "Health Nucleus" program which integrates whole-genome sequencing with advanced imaging and blood metabolomics, to identify adults at risk for key health conditions associated with age-related chronic conditions including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, chronic liver disease, and neurological disorders. The HLI microbiome / virome research focus. HLI's new corporate venture fund initiatives and investments it is making in supportive health and wellness tools.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews, Naveen Jain, M.B.A, BS, Founder and CEO at Viome as well as founder of several companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius and InfoSpace.
Ira Pastor comments: On this ideaXme episode, we are going to head back towards the theme of the human micro-biome, which represents the estimated 100 trillion aggregate of all microbiota (bacteria, fungi, protists, viruses, etc. ) that reside on, within, or symbiogenically as part of the human body, and their downstream effects on human health, wellness, and longevity.
Naveen Jain Believes in Using Food as Medicine:
Naveen Jain is a philanthropist, technology pioneer and entrepreneur, driven to solve global grand challenges through innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius and InfoSpace, and Viome, which is the topic of today's episode. Viome is focused on disrupting healthcare with the goal of “making illness elective”, by identifying microbial bio-markers that are predictive of chronic diseases, and adjusting the microbial imbalance through personalized nutrition, in essence making illness truly a matter of choice, and not a matter of bad luck, using foods as a medicine.
Personalized Healthcare:
Through Biotech and AI Mr. Jain is also director of the board at the Singularity University where he is focused on educating and inspiring leaders to address humanity’s grand challenges through innovative technologies. Mr. Jain is a director of the board at the XPRIZE Foundation where he is focused on using incentive prizes to find solutions to many of the societal challenges and recently launched a million-dollar Women Safety XPRIZE to empower women around the world. He has been awarded numerous honors for his entrepreneurial successes including, but not limited to, the “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year”, the “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for pioneers in technology, the “Ellis Island Medal of Honor”, and the "Most Creative Person” award by Fast Company.
In addition to Viome, on the life sciences/biotech front, Mr. Jain is in the process of setting up an incentive prize challenge to develop “Digital Doctor” (AI based expert system) to improve access to primary care physicians around the world. He is also exploring ways to develop a neurometric system to create better learners and to develop neuroscience based multi-sensory video games that are effective and additive to teach students skills like math, science and history. Mr. Jain is also a strong believer that we should be doing a lot more on the synthetic biology front, creating living bio-factories to reduce global shortages of food, and use microbes to help with cleaning water and generating energy from plentiful resources like ocean water.
On this ideaXme episode, we will hear from Mr. Jain about:
His background, how he developed an interest in engineering, and about his info-tech business success in the "pre-Viome" era. Why he made the jump into the risky biotech industry. Viome's business model, products, and services. Viome's collaboration with the Mayo Clinic on AI-driven personalized nutritional strategies to help understand sleep and obesity. Viome's collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to develop vaccine-based therapies to help prevent and treat chronic diseases. The state of the biotechnology financing world. His Moon Express initiatives.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. the Founder and Chairman of Compassion Institute, and the principal author of Compassion Cultivation Training.
Ira Pastor Comments:
"Compassion" is broadly defined as sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others, involves allowing ourselves to be both 1) moved by the suffering and 2) experience the motivation to help alleviate and prevent it.
Dr. Thupten Jinpa:
Dr. Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. the Founder and Chairman of Compassion Institute, and the principal author of Compassion Cultivation Training, the Institute’s flagship compassion education offering, developed while Dr. Jinpa was at Stanford University, which integrates insights and techniques from psychology, neuroscience, and contemplative practice. Dr. Jinpa trained as a monk at the Shartse College of Ganden Monastic University, South India, where he received the Geshe Lharam degree. Jinpa also holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in religious studies, both from Cambridge University. Dr. Jinpa is also extremely well known for his public role has been the principal English translator to His Holiness The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, since 1985, and has translated and collaborated on numerous books by the Dalai Lama including the New York Times Bestsellers "Ethics for the New Millennium" and "The Art of Happiness", as well as “Towards a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together.” Dr. Jinpa’s own publications include works in Tibetan, English translations of classical Tibetan texts, and books, “Self, Reality, and Reason in Tibetan Philosophy,” “Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit’s Quest for the Soul of Tibet” and “A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives.” Dr. Jinpa's latest book is “Tsongkhapa: A Buddha in the Land of Snows,” a modern biography of one of Tibet's greatest masters released in November for the 600th anniversary of his nirvana.
A frequent speaker at various international conferences on mindfulness, compassion, and contemplative practice, Dr. Jinpa also serves as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal and is the founder and president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. He has been a core member of the Mind and Life Institute and its Chairman of the Board since January 2012.
On this ideaXme show we will hear from Dr. Jinpa about:
His background and about the definition of compassion and how it is connected with happiness. About Compassion Cultivation Training. The application of compassion meditation towards intervention in chronic pain and stress reduction. About the application of compassion meditation towards improving longevity / healthspan. The Dalai Lama's views on fighting Coronavirus With Compassion. About the Dalai Lama's thoughts on transhumanist topics such as Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Aging / Life Extension.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews, Dr. Marcus Remmers, PhD, Chief Technology Officer at DSM.
Ira Pastor comments:
As we continue upon our core themes of health, wellness, and longevity, amongst the unique aging demographic shifts occurring in the coming decades, we can’t overlook the importance of the global chemicals industry in coming up with novel solutions for the world's population. Central to the modern world economy, the global chemicals industry comprises a $4 trillion industry which converts a variety of raw materials into more than 70,000 different products. Holistic Health Life sciences chemicals (about 30% of the dollar output of the chemistry business) include a wide variety of differentiated chemical and biological substances, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, animal health products, vitamins, and agricultural products. Speciality chemicals, representing another 10%, are a broad range of higher value materials used on the basis of their performance or function, and may include, but are not limited to such classes as adhesives, colors, fragrances, industrial gases, lubricants, paints, polymers, and surfactants. Royal DSM, commonly known as DSM, is a Dutch multinational active in the fields Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living. Headquartered in the Netherlands, DSM employs over 21,000 people, in approximately 50 countries, and has annual sales of around €9 billion.
Dr. Marcus Remmers:
We’re honored today to be joined by Dr. Marcus Remmers, Chief Technology Officer at DSM, who is responsible for DSM’s global Science and Technology portfolio. Dr. Remmers graduated in Chemistry at the Universities of Münster and Freiburg, completed his Doctorate Thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Chemistry in Mainz, and did post graduate research at Stanford, Caltech and Cambridge.
Dr. Remmers has strong knowledge and experience in polymer and life sciences R&D, business operations, business development, strategy and change management. Dr. Remmers started his career with Hoechst/Intervet in several managerial roles. In 2001, he joined Merial Ltd. (the animal health division of Merck, and then Sanofi), where he had roles in Business Development, Country Management, Project and Portfolio Management and R&D in Pharma and Biologics. In April 2017, Dr. Remmers became Chief Technology Officer of DSM, where he works to secure the company’s technology position and at the same time execute on a mission for "purpose-led innovation", developing disruptive business models for not just profits, but for sustainability, where future leaders will need purpose in their hearts, not just their heads, as they develop the next generation of products for humanity.
On this show we will hear from Dr. Remmers about:
His background, how he became interested in science, in chemistry, and ultimately how he worked his way into the leadership roles of some of the world's largest chemical and pharma companies. His experience/learnings/contrasts between the pharmaceuticals business and the chemicals business. The importance of AI/data management in the development of new chemical products and holistic nutrition such as in the case of DSM’s "personalized nutrition platform". The topic of “Aging in Place” from a chemicals industry perspective and how the development of materials that are lighter, stronger and more durable, can enhance the ability of the elderly to live in their own homes and communities safely, independently, and comfortably. About the role of sustainability in a purpose-led, innovation focused organization.
This interview is in American English.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Andrei Gudkov, PhD, DSci, pre-eminent cancer researcher who serves as Senior Vice President, Research Technology and Innovation, Chair of the Department of Cell Stress Biology, and a member of the senior leadership team for National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center Support Grant at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Ira Pastor comments:
As we continue on our path through the topics of the diseases of aging and healthy longevity, we are going to take a fascinating journey upstream from many of the hallmarks and forms of damage found in aging tissues, to one of the very interesting drivers of aging processes, namely the RetroElement space (termed the "retrobiome" by our guest). The retrobiome comprises a considerable fraction of eukaryotic genome, which for a long time was overlooked as "junk DNA", but in recent years is now realized to have important influence on genome functioning, and where inappropriate activation can serve as an internal clock mechanism determining aging and chronic disease progression.
Dr. Andrei Gudkov:
Dr. Andrei Gudkov, PhD, DSci, is a pre-eminent cancer researcher who serves as Senior Vice President, Research Technology and Innovation, Chair of the Department of Cell Stress Biology, and a member of the senior leadership team for National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center Support Grant at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Gudkov is responsible for building on the basic and translational research strengths of the Cell Stress Biology program in DNA damage and repair, photodynamic therapy, thermal and hypoxic stress and immune modulation. Dr. Gudkov assists the President and CEO at Roswell Park in developing and implementing strategic plans for new scientific programs and to enhance collaborations in research programs with regional and national academic centers as well as with industry.
Increasing Lifespan in Humans and Dogs:
Before joining Roswell Park, Dr. Gudkov served as chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics at Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Professor of biochemistry at Case Western University. He earned his doctoral degree in Experimental Oncology at the Cancer Research Center, USSR and a Doctorate of Science (D.Sci) in Molecular Biology at the Moscow State University, USSR. He has authored or co-authored 135 scientific articles and holds 27 patents. Dr. Gudkov is also a serial entrepreneur who founded Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., OncoTartis LLC and Everon Biosciences, Inc. He holds the position of Director & Chief Scientific Advisor at Panacela Labs, Inc., Chief Scientific Officer of OncoTartis LLC, Chief Scientific Officer for Everon Biosciences, Inc., Chief Science Officer at Genome Protection, Inc. and Chief Scientific Officer of Cleveland BioLabs, Inc. Andrei V. Gudkov is also on the board of Incuron LLC. Dr. Gudkov is also on the Scientific Advisory Board and author of founding concept for the Vaika program, which is a not-for-profit charitable medical research organization with a mission to extend the healthspan and lifespan of domestic animals, via a novel clinical study using aged sled dogs.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Gudkov about: His background and how he developed an interest in oncology, in molecular biology, in aging, and the study of the retrobiome. A history of retrobiome research in the scientific community. The concept of treating aging by counteracting intrinsic DNA damage and immunosenescence and retrobiome vaccination. His oncology/cancer research program. About the Vaika program - a clinical study in aged sled dogs in order to test whether inhibition of retrobiome will be beneficial for dogs’ healthspan and longevity.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Eric Van Gieson, Program Manager in the Biological Technologies Office (BTO) at DARPA. https://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-eric-van-gieson
Ira Pastor Comments:
On several recent ideaXme episodes, we have spent time on different topics pertaining to human health, disease, degeneration and aging, focused on a variety of therapeutic and preventative interventions being developed in the private sector of the economy, both here in the U.S. and more broadly globally. We’ve also had representatives from various independent agencies of the United States Federal Government, the UK government (UKRI), and other foreign governmental agencies, join us to discuss many of the exciting public sector discoveries and development occurring, that possess massive trickle down benefits to the general public. For example, over the last few months ideaXme has had several guests that have worked in different roles within NASA (U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration) talking about how research in space, can help improve the lives of us on Earth, where topics have included the bio-dynamics of sub-orbital flight training, astrobiology on the International Space Station (ISS), and even isolation chamber training for physical / psychological dynamics pertaining to future missions back to the Moon and Mars.
DARPA:
Today, we are going to go down another very interesting related path as we are joined by an expert thought leader from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military with a mission to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created in February 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957. By collaborating with academic, industry, and government partners, DARPA has a mission to formulate and execute research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, often beyond immediate U.S. military requirements.
Dr. Van Gieson received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and joined DARPA as a Program Manager in August 2017, with the goal of using host-based methods to mitigate the impacts of emerging disease threats. He explores epigenetic and real-time monitoring approaches that can dynamically guide healthcare decisions and therapy, and new methods of increasing patient survival in austere environments using intelligent systems partnered with local care providers. Throughout his career, Dr. Van Gieson has worked with private and inter-agency government partners to build diagnostic and healthcare solutions, an example being a novel patient transport system known as the Containerized BioContainment System, a platform that received an “R&D 100” award and is currently in use by the Departments of State and Health and Human Services. Dr. Van Gieson has published on topics ranging from genomic analysis to autonomous systems. He has also served as the chief judge on the Nokia Sensing XChallenge and as a judge on the QualComm Tricorder XChallenge on behalf of the XPrize Foundation. And most recently, Dr. Van Gieson's team at DARPA is waiting on emergency use approval (EUA), from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a potential "game-changing" test, originally developed for diagnosing those who have become poisoned by chemical warfare, which may be able to detect the presence coronovirus (COVID-19) in as little as 24 hours after a person is infected, well before they come infectious, filling a major diagnostic gap worldwide.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Van Gieson about:
His background; how he developed an interest in science, in chemical and biological engineering, and how he decided he wanted to go pursue a career at DARPA. A background of DARPA, and how a career at DARPA is structured. The novel Covid-19 test that his team has developed. The Epigenetic Characterization and Observation (ECHO) program which is building a man-portable device that analyzes an individual’s epigenetic “fingerprint.” The Electrical Prescriptions (ElectRx) program aimed at delivering non-pharmacological (electrical) treatments for pain, general inflammation, post-traumatic stress, severe anxiety, and trauma, that employ precise, closed-loop, non-invasive modulation of the patient’s peripheral nervous system. The TAILOR Artificial Intelligence (AI) system for human performance optimization.
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Amanda Christensen, Deepfake and Media Misinformation Researcher, ideaXme guest contributor and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, author of Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present and advisor to Protect Democracy.
Amanda Christensen Comments: Our relationship with social media is often conflicting. On the one hand, we're more connected than ever before, both with one another as well as with public figures, news sources, and businesses. On the other, social media has proved to be easily exploitable and even dangerous, thanks to fake news, misinformation, echo chambers, and data breaches. Recent events, such as COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protests, have exemplified both sides of social media. Digital communities are offering support, information, and resources to one another. Unfortunately, though, people are using these platforms to spread deadly misinformation and further societal divides, for both personal and political gain.
The multi-faced nature of social media begs many questions: who can be held accountable for the spread of misinformation? How can we prioritise objective information over clickbait and fake news? How are governments exploiting the nature of social media? Is social media changing and affecting democracy as we know it?
Ruth Ben-Ghiat:
Helping us gain insight on these issues is Ruth Ben-Ghiat, historian, author, and political and cultural commentator. She is currently Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, as well as serving as an advisor to Protect Democracy, an organisation formed to prevent American Democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government. She's authored and edited seven books and several articles, such as her 2016 CNN essay on women and the draft, which is part of the United States Army’s curriculum, and her 2017 New Yorker essay on the persistence of Fascist monuments in Italy, which sparked an ongoing international debate on the legacy and memory of Mussolini’s regime.
Her latest book, Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present Why They Succeed. How They Fall, will be published by W.W. Norton & Company in February 2021.
On this episode we’ll hear from Ben-Ghiat about:
Her background; how she became interested in history, authoritarian leaders, fascism, propaganda, and media misinformation, mal-information and disinformation. Power tactics used by authoritarian leaders throughout history, and how these tactics are changing and potentially being aided by social media platforms. Her views on the degree of responsibility that governments and platforms have in fighting fake news and misinformation. The power of information and danger of misinformation in light of recent events such as COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter protests, and Twitter’s flagging of Trump’s tweets.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Sneh Khemka, President of Population Health and vHealth at one of the largest healthcare organisations.
Ira Pastor Comments:
Population Health is a discipline that helps governments and large organizations manage the health of their populations better, primarily through infrastructure development (major IT systems), clinical data analytics, health and disease management, and ultimately primary care. Virtual Health (vHealth), also known as Telehealth, is an innovative way to connect with patients using technology and telecommunications systems, and can help significantly expands access to care and increases health equity.
Dr. Sneh Khemka:
Dr. Sneh Khemka, is President of Population Health and vHealth at one of the world's largest providers of international health benefits and services, serving more than a million members worldwide, including expatriates, local nationals, and business travelers. Dr. Khemka is responsible for managing and growing this strategically important business and has successfully deployed it in India, China, South Korea, Qatar and Dubai and further afield. Previously, Dr. Khemka was Chief Operating Officer for Advanced Oncotherapy PLC, which is involved in advanced proton therapy, and is a spin off from CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research - home of the Large Hadron Collider). Dr. Khemka was also Director of Healthcare Development and Global Medical Director for Bupa Group, British international healthcare provisioning and multi-insurance group, with its origins and headquarters in the United Kingdom, serving 32 million customers in 190 countries. Dr. Khemka originally trained as a surgeon, specializing in ophthalmology, with an interest in ocular oncology and he continues clinical practice as a radio doctor, where he has a popular weekly call-in show on London’s LBC 97.3FM. He also works as an expedition medic, supporting people undertaking challenges around the world.
Dr. Khemka has previously advised and acted for a number of private equity houses in the UK and Europe. He is also a non-executive director of Viapath, the largest UK pathology company; acting member of the Council on the Future of Healthcare to the World Economic Forum, and previously Non-Executive Director for the Joint Commission International, the US-based leading hospital accreditation authority. In 2013, Dr. Khemka was awarded an honorary Membership to the Faculty of Public Health in recognition of his contributions to the field.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Khemka about:
His background and views on the resurgence of primary care in improving and maintaining long-term wellness. His views on the sustained digital change in healthcare and the new paradigm known a "phygital" (a physical/digital merging) for primary care. His thoughts on the future of online versus offline hospitals. Examples of how vHealth can be used for remote doctor consultations, arrange blood tests at home, doorstep delivery of medicines, specialist appointments and minor treatment at home. His views on the Internet Medical Things (IoMT) and Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT). His views on vHealth in an era of Covid-19.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Christine Moutier, MD, Chief Medical Officer, at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).
Ira Pastor comments: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), close to 800,000 people die due to suicide every year, which is one person every 40 seconds. Suicide is a global phenomenon and occurs throughout the lifespan, and there are indications that for each adult who died by suicide, there may have been more than 20 others attempting suicide. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "Leading Causes of Death Report", in 2017 suicide was the tenth leading cause of death overall in the United States, claiming the lives of over 47,000 people; Suicide was the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34, and the fourth leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 35 and 54. There were more than twice as many suicides in the United States as there were homicides. Aiding Suicide Prevention Through Psychiatry Dr. Christine Moutier, MD is the Chief Medical Officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Moutier earned her medical degree and training in psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and has been a practicing psychiatrist, professor and dean in the UCSD School of Medicine, medical director of the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at the VA Medical Center in La Jolla, and has been clinically active with diverse patient populations, such as veterans, Asian refugee populations, as well as physicians and leaders with mental health conditions. She also served as co-investigator for the Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression study (STAR*D), a large National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) trial on the treatment of refractory depression.
Dr. Christine Moutier’s Career in Psychiatry
Dr. Moutier has authored numerous articles and book chapters for publications such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Academic Medicine, the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Psychiatric Times, Depression and Anxiety, and Academic Psychiatry. She has testified before the U.S. Congress and spoken at the White House, she was the host of AFSP’s documentary on surviving suicide loss, The Journey, and has appeared as an expert in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time magazine, The Economist, The Atlantic, the BBC, NBC, CNN and other print and television outlets. She is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Moutier about:
Her background and how she got interested in medicine, in psychiatry, and became a thought leader in the area of suicide prevention. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). The top 10 learnings of why so many people are dying by suicide in 2020. The Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) collaborative study on the treatment of recalcitrant depression, a leading driver of suicide. Suicide connections to modern stressors/traumas such as the Coronavirus pandemic. Nutritional interventions to help prevent depression related suicide. The National Academy of Medicine's Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience and the understandings of challenges related to clinician well-being, stress and burnout, and suicide.
This interview is in American English
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Tom Lawry, National Director for Artificial Intelligence - Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft.
Ira Pastor Comments:
A set of tools that we have been hearing quite a bit about (and discussed a bit on the show) in recent years is the triad of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning and their respective applications (primarily in the drug discovery and development processes), in terms how university labs and startups are using some of these tools to better guide the rational drug design process, or more appropriately select patients for a clinical trial, per the field of personalized medicine.
Today, we are going to go to the far end of the spectrum, to a view of the potential of these tools at "scale", when they need to be deployed across the mega enterprises responsible for delivery quality, next generation healthcare to millions of customers.
Tom Lawry:
Tom Lawry is National Director for Artificial Intelligence - Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft. In this role he serves as a strategic advisor to provider, payer and life science organizations across the Americas, creating enterprise-wide AI initiatives designed to transform healthcare at scale. He focuses on technological, process and cultural redesign leading to the creation of Intelligent Health Systems that better empower patients, consumers and clinicians. Mr. Lawry has also served as Director of Worldwide Health for Microsoft where he worked with a similar portfolio of organizations in planning and implementing innovative analytical solutions to improve the quality and efficiency of health services delivered around the globe. Mr. Lawry focuses on strategies for digital transformation applied to performance optimization including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). He previously served as Director of Organizational Performance for Microsoft’s health incubator (the Health Solutions Group). Prior to Microsoft Mr. Lawry served as a Senior Director at GE Healthcare with global responsibilities for revenue cycle management analytics and operational performance solutions. Mr. Lawry was also the founder and CEO of Verus, a U.S.-based healthcare software company named as one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Washington Companies for three consecutive years and to the Deloitte Fast 500 Technologies list. For fourteen years Mr. Lawry served in various executive management roles in hospitals and integrated delivery networks in the United States and has published over 30 articles on topics relating to use technology and software to innovate healthcare. Most recently in February 2020 Mr. Lawry has published “AI in Health: A Leader’s Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health Systems.”
On this episode we will hear from Mr. Lawry:
About his background in the field of health and information technologies. The healthcare "data tsunami" we have upon us in 2020 and why now is the right time for AI tools. About the "hype cycle" surrounding certain aspects of AI. The principle of AI being a "force for good" in the world. How Microsoft is leading the industry in creating a set of human-centered principles to guide the ethical creation and use of AI. About the future of the AI-human partnership. The important requirements for employees to "skill-up" for an AI-powered world. The role of the small start-up AI innovator as a partner with the large company which can "drive at scale." About futuristic areas he is most excited about, looking 10-20 years ahead, such as biohacking, mind-computer interfaces, and intelligence testing.
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Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, fake news and deepfake researcher and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Dan Mapes, PhD, MBA co-founder of VERSES.io and co-author of The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World.
Amanda Christensen Comments:
We've come a long way since the invention of the internet, and even further since the invention of the first computer, which together have undeniably significantly facilitated everyday life. We have never had access to more information at the touch of our fingers, or been more connected than we are now. However, the exponential advancement of the internet has brought along with it a whole host of problems, such as the rampant spread of fake news, deep fake technology, significant data breaches, and hacking, to name a few. The further advancement of the internet, and particularly AI, in inevitable, as the full potential of their capabilities are far from being reached. But how do we advance in a way that both further optimises our lives but simultaneously protects us from further misuse?
The Spatial Web Dan Mapes is the Co-Founder of VERSES.io, Spatial Intelligence Systems integrating Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technology that together build The Spatial Web. Mapes, alongside Verses co-founder Gabriel René, wrote the #1 international Best Seller.
The Spatial Web:
How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World, giving an in-depth understanding of the challenges and limitations with our current world wide web, such as fake news, hacking, and surveillance capitalism, as well as the wealth of practical applications of the new spatial web on personal, business, local and global levels. Crucially, Mapes stresses the importance of ensuring that there are proper standards, protocols, and legislation to ensure the spatial web operates in line with ethical and social codes.
"Creating the Spatial Web will take a significant amount of dialogue, development, and commitment from engineers, creators, thought leaders, non-profits, standards groups, and governments. To assist in creating awareness, advocacy, and adoption of Spatial Web standards, we the authors and our associates have established the VERSES Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering the protocols and specifications needed for an open, free, and secure Spatial Web". Dan Mapes, The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World
Mapes is also the Founder and CEO of Cyberlab 9, a Global Deep Tech Lab with offices in California, China and Holland, which has a focus on the Internet of Things, Blockchain, Virtual Reality and AI. As CEO of Cyberlab, he has led projects with the UN, UNDP, UNESCO, Nobel Committee, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Gorbachev Foundation, Obama Campaign and produced the First Summit Meeting on the Internet between Nelson Mandela and Shimon Peres. He has also been a technology advisor to the governments of China, Brazil, Chile, Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Australia. He has been a New Media consultant to Apple, Intel, Shanghai Media and other technology and entertainment companies.
On this episode you will hear from Dan:
A history of internet technology and its exponential advancements. How he developed an interest in Artificial Intelligence and gamification. An introduction to the spatial web and its numerous applications in optimising our world, securing our data, and revolutionising supply chains. The importance of proper protocol and regulation of the spatial web in light of fake news, data breaches, and rogue actors.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, Vice-Chair of Neurology, Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit, and Co-Director of the Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Ira Pastor Comments:
On this episode we are going to journey back to the topic of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), projected to affect over a 100 million people worldwide by mid century.
Dr. Rudolph Tanzi:
Dr. Rudolph Tanzi is the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, Vice-Chair of Neurology, Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit, and Co-Director of the Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and has been investigating the genetics of neurological disease since the 1980s when he participated in the first study that used genetic markers to find a disease gene for Huntington's disease.
In 1990, Dr. Tanzi received his Ph.D. in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where his doctoral thesis was on the discovery and isolation of the first Alzheimer's disease gene - the amyloid precursor protein (APP), published in 1987 in Science.
Dr. Tanzi's work in Alzheimer's disease research:
Dr Tanzi co-discovered all three familial early-onset Alzheimer's disease (FAD) genes and several other neurological disease genes including those responsible for Wilson’s disease. Dr Tanzi also serves as Chair of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund Research Leadership Group and leader of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund Alzheimer’s Genome Project, where he has carried out multiple genome wide association studies (GWAS) of thousands of Alzheimer’s families leading to the identification of novel AD candidate genes, including CD33, and ADAM10 genes. Dr Tanzi has also worked on the role of zinc and copper in AD, on gamma secretase modulators for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's, and on human stem cells to create an “Alzheimer’s-in-a-Dish”, three-dimensional neural culture system, that was the first to recapitulate both pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Tanzi has published over 500 scientific papers, including the top three most cited papers in the field of Alzheimer's disease research. Dr. Tanzi also co-authored the books "Decoding Darkness: The Search the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease", the New York Times Best Selling book “Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being”, "Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being", and "The Healing Self: A Revolutionary New Plan to Supercharge Your Immunity and Stay Well for Life" with Deepak Chopra. Dr. Tanzi in the Media Dr. Tanzi has made numerous television appearances on shows such as CBS This Morning and Dr. Oz. He also hosts the shows "Super Brain with Dr. Rudy Tanzi", "Super Genes with Dr. Rudy Tanzi" and "The Brain Body Mind Connection with Dr. Rudy Tanzi and Dr. Deepak Chopra" on PBS television. In addition to his work in AD and brain health, Dr. Tanzi has wide ranging musical pursuits. Dr Tanzi professionally plays keyboards, most recently with Joe Perry and Aerosmith. He also co-wrote the song tribute to Alzheimer's patients called "Remember Me", performed by singer Chris Mann. He plays keyboards on the albums: "Aerosmith: Music from Another Dimension", and "Joe Perry: Switzerland Manifesto."
On this episode we will hear from Dr Tanzi about:
His background; how he developed an interest in neurobiology and the domain of AD. His work on the Alzheimer's Disease - Infectious Disease connection and the Alzheimer's Disease - Neuro-inflammation connection. His work with stem cells and regenerative medicine. His work in the area of aging, brain health and the "psycho-biologic" aspects of health and wellness. About mental health and self care during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Lou Cooperhouse, President and CEO of BlueNalu.
Ira Pastor comments:
Global demand for seafood is at an all time high, as consumers are increasingly choosing to eat an extraordinary variety of seafood products that exist worldwide. Unfortunately, our global supply for seafood cannot keep pace with this demand, as populations of marine species have halved since 1970. This is due to overfishing, illegal fishing, rising ocean temperatures, acidification, the effects of trawling, and a number of other environmental, social, and political challenges. At the same time, consumers are looking for more from their food choices. Consumers are increasingly concerned about animal welfare and the conditions in which fish are farmed and caught. In addition, they are increasingly concerned about their own personal welfare, as seafood can be a source of mercury, toxins and poisons, pathogens, viruses, and parasites, micro-particles of plastics due to plastic pollution in our ocean, and a variety of other environmental pollutants.
Using Biotechnology to Create a Sustainable Cell Based Seafood Food Resource Cellular agriculture (or aquaculture per our theme today) focuses on the production of products from cell cultures using a combination of biotechnology, tissue engineering, molecular biology, and synthetic biology to create and design new methods of producing proteins, fats, and tissues that would otherwise come from traditional agriculture or aquaculture.
Lou Cooperhouse, is President and CEO of BlueNalu, a company whose mission is to be the global leader in cellular aquaculture, providing consumers with great tasting, healthy, safe and trusted cell-based seafood products that support the sustainability and diversity of our ocean. Lou Cooperhouse With degrees in Food Science and Microbiology, both from Rutgers University, Mr. Cooperhouse is recognized as a leading global authority in food business innovation and technology commercialization, with extensive leadership experiences throughout his 35-year career in the food industry. Most recently, Mr. Cooperhouse served as CEO of Food Spectrum, LLC, where he provided a broad array of strategic consulting and business management expertise to the food industry, as well as a founder and the Executive Director of the Rutgers University Food Innovation Center (FIC), and led this program for approximately 15 years. Previously, Mr. Cooperhouse served as President & COO of F&S Produce, a leading regional supplier of fresh-cut produce and value-added refrigerated foods, and Co-Founder, President and CEO of MenuDirect Corporation, a unique health, wellness, and nutrition company, which provided meal solutions for individuals with celiac disease, diabetes, PKU and dysphagia. Earlier in his career, Mr. Cooperhouse held positions of increasing responsibility at Campbell’s Soup, ConAgra, Nestlé-funded Culinary Brands, Idle Wild Farms, and Grand Union Supermarkets in areas of business development, product development, quality assurance, and operations. In addition, Mr. Cooperhouse has considerable expertise in food safety and quality assurance systems, and has provided leadership at numerous FDA and USDA-inspected operations, and has conducted third-party audits of dozens of food companies throughout the nation. He is Certified in Preventive Controls for Human Food (issued by the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance), is a Certified Trainer in Hazard analysis and critical control points (issued by the International HACCP Alliance), and is also Certified as a ServSafe Food Protection Manager (issued by the American National Standards Institute).
On this episode we will hear from Mr. Cooperhouse:
About his background in the food science, safety and technology space. About the BlueNalu company. About the processes involved in creating lab grown fish meats. About the types of fish meats they are planning on commercializing first. About any technology hurdles on the route to market. About regulations surrounding cell based aquaculture and about any "Exotic" marine food requests from customers.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Cheryl D. Hicks, Executive Director and CEO at Toilet Board Coalition.
Ira Pastor comments:
So on the last several shows, as we have spent time on the themes of health, wellness, and aging, we’ve been speaking to a broad range of experts primarily in the fields of therapeutic and preventative interventions as it pertains to the chronic degenerative diseases in the developed world. And I always find it interesting when you go to conferences nowadays focused on the topics of wellness, longevity or healthspan, somebody will always give a presentation highlighting how improvements in sanitation technically did as much, if not more, for humanity and human lifespan (doubling it), than modern medicine has done over the last century. And that’s why I find it so amazing that in 2020, an estimated 2.4 billion people around the globe, still lack access to the basic tools of improved sanitation (toilets and latrines) That represents 35% of the world’s population!
The Global Sanitation Crisis:
One billion people on this planet still have to defecate in the open and at least 10% of the world’s population is thought to consume food irrigated by raw wastewater. An estimated 800,000 children, younger than 5 years of age, perish each year from diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio. The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) is a business-led partnership and platform, which has the ambition to address the global sanitation crisis by accelerating the Sanitation Economy, a brand new marketplace for innovation, entrepreneurship and investment, to transform sanitation systems from an unaffordable public cost, to an untapped business opportunity, and deliver significant impact to business and society. TBC enables private sector engagement, connecting large and small companies, and ensuring close collaboration between private, public and non-profit sectors with the common goal to achieve United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6), which is "universal access to sanitation." Partners in the TBC include such entities as Unilever, KimberlyClark, Firmenich, Veolia, Tata, USAID, the World Bank and Unicef. The Toilet Board Coalition also runs the Toilet Accelerator, the world’s first accelerator program dedicated to sanitation entrepreneurs in low-income markets.
Cheryl D. Hicks:
Cheryl Hicks, Toilet Board Coalition Executive Director and CEO, is an experienced business, investment and sustainable development professional. Cheryl brings over 20 years of experience developing innovative approaches to responsible business strategies, impact investment strategies, and high performing multi-stakeholder collaborations. Before joining the TBC, Cheryl was the Sustainability Investment Partner and Head of Impact at Quadia Impact Finance in Geneva. Throughout her career, Cheryl has held several positions with sustainable development platforms, and worked with fortune 500 global companies, investors and start-ups across sectors such as healthcare, consumer goods, food, forestry, chemistry, and renewable energy. Cheryl began her career in corporate sustainability with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva, Switzerland.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Cheryl:
About her background in the investment industry, and how she got interested in doing something about this major problem known as "the sanitation crisis.” About the background of the Toilet Board Coalition. About the dynamics of the circular, closed loop visions of TBC for the Sanitation Economy. About the Sanitation Economy Accelerator and technologies they invest in. About toilet technologies in space and the TBC collaboration with the European Space Agency Business Applications Group. This interview is in American English
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Mark Wolff, Morton Amsterdam Dean, and Professor, Division of Restorative Dentistry, at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine.
Ira Pastor Comments: So as frequent listeners of the ideaXme show know, we spend a lot of time talking about the theme of "healthy aging", and the reality that aging, and related biological changes associated with aging, occur across all of the body's cells, tissues, and organs, and these changes affect all structure and function of the body, including the teeth and gums, and as such, oral health is the focus of our show today. The underlying processes of biological aging can dramatically affect oral health and many of the specific changes that occur over time in our bodies as we age (such as cells renewing at a slower rate, tissues become thinner and less elastic, bones become less dense and strong, our immune system become weaker, such that infection can occur more quickly and wound healing takes longer), can have major impact in the oral cavity (affecting tissue and bone in the mouth), as well as trickle down effects on the rest of the body.
Oral health problems in older adults include, but are not limited to: untreated tooth decay, gum disease, tooth loss, oral cancer, as well as exacerbated chronic disease associated with various co-morbid conditions and physiologic changes associated with aging (e.g., hypertension, diabetes mellitus).
Dr. Mark Wolff:
Dr. Mark Wolff, DDS, PhD, is the Morton Amsterdam Dean, and Professor, Division of Restorative Dentistry, at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine. With a Doctor of Dental Surgery, and PhD, in Oral Biology and Pathology, Dr. Wolff helps lead the school to develop policy, set research agenda and design community treatment programs that serve the needs of a wide variety of patient populations.
Prior to joining UPenn, Dr. Wolff was Professor and Chair of the Department of Cariology and Comprehensive Care, Associate Dean for Pre-doctoral Clinical Education, and Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations at NYU College of dentistry, the largest dental education institution in the United States. At NYU he designed, developed, and implemented an extensive curriculum in caries risk assessment and also designed dental information systems to assist dental schools in monitoring the risk of the entire dental patient population. Dr. Wolff has completed numerous international research and oral health assessment programs and has been a lifelong advocate and dental provider for individuals with physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities of all ages. Dr. Wolff has served as the principal or co-principal investigator on multiple bench top and clinical research projects, investigating dental caries, novel re-mineralizing agents, dental erosion, periodontal disease, dental materials, and dental hypersensitivity. Dr. Wolff has published over 100 scientific papers, text chapters, and edited multiple textbooks, lectures worldwide and is a frequent consultant to the industry and has been the principal or co-principal investigator on many industrial and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research programs.
On this episode we will hear from Dr. Wolff about:
His background; what interested him in the field of dental medicine, academic research, and a little bit of his path to becoming dean of one of the world's largest dental schools. Major issues in the field of geriatric dental patient care. Major issues related to the oral microbiota (microbiome) and connection to chronic disease. Future technologies for the care / reversion of dental caries.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Robert Hariri, MD, PhD, surgeon, bio-medical scientist and highly successful serial entrepreneur in two technology sectors: bio-medicine and aerospace.
Dr. Hariri Utilizes Biomedicine to Aid Human Longevity
Dr. Hariri is Chairman, Founder, and CEO, of Celularity, Inc., a clinical-stage cell therapeutics company developing allogeneic cellular therapies, engineered from the postpartum human placenta, in cancer immuno-therapy and functional regeneration, which recently got initial clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin early-stage clinical trials on a potential treatment for Covid-19.
Dr. Hariri is also Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, of Human Longevity, Inc., a company merging extensive amounts of human genotype and phenotype data with machine learning, so that it can help develop new ways to fight diseases associated with aging.
Dr. Hariri served as Chairman, Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and Chief Executive Officer of Celgene Cellular Therapeutics (acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb), one of the world’s largest human cellular therapeutics companies, where he pioneered the use of stem cells to treat a range of life threatening diseases and has made transformative contributions in the field of tissue engineering.
Recognition, Awards and Accolades
Dr. Hariri is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and earned his MD and PhD degrees from Cornell University Medical College. He trained in surgery at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where he also directed the Aitken Neurosurgery Laboratory and the Center for Trauma Research.
Dr. Hariri has over 90 issued and pending patents, has authored over 100 published chapters, articles and abstracts, and is most recognized for his discovery of pluripotent stem cells from placenta, and as a member of the team which discovered the physiological activities of tumor necrosis factor (TNF).
Dr. Hariri was recipient of the Thomas Alva Edison Award in 2007 and 2011, The Fred J. Epstein Lifetime Achievement Award and has received numerous other honors for his many contributions to bio-medicine and aviation.
Dr. Hariri also serves on numerous Boards of Directors. Dr. Hariri is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pathology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a member of the Board of Visitors of the Columbia University School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, and the Science & Technology Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is a member of the scientific advisory board for the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, which is awarded by the X PRIZE Foundation.
Dr. Hariri is also a Trustee of the Liberty Science Center and has been appointed Commissioner of Cancer Research by NJ Governor Christie. Dr. Hariri is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the J. Craig Venter Institute.
A jet-rated commercial pilot with thousands of hours of flight time in over 60 different military and civilian aircraft, Dr. Hariri has also produced several feature films as well as documentaries on global societal issues.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Hariri about:
His background, how he developed an interest in medicine, in surgery, and in the field of stem cells and aging. About the intuition early on in his career that placenta was one of those overlooked and untapped biological resources – not just in terms of stem cells but in the unique cocktails of secreted factors that were capable of immunomodulation and controlling cancer metastasis.
About Celularity's initial clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to begin early-stage clinical trials on a potential treatment for Covid-19 using “Natural Killer” (NK) cell therapies to boost the immune system’s disease-fighting response.
About his interests in the "Myokinome" - the fact that skeletal muscle is an endocrine organ capable of secreting proteins termed 'myokines', which participate in tissue cross-talk, providing a critical link in the exercise–health paradigm.
About his work at Human Longevity Inc. About his work with the XPRIZE Foundation and views on early stage biotechnology funding in 2020. About his work in the aerospace field with groups including the asteroid mining company, Planetary Resources and the Rocket Racing League.
This interview is in American English
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Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, Marketing Manager at Cubaka and fake news and deepfake researcher, interviews Niall Donnellan, co-founder (with Cathal O'Gorman) of The History Machine Podcast, a project which uses a neural network to answer some of the "what ifs" of military history.
This interview is the first of many interviews in which ideaXme poses the question: Could neural networks be the tools of the future to remove bias from the recording of current events and hence history?
Amanda Christensen Comments:
Fake news and media bias have been some of the defining elements of our most recent current events, from political elections to the current global crisis. However, media bias and falsehoods are far from a new phenomenon; the recording of history has always favoured those who hold the pen. Recent technological advancements, such as machine learning, neural networks and deepfakes have made it even harder to distinguish real from heavily biased, as well as "fake" news. These same technological advancements, though, could in the future be the solution to detecting and removing bias from the recording events as they happen and hence history. In looking at this now, although neural networks can correct some bias, key caveats are of course that they are only as unbiased as a consistent pattern of information fed into them. "In our case, by keeping the information consistent, we can compare accurately. It is true that a neural network can correct for bias, cut consistency is how this works". Niall Donnellan, co-founder The History Machine.
The History Machine:
The History Machine is a neural network developed by "hobbyists" Niall Donnellan and Cathal O'Gorman designed to eliminate as much bias from military history as possible. The History Machine analyses a database of wins, losses, casualties and other variables in the history of warfare, to present a more accurate depiction of history's most famous commanders, generals, and leaders. Accuracy is of course also determined by how correct historians of the past recorded events. "We can only be as accurate as the source presented. For example, if the ancient historian Plutarch was not telling the truth, then we a analysing their lies in great details". Based on this historical information of the past, also allows them to test out hypothetical situations, pitting generals against one another to see which leader or army would reign supreme, as well as analysing fictitious armies and leaders, such as those in Game of Thrones. Together, they present their results on The History Machine Podcast.
Niall Donnellan and Cathal O'Gorman:
Niall Donnellan holds a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering and a degree in Quality Engineering. He currently works in the biomedical sector as a Manufacturing Engineer at Cerenovus working on The History Machine Podcast alongside Cathal in their spare time.
Cathal O'Gorman also holds a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering as well as a master’s in software development, during which his thesis involved designing an AI which would determine what style and artistic movement a painting belonged to. Cathal is also the host of the Take your Data Points podcast, another podcast which uses a neural network to analyse and research data relating to the sport of hurling.
On this show we'll hear from Niall about: How he and Cathal came up with the idea for The History Machine Podcast. How the neural network works. The accuracy and degree to which his, and other neural networks, can remove bias. The potential use for neural networks in recording a less-biased version of major moments in modern history, such as the one we're living in today.
The History Machine Podcast can be found on their website, as well as on Twitter and YouTube.
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Dr. Shima Beigi, Founder of Mindfulness Engineering™️ BSc,MSc,MSc,Ph.D. Resilience Scientist, Author, Yogi and ideaXme Rich Connectedness™️ ambassador interviews Francis Heylighen, Cyberneticist and Research Professor at the Free University of Brussels where he directs the trans-disciplinary research group on "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" and the Global Brain Institute.
Francis Paul Heylighen (born 1960) is a Belgian cyberneticist investigating the emergence and evolution of intelligent organization.
He presently works as a research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (the Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels), where he directs the trans-disciplinary research group on "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" and the Global Brain Institute. He is best known for his work on the Principia Cybernetica Project, his model of the Internet as a global brain, and his contributions to the theories of memetics and self-organization. He is also known, albeit to a lesser extent, for his work on gifted people and their problems.
Dr Shima Beigi comments:
In this new episode of ideaxme Rich Connectedness™️ Podcast series, I, Dr. Shima Beigi founder of Mindfulness Engineering™️ and ideaxme Rich Connectedness connect with Professor Francis Heylighen, a Belgian cybernéticien and complexity scientist at the Dutch speaking University of Brussels (VUB).
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Apart from being my mentor and colleague for the past 6 years, Professor Heylighen’s expansive publications have been a source of inspiration for many complexity scientists around the world.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jt7BHBUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&pagesize=100
Due to the ongoing challenge of COVID-19, similar to my other podcasts, I decided to focus this discussion on the subject of complexity and how it can provide a more interdisciplinary approach to the challenge of recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. Over the past decade, the science of complexity has began to attract the attention of many prominent thinkers, businesses, scientists, and scholars. The main reason for this keen interest stems from the overwhelming evidences that classical Newtonian view of the world is very limited in its capacity to solve complex and wicked problems. Complex and wicked problems refer to those challenges that the cause and effect of events are not linear meaning the cause and effect an event can not be traced back to a single trajectory of event(s).
These systems follow exhibit what’s called nonlinear behaviours. Non linear behaviours makes predictions extremely difficult if not impossible. In such a system, long term planning if not impossible. This in itself provides another challenge for control and managent.
Today, as COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, these unpredictability and uncertainty are even more tangible. But, what if we view these events from the perspective of a complexity scientist and cybernéticien? In this conversation, Professor Heylighen provides his point of view on our current times, offers his model of buffer challenge landscape which is inspired by the principle of Ashby Law of Requisite Variety.
https://www.academia.edu/22638152/Cybernetic_principles_of_aging_and_rejuvenation_the_buffering-_challenging_strategy_for_life_extension
According this law, only systems that are capable of abdicating the diverse range of perturbations that enter into their inner boundaries are able to adapt and continue to evolve. I discuss these with Professor Heylighen and explore how we can integrate some of these cybernetic principles into our systems at both individual and collective levels. What makes a system resilient isn’t the planning per se, but its cognitive capacity to expect the unexpected.
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Dr. Shima Beigi BSc, MSc, MSc, PhD. Founder of Mindfulness Engineering™ Resilience Scientist, Smart City Expert, Consciousness Coach Fully Certified EMCC Leadership and Mindfulness Coach Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Instructor Ambassador for Rich Connectedness™ at ideaxme Platform Author of Mindful Smart City Manifesto: Rethinking Smart Cities with Mindfulness Engineering™ Author of God Molecule Coming Soon 2020 Mindfulness Engineering™: Unlocking Resilience Potential in People and Places Globally™
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