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#3 Exponential Conversations - Adam Pantanowitz

Today's conversation is with an incredible thought leader, innovator and futurist Adam Pantanowitz, talking about his favourite topic Hacking Humans with Mic Mann. We get to hear some interesting insights on the work Adam is doing as well as his philosophy on a number of issues from overcoming adversity to hacking tips.  Adam Pantanowitz is a fanatical technologist, who enjoys solving seemingly unsolvable problems, particularly with the help of cloud computing and machine learning. He is pa...

#2 Exponential Conversations - Merritt Moore

Today's conversation is with a future superstar discussing how she programmes robots and dances ballet with them. Growing up Merritt Moore was inspired by her elders who taught her the passion of understanding what makes the world tick, through the sciences and the stars. A hat-trick achiever, Merritt is a Quantum Physicist and Ballerina, delving into the astronaut sector. An accomplished ballet dancer, she programmed robots to dance alongside her in Instagram videos that have since yielded...

#1 Exponential Conversations - Rafael Brown

Listen to the latest episode of Exponential Conversations in a discussion with Rafael Brown and Mic Mann on The Future of music concerts in VR & Gaming.  A great migration into virtual worlds is taking place at warp speed. Now is the time for you to explore and discover the opportunities and potential that lie ahead. Virtual and augmented reality tech is the next evolution in computing and is set to disrupt current computing.  Featuring: Rafael Brown is a veteran game designer having worke...

#16 2021, The Year of Crypto & NFTs

We are excited to launch Season 3 of Exponential Africa Live, kicking off on the future of Bitcoin and Crypto. Will 2021 be the year of mass global adoption in the crypto and Bitcoin space. Already we are seeing large organisations like Tesla, Square and BNP Melon get involved and more to follow. Featuring: Mic Mann: Host, SUSA Co-Ceo Henri Arslanian: PWC Global Crypto Leader Tanya Knowles: SingularityU SA Faculty, BM Adhara Farzam Ehsani: CEO and Co-Founder VALR

#15 Investing in Disruptive Innovation

This conversation will focus on Investing in Disruptive Innovation, technologies that are on an exponential growth curve and are going to ultimately change the way we live in the future.  Featuring  Catherine Wood, Founder & CEO of ARK Invest. With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, Cathie founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Through an open approach that cuts across sectors, market capitalisations, ...

#14 Let's Talk About Space, Baby

Let's Talk About SPACE, Baby!  The allure of the unknown intrigues us as human beings, and we want to adventure and discover new frontiers. The future of spaceflight will lead us to off-planet vacations and eventually humans on mars. Join the conversation focusing on the various innovations and advances in the space ecosystem and what we can look forward to in the future from manufacturing, to travel, to self-preservation. Featuring: Mic Mann: Host, SUSA Co-Ceo Ruvimbo Samanga: Founder at ...

#13 Digital Health Future

Join the conversation, focusing on how can we embrace a Digital Health Future so that we can help Africa leapfrog. From online doctors, chatbots, telemedicine, remote doctors, nanobots and more. Join these incredible experts as they discuss how to create a new healthy future fuelled by digital health. Featuring: Divya Chander: SingularityU Chair Neuroscience; Atlantic Council GeoTech Center Dr. Chander is a physician, neuroscientist, and futurist who trained at Harvard, UCSF, UCSD, and th...

#12 Parenting + Life Long Learning

This conversation will focus on Parenting and Life Long learning. The future of our success as humanity lies in a great education. Most parents want their kids to grow up so that they are successful and can make a positive impact in the world. However, it’s not clear on the way forward as a parent especially because of the pandemic. Is it better to homeschool or make sure they are in a school or university that is more project-based or that focuses on building human potential rather than gra...

#11 The Big Data & Internet of Things Explosion

The world's population has reached over 7.7 billion, according to population.io and is continually rising. More and more people are being pulled out of poverty, living a better, healthier, more abundant life. Join the conversation with  Wolfgang Fengler - Who is the World Bank's Lead Economist in Southern Africa and  Phathizwe Malinga - MD of SqwidNet and part of the SingularityU South Africa faculty with a focus on connecting Things to the Internet (IoT). Exponential Africa LIVE Show! ...

#10 Is Human Flight the Future of Mobility?

Flying cars, air taxis, and flying humans were once a dream and in science fiction novels and movies. Richard Browning has redefined our concept of human flight. The conversation tonight will focus on the story of the incredible jet suit that Richard has created as a disruptor in the future of travel and mobility. As well as some of the most exciting, most cutting edge technology that is in the market and will be coming soon. Featuring: Richard Browning - Founder and Chief Test Pilot of G...

#9 The Changing Face of AI

This week's episode looks at the future of artificial intelligence and how we can build better humans using AI as well as create smarter companies that enhance and augment our capabilities in the workplace.  From self-aware and self-replicating software systems and robots that are emerging to autonomous vehicles or predicting Robo advisors, the future is said to be better from the convergence or augmentation of this technology with others. Featuring: Dr Vivienne Ming: Professional Mad Sci...

#8 Energy Made in Africa

In Africa, we have an abundance of sunlight to power our solar future! Every five days, the sun provides the Earth with as much energy as all proven supplies of oil, coal, and natural gas. This episode has a focus on how we can create new clean energy solutions for South Africa and Africa by thinking differently! We need to come up with new ways to manufacture and produce energy and create an internet of energy so that we can develop a new market for energy that will democratise the industr...

#7 The Workforce of the Future

How will the future of work be impacted by this pandemic? We need practical workforce solutions to be implemented to help the immediate challenges for organisations and employees. Join this conversation with leading global experts! #futureproofAfrica​ Featuring: Hilda Liswani - Founder and CEO WeBloom Hilda is an Award-winning sustainable investment professional. WeBloom Africa is a mainstreaming gender-lens fund Investing in Africa. Valter Adão - Chief Digital & Innovation Officer Deloi...

#6 VR Disrupts Reality

A great migration into virtual worlds is taking place at warp speed. Now is the time for you to explore and discover the opportunities and potential that lie ahead. Virtual and augmented reality tech is the next evolution in computing and is set to disrupt current computing.  Join the show as we will be looking at this transformative technology to discover new worlds and augment our current reality. Featuring: Cathy Hackl - Cathy is a leading female futurist in AR, VR, and AI, LinkedIn rec...

#4 Robots to the Rescue

How will robots transform our lives from the way we work, are entertained, educated, and travel? How have robots played an important role to help fight and assist humans during the COVID 19 pandemic? Learn about the latest tech news in Africa. Exponential Africa LIVE brings you NEW episodes weekly! Covering different #Futureproofsessions that will focus on how to solve some of the challenges we face, covering topics such as leadership, agility, communication, new ways of working, education,...

#5 The 3D Printing Revolution

This week we will be discussing the incredible trajectory that 3D printing is on and how can we use it to completely change the way manufacturing, supply chains and distribution is done. How can we educate our kids to embrace this technology and especially in South Africa and how can we instil a culture of hacking and making cool products? The global 3D printing market size is estimated to reach USD 34.8 billion by 2024. Featuring: Pablos Holman - Pablos is a futurist, inventor, and noto...

#2 Reimagining Education

Watch Exponential Africa on Reimagining Education, an episode not to be missed created by SingularityU South Africa and Mann Made. Featuring:  Taddy Blecher - SUSA Faculty on Exponential Education. CEO of the Maharishi Institute & pioneer of South Africa's free tertiary education movement. Esther Wojcicki - CEO at Global Moonshots In Education. American journalist, educator, and vice-chair of the Creative Commons advisory council. Author of "How to raise successful people." Jos Dirkx - S...

#1 Agility in a Time of Crisis

Join us for a great conversation on - Agility in a time of crisis. Hosted by Mic Mann Co-CEO of SUSA who will be joined by Ramez Naam, Kim Hulett & Ashley Anthony. A little more about our guests: Ramez Naam -Investor and Co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity University at NASA Ames. He speaks around the world on innovation, exponential technology, and disruptive energy technologies. Kim Hulett - Founder and CEO of Next Biosciences and is passionate about leadership and encour...

#3 Designing the Food of the Future

This show focusses on food security, showcasing different feeding initiatives. How can we develop, design and implement sustainable ways to grow food in the future? Mark Post - Chief Scientific Officer at Mosa Meat. In 2013 Marc unveiled the world's FIRST hamburger made by growing cow cells, rather than slaughtering an animal. Andile Ngcobo - Farmer, Consultant, Agribusiness Strategist who is climbing the agriculture ladder. A large-scale commercial farm manager, managing the operations of...

#314 Exponential Africa - David Roberts

Disruption explained with David Roberts Exponential Africa Show with David Roberts, one of the top leadership, innovation and disruption experts globally! Mic Mann sat with David Roberts earlier this year in Costa Rica to discuss how the theory around disruptive innovation. David talks about a mentor of his Clayton Christensen who came up with the concept of Disruptive Innovation. Clayton sadly recently passed away however the ideas around disruption will live on.  David discusses the un...

#313 Exponential Africa - Paul Pagnato

How will finance, wealth management and fintech evolve and become more transparent in the future? Watch Exponential Africa 1on1 with Paul Pagnato founder and CEO of Pagnatokarp a top family office and private wealth management firm with over $9.5 billion assets under advisement. Paul is a top advisor with more than 27 years of industry leadership, ranked #1 in Virginia on Forbes Top Wealth Advisors and #2 in Virginia on Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors lists. Mic Mann interviewed Paul ...

#312 Exponential Africa - Nathaniel Calhoun

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann has a great conversation with Nathaniel Calhoun - SingularityU chair of Global Grand Challenges. Nathaniel has had an incredible career having lived in over 50 African countries. Consulting with governments, banks and major corporations on how to create innovative change. Looking at new business models, new forms of money and cooperatives. Nathaniel stems from an educational background which he later combined with technology to impact and reach...

#311 Exponential Africa - Peter Hirshberg

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann has a great conversation with Peter Hirshberg - Cofounder and Chairman of Maker City Project. Discussing the fascinating rise of Silicon Valley from the very beginning. The different, highly diverse cultures that came together and evolved to what Silicon Valley is today. Peter Describes what Maker City Project is all about, operating with cities, towns, and the private sectors to create new forms of civic innovation, economic development, and u...

#310 Exponential Africa - Cathy Hackl

Today on the Exponential Africa show Mic Mann discusses VR, AI, Spatial computing and more with Futurist, Author, Journalist and Top voice on LinkedIn, Cathy Hackl! Cathy comes from a Journalistic and storytelling background which evolved after having encountered her first VR experience realising the considerable value and impact in the future of VR. Cathy discusses Spatial computing which is a new form of computing that combines AI & computer vision to seamlessly blend digital content int...

#309 Exponential Africa - James Del

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann chats with game-changer and thought leader @James Del. James is the publisher/CRO at Futurism and head of media at Singularity University. Futurism is an online publishing platform that talks about technology. Their mission is to bring you the world, the news, products, and narratives of tomorrow, today. James talks about Futurisms main goal "making the future accessible to anyone". Futurism creates all types of content that take really complex ...

#308 Exponential Africa - Alix Rubsaam

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann chats to Alix Rübsaam, a faculty fellow at Singularity University specialising in philosophy of technology, AI and ethics, researching the cultural and social implications of different exponential technologies in our world. Alix looks at all exponential technologies researched at singularity University and analyses the implications and meaning of these exponential technologies in peoples daily lives and businesses. Giving a human perspective on...

#307 Exponential Africa - Eric Rasmussen

Disaster resilience and global health. Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann has a great chat with Dr Eric Rasmussen - CEO of Infinitum Humanitarian Systems (IHS) and SU Faculty member specialising in disaster resilience and global health. Watch the full video to hear all about the projects that are being run, the different tasks dealt with daily in this field, and the importance of exponential technologies at this time. This interview took place on the 19th of February, at a time...

#306 Exponential Africa - Dimitri Mikhalchuk

Today on The Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat on immersive VR with the Co-founder of the TESLASUIT - Dimitri Mikhalchuk! The Teslasuit is a wireless haptic suit to fully experience virtual reality and the most immersive VR experience you can get today! A full-body suit that is worn together with VR headset to enter the VR world, the suit is calibrated to register movement and reactions. The full-body AR/VR suit and software suite accelerates the improvement of movement, re...

#305 Exponential Africa - Andrew Vild

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann chats to Andrew Vild, Co-Founder of Project Everest Ventures that aims to solve the worlds social issues using enterprise. With a mission to have social impact using technology across developing nations. Through his travels, Andrew Vild learned of the stark contrast of life between Australia and other developing nations. Andrew decided to use his steel making and engineering background to make a difference in the developing world using a busines...

#304 Exponential Africa - Kunal Sood

Today on the exponential Africa Show Mic Mann Has a great conversation with Kunal Sood , Co-Founder and CEO of NOVUS. Kunal has an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. His life is about making the impossible possible - saying it's a moonshot way of thinking. Curating extraordinary experiences that inspire and create extraordinary citizens around the world that go out and make the world a better place! Kunal has led high-impact teams in multinational companies and NGO's...

#303 Exponential Africa - Rachel Sibley

What are the benefits of having Augmented and Virtual reality in our present world and the future of humanity? Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with SingularityU Faculty member specialising in Augmented and virtual reality - Rachel Sibley! Education and training are a huge opportunity space; through AR and VR, we can scale immersive learning! Rachel says that we can dematerialise and thus demonetise by digitising the most high impact way of learning which is ...

#302 Exponential Africa - Pablos Holman

Exponential Africa Show - Pablos Holman - Hacking & Disruptive Innovation! Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann welcomes Pablos Holman - SingularityU Futurist, Hacker, Inventor, and Disruptor! Pablos’s hacking career started in his childhood years. Growing up in Alaska, Pablos had a lot of free time to get to know his computer, which led to his coding and hacking skills. Pablos explains the computer to be a tool that lights up your imagination. His incredible mindset led him to ...

#301 Exponential Africa - Tina Averback

Season 2 of the Exponential Africa show is here! To kick off the first episode Mic Mann interviews Tina Averback! Founder of Sky Studio (Sky Studio Lucia), a company that offers an advanced light meditation experience using Lucia. Lucia is a neural stimulator using different light frequencies, strobing, flashing and flickering LEDs combined with a halogen bulb. These stimulants travel and penetrate one's closed eyes through the optic nerve stimulating the pineal gland. Tina says stimulatin...

#225 Exponential Africa - Robyn Scott

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann chats with Founder and CEO of Apolitical Robyn Scott. Apolitical is a global learning platform for all governments around the world. Governments globally are an integral part in tackling grand challenges within countries as decisions made within government are very consequential to us all. The platform was created to find and share what has been implemented and working within governments around the world. Apolitical opens up conversations and cr...

#224 Exponential Africa - Arturo Elizondo

Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with Arturo Elizondo. CEO of Clara Foods - developing performance protein products and making the world's first animal free egg white protein. Clara foods uses advanced fermentation processes to brew protein that is cleaner greener and kinder to our environment. Arturo grew up eating eggs for breakfast and meat with almost every meal, never thinking about where his food really came from. At his first internship at the departmen...

#223 Exponential Africa - Andre Wegner

Exponential Africa Show on digital manufacturing with Andre Wegner. On the Exponential Africa Show today, Mic Mann meets with Andre Wegner, Founder & CEO of Authentise and Singularity University faculty Chair of digital manufacturing. Speaking on hardware, digital manufacturing, 3d printing, why it is needed and what can be accomplished or arise by deploying these technologies. There are many drivers moving us towards adopting a more agile approach to manufacturing. The world we live in to...

#222 Exponential Africa - Tilly Lockey

On Today's Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Bionic girl, Tilly Lockey (Give Tilly a Hand). An ambassador to Open Bionics a true source of inspiration, spreading positivity amongst fellow amputees and people all around the world. At 14 years old Tilly serves as a true example of positive impact through advances in technology! Tilly lost both her hands to Meningitis Septicaemia as a baby which led to a life-long journey of finding the perfect prosthetics. Today Tilly has Hero arms ...

#221 Exponential Africa - Aaron Frank

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann meets with Aaron Frank, Singularity University principle faculty on AR & VR, writer, researcher and a prolific thought leader around the future of business and innovation. Aaron talks about the AR cloud, stating it be the most exciting topic in computing today. The cloud holds digital copies of every physical object, a 1 to 1 digital map of everything in the real world, a digital twin of our entire planet. The game Fortnight Aaron states, is a r...

#220 Exponential Africa - Anita Schjøll Brede

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Anita Schjøll Brede, Co-founder of Iris.AI and SingularityU Nordic faculty member specialising in Artificial Intelligence. Iris.AI helps academics and researchers go from ideas and research projects, to finding the precise reading list reducing about 80% of time usually spent researching and going through hundred and thousands of documentation to find the specific documents needed for the project,. Anita speaks about her journey with...

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#219 Exponential Africa - Valter Adão

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann hosts Valter Adao, Deloitte Chief Digital and Innovation officer and SingularityU South Africa faculty member specialising in exponential organisations, exponential leadership and the future of work. Valter describes aspects of his role within Deloitte as assisting organisations to digitally transform by taking them on a journey of business reimagination! Going on a journey with organisations through a variety of phases by educating and helping ...

#218 Exponential Africa - Carlo van de Weijer

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we welcome Carlo Van de Weijer, a world leading expert and SingularityU faculty member on mobility and automotive! Speaking on autonomous cars and their future impact! The rise of autonomous vehicles production comes typically as digitisation happens. Digitisation is always followed by disruption creating a race to disrupt ones self before getting left behind. Carlo says autonomous cars are like computer on wheels, self driving vehicles are...

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#217 Exponential Africa - Alex Gladstein

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we meet Alex Gladstein. CSO of the Human rights foundation, a guest lecturer at SingularityU and a prolific speaker on the future of money. Alex speaks on the positive impact of a decentralised bitcoin system and how it will help the poor and sustain a democracy in the world! Alex’s background is in political science, studying governments, democracy and dictatorship. He speaks on how Bitcoin is going to revolutionise our lives, focusing on ...

#216 Exponential Africa - Divya Chander

All new episode of Exponential Africa show where Mic Mann interviews Divya Chander, Chair of Neuroscience at Singularity University. An exciting conversation on our brains, consciousness, meditation, fusing our organic brains to machines and its implications! Neuroscience as is is a very broad type of science but simply put it is the study of the brain which encompasses mathematics, computational neuroscience and the birth of AI that came from neuroscience understanding neural networks! Wh...

#215 Exponential Africa - Tiffany Vora

Watch an all new episode of the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann in a fascinating discussion with SingularityU Vice chair of digital biology and medicine, Tiffany J Vora. Tiffany's passion lies in looking into the latest and greatest trends in her field trough analysis and conversation with Vc’s, startups and mentorship programmes. Bringing in all the information together in ways that really maximise the impact of these technologies that are currently changing biology, agriculture and ...

#214 Exponential Africa - Kyle Nel

On today’s episode of the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann Interviews a behavioural scientist, Singularity University faculty of corporate innovation and co-founder of Uncommon Partners, Kyle Nel! Uncommon Partners was started to help other companies transform and in the process developed new technologies using neuroscience to help understand the drive behind behavioural change within organisations. Kyle uses Neuroscience technology together with machine learning and AI to understand and p...

#213 Exponential Africa - Raymond McCauley

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Raymond McCauley, not the pastor but the Biotech Scientist! Amongst many achievements and startups he is the founder of exponential biosciences and SingularityU faculty chair on digital biology. Biotechnology, often abbreviated to biotech, is the area of biology that uses living processes, organisms or systems to manufacture products or technology intended to improve the quality of human life. Ray says Biotech is one third of the wor...