Future Tech: Almost Here, Round-the-Corner Future Technology Podcast

Scott Brown - CEO and Founder at VODX - Digital Advertising Display Unit Integrated With Smart Faucet Technology.

Scott Brown - CEO and Founder of VODX joins Future Tech Podcast. VODX is a company who manufactures and distributes a patented faucet with an integrated LCD Screen world-wide would be in a position to disrupt the advertising industry through blockchain technologies.

Robots in Space! – Alicia Kavelaars, Founder and CTO, OffWorld – How Advanced Machine Learning is Expanding Capabilities for Robotic Workforces in Extreme Environments

Alicia Kavelaars, Founder, and CTO of OffWorld (offworld.ai) discuss her company’s efforts to build robotic technology for extreme environments, with advanced machine learning and AI, to assist humans to be offworld. Offworld, roughly defined as ‘away from earth’ is the core point of Kavelaars’ company’s mission—to enable “smart robots working under human supervision on and offworld, turning the inner solar system into a better, gentler, greener place for life and civilization.” While exper...

Don White, Co-Founder/CEO, Satisfi Labs

Satisfi Labs creates A.I. powered chatbots that businesses use to communicate with their customers in real time. Co-Founder/CEO Don White discusses how their creations are being used in sports entertainment and retail environments. Brands such as the Houston Texans and the Oklahoma City Thunder are already using the work of Satisfi Labs to enhance the fan experience through real-time information and suggestions. We determine whether data is truly "the new oil". Don also discusses how the futu...

Monax - Decentralized Ledgers and Contracts for Business

Casey Kuhlman - CEO of Monax joins Future Tech Podcast.  The Monax platform is an open platform for small businesses to create, prove, and operate their legal agreements. Monax is pioneering permissioned ledgers and smart contracts and now are building a legal agreements network to allow new and more efficient forms of legal transacting, exploiting the benefits of various decentralized, distributed, and masterless technologies.

Digitalbits Foundation - Tokenization, micropayments and cross-asset transfers

The DigitalBits Project is an open-source software project used by the DigitalBits blockchain network. In addition to supporting fast & low-cost micropayments & remittances, Enterprises are also able to tokenize assets on the DigitalBits blockchain. Users are able to trade on-chain and the technology will automatically-trade (with multi-hop) in less than 5seconds. Loyalty points & rewards are one of the asset categories that the decentralized DigitalBits blockchain is able to support. There a...

Winning! – Craig Buntin, Co-founder, SPORTLOGiQ – How AI Sports Data Analytics Are Literally Changing the Game and Giving Coaches an Irrefutable Inside Edge

Craig Buntin, a three-time Canadian figure skating champion and Olympic athlete, co-founded SPORTLOGiQ (sportlogiq.com) with Mehrsan Javan, an expert in machine learning and computer vision who holds a PhD in the field. Through Buntin’s vast experience and many years on the ice, he came to a realization that there was a dire need for advanced analytics in sports, and that access to more extensive powerful data would be invaluable. Teaming with the PhD, Javan, the sports-minded tech enthusias...

Space Vacation 2022! – Frank Bunger, CEO & Founder, Orion Span – Space Hotels and the Push To Colonize the Great Beyond

Your name might not be Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, or even George Jetson for that matter, but space travel has arrived for the average Joe or Jill with the means. Frank Bunger, CEO of Orion Span (orionspan.com), takes us on a delightful narrative journey through the preparations his company is making to deliver the actual journey, to space, as soon as 2022! With Orion Span’s project, Aurora Station, a luxury space hotel, Bunger seeks to make another giant leap for mankind, to...

David Bleznak - Founder And CEO Totle.Com - Decentralized Trading Platform

David Bleznak - Founder and CEO of Totle joins Future Tech Podcast. By aggregating the liquidity of the top decentralized exchanges, Totle is the most convenient ERC-20 token trading platform. Trustless trading is now accessible. Unlike exchanges, Totle never takes custody of your tokens or private keys. Tokens stay in your wallet. 

Crime Busters – David Selinger, Founder, Deep Sentinel – How Advanced Artificial Intelligence & Camera Technology Are Retooling Home Security

David Selinger is the founder of Deep Sentinel, a technology company that develops smart home surveillance systems that combine next-gen cameras, artificial intelligence (AI), and human intervention. The surveillance technology founder organically arrived in the home security space when he was motivated to dig deeper after a close neighbor was the victim of a home invasion.  With an extensive background in AI, Selinger came to the quick and startling realization that home security systems w...

Mind Control – Dr. Christoph Guger, CEO and President, g • tec (gtec.at) – How Groundbreaking Brain-Computer Interface Technology is Upending Everything We Thought We Knew About Brainwaves

While we might not yet be able to levitate objects by simply using our brainwaves, the rigorous study of brainwaves has certainly led to some astounding developments. Dr. Christoph Guger, CEO and President of g•tec (gtec.at), a medical engineering product development company, introduces the spectacular technology behind their groundbreaking work that allows an individual to control external devices with their thoughts. Dr. Guger’s company, g•tec, is a pioneer in the field of brain–computer ...

Andrew Grotto on Technology, Governance, and National Security

As a fellow at both the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Hoover Institution, Andrew Grotto centers his work on the intersection between emerging technology, governance, and national security. According to Grotto, the decisions that governments make about technology have national security applications in the US and affect global foreign policy; this is just part of the reason why it’s important to evaluate the benefits and risks of emerging technologies. Grotto offer...

Dorian Kieken- Age of Minds- Promoting Human and Artificial Intelligence Collaboration

“Technology is progressing very fast, and I think ethics in AI is our biggest challenge for the next couple of decades,” says Dorian Kierken. As the founder and CEO of Age of Minds, Kierken is focused on the future of artificial intelligence and the ways in which the human species will interact with it.  He began asking himself what he should be working on in order to make sure that the lifespan and happiness of his daughter--and the human species as a whole--is maximized. He’s narrowed it ...

Tom Coughlin - CEO at Kinesis

The Kinesis Monetary System is an evolutionary step beyond any monetary system available in the world today. It enhances money as both a store of value and a medium of exchange and has been developed for the benefit of all. Core to the mechanics of the system is the perpetual incentive and thus stimulus for money velocity. Outside capital is attracted into Kinesis via a highly attractive risk/return ratio and then put into highly stimulated movement, promoting commerce and economic activity....

Trashing the Planet – Marcus Eriksen, Co-founder & Research Director of 5 Gyres Institute (5gyres.org) – Rethinking Recycling: The Push to Solve Our Plastic and Disposable Trash Problem in a Single-Use World

Marcus Eriksen, Co-founder & Research Director of 5 Gyres Institute (5gyres.org) leads an informative discussion on the ever-growing plastic trash problem that is having a detrimental impact on our seas, sea life, and planetary health. Eriksen’s experience in the area of marine research is vast, as he has led multiple expeditions around the globe to specifically research plastic marine pollution. As a pioneer in this field of study, Eriksen’s work, and subsequent discovery of plastic microb...

Saving Lives in 3D – Lorenzo Moroni, Professor of Biofabrication, Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University – Boundless Biofabrication: Advances in Drug Therapy and What the Future Holds for Regenerative Medicine

Kidney failure? No problem. Need a new heart? Check, working on it. Let’s just head on over to the 3D printer and print one up and send you on your way. While this sounds like science fiction, and currently still is, the advances in biofabrication and 3D bioprinting may intersect in a jaw-dropping, historical moment some day in our future. To learn more about the stunning advances in medical biofabrication that are being put to work today, listen to Dr. Lorenzo Moroni’s intensive discussion ...

All My Circuits Are Functioning Perfectly – Shashank Samala, Co-founder and VP of Products, Tempo – How Software is Enabling Innovation in Multiple Industries by Reducing Engineering Prototype Development Time

Robotics and automation have come a long way since the development of George Devol’s ‘Unimate’ in the early 1950s. Before Unimate was impressing audiences on the Johnny Carson show in ’66, the world of manufacturing was completely reliant on human power. Today, engineers are moving fast and forward with prototypes that may advance various industries. Listen in as Shashank Samala provides an overview of how his company, Tempo, is providing nearly real time feedback in the digital environment ...

Disruption Eruption – Whitney Johnson, President and Co-founder, Rose Park Advisors' Disruptive Innovation Fund – How Disruption Theory Can Help Bring About Innovation and Self-discovery in the Business World and Beyond

Author and consultant, Whitney Johnson, President and Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors' Disruptive Innovation Fund discuss the power of disruption theory and how it can release the better self in all of us. With a background on Wall Street covering emerging markets and telecom, Whitney Johnson came to some important realizations about the personal challenges we all face in our careers, and the reasons we become stymied along the way. Johnson’s books, Disrupt Yourself and Build an A-Team, foc...

Nitin Agarwal - Founder at B21- Your Personal Wealth Manager for Crypto Assets

Nitin Agarwal - Founder of B21 joins Future Tech Podcast.B21 is a personal wealth management platform exclusively for crypto assets. Our mission is to make it easy for everyday investors to easily create and manage diverse portfolios of crypto assets.

Nicolas Gilot - Founder And Ceo At Ultra.Io - Changing The Gaming Industry

Ultra is bringing the blockchain revolution to the gaming industry and creating a fair ecosystem for the future of games distribution With cutting-edge technology, Ultra aims to shake up the gaming industry by putting the power back into the hands of developers and players, paving the way for a first-class game publishing platform.

Simon Tian - Founder At Globle - Democratizing Innovation And Creation Of Ideas.

Globle is a platform that fully democratizes the creation, development, funding, and management of new projects and ideas. It is a decentralized means of building and running new companies, a platform which is managed and owned equally by all its users. All profits generated by Globle projects are distributed between project contributors and the rest of Globle users, providing a potential universal basic income (UBI) to everyone.

Juan M. Hernandez - Founder, CEO at OpenFinance Network

Juan M. Hernandez - Founder, CEO at OpenFinance Network joins Future Tech Podcast. The OpenFinance Network is a blockchain-based protocol and framework for the trading, clearing, and settlement of cryptocurrency security tokens and other alternative assets. The OpenFinance Network is the leading trading platform for alternative assets, working with the millions of investors who hold assets in the $7.7T alternatives market (e.g. hedge funds, private equity, limited partnerships, non-listed RE...

Divining For News – Veryan Goodship, Co-founder and CEO, Truba (truba.news) – How Artificial Intelligence Can Help To Tailor News, And Separate The Wheat From The Chaff

Veryan Goodship, Co-founder and CEO of Truba (truba.news), provides a detailed discussion on his company’s technology-based news delivery, and how it was born of specific needs that occurred within the Canadian Financial Industry. The Canadian economics graduate discusses his startup’s mission to rethink the ways in which users receive news in our 24-hour, complex, streaming and constant news-heavy world. The news tech CEO outlines how current problems with the dissemination of news has cre...

Gus van der Feltz - The Institute of Vertical Farming - High-Tech Farming for an Urbanizing World

Vertical farming is a practice that involves the cultivation of crops on multiple levels in a fully enclosed environment equipped with optimal artificial lighting and an optimal atmosphere. The results? Fresher, better, and healthier crops that are grown without the use of pesticides and are available to those who may otherwise be unable to access them--especially those who live in urban environments. Gus van der Feltz is the head of member relations at the Institute of Vertical Farming, wh...

Anton Mozgovoy - CTO At Humaniq

Humaniq is a simple and secure financial services provider on a mission to help eradicate poverty using pre-eminent technologies including blockchain and biometrics. Humaniq is not just a commercial project. It is a worldwide mission, aiming to give people in developing nations more power to change their lives.

Peter Grant - CEO & Founder At Safesite Solutions - Safesite

Safesite is transforming the way companies in high-risk industries manage their everyday safety and compliance needs. By combining innovative mobile and field-based technologies with ongoing virtual safety coaching, Safesite has proven to help customers prevent workplace incidents by up to 57%. Over 4,000 US companies trust the Safesite platform to streamline and ensure compliance activities, drive team safety engagement and empower every worker in their organization to be a safety champion.

Shippabo - Cloud Based Shipping Management

Nina Luu - CEO & Co-Founder at Shippabo walks us through the products and services of Shippabo. Shippabo is a cloud-based supply chain management platform built by a team of shippers and supported by logistics experts. Through Shippabo, businesses can oversee their supply chain from anywhere, at any time, and on their terms. We are committed to empowering everyone along the supply chain by bringing greater transparency, collaboration, and actionable data to the world of shipping and logisti...

Dan Jansen- Nextlaw Ventures- Reinventing the Practice of Law through Artificial Intelligence

Just a few years ago, a large law firm by the name of Dentons realized the coming changes that an overlap between technology and law might create, and wanted to get ahead of the game. As a result, Dentons created Nextlaw Labs with the vision of reinventing the practice of law using technology. As a subsidiary of Nextlaw Labs, Nextlaw Ventures emerged, which is an early-stage, legal-focused venture fund that invests in a variety of legal tech companies. As the CEO and Managing Director of Ne...

Arvind Gupta - IndieBio - Helping Scientists Use Biology and Technology to Solve Global Problems

Arvind Gupta began his career as a genetic engineer before entering industrial design, where he learned the process of productizing technology. Gupta has implemented what he’s learned in his current role as the founder of IndieBio, a venture capital firm that funds scientists to become entrepreneurs and solve the world’s most pressing problems using biology and technology. As an example, Gupta discusses cellular agriculture, which is the process of producing food in cellular factories and a...

Bradley Zastrow - Head Of Global Business Development

The Conductivity Cure – Alex Savtchenko, Research Scientist, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, University of California, San Diego – How Graphene Research May Provide New Options to Treat & Cure Disease

Visual Brain – J. Alexander Bae, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, Computational Neuroscience, Princeton University– The Scientific Quest to Discover How the Eye & Brain Process Complex Informat

David Yu - Ecomi - Pay, Protect and Collect

Andrey Teryoshin – Partner At Bitcab – Uber 2.0 For The Age Of Blockchain.

BitCab is Uber 2.0 for the age of blockchain, an ecosystem and technological model enabled by tokenization. In addition to standard ride-sharing functionality, it uses blockchain and gamification to strengthen network effects on both supply and demand side, create a self-funding viral growth mechanism and a much more advanced and diverse decentralized ecosystem.

Shibin Li – Co-Founder At Castbox.Fm

Castbox is an award-winning global podcast platform that enables anyone to easily find, access, create and enjoy spoken audio content. They provide our users with access to endless content in multiple languages, from anywhere, across any platform including Android, iOS, desktop, car and smart home devices. Their proprietary technology includes features like curated podcast recommendations and in-audio deep search to customize our user’s listening experience to change the way we listen to spok...

Vitor Santo – Senior Scientist at Just For All – Innovative Alternative Protein Developer

Just For All is a high-tech, cutting-edge sustainable food company, using plant-based proteins to create nutritious, affordable, and cruelty-free food options. Dedicated to implementing a more sustainable food system across the globe, Just For All is known for its wondrous bean-based egg substitute, Just Egg. In this interview, Senior Scientist, Vitor Santo, explains the next step for Just For All and for the alternative protein revolution: clean meats. Smith informs listeners of what clean m...

Richard Farragher – Professor of Biogerontology – Improving Later Life Health Through an Understanding of the Mechanisms of Ageing

As a professor of biogerontology at the University of Brighton, Richard Farragher has served as Chair of the British Society for Research on Ageing and the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology. He joins the podcast today to discuss something that affects us all: the process of ageing. “Understanding how ageing works is a prerequisite to improving later life health,” says Farragher. So, how does it work? While research efforts to answer this question are ongoing, Farragher belie...

Food Fast – Kurt Schmidinger, Founder, Future Food – A Possible End to Traditional Meats? The Acceleration Toward a Clean Meat & Plant-based Diet

Kurt Schmidinger, founder of Future Food, an internet-oriented initiative based out of Austria takes us on a lively discussion of the foods we eat and the future of our diets. Future Food’s mission is largely comprised of distributing information about the many alternatives to animal-derived products, and supporting the research and development of in vitro meat, also known as lab-grown, or clean meat. Schmidinger discusses his organic path, from a geophysics background to food science, towar...

Dr. Pantas Sutardja – Latticeworks Inc – Cloud Computing Solutions

Dr. Panta Sutardja – Founder of LatticeWorks inc joins Future Tech Podcast to discuss the solutions that LatticeWorks provides as an alternative to cloud storage among other things. LatticeWorks is a technology consulting company delivering DevOps and Cloud Computing (AWS) solutions. They are passionate about helping customers fulfill their business needs by enabling them with build/release automation, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and event-driven security/compliance.

Tech Touch – Gijs Den Butter, CEO of Sense Glove – From Hand to Brain: Visionary Advances in Virtual World Technology

Gijs Den Butter, CEO of Sense Glove, discusses his company’s vision of advanced design robotic gloves for rehabilitation and B2B training that can enhance a user’s experience in a virtual environment. Haptics, the science of using touch sensation to interact with computer applications, is an exploding field that technology innovators are gravitating toward to aid them in the development of products that enhance the human experience. Den Butter’s glove allows for the user to feel not only vibr...

Ronit Feingold-Polak, PhD- Robotics- Humanoid Robot-Based Physical Therapy for Neurological Rehabilitation

For the past 16 years, Romit Feingold has worked as a physical therapist with people who have suffered from stroke and other forms of neurological damage. She’s noticed one problem in particular: the average 45-minute therapy session covers just a fraction of the amount of work and effort that patients need to put into their rehabilitation, leaving them to carry out the rest on their own. Unfortunately–whether because of frustration, boredom, or lack of motivation–many patients fail to follow...

Bryant Nielson – Founder of the Blockchain Academy – Blockchain Programs For Corporations And Developers.

This Blockchain Academy offers programs, delivered by industry experts, on the role of the blockchain, its impact on central banks, financial institutions, trade finance, settlement, contracts, IP as well as education. A recent report by Santander estimates that blockchain technology could save the financial industry between$15-20 billion annually by 2022. Most people associate blockchain with bitcoin but fail to realize that bitcoin is built on the blockchain. We feel that the coming tsunami...

Niall Dennehy – Co-Founder And COO At Aid Tech – Award-Winning Company Delivering Enterprise Level Blockchain Solutions

AID: Tech is an award-winning company that focuses on the delivery of digital entitlements, including welfare, aid, remittance and donations using Blockchain & Digital Identity. AID: Tech was the first company in the world to successfully deliver international aid to Syrian Refugees in Lebanon using Blockchain technology. Our products and services help client and partners address some of the world’s largest social issues as well as targets set by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – signe...

Nathalie Mezza-Garcia – Seavangelesse at Blue Frontiers – PhD Candidate at Warwick University

A floating Pacific island with its own government, cryptocurrency and 300 houses could be in the near future. The Floating Island Project plans to create off-shore housing that uses its own currency and operates outside of government regulations. The project is a pilot program in partnership with the government of French Polynesia. A long-term vision for the project is to have hundreds of countries floating on the ocean. Blue Frontiers are building sustainable floating islands to address sea ...

Learning Forward – Michael Littman, Professor of Computer Science, Brown University – Learning for Neural Networks and The Endless Possibilities for Advanced AI

What do the robots know and when did they know it? But more importantly, how did they learn it? Technology is improving and advancing at a blistering pace and the implications for AI, advances in robotics, and more, depend heavily upon learning. Michael Littman, Professor of Computer Science at Brown University will delve into a broad discussion of the multiple types of learning as they relate to multi-layered neural networks. Professor Littman provides examples of the various kinds of learn...

Daniel Khesin – Founder of Bitfi – The World’s First Un-Hackable Crypto Wallet.

The Bitfi Knox hardware wallet is a breakthrough technology that offers a rare combination of the most advanced security for private and enterprise use and is remarkably simple to use requiring no technology knowledge. With the Bitfi technology your money is safer than in any bank vault on earth and even though it is a sophisticated instrument, operating it is as easy as using an ATM machine. This unprecedented combination of security and user-friendliness is a quantum leap in the way that yo...

Adam Koltun – Lead Business Strategist at The Quantum Resistant Ledger

The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) will be a first of its kind, future-proof post-quantum value store and decentralized communication layer which tackles the threat Quantum Computing will pose to cryptocurrencies.

Hassan Khoshtaghaza – CEO at SatoshiPoint.io – UK’s Largest Cryptocurrency ATM Network

Satoshipoint Is a company operating Bitcoin Kiosks. They are the first to bring Robocoin kiosks to the UK and Bitcoin to the high street of London, They believe these Kiosks are the most simple and reliable way for people to either buy or sell their Bitcoins.

Incent Loyalty – Digital Currency Reward Program

This is Incent; a universal rewards system made for today's digital world. Incent rewards you with a digital currency that can be shared, saved or exchanged and will never expire. Incent; a loyalty program unlike any you've ever seen before. Incent rewards you with a digital currency that can be shared, saved or exchanged and will never expire. Begin earning INCNT today by doing all the things you love to do online, whether it be shopping for the ultimate pair of shoes, ordering your favorite...

Remitly – The Best Way to Send Money Online

Remitly is an international payments company that leverages digital channels, including mobile phones, to send money internationally. Remitly's digital products are fundamentally faster, less expensive, and far more convenient for customers to send money across borders.

IDC – Premier Global Provider of Market Intelligence

Senior Security Analyst (CISA) at IDC joins Future Tech Podcast. IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More than 1,100 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry oppo...