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Future Positive

69 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -

Welcome to Future Positive a podcast from XPRIZE that aims to bring you the most future-forward topics, covering everything from AI to avatars, to climate change, and more. We will share conversations from game-changing leaders, tech entrepreneurs and heavyweights from the creative industry - revealing their inspirations, and how and why they will change the world.


If you’re into data-driven optimism, this is the podcast for you.


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Episodes

The Future of Conservation

June 22, 2020 12:58 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MB

NEW SEASON Welcome to Future Positive from XPRIZE. This season we aim to bring you the most future-forward topics, covering everything from AI to avatars, to climate change, and more. We will share conversations from game-changing leaders, tech entrepreneurs and heavyweights from the creative industry - revealing their inspirations, and how and why they will change the world. Captured during Visioneering at Paramount Studios, Peter H. Diamandis is joined by Harrison Ford and Wes Bush from ...

COVID-19 and the Future of Food with Caroline Kolta

June 21, 2020 09:37 - 9 minutes - 16.6 MB

Welcome to the final episode of our new XPRIZE podcast series, Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19, featuring Caroline Kolta.  In this episode, Caroline questions what role our food system played in leading to COVID-19, and what the future of our food systems will look like as we emerge from the pandemic. Caroline’s own work in food and agriculture led her to realize that it’s time to recognize the interconnectedness of animal health, people’s health, and planetary healt...

#007 Caroline Kolta - Future of Food

June 21, 2020 09:37 - 9 minutes - 16.6 MB

Welcome to the final episode of our new XPRIZE podcast series, Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19, featuring Caroline Kolta.  In this episode, Caroline questions what role our food system played in leading to COVID-19, and what the future of our food systems will look like as we emerge from the pandemic. Caroline’s own work in food and agriculture led her to realize that it’s time to recognize the interconnectedness of animal health, people’s health, and planetary healt...

#006 Anya Shakhmeyster feat. Anousheh Ansari, Catherine Connors, and Lisa Bilyeu - Gender Gap

June 12, 2020 17:10 - 40 minutes - 92.4 MB

Welcome to the latest episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series, Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19, featuring Anousheh Ansari, Anya Shakhmeyster, Catherine Connors, and Lisa Bilyeu.  In this episode, Anya gets inside the minds of three women who are disrupting traditional gender stereotypes every single day. Lisa, Catherine and Anousheh share their personal mission for female progress, and some positive disruptions they see happening in our world due to COVID-19. ...

Exploring the Gender Data Gap with Anya Shakhmeyster feat. Anousheh Ansari, Catherine Connors, and Lisa Bilyeu -

June 12, 2020 17:10 - 40 minutes - 92.4 MB

Welcome to the latest episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series, Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19, featuring Anousheh Ansari, Anya Shakhmeyster, Catherine Connors, and Lisa Bilyeu.  In this episode, Anya gets inside the minds of three women who are disrupting traditional gender stereotypes every single day. Lisa, Catherine and Anousheh share their personal mission for female progress, and some positive disruptions they see happening in our world due to COVID-19. ...

#005 - Chris Classen ft. Councilmember John D’Amico - Pride 50

May 29, 2020 21:12 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB

Welcome to the latest episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Chris Classen. This June marks 50 years since the first permitted Pride Parade, taking place in Los Angeles in 1970, an audacious act in a time when your sexuality could leave you in handcuffs. In this week’s episode, Chris reflects on the beginnings of Pride, and with guest John D’Amico, former mayor and current council member of the City of West Hollywoo...

Pride 50 with Chris Classen ft. Councilmember John D’Amico

May 29, 2020 21:12 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB

Welcome to the latest episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Chris Classen. This June marks 50 years since the first permitted Pride Parade, taking place in Los Angeles in 1970, an audacious act in a time when your sexuality could leave you in handcuffs. In this week’s episode, Chris reflects on the beginnings of Pride, and with guest John D’Amico, former mayor and current council member of the City of West Hollywoo...

#005 Chris Classen ft. Councilmember John D’Amico - Pride 50

May 29, 2020 21:12 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB

Welcome to the latest episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Chris Classen. This June marks 50 years since the first permitted Pride Parade, taking place in Los Angeles in 1970, an audacious act in a time when your sexuality could leave you in handcuffs. In this week’s episode, Chris reflects on the beginnings of Pride, and with guest John D’Amico, former mayor and current council member of the City of West Hollywoo...

Imagining a World without Schools with Emily Church

May 15, 2020 19:46 - 5 minutes - 13.7 MB

In this week’s episode Emily shares her experience working and parenting at a time when schools are closed indefinitely. Even without this pandemic, Emily reflects on how a world without schools is a reality for many parents and children around the world.  Dr. Emily Musil Church is the Executive Director of Education & Learning at XPRIZE, where she led the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE, and leads XPRIZE’s educational outreach and equity programs. Prior to joining XPRIZE, she spent over a deca...

#004 Emily Church - Imagining an educational world without schools

May 15, 2020 19:46 - 5 minutes - 13.7 MB

In this week’s episode Emily shares her experience working and parenting at a time when schools are closed indefinitely. Even without this pandemic, Emily reflects on how a world without schools is a reality for many parents and children around the world.  Dr. Emily Musil Church is the Executive Director of Education & Learning at XPRIZE, where she led the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE, and leads XPRIZE’s educational outreach and equity programs. Prior to joining XPRIZE, she spent over a deca...

Artificial Intelligence and COVID-19 with Devin Krotman & Neama Dadkhahnikoo

May 07, 2020 21:55 - 8 minutes - 20.6 MB

Welcome to the third episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Neama Dadkhahnikoo and Devin Krotman. In this weeks podcast Neama Dadkhahnikoo and Devin Krotman discuss how artificial intelligence is being used during the Covid-19 pandemic and how this same technology will be able to be rolled out to tackle other problems in our uncertain future. From tracking to predicting the spread of infectious diseases to helping d...

#003 Devin Krotman & Neama Dadkhahnikoo - Artificial Intelligence and COVID-19

May 07, 2020 21:55 - 8 minutes - 20.6 MB

Welcome to the third episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Neama Dadkhahnikoo and Devin Krotman. In this weeks podcast Neama Dadkhahnikoo and Devin Krotman discuss how artificial intelligence is being used during the Covid-19 pandemic and how this same technology will be able to be rolled out to tackle other problems in our uncertain future. From tracking to predicting the spread of infectious diseases to helping d...

#003 Devin Krotman & Neama Dadkhahnikoo

May 07, 2020 21:55 - 8 minutes - 20.6 MB

Welcome to the third episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Neama Dadkhahnikoo and Devin Krotman. In this weeksl podcast Neama Dadkhahnikoo and Devin Krotman discuss how artificial intelligence is being used during the Covid-19 pandemic and how this same technology will be able to be rolled out to tackle other problems in our uncertain future. From tracking to predicting the spread of infectious diseases to helping ...

#002 Jacquelyn Morie

May 07, 2020 18:14 - 7 minutes - 16.6 MB

Welcome to the second episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Jacquelyn Morie. In this podcast Jacki looks at how humans require touch, studies show that babies who are never touched fail to thrive but the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the use of remote digital technology to the fore. We are now using digital platforms for our work, for our entertainment and for our social need for human to human contact. But how do ...

#002 Jacquelyn Morie - The importance of human touch

May 07, 2020 18:14 - 7 minutes - 16.6 MB

Welcome to the second episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Jacquelyn Morie. In this podcast Jacki looks at how humans require touch, studies show that babies who are never touched fail to thrive but the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the use of remote digital technology to the fore. We are now using digital platforms for our work, for our entertainment and for our social need for human to human contact. But how do ...

The Importance of Human Touch with Jacquelyn Morie

May 07, 2020 18:14 - 7 minutes - 16.6 MB

Welcome to the second episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Jacquelyn Morie. In this podcast Jacki looks at how humans require touch, studies show that babies who are never touched fail to thrive but the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the use of remote digital technology to the fore. We are now using digital platforms for our work, for our entertainment and for our social need for human to human contact. But how do ...

#001 Marcius Extavour - Unexpected environmental side effects

May 07, 2020 14:58 - 9 minutes - 22.5 MB

Welcome to the first of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Marcus Extavour. In this podcast Marcius guides us through the unexpected environmental side effects of the Covid-19 outbreak and how humans all around the world are responding with data driven optimism. This pandemic has brought clean air to the most polluted parts of the world and this unexpected environmental impact got Marcius thinking about other links between...

#001 Marcius Extavour

May 07, 2020 14:58 - 9 minutes - 22.5 MB

Welcome to the first of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Marcus Extavour. In this podcast Marcius guides us through the unexpected environmental side effects of the Covid-19 outbreak and how humans all around the world are responding with data driven optimism. This pandemic has brought clean air to the most polluted parts of the world and this unexpected environmental impact got Marcius thinking about other links between...

Unexpected Environmental Side Effects of COVID-19 with Marcius Extavour

May 07, 2020 14:58 - 9 minutes - 22.5 MB

Welcome to the first of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Marcus Extavour. In this podcast Marcius guides us through the unexpected environmental side effects of the Covid-19 outbreak and how humans all around the world are responding with data driven optimism. This pandemic has brought clean air to the most polluted parts of the world and this unexpected environmental impact got Marcius thinking about other links between...

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