Progress, Potential, and Possibilities
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Colonel Ross Guieb - Executive Director, George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex, Texas A&M
May 26, 2021 21:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBColonel (Ret) Rosendo “Ross” Guieb, is the Executive Director of the new $200-million George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex (BCDC) on the Rellis Campus at Texas A&M University. The BCDC was developed to support the Army’s desire for a faster procurement process, hoping to take advantage of technology advances at the rates enjoyed by the commercial and private sectors. The BCDC will include the largest enclosed-tube test facility in the U.S. for hypersonic and laser technologies and ex...
Jacob Walthour Jr. - CEO, Blueprint Capital Advisors - Economic, Racial And Social Equity Advocacy
May 26, 2021 21:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBJacob Walthour, Jr. is the CEO and Co-Founder of the investment firm Blueprint Capital Advisors, which offers investment advisory and portfolio management services, managing $1.2 billion of clients wealth. Mr. Walthour has over 30 years of experience in capital markets, traditional and alternative asset management. Prior to founding Blueprint, Mr. Walthour served as Vice Chairman of Product and Business Development at the investment management division of Cowen & Company, also serving on th...
Dr. Morten Scheibye-Knudsen - University of Copenhagen - Aging, DNA Repair, And Clinical Innovation
May 26, 2021 21:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBDr. Morten Scheibye-Knudsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and at the Center for Healthy Aging (CEHA), at the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Scheibye-Knudsen did his MD at the University of Copenhagen and worked briefly as a physician in Denmark and Greenland before turning to science. He did his post-doctoral fellowship at Vilhelm Bohr’s lab at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, USA, where he utilized state-of-the...
Dr. Missy Cummings, Ph.D - Professor, Duke University - Director, Humans and Autonomy Laboratory
May 26, 2021 21:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBDr. Mary "Missy" Cummings, is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the Pratt School of Engineering, at Duke University, the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences, and is the Director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory and Duke Robotics. Dr. Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of V...
Dr Jamie L. Wells, MD - Director, Research Science Inst - Pediatrician, Medical Innovator, Educator
May 26, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBDr. Jamie L. Wells, MD, FAAP, is an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, where she has been involved in helping to spearhead the nation's first-degree program focused on pediatric engineering, innovation, and medical advancement. She just co-authored an article in the journal Artificial Organs on this newly emerging applied science. Dr. Wells is an award-winning Board-certified pediatrician with many years of experience carin...
Nora Super - Milken Institute - Center for the Future of Aging - Alliance to Improve Dementia Care
May 26, 2021 21:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBNora Super is the Senior Director of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging (CFA) (https://milkeninstitute.org/centers/c...) and the Executive Director of the Milken Institute Alliance to Improve Dementia Care (https://milkeninstitute.org/centers/c...). Mr. Super provides strategic direction for the two primary focus areas of CFA: Financial Wellness and Healthy Longevity, and oversees data-driven research, meaningful policy initiatives, and impactful convenings around the world....
Dr. Jonna Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PhD - One Health - Can We Immunize The World Against Future Pandemics?
May 26, 2021 21:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBDr. Jonna Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PhD, is a Professor of Epidemiology and Disease Ecology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Founding Executive Director of the UC Davis One Health Institute, and Vice Provost For Grand Challenges At UC Davis. Additionally, Dr. Mazet in on the Steering Committee of the Global Virome Project, Principal Investigator of the PREDICT project, Chair, National Academies’ One Health Action Collaborative, and Co-Vice Chair, UC Global Health Institute Board of Di...
Dr. Julie Fratantoni, PhD - Head of Operations, The BrainHealth Project - The Univ of Texas, Dallas
May 26, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBDr. Julie Fratantoni is a cognitive neuroscientist at the Center for BrainHealth (https://brainhealth.utdallas.edu/), part of the University of Texas at Dallas. At the center, Dr. Fratantoni is the Head of Operations for a landmark research study called The BrainHealth Project, which is all about teaching people strategies for how to maximize their brain performance, and it’s her focus to educate and train individuals to operate at their highest capacity, reduce stress, achieve their goals, ...
Profile Of Courage - Captain Dr. Roger Herbert, Ph.D. - Navy Seal, Ethics Professor, Outdoorsman
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBCaptain (Ret) Dr. Roger Herbert, Ph.D. is the Robert T. Herres Distinguished Military Professor of Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. A 1983 graduate of Davidson College, Captain Herbert holds a Master of Arts in National Security Affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School (1992), a Master of Science in National Security Studies from the National War College (2005), and a Ph.D. in International Relations and Political Theory from the University of Virginia (2016). Captain Herbert re...
Donna Butts, Exec. Director, Generations United - Health, Aging, And Intergenerational Collaboration
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBDonna Butts is the Executive Director of Generations United, an organization with a mission to improve the lives of children, youth, and older people through intergenerational collaboration, public policies, and programs for the enduring benefit of all, a position she has held since 1997. For more than 30 years, Ms. Butts has worked tirelessly to promote the well-being of children, youth and older adults through nonprofit organizations across the country and around the world. She began her ...
Dr. Brian Kennedy Ph.D. - Delaying, Detecting, Preventing and Treating Aging And Associated Diseases
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBDr. Brian Kennedy is Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), Director of National University Health System (NUHS) Centre for Healthy Ageing, Singapore, Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Ageing, Adjunct Professor, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USC, and Affiliate Faculty, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington. With a Ph.D. in Biology from Massachusetts Institute o...
Colonel Dr David Barnes - Chief AI Ethics Officer, US Army - Prof, USMA - Ethics Of War & Emerging Tech
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBDisclaimer - COL Dr. Barnes’ remarks are personal views and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Defense, the United States Army, the United States Military Academy, or any other department or agency of the United States Government. COL Dr. David Barnes is Professor, United States Military Academy (USMA) and Deputy Head of the Department of English and Philosophy, West Point, NY. COL Dr. Barnes concurrently serves as the Chief AI Ethics Officer for the US Army’s Artificial ...
Dr. Lee Chae - Co-Founder / CTO, Brightseed - Re-Connect People and Plants, For Health & Wellness
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBDr. Lee Chae, Ph.D., is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Brightseed, a novel life sciences company, merging the tools of plant biology and artificial intelligence, with a goal of enabling a healthier future by re-illuminating and re-activating the connections between people and plants. Dr. Chae is a seasoned R&D technology developer and has designed advanced discovery methodologies for food technology, agricultural biotech, bio-medicine, and synthetic biology. He has been a prin...
Dr. Hassan Tetteh, MD - Health Mission Chief - DoD/JAIC - The Art of Human Care For COVID-19
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBDr. Hassan A. Tetteh, MD, is the Health Mission Chief, at the Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, serving to advance the objectives of the DoD AI Strategy, and improve war fighter healthcare and readiness with artificial intelligence implementations. Dr. Tetteh is also an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, adjunct faculty at Howard University College of Medicine, a Thoracic Staff Surgeon for MedStar Healt...
Dr Shawna Pandya MD - Physician, Scientist, Astronaut Candidate, Aquanaut, Martial Artist, Sky-Diver
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBDr. Shawna Pandya MD, is a scientist-astronaut candidate with Project PoSSUM, physician, aquanaut, speaker, martial artist, advanced diver, skydiver, and pilot-in-training. Dr. Pandya is also the VP of Immersive Medicine with the virtual reality healthcare company, Luxsonic Technologies, Director of the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences (IIAS)/PoSSUM Space Medicine Group, Chief Instructor of the IIAS/PoSSUM Operational Space Medicine course, Director of Medical Research at O...
Jasmijn Kok - Juno Perinatal Healthcare - Artificial Womb Technology For Extremely Preterm Infants
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBEvery year, 800,000 babies are born extremely preterm (defined as less than 28 weeks of age) worldwide. These infants are usually transferred to an air-based neonatal intensive care unit to support their heart and lung development. Exposure to air, however, leads to many complications, because the lungs are not fully developed yet. An artificial uterus, or artificial womb, is a device that would allow for extra-corporeal pregnancy, by supporting the growth of a fetus outside the body of an o...
Dan Addario - Former Special Agent In Charge - U.S. DEA - New Ideas For The Global Drugs Crisis
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBAccording to the U.S. National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 20 million American adults battled a full-fledged substance use disorder in 2017. Drug abuse and addiction cost American society more than $740 billion annually in lost workplace productivity, healthcare expenses, and crime-related costs. Mr. Dan Addario spent 3 decades with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), rising to the role of Special Agent in Charge, the highest-ranking field agent for the DEA under five pr...
Dr. Patrick Bangert, Vice President of AI, Samsung SDS - Developing Next Gen AI To Serve Humanity
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBDr. Patrick D. Bangert, is Vice President of AI, and heads the AI Engineering and AI Sciences teams, at Samsung SDS. Samsung SDS is a subsidiary of the Samsung Group, which provides information technology (IT) services, and are active in research and development of emerging IT technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, Internet of things (IoT) and Engineering Outsourcing. Dr. Bangert is responsible for the Brightics AI Accelerator, a distributed ML training and automated...
Juan Williams - Emmy Award Winning Television Commentator, Radio Personality, Newspaper Columnist
May 02, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MBProgress, Potential, And Possibilities has the honor of being joined today by Emmy Award winning Television Commentator, Radio Personality, and Newspaper Columnist, Mr. Juan Williams. Mr. Williams has been a Fox News Contributor since 1997 (including being a member of the nightly, current issue discussion show known as The Five), writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been published in magazines such as The Atlan...
Professor Dr. Raheel Qamar - Head, Directorate of Science and Technology - ICESCO - Rabat, Morocco
May 02, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBProf Dr. Raheel Qamar, is a Tenured Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Former Rector at the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS University - Islamabad), an international organization aiming to reduce the growing gap between the developed and developing world through useful applications of science and technology. Prof. Qamar is also the current Head of the Directorate of Science and Technology, of The Islamic World Educational...
Bawa Jain - The Centre for Responsible Leadership - Interfaith Solutions For Global Challenges
May 02, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBBawa Jain is a visionary leader in the interfaith movement throughout the world. Mr. Jain is Founder and President of The Centre for Responsible Leadership (https://www.thecrl.org/), a non-profit organization dedicated to assembling global thought leaders to find concrete solutions to the major challenges plaguing our world today. Mr. Jain is also the Chairman of the World Youth Peace Summit, which brings together dynamic young leaders who share the dream of peace, organizing Youth Peace Co...
Katherine Sizov - Strella Biotech - Bio-Sensing To Reduce Food Waste And Optimize Supply Chains
May 02, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBAn estimated 40% of all global produce is wasted due to spoilage that occurs before it ever reaches consumers’ grocery bags. And this loss, not only represents loss due to quality or ripeness standards that consumers desire, but also a significant impact on global emissions and fresh water supplies that it took to produce and transport that produce, representing a combined figure of US$1 Trillion annually. Katherine Sizov is the Founder of Strella Biotechnology (https://www.strellabiotech.co...
Dr. Suzan Murray, D.V.M., Smithsonian / SCBI - Wildlife Care And Combating Emerging Zoonotic Disease
May 02, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBDr. Suzan Murray, D.V.M., D.A.C.Z.M. is a board-certified zoo veterinarian at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and serves as both the Program Director of the Global Health Program and as SCBI’s chief wildlife veterinary medical officer. Dr. Murray leads an interdisciplinary team engaged in worldwide efforts to address health issues in endangered wildlife and combat emerging infectious diseases of global significance, including zoonotic diseases. Dr. Murray also acts as ...
Dr. Jane Pinelis - Chief, Testing, Evaluation, Assessment, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBDr Jane Pinelis, Ph.D. is the Chief of Testing, Evaluation, and Assessment, of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). Dr. Pinelis has a BS, MS, and Ph.D., from the University of Michigan, in the field of statistics, where she spent time as a research assistant in their Center for Russian and East European Studies and their Institute for Social Research. Prior to assuming her current role at ...
Dr. Derek Yach - Founder, President, and Board Member - Foundation For A Smoke-Free World
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBDr. Derek Yach, has been a global health expert and anti-smoking advocate for more than 30 years, is the Founder, President, and Board Member of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW - https://www.smokefreeworld.org/), and is also a passionate advocate for health promotion and disease prevention. Dr. Yach is a former World Health Organization (WHO) cabinet director and executive director for noncommunicable diseases and mental health where he was deeply involved with the development o...
Dr. Ellen de Brabander - SVP, R&D, PepsiCo - The Future Of Food And Beverage Innovation
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBDr. Ellen de Brabander, is Senior Vice President, Research and Development, at PepsiCo, the American multinational food, snack, and beverage company. Dr. de Brabander has broad set of responsibilities at Pepsico and currently leads their global R&D functions including the Food Safety, Quality, Strategy & Portfolio Management, and their Sensory and Regulatory Affairs teams. She also leads their R&D Digital Transformation initiatives to transform the innovation process to bring new, innovative...
Dr. Geoffrey Ling, MD, PhD - Founder and CEO - On Demand Pharmaceuticals
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBColonel (ret) Dr. Geoffrey Ling, MD, PhD is the Founder and CEO of On Demand Pharmaceuticals (ODP), an innovative pharmaceutical manufacturing company creating the world’s first distributed and reconfigurable medicine production systems to enable rapid response when conditions are uncertain and changing. On Demand Pharmaceuticals mission is to provide an adequate, safe, and reliable supply of medicines, to any community across the world, when needed. In addition to his role as CEO at On Dema...
Irakli Beridze, Head, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics - UNICRI - United Nations
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBIrakli Beridze is the Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). With a Master’s Degree in International Relations and National Security Studies, and a law degree, Mr. Beridze has more than 20 years of experience in leading multilateral negotiations, developing stakeholder engagement programs with governments, UN agencies, international organizations, private industry and corporations, think t...
Dr Hanadi Khamis Al Hamad - Hamad Medical Corp - Leading Qatar’s Strategic Vision For Healthy Aging
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBDr. Hanadi Khamis Al Hamad is the Medical Director of Rumailah Hospital and the Qatar Rehabilitation Institute, Chairperson of Geriatrics and Long Term Care Department at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC - the principal public healthcare provider in the State of Qatar), National Lead for Healthy Ageing for the Qatar Ministry of Public Health, and the focal point for the elderly in the State of Qatar. Dr. Al Hamad is a Board Certified Senior Consultant in Internal Medicine specialized in Geriat...
Dr. David Stoudt, Senior Exec Advisor / Engineering Fellow - Directed Energy - Booz Allen Hamilton
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBDr. David Stoudt, is a Senior Executive Advisor and Engineering Fellow for Directed Energy at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., where he is responsible for providing clients with leadership and guidance on the science and business of advancing directed energy capabilities for American warfighters. Dr. Stoudt is also President of the Directed Energy Professional Society. With a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Old Dominion University, in electrical engineering, Dr. Stoudt spent 32 years...
Stephanie Stuckey - CEO, Stuckey's Corp. - Brand Building, Pecans, And The Great American Road Trip
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBMs. Stephanie Stuckey is an American businesswoman, environmental lawyer, former 14-year member of the Georgia House of Representatives, former Director of Sustainability and Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Atlanta, and the current CEO of the Stuckey's Corporation (https://stuckeys.com/), a roadside convenience store chain found on highways throughout the United States, concentrated in the Southeast, Southwest, and Midwest, although operations have existed as far east as Connecticu...
Tessy Antony De Nassau - Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Advocate, Public Speaker, Activist, Mother
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBTessy Antony De Nassau is a Social Entrepreneur, Business Woman, Philanthropist, Advocate, Public Speaker, Activist, Mother, and Jazz Aficionado (https://www.instagram.com/tessy_from_luxembourg/?hl=en). Tessy is founder and partner of the Global consultancy Finding Butterflies Consulting LTD (http://findingbutterflies.com/), co-founder of the fashion brand Human Highness (https://www.human-highness.com/), host of the podcast series Tessy Antony de Nassau’s Zoom O’Clock, and an associate a...
Are We Alone? - Prof Avi Loeb, Harvard - Chair Advisory Committee - Breakthrough Starshot Initiative
March 23, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBProfessor Dr. Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He joined Harvard University in 1993 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy, where he was tenured three years later. Prof. Dr. Loeb received his PhD in plasma physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24, led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative / "Star Wars" program, and was subsequently a long-term member ...
Dr. Azra Raza - Anticipate, Find, And Destroy The FIRST Cancer Cell; STOP The Disease In Its Tracks
March 23, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 46 MBAs we approach the end of 2020, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), we have had approximately 1,806,590 new cases of cancer diagnosed in the United States, with 606,520 deaths. Cancer continues to be the leading causes of death worldwide. In 2018, there were 18.1 million new cases and 9.5 million cancer-related deaths worldwide. By 2040, the number of new cancer cases per year is expected to rise to 29.5 million and the number of cancer-related deaths to 16.4 million. Dr. ...
Ryland Engelhart - Kiss The Ground - Regenerative Agriculture For Planetary Regeneration
March 23, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBRyland Engelhart, is Executive Director & Co-Founder of Kiss The Ground (https://kisstheground.com/), a non-profit organization dedicated to planetary regeneration, and is the producer of Kiss The Ground, the Movie, recently released on Netflix. Mr. Engelhart has spent the last 15 years as an entrepreneur working in hospitality and building a family business of organic, plant-based restaurants called Cafe Gratitude and Gracias Madre, located in Southern California. He is also a co-creator o...
Dr. Robert Schooley MD - Harnessing Phage Therapies In The Fight Against Drug Resistant "Super-Bugs"
March 23, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBAs we sit here in 2020, in the middle of a major viral pandemic, we can’t forget the fact that a century after the first antibiotics were created, drug resistant bacterial infections have become a major threat around the globe, exactly at the same time that the antibiotic pipelines of pharma companies have either dried up, or they have gotten out of the business. In the U.S. alone, Centers For Disease Control (CDC) estimates that antibiotic resistance causes more than 2 million infections, s...
Brett Vaughan - U.S. Navy Chief AI Officer and AI Portfolio Manager, Office of Naval Research
March 23, 2021 11:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBBrett Vaughan is the U.S. Navy Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer and AI Portfolio Manager at the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Mr. Vaughan has 30 years of Defense Intelligence and Technology expertise with strengths in military support, strategic communications, geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), Naval Intelligence and Navy R&D. He spent two decades in various roles at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), an additional 10 years in intelligence roles in the Office of t...
Christopher Kennedy - Top Box Foods - Year Round Access To Nutritious Foods, In Food Insecure Areas
March 08, 2021 18:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBA "food desert" is an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food, and the designation considers both the type and quality of food available, as well as the accessibility of the food through the size and proximity of the food stores. In 2010, the United States Department of Agriculture reported that 23.5 million people in the U.S. lived in food deserts, meaning that they live more than one mile from a supermarket in urban or suburban areas and more than 10 miles from a su...
Dr. Ren Xiaoping - Pushing Surgical Boundaries - Head Transplantation (Cephalosomatic Anastomosis)
February 23, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBWhen one mentions the topic of “head transplantation” (or a related topic – the “brain transplant”), for most people, it remains a topic purely in the context and sphere of science fiction. Yet most people are unaware of the following history: In 1908, Nobel Prize winner Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon who had developed surgical methods to connect blood vessels in the context of organ transplantation, collaborated with the American Charles Claude Guthrie perform the first head grafts betwee...
Dr Nicole Prause - Advancing Research In Sexual Psychophysiology, Sexual Biotechnology, And Sex-Tech
February 23, 2021 11:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBDr. Nicole Prause, PhD is an American neuroscientist researching human sexual behavior, addiction, and the physiology of sexual response. She is also the founder of Liberos LLC, an independent research institute and biotechnology company. Dr. Prause obtained her doctorate in 2007 at Indiana University Bloomington, with joint supervision by the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, with her areas of concentration being neuroscience and statistics. Her clinical inter...
Dave Asprey - "The Father Of BioHacking" - Founder & Chairman, Bulletproof 360 and Upgrade Labs
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBToday we are joined by none other than the “Father of Biohacking” himself, bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and serial entrepreneur, Dave Asprey, Founder & Chairman, of the Bulletproof 360, a high performance coffee and food company, and creator of the widely popular Bulletproof Coffee. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author, host of the Webby award-winning podcast Bulletproof Radio, and has been featured on the Today show, Fox News, Nightline, CNN, and dozens m...
Dr. Amilcar dos Santos MD - Exploring Far Frontiers of Neural, Spinal, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBNeuromodulation is defined as "the alteration of nerve activity through targeted delivery of a stimulus, such as electrical stimulation or chemical agents, to specific neurological sites in the body". It is carried out to normalize – or modulate – nervous tissue function. Neuromodulation is an evolving therapy that can involve a range of electromagnetic stimuli such as a magnetic field, an electric current, or a drug instilled directly in the sub-dural space (i.e. intra-thecal drug deliver...
Dr. Yu Shrike Zhang - Symbiotic Tissue Engineering - Harvard Medical School
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBDr Yu Shrike Zhang PhD is Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Associate Bioengineer at Brigham and Women's Hospital Dr. Zhang's research interests include symbiotic tissue engineering, 3D bio-printing, organ-on-a-chip technology, biomaterials, regenerative engineering, bioanalysis, nanomedicine, and biology. His scientific contributions have been recognized by over 40 regional, national and international awards. He has been invited to deliver more than 110 lectures worldwide, ...
Fighting The Opioid Epidemic with AI - Brian Drake, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) - Sable Spear
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBToday we are going to discuss the topic drug enforcement from a very interesting technological angle. Brian Drake, is the Director of Artificial Intelligence for the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) Directorate of Science and Technology. Mr. Drake works with the DIA’s Future Capabilities and Innovation Office, and he also leads an initiative to test the effectiveness of different applications of artificial intelligence at solving various mission problems, including using AI to combat the...
Cardinal Dr. Michael Czerny, S.J. - Justice, Peace, Health, And Care For All Marginalized People
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBThe Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (https://www.humandevelopment.va/it.html) was established at the Vatican, by the Holy Father, Pope Francis, in 2016, and deals with a range of issues concerning migrants, refugees and victims of slave trade, human trafficking, justice and peace, the progress of peoples, the promotion and protection of dignity and human rights, disarmament and armed conflicts, as well as their tragic consequences on civilians and the natural environment....
Morgan Plummer, Managing Director, National Security Innovation Network, U.S. Department of Defense
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBThe National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) program office, under the Defense Innovation Unit, that seeks to create new communities of innovators to solve national security problems. NSIN partners with national research universities and the venture community to reinvigorate civil-military technology collaboration. As opposed to making investments in specific technologies, government R&D programs, or startups, NSIN focuses on human capital i...
iNeuraLS - Advanced NeuroTech For Rapid Knowledge and Skill Acquisition - US Air Force Research Labs
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBThe 711th Human Performance Wing, under the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory leads the development, integration, and delivery of Airman-centric research, education, and consultation enabling the U.S. Air Force to achieve responsive and effective global vigilance, global reach, and global power now and in the future. It’s comprised of the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and the Airman Systems Directorate, whose science and technology competencies include Training, Adap...
Dr. Graham Ryan - Director, Montserrat Volcano Observatory - Volcanology and Geothermal Energy
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBDr. Graham Ryan, is the Director at the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO), in Montserrat, WI. Dr. Ryan has 17 years’ experience in volcanology and geothermal geophysics, using his skills to better understand the nature and behavior of magmatic systems and fluid flow through geothermal systems. His current interests include ground deformation associated with the volcanic systems of the Eastern Caribbean and the use of joint interpretation and inversion to determine the architecture of geot...
Dr Daniel Monti - CEO & Founding Director, Marcus Institute of Integrative Health - Jefferson Health
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBThe Marcus Institute of Integrative Health was established in Philadelphia in 2017 by Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, and a multi-million $$$ grant from the Marcus Foundation (headed by it’s Chairman, Bernie Marcus, Co-Founder of The Home Depot) to expand the research, education and clinical care profile of Jefferson’s integrative medicine program, and to set the international standard of excellence in evidence-based, patient-centered integrative care. The institute featur...
The Real Spider Man - Alex Greenhalgh, CEO, Spintex - Novel And Powerful Bio-Materials and Fabrics
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBSpider silk is a protein fiber spun by spiders, which they use to make webs or other structures, which function as sticky nets to catch other animals, or as nests or cocoons to protect their offspring, or to wrap up prey. They can also use their silk to suspend themselves, to float through the air, or to glide away from predators. Each spider and each type of silk has a set of mechanical properties optimized for their biological function, but in particular, their dragline silks, have except...