NXP Smarter World Podcast
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago -Enabling a better, safer and more secure connected world with breakthrough technologies.
Stay tuned for new episodes of the NXP Smarter World Podcast! Each episode, we introduce bright minds and their approach to a more sustainable world. We discuss the opportunities and challenges they face and how technology can change the world for the better.
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Episodes
Redefining the Electric Bike: A Conversation with Damon Motors
May 21, 2024 06:14 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBIn this episode, it's all about smart, safe, and electric motorcycling. Host Kyle Fox is joined by Derek Dorresteyn, Chief Technology Officer at Damon Motors, a global technology leader that aims to set a new standard for motorcycle safety and sustainability worldwide. Discover how Damon has captured the attention of the motorcycling world by delivering top speeds of 200 miles per hour with innovative designs! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Shaping a More Sustainable World with SDVs: In Conversation with TTTech Auto
March 27, 2024 16:27 - 32 minutes - 44 MBDr. Stefan Poledna, Chief Technology Officer of TTTech Auto, joins host Kyle Fox, to dive into the deep waters of software-defined vehicles. Discover how TTTech Auto is shaping the future of vehicles with safe software for automated driving. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
From a CTO's Perspective: Top Tech Trends Shaping 2024
January 31, 2024 17:03 - 34 minutes - 63.4 MBIn this episode, host Kyle Fox is joined by NXP's Chief Technology Officer, Lars Reger, who reflects on all things CES 2024, trends that are shaping the future and opportunities for sustainable tech - from digital twins to the smart home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Creating the Sustainable Smart Home: Why Matter Matters
December 05, 2023 21:18 - 26 minutes - 48.2 MBExplore the intersection of the smart home and sustainability. In this episode, NXP's Director of Marketing for Wireless Connectivity, Sujata Neidig, joins Kyle Fox to dive into the heart of smart homes and their role in creating a sustainable future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fighting Electrical Fires With Smart Sensors
November 01, 2023 16:35 - 18 minutes - 34.3 MBImagine if you could know when hidden electrical fire hazards start to form - before they had a chance to evolve into a fire. In this episode, our host Kyle Fox is joined by Bob Marshall, CEO and co-founder of Whisker Labs, to talk about the company's flagship solution, Ting. Ting draws on decades of electromagnetic and atmospheric sensor expertise, combined with AI, to detect electrical faults in the home and on the grid. You don't want to miss this episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Empowering Human Capability with Tech
August 30, 2023 09:52 - 31 minutes - 56.9 MBIn this episode, our host Kyle Fox is joined by Francesca Burgo, Business Development Manager at Existo, an Italian health tech company that offers innovative solutions for the wellbeing of people with disabilities. This startup has designed and produced a wearable gadget designed to restore ability to the upper limbs. Check out the latest episode to discover how a robotic extension, that fastens to the forearm firmly and is controlled by voice, can help change people's lives. Hosted on A...
Building the Car of the Future
July 12, 2023 15:31 - 21 minutes - 50.2 MBIn this episode, Louise de Laat, manager of the Eindhoven-based student initiative, TU/ecomotive, discusses how her team is challenging the automotive industry by creating unique, sustainable concept cars, including an EV that cleans the air as it drives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Quest for Sustainable Food Ecosystems
May 30, 2023 22:01 - 17 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode, the winner of NXP’s third annual HoverGames competition, Dan-Marius Dobrea, joins host Kyle Fox to discuss his winning entry, agriHoverGames - a smart drone with an intelligent system that can analyze the healthiness of grapevines. Tune in to discover what inspired the development of a drone that can detect vine diseases, the technology that enabled it and why this is a necessary step toward making farming more sustainable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...
The Road to Sustainability
April 27, 2023 22:01 - 24 minutes - 55.5 MBIn this episode, NXP’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Jennifer Wuamett, joins host Kyle Fox to discuss NXP's 2022 Corporate Sustainability Report and provide an update on progress toward its ESG goals. Plus, discover the type of short and long-term goals companies need to set in order to see continuous improvement and sustainable growth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fostering a Sustainable Mindset
March 29, 2023 10:39 - 19 minutes - 45.3 MBIn this episode, our host Kyle Fox is joined by Davina Moore, Director of Digital Marketing at NXP, who gives us a glimpse into the ideas and efforts needed to drive an innovative mentality in not just the workplace, but in our homes and schools. Sustainability is driven by people’s inventiveness. Discover what it takes to foster that mentality and how people’s passion, creativity and dedication is key to positively moving our world forward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
Plant Power for Electricity
February 21, 2023 23:00 - 18 minutes - 42.9 MBIn this episode, our host Kyle Fox is joined by Marjolein Helder, CEO of Plant-e, a start-up based in the Netherlands, that generates electricity with living plants and is the only known company in the world that generates carbon-negative electricity. Is bio-electricity the future? What challenges is Plant-e facing and how does NXP help enable this groundbreaking innovation? Check out this episode to find out more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Driving the Electric Fleet
January 24, 2023 23:00 - 21 minutes - 241 MBIn this episode, our host Kyle Fox is joined by Dakota Semler, co-founder and CEO of Xos Trucks, a Los Angeles based fleet services provider and original equipment manufacturer of Class 5 through Class 8 battery-electric vehicles. Find out more on why Dakota and his co-founder started Xos Trucks, what issues of today's world they are tackling with their business and what role technology plays in enabling decarbonized transportation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Shaping Future Mobility with Power Management
November 28, 2022 07:00 - 12 minutes - 142 MBFuture mobility is driven by the fact that saving energy will become increasingly important - and that's one of the key competences of power management. Delivering the right level of energy at the right level of voltage and signals to the entire system is crucial to make electric and autonomous driving vehicles a success. In this episode, host Nitin Dahad, editor at EE Times and Embedded.com, discusses with NXP's David Lopez, Segment Director Safety Power Management, how power management can...
HoverGames Challenge 3: Sustainable Food Ecosystems
October 06, 2022 06:00 - 17 minutes - 39.1 MBThe third installment of NXP's HoverGames dives into the world of vision with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, inspiring developers to deliver breakthrough ideas for making our connected world better, safer, and more secure. The goal of this year’s HoverGames is to challenge developers to create solutions for a more sustainable food ecosystem. In this episode, host Nitin Dahad, editor at EE Times and Embedded.com, introduces the next challenge of the NXP HoverGames joined by...
The Potential of Vehicle Data
February 21, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes - 60.5 MBOver the past few years, not only has the importance of vehicle data increased rapidly but also the need to find ways to unlock its huge potential. OEMs and Tier1s are challenged to develop vehicles that are able to process exponentially increasing vehicle data and support secure edge-to-cloud communications while also enabling new vehicle experiences and services that can generate revenue and reduce costs. In this episode, Sam Abuelsamid, Principal Analyst with Guidehouse Insights, discusses...
The New Automotive Security Standard 21434
November 03, 2021 10:17 - 14 minutes - 27 MBWith over-the-air updates, infotainment and the integration of mobile devices and cloud-based services, the connected vehicle offers the ultimate experience with state-of-the-art safety, autonomy and driver comfort. Robust cybersecurity measures must be engineered into all aspects of the vehicle's construction to protect critical features and back-end networks that serve them from cyberattacks. In this episode, Nitin Dahad, editor at EE Times and Embedded.com, discusses the new automotive sec...
Protecting Vulnerable Road Users Through V2X
October 11, 2021 10:23 - 13 minutes - 136 MBThis episode of the NXP Smarter World Podcast focuses on road safety and technology's role in keeping people safe. Join host Nitin Dahad, editor at embedded.com and guests Huanyu Gu, Product Marketing Manager of ADAS at NXP and Katja Legner of ADAC, as they discuss vulnerable road users, a focus of NXP’s activities at this years ITS World Congress in Hamburg, Germany. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Expanding the Edge with Connectivity, Interoperability and Integration
July 22, 2021 15:01 - 28 minutes - 289 MBEdge computing and edge processing are key to the future of Smart Home, but realizing the full potential of the opportunity means optimizing a range of technologies and garnering support across a remarkably broad ecosystem. In this episode of the Smarter World Podcast, guest host Jonathan Collins, research director for Smart Home and Smart Health Coverage at ABI Research, discusses the topic with Tom Pannell, senior marketing director at NXP and Karl Jonsson, senior director of product manage...
The Economics of 5G Densification
June 22, 2021 15:07 - 14 minutes - 26.8 MBAs network operators prepare the infrastructure for 5G, adding the capacity needed for multi-gig speeds, ultra-low latency, and much higher spectrum efficiency, there are a number of tradeoffs to consider in terms of cost, complexity, and time. In this episode of the Smarter World Podcast, guest host Teena Maddox, Associate Managing Editor with Tech Republic, discusses the topic with Tareq Bustami, SVP and GM of Network Edge Processing at NXP and Garima Garg, Director of Technology Strategy a...
HoverGames Challenge 2: Help Drones, Help Others During Pandemics
May 26, 2021 11:36 - 24 minutes - 44.5 MBFor more than a year now, the coronavirus has changed our daily lives. In HoverGames Challenge 2, “Help Drones, Help Others During Pandemics”, NXP asked contestants to come up with innovative ways for drones to help people in need, improve crisis management or even directly prevent the spread of disease. In this episode, Nitin Dahad, editor at EE Times and Embedded.com, discusses the NXP HoverGames challenge to a challenge based interactive coding competition and its recently announced winner...
Building Up The ‘Edge’ for A Responsible Society
April 01, 2021 13:41 - 24 minutes - 55.5 MBConvenience is just one benefit of edge computing. Beyond that, it can help us build a better society, one that’s more socially responsible by reducing energy consumption, keeping us safer, protecting our data privacy, and improving productivity. In this episode of the Smarter World Podcast, Nitin Dahad, editor at embedded.com and EE Times, discusses the topic with NXP’s Gowri Chindalore, head of edge strategy, and Amanda McGregor, head of product innovation for applications processors. Hos...
GaN and its Unique Potential in Communication Systems
February 26, 2021 15:52 - 23 minutes - 54.6 MBIn this episode of the Smarter World Podcast, host Nitin Dahad, editor at embedded.com and EE Times, discusses the semiconductor technology known as gallium nitride with Paul Hart, Executive Vice President and General Manager of radio power for NXP Semiconductors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Empowering the Edge Everywhere
January 25, 2021 19:24 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBThe pace of edge computing is advancing so fast that today’s “breakthrough” will be eclipsed a short time later by another breakthrough. While we see traces of early IoT concepts in devices we use every day, innovations in edge computing are rapidly transforming how we interact in the world around us, from our next-generation wearables and smart home assistants to advanced industrial robots and automated vehicles. In this episode, Nitin Dahad, technology journalist and editor at EE Times and ...
The Ultra-wide Possibilities of Ultra-wideband
January 22, 2021 16:26 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBIn this episode of the Smarter World Podcast, EE Times Editor Nitin Dahad is joined by Charles Dachs, VP & General Manager, Secure Embedded Transactions, NXP Semiconductors, and Ramesh Songukrishnasamy, SVP & CTO at HID Global to explore UWB’s evolution from a data transfer technology to its new role as a fine ranging technology. Learn how it fits into the connectivity landscape, how consumers will adopt it, the opportunities for exciting new use cases and the importance of standardization. ...
Electrification and the Future of EVs
November 05, 2020 10:25 - 24 minutes - 55.7 MBCarmakers around the world are working to roll-out electric and hybrid vehicles in a competitive and profitable way against the backdrop of changing regulations and the complexity in brings. Electric vehicles need to gain the trust of consumers for range, safety and environmental footprint - while being profitable, a tall order for both disruptive and traditional carmakers alike. Join EE Times and Embedded.com Editor Nitin Dahad and NXPs Jens Hinrichsen to hear the latest. Hosted on Acast. ...
The Future of Radar and Advanced Driving Assistance
August 28, 2020 15:58 - 30 minutes - 70.7 MBNew Car Assessment Programs (NCAP) across the world are calling for automotive radar to be used in a variety of safety applications from blind spot detection and collision avoidance to self-parking and obstacle detection. How did radar become such an important part of the ADAS landscape, how are carmakers approaching the technology and what does the future hold for radar? These are some of the questions that veteran automotive reporter, John Quain, explores with Matthias Feulner, Director of ...
The Safety Behind Connected Vehicles
July 30, 2020 17:15 - 41 minutes - 95.5 MBConnected vehicles offer a lot of benefits..But as cars become more electronic in nature, more like rolling computers, the role of safety becomes critical. How will a car respond when something goes wrong in its electronic system or in a single component? That's what a specialized safety discipline called Functional Safety seeks to anticipate and protect against. This topic is the basis of our most recent NXP Smarter World Podcast, guest hosted by John Quain, automotive journalist and technol...
The Changing Role of Vehicle Networks
January 03, 2020 20:07 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBThe vehicle data revolution means big changes in the way automotive networks operate. Learn how the structure and role of vehicle networks is evolving to keep up with a host new features for consumers and data-driven opportunities for vehicle makers. Join guest host Sam Abuelsamid of Navigant Research and Ray Cornyn and Brian Carlson of NXP Semiconductors to get the latest insights into vehicle networks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.