Latest Xprize foundation Podcast Episodes
Why We Need Alternative Proteins
Future Positive - July 24, 2021 05:11 - 32 minutesXPRIZE Founder Peter H. Diamandis is in conversation with His Excellency Faisal Al Bannai, the Secretary-General of the Advanced Technology Research Council at ASPIRE, partner and sponsor of XPRIZE Feed The Next Billion. Tune in to hear these industry leaders discuss the fight against global foo...
This Podcast Will Extend Your Life
Future Positive - June 27, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutesFor this week’s Future Positive Podcast we bring you an exclusive conversation with XPRIZE Founder, Peter H. Diamandis and XPRIZE Innovation Board Member, Sergey Young. In their conversation they dive deep into all aspects of longevity and what the implications of living longer will have on t...
Algorithms For Equality
Future Positive - June 13, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutesContinuing our Pride Month podcast take over we bring you the third in our series of interviews conducted by Journalist Amelia Abraham with leading figures from the LGBTQ+ community who are impacting our world for the better. This week Amelia speaks to Vincent Desmond, a writer and essayist ...
Avatar - A Sense of Presence
Future Positive - May 23, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutesHow can avatars allow us to use our senses at a remote location in real time? Will we ever be able to smell and taste remotely? For this week’s Future Positive podcast, Amelia Abraham speaks with Dr. Jacki Morie – Scientist, Artist, Educator and Senior Advisor on the A.N.A Avatar XPRIZE to ans...
Future of Fuel
Future Positive - May 16, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutesConverting carbon into fuel is the next exciting frontier in the ever changing energy landscape. For this week’s Future Positive podcast, we get the scoop on the future of fuel with two finalists of the NRG COSIA CARBON XPRIZE who are now successfully turning carbon into fuels. First, journali...
What Alternative Fish Can Bring To The Table
Future Positive - May 09, 2021 04:30 - 29 minutesOur oceans, and specifically fish, have been on our cultural menu recently with the success of the much talked about documentary, Seaspiracy and the academy award success of the film My Octopus Teacher. On this week's episode Journalist Amelia Abraham takes a deep dive into the deep blue with ...
WORK/LIFE - The Perfect Balance
Future Positive - May 02, 2021 04:30 - 29 minutesThis week we peer into how the work-life balance is playing out during the pandemic. The past year has had an effect on all our working lives; from remote working and home offices to disrupted shifts, furloughs and for many unfortunate people, unemployment. For this episode, we get some insig...
WIRED Brand Lab: Carbon Capture Winners Revealed
Future Positive - April 25, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutesDid you miss the live reveal of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE hosted by WIRED Brand Labs and moderated by Wired Editor Megan Greenwell? Fear not! We hit the record button and captured it in its full unedited glory for you to listen to now. In 2015, XPRIZE launched the $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPR...
Carbon Capture: Past, Present and Future
Future Positive - April 18, 2021 05:00 - 32 minutesThis week we take you on a time travelling adventure into the past, present and future of Carbon Capture as journalist Amelia Abraham interviews XPRIZE’s own world leaders of Carbontech. First Mike Leitch, Technical Lead, NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, takes us on a whistle stop tour of Carbontech ...
SpaceIL 2 Years On
Future Positive - April 11, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutesFor this week’s episode we are excited to bring you a conversation between our own CEO Anousheh Ansari and the Co-Founder and Deputy CEO of Space IL Kfir Damari. Three engineers walk into a bar. On this day two years ago their team’s lander ‘Beresheet’ made its descent to the surface of the m...
The Future of Food
Future Positive - April 04, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutesFor today’s episode, we’re tuning in to a conversation recorded back in May 2020. This fascinating discussion tackles issues around food insecurity, including but not limited to the impact of COVID-19 on food systems and identifying how AI can help us reach zero hunger and shape the food landsc...
The Future of Intimacy - Love and Dating in a Post Covid World
Future Positive - March 28, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutesThis week we bring you a peek into our intimate futures. We are well over a year into the lockdown caused by this pandemic and our lives have changed inconceivably. Probably the biggest change though is our lack of intimacy with other people. Technology is adapting though, as it always has. T...
Rainforests: People, Climate & Policy
Future Positive - March 21, 2021 06:00 - 54 minutesThe world of rainforest conservation is quickly changing. Technology’s exponential development is enabling a wide range of advances in conservation, while simultaneously showing the limitations of humanity’s knowledge. We know now more than ever about earth’s most diverse ecosystem, yet there is...
Here’s How Avatar’s Will Blow Travel Wide Open
Future Positive - March 14, 2021 15:01 - 9 minutesFor this week’s podcast we are bringing you another Radical Idea written by journalist Amelia Abraham and read by our host Sofia Tapia. What if we could make travel more accessible, more affordable, and more sustainable for everyone? In the future, avatar technology has the powerful potent...
Neama Dadkhahnikoo sits down with A.I. entrepreneur Anita Schjøll Brede
Future Positive - March 06, 2021 16:28 - 33 minutesIn this week's Future Positive podcats, XPRIZE’s own Neama Dadkhahnikoo sits down with A.I. entrepreneur Anita Schjøll Brede to ask her all about her experience as a thought leader and woman in A.I., her tenacity to identify problems and her incredible ability to solve them. She also shares with...
Mars Your Ultimate Travel Guide
Future Positive - March 01, 2021 09:08 - 11 minutesThis week’s podcast we are bringing you another radical idea written by journalist Amelia Abraham and read by our host Sofie Tapia. Mars Your Ulitmate Travel Guide. NASA’s Perseverance Rover made history earlier this month when it touched down on Mars, so it looks like we have liftoff! Or at le...
Why The World Needs Incentive Prizes
Future Positive - February 20, 2021 17:02 - 8 minutesFor this week’s podcast we are bringing you another Radical Read written by journalist Amelia Abraham and read by our host Sofie Tapia. From the invention of a device to measure longitude at sea back in the 18th Century to our newest and biggest Prize ever, XPRIZE Carbon Removal, incentive...
The World Reacts: XPRIZE Carbon Removal
Future Positive - February 13, 2021 17:14 - 18 minutesIn this special news round-up of the Future Positive podcast we’re talking all things XPRIZE Carbon Removal – our new $100M Prize for a technology that removes carbon from the atmosphere, halting climate change in the process. First, XPRIZE’s Chief Impact Officer Zenia Tata, one of the primary...
Radical Read - A Lot Can (Climate) Change in a Week
Future Positive - February 10, 2021 12:58 - 7 minutesIn this bonus podcast we are bringing you a Radical Idea written by journalist Amelia Abraham and read by our host Sofie Tapia. The article was written in response to President Joe Biden rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and just a few days later Elon Musk teasing the largest prize in human...
The Future of Us
Future Positive - February 07, 2021 15:22 - 46 minutesOn this week's Future Positive our host Neama Dadkhahnikoo, Technical Lead of the AI XPRIZE chairs a virtual roundtable with a panel of female innovators in the field of AI. Andy Coravos is the CEO and founder of Elektra Labs, a company that advances healthcare by enabling safe, effective, an...
Working Towards Tomorrow
Future Positive - January 30, 2021 13:01 - 52 minutesWelcome to a special edition of The Future Positive podcast. For this week's pod our host Shlomy Kattan, Chief Advancement Officer at XPRIZE virtually sits down with two thought leaders, Desmond Dickerson and Dwayne Matthews to discuss the future of work and education whilst also giving some pr...
Smartphones In Healthcare And The Current Pandemic
Future Positive - January 25, 2021 12:15 - 1 hourMuch of the fundamental research in computer science has been driven by the needs of those attempting to utilize computing for various applications, including healthcare. Today’s guest, Shwetak Patel describes a collection of research projects that leverage mobile phone technology in new ways to...
AI in Contact Tracing and Data Privacy
Future Positive - January 16, 2021 13:53 - 51 minutesWhen it comes to fighting infectious disease outbreaks, contact tracing is a key public health response. Mobile technologies including GPS, Bluetooth, cellphone masts and AI-powered big data analytics, can help collect data that helps decision-makers understand and manage the spread of pandemics...
Digital Futures with Cosmo-Ubuntu
Future Positive - January 10, 2021 11:59 - 1 hourAI for Good, a global summit hosted by XPRIZE and ITU, about machine translation and cognitive code switching. Today’s episode explores the concept of Cosmo-uBuntu, an approach to technological innovation that addresses issues of global justice and helps us better understand personhood in AI pra...
Mastering Chess with AI – 1/3
Future Positive - January 03, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutesChess-playing computers have been better than human World Chess Champions for more than 20 years now. But when DeepMind published a preprint in December 2017 about AlphaZero, a computer program based on neural networks and mastering the games of chess, Shogi and Go, the entire world paid attenti...
Mastering Chess with AI
Future Positive - January 03, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutesChess-playing computers have been better than human World Chess Champions for more than 20 years now. But when DeepMind published a preprint in December 2017 about AlphaZero, a computer program based on neural networks and mastering the games of chess, Shogi and Go, the entire world paid attenti...
Revisit - The Future of Conservation with Harrison Ford & Wes Bush
Future Positive - December 28, 2020 12:06 - 32 minutesA chance to listen again to one of our most inspiring podcasts of 2020. Captured during Visioneering at Paramount Studios, Peter H. Diamandis is joined by Harrison Ford and Wes Bush from Conservation International. In a thrilling discussion, they discuss the urgency to change the economics, beha...
Revisit: The Future of Conservation with Harrison Ford & Wes Bush
Future Positive - December 28, 2020 12:06 - 32 minutesA chance to listen again to one of our most inspiring podcasts of 2020. Captured during Visioneering at Paramount Studios, Peter H. Diamandis is joined by Harrison Ford and Wes Bush from Conservation International. In a thrilling discussion, they discuss the urgency to change the economics, beha...
Using AI to Protect the Planet
Future Positive - December 20, 2020 14:10 - 49 minutesIn this modern age of technology, artificial intelligence has the unique ability to shed light on environmentally destructive practices while providing solutions to help protect our world. In today’s episode recorded at AI for Good, a global summit hosted by ITU and XPRIZE, Marcius Extavour, Exe...
The Inspiration Behind $15m XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion
Future Positive - December 07, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutesFor over 25 years, XPRIZE has convened the brightest minds from around the globe to tackle the world’s greatest challenges. One of the most pressing problems facing humanity today is food insecurity, and the need for nutritious, affordable, and sustainably-sourced food has reached critical statu...
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