Today's conversation is with an incredible thought leader, innovator and futurist Adam Pantanowitz, talking about his favourite topic Hacking Humans with Mic Mann. We get to hear some interesting insights on the work Adam is doing as well as his philosophy on a number of issues from overcoming adversity to hacking tips. Adam Pantanowitz is a fanatical technologist, who enjoys solving seemingly unsolvable problems, particularly with the help of cloud computing and machine learning. He is part of the SingularityU South Africa faculty with a focus on biotechnology and speaks about the future of technology with a focus on tech-human convergence.

Today's conversation is with a future superstar discussing how she programmes robots and dances ballet with them. Growing up Merritt Moore was inspired by her elders who taught her the passion of understanding what makes the world tick, through the sciences and the stars.A hat-trick achiever, Merritt is a Quantum Physicist and Ballerina, delving into the astronaut sector. An accomplished ballet dancer, she programmed robots to dance alongside her in Instagram videos that have since yielded up to 15 million views. Merritt is currently pursuing a career as an astronaut. She has been cited in Forbes 30 under 30, in a children's storybook and has featured in TIME and Vogue. She explores the future of A.I./ machine learning, specifically with dance, and welcomes all forms of collaboration fusing dance, physics and tech.

Listen to the latest episode of Exponential Conversations in a discussion with Rafael Brown and Mic Mann on The Future of music concerts in VR & Gaming. A great migration into virtual worlds is taking place at warp speed. Now is the time for you to explore and discover the opportunities and potential that lie ahead. Virtual and augmented reality tech is the next evolution in computing and is set to disrupt current computing. Featuring: Rafael Brown is a veteran game designer having worked in the games industry for the past 25 years. He has worked across the range of PC, Console, and Mobile for game studios. He now is the CEO of gaming development company Symbol Zero, where they combined forces with Roblox, Ctrl-Alt-Create, and House of Moves, to deliver a virtual concert for global music artist, Lil NasX, that attracted more than 33 million views in 2020. Rafael makes VR games, worlds, and experiences with immersion, emergence, narrative & online platforms.Join the conversation. Don't miss out!

We are excited to launch Season 3 of Exponential Africa Live, kicking off on the future of Bitcoin and Crypto. Will 2021 be the year of mass global adoption in the crypto and Bitcoin space. Already we are seeing large organisations like Tesla, Square and BNP Melon get involved and more to follow.Featuring:Mic Mann: Host, SUSA Co-CeoHenri Arslanian: PWC Global Crypto LeaderTanya Knowles: SingularityU SA Faculty, BM AdharaFarzam Ehsani: CEO and Co-Founder VALR

This conversation will focus on Investing in Disruptive Innovation, technologies that are on an exponential growth curve and are going to ultimately change the way we live in the future. Featuring Catherine Wood, Founder & CEO of ARK Invest.With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, Cathie founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Through an open approach that cuts across sectors, market capitalisations, and geographies, Cathie believes that ARK can identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centred around DNA sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology.Andile Ngcaba: Founding Partner & Chairman Convergence Partners.Andile is a South African businessman. He is chairman, founder and majority shareholder of investment group Convergence Partners. Andile is involved in significant new communications infrastructure projects across Africa including - Seacom (the first undersea fibre optic cable system serving Africa’s East Coast). The first private-sector satellite in Africa (Intelsat New Dawn) which was launched on 22 April 2011, a joint venture to bring high capacity, long-haul terrestrial fibre to South Africa (FibreCo) and recently a new joint venture with Google to invest in CSquared, a broadband infrastructure company headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.Paul Pagnato, Founder & CEO of PagnatoKarp.Paul is Co-Chairman and Chief Visionary Officer at Cresset and Founder at PagnatoKarp, a top multi-family office and private wealth management firm, with over $9 billion assets under management. Paul is a Barron’s and Forbes top advisor with more than 27 years of industry leadership, ranked #1 in Virginia on Forbes Top Wealth Advisors and #2 in Virginia on Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors lists. Paul began his career as a microbiologist working collaboratively with NASA and McDonnell Douglas to search for life in outer space.

Join the conversation, focusing on how can we embrace a Digital Health Future so that we can help Africa leapfrog. From online doctors, chatbots, telemedicine, remote doctors, nanobots and more. Join these incredible experts as they discuss how to create a new healthy future fuelled by digital health.Featuring:Divya Chander: SingularityU Chair Neuroscience; Atlantic Council GeoTech CenterDr. Chander is a physician, neuroscientist, and futurist who trained at Harvard, UCSF, UCSD, and the Salk Institute. She is Chair of Neuroscience and Faculty of Medicine at Singularity University, Visiting Scholar in Medicine (Bioinformatics) at Stanford (where she was on the Anesthesiology faculty for 8 years), and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center. Babusi Nyoni: Co-founder of Sila HealthBabusi Nyoni is a tech entrepreneur working between Amsterdam, Nairobi and Cape Town.He works in the fields of emerging technology and big data innovation with a particular focus on developing sustainable solutions for the global South.With over 10 years of experience in the advertising, financial and technology industries, he specialises in contributing the practical skills needed to drive meaningful innovation in areas where scale and impact are hindered by structural limitations. Adam Pantanowitz: SUSA Faculty Biotech, Hacking Humans & RoboticsAdam Pantanowitz is a fanatical technologist, who enjoys solving seemingly unsolvable problems, particularly with the help of cloud computing and machine learning. He is part of the SingularityU South Africa faculty with a focus on biotechnology and speaks about the future of technology with a focus on tech-human convergence.

Let's Talk About SPACE, Baby!  The allure of the unknown intrigues us as human beings, and we want to adventure and discover new frontiers. The future of spaceflight will lead us to off-planet vacations and eventually humans on mars.Join the conversation focusing on the various innovations and advances in the space ecosystem and what we can look forward to in the future from manufacturing, to travel, to self-preservation.Featuring:Mic Mann: Host, SUSA Co-CeoRuvimbo Samanga: Founder at AgriSpace & Policy Analyst at Space in AfricaJason Dunn: Co-Founder Made In SpaceAdriana Marais: Founder Proudly Human, SUSA Faculty Quantum Physics & Space

The world's population has reached over 7.7 billion, according to population.io and is continually rising. More and more people are being pulled out of poverty, living a better, healthier, more abundant life.Join the conversation with Wolfgang Fengler - Who is the World Bank's Lead Economist in Southern Africa and Phathizwe Malinga - MD of SqwidNet and part of the SingularityU South Africa faculty with a focus on connecting Things to the Internet (IoT).Exponential Africa LIVE Show!The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, collecting and sharing data. It is a system of interrelated, internet-connected objects that are able to collect and transfer data over a wireless network without human intervention. Super-cheap computer chips and wireless networks have made it possible to turn pretty much any physical object into an IoT device.

This conversation will focus on Parenting and Life Long learning. The future of our success as humanity lies in a great education. Most parents want their kids to grow up so that they are successful and can make a positive impact in the world. However, it’s not clear on the way forward as a parent especially because of the pandemic. Is it better to homeschool or make sure they are in a school or university that is more project-based or that focuses on building human potential rather than grades? How can we educate the youth to develop the right skills needed for the future and what are those skills? How do teachers need to adapt to more of a remote working environment? The pace of change keeps accelerating and what we learn today becomes irrelevant tomorrow. How do we build a culture of life-long learning so that we remain curious and motivated to constantly keep learning new skills and tools? Exponential technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, 3d printing and networksand sensors have become widely more available to amplify and enhance learning inmuch more empathetic, immersive, and experiential ways. How is this impacting education?Featuring:Dr Esther Wojcicki - SingularityU Faculty for Education. Esther's primary focus is to help parents, teachers and managers be more effective at home, in the classroom, and in the corporate world! Esther holds three honorary doctorates and is the best selling author of "How to Raise Successful People".Fred Swaniker - Deeply passionate about Africa and believes that the missing ingredient on the continent is good leadership. In line with this, he has founded two organizations that aim to catalyze a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders: African Leadership Academy and the African Leadership Network.

Flying cars, air taxis, and flying humans were once a dream and in science fiction novels and movies. Richard Browning has redefined our concept of human flight.The conversation tonight will focus on the story of the incredible jet suit that Richard has created as a disruptor in the future of travel and mobility. As well as some of the most exciting, most cutting edge technology that is in the market and will be coming soon.Featuring:Richard Browning - Founder and Chief Test Pilot of Gravity Industries which designs, builds and flies Jet Suits, pioneering a new era of human flight. The company was founded in March 2017 to challenge the perceived boundaries in human aviation and to inspire others to dare to ask “What if?”.Emmanuel Ezenwere - Innovator and entrepreneur who is passionate about solving global problems. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arone Aerial Logistics.

This week's episode looks at the future of artificial intelligence and how we can build better humans using AI as well as create smarter companies that enhance and augment our capabilities in the workplace. From self-aware and self-replicating software systems and robots that are emerging to autonomous vehicles or predicting Robo advisors, the future is said to be better from the convergence or augmentation of this technology with others.Featuring:Dr Vivienne Ming: Professional Mad Scientist. Co-Founder & Executive Chair, Socos Labs. Theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, author, and mother of two. Co-founded with wife Dr Norma Ming, Socos Labs is a mad science incubator dedicated to solving some of the world's most pressing problems. In her free time, Vivienne works to design AI systems to help treat her son's diabetes, predict manic episodes in bipolar sufferers, and reunite orphan refugees with extended family members.Dr Mark Nasila: FNB Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Mark has a PhD in Mathematical Statistics, an expert in the data science and analytics field. This has placed him in the privileged position of being part of a small community of thought leaders in the data science industry. At FNB, Mark has developed an AI system for the bank to enhance the forensic review process.

In Africa, we have an abundance of sunlight to power our solar future! Every five days, the sun provides the Earth with as much energy as all proven supplies of oil, coal, and natural gas.This episode has a focus on how we can create new clean energy solutions for South Africa and Africa by thinking differently! We need to come up with new ways to manufacture and produce energy and create an internet of energy so that we can develop a new market for energy that will democratise the industry and create a flourishing new energy economy! How can we create energy abundance for a prosperous future? Featuring:Ramez Naam: Co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity University. An innovation expert and clean energy thought leader, speaker, and investor.Arash Aazami: Raised in Niger, West Africa. Founder of Kamangir, an R&D agency creating solutions for a quickly digitalising energy landscape.Michael Heyink: Co-Founder at Yellow. A digital retail platform focused on delivering consumer products like solar home systems to consumers in Africa.

How will the future of work be impacted by this pandemic? We need practical workforce solutions to be implemented to help the immediate challenges for organisations and employees. Join this conversation with leading global experts! #futureproofAfrica​Featuring:Hilda Liswani - Founder and CEO WeBloomHilda is an Award-winning sustainable investment professional. WeBloom Africa is a mainstreaming gender-lens fund Investing in Africa.Valter Adão - Chief Digital & Innovation Officer Deloitte Africa, SingularityU SA Faculty Future of work & Digital Transformation. Recognised as an expert in the fields of disruptive innovation, business re-imagination and emerging technologies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.Krista Pawley - Co-Founder & Head of Reputation and Impact SingularityU Canada. Designing experiences and reputation strategies for leaders working at the intersection of innovation and impact to understand, prepare and shape a more sustainable future.Adetayo Bamiduro - Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, MAX.NG a pioneering mobility platform in sub-Saharan Africa. A leading innovator and global expert on sustainable mobility and digital financial inclusion.

A great migration into virtual worlds is taking place at warp speed. Now is the time for you to explore and discover the opportunities and potential that lie ahead. Virtual and augmented reality tech is the next evolution in computing and is set to disrupt current computing. Join the show as we will be looking at this transformative technology to discover new worlds and augment our current reality.Featuring:Cathy Hackl - Cathy is a leading female futurist in AR, VR, and AI, LinkedIn recognised her as one of the Top Technology Voices globally. Hackl has worked with brands like UPS, HTC VIVE, Sony Pictures, Magic Leap, and Adobe.Dimitri Mikhalchuk - Dimitri is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of the Teslasuit. Dimitri is at the top of the most influential people in the field of VR \ AR (according to Evening Standard, UK).Brian Afande - Brian is the Co-founder and Managing Director of BlackRhino VR, an Extended Reality agency based in Nairobi.

How will robots transform our lives from the way we work, are entertained, educated, and travel? How have robots played an important role to help fight and assist humans during the COVID 19 pandemic? Learn about the latest tech news in Africa.Exponential Africa LIVE brings you NEW episodes weekly! Covering different #Futureproofsessions that will focus on how to solve some of the challenges we face, covering topics such as leadership, agility, communication, new ways of working, education, energy, water, food security and exponential technologies that will help us thrive in the future and make sure that we #futureproofAfrica.

This week we will be discussing the incredible trajectory that 3D printing is on and how can we use it to completely change the way manufacturing, supply chains and distribution is done.How can we educate our kids to embrace this technology and especially in South Africa and how can we instil a culture of hacking and making cool products?The global 3D printing market size is estimated to reach USD 34.8 billion by 2024.Featuring:Pablos Holman - Pablos is a futurist, inventor, and notorious hacker with a unique view into breaking and building new technologies. He helped create the world’s smallest PC; 3D printers at Makerbot; spaceships with Jeff Bezos;Petra Rees - South African Founder and CEO of Why Toyz. A 3d printing school teaching kids to embrace this technology! Recognised in 2019 as the Best Edutech Startup in Southern Africa at the SASAwards.Andre Wegner - Founder and CEO of Authentise, a leader in data-driven process automation software for additive manufacturing. He is also the Chair of Digital Manufacturing at Singularity University in Silicon Valley.

This show focusses on food security, showcasing different feeding initiatives. How can we develop, design and implement sustainable ways to grow food in the future?Mark Post - Chief Scientific Officer at Mosa Meat. In 2013 Marc unveiled the world's FIRST hamburger made by growing cow cells, rather than slaughtering an animal.Andile Ngcobo - Farmer, Consultant, Agribusiness Strategist who is climbing the agriculture ladder. A large-scale commercial farm manager, managing the operations of Tusokuhle Farming in Pietermaritzburg.Arturo Elizondo - CEO of Clara Foods, a sustainable ingredients company, making the world's most comprehensive egg white substitute. Completely animal-free, far more sustainable, and free of salmonella without compromising the qualities we know and love.The world's population is growing each day and the current models of producing food will not be sufficient and will have to be redesigned through new ways of farming, alternative ways of culturing meat and using yeast science to grow eggs in a lab without any chickens. 

Join us for a great conversation on - Agility in a time of crisis. Hosted by Mic Mann Co-CEO of SUSA who will be joined by Ramez Naam, Kim Hulett & Ashley Anthony.A little more about our guests:Ramez Naam -Investor and Co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity University at NASA Ames. He speaks around the world on innovation, exponential technology, and disruptive energy technologies.Kim Hulett - Founder and CEO of Next Biosciences and is passionate about leadership and encouraging people to invest in themselves through a curious mindset of continuous learning. She believes that South Africa’s biggest asset is its people and rich cultural diversity.Ashley Anthony: Co-founder and CEO of Isazi Consulting. The term Isazi means “quest for thirst” in isiZulu and aptly describes Ashley’s thirst to understand the mathematical levers that control how businesses make money.

Watch Exponential Africa on Reimagining Education, an episode not to be missed created by SingularityU South Africa and Mann Made.Featuring: Taddy Blecher - SUSA Faculty on Exponential Education. CEO of the Maharishi Institute & pioneer of South Africa's free tertiary education movement.Esther Wojcicki - CEO at Global Moonshots In Education. American journalist, educator, and vice-chair of the Creative Commons advisory council. Author of "How to raise successful people."Jos Dirkx - SUSA Faculty of Exponential Education. CEO and Co-founder Beenova AI. Founder, best-selling author and world-traveller.A little bit more about the topic of discussion:Students now have to work online or remotely currently, and many students in developing countries now have to work from home but often lack data and devices to learn on and land up dropping out. What actions can we take now for the short and long term? How can we educate the youth to develop the right skills needed for the future, and what are those skills? How do teachers need to adapt to more of a remote working environment?

Disruption explained with David RobertsExponential Africa Show with David Roberts, one of the top leadership, innovation and disruption experts globally!Mic Mann sat with David Roberts earlier this year in Costa Rica to discuss how the theory around disruptive innovation.David talks about a mentor of his Clayton Christensen who came up with the concept of Disruptive Innovation. Clayton sadly recently passed away however the ideas around disruption will live on. David discusses the universal understanding and meaning of the term disruptive innovation and how we need to get good at disruption first before trying to disrupt ourselves. Watch the full episode and dive in deeper With David.

How will finance, wealth management and fintech evolve and become more transparent in the future? Watch Exponential Africa 1on1 with Paul Pagnato founder and CEO of Pagnatokarp a top family office and private wealth management firm with over $9.5 billion assets under advisement. Paul is a top advisor with more than 27 years of industry leadership, ranked #1 in Virginia on Forbes Top Wealth Advisors and #2 in Virginia on Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors lists.Mic Mann interviewed Paul on his visit to South Africa Last year where he spoke at the Exponential Finance Summit! Paul speaks about his early beginnings, where he started and how he got to where he is today, discussing how the great recession in 2008/9 led him to launch Pagnatokarp, with a goal to fix the financial structure issues. This created great awareness into the implementation of transparency in business and all aspects of his life, watch the full episode and hear all about how transparency under Pagnatokarp has led many companies to exponential growth and success.Paul has recently published his new book should you want to learn more - Transparency Wave: Exponential Changes That Will Transform Our World#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann has a great conversation with Nathaniel Calhoun - SingularityU chair of Global Grand Challenges.Nathaniel has had an incredible career having lived in over 50 African countries. Consulting with governments, banks and major corporations on how to create innovative change. Looking at new business models, new forms of money and cooperatives.Nathaniel stems from an educational background which he later combined with technology to impact and reach the masses in many informal and underprivileged countries. His passion later evolved to looking at the future of work within the informal economy, focusing on different business models and usage of technology that can help disadvantages people who are left out of the economy.Watch the full video to hear all about what makes Nathaniel tick and what impact has the technology created with all these incredible projects and movements he has created! #futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann has a great conversation with Peter Hirshberg - Cofounder and Chairman of Maker City Project.Discussing the fascinating rise of Silicon Valley from the very beginning. The different, highly diverse cultures that came together and evolved to what Silicon Valley is today.Peter Describes what Maker City Project is all about, operating with cities, towns, and the private sectors to create new forms of civic innovation, economic development, and ultimately transformation. Working with the idea that anybody can get involved create something and make a difference.Watch the Full Episode to hear more about what made silicone valley what it is today and how The Maker city project is preparing its citizens for the future.#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa show Mic Mann discusses VR, AI, Spatial computing and more with Futurist, Author, Journalist and Top voice on LinkedIn, Cathy Hackl!Cathy comes from a Journalistic and storytelling background which evolved after having encountered her first VR experience realising the considerable value and impact in the future of VR.Cathy discusses Spatial computing which is a new form of computing that combines AI & computer vision to seamlessly blend digital content into our reality. Watch the full episode and learn more about what's to come and the future of story living.#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann chats with game-changer and thought leader @James Del. James is the publisher/CRO at Futurism and head of media at Singularity University.Futurism is an online publishing platform that talks about technology. Their mission is to bring you the world, the news, products, and narratives of tomorrow, today. James talks about Futurisms main goal "making the future accessible to anyone". Futurism creates all types of content that take really complex science and technology that pertain the future and makes it understandable for everyone.Futurism has hundreds of thousands of visitors on their site from all over the world daily many of them are South Africans too! Watch the full video to hear more about Futurism and the future of Media!#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann chats to Alix Rübsaam, a faculty fellow at Singularity University specialising in philosophy of technology, AI and ethics, researching the cultural and social implications of different exponential technologies in our world.Alix looks at all exponential technologies researched at singularity University and analyses the implications and meaning of these exponential technologies in peoples daily lives and businesses.Giving a human perspective on the technology, Alix analyses what it means to be human when living with all these technologies that can do so much for us and how it will impact us in all aspects of our lives.Watch the full episode to hear more from Alix and her thoughts on robots taking over our jobs, building biases in AI and more.This episode was shot last year in November at the SingularityU Australia Summit.#futureproofAfrica

Disaster resilience and global health.Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann has a great chat with Dr Eric Rasmussen - CEO of Infinitum Humanitarian Systems (IHS) and SU Faculty member specialising in disaster resilience and global health.Watch the full video to hear all about the projects that are being run, the different tasks dealt with daily in this field, and the importance of exponential technologies at this time.This interview took place on the 19th of February, at a time when the Covid-19 Virus had already started spreading globally. On this day, the recorded numbers were at 75700 people infected globally with 2000 deaths. This was only 36 days ago! The numbers have grown immensely in such a short space of time.We all have a big role to play in ending this time of crisis. Let us work together, collaborate and inspire one another to do what is best at this time. Be safe and take care #futureproofAfrica!Infinitum Humanitarian Systems: https://www.ihs-i.com/

Today on The Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat on immersive VR with the Co-founder of the TESLASUIT - Dimitri Mikhalchuk!The Teslasuit is a wireless haptic suit to fully experience virtual reality and the most immersive VR experience you can get today! A full-body suit that is worn together with VR headset to enter the VR world, the suit is calibrated to register movement and reactions. The full-body AR/VR suit and software suite accelerates the improvement of movement, reflexes and instincts, allowing faster, better improvement of the human mind and body.Haptic Feedback: From subtle touch sensations to feelings of physical exertion, users experience scenarios as though they’ve lived them.Motion Capture: TESLASUIT captures actions as they’re performed to establish baselines, create programs, and track improvement over time.Biometrics: Embedded ECG and EDA sensors capture users vitals and emotional stress level, so trainees can prove their ability to perform under pressure.Watch the full episode to learn more!Teslasuit website: https://teslasuit.io/Episode shot at the Australian SingularityU Summit in October 2019.#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann chats to Andrew Vild, Co-Founder of Project Everest Ventures that aims to solve the worlds social issues using enterprise. With a mission to have social impact using technology across developing nations.Through his travels, Andrew Vild learned of the stark contrast of life between Australia and other developing nations. Andrew decided to use his steel making and engineering background to make a difference in the developing world using a business model with a focus on technology.Over the last three and a half years, Project Everest Ventures has set up operations across Uganda, Malawi, India, Timor Leste, Cambodia and Figi. They are partnering up with technology companies from around the world, working within communities and their social structures to roll out technology solutions.Watch the full episode to learn more about what Project Everest Ventures has done thus far and what opportunities lie ahead. Click on to the Project Everest website to learn more or even get involved!https://www.projecteverest.ventures/#futureproofAfrica

Today on the exponential Africa Show Mic Mann Has a great conversation with Kunal Sood , Co-Founder and CEO of NOVUS. Kunal has an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place.His life is about making the impossible possible - saying it's a moonshot way of thinking. Curating extraordinary experiences that inspire and create extraordinary citizens around the world that go out and make the world a better place!Kunal has led high-impact teams in multinational companies and NGO's globally on projects that range from working in the slums of Mumbai to collaborating with the United Nations. He is deeply passionate about leveraging exponential technologies to solve our grand global challenges to positively impact the lives of a billion people.Watch the full video to learn more about Kunal and the steps he is taking to make the world a better place!#futureproofAfrica

What are the benefits of having Augmented and Virtual reality in our present world and the future of humanity?Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with SingularityU Faculty member specialising in Augmented and virtual reality - Rachel Sibley!Education and training are a huge opportunity space; through AR and VR, we can scale immersive learning! Rachel says that we can dematerialise and thus demonetise by digitising the most high impact way of learning which is fully embodied interactive learning.Rachel speaks of retention and efficiency through interactive, immersive learning being the most impactful way to scale children and adult education as well as retraining our workforce.Rachel discusses what our children or next-generation would look like if they had an embodied relationship to concepts like quantum physics. “If we could create virtual worlds where we could expose our minds to these concepts, we would really open up entirely new domains of opportunity.” Rachel Anne Sibley.Watch the full episode for more on this very relevant and fascinating topic!#futureproofAfrica #AR #VRwww.singularityusouthafrica.org

Exponential Africa Show - Pablos Holman - Hacking & Disruptive Innovation!Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann welcomes Pablos Holman - SingularityU Futurist, Hacker, Inventor, and Disruptor!Pablos’s hacking career started in his childhood years. Growing up in Alaska, Pablos had a lot of free time to get to know his computer, which led to his coding and hacking skills. Pablos explains the computer to be a tool that lights up your imagination.His incredible mindset led him to work on and implement an extensive number of disruptive & innovative projects. From 3D printing, crypto, AI, reactors powered by nuclear waste, and more!Watch the full episode and join this thought-provoking conversation.#futureproofAfrica

Season 2 of the Exponential Africa show is here! To kick off the first episode Mic Mann interviews Tina Averback! Founder of Sky Studio (Sky Studio Lucia), a company that offers an advanced light meditation experience using Lucia.Lucia is a neural stimulator using different light frequencies, strobing, flashing and flickering LEDs combined with a halogen bulb. These stimulants travel and penetrate one's closed eyes through the optic nerve stimulating the pineal gland.Tina says stimulating the pineal gland in this way opens up your inner vision. A unique experience of reaching a theta state of meditation simply by closing your eyes and letting the light do the work for you, no need to have any meditation experience. A fascinating concept, what are your thoughts? Watch the full video to learn more about Lucia and its benefits.#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann chats with Founder and CEO of Apolitical Robyn Scott. Apolitical is a global learning platform for all governments around the world. Governments globally are an integral part in tackling grand challenges within countries as decisions made within government are very consequential to us all.The platform was created to find and share what has been implemented and working within governments around the world. Apolitical opens up conversations and creates best practices at their fingertips. This enhances the potential for real impact as governments are facing 21st century problems with a 20th century operating systems.Together with the platform, in South Africa today a non profit organisation called The Apolitical academy is operating supporting local young people and people from excluded groups to get into politics and run for office.Watch the full episode and get to learn more about Robyn’s mission using this much needed platform.#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with Arturo Elizondo. CEO of Clara Foods - developing performance protein products and making the world's first animal free egg white protein. Clara foods uses advanced fermentation processes to brew protein that is cleaner greener and kinder to our environment.Arturo grew up eating eggs for breakfast and meat with almost every meal, never thinking about where his food really came from. At his first internship at the department of agriculture Arturo discovered that a million animals are slaughtered every hour in the USA, and the amount of water, land and protein needed to feed a growing populations was unsustainable. This led and inspired the creation of Clara foods, finding a better way to provide protein without the harmful long lasting effects on the planet and its limited resources.Watch the full episode to learn more about Arturo’s journey to the creation of Clara foods and its importance.#futureproofAfricawww.singularityusouthafrica.org

Exponential Africa Show on digital manufacturing with Andre Wegner.On the Exponential Africa Show today, Mic Mann meets with Andre Wegner, Founder & CEO of Authentise and Singularity University faculty Chair of digital manufacturing. Speaking on hardware, digital manufacturing, 3d printing, why it is needed and what can be accomplished or arise by deploying these technologies.There are many drivers moving us towards adopting a more agile approach to manufacturing. The world we live in today means a greater demand of products at the “speed of light”. Just as we get information and digital products at a touch of a button. Manufacturing has to evolve to suit the demands of society. People are not willing to wait 18 months for a product release. There is a big need from the manufacturing industry to produce much faster. Where are we now and where is it all going?A conversation that is very important relevant to us all today, what will the future of manufacturing look like? Watch the full episode and join the conversation.#futureproofAfricawww.singularityusouthafrica.org

On Today's Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Bionic girl, Tilly Lockey (Give Tilly a Hand). An ambassador to Open Bionics a true source of inspiration, spreading positivity amongst fellow amputees and people all around the world. At 14 years old Tilly serves as a true example of positive impact through advances in technology!Tilly lost both her hands to Meningitis Septicaemia as a baby which led to a life-long journey of finding the perfect prosthetics. Today Tilly has Hero arms made by Open Bionics which are completely 3d printed and fully customisable to suit her personal needs. Tilley shares her story with us highlighting great moments and her achievements thus far.A true inspiration to us all, watch the full episode to hear more about Tilly’s journey.#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Anita Schjøll Brede, Co-founder of Iris.AI and SingularityU Nordic faculty member specialising in Artificial Intelligence.Iris.AI helps academics and researchers go from ideas and research projects, to finding the precise reading list reducing about 80% of time usually spent researching and going through hundred and thousands of documentation to find the specific documents needed for the project,.Anita speaks about her journey with Singularity University, how she founded and raised money for Iris.AI, together with going through what AI actually means.Watch the full video to gain a better understanding on AI and hear more about her inspirational journey to getting to where she is today!#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann meets with Aaron Frank, Singularity University principle faculty on AR & VR, writer, researcher and a prolific thought leader around the future of business and innovation.Aaron talks about the AR cloud, stating it be the most exciting topic in computing today. The cloud holds digital copies of every physical object, a 1 to 1 digital map of everything in the real world, a digital twin of our entire planet. The game Fortnight Aaron states, is a really great way to explain what an online virtual world in the future might be.Fortnight is much more than the game, it's becoming more of a online social space, beyond the gaming application real cultural activities are happening in the space. Fortnight held a concert that had 10 million people connected from all over the world together virtually to experience this concert. This has nothing to do with the game, it was purely for entertainment. AR and VR is creating another social layer in our lives, education, work and many other aspects of life could be soon experienced on AR and VR.Watch the full video to gain full understanding on this fascinating topic!#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann hosts Valter Adao, Deloitte Chief Digital and Innovation officer and SingularityU South Africa faculty member specialising in exponential organisations, exponential leadership and the future of work.Valter describes aspects of his role within Deloitte as assisting organisations to digitally transform by taking them on a journey of business reimagination! Going on a journey with organisations through a variety of phases by educating and helping create an understanding on the importance of digital transformation for the survival of the business all the way through to the implementation of the solutions with high regard to the human factor within the process.“We’ve moved into a world where we have got to become comfortable with being less accurate at predicting and become more comfortable at navigating through this constant change that we're in” Valter.Watch the full episode to hear more about the topic and how Valter ties it all back in to the opportunities and challenges we face within our beautiful South Africa!Join Valter at the upcoming summit where he will be speaking on restructuring the future of work!#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we welcome Carlo Van de Weijer, a world leading expert and SingularityU faculty member on mobility and automotive! Speaking on autonomous cars and their future impact!The rise of autonomous vehicles production comes typically as digitisation happens. Digitisation is always followed by disruption creating a race to disrupt ones self before getting left behind. Carlo says autonomous cars are like computer on wheels, self driving vehicles are just one positive aspect of the disruptions and change coming into the industry.Autonomous vehicles are just one step into the future of mobility, solving many other issues we encounter daily with vehicles like road and passenger safety, cost of vehicles and insurance premiums to name a few. Information gathered through the cameras and the connectivity used to manage these autonomous cars generates great amounts of data that can benefit everyone.Watch the full video to hear how Carlo believes South Africa can save costs and leapfrog to a better more sustainable future using these technologies.#futureproofAfricawww.singularityusouthafrica.org

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we meet Alex Gladstein. CSO of the Human rights foundation, a guest lecturer at SingularityU and a prolific speaker on the future of money. Alex speaks on the positive impact of a decentralised bitcoin system and how it will help the poor and sustain a democracy in the world!Alex’s background is in political science, studying governments, democracy and dictatorship. He speaks on how Bitcoin is going to revolutionise our lives, focusing on the positive outcomes of the decentralisation of money for all human kind! Bitcoin in not an inflationary currency, it is predetermined and transparent which aids in the survival of democracy, by being completely open and permission-less!“Invest in bitcoin, but not your money, your time, become educated.” Alex Gladstein.Watch the full video to hear Alex Gladstein’s phenomenal point of view on the future of money, and if you want learn more from Alex we highly recommend reading his new book - "The little Bitcoin book".#futureproofAfrica

All new episode of Exponential Africa show where Mic Mann interviews Divya Chander, Chair of Neuroscience at Singularity University. An exciting conversation on our brains, consciousness, meditation, fusing our organic brains to machines and its implications!Neuroscience as is is a very broad type of science but simply put it is the study of the brain which encompasses mathematics, computational neuroscience and the birth of AI that came from neuroscience understanding neural networks!What are your thoughts on rewiring our brains inside out? Being human Divya describes us as having two fundamental codes that can be rewired - our genes that today can be edited with technology which essentially is editing the code of life and our brains. We used to think that our brains could not be rewired, but neuroscience has proven otherwise. Today neuroscientists have the ability of decoding how our brains speak therefore finding ways to rewire the brain!Divya speaks of fusing organic brains with machines, consciousness and the ethical implications of it all, watch the full episode and dive deeper into this fascinating topic!#futureproofAfricawww.singularityusouthafrica.com

Watch an all new episode of the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann in a fascinating discussion with SingularityU Vice chair of digital biology and medicine, Tiffany J Vora.Tiffany's passion lies in looking into the latest and greatest trends in her field trough analysis and conversation with Vc’s, startups and mentorship programmes. Bringing in all the information together in ways that really maximise the impact of these technologies that are currently changing biology, agriculture and healthcare, all of which are tied together with life!Biotechnology simply put is a group of technologies used to either investigate or how we use living things to do things that we want as humans.Digital Biology is a way of thinking about living systems the same way we think of computer coding, Tiffany explains that anything you can do with a living system can be done with computer coding. DNA can be seen as an operating system, as all life on earth runs on the same open source operating system which is DNA!Watch the full episode to hear more on this topic and the incredible advancements that are currently happening in the field!#futureproofAfrica

On today’s episode of the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann Interviews a behavioural scientist, Singularity University faculty of corporate innovation and co-founder of Uncommon Partners, Kyle Nel!Uncommon Partners was started to help other companies transform and in the process developed new technologies using neuroscience to help understand the drive behind behavioural change within organisations. Kyle uses Neuroscience technology together with machine learning and AI to understand and predict change. Talking about the largest misconceptions within corporates and highlighting the importance of a strategic narrative within organisations.Kyle discusses how Rudimentary and process driven jobs will probably not exist for long as automation comes in, preparing for the ramifications of this from a societal and corporate point of view is imperative!Kyle Nel is also the author of the book "Leading transformation". Watch the full episode as Kyle shares 3 key points needed to drive the correct transformation within organisations to lead you into the future!#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Raymond McCauley, not the pastor but the Biotech Scientist! Amongst many achievements and startups he is the founder of exponential biosciences and SingularityU faculty chair on digital biology.Biotechnology, often abbreviated to biotech, is the area of biology that uses living processes, organisms or systems to manufacture products or technology intended to improve the quality of human life.Ray says Biotech is one third of the world economy, influencing areas like healthcare, and agriculture, and the biggest deal of it all is mastering the process of reading and writing DNA, turning Biology into a digital science!Every living thing has a code, knowing the code gives access to a better life, treating patients based on their DNA coding allows for an exact treatment administering the right amount of a specific medicine needed by the patient. This allows a tailor made treatment, knowing what will and will not work on every living thing. Anything from growing crops to making beer or fuel will come down to understanding the code, the blue prints behind the life force.Watch the full episode and get to hear more of Ray’s findings on biotech and the developments around it!#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann meets with dear friend, SingularityU co-chair of energy and best selling author, Ramez Naam.Discussing the exponentially declining costs of solar, battery and wind energy, and the opportunity South Africa has as being one of the sunniest countries in the world.Ramez believes we are entering a phase where the cost benefits of scrapping fossil fuel resources are massive as its cheaper to build new clean energy than to operate with what already exists.Ramez urges countries to embrace solar and wind farms as this will be the major source of where we get our energy in the future at much lower costs Watch the full episode and find out more!#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Kris Østergaard co-founder and Chief Learning & Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic.As the Chief Learning & Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, Kris is responsible for designing and running education and innovation programs for organisations as well as startups in SingularityU Nordic’s innovation campus based in Copenhagen.Kris is the author of his new book Transforming Legacy Organisations: Turn Your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future. Explaining the notion of innovation theatre prevalent in many large corporations and the different phases of innovation.1: Optimising innovation. 2: Augmenting innovation and 3: working towards mutating innovation.A truly great conversation, Watch the full episode to learn more and gain insight on this very current and valuable topic!Book available through Amazon.Kris will be joining us on stage at the upcoming SingularityU South Africa Summit 16-17 October and he will be presenting at the Executive programme 1-4 September.www.singularityusouthafrica.org#futureproofAfrica

Join Mic Mann on the Exponential Africa Show as he discusses investing and disruptive innovation with founder and CEO of ARK Invest - Cathie Wood, who recently spoke at the Exponential finance summit.Ark Invest is focused solely on disruptive innovation, ARK aims to identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centred around genome sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology.Cathie discusses the opportunities available to capture exponential growth in an economy that is growing at such a scale we cannot yet understand.Watch the full episode to hear Cathie's thoughts on disruptive innovation, Tesla, mobile payments and what advice she has to give to aspiring investors.#futureproofAfrica

Today On the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann Interviews Lawrence Whittle, CEO of Parsable. A connected worker platform used to execute and measure work for industrial companies, taking analogue ways of working and digitising the workforce process.Simply put, Parsable is helping customers fuse quality and execution together to build better products faster. Eliminate time-wasting paper procedure distribution, training, separate data entry, and manual work analytics, and continuously gather ideas for improving the work itself from employees and the work they do.“Humans are not going away but their jobs are changing, and when jobs are changing you need to make sure that they are connected in the same ways that machines are connected. The efficiency gains of making sure humans to human and human to machines are connected are a clear driver for efficiency in the future” Lawrence Whittle.This connected workforce is a must and closely related to the reality of the demographic change of the worker.Watch the full Video to hear all about Parsable and the future benefits of liberating the industrial world by digitisation.#futureproofAfrica

On today’s Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann meets with John Hagel, Co-chairman at the Deloitte centre for the edge and Singularity University Faculty member focusing on corporate innovation.John discusses how he helps companies adapt to the changes that are occurring with the rise of exponential technologies, addressing the issue of job loss as machines and AI are entering the workforce.John talks of the untapped opportunities that exist by letting machines take over the routine tasks at work. Stating that people can focus on addressing unseen problems and opportunities, creating more value for their institutions and a rewarding working experience for the individual.Watch the full episode to find out why John thinks scalable efficiency doesn't work anymore and hear what he has to say about the need to create pull mechanisms in order to thrive in the future!#futureproofAfricawww.singularityusouthafrica.org

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann Interviews Amin Toufani!CEO and Founder of Tlabs and Chair of finance and economics at Singularity University. Amin has a degree in artificial intelligence from the University of British Columbia, an MBA from Stanford, and an MPA in economic policy from Harvard.Discussing how conventional economics doesn't provide enough answers Amin states, “we need to revisit a lot of assumptions about economics to understand how exponentials are impacting all of these dynamics” calling this framework exponential economics or Exonomics.Amin brings a unique set of technological, entrepreneurial and policy perspectives to the dialogue of innovation.Watch the full episode to hear more from Amin Toufani.Amin Toufani will be a keynote speaker next week at the Exponential Finance Summit 29-30 May in CT, We cannot wait!www.exponentialfinance.co.za#futureproofAfrica #collaborativefutures

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we get to hear from @richardmbrowning the -'Real-life Iron Man’!Celebrating human and machine collaboration, Richard browning is busy building the capability to put on a race series with these Gravity Jet suits!English inventor, entrepreneur and speaker. Richard founded Gravity Industries and is the inventor of the Gravity Jet Suit, a Jet Suit that uses several miniature jet engines to achieve vertical flight.Using engines on his arms to control the direction and thrust of the suit. Mr Browning’s Jet Suit has a maximum eight-minute flight time, dependent on his weight, fuel payload and weather conditions.He wears a body armour “exoskeleton” underneath it, with fuel in a backpack and a holographic head-up display helmet that shows him engine data. The former Royal Marine reservist follows a gruelling fitness regime to boost the strength in his arms and shoulders.Watch the full episode to find out more from Richard and the future of the Gravity Jet suit!

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with @micmann we highlight, @AshleyAnthony CEO of Isazi Consulting, SingularityU SA Faculty member and an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence!Ashley describes AI as the quest for computers to solve problems that they were never designed to solve.We are introduced to his new exciting product, Sophia! Designed to take thousands of unstructured types of data and in seconds convert it into structured and accurate machine format!Ashley explains that AI on its own is not enough and not the best option, as well as human intelligence on its own not being the best option either. The greatest improvement is from the convergence of the two! Augmented intelligence!

Explore exponential technologies from around the world and understand how they can bring abundance to Africa. In this episode, we meet Manu Sharma from Labelbox, a training data creation & management platform for AI Apps. Manu is one of our speakers at the Exponential Finance Summit taking place on the 29th and 30th May at the CTICC, in Cape Town, South Africa. Buy your tickets today www.exponentialfinance.co.za