Brands Transforming Our World

By Brands2Life

A new podcast that’s essential listening for tech, comms and marketing leaders. Former BBC Tech Correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones OBE, and Brands2Life Co-Founder, Giles Fraser, tackle the big industry ... more

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July 30, 2026 Programming Biology: How Basecamp Research is using AI to transform medicine – Part 2
The conversation continues: in part two of our discussion with Basecamp Research co-founders Glen Gowers and Oliver Vince, we explore what the future of AI-powered medicine could look like, how the company is working with partners including NVIDIA and Anthropic, and why they believe biology can become programmable.

The founders discuss personalised healthcare, the role of large-scale biological datasets, the challenge of communicating ambitious scientific ideas, and the leadership lessons they've learned while building one of the UK's most exciting AI companies.

If you haven't already, be sure to listen to part one where Glen and Oliver share the origin story behind Basecamp Research and the expedition that inspired its mission.
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June 25, 2026 Programming Biology: How Basecamp Research is using AI to transform medicine – Part 1
What if the biggest limitation in biology isn't computing power, but the data itself?

In this episode we speak to Basecamp Research co-founders Glen Gowers and Oliver Vince about their mission to uncover Earth's undiscovered biology and use AI to transform medicine.

The conversation explores the expedition to Iceland that inspired the company, how large language models can learn the language of DNA, and why the future of healthcare may depend on making biology programmable. The founders also discuss the personal experience that shifted their focus towards therapeutics and the role the UK can play in the next generation of scientific innovation.

This is part one of a special two-part conversation.
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38min
April 28, 2026 Building trust in the age of AI with Onfido and ollo founder, Husayn Kassai
In this episode, Husayn Kassai, founder of both Onfido and ollo, shares his journey of building one of the UK’s most successful AI companies and launching his next venture. He reflects on leadership, the realities of scaling a startup and why talent and regulation will shape the future of AI.
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40min
February 26, 2026 Caring Wildly: How Bloom & Wild reinvented flower gifting
Bloom & Wild co-founder and CEO Aron Gelbard joins Brands Transforming Our World to share how he reinvented the online flower industry. Having pioneered letterbox flowers and built a tech platform designed for gifting, Aron explains why customer feedback drives every decision, why Bloom & Wild stopped selling red roses for Valentine’s Day and what “caring wildly” looks like at scale.
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35min
December 11, 2025 Clue CEO Clare Elford on the hidden tech powering investigations worldwide
Clue Software CEO Clare Elford joins Giles Fraser and Rory Cellan-Jones to discuss how she’s turned a once-niche policing tool has become a critical AI-powered investigation and intelligence platform used across policing, sport, nonprofits and the private sector. Clare shares how she rebuilt Clue into a modern SaaS company and why cross-sector collaboration is essential to tackling growing threats in a world transformed by AI.
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41min
October 23, 2025 Technology, tenacity and the future of urban delivery with Stuart CEO, Cornelia Raportaru
Cornelia Raportaru has built her career on curiosity and adaptability – growing up in post-communist Romania and rising to lead one of Europe’s most innovative logistics tech companies. In this episode, she shares how Stuart is transforming last-mile delivery through AI, sustainability and precise delivery models, and what she’s learned about leadership, resilience and the future of urban logistics.
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39min
September 16, 2025 Inside the quantum revolution with Oxford Ionics CEO and Co-Founder, Dr. Chris Ballance
Oxford Ionics CEO & Co-Founder, Dr. Chris Ballance, joins us to share his journey from getting (very briefly!) expelled from school to leading one of the UK’s most exciting quantum computing companies. We discuss breaking world records, building a $1bn business, the race to commercialise quantum and why brand matters as much as science.
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40min
July 08, 2025 Nina Mohanty on Bloom Money, savings circles and the future of inclusive fintech
In this episode of “Brands Transforming Our World“, we sit down with fintech founder Nina Mohanty, whose start-up Bloom Money is reimagining financial services for immigrant communities. Drawing on her Silicon Valley upbringing and her personal experience as the child of Indian and Taiwanese immigrants, Nina explains how traditional savings circles (used by communities worldwide) can serve as powerful tools for inclusion and economic resilience.
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40min
May 27, 2025 Six decades of technology with Richard Holway, MBE
Richard Holway MBE joins the Brands Transforming our World podcast to reflect on six decades in UK tech: from starting as a programmer in the 1960s to becoming one of the industry’s most trusted analysts and investors. He shares hard-won lessons on leadership, resilience, investment, and what makes a great tech business.
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45min
April 30, 2025 Dame Stephanie Shirley: The woman who rewrote the rules of tech
In this episode of Brands Transforming Our World, we sit down with Dame Stephanie Shirley CH: child refugee, pioneering tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She shares her extraordinary journey from arriving in the UK without her parents, founding an all-female remote working start-up in the early 60s and building it into a $3bn tech company. We also explore her game-changing approach to philanthropy and what still drives her at the age of 91.
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44min

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How many episodes does Brands Transforming Our World have?

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