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Eugene Capon is a Futurist, Author, Speaker of the Metaverse, 360 Creative Director and podcaster of ‘Eugene Capon’ and VR Talk Show Glitched, among others. Eugene is a  XR creator, making VR and 360 experiences with millions of views . He is also the author of ‘All The Things You Can Do In The Metaverse’ and ‘Get Serious About Social Media’.

Eugene is the President and Creative Director of Studio Capon, a level XR content creation and marketing company that uses various web, graphical, AR, and VR techniques. The company has a web presence of over 50 million impressions across multiple social channels.

Eugene Capon Interview Topics

1. Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
2. Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
3. Web3 Possibilities and Challenges
4. Social Media in the Web3 Era
5. The challenges of creator
6. Creating better narratives with AI, metaverse and emerging technologies
7. Social media - How it works and how to get the best out of them
8. About his book
9. What the future looks like

Eugene Capon Biography

Eugene Capon is a dual citizen YouTuber (United States and Canada) known for his online presence as a forward thinking Social Media Futurist, public speaker and 360 animation director under his production company "Studio Capon".

A social media futurist, Eugene's forward thinking attitude towards how we connect using technology has been at the forefront of his mission to connect the world and pave the way to the metaverse. In 2014 he graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts with an emphasis on "YouTube Studies" from Evergreen State. Upon graduation he went to work at the YouTube Consulting Agency, Press Play where he was focused on next level visual content in the motion graphics and animation genre.

In 2016 he quit his job as an art director to pursue XR and social media. Eugene's first project was producing the film "Journey VR". This film became an official selection at SIFF, a staff pick by Adobe and VEER, then would become the number one 360 video download on Steam for 30 days at the time of its release.

A year later he would produce and host GLITCHED, the first in VR talk show to be ordered as if it were a TV show. The show revolved around interviewing large name tech and social media influencers like Barnacules Nerdgasm, iJustine, Jake Roper of Vsauce3 and Gearlive. The show ran for a total of 3 seasons.

Since then he has been an avid XR creator making VR and 360 experiences with millions of views and one of the world's most profound evangelists of the Metaverse.
Studio Capon was created when he sold the second season of the in VR talk show GLITCHED which his YouTube channel was renamed as from CapondesignTV. The channel is co-ran with former radio personality Topher Welsh who co-hosted GLITCHED.

Published Works 

‘All The Things You Can Do In The Metaverse’ is an educational book for children where siblings Jaden and Selena cure their boredom when they find a box with two VR headsets that suddenly appear in their living room. After the brother and sister put on the headsets a floating robot takes them into the Metaverse for adventures through a reality bending door.

‘Get Serious About Social Media’ is an ebook with tips and strategies for businesses to create brand awareness and marketing on social media.

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Wajdi Mereb is an engineer, architect and innovator who has more than 17 years of experience in digital transformation, assets management, and BIM (Building Information Modeling). Wajdi is the former Digital Transformation & BIM Manager at Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in Dubai. During his tenure there, Wajdi was awarded the ‘Innovator of the Year’ in the AEC Excellence Awards 2020 and the ‘Individual Achievement Award’ from the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) Global Awards 2019 in London.

Currently, Wajdi is the Senior Manager- Engineering Digitalisation- BIM & Digital Twins at one of the reputable governmental entities since 2021, where he manages all aspects of Project Design- BIM throughout all the RIBA stages ensuring project goals are understood and delivered, and milestones are met.

Interview Topics

1. Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
2. Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
3. About BIM
4. The challenges of Digital Twins and BIM
5. The future of Smart Cities and Smart Transportation

Wajdi Mereb Biography

Wajdi Mereb is a BSc. in Architectural Engineering and an MSc. in Engineering Management. He is also having a MSc. in Management and MBA from the University of Sheffield/ U.K. with distinction.

Wajdi Mereb’s major highlight was his role as the Digital Transformation & BIM Manager at Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in Dubai between 2015 and 2021. There, he helped integrate the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies with its ecosystem to improve transportation in the city. He represented RTA in the Dubai Digital Transformation Team in the construction sector and managed the UAE Building Smart chapter. In this regard, he also managed RTA’s internal project: Assets management digitisation and the Digital Twin technology.

Wajdi also led the successful BIM implementation in multi-billion strategic projects: “Metro Route 2020 project” valued at $3 billion value that was an integral part of Dubai’s proposal of UAE winning the EXPO 2021.

As a policy expert, he authored and monitored the corporate BIM Policies for Vendors & Employees at RTA. He also led RTA to be the 1st entity in the globe obtaining ISO 19650 & UK BIM Level 2 certificates, and represented RTA in launching the compliance Kite-marks for OPEX phase “PAS 1192-3” & Security minded BIM “PAS 1192-5” in partnership with BSI.

Wajdi has served many multi-billions projects varying in size & scope utilising various BIM authoring software including Autodesk Revit & Navis-works, Synchro, Bentley AECOsim Triforma and CDE platforms like Project-wise, BIM 360, & Aconex.

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Danny Goel is an Orthopaedic Surgeon, Clinical Professor, and keynote speaker. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Precision OS, a software company focused on immersive experiential virtual reality based medical education.

Danny Goel Interview Topics

1. Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
2. Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
3. How did Precision OS get started? Is there any specific reason that makes you establish this company?
4. What is the mission and vision of Precision OS? And some user cases?
5. Why do you think orthopaedic surgical education is perfect now for virtual reality?
6. In fact, there are many other VR surgery training startups now. What do you think are the differences or strengths of Precision OS compared to them?
7. What do you think about the future of VR and AR in surgery? Will it be easier to approach even with developing countries where the economy and infrastructure are not advanced?
8. And what are the possibilities with the Metaverse in the field?

Danny Goel Biography

Danny is a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Manitoba, an Orthopaedic Surgeon from University of Calgary, and an MBA in Health and Life Sciences from the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management. He also holds a Shoulder Fellowship from Western University and Harvard Medical School. Since 2012, he has been associated with The University of British Columbia as Clinical Associate Professor.

Danny also contributes as Industry Advisor and Columnist at the Forbes Technology Council. He has co-authored more than 30 publications, and is widely sought as a presenter on surgical techniques. His ongoing research includes novel methods of surgical education and skill acquisition to deliver safe surgery towards improved patient outcomes.

He was awarded as the Gold Winner at the Reimagine Education Awards 2020 organised by the Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards and Conference.

Danny is a Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and Clinical Professor at UBC Department of Orthopaedics, Vancouver, British Columbia. He is also the Manuscript Reviewer at the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc., and the American Journal of Sports Medicine. He was also associated with the Clinical Faculty Advisory Council and Residency Training Committee at The University of British Columbia.

About Precision OS

Precision OS is a medical - grade learning platform to advance surgical readiness.

Surgery residents are getting less hands-on experience than ever, and it’s affecting their confidence and autonomy. A significant percentage don’t feel ready to independently perform core procedures upon residency completion,1 and over 90% opt for an additional fellowship year. In an effort to address this, The American Board of Surgery (ABS) recommended “rather than increasing the quantity of cases, we should be increasing the quality of teaching both clinical and procedural skills.”

The lack of access to high-quality surgical education is also affecting medical device companies. In an era of rapidly advancing technologies and procedures, training is often a rate-limiting factor. Current training approaches vary in effectiveness, and are not helping to address cost, and, most importantly, surgical mastery.

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Amrita Sethi is an award-winning, golden visa holder and the first NFT artist in the UAE. After a successful career, spanning 15+ years, in some of the world’s largest multinational financial companies, Amrita left the corporate world for a deeper calling, which led to the creation of a new multimedia art form, called “Voice Note Art”©️- now called “SoundBYTE”.

SoundBYTEs merge sound, technology and storytelling with NFTs giving her a perfect platform to showcase her dynamic art form. The unique idea led to her recognition and coverage with Forbes, CNN, BBC World news to winning awards, selected for Expo 2020 and creating live activations and installations in Middle East Asia and Europe. Amrita NFT’s have sold worldwide for under half a million USD and she regularly bridges the gap between physical arts and digital art. Amrita became the first NFT artist in the UAE.

Born and raised in Kenya, a British citizen of Indian origin, residing through Switzerland, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and the United Kingdom, before moving to Dubai in 2007 - Amrita’s art reflects her international diversity and combines the sweetness of tradition and storytelling with the energy and technology of the modern world.

Amrita Sethi Interview Topics

1. Background
2. From finance to arts
3. Process of creating NFTs and virtual art
4. Technology you use in your digital art
5. AR and other effects in NFTs for creator economy: Case studies
6. Amrita’s work
7. Recommendations for young artists
8. Disruption by technological tools

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Phil Barden is an author, speaker and consultant in the field of marketing, innovation and customer experience. He has over 25 years of experience, including senior roles at Unilever, Diageo, and Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile).

He founded Decode Marketing Limited in 2010, and combines hands-on, pragmatic, client-side brand management experience with leading edge cognitive & social psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural economics to provide analytical and predictive power, leveraging science to increase sales. Decode was awarded 'Most Inspiring and Provocative' in the Unilever Foods Fusion Awards.

Phil is the author of “Decoded: The Science of Why We Buy”, where he shares the latest research on the motivations behind consumers’ choices and what happens in the human brain as buyers make their decisions. The book was published by Wiley.

Phil also contributed two chapters to “Eat Your Greens”: a compilation of papers inspired by the genuine advances in marketing science.

Phil presents on decision science for the IPA Diploma, the APG Planning Skills Diploma and for various international MBA and MSc programmes. He is regularly invited to speak at industry events and to brand owners and their agencies.

Phil is also a Fellow of the Marketing Society.

Phil Barden Interview Topics

1. Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
2. Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
3. Consumer behaviour, marketing and businesses
4. How can businesses and governments collaborate to achieve economic benefits from changing ecosystems?
5. Principles of behavioral science and marketing?
6. What are the biggest changes you see that have happened in the field of consumer behavior in the last few years?
7. About your books
8. About Decoded: The Science of Why We Buy

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Mark Mueller-Eberstein is a serial entrepreneur, strategic leader, bestselling author, active angel investor and international speaker, with presence in worldwide events like the World Economic Forum and TEDx talks. He has over 20 years’ experience in technology leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies, including Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.

Mark is the co-founder and CEO of CodexDF, a company that develops customer-focused enterprise software solutions to solve complex accounting, reporting and tax challenges for digital assets. As an entrepreneur, Mark is also the founder of the Adgetec Corporation’s consulting business since 2010. Adgetec’s mission is to help organisations and their leaders realise value globally. Mark is a global authority and personality  about blockchain, compliance, angel investing, cryptocurrency, and accounting software.

Interview Question Topics

1. Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background? 
2. Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration? What inspired you to pursue a career in technology and innovation?
3. How has your experience in the tech industry shaped the way you approach problem-solving, especially the problem that you see in enterprise accounting?
4. What do you consider to be the biggest challenge currently facing the tech industry?
5. Could you share with us more about what CodexDF is doing and what makes it different from others?
6. Does CodexDF focus only on enterprise or will it provide solutions for individuals as well?
7. How can digital asset management improve the workflow of an organization?
8. How does DeFi help to increase financial inclusion for people?
9. What challenges does DeFi present in terms of security and compliance?
10. What advice would you give to aspiring tech entrepreneurs who are just starting out?
11. How do you see the future of technologies like blockchain, AI and cryptocurrency in the next 5 years?

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Andrea Winders is a creative Manchester-based entrepreneur and expert in tech, infrastructure, and smart cities. She is the Executive Director of Smart Cities Council, United Kingdom, and manages the organisation’s growth and drive objectives for the expansion of the smart agenda throughout the country.

Andrea Winders Interview Areas

1. Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
2. You have had a significant entrepreneurship career in the past launching  projects, being expert in tech, infrastructure etc, but now you are appointed as the Executive Director of Smart Cities Council of the United Kingdom. Could you please tell us how and why you decided to switch your career from a more corporate area?
 3. Could you share more about the vision, mission of Smart cities council in the UK and how you think this new launching will be able to bring the UK citizens closer to innovation and new technologies which are invented to make their lives easier?
4. Do you and your team plan to create a set of living standards for citizens in smart cities? And what are the biggest challenges that you think cities in the UK are facing on their ways to approach “smart cities” at the moment?
5. What about the future of smart cities?

Andrea Winders Biography

Andrea Winders is a creative Manchester-based entrepreneur and expert in tech, infrastructure, and smart cities. She is the Executive Director of Smart Cities Council, United Kingdom, and manages the organisation’s growth and drive objectives for the expansion of the smart agenda throughout the country.

At Smart Cities Council, she has played a pivotal role in the organisations’ different initiatives in the UK, like Manchester's new DiSH (Digital Security Hub), a place for collaboration between Manchester's business and entrepreneurial community, academics, public sector organisations, and the voluntary sector to identify digital security threats and innovative responses to them. This hub offers a co-working space as well as access to state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.

Prior to that, Andrea Winders has held executive and managerial positions in companies like Spicers and Pink Ladies before joining Sunderland City Council as the Executive Director of Enterprise Investment. From here, she started her career working with organisations that empower cities and citizens.

She defines herself as a “an entrepreneurial business leader, with a unique mixture of talents and experience, in both private and public sectors, looking to change traditional thinking and doing to achieve positive change, wherever it is needed.”

About Smart Cities Council

The Smart Cities Council is an organisation that works to create action and impact around the key challenges and opportunities facing cities and communities today.

The organisation already counts Amazon Web Services (AWS), EY, ENE.HUB, Aurecon and GHD among its 100+ international members, and in the UK high profile organisations, such as global engineering services and digital infrastructure giant Valmont, life safety technology company Clevertronics, smart buildings dashboard provider Bueno Systems and digital transformation software innovator, Tr3dent, are foundation members of the UK Organisation, with UCLan, University of Lancaster as supporting academic partners.

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Gerd Leonhard is a keynote speaker, futurist & humanist, film maker, musician, and renowned author. He is the CEO of The Futures Agency. As one of the leading futurists worldwide, Gerd has presented at over 1500 leading conferences and events over the past 20 years in the field of digital ethics (the ethics of technology). He has an affluent experience of working extensively with the likes of Microsoft, NBC, Visa, Google, the European Commission, L’Oréal, Audi and IBM, just to name a few.

Gerd Leonhard Interview Questions

1. Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
2. Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
3. I must say your film “The Good Future” is really inspiring and it makes us think a lot about the future. The natural scenes that you captured look amazing. Could you share with us your motivation behind this project?
4. When we talk about the future we not only mean our own future but also for our children as well. That’s when it comes to climate change, global warming, the transition to clean energy, sustainability development in general. In your opinion, what are the easiest things that we can do to contribute to a sustainable future?
5. The Good Future Project is all about creating and spreading a new, positive narrative about the future and you said that we are seriously short of the will, the purpose, and the wisdom. So what is the message that you want to deliver to international companies and audiences in the world to create a correct mindset for all?
6. How many members are there in the community of TGFP at the moment? What is your plan to develop this community in the future to help spread the message of a good future for all?
7. What are your opinions on the connection between Technology and Humanity, i.e. digital ethics, technology regulation, the future of AI/AGI, human genome editing, longevity, transhumanism, the future of work and jobs, etc
8. We all know that with the development of technology, especially AI (like the invention of Sophia the Robot), many people think that this is a threat to humanity in some ways, but everything has its pros and cons. Could you share with us your thoughts on this?
9. The invention of robots and intelligent softwares somehow seem to be a threat for the future of work, I mean it can take the jobs of many people and even with higher efficiency. What is your advice for the next generations to develop themselves and adapt with the future of technology in a balanced way? 
10. How much control should humans have over digital society? Do you think that we will be way too much into the online world that we may forget about the reality sometimes?
11. How do you see the future of technology, especially web3 and virtual reality in the next 5-10 years?

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Emmanuel Daniel is a Singapore-based entrepreneur, writer and global thought leader in finance. He is listed as a top 10 global influencer in the “Fintech Power50” list for 2021 and 2022. Daniel was awarded the Citibank Excellence in Journalism Award in February 1999. This was in recognition of his commitment to determining the impact of the Internet on banking.

Emmanuel Daniel Interview - Areas of Conversation

1. Career in banking and finance
2. The Asian Banker - Finance in Asia and in the world
3. New trends in finance
4. Crypto, blockchain, emerging tech
5. Book - The Great Transition
6. Personalisation of Finance
7. Financialization of everything
8. Future trends

Emmanuel Daniel Biography

Emmanuel was trained as a lawyer, has degrees from the National University of Singapore and the University of London, and attended a course on economics at Columbia University in New York.
He founded The Asian Banker in Singapore in 1996 and is the Chairman of TAB Global Pte Ltd, which runs The Asian Banker, Wealth and Society, and other content and community platforms.

His first book, “The Great Transition – the personalization of finance is here", was published in September 2022. In this book, Emmanuel outlines how the banking industry will evolve from being focused on platform technologies to a level of personalization never seen before.

Emmanuel is the creator of the Excellence in Retail Financial Services programme which benchmarks and ranks retail banks according to operational and service quality and is now followed in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

He also founded Wealth and Society, a global programme where wealth is assessed by its relevance to philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, or impact on the environment, sustainability, and well-being of the societies.

Daniel is also a writer on personal blog and speaks at international events around the world.

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Sallyann Della Casa is currently the Founder of Growing Leaders Foundation & GLEAC. She is a tech startup founder, a former lawyer, author, TEDx speaker, teacher, and curriculum developer in human transferable skills such as critical thinking, leadership, judgement and decisions etc. as it applies to emerging areas such as Web 3, Fintech, Sustainability etc. reaching out to global  learners  with her unconventional ideology. She recently launched the world’s first utility NFT of an industry expert’s time.

Sallyann Della Casa Interview Questions

1. Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
2. Cultural diversity with technological evolution
3. Your solutions and making an impact across the world
4. How are you using your NFT? What has been your journey?
5. About Lovely humans
6. Governments and decentralised systems
7. In your journey to learn about human skills, is there anything that impresses you the most? Could you share with us about it?
8. So what are the strengths of GLEAC features and programs that make you confident that can help discover and strengthen human soft skills & behaviour?
9. How important is it to find the right soft skills of each person especially in a team, a group of many people and put it in the right place?
10. Could you share more about GLEAC’s B2B platform and B2C products?
11. How many organisations and companies in the world are using GLEAC’s services?
12. How do you see the future of AI technology and HR in the next 5-10 years?

Sallyann is currently the Founder of GLEAC, a platform that co-pilots learning, innovation and problem solving with industry experts using cutting edge neuro-science and behavioural science, A.I. and Machine Learning for which she has a pending patent making her one of 4% of women globally as a sole founder. GLEAC powers the Unicef YOMA platform in Africa, it powers the JIO phone company platform in India and was also the official APP for Skills of the Future at Expo 2020.

As a lawyer, Sallyann practised law for almost a decade focused on business transactions, estate planning, and real-estate. She began her teaching and mentoring career at 24 as a volunteer at KAPOW, a US government life skill program developed by the National Child Labor Committee and approved by the School Board of Florida. She was volunteer of the year 7 years in a row..

She published ‘Who Will I Become’, a love letter to the 8 year old within all of us. It is about our own becoming over and over again until our last breath..

Recently, she dropped the world's first NFT that tokenizes industry experts and is building the first Metaverse Living Human Library of wisdom with the NFT experts profiles ( think Wikipedia our neighbourhood library  in Metaverse and interactive).

In 2011, Sallyann founded  the Growing Leaders Foundation. In a partnership with the UNDP, thousands of at-risk youths and adults have benefitted in financial literacy and her Foundation’s work delivering soft transferable skills such as communication, entrepreneurship etc.  in the Caribbeans, Latin America, and the MENA region. She has worked with reputed companies such as Nestle, DP World, NBAD, Repsol, Mubadala, Careem, etc in the region and has delivered soft skills to over 25,000 youths and adults through her Foundation in the last 6 years. 

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