Exponential Africa

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!
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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.

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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".

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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!

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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!

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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!

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