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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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!