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Disruption explained with David Roberts

Exponential 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

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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! 

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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.

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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.

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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!
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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.
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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.
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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/
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