Exponential Africa

Today on the exponential Africa Show Mic Mann Has a great conversation with Kunal Sood , Co-Founder and CEO of NOVUS. Kunal has an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place.

His life is about making the impossible possible - saying it's a moonshot way of thinking. Curating extraordinary experiences that inspire and create extraordinary citizens around the world that go out and make the world a better place!

Kunal has led high-impact teams in multinational companies and NGO's globally on projects that range from working in the slums of Mumbai to collaborating with the United Nations. He is deeply passionate about leveraging exponential technologies to solve our grand global challenges to positively impact the lives of a billion people.

Watch the full video to learn more about Kunal and the steps he is taking to make the world a better place!
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What are the benefits of having Augmented and Virtual reality in our present world and the future of humanity?

Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with SingularityU Faculty member specialising in Augmented and virtual reality - Rachel Sibley!

Education and training are a huge opportunity space; through AR and VR, we can scale immersive learning! Rachel says that we can dematerialise and thus demonetise by digitising the most high impact way of learning which is fully embodied interactive learning.

Rachel speaks of retention and efficiency through interactive, immersive learning being the most impactful way to scale children and adult education as well as retraining our workforce.

Rachel discusses what our children or next-generation would look like if they had an embodied relationship to concepts like quantum physics. “If we could create virtual worlds where we could expose our minds to these concepts, we would really open up entirely new domains of opportunity.” Rachel Anne Sibley.

Watch the full episode for more on this very relevant and fascinating topic!

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Exponential Africa Show - Pablos Holman - Hacking & Disruptive Innovation!

Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann welcomes Pablos Holman - SingularityU Futurist, Hacker, Inventor, and Disruptor!

Pablos’s hacking career started in his childhood years. Growing up in Alaska, Pablos had a lot of free time to get to know his computer, which led to his coding and hacking skills. Pablos explains the computer to be a tool that lights up your imagination.

His incredible mindset led him to work on and implement an extensive number of disruptive & innovative projects. From 3D printing, crypto, AI, reactors powered by nuclear waste, and more!

Watch the full episode and join this thought-provoking conversation.

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Season 2 of the Exponential Africa show is here! To kick off the first episode Mic Mann interviews Tina Averback! Founder of Sky Studio (Sky Studio Lucia), a company that offers an advanced light meditation experience using Lucia.

Lucia is a neural stimulator using different light frequencies, strobing, flashing and flickering LEDs combined with a halogen bulb. These stimulants travel and penetrate one's closed eyes through the optic nerve stimulating the pineal gland.

Tina says stimulating the pineal gland in this way opens up your inner vision. A unique experience of reaching a theta state of meditation simply by closing your eyes and letting the light do the work for you, no need to have any meditation experience. A fascinating concept, what are your thoughts? Watch the full video to learn more about Lucia and its benefits.

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Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann chats with Founder and CEO of Apolitical Robyn Scott. Apolitical is a global learning platform for all governments around the world. Governments globally are an integral part in tackling grand challenges within countries as decisions made within government are very consequential to us all.

The platform was created to find and share what has been implemented and working within governments around the world. Apolitical opens up conversations and creates best practices at their fingertips. This enhances the potential for real impact as governments are facing 21st century problems with a 20th century operating systems.

Together with the platform, in South Africa today a non profit organisation called The Apolitical academy is operating supporting local young people and people from excluded groups to get into politics and run for office.

Watch the full episode and get to learn more about Robyn’s mission using this much needed platform.

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Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with Arturo Elizondo. CEO of Clara Foods - developing performance protein products and making the world's first animal free egg white protein. Clara foods uses advanced fermentation processes to brew protein that is cleaner greener and kinder to our environment.

Arturo grew up eating eggs for breakfast and meat with almost every meal, never thinking about where his food really came from. At his first internship at the department of agriculture Arturo discovered that a million animals are slaughtered every hour in the USA, and the amount of water, land and protein needed to feed a growing populations was unsustainable. This led and inspired the creation of Clara foods, finding a better way to provide protein without the harmful long lasting effects on the planet and its limited resources.

Watch the full episode to learn more about Arturo’s journey to the creation of Clara foods and its importance.

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Exponential Africa Show on digital manufacturing with Andre Wegner.

On the Exponential Africa Show today, Mic Mann meets with Andre Wegner, Founder & CEO of Authentise and Singularity University faculty Chair of digital manufacturing. Speaking on hardware, digital manufacturing, 3d printing, why it is needed and what can be accomplished or arise by deploying these technologies.

There are many drivers moving us towards adopting a more agile approach to manufacturing. The world we live in today means a greater demand of products at the “speed of light”. Just as we get information and digital products at a touch of a button. Manufacturing has to evolve to suit the demands of society. People are not willing to wait 18 months for a product release. There is a big need from the manufacturing industry to produce much faster. Where are we now and where is it all going?

A conversation that is very important relevant to us all today, what will the future of manufacturing look like? Watch the full episode and join the conversation.

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On Today's Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Bionic girl, Tilly Lockey (Give Tilly a Hand). An ambassador to Open Bionics a true source of inspiration, spreading positivity amongst fellow amputees and people all around the world. At 14 years old Tilly serves as a true example of positive impact through advances in technology!

Tilly lost both her hands to Meningitis Septicaemia as a baby which led to a life-long journey of finding the perfect prosthetics. Today Tilly has Hero arms made by Open Bionics which are completely 3d printed and fully customisable to suit her personal needs. Tilley shares her story with us highlighting great moments and her achievements thus far.

A true inspiration to us all, watch the full episode to hear more about Tilly’s journey.

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Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann meets with Aaron Frank, Singularity University principle faculty on AR & VR, writer, researcher and a prolific thought leader around the future of business and innovation.

Aaron talks about the AR cloud, stating it be the most exciting topic in computing today. The cloud holds digital copies of every physical object, a 1 to 1 digital map of everything in the real world, a digital twin of our entire planet. The game Fortnight Aaron states, is a really great way to explain what an online virtual world in the future might be.

Fortnight is much more than the game, it's becoming more of a online social space, beyond the gaming application real cultural activities are happening in the space. Fortnight held a concert that had 10 million people connected from all over the world together virtually to experience this concert. This has nothing to do with the game, it was purely for entertainment. AR and VR is creating another social layer in our lives, education, work and many other aspects of life could be soon experienced on AR and VR.

Watch the full video to gain full understanding on this fascinating topic!
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Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Anita Schjøll Brede, Co-founder of Iris.AI and SingularityU Nordic faculty member specialising in Artificial Intelligence.

Iris.AI helps academics and researchers go from ideas and research projects, to finding the precise reading list reducing about 80% of time usually spent researching and going through hundred and thousands of documentation to find the specific documents needed for the project,.

Anita speaks about her journey with Singularity University, how she founded and raised money for Iris.AI, together with going through what AI actually means.

Watch the full video to gain a better understanding on AI and hear more about her inspirational journey to getting to where she is today!

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