Exponential Minds Podcast with Chief Futurist Nikolas Badminton

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 12 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

Here Nikolas speaks with Sashko [Sasha] Despotovski who has a decade of investment experience in the renewable + medical sectors, via posts with hedge funds and investment banks in USA & Canada. 5 years as M&A Director and Special Advisor at Big Four  in Norway. He is a venture capital fund manager in Luxembourg and Malta, Director to 2 publicly listed companies, & advisor to startups, and has raised 2.5+ billion USD. Today, Sasha is the Managing Director of Hinna Park Capital - a global microfund and advisory agency, focused on investing into late seed staged companies in Europe and North America.

Read more about Hinna Park Capital - https://www.hinnaparkcapital.com/

Reach out to Sashko - https://www.linkedin.com/in/saskodespotovski/

See more about Nikolas at www.nikolasbadminton.com

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 11 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

Here Nikolas speaks with Rocky Ozaki, the founder and CEO of the NoW of Work. Rocky is one of Canada’s most passionate evangelists and transformation experts on the NoW of Work (the Future of Work is NoW). For years he has preached that technology, a sharing economy and the connected generation would dramatically shift the way companies operated...and it was going to happen faster than most were predicting. We've since learned that COVID-19 was not only a more powerful influence to force companies to modernize, but it's also pushing the adoption of exponential technologies and the sharing economy at an even greater pace than ever before.

Connect with Rocky at https://www.nowofwork.com/ and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rockyozaki/

See more of Nikolas’ work at https://www.nikolasbadminton.com

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

Nikolas speaks with Rafeeq Bosch who has a long career in information technology leadership and transformation. He now works for Slalom Consulting where he’s building out a Foresight practise and helps clients see further and think bigger.

Rafeeq was a co-founder of the World Futures Society’s South Africa Chapter, and was instrumental in making submissions to the South African government’s 2030 National Development Plan. Rafeeq is also pursuing a PhD in Futures Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. His research area is the use of Futures techniques to help Emerging Economy nations participate in the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Read “System of life” – A Metaphor for Re-imagining the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the Journal of Futures Studies

Watch Rafeeq's DARK FUTURES keynote ‘Dark Industrial Revolutions’

Connect with Rafeeq at [email protected]

See more of Nikolas’ work at www.nikolasbadminton.com

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

Here Nikolas speaks with Monika Bielskyte, a futurist with an artist's eye and an inventor’s mind. Monika consults on and prototypes culturally diverse, socially and environmentally engaged future world designs for the media industry, technology companies, and government.  She’s also an expert in the immersive media space (XR/AI/UX) and edutainment, and her work consists in connecting bleeding edge technological innovation with some of the world's most original creative visions that explores the relationship between speculative science fiction narratives and the unfolding of global futures.

Here are the references Monika mentions:

Connect with Monika at https://twitter.com/monikabielskyte

Also, see her Instagram: personal travels and inspiration - https://www.instagram.com/monikabielskyte/ ; and explorations in visual protopian futures - https://www.instagram.com/protopiafutures/

See more of Nikolas’ work at https://www.nikolasbadminton.com

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

Here Nikolas speaks with Cathy Hackl, a leading female futurist and business strategist specializing in the impact emerging technologies like AR, VR, and AI, are having on society, communications and business. She has worked in enterprise strategy, innovation, and marketing strategy and business evangelism with brands like UPS, HTC VIVE, Sony Pictures, Adobe, and most recently Magic Leap.

Connect with Cathy at https://cathyhackl.com/ and on Linkedin here.

See more of Nikolas’ work at https://www.nikolasbadminton.com

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 7 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

Here Nikolas speaks with Ben Feist who went from advertising to creating ‘Apollo in Real Time’ and went on to become a Data Visualization Software Engineer at NASA where he’s helping humanity to learn to live on other planets.

See NASA’s Apollo 11, 13, and 17 missions and explore the stories of those involved from 1 minute before liftoff to the return-to-earth at ‘Apollo in Real Time’ at https://apolloinrealtime.org/

Connect with Ben at https://www.linkedin.com/in/feist/

See more of Nikolas’ work at https://www.nikolasbadminton.com

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

Shawn Kanungo is a disruption strategist. He has been recognized nationally and globally for his work in the innovation space after 12 years working at Deloitte. Shawn’s mandate at the firm was to help corporate executives to better understand and plan for the opportunities and threats associated with disruptive innovation.

See more about Shawn at Healthy City Global at https://www.shawnkanungo.com/

See more of Nikolas’ work at https://www.nikolasbadminton.com

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

This episode features Marianne Lefever, an architect, futurist, and healthy city design expert. She has over 10 years of experience in climate mitigation and sustainable city design. After a career as a structural engineer, renewable energy consultant, and futurist, she returned to her first love of city design.

She now works for her company Healthy City Global transforming cities around the globe into healthy environments and communities. She recently joined ISO-CARP and is part of the international working group on urban health.

See more about Healthy City Global at https://www.healthycityglobal.com/

See more of Nikolas’ work at https://www.nikolasbadminton.com

And, see more about the Mental Health in the City project they’ve both been involved with at https://www.mentalhealthinthecity.com/

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 4 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

This episode features Leah Zaidi, an award-winning futurist and foresight practitioner. She has worked with and for a wide variety of organizations.

See more about Leah at https://www.multiversedesign.com/

See more of Nikolas’ work at https://www.nikolasbadminton.com

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

This episode features a Johannesburg-based futurist, strategist, economist, and trend analyst Bronwyn Williams. She has significant experience in marketing management and trend research, working predominantly with brands in the financial, retail and B2B industries.

In this interview she takes us through thinking of transhumanism and Implications for future-of-work and future of societal equality, the evolution of the knowledge economy in Africa, and the future of that continent.

See more about Bronwyn at https://whatthefuturenow.com/

See more about Nikolas at www.nikolasbadminton.com