ideacity On The Air

Dr. John Ostrem has over 25 years experience developing new technology and bringing products to market, most recently iPal®. iPal is an affordable social robot for children’s education, elder care, children with special needs, and retail/hospitality. Dr. Ostrem joined us at ideacity to talk about AI in Social Robotics.

Co-founder of Anki, Mark Palatucci is the brains behind COZMO the robot and many other technologies at Anki and Copera. Mark joined us at ideacity to talk about his work building out Anki's AI technologies in order to deliver new consumer experiences across industries.

With a background in building automation equipment and robotics for cancer research and drug discovery, Rob brings a unique entrepreneurial and globally-focused approach to growing a university where exponential technologies empower us to solve challenges.

He gives the crowd an overview on artificial intelligence at ideacity 2018.

"It's not where you travel, it's what you carry in your heart."

Dianne Whelan is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker, photographer, author and multimedia artist who went on a solo journey to hike and film the longest trail in the world.

Matthew Fisher is one of Canada’s last foreign correspondents and in his 2017 talk, he speaks about the injustice being done people, in particular, women, in the Middle East.

Ethan Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Beyond Meat, the world’s first plant-based burger that looks, cooks, and tastes like fresh ground beef. At last year’s ideacity, he explained the groundbreaking technology and why “tomorrow is about plant-based protein.” Now he returns with more news.

Dr. Peter Brown’s career has concentrated on the uses of philosophy to think critically about the goals of society, with a focus on the deterioration of Earth’s life support capacity and the thought systems that facilitate and legitimate this decline.

What makes meat unique? Believe it or not, it took five years of research for Impossible Foods to find out. And as the company’s first employee, Nick Halla was there for every minute. Once they found the answer, they set out to recreate it with plants.

Rick Smolan is a New York Times best-selling author and former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer, best known as co-creator of the Day in the Life book series. He returns to ideacity to discuss his new book "The Good Fight: America's Ongoing Struggle for Justice".

"You don’t have to be Yazidi to help Yazidis. I am a Yazidi when I am helping them. I am Jewish when I am standing against anti-Semitism. I’m a Sunni when I am fighting for the Muslim community in Burma and in China."

Reverend Majed El Shafie's was detained and tortured by Egyptian authorities after he converted to Christianity. Now he works to save religious minorities from persecution by extremists and totalitarian governments around the world.

Barbara Kay is one of Canada’s most widely-read – and often, most controversial – columnists. She’s not afraid of any topic, and never intimidated by conventional wisdom or political correctness. In this video she argues against “normalizing” the hijab/niqab in western culture.