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June 28, 2021 Impact Talks #47: Armando Azua-Bustos (Astrobiologist - Growing plants on Mars, NASA, TED fellow)
Astrobiologist Armando Azua-Bustos is the CEO of Atacama Biotech, where he's working to find and characterize species that are able to survive in the extreme conditions imposed by the Atacama Desert in Chile.
In the past few years, a range of different lifeforms has been discovered in the Atacama, showing fascinating adaptations to extremely low water availability, high UV radiation, high salinity, and other environmental stresses. For these same reasons, the desert is considered a good analog model of the planet Mars. Azua-Bustos is a TED Fellow. He earned a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and microbiology as well as an MSc in biological sciences and an MSc in biochemistry.
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0:38 Introduction & Background Armando
9:29 Life on Mars
18:42 Humans on Mars
20:32 Discoveries in the Atacama Desert
27:29 Climate on Mars
30:59 The Technology Enabling Discoveries
38:39 Life on other Planets/Moons?
53:52 Reaching the Speed of Light
55:40 Collaboration between Countries
1:03:40 Thoughts on Science & Sharing Knowledge
1:10:19 Daily Life as a Scientist
1:15:57 Becoming a TED Fellow
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1h 25min
June 21, 2021 Impact Talks #46: Aziz abu Sarah (Palestinian raised in Jerusalem, National Geographic Explorer, Conflict Resolution Entrepreneur)
In this episode Aziz Abu Sarah Recognized Peace maker and Palestinian raised in Jerusalem, shares about his journey from radical seeking revenge to a peacemaker seeking reconciliation, bringing Palestinians and Jewish Israelis together to promote peace, and how that led to an innovative method of peacemaking that scaled to conflicts globally. He also talks about harnessing the transformative power of travel and its role in conflict resolution. He will explain how he cofounder MEJDI Tours with a Jewish friend in 2009— creating the Dual Narrative™ Tours. Aziz’s educational and conflict resolution work throughout the world has earned him the titles of National Geographic Explorer and Ted Fellow and he explains how these networks have helped him in his mission.
Aziz’s new book, Crossing Boundaries - A Traveler’s Guide To World Peace, https://www.azizabusarah.com/author was released in July 2020. Co-author of the 2018 publication, Strangers, Neighbors, Friends: Muslim-Christian-Jewish Reflections on Compassion and Peace,
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0:26 Aziz’s Story Pt. 1 (upbringing in Jerusalem & learning Hebrew)
12:49 Aziz’s Story Pt. 2 (leading “Bereaved Families Forum”; learning about both sides)
21:45 Working at George Mason University
26:50 Aziz’s business “MEJDI Tours”
30:00 Conflict Resolution Model and its implementation within the business
43:26 Organizing talks (language spoken, going digital?)
54:57 Future of Aziz’s business
1:02:23 Israelis & Palestinians working together
1:12:49 Racism impacting the business
1:23:54 Visiting Palestine as a tourist
1:28:34 Expanding ‘conflict resolution’ to other countries
1:42:02 Working with National Geographic
1:48:25 Bringing conflict resolution to classrooms all over the world
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1h 58min
June 14, 2021 Impact Talks #45: Katie Spotz (Rowed across Atlantic Ocean, Coast Guard, Elite Female Athlete of the year 2020)
In 2008, Spotz became the first person to swim the entire 325 miles (523 km) length of the Allegheny River, which runs between New York state and Pennsylvania. Accompanied by safety kayaker, James Hendershott, the two began on July 22 to hike the "stream" for 27 miles before starting at swimming depth on the river at Roulette, Pennsylvania. Swimming 12 to 15 miles a day, 6 to 8 hours a day for a month, they finished at the "Point" where the Allegheny and the Monongahela River join to form the Ohio River in Downtown Pittsburgh less than a month later, on August 21, 2008.
On January 3, 2010, Spotz embarked on a solo ocean rowing crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, in a planned 2,473 miles (3,980 km) westward route from Senegal to French Guiana. During her journey, her diet consisted of mostly chocolate bars. En route she altered the route, increasing the total distance by approximately 400 miles (640 km), setting Georgetown, Guyana as the terminus for a total distance of 2,817 miles (4,534 km). More than $150,000 was raised for clean water projects as the mission behind the row.
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00:00 Introduction & radically changing
14:56 How to deal with disagreeing people around you
19:50 Physical repercussions of endurance sports
28:06 Going across the Atlantic and how it changed you
43:26 Finding a calling
49:25 Depression and Christianity
55:26 Applying mindset to career & Charities
01:05:43 Getting sponsors and press & Social media
01:19:50 Going on the Joe Rogan podcast
01:29:40 Recovery after endurance sports
01:35:00 Endurance mindset relating to entrepreneurs
01:38:25 Books recommendations & Closing
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1h 42min
May 31, 2021 Impact Talks #44: Simone Heng (Top 10 Public Speaking Coaches & Human connection Specialist)
Having been born in Singapore, raised in Australia, schooled in Switzerland, and worked in the United Arab Emirates, Simone Heng has enjoyed a truly global living experience. A former international broadcaster for media outlets CNBC, CNN, HBO Asia, and Virgin Radio Dubai, Simone now speaks to global organizations like Salesforce, SAP, HP, VMWare, Everise, Ovo, UBS, DBS, Google, Ted X, Great Eastern, AIA, Eurochem, Manulife, Wolters Kluwer, VLMY & R, The United Nations, Braze and many more, on the connection techniques that authentically bring us together.
In 2019 she won Asia Youth Women Netizen Award by the Asian Marketing Federation. In 2020 she was named one of Yahoo!’s Top 10 Public Speaking coaches for her work on connection and communication. In 2021, she acquired a Certificate of Higher Education from Harvard University’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning. She has a Communications and Cultural Studies degree from Curtin University of Technology.
Currently based in Singapore, Simone is currently penning her first book on human connection and producing an audio documentary on the same subject, with one of the world’s leading audio content providers.
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00:00 Introduction & What is Human Connection
05:10 Chronic loneliness and founders and entrepreneurs
11:20 Convincing introverts about human connection
20:25 Long-term effect of isolation
27:42 Healthy separation between founders and employees
34:60 Becoming an entrepreneur
& Creating connection with a niche audience on Social Media
49:35 How is it as a woman starting a business
01:05:20 Sharing knowledge with competitors
01:12:49 Having diplomatic relationship and endings
01:21:50 How to become a speaker & Closing
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1h 28min
May 24, 2021 Impact Talks #43: Ruud Bakker (Global VP Marketing - Smirnoff, GM - Red Bull Mexico, Heineken)
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
At Red Bull & Heineken Mexico, I provided overall management to key business functions with full P&L responsibility, initiated mission-critical business plans and change trajectories, and energized multi-functional teams to meet aggressive targets.

BRAND-BUILDING
► Returned Smirnoff back to growth, led the successful launch of the Heineken in key markets in the Americas and revitalized the Amstel brand portfolio in the Netherlands.

INNOVATION & IDEATION
► Returned Diageo’s Smirnoff brand to a category-leading position, more than doubling the NSV innovation rate, through a 5-year innovation vision, strategy, and market-specific pipeline.
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00:00 Introduction & Moving from the Netherlands
10:34 Becoming a global marketer
18:50 Interesting campaigns for Smirnoff
29:00 Switching from General Manager to Global Marketing
33:20 New York during pandemic experience & Raising a family in New York
37:10 From Heineken to Red Bull career
50:20 Inspiring Red Bull stories for young entrepreneurs
57:20 Cutting budgets
58:50 Going back to the Netherlands
& Starting an agency in the beverage industry and creating value
01:17:00 Education in the US and the Netherlands
01:23:30 Learning lessons from the biggest failures
01:30:25 Projects with the biggest impact
01:32:20 Something that you’re doing or learning not related to business
Promotions & Closing
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1h 40min
May 10, 2021 Impact Talks #42: Chris Welch (Space Engineering & Aeronautics Professor - President-Elect British Interplanetary society)
Chris Welch is a Professor of Astronautics and Space Engineering at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, where he is Head of the Space Payloads Laboratory and Director of Masters Programs. Although technically a physicist-turned-engineer, Chris sees himself more as a ‘spaceist’, interested in all aspects of space. His current research interests are in space propulsion, microgravity science and planetary exploration.

Chris is President-elect and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) and a former Vice-President of the International Astronautical Federation and member of the European Commission H2020 Space Advisory Committee. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society respectively and has been an advisor on two enquiries into UK space policy

Chris sits on a number of boards including the BIS, the World Space Week Association, the Aluna Foundation, the ROOM space journal and is an advisor to the Initiative for Interstellar Studies. He is also Global Space Advisor to Space Hero.

Chris is a frequent commentator on space and astronautics and has made more than 300 television and radio broadcasts. He also has a significant track record in both space education/outreach and in higher education, receiving the 2009 Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Space Education and 2015 IAF Distinguished Service Award.

Among his other achievements are that he was one of the final twenty candidates for the 1991 UK-USSR Juno mission to the Mir space station, wrote what he believes to be the first-ever paper on extraterrestrial garden design and has a poem on the International Space Station.
00:00 Introduction & Space entrepreneurs (what is out there, what you want to see)
15:50 Not going to space and where it starts
18:06 Will space become easier to access to the rest of the world?
21:35 Future of space and what is happening
33:56 Fascinating space problems
46:50 Starship’s economic feasibility
57:30 Developing technologies and the environment
& Space elevators
01:05:00 Rockets and pollutions
01:10:46 Careers to follow: Private and Career Astronaut
01:15:39 Physical requirements to be an astronaut
01:20:00 Organisations to follow for space enthusiasts
01:25:00 Space venture capitalists
01:29:23 Book recommendations
01:33:25 Impactful projects & Closing

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1h 43min
April 19, 2021 Impact Talks #41: Greg Jacobson (ER Doctor turned Tech Founder - CEO KaiNexus)
An ER Doctor turned start-up founder.

As explained by Greg:
When I entered the workforce as an ER-resident and then attending, I quickly developed a passion for continuous improvement, Kaizen, and Lean. I immediately realized there were not any software systems to make this work easy, sustainable, transparent, reportable, inclusive and scalable. Honestly, until the internet and cloud-based enterprise software appeared coupled with the connect/collaborate mentality we have today, the possibility of solving this problem didn't exist.

Since then, I have spent my time thinking about how to make improvement easier for companies while concurrently building KaiNexus. Working on an idea, building it, talking to our passionate customers, and building the KaiNexus team are some of the most rewarding experiences of my life. KaiNexus has become a living, breathing entity with a powerful sense of self and a mission to impact the world.

I am also really excited about sitting on the board of Sergeant Sullivan Center. They are doing such important work making people aware of post-
deployment illness (http://sgtsullivancenter.org/issues/post-deployment-illness/).

Experience and Non-work Interests:
While I still enjoy a couple of ER shifts per month, I've worked on KaiNexus full-time since 2010. When I am not working on KaiNexus or seeing patients, I am hanging out with my awesome wife and daughter, on a quest for the perfect pickle, trying to figure out how I can play more squash, or attempting to finish one of my many home improvement projects.
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00:00 Introduction & Going into Tech Entrepreneurship
12:30 Friends as cofounders and agreements
18:03 Kaizen: Book principles & Influencing the health care system
30:06 What has KaiNexus done & What is the software?
42:10 Luck & Hiring talent
48:06 Dealing with interviewing and expanding & Implicit bias
01:00:40 Splitting the tasks between cofounders
01:02:00 Marketing and Sales & Practical tips
01:12:46 Practical examples
01:20:10 Lessons learned from a hired CEO
01:23:40 Career before startup being an ER doctor and why still do it?
01:37:25 The stress of entrepreneurship and ER doctor
01:44:55 Dealing with someone leaving the company
01:49:30 Why does tech business attract you more than health business?
01:51:08 Life lessons for entrepreneurs & Closing
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1h 59min
April 12, 2021 Impact Talks #40: Gustavo Branger (Disneyland Paris, Walt Disney Company EMEA - Owner Global Music Branding)
Vice President and General Manager at The Walt Disney Company and Owner/Partner at Global Music Branding.
Dive into stories of the latest song produced for the Pixar movie "Soul", and many more Disney career stories.

PARIS:

* Oversee Disneyland Paris Event Group, designing and producing over 850 events per year including music, sports, gaming, private celebrations, weddings, and MICE.

BENELUX:

* Oversee Disney Channels & Disney Music Group operations in Benelux.

EMEA:

* Responsible for the franchise and non-scripted productions for EMEA, and overall productions for UK & Ireland.

LATAM:

* Appointed from February 2010 to February 2011 Co-Head of Disney Channels Latin America, responsible for the creative operations of channels, becoming part of the Upper Management team.

* Responsible for Disney Channels Programming, Production (non-fiction), S&P, and Acquisitions departments, for its 14 localized feeds reaching 19 countries throughout Latin America.

Specialties:
Management
Programming
Production
Acquisitions
Standard & Practices
Live Events
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00:00 Introduction & Start in Entertainment
12:25 Experience at Disney
20:57 Setting deeper goals
26:20 Learning lessons from Disney career
35:40 Moving to London
44:47 Living and working in different countries
01:07:15 Disney experience in the music and events department
01:20:30 Experience starting as an entrepreneur after a corporate career
01:28:25 Is being an entrepreneur more “you”?
01:32:50 An important skill being an entrepreneur
01:38:40 Important tips for your career
01:51:50 Closing
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1h 55min
April 05, 2021 Impact Talks #39: Marty Cagan (VP Product at eBay, Netscape, HP - Silicon Valley Product Group)
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Held executive product positions at eBay, Netscape, Continuus and HP; start-ups and Fortune 500. Responsible for business strategy, product strategy, product management, product design, user experience and product development process for leading Internet companies.
Author, along with Chris Jones, of "EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products," published in 2020.
00:00 Introduction & Career at HP
04:30 Leadership and Engineering at HP
10:50 Leaving HP
18:36 a good CEO and CTO
23:54 The Hp way of scaling & Recruiting the right people
29:35 Turning a team member into an owner
39:50 Career at Netscape
46:03 Learning lessons from Netscape
49:20 Dealing with Hypergrowth & eBay
57:02 Struggling with scale at eBay
& Recruiting talent and promoting managers
01:10:44 The thought process behind leaving eBay
& Career after eBay and working with Startups
01:15:58 The success of people coming from Silicon Valley
01:24:32 Book Inspired and Empowered & Closing
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1h 30min
March 29, 2021 Impact Talks #38: Jigar Shah (Investor & Solar Entrepreneur, Generate Capital, SunEdison, ...)
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Jigar Shah is the Director for the Loan Program Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. In his role, Shah leads and directs the Loan program Office focused on building a bridge to commercial financing for technologies that are ready to scale the transition to a global clean energy economy. He oversees the planning and execution of the organization’s over $40B of authority within manufacturing, innovative project finance, and tribal energy.

Jigar has spent most of his career bringing climate solutions to scale. Jigar most recently served as the President and Co-Founder of Generate Capital, the leading investment and operating platform for sustainable infrastructure, bringing scale to distributed energy storage, microgrids, fuel cells, electric vehicles and organic waste management.

Jigar also founded SunEdison, inventor of the modern solar-as-a-service industry. After SunEdison, Shah served as the founding CEO of the Carbon War Room, a global non-profit founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to help entrepreneurs address climate change. Shah is the author of Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy. Originally from Illinois, Shah holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois-UC and an MBA from the University of Maryland College Park. He has spent more than 20 years working in clean energy in the NGO and private sectors.
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00:00 Introduction & Start in clean-energy career
07:56 Closing the deal with Goldman Sachs & Scrutiny from investors
19:16 Perspective on Bill and Melida Gates’ letter on climate change
36:16 What is going to shift us to a better climate?
39:10 What makes a great entrepreneur? & Mentoring startups
47:35 Meeting a successful mentor
53:16 Public or Ivy League universities
54:54 Interesting tech companies
01:08:15 Helping companies grow
01:10:15 Green hydrogen
01:14:05 Is the future looking positive?
01:22:10 Proper Business Plan
01:27:15 Biggest learning lessons
01:33:36 Perspective on Tesla & Closing
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1h 38min

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