On The Edge

There’s a transition underway, to a world that’s fully powered by renewable and sustainable energy. It’s going to be a long journey and involves difficult decisions.

Fortunately, it’s a rapidly growing field with rapidly growing technologies emerging each day.

In episode 6 of the Innovations Uncovered series, WebsEdge CEO Stephen Horn is joined by podcast peer and passionate technologist, Dr. Liz Dennett. Dr. Dennett is a realist but also remains optimistic about the journey ahead.

Climate change is perhaps the most impending threat to this society. The headlines leave many of us a bit paralyzed, while we try to determine which course of action is better than another.

In episode 4 of the Innovations Uncovered series, WebsEdge Founder & CEO, Stephen Horn, invites one of the leading climate scientists in the world on the program. Georgia Tech’s Dr. Susan Lozier sheds light on the most impactful ways we could lessen our carbon footprint and explains why she is so optimistic to move into the solution space of climate technology.

New technology can come from nowhere and change the world – whether it's vaccines, the jet-plane, or the internet. But what might society’s next big game-changer be?

In the final episode of the Rebuilding America series, Stephen speaks to experts and researchers from all around the world and investigates the cutting-edge new technology that could provide solutions to our biggest problems.
 
Roman Orus, from Spain, is CSO at Multiverse Computing. 

Professor Kevin Gurney, from Arizona, is the lead scientist on the Vulcan Project, a Northern Arizona University research project focusing on CO2 emission analytics. 

Professor Dean Ho is Director of WisDM, at the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

American cities of the future – what might they look like, and how are they going to be funded? 

A sweeping, 1 trillion dollar infrastructure package announced by Joe Biden includes a plan for invigorating the economy and modernizing urban America. Money for roads and bridges, water and power systems, broadband and electric vehicles has been promised, but it’s leadership at local level that’s needed to facilitate all this change.

In episode 5 of Rebuilding America, Stephen is joined by Robert O’Neill, a Fellow at the Riley Center for Liveable Communities College of Charleston, and also former Executive Director of the International City and County Management Association, known as the ICMA. 

Karen Pinkos, City Manager in El Cerrito, California, also shares her insight into what it will take to rebuild America and talks to Stephen about smart cities.

As the American west experiences record hurricane seasons, wildland fires, and drought, the effects of climate change are no longer just relegated to academic debates. Americans are experiencing its effects every day and it has become one of the most defining challenges of our generation. Joining Stephen in this episode is Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Michael Kodas. Author of 2017’s Megafire: the race to extinguish a deadly epidemic of flame. Michael has been covering climate and wildfire in the American west for much of his career. Stephen also talks to Harriet Festing from the Anthropocene Alliance which has helped to unite communities across 23 US States and equipped them with the tools required to fight for climate and environmental justice.

Gun violence continues to plague American communities and whilst some activists continue to fight for policy change, there’s a lot of work being done in communities to help victims heal and to address systemic problems that lead to the violence. In this episode, Stephen explores how to tackle gun violence across America with guests who have been trying to do just that in their respective positions. Aswad Thomas is the National Director of Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice and Chief of Organizing at the Alliance for Safety and Justice Aqeela Sherrills is the Executive Director of the newly launched community-based Public Safety Association, CBPSA, and long-time leader of The Reverence Project.  Daniel Webster, Director of the Centre for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health also joins Stephen to provide an academic view.