The Boundless Podcast

This is Beyond Journeys: How electrifying road travel will shape our lives and our environment. Today’s episode is on insights and observations from the last two interviews and I’m joined by my series commentator Tapan Trivedi.

🎧 In this episode Tapan and I discussed our insights and observations prompted by episodes with:

- Carl Bayliss, VP, Mobility & Home Energy at Centrica who talked about

💡 1.) his journey from premium car brands into energy services
💡 2.) how we will connect cars to the grid and our homes to balance and optimise energy needs
💡 3.) how connected EVs will help the UK to get to NetZero and encourage renewable energy take-up
💡 4.) how consumer data will be used to support autonomous energy decisions
💡 5.) the partnership between Centrica and Lotus

- Christoph Domke, Clean and Smart Mobility Lead at FTI Consulting who talked about

💡 1.) the winners and losers in mobility as we shift from ICE to EV
💡 2.) which transport sector will electrify first and why
💡 3.) why companies may have to write off legacy assets
💡 4.) how to make EVs more profitable
💡 5.) the feasibility of Truck Platooning

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💬 “Many of the legacy automotive companies are positioned well to produce EVs. They can grab hold of some of the trends and developments, but it needs massive investments and a really proactive leadership team to accomplish this.” Christoph Domke

This is a conversation with Christoph Domke

🎙️ Christoph is the Clean and Smart Mobility Lead at FTI Consulting. He is an evangelist for new and emerging technologies in the transportation industry with a passion for cleaner, sustainable, more efficient and interconnected movement of goods and people. He is an expert in future transportation, key technology trends and go-to-market initiatives. With particular expertise in digital freight brokerage, connectivity and telematics, autonomous trucks and truck platooning, and electric, hydrogen and natural gas-powered commercial vehicles.

This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast, we are exploring how the electrification of road travel will impact our lives and environment.

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💬 “The realization post pandemic is that people will drive far fewer miles then we previously thought.” @Carl Bayliss

This is a conversation with Carl Bayliss

🎙️ Carl is Vice President, Mobility & Home Energy at Centrica and has spent the past 20 years working across global markets in the automotive industry, including such companies as Ferrari, Infiniti, Nissan and Bugatti.

His experiences in the electrification of mobility and democratisation of renewable energy through home energy management have moved Carl into an industry shift from automotive to energy & services. Carl has leading involvement in the recent partnership between Centrica and British motor manufacturer Lotus. They are working to develop a new model for electric vehicle ownership that fully integrates future mobility and energy, by making the car an extension of the home, capable of storing electricity, minimising emissions and generating new income through providing services to the energy market. Together the two companies aim to redefine the customer relationship with cars. One controlled by smart devices at home and on the move.

This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast, we are exploring how the electrification of road travel will impact our lives and environment.

Learn more about the Beyond Journeys series at https://boundlesspodcast.co.uk/beyond-journeys-series/

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This is Beyond Journeys: How electrifying road travel will shape our lives and our environment. Today’s episode is on insights and observations from the last two interviews and I’m joined by my series commentator Tapan Trivedi.

🎧 In this episode Tapan and I discussed our insights and observations prompted by this week’s episodes with:

EP1 Beyond Journeys: Mike Hughes, SVP at Schneider Electric: How we balance and optimise the new smart grid

EP2 Beyond Journeys: Ed Houghton, Head of Research at DG Cities: The development of smart mobility living labs

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💬 “There are biases against EVs for reasons like range, anxiety and comfort. But it’s important that we think of drivers not as a homogenous group, but instead, we recognise and serve their unique differences.” @Edward Houghton

This is a conversation with Edward Houghton

🎙️ Edward is Head of Research and Service Design at DG Cities. He is a behavioural and data scientist interested in sustainability and Smart Cities, systems thinking and systems resilience. Excited and interested in user-centred design, data, AI and machine learning and with a background in intervention design, impact evaluation and operational research. Edward is driven by understanding "what works".

This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast, we are exploring how the electrification of road travel will impact our lives and environment.

🎧 In this, the 2nd episode of the Beyond Journeys series on the @Boundless Podcast, Edward talks about:
💡 1.) EV consumer behaviours
💡 2.) Ethical use of data and AI to support the smart grid
💡 3.) the impact potential of mobility hubs
💡 4.) Unintended consequences of new mobility policies
💡 5.) the importance of evidence-based decisions

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💬 “In the future, choosing an electric vehicle will be much the same as choosing a mobile phone handset and tariff today.” Mike Hughes

🎙️ Mike Hughes is SVP End-to-End Digital Customer Relationships at Schneider Electric, responsible for the deployment of a frictionless customer experience.

During his more than 20 years with Schneider Electric Mike has had a diverse international career. Before moving to his current role, Mike held the position of CEO and President, Schneider Electric UK and Ireland, with responsibility for the operations of the Group within the Zone.

Mike believes that digital technologies are key to delivering frictionless experience, efficiency, unleashing sustainable growth, supporting innovation and reducing environmental impact. As a leader and manager, Mike strongly supports the employee wellbeing, inclusion and flexible working initiatives that underpin the culture of high performance at Schneider Electric.

This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast, we are exploring how the electrification of road travel will impact our lives and environment. Learn more at https://boundlesspodcast.co.uk/beyond-journeys-series/

🎧 In this, the first episode of the Beyond Journeys series on the @Boundless Podcast, Mike talks about:
💡 1.) the opportunities and challenges of developing an efficient, smart-grid
💡 2.) the role of EVs to support the energy grid
💡 3.) the evolution of data sharing across companies and industries
💡 4.) how Schneider Electric will use data to automate energy optimisation for homes and vehicles
💡 5.) how choosing an EV in the future will be like choosing a mobile phone today

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💬 “The reality is that today, amenities that are considered human rights by the UN, are inaccessible to people if they don't have the money for it. Proof in front of our eyes that trickle down-capitalism hasn’t worked.” @Jon Thor Sigurleifsson

🎙️ My Friday Co-Host for the Infinite Leaders series is Jon Thor Sigurleifsson. Growing up in Iceland, Jon Thor had a lot of questions about the world and always knew that he wanted to explore it but the more he learned, the more he realised he didn't just want to explore it, he wanted to change it.

🎧 In this episode Jon Thor and I discussed our insights and observations prompted by this week’s episodes with:

Nick Wise, CEO at OceanMind: Using AI to protect and safeguard our oceans

Amir Banifatemi, Chief Innovation Officer at XPRIZE: The exponential power of using grand challenges to solve global problems

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💬 “When we are able to remove the lens of geography, culture, biases, economics, religion, or protectionism, we will see that others’ problems are universally the same as ours.” @Amir Banifatemi

This is a conversation with Amir Banifatemi

🎙️ Amir is the General Manager for Innovation and Growth at XPRIZE where he leads the AI initiatives and is Executive Director for the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE and the ANA Avatar XPRIZE.
Prior to joining XPRIZE, Amir began his career at the European Space Agency and then held executive positions at Airbus, AP-HP and the European Commission division for information society and media. He managed two venture capital funds and contributed to the formation of more than 10 startups with emphasis on Information Technologies, Telecommunications, IoT, and Healthcare. Mr. Banifatemi is a guest lecturer and an adjunct MBA professor at UC Berkeley, Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, UC Irvine, and HEC Paris.

XPRIZE is a non-profit organization that designs and hosts public competitions intended to encourage technological development to benefit humanity. Their board of trustees include James Cameron, Larry Page, Arianna Huffington, and Ratan Tata among others.
The XPRIZE mission is to bring about "radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity" through incentivized competition. It fosters high-profile competitions to motivate individuals, companies and organizations across all disciplines to develop innovative ideas and technologies that help solve the world's grand challenges.

The first XPRIZE foundation began in 1996 when entrepreneur Peter Diamandis offered a $10-million prize to the first privately financed team that could build and fly a three-passenger vehicle 100 kilometers into space twice within two weeks. The contest, later titled the Ansari XPRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight, motivated 26 teams from seven nations to invest more than $100 million in pursuit of the $10 million purse. On October 4, 2004, the Ansari XPRIZE was won by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, who successfully completed the contest in their spacecraft SpaceShipOne.

This is the Infinite Leaders series on the Boundless Podcast, we are exploring how Digital Transformation, Data and Artificial Intelligence can promote, provide engagement and deliver environmental sustainability.

🎧 In this episode of the Infinite Leader series on the @Boundless Podcast, Amir talks about:
💡 1.) the exponential impact of grand challenges
💡 2.) the role of XPRIZE in galvanising coordinated action
💡 3.) why the prize money is a smaller factor than some people think
💡 4.) the importance of collaboration, even in competition
💡 5.) how the XPRIZE Foundation is contributing to addressing climate change

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💬 “We're starting to understand much more about human activity on the oceans in general, not just the fishing activities, which is very exciting.” @Nick Wise

This is a conversation with Nick Wise

🎙️ Nick is CEO at OceanMind and a pioneer of Tech for Good. He is at the forefront of deploying technology to help address some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Nick created OceanMind to help protect the world’s oceans. Humans are exploiting the oceans at an alarming rate, damaging ecosystems, destroying livelihoods, and enslaving others to do it. At OceanMind they use satellites and artificial intelligence to empower enforcement and compliance, helping authorities to enforce regulations more effectively, and seafood buyers to make more responsible buying decisions. This combination of enforcement and economics helps drive behavioural change on the oceans, increasing sustainability and encouraging responsible practices.
Three billion people derive their protein from seafood. One in eight people depend on the sea to earn their livelihood. The ocean is crucial to the global carbon cycle, shuttling gigatons of carbon each year between the atmosphere and plankton. The ocean regulates our weather and our climate. We need the ocean to survive.

Yet the ocean is under dire threat from human activity and the relentless effects of climate change. UNESCO estimates that 60% of the world’s major marine ecosystems have been degraded or used unsustainably. Thousands of ocean species are threatened with extinction.

Nick is now growing OceanMind to tackle these issues at the global scale, building on the successful deployment of AI to identify fishing activities, we are now building models to detect human trafficking and modern slavery in fisheries, and to identify suspected illegal salvage activities over protected undersea war graves and sites of cultural heritage.

Healthy oceans are essential to human wellbeing, and the damage being done puts us all at risk. Intact ecosystems provide far greater resilience against the ravages of climate change, and the oceans provide half of the oxygen that we breathe. It is vital that we do all we can to protect the oceans for all our futures.

This is the Infinite Leaders series on the Boundless Podcast, they are exploring how Digital Transformation, Data and Artificial Intelligence can promote, provide engagement and deliver environmental sustainability.

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