The Boundless Podcast

💬 “Over my discussions with many of my colleagues and people who are involved in mental health, neurodiversity and disability, we agree that we don't need inclusion. We need zero-exclusion.“ Yonah Welker

This is a conversation with Yonah Welker

🎙️ Yonah is a technologist, explorer and Venture Capitalist working on the intersections of technology, artificial intelligence, human ability, society & ethics. He’s founded tech companies and labs, helped to facilitate tech ecosystems across the world, screened hundreds of technologies on behalf of projects and ecosystems with MIT, Singularity University, 500 Startups, Techstars, European Commission and World Economic Forum.

Yohan is interested in algorithmic diversity. How we can reimagine technology, ability, ethics and create open and interconnected ecosystems where anyone has equal access regardless of ability. He asks questions like can we align ability with technology to help individuals to actually perform, not just ‘fit’? His interest in inclusive ecosystems is driven by his own journey which includes neurological and autoimmune disorders which led to isolation and rejection, so much so that he was forced to create personalised learning, development for himself.

This is the Boundless Podcast, and now here’s my conversation with Yonah Welker

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💬 “As content selection algorithms become better, we need to consciously seek out opinions different from our own. AI is inadvertently creating a polarised society, and it’s down to us to make it more balanced” Stylianos Taxidis

This is a conversation with Stylianos Taxidis

🎙️ Stylianos is the Head of Data Science & Products at CDP, a not-for-profit charity running the global disclosure system for investors, companies, and regions to manage their environmental impacts. He is very passionate about environmental issues and an advocate of using the evolution in the field of data science to drive meaningful actions for the problems of our generation. He is a true believer of Augmented not Artificial Intelligence for the creation of a synergetic relationship between humans and algorithms.

🎧 In this episode of the @Boundless Podcast, Stylianos talks about:

💡 1.) the rise of the ‘instant expert‘
💡 2.) how AI is augmenting rather replacing true experts
💡 3.) how to change your mind

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💬 “Around the world, and particularly in companies, there isn't a mindset of sharing that transcends a mindset of ownership. When we think about technology that can truly save the world, I think we need to take a step back and think, how can we make it the ‘easy choice’ to share and work together.” @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:
1) Jessie Oliver, Australian Citizen Science Association: The role of Citizen Science in sustainability
2) Rose Mwebaza, UN Climate Technology Centre: Driving solutions that scale

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💬 “The idea of data being the new oil is outdated, but still there’s companies holding onto data and information that when shared will be extremely useful in solving global problems. This data, in the hands of the right people will absolutely transform systems.” Rose Mwebaza

This is a conversation with Rose Mwebaza

🎙️ Rose is the Director of the UN Climate Technology Centre and has 20 years’ experience providing policy advice on a wide range of climate change, environment and sustainable development issues. She has previously served as Chief Natural Resources Officer at the African Development Bank, and held leadership positions within the UN Development Programme. Rose holds a PhD in Environment and Natural Resource Governance, a Master’s Degree in International Comparative Law and a Bachelor of Law Degree.

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.

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💬 “With AI, we are learning things that we've never had the ability to learn before about species conservation. This is crucial. We can’t protect species if we don’t know or don’t understand them.” @Jessie Oliver

This is a conversation with Jessie Oliver

🎙️ Jessie is passionate about avian ecology and environmental outreach. She has been heavily involved in the development of the Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA) since its inception and is currently the ACSA International Liaison. Since 2015, Jessie has been researching how to design technologies that entice people to have fun, meaningful, and impactful experiences with nature, with citizen science, and with wildlife conservation activities. Jessie also explores the alignments of citizen science with the use of artificial intelligence and conservation technology.

Jessie says that many people around the world are deploying audio recorders into nature and gathering huge amounts of data that can reveal invaluable information about ecosystems and wildlife that live in them. However, analysing this data is tricky, requiring both technical and animal call knowledge. Environmental recordings have potential to be more accessible for broader uses in nature engagement, citizen science, and wildlife conservation, but technologies that are both fun and useful are needed for acoustic sensing to reach its full potential.

With this in mind, she is investigating how to design technologies that provide delightful and informative ways to explore audio recordings. Her research is centred around exploring the potential that acoustic sensing may be useful to find secretive, endangered Eastern bristlebirds. In this research, she has worked with conservationists involved in bristlebird recovery efforts, birders and additional citizen scientists, as well as members of the broader public, to uncover needs for future technologies to explore and analyse audio recordings.

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.

Key links to support the episode:

- The Earth School Citizen Science Quest for a sampler of globally relevant projects:
-- https://magazine.scienceconnected.org/2020/07/earth-school-take-a-nature-quest/

- Search for projects of interest or get inspired to create your own:
-- SciStarter (https://scistarter.org/; Based in U.S.A with some global projects)
-- Australian Citizen Science Project Finder (https://biocollect.ala.org.au/acsa)
-- European Citizen Science Project Finder (https://eu-citizen.science/all/)
-- Asia Citizen Science Projects: Project Tracker (http://projects.citizenscience.asia/)

- Citizen science associations, networks, & partnerships:
-- Australian Citizen Science Association (https://citizenscience.org.au/)
-- European CitizenScience Association (https://ecsa.citizen-science.net/)
-- U.S.based Citizen Science Association (https://www.citizenscience.org/)
-- Iberoamerican Network of Participatory Science (http://cienciaparticipativa.net/the-ricap/)
-- Citizen Science Asia (http://www.citizenscience.asia/)
-- Citizen Science Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (#CITSCINZ) (https://monicalogues.com/2020/08/25/the-citizenscience-association-of-aotearoa-new-zealand-wrapping-up-year-one)
-- Citizen Science for the Amazon Network (https://www.amazoniacienciaciudadana.org/)
-- Brazilian Birdwatching & Citizen Science Network (https://www.wikiaves.com.br/)
-- Citizen Science Global Partnership (http://citizenscienceglobal.org/)

- Follow Jessie and her work via:
-- LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessieloliver/)
-- Twitter (https://twitter.com/JessieLOliver)
-- Publications via Research Gate or ORCiD

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💬 “I do think that we need to let go of the idea of our country being part of our identity. What we need is to come together globally and pool and share our resources; food, water, energy, technology. This is vital to enable a bigger portion of the world to function with better equality." 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:

1) Michal Nachmany, Climate Policy and Data Expert: NetZero: who is accountable for what
2) Youssef Nassef, Climate Adaptation Director - UNFCCC: Living through the time of transition

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💬 “We've solved acid rain, we solved the ozone hole, and we will solve hopefully COVID-19. But, do we want to continue living our lives waiting for the next environmental hazard to materialize and then looking for ways to react to it? Or is it time now to think of transforming the world towards different values?” @Youssef Nassef

This is a conversation with Youssef Nassef

🎙️ Youssef is the Coordinator of Adaptation at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He possesses 30 years of experience in diplomacy and international environmental policy and is a seconded diplomat from the Egyptian Foreign Service. In 2019 Youssef launched Resilience Frontiers, a two-year collective intelligence process that began with the Resilience Frontiers 2019 conference in Songdo, South Korea.

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.

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💬 “In 2006, Lord Nicholas stern was commissioned by the British government to estimate the economic price of climate change. Fixing climate change, he said at the time, would cost 1-2% of world GDP. Everyone took a gasp. But then he continued, not fixing climate change would cost about 20% of world GDP.” @Michal Nachmany

This is a conversation with Michal Nachmany

🎙️ Michal currently leads the work on the Grantham Research Institute’s structured datasets and tools, supporting evidence-based decision-making – from national legislation and policy to low-carbon investment practices.

Since 2013 She has been leading the Grantham Research Institute’s Climate Change Laws of the World project – the most comprehensive global resource on climate legislation and policy – taking it from a printed annual publication covering 33 countries to a dynamic online, open-access resource with global coverage and a wide engagement programme.

Since 2018 she has also been project managing the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) – an investor-led initiative to support companies’ transition to a low-carbon economy. Supported by investors with over $18 trillion in Assets under Management and Advice, TPI tracks climate governance and emissions trajectories by the highest emitting companies worldwide, to facilitate evidence-based investor engagement and investment.

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.

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💬 “First and foremost, what we need is clear data. We need to know what impact our choices are making.” 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:

@Janet Salem, Economic Affairs Officer, Circular Economy at United Nations on sustainability startups across the globe

@Imtiaz Adam, Founder at Deep Learn Strategies: Building a GreenTech Recovery with AI IoT and 5G

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💬 “"The shift from narrow to broad AI will include learning from smaller data sets and hence result in computational efficiency. The possibilities for new business models and innovations across the entire economy including for breaking from ‘business as usual’ towards environmental sustainability are huge.” @Imtiaz Adam

This is a conversation with Imtiaz Adam

🎙️ Imtiaz is a Data Scientist and Machine Learning engineer. He has an MSc in Computer Science with research in AI Deep Learning, an MBA and is a Sloan Fellow in Strategy from London Business School. He also served as a Director of Morgan Stanley where he was global head of clean technology infrastructure financing.

🎧 In this episode, Imtiaz talks about the importance of connecting technologies, environmental sustainability and new job creation with our economic recovery from COVID-19. His focus in this conversation is on Broad AI, 5g IoT and AI on the edge. Imtiaz explains that today we have narrow AI whereby the machine can perform specific tasks and the powerful Deep Learning algorithms of today require Big Data sets for training. The learning process is quite different to that of a human child and entails vast amounts of labelled data sets. Looking ahead, he says, we are closer to moving into broad AI that will empower Deep Learning to perform broader tasks. The shift to broad AI will include learning from smaller data sets and enable more computational efficiency. Furthermore, the Broad AI era will enable intelligent devices for AI IoT where the Internet of Things converges with AI Edge Computing. Imtiaz says that AI techniques such as Federated Learning with decentralized data will also deliver gains in data privacy as well as efficiency.

Overarchingly we will move to a more efficient and also more capable era of AI that will also deliver services that may be used in fighting climate change such as devices and sensors that may enable real-time interactions with people and also objects such as buildings, manufacturing facilities, energy systems, smart cities do as to optimize for efficiency gains and reduce unwanted wastage and pollution. Imtiaz references a PWC and Microsoft report that sets out huge numbers of greenhouse gas emissions reduction and job creation that AI could deliver by 2030.

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