Professor Latif Ladid serves as chair at the 5G World Alliance & President of the IPv6 Forum. In this episode he provides history, context and a deep technical understanding of how IPv6 will quietly change the Internet in the years to come.

Today we’re talking with Angad Chadha, CEO of WizzFinancial India. According to Angad a “recent study by , I believe, Oliver Wyman and JP Morgan” says “the total remittances of money that moves across border (and this is across all segments, not just the consumer I’m talking about business and government), is in the range of about $25 billion a year, which is 25% of global GDP.”

From Vedic-Bitcoin deities, to a 2017 Tesla minted as an NFT and driving around the streets of Dubai; Finnish artist VESA is at the epicenter of a rapidly evolving art market and creator community in the Middle East. He rose to prominence through a body-painting of Bollywood actress Veena Malik in 2013, and began to explore the world of Bitcoin and Crypto-art not long after.

he one hand, they run one of the world’s largest VR parks in Dubai, with a new park opening soon. At the same time as operating these VR rigs and location based theme parks, they have a team of game-developers building licensed properties for well-known brands like Hasbro.

Eliran Elimelech is VP of Strategic Partnerships at Startup Nation Central, an independent non-profit connecting business, government and NGO leaders across the world with Israeli innovation expertise.

Today we’re talking with Ashton Woolfe, Managing Partner at MohrWolfe and project lead at Crypto Fight Club. Ashton grew up with games like Tekken, Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur; games designed purely for having fun, during a time when in-game economics simply weren’t possible. Increasingly, in-game monetization is not just possible but popular: the Free2Earn gaming space is booming across Asia. It’s potentially making an appearance in AAA games across the United States and Europe later this year. Time will tell.

Al Anoud Al Hashimi is the founder and CEO of The Futurist Company, a project management company working in renewable energy, fin-tech and agri-tech. While the UAE has a thriving technology ecosystem, the country needs greater domestic R&D capacity, and is exploring ways to invest in longer-term ‘deep-tech’ projects alongside academia, and the private sector. Here one industry that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves, is agriculture.

Tune in for a discussion with Al Anoud on Agri-Tech and how the ‘GAIA’ project is bringing NASA Space Technology to delivery-truck sized farming capsules. Each capsule is environmentally controlled, and energy and water self-sufficient. The idea of a ‘circular economy’ is filtering out of the policy community into the tech industry. Can the UAE overcome its challenges in R&D, to develop and export solutions to the rest of the world? Al Anoud Al Hashimi, believes so.

In this episode, we speak to Peter Mitchell who has just written a fascinating new book, Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves, published by Manchester University Press.

Peter argues that the British are haunted by their imperial past, unable to imagine themselves or their place in the world without it. This nostalgia shapes mainstream political debate on issues such as war, migration, culture, and history.

Anthem's story personifies a key inflection point in the history of western finance. He was raised by his adoptive father, the precious metals pioneer, James U. Blanchard III, who helped restore Americans' right to own gold and also founded a rare coin and bullion company, Blanchard & Company - at one time, the world’s largest. Named after an Ayn Rand book and an Austrian British economist, Anthem sees himself as carrying out his father’s legacy on the blockchain.

His contribution, as he perceives it, is towards a world which is more free, less encumbered by fear and distrust, and structured quite differently to the world we all live in today.

Slowly but surely, game design principles are merging with NFTs, crypto currencies and decentralized forms of governance. But will it be enough? Can Web3 standards prevail, or is a multipolar metaverse order of incumbent giant platforms and decentralized rebel hinterlands on the horizon? We spoke with Yingzi for some early insights into how the gaming community may shape the metaverse.