Today on the pod the gang welcomes a leader in innovation at one of our industry’s most renowned firms, Perkins & Will. While Yehia Madkour currently resides in Vancouver, allowing Tess and Andrew to claim him as a ‘Canadian’, he hails from one of the world’s most bustling and populous cities, Cairo, Egypt, where his appreciation for architecture, technology, and transportation systems was first forged. Today he leads a global innovation network that’s experimenting with bleeding edge tech to deliver innovation for both his clients and the firm itself and takes the time to share with us that process, how he got started and much more.

Connect with Yehia Madkour on LinkedIn!

Moments to check out:  

Exploring innovation in the context of architecture (Starts at 7:09)

Driving and embedding innovation within the firm (Starts at 14:33)

Transportation, innovation and AI collide (Starts at 24:36)

The role of VR, AR and the 'digital layer' of the physical world (Starts at 30:27)

Connect with our hosts on LinkedIn;

Bobby Bonett

Tessa Bain

Andrew Lane

References and resources:

Inhabit Podcast from Perkins & Will

Discover more shows from SURROUND at surroundpodcasts.com. This episode of Barriers to Entry was produced and edited by SANDOW Design Group. Special thanks to the podcast production team: Hannah Viti, Wize Grazette, Kasey Campbell Thompson, Rob Schulte, and Samantha Sager.

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