Nicole Glaros is a community builder like few others: as arguably the very first employee at Techstars, Nicole helped scale the accelerator from one program to over 50 and, simply put, is a legend in the early-stage startup community.
And not surprisingly so, Nicole has, amongst other notable achievements to numerous to fit in here: invested in more than 100 startups; co-founded the new professional women’s Soccer team in Denver; been recognised by publications like Business Insider, Marie Claire, and Entrepreneur Magazine; spoken at events like SXSW, TEDx, WebSummit, and Pioneers Festival; has been a competitive sportsperson and outdoor adventure guide; and has previously sat on the board of the Leeds school of Business and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Denver Branch 😅
When technology changes, society changes. When technology changes quickly, society changes quickly. And you might have noticed, technology is changing very quickly indeed. As a result, it's getting very hard to predict what the world will look like in ten years' time. This is challenging for all of us, of course, but the group it will affect the most are often the least equipped to embrace those technologies: our kids. So in today's episode, we chat about technology in schools and how embracing AI could lead to an exponential increase in learning outcomes.
These days, everyone has a satellite. No seriously, you do, they’re all up there just spinning around waiting for you to take advantage of their elevated viewpoints… it’s just that, traditionally, you needed a lot of training to understand their message. That’s where SlyFi steps in, making it easy to understand the earth in high definition.
SkyFi, the earth's intelligence platform, can be found at https://skyfi.com/
The narrative about AI and human decision-makers often pits them against each other as foes. More often than not, though, AI's strength comes not from its ability to outperform a human expert in a single task but from its ability to perform almost as well over and over and over again. So, if we could harness AI's workhorse abilities and cap that off with a human expert's more multi-faceted intelligence, we might just have the perfect decision-making team.
We hear about GenAI stealing artists' jobs, but, is this what the headline writers think or actually what artists think? Sarah Sculley is an Australian street artist & creative business mentor, and she's giving us the inside scoop on AI and artists, and on AI for artists.
The larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle has a frightening name and an even more terrifying impact on northern forests, but does it have a weakness we can exploit? In today's episode, we discuss cutting-edge research into how we might use the beetle's pheromones to control its spread more targeted and effectively.
We've talked about technology to heighten our senses, today we're heightening our minds.
Your favourite wearable tech has been counting each step of your run for the last decade and a bit. Your favourite headphones have been there, too, playing some high-tempo tunes. Maybe it's time we joined those together. In this episode, we're speaking to Carl Thomas of Audiowings who has spent the last decade building the ultimate bearable for the serious amateur runner.
In South Africa, the biggest manufacturer of glass bottles once ran an advert in which a university student, wanting to impress his new girlfriend who was arriving soon for a dinner date, decanted cheap wine from a box into an empty glass bottle he had to hand.
That was tongue-in-cheek, but misrepresenting cheap wine And we're not talking about passing off a bottle of $5 wine as a bottle of $10 wine, of course, when we're talking about fine Bordeaux, the stakes are a lot higher: I've previously supported my long-lost cousins by splurging on 6 bottles of Chateau Lagrange for £300 Christmas that was both far more than I should have spent and far less than we're talking about here, there is a bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild that's a year older than my little brother and currently on sale for £42,000!
I'm not a great gardener, so I was really impressed when we first got an app that could look at the leaves on my trees and give me some insights into their health and needs. Turns out, that was nothing, Imeshi Weerasinghe has been doing the same thing... but from space 🛰️
A good friend of mine has recently graduated MIT. From the business school, to be fair, but close enough to those hallowed labs that I knew she'd have some good ideas for guests, and the first name on her lips was Aerobotics: a globe-spanning tech firm that is working with the agriculture industry to transform everyday farming operations, using technology that supports smarter business decisions and ensures a sustainable future.
We've chatted about drones before, and the ways they can give us a point of view we couldn't easily achieve on our own. Today we're looking at them giving us a point of view we couldn't safely achieve on our own as award-winning nature photographer, Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove talks to us about learning to fly over volcanoes. Look, volcanoes are just awesome to talk about, so there's that, but there's also so much to learn about pioneering new techniques in the most challenging of environments.
