Curiosity

Ananya Chadha is an undergraduate student at Stanford University studying neurotech engineering. She has had a variety of professional experiences at Neuralink, IBM, and Sick Kids hospital. After working in a gene-editing lab with CRISPR-cas9, Ananya developed a genomic data blockchain platform. She has also developed various neurotech devices like brain-controlled prosthetics, remote control cars...

Dylan Gambardella is the CEO and Co-founder at Next Gen HQ that creates a hub to cultivate the community, education, resources, and mentorship that entrepreneurs need to keep pushing forward. Next Gen HQ has a monthly audience of 500,000+ who seize opportunities to grow and learn together. Now Dylan has been named Forbes 30 Under 30 in Education and has been recognized globally for his work leadin...

Rachelle De Muy is a Strategy Specialist for Deloitte’s Workplace Experience team in Montreal, Canada. She has a Bachelor’s in Mathematics & Statistics and a Master’s in International Management. She has studied & worked abroad in seven countries from Spain to Australia and is a mentor for the Ivey Women in Management program. This episode is perfect for anyone job hunting who is currently...

In this episode we chat with Natasha Walji, one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women and the Managing Director at Google Canada leading the Telecom, Tech and Public Sector. Previously she was a McKinsey consultant and a software developer. Natasha has actively served the community for 20+ years focused on disaster relief, poverty alleviation, and public health, and has co-founded an organizatio...

In this episode we talk to Ian Lockhart, a senior director at The Knowledge Society (TKS), a program that has been named a 'School of the Future' by the World Economic Forum and is working on accelerating the next world innovators through exponential technologies and sciences. Before TKS he launched his own seed fund that funds teenage ventures across Canada and Eastern United States, and he worke...

Today we are joined by Geoff Olynyk, who is currently a senior Expert in the Sustainability Practice at McKinsey, where he advises companies, NGOs, and governments in Canada and worldwide on decarbonization, climate risks, and the energy transition. He has also worked in roles at McKinsey such as an engagement manager and associate partner. In the past, he was a research assistant at the MIT plasm...

Today we chat with Kevin Dewald, an Embedded Systems and Firmware Engineer at Neuralink, the biggest neurotech company developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers. He has also had two startups, one of which he started in university. We talk to Kevin about major real-world applications of BCIs, how he envisions Neuralink's next steps, and brain surgery a...

Parth Sareen is a software engineer and has worked in energy products at Tesla, machine learning at Deloitte, and development at Apple. He is currently doing a Bachelor of Applied Science at the University of Waterloo, and is working as a product management intern for Apple. In this episode, we cover frameworks regarding leadership and how to delegate tasks to team members, as well as how to ident...

Aly is the Co-Founder/CEO of Finaeo, a digital platform powering the life insurance industry to bridge the digital divide between insurers, brokers and clients through a single operating system. It has been called the Amazon of the insurance industry and has raised over $10 million in venture funds. Tune into this episode where we chat with Aly about his journey of founding Finaeo. We cover what h...

Kasha was 16 when she set out to create a documentary, The Sunrise Storyteller, which since being released in 2017, has been screened at 60+ festivals and won 30 awards. She is also a photographer, entrepreneur, and social justice advocate. Kasha has been commissioned by National Geographic Learning, and she is a contributor to Thrive Global, The Huffington Post, Good Magazine, and the Matador Net...

Fuad Ali is a venture fellow for Susa Ventures where he works on sourcing, diligence, and post-investment support as part of the Susa Fellowship program. He just started as a software engineer at Twitter. In the past he has worked in flight software at SpaceX and has interned at Tesla, Twitter, and Wealthsimple. Apart from working at awesome companies he is the host of the Next Iteration Podcast,...

Tune in for this episode of The Curiosity Podcast where we sit down with Anisha, 16-year-old emerging technology innovator and CEO of Q-munity. We talk to her about her journey in founding a company at 15, striking a balance between work and life, and how resilience has been key to her success. Here are Anisha's 3 action items: Start journaling everyday, even if just for 5 minutes. Practice resili...

In this episode of The Curiosity Podcast we speak with Andrew Blanchard. After doing management at Procter and Gamble for four years and consulting with McKinsey, he has now founded and is a partner at Jacket River, a boutique consulting shop and growth equity investor. He is also a co-founder of Raven Telemetry, a technology-enabled management system for manufacturers. Tune into our conversation...

In this episode we are joined by Shaloo Garg, the managing director of growth stage startups and unicorns for Microsoft as well as the United Nations Women leader. In this episode, we talk about the role passion, hard work, and persistence have played in her journey. As always, here are her three action items! Do not be afraid to take risks. If you fail, enjoy that experience even more because the...

Today we talk with Jonathan Trent, who, after attending Yale and UCSC, was the lead scientist of NASA's OMEGA project, a system of floating algae pods to produce biofuels whilst purifying wastewater and providing food for aquaculture. He has now left his Civil Servant position at NASA to found UpCycle Systems to address the escalating food, water, and energy crises, although he is still a part of...

On this episode of The Curiosity Podcast we have Jessica Song, a 16-year-old neuroscience enthusiast and researcher at UBC. She is on a mission to revolutionize Alzheimer's treatment and talks to us about building projects at a young age, the value of networking, and her aspirations for the future. Level up with Jessica's three action items: 1. Write down your biggest failure. Reflect on how it af...

Today we chat with Bianca Patel, who has worked with communities across the world in collaboration with government and non-profit teams for sustainable development policy, and is now running the energy education program at Stanford University. She shares her insights on the future of sustainability, following an unconventional path, and defining your own success.  As always, here are Bianca's...

From being a management consultant at Aga Khan Development Network in Tajikistan to doing deep learning and AI at Box in Silicon Valley to founding TKS, Navid Nathoo has gained a wealth of knowledge and compounded numerous skills. On this episode of the Curiosity Podcast, we talk about how to live a life in which you are thriving, what we need to focus on to solve the world's biggest problems, and...

From being a full stack developer at IBM to working on a carbon sequestration project called Cequest and preparing to go to Harvard University, our guest Devinder has had a large range of achievements for an 18 year old. In this episode we talk about tools that have enabled him to follow his curiosity, such as being a polymath, having a growth mindset, and committing to daily habits like medi...