Exponential Africa

What are the benefits of having Augmented and Virtual reality in our present world and the future of humanity? Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with SingularityU Faculty member specialising in Augmented and virtual reality - Rachel Sibley! Education and training are a huge opportunity space; through AR and VR, we can scale immersive learning! Rachel says that we can...

Exponential Africa Show - Pablos Holman - Hacking & Disruptive Innovation! Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann welcomes Pablos Holman - SingularityU Futurist, Hacker, Inventor, and Disruptor! Pablos’s hacking career started in his childhood years. Growing up in Alaska, Pablos had a lot of free time to get to know his computer, which led to his coding and hacking skills. Pablos expla...

Season 2 of the Exponential Africa show is here! To kick off the first episode Mic Mann interviews Tina Averback! Founder of Sky Studio ( Sky Studio Lucia ), a company that offers an advanced light meditation experience using Lucia. Lucia is a neural stimulator using different light frequencies, strobing, flashing and flickering LEDs combined with a halogen bulb. These stimulants travel and penetr...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann chats with Founder and CEO of Apolitical Robyn Scott. Apolitical is a global learning platform for all governments around the world. Governments globally are an integral part in tackling grand challenges within countries as decisions made within government are very consequential to us all. The platform was created to find and share what has been implem...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with Arturo Elizondo. CEO of Clara Foods - developing performance protein products and making the world's first animal free egg white protein. Clara foods uses advanced fermentation processes to brew protein that is cleaner greener and kinder to our environment. Arturo grew up eating eggs for breakfast and meat with almost every...

Exponential Africa Show on digital manufacturing with Andre Wegner. On the Exponential Africa Show today, Mic Mann meets with Andre Wegner, Founder & CEO of Authentise and Singularity University faculty Chair of digital manufacturing. Speaking on hardware, digital manufacturing, 3d printing, why it is needed and what can be accomplished or arise by deploying these technologies. There are many...

On Today's Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Bionic girl, Tilly Lockey ( Give Tilly a Hand ). An ambassador to Open Bionics a true source of inspiration, spreading positivity amongst fellow amputees and people all around the world. At 14 years old Tilly serves as a true example of positive impact through advances in technology! Tilly lost both her hands to Meningitis Septicaemia as...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Anita Schjøll Brede , Co-founder of Iris. AI and SingularityU Nordic faculty member specialising in Artificial Intelligence. Iris. AI helps academics and researchers go from ideas and research projects, to finding the precise reading list reducing about 80% of time usually spent researching and going through hundred and thousands of document...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann meets with Aaron Frank , Singularity University principle faculty on AR & VR, writer, researcher and a prolific thought leader around the future of business and innovation. Aaron talks about the AR cloud, stating it be the most exciting topic in computing today. The cloud holds digital copies of every physical object, a 1 to 1 digital map of everyt...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann hosts Valter Adao , Deloitte Chief Digital and Innovation officer and SingularityU South Africa faculty member specialising in exponential organisations, exponential leadership and the future of work. Valter describes aspects of his role within Deloitte as assisting organisations to digitally transform by taking them on a journey of business reimaginat...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we welcome Carlo Van de Weijer , a world leading expert and SingularityU faculty member on mobility and automotive! Speaking on autonomous cars and their future impact! The rise of autonomous vehicles production comes typically as digitisation happens. Digitisation is always followed by disruption creating a race to disrupt ones self before gettin...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we meet Alex Gladstein . CSO of the Human rights foundation, a guest lecturer at SingularityU and a prolific speaker on the future of money. Alex speaks on the positive impact of a decentralised bitcoin system and how it will help the poor and sustain a democracy in the world! Alex’s background is in political science, studying governments, democr...

All new episode of Exponential Africa show where Mic Mann interviews Divya Chander , Chair of Neuroscience at Singularity University . An exciting conversation on our brains, consciousness, meditation, fusing our organic brains to machines and its implications! Neuroscience as is is a very broad type of science but simply put it is the study of the brain which encompasses mathematics, computationa...

Watch an all new episode of the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann in a fascinating discussion with SingularityU Vice chair of digital biology and medicine, Tiffany J Vora . Tiffany's passion lies in looking into the latest and greatest trends in her field trough analysis and conversation with Vc’s, startups and mentorship programmes. Bringing in all the information together in ways that r...

On today’s episode of the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann Interviews a behavioural scientist, Singularity University faculty of corporate innovation and co-founder of Uncommon Partners, Kyle Nel! Uncommon Partners was started to help other companies transform and in the process developed new technologies using neuroscience to help understand the drive behind behavioural change within organisatio...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Raymond McCauley , not the pastor but the Biotech Scientist! Amongst many achievements and startups he is the founder of exponential biosciences and SingularityU faculty chair on digital biology. Biotechnology, often abbreviated to biotech, is the area of biology that uses living processes, organisms or systems to manufacture products or tec...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann meets with dear friend, SingularityU co-chair of energy and best selling author, Ramez Naam . Discussing the exponentially declining costs of solar, battery and wind energy, and the opportunity South Africa has as being one of the sunniest countries in the world. Ramez believes we are entering a phase where the cost benefits of scrapping fossil fuel re...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann interviews Kris Østergaard co-founder and Chief Learning & Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic. As the Chief Learning & Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, Kris is responsible for designing and running education and innovation programs for organisations as well as startups in SingularityU Nordic’s innovation campus based in Copenha...

Join Mic Mann on the Exponential Africa Show as he discusses investing and disruptive innovation with founder and CEO of ARK Invest - Cathie Wood, who recently spoke at the Exponential finance summit. Ark Invest is focused solely on disruptive innovation, ARK aims to identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centred around genome s...

Today On the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann Interviews Lawrence Whittle, CEO of Parsable . A connected worker platform used to execute and measure work for industrial companies, taking analogue ways of working and digitising the workforce process. Simply put, Parsable is helping customers fuse quality and execution together to build better products faster. Eliminate time-wasting paper procedure...

On today’s Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann meets with John Hagel, Co-chairman at the Deloitte centre for the edge and Singularity University Faculty member focusing on corporate innovation. John discusses how he helps companies adapt to the changes that are occurring with the rise of exponential technologies, addressing the issue of job loss as machines and AI are entering the workforce. John tal...