Exponential Africa

Today on the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann Interviews Amin Toufani! CEO and Founder of Tlabs and Chair of finance and economics at Singularity University. Amin has a degree in artificial intelligence from the University of British Columbia, an MBA from Stanford, and an MPA in economic policy from Harvard. Discussing how conventional economics doesn't provide enough answers Amin states, “we...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we get to hear from @richardmbrowning the -'Real-life Iron Man’! Celebrating human and machine collaboration, Richard browning is busy building the capability to put on a race series with these Gravity Jet suits! English inventor, entrepreneur and speaker. Richard founded Gravity Industries and is the inventor of the Gravity Jet Suit, a Jet S...

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with @micmann we highlight, @AshleyAnthony CEO of Isazi Consulting, SingularityU SA Faculty member and an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence! Ashley describes AI as the quest for computers to solve problems that they were never designed to solve. We are introduced to his new exciting product, Sophia! Designed to take thousands of unstructured types...

Endless West is using science and technology to reimagine how some of our finest consumed-goods are created. They create beverages that are made one molecule at a time. This new way of producing eliminates the need for traditional farming methods and their practices that strain the environment, such as use of pesticides, excessive water usage and carbon emissions. #futureproofAfrica #collaborative...

Explore exponential technologies from around the world and understand how they can bring abundance to Africa. In this episode, we meet Manu Sharma from Labelbox, a training data creation & management platform for AI Apps. Manu is one of our speakers at the Exponential Finance Summit taking place on the 29th and 30th May at the CTICC, in Cape Town, South Africa. Buy your tickets today www.expon...

We talk to Thomas Kriese, who has been designing and managing the way people interact online for close to 20 years. At SU, Thomas heads up the community development and engagement efforts globally. He is responsible for refining and executing on our global community strategy, and working collaboratively with the local community leadership around the world. He represents the community and its inter...

David Roberts is regarded as one of the world top experts on disruptive innovation and exponentially advancing technology. His passion is to help transform the lives of a billion suffering people in the world through disruptive innovation. David served as Vice President of Singularity University and two-time Director (and alum) of the Graduate Studies Program. He is the recipient of numerous award...

Nathaniel Calhoun helps guide Singularity University’s approach to changemaking and impact as a founding member and Vice Chair of its Global Grand Challenge Faculty. He has moderated numerous SU Executive Programs and Directed SU’s flagship impact program, the Global Solutions Program (GSP). Nathaniel closely tracks innovations in emerging decentralized and platform cooperative technologies that c...

As Director of International Summits, Bohdanna’s work is to bring influencers together to cross-pollinate regional, national, and global ideas that will grow into tech and social change for the betterment of us all. After graduating from Indiana University-Bloomington, Bohdanna worked at Northwestern University as their Special Events Coordinator. There she met and worked with politicians, Supreme...

SingularityU South Africa Summit co-organiser Mic Mann and creative director Youri Licht recently travelled to the Singularity University(SU) summit in Thailand where they interviewed various SU speakers. Season 1 is a series of in-depth conversations with some of Singularity Universities most innovative and creative minds. Ramez Naam is a computer scientist, futurist, and award-winning author. Ra...