GAEA Talks

This week on GAEA Talks, the format flips. Graeme Scott, the man who normally asks the questions, is in the hot seat. Guest host Georgie Barrat - one of the UK's leading technology journalists - interviews him on the topic he is most associated with: the real meaning of sovereign AI. Recorded live in the new London studio, this is a long-form, single-topic deep dive. Sovereign AI is one of the...

Why does drug discovery need to go to space? In this week's episode of GAEA Talks, the second of season five and the second filmed in our new London studio, Graeme Scott sits down with Dr Toby Call, founder of Mass Balance, former co-founder of Chronomics, and alumnus of the International Space University. Toby explains why over forty percent of the proteins in the human body have no fixed str...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with May Habib - co-founder and CEO of Writer, one of the most consequential enterprise AI platforms in the world today, and one of the clearest voices in the industry on what it actually takes to make AI work inside the global two thousand. This is the season five opener, and there is nobody better to set the tone. May co-founded Writer in 2020 and...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with Dr Ewan Kirk - founder of Cantab Capital Partners, former Goldman Sachs partner and Head of Quantitative Strategies, chair of the Isaac Newton Institute and non-executive director of BAE Systems. A mathematician by training, Ewan spent thirteen years at Goldman Sachs, rising to partner and leading a 120-strong European team of quants. In 2006 he...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Emil Eifrem - co-founder and CEO of Neo4j, the creator of the world's leading graph database, and one of the architects of the knowledge graph movement that is now powering explainable AI inside governments, banks and Fortune 500 enterprises. Emil started Neo4j more than twenty years ago after his team hit the limits of tabu...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with David Shim - co-founder and CEO of Read AI, former CEO of Foursquare, founder of Placed, and one of the most original product thinkers in the AI ecosystem today. David's career is a study in spotting opportunities before anyone else. The son of Korean immigrants, he became one of the youngest registered stockbrokers in the U...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Bianca Anghelina - founder and CEO of Aily Labs, 2025 CNBC Changemaker, and the former Head of Global Digital Finance at Novartis turned builder of the first enterprise decision-intelligence mobile app. Bianca's career sits at the intersection of business, finance and technology. She studied business and finance and added te...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Steve Ancheta - serial founder, sixteen-year veteran of enterprise sales, and the founder and CEO of Zig, the first AI platform built for the sales rep rather than for sales management. Steve started in sales at eighteen, took the job to support his new son, and has spent his entire adult life inside the revenue function of tech...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Jennifer Smith - co-founder and CEO of Scribe, former Head of Business Development and Partnerships at Greylock Partners, and one of the clearest thinkers in the world on enterprise AI transformation. Jennifer's journey is the perfect setup for what she is building today. After Princeton and an MBA from Harvard, she spent seven...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Cynthia Chen - co-founder and CEO of Kikoff, ten-year fintech veteran, and the founder of one of the most human stories in consumer AI: an AI debt negotiator that has already saved everyday Americans more than five million dollars. Cynthia arrived in New York at seventeen with two suitcases, no family and no credit history, spen...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Jon Snoddy - co-founder and CEO of Operative Games, former Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering, and one of the most influential creative technologists of the last thirty years. Jon's career sits at the intersection of storytelling, engineering and the tools that have shaped modern entert...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Cosmo Wolfe - CTO of Metronome, the real-time billing platform that sits inside Anthropic, OpenAI and the rest of the AI industry, and which recently became a Stripe product. Cosmo has spent the last six years building Metronome from an early contrarian bet into the monetisation backbone of the AI economy. When Metronome started...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Alex Ratner - co-founder and CEO of Snorkel AI, affiliate assistant professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington, and one of the most influential voices in the world on data-centric AI.Alex has been working in AI data for fifteen years. He earned his AB in Honors Physics at Harvard, c...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with Jonathan Brill - business futurist, ranked the world's number one futurist by Forbes, called "the world's leading transformation architect" by Harvard Business Review, and the bestselling author of AI and the Octopus Organisation: Building the Superintelligent Firm. Jonathan has spent two decades at the front edge of where tech...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Anton Osika - co-founder and CEO of Lovable, the AI app builder that has powered over forty million products in sixteen months, with more than two hundred thousand new products being built on the platform every single day. Anton grew up obsessed with understanding how things work, studied physics, became a CTO of a forty-person...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with Mahdi Yahya - co-founder and president of Radiant, founder and former CEO of Ori, and one of the most original founder voices in the world on AI infrastructure, sovereign compute, and the backbone of the AI economy. Mahdi has spent twenty years building companies at the intersection of technology, infrastructure and the arts. He fled Lebanon dur...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Dr Ali Agha - co-founder and CEO of Field AI, former NASA JPL principal investigator on two of the most ambitious DARPA robotics challenges in history, and one of the leading researchers in the world on risk-aware autonomy. Ali has spent almost two decades building AI for robots. He started with rescue robots and robotics compet...

This week on GAEA Talks Live from HumanX, Graeme Scott sits down with Caroline Ingeborn - COO of Luma AI, former CEO and co-founder of Leap, former CEO, President and COO of Toca Boca, and one of the most experienced operators in the world of creative technology. Caroline's career has been spent at the crossroads of technology, creativity and product leadership. She helped build Toca Boca into...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with Robert Nishihara - co-founder of Anyscale, creator of the open source Ray project, UC Berkeley PhD in machine learning and distributed systems, Harvard mathematics graduate, and one of the architects of the software infrastructure powering AI at OpenAI, Amazon, Cohere, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Uber, Spotify and Visa. Robert's journey is the sto...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with Mark Papermaster - Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of AMD, former Apple Senior Vice President of iPhone and iPod Hardware Engineering, four-decade semiconductor industry veteran, and newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. Mark's career reads like a history of modern computing itself. Beginning at I...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with Dex Hunter-Torricke - former speechwriter to the UN Secretary-General, fifteen-year Big Tech veteran who worked for Eric Schmidt, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, former Head of Global Communications at Google DeepMind, Cambridge Visiting Research Fellow, and founder of The Center for Tomorrow. Dex began his career as a speechwriter in the Executi...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with Dr Roman Yampolskiy - the computer scientist credited with coining the term "AI safety", tenured Associate Professor at the University of Louisville, founder of the Cyber Security Lab, and author of AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Roman has spent over fifteen years working at the intersection of AI safety, cybersecuri...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with William Lovell - Head of Future Technology at the Bank of England, co-chair of the Bank's Artificial Intelligence Task Force, Senior Advisor on CBDC, and a technologist with nearly three decades at the heart of the UK's central bank. Will's career spans broadcasting and finance, beginning at the BBC before moving into banking at the...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with Georgie Barrat - technology journalist, TV presenter, AI literacy advocate and former host of Channel 5's The Gadget Show for seven years. Georgie's career has taken her around the world testing emerging tech before it hits the mainstream - from consumer electronics and VR (she holds a world record for the longest time spent in virtual r...

This week on GAEA Talks, Graeme Scott sits down with David Wood - futurist, transhumanist, former smartphone industry pioneer, chair of London Futurists, and author of eleven books including Vital Foresight, The Singularity Principles and Sustainable Superabundance. David spent 25 years at the cutting edge of the software industry working with compilers, debuggers and optimisers before turning his...