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Welcome back to the Genuine X Podcast. In this episode, Martyn and Tom talk to Dr. Shama Rahman - A scientist, artist, and creative technologist. We discuss the science behind creativity. How is it measured? Can it be commoditised? And is brainstorming a waste of time? We also talk about creativity's unpredictability, and how AI is being used to support lateral thinking and could become the creati...

Welcome back to the Genuine X Podcast. In this episode Martyn and Tom talk to Guy Gadney - Co-founder and CEO of Charisma.ai  Charisma.ai powers a new way of telling stories, by using artificial intelligence to give audiences the ability to talk to characters, build relationships with them, and have the story itself adapt and react to how audiences play through it. This deepens engagement for...

Welcome back to the Genuine X Podcast. In this episode, Martyn and Tom talk to Kim Arazi - Founder and CEO of Innosensi . Kim creates bespoke interactive experiences focused on food. Collaborating with artists, chefs, perfumers, sound designers, scientists and tech developers to designed multi-sensory experiences using immersive technology, such as VR, AR and AI .These experiences are designed to...

Welcome back to the Genuine X Podcast. In this episode, Martyn and Tom talk to Dr James Morgan from the  University of Westminster. Dr Morgan has been looking at how we can use emotional triggers to develop and enhance live events. Using technology such as facial recognition, we are now able to read emotions in real time allowing us to hack people's emotions through changing their environment...

Welcome back to the Genuine X Podcast. In this episode, Martyn and Tom talk to the founder of Naaut, Co-founder of the London Space Network and NASA Advisor Anushka Sharma.   Anushka or Nush to those who know her is a self-confessed 'expert generalist'. Her passion for space travel and love for people has led her from working with startups in London's Silicon Roundabout to become an advisor f...

In this episode, Martyn and Tom met with Myra and Nick from Infi-tex fabrics, through Genuine X's relationship with Innovate UK. Myra, an angel investor with a history in biochemistry and Nick, an alumni from the Bauhaus who now runs Raw Studios .    In this podcast, we discuss how the chance meeting between an angel investor with an IP and a creative mind has given birth to a company wi...

In this episode, Tom and Martyn talk to Stefan Dzisiewski-Smith from Bare Conductive . Bare Conductive began in 2009. They have developed and grown into one of the elder statesmen of the silicon roundabout scene. Currently bare conductive produces a suite of printed electronics products that enable individuals and companies to integrate electronics directly into the environment with their conducti...

Welcome to the Genuine X Podcast.    We've all heard the Silicon Valley startup stories, so it's refreshing to hear one from a different place.    Genuine X is working with the Government's lnnovate UK initiative to seek out some of the UK's brightest start-ups who are the potential future of the British tech scene.    Through this process, we met Norfolk locals Ryan...

This weeks episode features Jack from VR Craftworks . Jack was very open with us and even shared some of the ingredients that go into VR Craftworks secret source, could understanding human behaviors hold the key to top draw immersive experiences?   Jack tells us how this Brighton based company began as a bunch of geeks in a shed and has bloomed into a full-fat immersive agency which is consta...

This week we speak to Gareth and Jon from MagicBeans about the future of sound. We discuss the current landscape of the audio world. Could 3D sound be the key to unlocking the brain's ability to accept the digital world? And what is the deal with ASMR? Magic Beans are a brand new tech startup born out of the pioneering 3D audio work of its founders Gareth Llewellyn and Jon Olive. Magic Beans devel...

In this episode, we catch up with Christophe Mallet, the co-founder and Strategy Director at Somewhere Else: The Immersive Tech Agency. We chat about whether VR marketing has bitten the dust because of 360º video, Millennials seeking a return on experience (ROE) and why Orangina has been giving Christophe nightmares. Listeners be advised,  there is a dash of swearing in this episode. Genuine...