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Ibrahim's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ibrahim-maigari-455427188/ RiceAfrika: https://riceafrika.com/ Ibrahim previously co founded and led Livestock247 to become Nigeria's leading online livestock platform, and he is currently the founder and CEO of RiceAfrika an agriculture optimization service that provides everything a smallholder farmer in Tanzania and Nigeria needs to increa...

Livestock farming makes up 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. 77% of global farming land is used for grazing and growing food which livestock eats. And animal agriculture uses 20% of global freshwater. In other words, livestock farmer uses an atrocious amount of resources, making it one of the top contributors of climate change. In this episode of the Luminexus Podcast, we talk with bioengine...

Welcome to the 27th episode of the Luminexus podcast! In this episode, we spoke to Garrett Smiley , founder and CEO of Sora Schools an innovative online school for students in 6th-12th grade. This episode is centered all around AI, especially its uses in education. In this episode, we talk about topics ranging from AI as an important tool for the 21st century and how Sora is approaching addressing...

Quantum computing - it’s such a buzz word now and everyone is talking about it for what it might be able to do decades off in the future. And while these futuristic conversations about quantum computing are interesting and inspiring, they are not realistic, because before we get to this point where quantum computing can accomplish all these crazy feats, we first need to solve all the technical pro...

You may have clicked on this episode hoping to find a crystal clear answer to this billion-dollar question. An answer like increasing fertilizer application, or creating a crazy new drone technology to monitor individual plants. But *spoiler alert* this conversation is not about one perfect solution to producing more food. Because this solution doesn’t exist. Instead, you will find that there is n...

Jagriti Agrawal | Kira Learning The education system across North America is outdated. It was created in the height of the industrial revolution (in 1871) to transfer basic knowledge into children so they could grow up and work in factories. That education system created in the 1870s is the same education system we have today. And spoiler alert, it’s way past it’s due date.    We no long...

Hannah Claridge | TTP One in six people suffer from a neurological disease like Parkinson and Alzheimer disease. And currently, none of these diseases have a cure - there are some therapies and medicines that can temporarily reduce symptoms, but no cure.    Traditionally, finding a cure to a disease happens from thousands of hours in a lab, then that discovery gets created into a vaccine...

Eva Goulbourne | ReFED website | Littlefoot Ventures In the USA, 35% of all food produced ends up in the dump. This is 90 billion meals worth of food annually, equaling out to the same climate footprint as the entire U.S aviation industry. When I first learned these facts my mind was blown. All I could think about was why do we let this happen?    So to answer this question, we break dow...

Sonya Kotov Everything humans make starts with a design. A rough sketch on paper, a flow chart, an outline. Humans have become masters at designing perfectly engineered products to make our lives easier and buildings so tall it’s hard to fathom.    What if we take this same design approach that goes into products and buildings and apply it to designing solutions to hard problems? Using t...

Alexander Titus | Colossal Biosciences By 2050 half of all animal species could go extinct. Currently 6 species go extinct each hour. That is a MASSIVE number.   What if I told you that there was a way to eliminate this catastrophic reality? A way to save species, restore balance to Earth and combat climate change all at the same time?   This is the exact question we seek perspective on...

Brian Lenahan | Quantum Strategy Institute Quantum computing is one of those buzz words that has been in the media a lot lately. There is a lot of hype and ‘coulds’ being thrown around. “Quantum could discover new drugs.” “Quantum could create better batteries.” “Quantum could increase data security.”    But these ‘coulds’ are very misleading, when the truth is that there are a lot of te...

Anie Akpe | African Women in Tech (AWIT) | IBOMLLC | Innov8tiv   Silicon valley (and the rest of the world) get’s caught up in the ‘next big thing’. The next big technology or breakthrough, weather that be blockchain, web3 or NFTs. Founders and investors alike chase these technologies in hopes of mining some of the metaphorical gold that each technology brings.    But what if the re...

Stefania Druga |  X Moonshot Factory   Our current education is an outdated, archaic, system. And while most people accept that education will never change, Stephania Druga, PhD resident at Google X, is designing the future of education.    This episode is our conversation with Stephania, weaving in her work and research about computer supported coding, smart toys, AI literacy...

Shely Aronov | InnerPlant "If you don't try, you fail. And if you want to succeed, you at least have a chance by trying. If you try enough times and have the right team to support you, the right attitude, and the right mentors, you might actually change the world.” - Shely Aronov   These are the kinds of knowledge bombs Shely drops in this conversation. Shely is the co founder and CEO of Inne...

Dana Ware | The VOID   What drew Dana to the field of location based entertainment and VR is that it allows the creator to see the big picture. Dana says “VR and AR can give you insight into the future. Future trends. And even draw connections about problems that you wouldn’t have been able to see before.”    Dana a creative director and VR/AR specialist at The VOID, where she is de...

Christine Gould | Thought For Food We hear about problems like climate change, poverty and malnutrition all the time in the media. But what if I told you that there is an overlying problem which contributes to each of the three problems I just listed? That overlying problem is agriculture.    Agriculture affects every industry on the planet, and is the most important sector in the world....

Kevin Davies The crazy thing about revolutions is that no one knows if you’re living through one until dozens of years later. Kevin Davies, internationally recognized author and journal editor, argues that we are currently living through a revolution. The CRISPR revolution. Quite similar to the scientific revolution through the 15th and 16th century, Kevin says that the CRISPR revolution will be a...

Aadeel Akhtar | PSYONIC Aadeel Akhtar is the founder and CEO of PSYONIC, a revolutionary bionic limb company which has created the world’s fastest, first ever touch sensing bionic hand that is covered under Medicare in the United States. In this conversation we talk with Aadeel about PSYONIC - why Aadeel transitioned from medicine to found a bionic limb company, how the ability hand works, and how...

Matthew Espinoza | Agora Labs Out of the many tech buzz words that have been gaining attention in the media lately, Web3 and blockchain are the two biggest.    So in this episode of the Luminexus podcast we talk with Matt Espinoza, a web3 and blockchain developer, and founder and CEO of Agora Labs. This conversation is designed perfectly for someone with no knowledge of web3/blockchain t...

Samir Hamadache | Forest City SynBio Synthetic biology is cool. That is one of the only words I have to describe it. With synbio, it is possible to make leather without using an animal, plants that are resistant to extreme weather, and meat grown in a petri dish. The applications are truly endless.    In this conversation, we talk with Samir Hamadache, who has a PhD in biochemistry and i...

Eleanor Sheekey | Sheekey Science Show An idea that has been in every science fiction movie for decades is halting aging. Weather that is humans that live to 200 years old, or physical and mental health that never deteriorates. These all seem like crazy propositions that will never happen.    But there is a growing body of research proving that we may be closer to accomplishing these cra...

Luke Hurd   Firefighting. It’s a dangerous job. Firefighters walk blindly into burning buildings without being aware of the full danger of the situation until it’s too late.    Technologies like augmented and virtual reality offer the potential to revolutionize industries like firefighting and first responders.    In this episode of the Luminexus podcast, we talk with AR s...

Matt Langione Quantum computing has blown up lately. Crazy claims and ambitious arguments that quantum computing will be the next AI and change every industry from weather forecasting, to drug discovery to healthcare.    But can quantum even accomplish these feats, or is it all just click bait and fancy article titles? And, (more importantly), how does quantum computing even work?  ...

Elliot Roth | Spira Inc When you think of the future of food, you probably picture tall vertical farms in every square inch of urban cities, lab grown meat and genetically modified seeds. But what if I told you that the thing that could fix our broken agricultural system isn’t vertical farming, cellular agriculture or gene editing? It’s algae. And biology. In this episode we talk with Elliot Roth,...

Ryan Brown | Salient Energy Batteries are needed for renewable energy to work. Batteries store renewable energy until it is needed. Currently, lithium ion batteries are used for this.    But as renewable energy production increases, lithium ion can’t keep up with the demand. The lithium ion shortage is getting worse each year, and costs for lithium ion are rising. So we need an alternati...