Preview of Tomorrow

Taking the edge off of EV charging station management. In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Mike Lake talks with Lyubov Artemenko about how her company, GO TO-U ,  that serves as a platform for electric vehicle (EV) charging management and operations. Transition to new modes of transport requires reliable charging infrastructure. GO TO-U makes the experience of driving and charging an electric...

W hile the water industry is a prime victim of climate change, it is also a source of global carbon emissions. In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow,  Mike Lake talks with Mike Dixon about how his company, Synauta , saves 20% of OPEX costs in desalination and water reuse plants, by using supervised machine learning to optimize energy and chemical use for specific conditions. Synauta applies machi...

This solution puts education in the hands of children, literally. In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow,  Mike Lake talks with Soraya Fouladi about how the COVID19 pandemic as drastically perpetuated the unequal access to education among children across the world. Soraya's company Jara , is closing the global digital divide, by building a distance learning solution for children in low-intern...

Plastic doesn't grow on trees, but maybe it could. In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Mike Lake talks with Max Mohammadi about the dire environmental implications of petroleum-based plastics. Max's company, PlasticFri is on a mission to change turn things around by transforming renewable resources into bio-based products for replacing fossil-based plastics. For its groundbreaking wo...

The solution to storing solar energy efficiently is the size of a suitcase. In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Mike Lake talks with Jennifer Gallegos about how the common way of storing solar energy is currently impeding the industries growth. The most impressive thing about Jenn's company, Yotta , is that its technology  doesn't need to be indoors due to its patented thermal manage...

Optimus is saving the planet again, this time with biodiesel! In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Colin Huwyler, CEO of Optimus Technologies talks with Mike Lake about how his company is retrofitting diesel engines to run entirely on biodiesel.  With the rising risk of climate change, it's important to focus on solutions that can be implemented now. Biodiesel is a readily available fuel s...

Cleaner data may mean cleaner air. This episode of Preview of Tomorrow spotlights Antonio Jara, CEO of HOPU , a company engaging citizens and decision makers to guarantee the data at their disposal is easily understood and intuitive. Using a contextual intelligence platform and loT devices, HOPU is able to provide environmental monitoring solutions that track air quality. The company works with bo...

If worms can recycle, so can we. As a society we’ve deposited over 9 million tons of plastic in the last 50 years and only 9% of that plastic has been recycled. On this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Marc Lacroix, Cofounder of Worm Generation , explains how his company is combating this issue in a rather unique way. Worm Generation has created a farm project that utilizes mealworms to transform p...

AcceliCITY City Solution of the Year is cleaning our water.  These days, the increasing contamination of harmful pharmaceutical waste into water supplies has become one of the highest priority issues for cities, which face the daunting task of supplying safe drinking water to hundreds and millions of people. While the common conception is that wastewater treatment plants take care of this issue, i...

The solution driving the drone industry to take off.  Although the drone industry is a multibillion-dollar industry, it is riddled with inefficiencies such as being dependent on a 1 person to 1 drone operation. CEO Nishant Singh Rana explains how Vyorius ’s SaaS and AI technologies streamline the drone operation process to enable large scale usage. By connecting unmanned vehicles to the company’s...

Election accuracy is on the Horizon.  Although US elections have an administration cost of more than $2 billion, 38% of Americans still lack confidence in election fairness. CEO of Horizon State , Tim Goggin is committed to restoring public faith in our election systems. Horizon State, an Australian blockchain startup, created a secure election and engagement platform that provides transparency in...

Testing the waters with Robeau. This episode spotlights Sylvain Spenle, CEO of Robeau , a company helping to reduce water consumption through IoT LoRA sensors. Robeau’s turnkey solution allows building owners and managers to measure water consumption and leaks through their innovative flowmeters. The company also provides a data management platform where customers can view their water usage in rea...

A company beating the traffic.  This episode features Muhammed Mirza Ozdil, CEO of Tytovision , a company whose computer vision and AI technology help monitor our roads. The startup’s technology can be implemented in any vehicle to detect traffic causes and violations, as well as infrastructure problems. These issues are then communicated to government leaders to ensure roads are kept safe. Tytovi...

A solution breaking barriers.   Since 80% of plastic deposited in our oceans comes from rivers, it is essential to stop this issue at the source. On this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Mauro Nardocci, Cofounder and Chief Marketing Officer shares with us how his company, SEADS , is capturing plastic and transforming it into energy and other key resources. SEADS’ patented technology called Blue Bar...

Raise your Glass to Lup Colombia.   Did you know that 75% of all glass that enters the global waste system ends up in landfills? This episode of Preview of Tomorrow highlights Lup Colombia , a Colombian based company changing this statistic. CEO, Caitlin Oliver, describes how the company develops recycling manufacturing plants that transform glass waste into low carbon products, such as silicon fe...

Wash your hands of carbon emissions.  This episode highlights CleanO2 , a company leading in microscale carbon capture and limiting greenhouse gas emissions produced by the heating industry. CEO, Jaeson Cardiff, explains how the company has created a technology that harnesses CO2 from buildings and converts it into a higher value chemical called carbonate. The carbonate is then used to make consum...

This episode of Preview of Tomorrow features Felipe Cardoso, Founder and CEO of Eco Panplas , an innovative startup that has developed a solution for decontaminating plastic package recycling. The company extracts oil from containers without using water, without producing waste, and while reducing C02 emissions, achieving great socioenvironmental benefits. The Brazilian based company stands ready...

A company building homes and hope. This episode of Preview of Tomorrow features Livingstone Mukasa, CEO and Cofounder of Four One Financial Services . The Ugandan company is working to reduce income equality by helping individuals invest their money and create affordable housing simultaneously. Their technology platform aggregates micro-investments from home buyers and investors, allowing both par...

Things are heating up. This episode features Grzegorz Maciaszek, COO of SolHotAir , a European company increasing solar energy proficiencies and reducing CO2 emissions through their innovative solar collectors. The collectors convert solar energy into thermal energy using solely still air, without the need for additional energy sources. The advanced technology is able to achieve an efficiency of 8...

Putting the action in redaction.  This episode of Preview of Tomorrow delves into how Amanda Levay’s company, Redactable , is eliminating the risk of confidential data being compromised during the redaction process. Unlike traditional redaction methods that are extremely manual and often leave room for error, Redactable’s web-based application employs machine learning to scrub every layer of a doc...

Shining a light on sustainability.   Did you know the carbon footprint of one double head streetlight is on average 1.3 tons per year? Omniflow is a company addressing this issue by transforming traditional streetlights into sustainable platforms able to host numerous applications such as air quality sensors, audio alerts and even drone charging stations. With a simple one time implementation to p...

A sustainable solution that’s opening doors. It’s projected that air conditioning expended worldwide produces 2 billion tons of carbon emissions annually and uses 30% of the world’s total electricity. In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow Mike speaks with Joseph Hill, CEO of Zephrame , a company working to combat the inefficiencies of air conditioning and its environmental implications. Through f...

One man's trash is another man's plastic In this premier episode of Preview of Tomorrow Season 2, Mike Lake discusses our excessive and wasteful use of plastic with Robert Luo, CEO of Mi Terro . Mi Terro is one of the world's first advanced material company that partners with food companies and farmers to create home compostable, single-use plastic-alternative packaging materials ma...

Where cities go shopping. In this episode of Preview of Tomorrow, Mike and Andrew Watkins, Co-Founder and CEO of Marketplace.city , discuss the importance and challenges of public procurement in cities. The ability of government to adapt to citizen needs and deploy innovative solutions, is about much more than just buying new technologies, it is a foundational building block in the development of...

Almighty Algae.  This episode of Preview of Tomorrow spotlights Brian Braginton-Smith, president and CEO of AquaGen-ISI, a company offering a sustainable approach to wastewater treatment. AquaGen-ISI’s integrated solution harnesses the natural benefits of algae to produce highly oxygenated clean water while simultaneously reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Additionally, the technology facilitates...