Podcasts about disruptive innovation festival

In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts a Pat Pataranutaporn, technologist and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There, he explores the intersection of synthetic virtual humans and synthetic biology, specifically at the interface between biological and digital systems. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab and a KBTG Fellow. Pat's research has been published in Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Biotechnology, IEEE, ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM ISWC, ACM Augmented Humans, Royal Society of Chemistry, among others. He also serves as a reviewer and editor for IEEE and ACM publications. Pat's published research is recognized worldwide and has been featured in the United Nations AI for Good forum, Time magazine, Forbes, National Geographic, FastCompany, The Guardian, Disruptive Innovation Festival, and more. In the interview, Pat describes how his early fascination with dinosaurs led him into the scientific realm, and later to the MIT Media Lab, where people are encouraged to think about future challenges rather than just focusing on solving current problems. He explains the research area of fluid interfaces and describes some of the innovative work his group has been doing on human-AI co-reasoning. Pat and Bruke also about the future potential of AI in education and wearable devices, as well as MIT's recent space exploration initiative. Pat also offers his perspectives on art and innovation, identifies the exciting new directions currently holding his attention, and offers advice for young people interested in the field of computing.

This podcast is a three part series about the Circular Economy we worked on with our friends at Dsposal. It’s part of The Disruptive Innovation Festival 2018. Is The Circular Economy a model that can save us from planetary crisis or just a nice idea that will never work? In this episode we consider Space Age thinking. Which is great - because we love space. We hear that a Blade-Runner-esq future might be on the horizon - and that might not be too bad. Also, and more importantly, we explore the unintended consequences of the Circular Economy. -------------- This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. Thanks to the Disruptive Innovation Festival. I’ve been, and will continue to be, Rebecca Rae-Evans. Thanks also to Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans from the Tech for Good Live team.   You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

This podcast is a three part series about the Circular Economy we worked on with our friends at Dsposal. It’s part of The Disruptive Innovation Festival 2018. Is The Circular Economy a model that can save us from planetary crisis or just a nice idea that will never work? In this episode we look at the real world examples from some of the UKs biggest retailers. We also find out that Apple have a robot called Daisy that can rip mobile phones apart. But in a good way apparently...     This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. Thanks to the Disruptive Innovation Festival. I’ve been, and will continue to be, Rebecca Rae-Evans. Thanks also to Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans from the Tech for Good Live team.   You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

This podcast is a three part series about the Circular Economy we worked on with our friends at Dsposal. It’s part of The Disruptive Innovation Festival 2018. Is The Circular Economy a model that can save us from planetary crisis or just a nice idea that will never work?   This podcast wouldn’t exist without Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from Dsposal. Music has been graciously provided by George Fell. Podcast.co make all of this possible thanks to the shiny podcast studio they provide. Thanks to the Disruptive Innovation Festival. I’ve been, and will continue to be, Rebecca Rae-Evans. Thanks also to Paul Jakubowski and Jonny Rae-Evans from the Tech for Good Live team. You can find a full transcript of this episode on techforgood.live

This is the third of a special 3-episode series for the 2017 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Hathority (hathority.com) principals Vishwam Annam, Philip Bernick, and Rhonda Steele talk with Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross about Hathority's IoT tech approach to community engagement to reduce municipal landfill waste. Hathority is part of the Resource Innovation and Solutions Network (RISN) Incubator, a collaboration between Arizona State University and the City of Phoenix.

This is the second of a special 3-episode series for the 2017 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Renewlogy (renewology.com) founder and CEO Priyanka Bakaya talks with Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross about Renewlogy's groundbreaking technology to return plastic to a fuel state to reduce the amount of plastics going to landfills using a circular economy approach. Renewlogy is part of the Resource Innovation and Solutions Network (RISN) Incubator, a collaboration between Arizona State University and the City of Phoenix.

A special edition of Energy Insiders for the Disruptive Innovation Festival, focusing on how data and tech can transform the consumer experience of electricity.

This is the first of a special 3-episode series for the 2017 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Waste management entrepreneur Saiman Shetty of Hygiea (hygiea.tech) talks with Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross about how Hygiea is revolutionizing the ways that we deal with solid waste to cut down on landfill and better feed the circular economy. Hygiea is part of the Resource Innovation and Solutions Network (RISN) Incubator, a collaboration between Arizona State University and the City of Phoenix.

Circular economy initiatives are being undertaken across Google’s operations, from the way the company manages the hardware in its data centres, to the materials used in its buildings, to the way its kitchens are operated. For example, over the last five years, it has improved its data centre operations and hardware to gain 3.5 times the computing power out of the same amount of electricity. Since 2007, Google has repurposed enough outdated servers to avoid buying over 300,000 new replacement machines. In addition to its large-scale composting program, Google uses a software system in its kitchens to track pre-consumer food waste. Google believes that business has a key role to play in being part of the solution to move from a global economy based upon ‘take-make-dispose’ to one that is based on designing waste out of systems. Google’s goal is to embed circular economic principles into the fabric of its infrastructure, operations, and culture. We speak with Jim Miller, Google’s Vice President of Global Operations, to ask him what the circular economy can do for one of the world’s most influential companies. This podcast was recorded as part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Find out more at thinkdif.co.

What is it people really want: a car, with all the costs of ownership and maintenance, or mobility, the service that car actually provides? A circular economy, characterised by a smarter use of materials, energy and information, will prioritise access over ownership of products.   These are called product service systems, or sometimes 'performance contracts', and they could mean that customers can ride the wave of constant innovation at a lower cost than outright ownership. In this episode we're joined by three people in this space: Rich Gilbert of the Agency of Design, Natasha Franck, Founder of Eon the 'Netflix for fashion', and Gunnlaugur Erlendsson from Enso Tyres. This podcast was recorded as part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Find out more at thinkdif.co.  

The information technology revolution has only just begun, yet it is removing jobs faster than its creating them in a global economy which has faltering growth, social tensions, unemployment and resource issues.  What are the consequences, what needs to be done? In this episode we hear from Nikki Silvestri, a social entrepreneur who knows we have to nurture society through these disruptions. Nikki was recorded at the launch event of the Disruptive Innovation Festival 2016. This podcast was recorded as part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Find out more at thinkdif.co. Check out the rest of the Circulate Podcast series two here.

How well do you know the circular economy? It's not a new idea, but a term that has gone from relative obscurity only five years ago, to one which any serious CEO now has on their radar. Understanding the concept is one thing; implementing a framework which requires whole systems change is quite another. Join the Ellen MacArthur Foundation as we discuss both the concept and how businesses and governments have begun to take it on. This podcast was recorded as part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Find out more at thinkdif.co. Check out the rest of the Circulate Podcast series two here.  

Google believes that business has a key role to play in being part of the solution to move from a global economy based upon ‘take-make-dispose’ to one that is based on designing waste out of systems. Google’s goal is to embed circular economic principles into the fabric of its infrastructure, operations, and culture. We speak with Jim Miller, Google's Vice President of Global Operations to find out from him about what the circular economy can do for this leading contemporary's business. This podcast was recorded as part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Find out more at thinkdif.co.  

To take advantage of the financial benefits of a circular economy, firms will have to rethink their business models. The en-mass switch to 'Product Service Systems' has not yet begun, but the benefits for businesses and users is already there to see. Watch this event from the Disruptive Innovation Festival to learn how two firms and one design agency addresses these business models, and why.

Before the middle of this century, the world's cities will face challenges like never before. A projected 50% growth in world population, hand-in-hand with the concentration of people in urban centres, means our cities will have to be prepared for the social, environmental and infrastructural challenges coming their way. 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) is an organisation dedicated to helping cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges of today and the future. From Accra to Yiwu, cities around the world are supported in their distinct challenges by 100RC. We speak with Elizabeth Yee, the Vice President of City Solutions for 100RC and help us to ask what we can learn from how cities are overcoming resilience challenges. This podcast was recorded as part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Find out more at thinkdif.co.

What will the future of mobility look like? The experts interviewed in this show at the Disruptive Innovation Festival 2016 argue that we face a future of on-demand ride sharing, where ownership of a private motor vehicle will be increasingly unlikely, and automated vehicles commonplace.

This short animation introduces the concept of a 'regenerative city'. Produced by the University of Sheffield for the Disruptive Innovation Festival in 2016, the video explores how we need to take a systems approach to city design

Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross recap major themes from the futurethink podcast miniseries on the circular economy, part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival. •Overarching Themes •Circularity •The biological system is circular (though you always have sun inputting energy from outside the circle). • The circular economy model is gaining traction and we discussed its role in cities in an earlier episode: https://soundcloud.com/user-723097380/the-future-of-cities-and-the-circular-economy •People •You can’t discount the role that people play in innovation. People are a significant factor in determining if a new technology will work and how it will be implemented. •We can look at people on two scales: the broader social scale and also on an individual level. •Inclusion: We need to think about all communities' role in technological transition and how we can engage these communities. o Heather mentions Martin Buber’s notion of “I and Thou” in the discussion of how we relate and understand to other people. Read more about Buber’s ideas here: http://www.iep.utm.edu/buber/#SH2b •There is a problem of capital in the energy transition. How do we ease the transition? o Government incentives o Social acceptability of technological change o Creating habits surrounding change

Clark Miller talks with Heather Ross and Andrew Maynard about Energy Transitions and the Circular Economy. This is the 4th episode of the 5-part futurethink series: Innovation, Society, and the Circular Economy for the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Show Notes Guest, Clark Miller: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/977682 • Check out the Disruptive Innovation Festival at https://www.thinkdif.co/ • Recycling requires enormous amount of energy and is cost-prohibitive. Can an energy transition make it more efficient? Read more: http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2015/10/14/economist-rethink-how-we-recycle • Developers are bidding record-breaking low prices at a new plant planned for the Middle East. Read more about it: http://fortune.com/2016/09/19/world-record-solar-price-abu-dhabi/ • People being hard hit by energy transition played a significant role in this past election. What compelled coal workers during the election? Read more : http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/04/coal-mining-craig-colorado-election-day-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/93235678/ •Heather discusses the Clay Christensen model of disruption and what it means in energy transitions. Read more: https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation •Innovation doesn’t always have to be transformative all at once. We can promote idea of incremental innovation so that people’s livelihoods are not disrupted. Read more: https://www.wired.com/insights/2013/11/the-power-of-incremental-innovation/

Thad Miller joins Heather Ross and Andrew Maynard to chat about the future of cities and the circular economy. This is the 3rd episode of the 5-part series: Innovation, Society, and the Circular Economy for the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival. Please join the conversation at thinkdif.co, Twitter @futurethinkpod, or by adding your comments wherever you get your podcasts. Show Notes •Guest, Thad Miller: https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/thaddeus-miller/ •Read more on the circular economy here: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/aug/26/how-the-circular-economy-is-taking-off-in-the-us •Ecological Gentrification: what is it? Read about it: http://critical-sustainabilities.ucsc.edu/environmental-gentrification/ •Recent studies have shown that Uber and Lyft drivers have shown discrimination in use of their technology. Read more here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-31/study-finds-racial-discrimination-by-uber-and-lyft-drivers •Heather discusses the Clay Christensen model of disruption. Read more: https://hbr.org/1995/01/disruptive-technologies-catching-the-wave •Portland now has a pilot program for compost pickup. Can we expect other cities to follow suit? Read more here: http://www.oregonmetro.gov/news/portland-region-explore-food-scraps-mandate-businesses •Portland passed a resolution banning construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure within city boundaries. Where does Portland get the authority to do this from? Read more: http://koin.com/2016/11/13/portland-considers-ban-on-new-fossil-fuel-terminals/ •Whole Foods in Detroit. What can we learn from this story? Read more: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2014/11/whole_foods_detroit_can_a_grocery_store_really_fight_elitism_racism_and.html •Urban farming in Detroit means communities are working to find the most efficient ways to use the resources around them. Read more: https://nextcity.org/features/view/detroit-comprehensive-urban-agriculture-proposal

This week, are we on the threshold of the greatest shake-up of environmental regulation we've ever seen? Last December COP21 resulted in the Paris Agreement. The United Nations now say that enough nations have ratified the agreement to make it legally binding. Legally binding on whom? Maybe we'll learn more at COP22, which is now running in Marrakech. How are we actually going to achieve the emissions reductions that the Paris Treaty requires? Lord Stern says we'll need net zero emissions. Does that imply geo-engineering? We'll have a look at that.  On the energy front, Lord Turner says that ultra-low-cost renewables are at hand and Iceland is digging deeper into its geothermal reserves. Meanwhile the British government has responded to the court's demand that it should do something about air quality (not quite so bad as in India) and DIF16, the latest Disruptive Innovation Festival is in progress. Finally, hear about the amazing expanding moped. Text and references as usual at anthonyday.blogspot.com

Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross chat about risk and the circular economy in the 2nd episode of the special futurethink podcast series for the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival.

In this special episode of the futurethink podcast, Heather Ross and Andrew Maynard have an unplanned (but recorded) chat with colleagues Michael Bennett, Bob Cook-Deegan, and Diana Bowman. They discuss the possible implications of the 2016 presidential election results on the near future of science, technology, research, and innovation. Show Notes • The Master's of Science and Technology policy program at Arizona State University prepares graduates to work on the intersection of science policy and politics. Check it out here: https://sfis.asu.edu/degree/science-technology-policy-0 • The Disruptive Innovation Festival is an online, open access event for thought leaders and entrepreneurs exploring the changing economy and where we go from here. Find out more here: https://www.thinkdif.co/big-top-tents/arizona-state-university-asu • What does the 2016 Presidential election mean for the future of science and technology policy? • Some areas of scientific research are expected to remain untouched, such as the Precision Medicine Initiative (https://www.nih.gov/precision-medicine-initiative-cohort-program), the cancer moonshot( https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative/task-force), Alzheimer’s research (https://www.nia.nih.gov/), the Brain Initiative (https://www.braininitiative.nih.gov/), and CERN (https://home.cern/). • Scientists must now practice what they preach through responsible innovation and use public engagement as a tool to engage people who feel disenfranchised. • Closing notes: We must confront the distrust of expertise. How can experts re-frame the issues? o Propose--don’t preach. o Listen. o Shared value in democracy.

This is the first of a 5-part series on the Future of Innovation and the Circular Economy, as part of the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival (https://www.thinkdif.co/big-top-tents/arizona-state-university-asu). Erik Fisher, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Responsible Innovation(http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tjri20#.VvWqquIrJaR), joins Heather Ross and Andrew Maynard to chat about Responsible Innovation and the Circular Economy. Please visit thinkdif.co and navigate to our festival podcast listing to contribute to the DIF 2016 conversation. Andrew and Heather will be discussing the DIF community conversation in the final installment of this 5-part series. Show Notes · The idea behind Responsible Innovation: Innovation is good but it can be better (http://cspo.org/program-areas/responsible-innovation/) · The Disruptive Innovation Festival is an online, open access event for thought leaders and entrepreneurs exploring the changing economy and where we go from here. · Responsible innovation has been used in nanotechnology research to make it more environmentally and socially responsible (https://cns.asu.edu/research) · Closing notes: How do we nurture responsible innovation? By nurturing curiosity, creating space for innovation, and by being patient.

The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is the expanding network of everyday objects—you can expect some 35 billion connected devices by 2020. The internet won’t be about your mobile phone or laptop anymore, it will be dominated by communication between devices, chips scattered over the natural world, and sensors embedded in our bodies. Should we fear or welcome the next internet? In this session at the Disruptive Innovation Festival, Phil Howard, author of “Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up”, and Sophie Hackford from Wired Consulting, will debate the value of the IoT and the privacy concerns that arise. They will discuss how perfect behavioural data creates new opportunities for public conversation, community building, and political power, and you will have an opportunity to put questions to them.