Podcasts about marko ahtisaari

Together with my friend Marko Ahtisaari we are doing a series of podcasts on Web3.  In this episode, we talk to Kevin Abosch, a conceptual artist who sold a photo of a potato for over a million euros, put himself on the blockchain, and is currently algorithmically designing wall-hangings for this year's Helsinki Festival. We spoke to Kevin about his journey as an artist, his experiments with blockchain and NFTs, and his take on Web3. “Right now we are at peak confusion,” he says. "Things can go very dark very quickly if people don't take the time to philosophically understand how this technology may or may not serve us in the immediate and long term future." We hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we did.

Monen meren äärellä asunut, Juhlaviikkojen taiteellinen johtaja Marko Ahtisaari sukeltaa Annamarin kanssa syvälle taiteen, meren ja teknologian suhteeseen. Parhaimmillaan taide koskettaa ja herättää tunteita, mutta millainen taide muuttaa käytöstä? Teknologia tuo uusia ulottuvuuksia taiteeseen - miten sitä käytetään tunnetta unohtamatta?

Marko Ahtisaari is the artistic director of the Helsinki Festival, a former product design lead at Nokia, and co-founder of Dopplr and Sync Project. In the episode: Marko Ahtisaari expands on his journey as a designer and entrepreneur, explaining powerful lessons learned across three continents. By taking a holistic perspective on the Finnish design tradition, Ahtisaari unpacks how the country’s societal values shaped its technologies. Learn more

Nadya Peek is a leading researcher on digital fabrication. She is about to start as a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. Nadya is working towards a world where manufacturing is as accessible to individuals as computing is today. Marko Ahtisaari is the CEO and co-founder of The Sync Project that is developing music as precision medicine. Previously he worked as the head of design at Nokia. They met at a CNC milling machine at Massachusetts Institute of Technology a few years ago and started sharing ideas around manufacturing - and then decided to form a band called Construction. Nadya and Marko threw a gig during Helsinki Design Week and kindly agreed to join us for a podcast. Although personal digital fabrication is not yet accessible for the common people as such, are we on the verge of a revolution? What is the role of human design in it? Marko and Nadya share their insights and tell us how to get started if you get excited about digital manufacturing. They also tell the story of how did the two of them end up forming a band.

Marko Ahtisaari, the CEO and cofounder of The Sync Project, presents ideas and projects born out of the vision that in the near future people will use non-drug modalities to heal, enhance well-being, and assist in therapy. He guides us through the recent experiment Unwind.ai, which uses your heart rate to select the tracks that will bring you peace of mind.

CEO Marko Ahtisaari brings a rich background of design and music to a new quest to identify music that can actually help people maintain or regain their health. In this interview, Ahtisaari references a few websites, including go.syncproject.com where you can offer your song suggestions. You can find out more about project advisor Dr. Robert Zatorre in this interview and hear Ahtisaari’s view on company culture.