Podcasts about mic mann

The global software crisis that affected banks, hotels and airlines this past weekend demonstrated how fragile our IT systems are and how dependent the world is on them. We have also seen so much misinformation around the US election and various political events around the world that people are struggling to discern fact from fiction. Mic Mann, Co-CEO of Singularity South Africa  joins us live to discuss how AI can solve problems like these, help future proof Africa and how the summit aims to help solve the global challenges. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sara-Jayne Makwala King is joined by one of Africa's most respected futurists Mic Mann, Owner of Ubuntuland and Africarare to unpack Africa's first Metaverse.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How do you prepare for disruption? More importantly, how do you become not just prepared for change but become a changemaker yourself as a leader who foresees opportunities to make positive impacts in business for society and for the planet? How do you show people a better world? Mic Mann is a storyteller, futurist, entrepreneur and speaker on exponential technologies and to discuss how they will democratize industries and improve lives. Mann has 19 years of experience in the media, marketing and eventing industry. His family's Sandton-based, award-winning experiential brand agency works with top Fortune 500 companies. He is the co-founder of Africarare Metaverse, which is expected to have exponential impact on Africa shared ecosystems. Mann's family business Mann Made, which established the Singularity University Executive Programme in South Africa, modeling the same program in Silicon Valley. The program curriculum is designed to help entrepreneurs think like futurists and empower more people with the ability to innovate and implement solutions for Africa's – and the world's – greatest challenges. This long term investment for SingularityU South Africa makes possible custom education, innovation and impact programmes that help businesses and individuals leverage rapidly accelerating technologies to unlock solutions that can positively impact millions of lives. Mann Made's goal is to #futureproofAfrica into the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The 4th Industrial Revolution is ushering a whole new array of technologies that are working into personal lives, as well as professional ones. # About Better Worlds Better Worlds is a communication and community building platform comprised of weekly podcasts, engaging international conferences and hack-a-thons to encourage and support the development of Web3 solutions. Our programs celebrate voices from every continent to forge a shared and abundant future.

On this episode I chat with the visionary Mic Man, Mic is a storyteller, futurist, entrepreneur and speaker on how exponential technologies can help to #futureproofAfrica. I believe that the future will be abundant, as the convergence and potential of exponential technologies increase and their price gradually drops to zero. This will ultimately democratise numerous industries and improve the lives of all. After completing his honours degree in scriptwriting, directing and producing film at AFDA, Mic joined as co-owner of the family business, Mann Made. This Sandton-based award-winning experiential brand agency has worked with top global and local Fortune 500 companies. Mic has 19 years of experience in the media, marketing and eventing industry. After completing the Singularity University Executive Programme in Silicon Valley in 2015, Mic realised that in order to #futureproofAfrica we need to embrace exponential technologies. In 2016, he established the non-profit SingularityU Johannesburg and Cape Town Chapters to help build the local community, so that South Africans can create employment, drive education and stimulate the economy with new opportunities.   https://singularityusouthafrica.org/ https://wattsinvolved.co.za/ https://davidwattsblog.com  

Roberto Curiel, CEO de Terra & Mondo, nos habla sobre los vinos italianos que distribuye en M1éxico; desde SingularityU Summit en Guadalajara, Eddy nos presenta una entrevista con Mic Mann, Co-Director Ejecutivo de SingularityU Sudáfrica, quien nos habla sobre el catalizador del futuro de los profesionales; Andrés Lieberman, importador de puros, nos habla sobre la importación de este producto en nuestro país, todo esto y más con Eddy Warman de Noche.

Today's conversation is with an incredible thought leader, innovator and futurist Adam Pantanowitz, talking about his favourite topic Hacking Humans with Mic Mann. We get to hear some interesting insights on the work Adam is doing as well as his philosophy on a number of issues from overcoming adversity to hacking tips. Adam Pantanowitz is a fanatical technologist, who enjoys solving seemingly unsolvable problems, particularly with the help of cloud computing and machine learning. He is part of the SingularityU South Africa faculty with a focus on biotechnology and speaks about the future of technology with a focus on tech-human convergence.

Mic Mann is the CO-CEO of SingularityU South Africa, the SA Chapter of Singularity University (SU). SU focuses on global learning and innovation communities aiming to use the exponential growth of technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), to address the world's most pressing problems. SingularityU South Africa takes that mission to a local stage with the mission of building an empowered network of globally connected change makers across the African continent who are able to implement solutions to the most serious continental challenges. It runs custom education, innovation and impact programs that help others leverage rapid accelerating technologies in innovative ways to unlock solutions that could change the fortunes of the African population.Mic completed his honours at AFDA, the African Film Drama Art academy, before joining his family's business, the award winning Mann Made, where he worked for over twenty years in media, marketing and events. In 2016, he attended the Singularity University Executive Program in Silicon Valley before founding SingularityU South Africa.  A storyteller, futurist, entrepreneur and public speaker, Mic is on a mission to #futureproofAfrica, meaning an Africa that benefits if not even leads the Fourth Industrial Revolution instead of being left behind in a tornado of technological destruction. His passion truly lies in local start-ups and maker communities.Join us as we explore:What kick started Mic's love for techArtificial intelligence and its role in Africa's futureThe Fourth Revolution and should we be afraid?What is the Singularity?What is going to happen to traditional professionsMics's optimistic view of tech's ability to empower peopleA deep dive into longevityThe metaverse, NFTS and DAOThe goal to end poverty in South Africa in 15 years ContactWebsite: https://singularityusouthafrica.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC49CCuPnFzfBrmXmU8XYrpAMentionsSingularity University https://su.orgRay Kurzweil Matthew Walker – “Why We Sleep”https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144316chilisleephttps://madetothrive.co.za/special-deals/chili/Exponential Finance Summit 2021https://www.exponentialfinance.co.za

Listen to the latest episode of Exponential Conversations in a discussion with Rafael Brown and Mic Mann on The Future of music concerts in VR & Gaming. A great migration into virtual worlds is taking place at warp speed. Now is the time for you to explore and discover the opportunities and potential that lie ahead. Virtual and augmented reality tech is the next evolution in computing and is set to disrupt current computing. Featuring: Rafael Brown is a veteran game designer having worked in the games industry for the past 25 years. He has worked across the range of PC, Console, and Mobile for game studios. He now is the CEO of gaming development company Symbol Zero, where they combined forces with Roblox, Ctrl-Alt-Create, and House of Moves, to deliver a virtual concert for global music artist, Lil NasX, that attracted more than 33 million views in 2020. Rafael makes VR games, worlds, and experiences with immersion, emergence, narrative & online platforms.Join the conversation. Don't miss out!

On this episode I speak to Mic about the Singularity U event and what we have to look forward to going into the future. Mic Mann believes that the future will be abundant as the power and potential of exponential technologies increases and their price gradually drops to zero, ultimately democratising numerous industries and improving the lives of all. As co-founder of Mann Made, an award-winning experiential brand agency that has worked with top global and local Fortune 500 companies. Mic has 19 years of experience in the media, marketing and eventing industry. Mic is a prolific speaker and strategist on exponential technologies, the future of work and the changing role of professionals. After completing the Singularity University Executive Programme in 2015, he realised that in order to #futureproofAfrica we need to embrace exponential technologies. He and his partners subsequently brought the SingularityU Summit – the first of its kind on the continent – to South Africa. Mic’s passions are entrepreneurship and break-through technologies. He is also involved in the local start-up and maker community. https://micmann.com/ https://singularityusouthafrica.org/ https://wattsinvolved.co.za/    

In this episode, Cathy talks with Mic Mann, the co-CEO of Singularity University South Africa and host of Exponential Africa about how he's using VR and what the future holds for immersive tech in Africa. Mic is a well-known technology leader in his region and a champion for immersive tech. Cathy and Mic discuss everything from holding of the world's 1st press conferences in VR to attending Tomorrowland in the near future.

Disruption explained with David RobertsExponential Africa Show with David Roberts, one of the top leadership, innovation and disruption experts globally!Mic Mann sat with David Roberts earlier this year in Costa Rica to discuss how the theory around disruptive innovation.David talks about a mentor of his Clayton Christensen who came up with the concept of Disruptive Innovation. Clayton sadly recently passed away however the ideas around disruption will live on. David discusses the universal understanding and meaning of the term disruptive innovation and how we need to get good at disruption first before trying to disrupt ourselves. Watch the full episode and dive in deeper With David.

How will finance, wealth management and fintech evolve and become more transparent in the future? Watch Exponential Africa 1on1 with Paul Pagnato founder and CEO of Pagnatokarp a top family office and private wealth management firm with over $9.5 billion assets under advisement. Paul is a top advisor with more than 27 years of industry leadership, ranked #1 in Virginia on Forbes Top Wealth Advisors and #2 in Virginia on Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors lists.Mic Mann interviewed Paul on his visit to South Africa Last year where he spoke at the Exponential Finance Summit! Paul speaks about his early beginnings, where he started and how he got to where he is today, discussing how the great recession in 2008/9 led him to launch Pagnatokarp, with a goal to fix the financial structure issues. This created great awareness into the implementation of transparency in business and all aspects of his life, watch the full episode and hear all about how transparency under Pagnatokarp has led many companies to exponential growth and success.Paul has recently published his new book should you want to learn more - Transparency Wave: Exponential Changes That Will Transform Our World#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa show Mic Mann discusses VR, AI, Spatial computing and more with Futurist, Author, Journalist and Top voice on LinkedIn, Cathy Hackl!Cathy comes from a Journalistic and storytelling background which evolved after having encountered her first VR experience realising the considerable value and impact in the future of VR.Cathy discusses Spatial computing which is a new form of computing that combines AI & computer vision to seamlessly blend digital content into our reality. Watch the full episode and learn more about what's to come and the future of story living.#futureproofAfrica

Today on The Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat on immersive VR with the Co-founder of the TESLASUIT - Dimitri Mikhalchuk!The Teslasuit is a wireless haptic suit to fully experience virtual reality and the most immersive VR experience you can get today! A full-body suit that is worn together with VR headset to enter the VR world, the suit is calibrated to register movement and reactions. The full-body AR/VR suit and software suite accelerates the improvement of movement, reflexes and instincts, allowing faster, better improvement of the human mind and body.Haptic Feedback: From subtle touch sensations to feelings of physical exertion, users experience scenarios as though they’ve lived them.Motion Capture: TESLASUIT captures actions as they’re performed to establish baselines, create programs, and track improvement over time.Biometrics: Embedded ECG and EDA sensors capture users vitals and emotional stress level, so trainees can prove their ability to perform under pressure.Watch the full episode to learn more!Teslasuit website: https://teslasuit.io/Episode shot at the Australian SingularityU Summit in October 2019.#futureproofAfrica

What are the benefits of having Augmented and Virtual reality in our present world and the future of humanity?Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with SingularityU Faculty member specialising in Augmented and virtual reality - Rachel Sibley!Education and training are a huge opportunity space; through AR and VR, we can scale immersive learning! Rachel says that we can dematerialise and thus demonetise by digitising the most high impact way of learning which is fully embodied interactive learning.Rachel speaks of retention and efficiency through interactive, immersive learning being the most impactful way to scale children and adult education as well as retraining our workforce.Rachel discusses what our children or next-generation would look like if they had an embodied relationship to concepts like quantum physics. “If we could create virtual worlds where we could expose our minds to these concepts, we would really open up entirely new domains of opportunity.” Rachel Anne Sibley.Watch the full episode for more on this very relevant and fascinating topic!#futureproofAfrica #AR #VRwww.singularityusouthafrica.org

Exponential Africa Show - Pablos Holman - Hacking & Disruptive Innovation!Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann welcomes Pablos Holman - SingularityU Futurist, Hacker, Inventor, and Disruptor!Pablos’s hacking career started in his childhood years. Growing up in Alaska, Pablos had a lot of free time to get to know his computer, which led to his coding and hacking skills. Pablos explains the computer to be a tool that lights up your imagination.His incredible mindset led him to work on and implement an extensive number of disruptive & innovative projects. From 3D printing, crypto, AI, reactors powered by nuclear waste, and more!Watch the full episode and join this thought-provoking conversation.#futureproofAfrica

Season 2 of the Exponential Africa show is here! To kick off the first episode Mic Mann interviews Tina Averback! Founder of Sky Studio (Sky Studio Lucia), a company that offers an advanced light meditation experience using Lucia.Lucia is a neural stimulator using different light frequencies, strobing, flashing and flickering LEDs combined with a halogen bulb. These stimulants travel and penetrate one's closed eyes through the optic nerve stimulating the pineal gland.Tina says stimulating the pineal gland in this way opens up your inner vision. A unique experience of reaching a theta state of meditation simply by closing your eyes and letting the light do the work for you, no need to have any meditation experience. A fascinating concept, what are your thoughts? Watch the full video to learn more about Lucia and its benefits.#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with Arturo Elizondo. CEO of Clara Foods - developing performance protein products and making the world's first animal free egg white protein. Clara foods uses advanced fermentation processes to brew protein that is cleaner greener and kinder to our environment.Arturo grew up eating eggs for breakfast and meat with almost every meal, never thinking about where his food really came from. At his first internship at the department of agriculture Arturo discovered that a million animals are slaughtered every hour in the USA, and the amount of water, land and protein needed to feed a growing populations was unsustainable. This led and inspired the creation of Clara foods, finding a better way to provide protein without the harmful long lasting effects on the planet and its limited resources.Watch the full episode to learn more about Arturo’s journey to the creation of Clara foods and its importance.#futureproofAfricawww.singularityusouthafrica.org

Exponential Africa Show on digital manufacturing with Andre Wegner.On the Exponential Africa Show today, Mic Mann meets with Andre Wegner, Founder & CEO of Authentise and Singularity University faculty Chair of digital manufacturing. Speaking on hardware, digital manufacturing, 3d printing, why it is needed and what can be accomplished or arise by deploying these technologies.There are many drivers moving us towards adopting a more agile approach to manufacturing. The world we live in today means a greater demand of products at the “speed of light”. Just as we get information and digital products at a touch of a button. Manufacturing has to evolve to suit the demands of society. People are not willing to wait 18 months for a product release. There is a big need from the manufacturing industry to produce much faster. Where are we now and where is it all going?A conversation that is very important relevant to us all today, what will the future of manufacturing look like? Watch the full episode and join the conversation.#futureproofAfricawww.singularityusouthafrica.org

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we welcome Carlo Van de Weijer, a world leading expert and SingularityU faculty member on mobility and automotive! Speaking on autonomous cars and their future impact!The rise of autonomous vehicles production comes typically as digitisation happens. Digitisation is always followed by disruption creating a race to disrupt ones self before getting left behind. Carlo says autonomous cars are like computer on wheels, self driving vehicles are just one positive aspect of the disruptions and change coming into the industry.Autonomous vehicles are just one step into the future of mobility, solving many other issues we encounter daily with vehicles like road and passenger safety, cost of vehicles and insurance premiums to name a few. Information gathered through the cameras and the connectivity used to manage these autonomous cars generates great amounts of data that can benefit everyone.Watch the full video to hear how Carlo believes South Africa can save costs and leapfrog to a better more sustainable future using these technologies.#futureproofAfricawww.singularityusouthafrica.org

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we meet Alex Gladstein. CSO of the Human rights foundation, a guest lecturer at SingularityU and a prolific speaker on the future of money. Alex speaks on the positive impact of a decentralised bitcoin system and how it will help the poor and sustain a democracy in the world!Alex’s background is in political science, studying governments, democracy and dictatorship. He speaks on how Bitcoin is going to revolutionise our lives, focusing on the positive outcomes of the decentralisation of money for all human kind! Bitcoin in not an inflationary currency, it is predetermined and transparent which aids in the survival of democracy, by being completely open and permission-less!“Invest in bitcoin, but not your money, your time, become educated.” Alex Gladstein.Watch the full video to hear Alex Gladstein’s phenomenal point of view on the future of money, and if you want learn more from Alex we highly recommend reading his new book - "The little Bitcoin book".#futureproofAfrica

All new episode of Exponential Africa show where Mic Mann interviews Divya Chander, Chair of Neuroscience at Singularity University. An exciting conversation on our brains, consciousness, meditation, fusing our organic brains to machines and its implications!Neuroscience as is is a very broad type of science but simply put it is the study of the brain which encompasses mathematics, computational neuroscience and the birth of AI that came from neuroscience understanding neural networks!What are your thoughts on rewiring our brains inside out? Being human Divya describes us as having two fundamental codes that can be rewired - our genes that today can be edited with technology which essentially is editing the code of life and our brains. We used to think that our brains could not be rewired, but neuroscience has proven otherwise. Today neuroscientists have the ability of decoding how our brains speak therefore finding ways to rewire the brain!Divya speaks of fusing organic brains with machines, consciousness and the ethical implications of it all, watch the full episode and dive deeper into this fascinating topic!#futureproofAfricawww.singularityusouthafrica.com

Watch an all new episode of the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann in a fascinating discussion with SingularityU Vice chair of digital biology and medicine, Tiffany J Vora.Tiffany's passion lies in looking into the latest and greatest trends in her field trough analysis and conversation with Vc’s, startups and mentorship programmes. Bringing in all the information together in ways that really maximise the impact of these technologies that are currently changing biology, agriculture and healthcare, all of which are tied together with life!Biotechnology simply put is a group of technologies used to either investigate or how we use living things to do things that we want as humans.Digital Biology is a way of thinking about living systems the same way we think of computer coding, Tiffany explains that anything you can do with a living system can be done with computer coding. DNA can be seen as an operating system, as all life on earth runs on the same open source operating system which is DNA!Watch the full episode to hear more on this topic and the incredible advancements that are currently happening in the field!#futureproofAfrica

Today on the Exponential Africa Show with Mic Mann we get to hear from @richardmbrowning the -'Real-life Iron Man’!Celebrating human and machine collaboration, Richard browning is busy building the capability to put on a race series with these Gravity Jet suits!English inventor, entrepreneur and speaker. Richard founded Gravity Industries and is the inventor of the Gravity Jet Suit, a Jet Suit that uses several miniature jet engines to achieve vertical flight.Using engines on his arms to control the direction and thrust of the suit. Mr Browning’s Jet Suit has a maximum eight-minute flight time, dependent on his weight, fuel payload and weather conditions.He wears a body armour “exoskeleton” underneath it, with fuel in a backpack and a holographic head-up display helmet that shows him engine data. The former Royal Marine reservist follows a gruelling fitness regime to boost the strength in his arms and shoulders.Watch the full episode to find out more from Richard and the future of the Gravity Jet suit!

SingularityU South Africa Summit co-organiser Mic Mann and creative director Youri Licht recently travelled to the Singularity University(SU) summit in Thailand where they interviewed various SU speakers. Season 1 is a series of in-depth conversations with some of Singularity Universities most innovative and creative minds. Ramez Naam is a computer scientist, futurist, and award-winning author. Ramez spent 13 years at Microsoft, where he led teams developing early versions of Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, and the Bing search engine. His career has focused on bringing advanced collaboration, communication, and information retrieval capabilities to roughly one billion people around the world, and took him to the role of Partner and Director of Program Management within Microsoft, with deep experience leading teams working on cutting edge technologies such as machine learning, search, massive scale services, and artificial intelligence. Between stints at Microsoft, Ramez founded and ran Apex NanoTechnologies, the world first company devoted entirely to software tools to accelerate molecular design. He holds 19 patents related to search engines, information retrieval, web browsing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Ramez is also the H.G. Wells Award-winning author of four books: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet (non-fiction), which looks at the environmental and natural resource challenges of climate change, energy, water, and food, and charts a course to meet those challenges by investing in the scientific and technological innovation needed to overcome them, and by changing our policies to encourage both conservation and critical innovations. He’s a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy at Aurora Illinois. In his leisure, Ramez has climbed mountains, descended into icy crevasses, chased sharks through their native domain, backpacked through remote corners of China, and ridden his bicycle down hundreds of miles of the Vietnam coast. He lives in Seattle, where he writes and speaks full time.

Business Day TV — Mic Mann, co-founder of Mann Made, unpacks cryptocurrencies; where it started and what the future may hold. Xolani Luvuno unpacks his psyche of steel to get off drugs & alcohol and set his sights on finishing the Comrades Marathon on crutches. Part 2/2 - “Addicted to running”. Pieter Faber from SAICA unpacks the new deadline of 31 October for tax e-filing submissions & also gives tips on submitting supporting documents separately to speed up processing.

Business Day TV — Mic Mann, co-founder of Mann Made, unpacks blockchain, a complex technology that’s currently shaping the future. Xolani Luvuno won the hearts of millions of South Africans when he completed the Comrades Marathon on crutches. Join us for part 1/2 titled “Life on the streets”. Dr Ryan Van Den Bergh from MTN joins us to share the outcome of successful pilots MTN SA conducted to test the imminent 5G technology.

CliffCentral.com — We are extremely excited to start our series from Singularity University, which was on 23-24 August. And wow, what an incredible show, where 1,300 South Africans were exposed to the 29 future thinkers from all over the planet. The world is changing and these are the beautiful minds changing it. We had the privilege to interview most of these amazing people. To kick off the series off we spoke to Shayne Mann, who with his brother Mic Mann brought Singularity University to Africa. What an absolute gentleman and shape shifter.

CliffCentral.com — Join Weza and Vaughn as they discuss social entrepreneurship geared to teach young people about wealth creation. They are also joined by Mic Mann from Mann Made Media who shares the innovative and creative side about the Global Impact Challenge (GIC) - a challenge open to innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologists. Don't miss this powerful, informative and inspiring podcast.