Podcast appearances and mentions of nick weir

Clearly we're at an inflection point in the history of humanity.  Our experiment with a notional democracy is failing and either we find something that actually works, or we sink into autocracy. And given that the current global flavour of autocracy is in deep denial of the climate and ecological catastrophe that's currently underway, then that's a pretty fast road to extinction: you can't deny your way out of biophysical reality. So what can we do, we who care deeply about passing an inhabitable - thriving - world to the generations not yet born?  We need to go back to basics. We all need clean water, clean air, safe shelter and good nutritious food - and we are rapidly heading for a space where just accessing these will become more of a priority than our recent experiment with unleashing ancient sunlight has led us to believe. But more than this, the community that grows around these, particularly the growing and sharing of food - is the glue that keeps us together. We are a prosocial species. We are astonishingly creative when we put our minds to it. So what happens when we put our minds to creative ways of growing and sharing food that are founded in solid values of cohesion and connectivity?  One of the things that happens is the Open Food Network which is a global community of farmers, growers, community food enterprises and software geeks with a common belief that world food systems are broken - and that better, more connected, open, resilient systems can arise in their place.  They are building alternative food systems from the bottom up: this is their theory of change and this is a recent podcast about a new OFN project called the Power of Food.So this week, I've been talking to Nick Weir who helped to set up the Open Food Network UK. Nick has a background in IT account management, but, as you'll hear, he is also a long-term grower who co-founded the Stroudco Food Hub and Stroud Community Agriculture and is deeply passionate about the role of innovative food systems in creating a kinder, more interconnected society, and the ways in which the Network can model a new way of working which empowers people to bring more of themselves to their work.  If you're feeling crushed by the global political chaos, I hope this conversation cheers you as it did me, with living examples of change happening on the ground, and the ripple effects it can have. Open Food Network Global https://openfoodnetwork.org/Open Food Network uk https://about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk/Power of Food podcast  https://www.wearecarbon.earth/power-of-food-collaboration/ Open Food Network resources https://about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk/resources/Landworkers' Alliance https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/our_vision/Sustain https://www.sustainweb.org/about/Social Farms and Gardens https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/about-us/what-we-doThe Power of Food theory of change https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oSn8g-b-GlVku9g9TOKoVO0GvxSRSuCy/Living Justice https://livingjustice.earth/projects/

Join us in this special episode that brings together a range of voices to explore their developing collaborative project; The Power of Food. Together these four guests bring a diverse range experiences and knowledge to unite around the common goal of building social cohesion by harnessing the connective power of food. Connecting with where our food comes from, and also with community, with health, with nature and with the world around us. Holistic and expansive.It was a delightful conversation to be engaged with and I'm so excited to announce that during our chat a decision was made to fast forward plans and move forward with a pilot right away! If you're serious about taking action to connect and enrich the local food system around you I'm sure the team here would love to hear from you. Here's Nick's email - do reach out: nick@openfoodnetwork.org.ukThe Guests and links out:Nick Weir - Co-founder, Open Food Network UK https://openfoodnetwork.org.uk/Kay Johnson - Director, The Larder https://larder.org.uk/Flora Gathorne-Hardy & Miche Fabre Lewin - Founders, Living Justice https://livingjustice.earth/With insights from Serenity Hill - Co-founder, Open Food Network [Full episode with Serenity: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/serenity-hill-open-food-network/ ]For a further breakdown of this discussion see the timestamps below.See the video version of this episode here: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/power-of-food-collaboration/-------More Formats from We Are Carbon: [Shorter Video Format with Animations] - Can All Food be Regenerative. With Patrick Holden: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/can-all-food-be-regenerative/[Story Telling Audio Format] - Soil (My Common Sense Take) : https://www.wearecarbon.earth/soil-path-to-whole-systems-thinking/Explore ways to support this content: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/your-support/----------------------Timestamps:00:00:00 - Overview00:03:12 - Guest intros00:12:00 - Collaboration - benefits & reasons for coming together00:28:28 - The Open Food Network; an ambition to connect people with their food00:34:34 - Insights from Serenity Hill - Co-Founder, The Open Food Network00:36:30 - Benefits of shorter supply chains00:41:00 - Connecting through food (self, community, nature)00:50:20 - Learning to cook - addressing this obstacle to fresh local food00:58:21 - Coming together to practice change01:04:18 - An invite; get involved today!

Get ready for a cruise-filled episode of Trade Secrets. This week, co-hosts Emma Weissmann and Jamie Biesiada welcome Royal Caribbean's Vicki Freed, senior vice president of sales and trade support and service, and Nick Weir, senior vice president of entertainment, onto the show. Hop aboard as we dive into everything from the brand-new Icon of the Seas — billed as the largest cruise ship at sea — to what it takes to entertain Royal's millions of cruisers. This is the first of a two-part series featuring Freed; join us next time for a discussion on creating a strong advisor-supplier relationship. This episode is sponsored by Windstar Cruises.  Further resources Contact Vicki Freed by email or her personal cell phone, 305-458-0463 Follow Nick Weir on X (formerly Twitter) Royal's trade marketing hub (also home to the link to register for Vicki's Coffee Talk) Vicki Freed on Humans of Travel: Royal Caribbean's Vicki Freed on breaking into the cruise industry _ and meeting the boss who helped shape her Icon of the Seas coverage Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas takes thrills to the max Royal Caribbean sets a new cruise benchmark with Icon of the Seas Need advice? Call our hotline and leave a message: 201-902-2098 Email us: tradesecrets@travelweekly.com   Theme song: Sock Hop by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4387-sock-hop License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Alston, Tim, and Cristina as they interview the Senior Vice President of Entertainment at Royal Caribbean, Nick Weir!Follow the hosts on Instagram @TravelmationPodcast

How can lessons from geospatial computer vision applications impact bio image analysis? CosmiQ’s Dr. Nick Weir and B.Next’s Dr. Dylan George explore the intersection of these two fields and why artificial intelligence (AI) has struggled to gain traction with both satellite imagery and medicine. Hear about their project that researched similarities and differences between satellite imagery, microscopy, and “normal” photographs, and why researchers developing AI methods for microscopy might want to leverage the work done for geospatial applications.Read more about their project at The DownLinQ and BioQuest:· Viewing the World Through a Straw, Part 1· Viewing the World Through a Straw, Part 2

In this interview, we have the pleasure of interviewing Nick Weir, Senior Data Scientist at CosmiQ and Challenge Manager at SpaceNet LLC. Nick gives us an update about the current SpaceNet Challenge, goes into how challenge tasks are selected and gets into a deeper discussion about the geospatial industry. Watch the show and check it out. CosmiQ website: www.cosmiqworks.org describes all of our projects, etc. SpaceNet website: www.spacenet.ai data download links SpaceNet 6 TopCoder landing page: www.topcoder.com/spacenet SpaceNet GitHub org, which contains all of the open-source solutions from past challenges: github.com/spacenetchallenge CosmiQ’s Solaris GitHub page: www.github.com/cosmiq/solaris About SpaceNet SpaceNet, launched in August 2016 as an open innovation project offering a repository of freely available imagery with co-registered map features. Before SpaceNet, computer vision researchers had minimal options to obtain free, precision-labeled and high-resolution satellite imagery. Today, SpaceNet hosts datasets developed by its own team, along with data sets from projects like IARPA’s Functional Map of the World (fMoW). About CosmiQ Works Founded in 2015 as a technology challenge lab within In-Q-Tel (IQT), CosmiQ Works is an IQT Lab focused on developing, prototyping, and evaluating emerging open-source artificial intelligence capabilities for geospatial use cases. Artificial intelligence will fundamentally change how geospatial analytics is performed and CosmiQ Works helps accelerates the development and adoption of these technologies into deployable products. And by the way, it’s pronounced “Cosmic.” About Us Project Geospatial is a podcast hosted by Adam Simmons and Mason Rothman dedicated to increasing awareness of Geospatial Technology, education resources, and industry best practices. Our show is comprised of industry professionals who discuss diverse topics such as new geospatial projects, innovations, and resources that benefit the overall community. If you are an industry professional reach out to us, we’d love to hear your feedback or have you on the show. Listen in and check us out at projectgeospatial.com Support Us! Enjoy listening to the show? We ask that you support us as we continue to provide great content on the Geospatial industry discussing News, best practices, and having guest speakers related to the latest industry projects. You can contribute to our continued operation through https://anchor.fm/projectgeo/support and https://www.patreon.com/projectgeospatial Your contribution keeps our website running and funds our ability to cover conferences on various events beyond the GEOINT Symposium. If you represent a company in the industry and would like to talk about your product or service on our show please, reach out to us. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

John Sipple, Senior Software Engineer for Machine Learning at Google and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Portfolio Joint Reserve Lead for the Defense Innovation Unit, joins IQT CosmiQ Works’ Ryan Lewis and Nick Weir to share lessons learned from designing and executing machine learning projects. The group dives into Sipple’s past experiences, current research areas, and future AI trends and areas of interest, such as attention networks.

CARTO’s Chief Strategy Officer, Javier de la Torre, and Director of Spatial Data Science, Matt Forrest, join IQT CosmiQ Works’ Ryan Lewis and Nick Weir to discuss how spatial analytics tools can be designed for a variety of different end users, ranging from data scientists to business analysts. They also consider how historically GIS functions are being incorporated in business intelligence (BI) tools. The group closes on a conversation about the Spatial Data Science Conference which was hosted on October 16th at Columbia University.

This episode features special guest Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, co-founder of hackNY.org, and founder of Fast Forward Labs, which is now part of Cloudera. Hilary joins CosmiQ’s Ryan Lewis and Nick Weir as they explore lessons learned and recommendations on executing artificial intelligence (AI) beyond research teams. The discussion explores how machine learning technologies can be applied at an enterprise level for corporations that are looking to move beyond basic prototypes and into real product development that shows results.

The final part of our three-part series featuring special guests from Azavea, Rob Emanuele, VP of Research, and Joe Morrison, Product Specialist. Join them for a discussion with CosmiQ’s Nick Weir and Jake Shermeyer as they highlight recent work exploring how to integrate some of the novel insights obtained from unique geospatial datasets, such as multi-spectral imagery and elevation information, and how these additional features can augment existing computer vision models trained on standard red, green, blue imagery and video.

Part one of a three-part series featuring special guests from Azavea, Rob Emanuele, VP of Research, and Joe Morrison, Product Specialist. Join them for a discussion with CosmiQ’s Ryan Lewis and Nick Weir to learn how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can impact the geospatial industry both technically as well as operationally, and the utility of pre-training AI models and multi-spectral satellite imagery data.

Performing machine learning and analyzing geospatial data are both hard problems requiring a lot of domain expertise. These limitations have historically meant that one needs to be an expert in both to perform even the most basic analyses, making advances in AI for overhead imagery difficult to achieve. Is there anything we can do to reduce this barrier to entry, making it easier to apply machine learning methods to overhead imagery data?   Ryan Lewis and Nick Weir tackle that question as they discuss one of CosmiQ’s new project, Solaris, a new open source Python library for performing and evaluating machine learning analyses of overhead imagery. Solaris provides an easy-to-use, end-to-end analysis pipeline for AI model training, prediction, and performance assessment, along with providing pre-trained winning models from the SpaceNet® Challenges for comparison. 

Nick Weir, challenge manager for SpaceNet at In-Q-Tel's CosmiQ Works lab, discusses how his project crowdsources AI solutions for government applications.

October 22, 2018. This week it is once again taken back to 1941 for what is considered the FIRST noir film ever: The Maltese Falcon. Joined by Nick this week is old-school film enthusiast, Nick Weir. In this episode, they discuss which aspects still hold to today's film standards, the early noir traits developed and shown in this film, Humphrey Bogart and his performance, the formation of the trans-atlantic accent, the meaning behind the character's names, the similarities to 'Casablanca' and 'A Shot in the Dark,' the ending of the film, and much more! Check us out on instagram: @nick_ladue @nickweir_

Mit dieser Folge beginnt etwas Neues beim cruisetricks.de Kreuzfahrt-Podcast: Im Wechsel mit langen Folgen, in denen wie ausführlich über ein größeres Thema sprechen, gibt es nun auch News in einem kürzeren Format. Alle zwei Wochen werden wir also nun über aktuelle News-Themen, Beobachtungen am Rande und kleinere Themen sprechen. Diese News-Folgen wird es nicht zwingend alle zwei Wochen geben, sondern immer dann, wenn es tatsächlich wichtige und interessante News gibt. Aber im Wesentlichen kehren wir damit zu unserem wöchentlichen Rhythmus des Podcasts zurück, den wir im Sommer vorübergehend ausgesetzt hatten, weil wir zu viel auf Reisen waren und die Arbeit für einen wöchentlichen Podcast nicht mehr zu schaffen war. In dieser Folge geht es nun also um Monsterwellen (die MSC Divina wurde in der Karibik von einer großen Welle getroffen), Flüchtlinge (und die Frage, ob Kreuzfahrtschiffe eine Alternative für die Unterbringung von Flüchtlingen sein könnten) und Entertainment an Bord (wir haben ein kurzes Interview mit Royal Caribbean Vice President für Entertainment, Nick Weir, geführt). Außerdem stellen wir eine neue Idee vor, wie Sie, unsere Hörer, den Podcast recht bequem unterstützen können: Nämlich mit einem Dauerauftrag über zum Beispiel einem Euro monatlich - einmal eingerichtet und ab da keine Arbeit mehr damit. Wir sind gespannt, ob diese Idee funktioniert und dieser Weg für eine kleine Spende einfacher und effizienter für Euch ist als die eher umständlichen Spenden beispielsweise über Paypal. Schonmal im Voraus "Herzlichen Dank für die Unterstützung!" Für die Kontonummer bitten wir noch um ein wenig Geduld - aus Sicherheitsgründen richten wir dafür ein eigenes Konto ein, die Eröffnung dauert aber ein paar Tage ...

You've probably heard by now all about Royal Caribbean's brand new shows and entertainment coming to Quantum of the Seas but you know, I wanted to dive a little deeper into what we can expect. So this week I'm so excited to welcome Royal Caribbean's Vice President of Entertainment Nick Weir onto the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast to talk all about these new shows and give everyone listening an idea of what to expect.Share with me your thoughts, questions and comments via...Twitter: @therclblogFacebook: /royalcaribbeanblogEmail: matt@royalcaribbeanblog.comLeave a voicemail: (408) 6ROYAL6Show NotesRoyal Caribbean Google Hangout where Quantum of the Seas shows were announcedList of the new shows announced for Quantum of the Seas

2012 #6: Jimmy Savile's Drawers - Lucy Porter and Markus Birdman. Rich has not been well and low flying jets going over his venue have come close to increasing his laundry bill. But the show must go on and today, at least, the guests have turned up. Lovely Lucy Porter talks about babies, being on the Perrier panel and reveals the most shocking rumour yet about dead DJ Jimmy Savile. If the press are to be believed then Savile might well have been a big fan of this podcast, which provides a valuable service, keeping children safe for an hour a day. This is the only podcast you'll hear that will discuss short-lived Catchphrase host Nick Weir, the terrible movie Festival and Richard Madeley's attitude to Kate Jackson from Charlie's Angels and that's a guarantee. And if you've ever wondered which animal Lucy Porter would have sex with (if she had to), then your questions are about to be answered. Markus Birdman, the stand-up from 2011's Lost Podcast returns to hopefully finally be heard in his normal human voice. Richard was ill and showing off and so is very sorry for the many crawly unfunny and offensive things he said!