Category Archives: Founder Interviews

Stela Solar, Director National AI Centre, CSIRO Australia talks with ideaXme

Stela Solar Leads A “World First in AI” | At the National AI Centre, CSIRO Australia

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Stela Solar, Director of National AI Centre, CSIRO Australia. They talk of “Australia’s world first” initiative to develop, roll out and manage AI and how Stela Solar leads it. Biography Stela Solar Director of the National AI Centre, CSIRO Australia Stela Solar is the Director of the National Artificial […]

Dr Jo Zayner talks with ideaXme

Dr. Jo Zayner Celebrity Bioactivist | Invites You To Try Biotech

Dr. Jo Zayner, PhD, Biophysics, founder of The ODIN talks with ideaXme’s founder, Andrea Macdonald. Dr. Jo Zayner Biochemist and Genetic Engineer Dr. Jo Zayner is a visionary biochemist and genetic designer. Zayner is transgender and uses she/her pronouns advocating for diversity, body autonomy and science for all. For over 15 years, she has pioneered work […]

Adam Rogers, WIRED magazine. Credit: Photo by Jenna Garrett.

Adam Rogers, WIRED magazine: How The Science Of Color Made Us Modern

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Adam Rogers, who is Senior Correspondent at WIRED magazine and a New York Times best-selling author. They talk of Adam’s new book: Full Spectrum: How The Science Of Color Made Us Modern. “To the extent this book has a single take away, I hope that colour is more widely recognised as this […]

William Haseltine, PhD, President ACCESS Health International

How Has Covid-19 Changed Science?

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. William A. Haseltine, President ACCESS Health International. In this interview William Haseltine talks of: -How Covid-19 has changed science -How high levels of scientific collaboration and knowledge sharing were sparked in this crisis and a precedent set in which it has become institutionalised within the “virus science” […]

Dr. Ayesha Khanna, CEO and Co-founder ADDO AI

Future of Smart Cities and Smart Nations

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. Ayesha Khanna CEO and founder ADDO AI. In this interview Dr. Ayesha Khanna talks of: – Smart Cities and smart nations – opportunities and threats – Reasons why Singapore was voted as lead smart city – ADDO AI’s portfolio of work – Ethics and security related to the […]

Loay Elbasyouni

Building the NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Loay Elbasyouni, senior director for engineering at Astrodyne TDI. Loay was lead electrical and power electronics engineer (to 2018), who helped build the NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter.  In this interview discover the technical challenges the team faced in building the first powered aircraft to fly on Mars, moreover discover […]

Jekan Thanga PhD.

News From SpaceTREx: The Lunar Ark

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Jekan Thanga, PhD., Head of SpaceTREx laboratory, Principal Investigator of the NASA-funded ASTEROIDS laboratory and Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. They discuss the latest developments at the laboratories. Moreover, ideaXme receives a news exclusive relating to SpaceTREx’s proposal to build a […]

Dr. Kevin Pitts, CRO Fermilab and Physics Professor at the University of Illinois.

Dr. Kevin Pitts: Neutrinos and Muons To Reveal New Laws of Physics?

 Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. Kevin Pitts, Chief Research Officer at Fermilab, America’s particle physics and accelerator laboratory and Physics Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They spoke of 2 exciting research projects Muon g-2 and DUNE hosted by Fermilab which focus on muons and neutrinos respectively. Please scroll down for the interview […]

Dr. LaMesha Craft ideaXme interview

Dr. LaMesha Craft: Intelligence and Resilience

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. LaMesha Craft, PhD. all-source intelligence warrant officer (retired) and now contracted faculty member at the National Intelligence University, USA. Find the audio interview on SoundCloud now. Shortly on all major audio podcasting networks. Disclaimer: The views expressed by Dr. Craft in this interview do not reflect the official […]

John Vickers

Blue Abyss: One Giant Step For Extreme Environments Training?

 Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme interview John Vickers, founder of Blue Abyss. Blue Abyss will be a high tech pioneering training and extreme adventure centre. Its objective is to be “the most comprehensive deep sea and space research, training and test facility of its kind in the world, unmatched in its breadth of configuration”. Blue […]