Category Archives: Founder Interviews

Craig Fugate, Chief Emergency Management Officer, One Concern

How To Build Resilience In Tough Times: Individuals, Countries and Planet-wide

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Craig Fugate, former Administrator at FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), USA, (2009-2017), reporting to President Barack Obama. Craig, now Chief Emergency Officer of One Concern, provides his perspective on the recent crisis in Texas – the power grid outage, the current Mexican border refugee challenge (9,500 unaccompanied […]

Tom Lawry, National Director for Artificial Intelligence, Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft.

Tom Lawry: Champion of Intelligent Health at Microsoft

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Tom Lawry, National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft . This interview is for the technology geeks amongst us as well as the general public who’d like to know more about what’s happening next in health. Before becoming National Director for AI in the health […]

Perry Marshall, founder of the Evolution 2.0 Prize

How To Win The $10 Million Evolution 2.0 Prize?

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Perry Marshall, founder of Evolution 2.0 Prize and Natural Code LLC. Perry Marshall Disseminator of Biological and Inorganic Information Systems Perry Marshall is a high level connector and multi-disciplinary disseminator of both biological and inorganic information. He is most recently famous for corralling some of the world’s top […]

Amy Karle, BioArtist and Futurist

Amy Karle BioArtist Invites Exponential Technologist To Collaborate!

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Amy Karle BioArtist.  Click the link above to listen, alternatively read the full transcript below to discover why Amy would like to collaborate with an exponential technologist, furthermore her view on the interface between exponential technology and ethics. Amy Karle BioArtist Amy Karle is an internationally award-winning BioArtist […]

James Thornton, CEO ClientEarth.

ClientEarth: Can Law Save The Planet?

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews James Thornton, CEO of  ClientEarth to talk of how legal action could save the planet. ClientEarth ClientEarth is a non-profit international environmental law firm which employs over 200 people who work in more than 60 countries. The organisation uses the law to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, […]

George Duffield, co-founder Blue Marine Foundation

Blue Marine Foundation: Protect The World’s Oceans

 Andrea Macdonald Founder ideaXme interviews George Duffield Co-founder, with Charles Clover and Chris Gorell Barnes, of Blue Marine Foundation (Blue). Blue is a global marine conservation charity based in London. Its objectives are to ensure the protection of at least 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030. With a team of only 30 people, they […]

Professor Pieter Roelfsema, Director of Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience. Credit: NIN.

Breakthrough in Developing Technology to Restore Functional Vision for the Blind

Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Professor Dr Pieter Roelfsema Director of the Netherlands Instititute for Neuroscience Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:06:52] I’m Andrea Macdonald, the founder of ideaXme. Breakthrough towards developing technology to restore functional vision in the blind Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme [00:07:10] This episode concerns itself with a breakthrough towards developing a technology to […]

Virginijus Sinkevičius EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries

Virginijus Sinkevičius EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries

 Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries. The EU Commission: The Commission helps to shape the EU’s overall strategy, proposes new EU laws and policies, monitors their implementation and manages the EU budget. It also plays a significant role in supporting international development and […]

Sir John Hegarty co-founder of BBH and founder of The Garage Soho

Sir John Hegarty: The Power of Creativity

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Sir John Hegarty. Sir John Hegarty, co-founder of global advertising and communications company BBH (Bartle Bogle Hegarty) and founder of The Garage Soho, Investment Company is one of the world’s most awarded and respected creatives in history. He has written 2 best-selling books with a possible third in the […]

Kazuhiro Gomi President and CEO NTT Research

How NTT Research Plans to Upgrade Reality

 Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Kazuhiro Gomi (Gomi-san), M.S., CEO and President of NTT Research. Discover how this exciting Silicon Valley start-up plans to “upgrade reality”. NTT, Nippon Telegraph and Telecoms Corporation, Global: NTT Global, the parent company of NTT Research, is a top 5 global technology and business solutions provider with operations […]