Category Archives: Big Ideas

Neil Koenig ideaXme board advisor

Memories of Steve Jobs | Neil Koenig, talks of a conversation he had with Apple’s founder

Neil Koenig, former BBC Senior Producer and ideaXme board advisor tells us of his illuminating conversation with Apple’s founder, Steve Jobs. Sony Walkman TCD-D100 DAT In Paris in September 1998, my colleague Peter Day and I met Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to record an interview for a BBC documentary. But before we could get started, […]

Daniel Birnbaum, Artistic Director, Acute Art

Art’s New Frontier: ACUTE ART

Neil Koenig, former Senior BBC producer and current ideaXme board advisor and guest interviewer, interviews Daniel Birnbaum, artistic director Acute Art. Art’s New Frontier The pandemic has had an impact on most aspects of our lives, and the art world is no exception. With many galleries and museums closed, there’s an urgent need for new […]

Credit: Dan Mapes

Optimising the Everyday with The Spatial Web

Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, fake news and deep fake researcher and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Dan Mapes, co-founder of VERSES.io and co-author of The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World. Amanda Christensen comments: We’ve come a long way since the invention of the internet, and even […]

Dr. Rachel Armstrong at TEDGlobal 2010. Oxford, UK, July 12-16, 2010. Credit: James Duncan Davidson / TED

Living Architecture: Merging Living Systems With Buildings

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Professor Dr. Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, at Newcastle University. Ira Pastor comments: On past shows, as we’ve been navigating the biological architecture of life, we’ve spent time taking about the important differences between the […]

Dr. Ronald Mallet, Credit: Dr. Ronald Mallett

Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Mission to Make Time Travel A Reality

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus, Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics at the University of Connecticut. Ira Pastor comments: Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space, by an object or a person, […]

Fionn Ferreira with Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf

Google Science Fair Winner Fionn Ferreira

Dr. Richard W. Smith (PhD), ideaXme World Oceans ambassador and Oceanographer at Global Aquatic Research, interviews 18 year old scientist Fionn Ferreira, winner of the 2019 Google Science Fair. Fionn Ferreira Fionn Ferreira recently received the award for developing a method for removing plastics from water. Whilst this represents a breakthrough in the established scientific […]

Rian Johnson

Rian Johnson, Episode 8, Star Wars Director a message:

  Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, former astro-biologist, author and space ambassador. Here’s a FORCE you should meet! That FORCE is Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, who has the capability and drive to change our world for the better! “I love connecting people, translating between scientists, engineers and non-technical people, and reminding people […]