Category Archives: Technology

Keith Clarke, Chair, Constructionarium.

Keith Clarke, CBE: Decarbonise At Speed. Embrace It, Or Get Left Behind!

 Neil Koenig, TV Producer, Journalist and ideaXme board advisor interviews Keith Clarke CBE, a senior construction industry figure shaping the modern sustainably built world and a passionate environmental campaigner. Keith is currently Chair of Constructionarium, Member of Advisory Board, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University and Director Women in Property Network. Moreover, until recently he was […]

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 […]

Lenka Petrakova, Award-Winning Designer and Architect of the 8th Continent.

The 8th Continent: Award Winning Design Concept to Clean the Oceans

There is a pressing need to clean up the world’s oceans. Both the health of our oceans and climate change are linked as oceans play a vital role in absorbing carbon dioxide. Plastic pollution, 8 million tons of plastic every year, threaten all marine life. Ocean species are facing a bigger danger of extinction than species on land. It […]

Dr Merritt Moore ballerina and quantum physicist.

Quantum Physicist Ballerina Aspiring To Be An Astronaut

 Dr Merritt Moore, PhD, quantum physicist, ballerina and aspiring astronaut talks with Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme. Dr Moore has achieved what some would call ‘the impossible’: a career as a professional ballet dancer and as an academic quantum physicist.” – University of Oxford. She plans on adding another profession to her career roster […]

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 […]

Dr. Hugh Herr, Associate Professor MIT Media Lab and head of the Biomechatronics group MIT Media Lab.

Extreme Bionics: Sculpting Human Physiology

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Hugh Herr, Associate Professor MIT Media Lab and head of the Biomechatronics group, MIT Media Lab. A fascinating conversation covering the science and technology of extreme bionics. Furthermore, Dr Herr’s reason for becoming one of the world’s leading innovators in the sector. Dr Hugh Herr: Extreme Bionics […]

Dr. Jiangying Zhou, Program Manager DARPA. Credit: DARPA

Dr. Jiangying Zhou: The Frontiers of Mathematics, Computation, Systems and Design

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Jiangying Zhou, Program Manager at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Defense Sciences Office. Ira Pastor Comments: On this episode of ideaXme, meet again with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), but unlike the past few shows where we’ve been spending time with […]

Dr. Frank D. Marks, MS, ScD, Director of Hurricane Research Division, at NOAA. Photo credit: NOAA.

Hurricanes: Evolution, Risk Reduction, Tracking and Simulation

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr. Frank D. Marks, MS, ScD, Director of Hurricane Research Division, at NOAA. Hurricanes and climate disasters Ira Pastor comments: Weather and climate disasters affect the world’s population. The total approximate cost of damages from weather and climate disasters in the U.S. alone from […]