Category Archives: Technology

Track and Trace Covid 19 Apps

Track and Trace: An Issue of Access

On the 18th of June, the U.K. Government announced that it would be scrapping its NHSX track and trace app, and instead switch to a model provided by Apple and Google’s Covid-19 development partnership, due to numerous issues with the NHSX app’s software. The U.K. is not the first country to halt the development of […]

Naveen Jain, founder of Viome an app to optimise gut health and nutrition

Personalised Nutrition App to Optimise Gut Health and Overall Wellness

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews, Naveen Jain, M.B.A, BS, Founder and CEO at Viome as well as founder of several companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius and InfoSpace. Optimising Wellness via Nutrition Ira Pastor comments: On this ideaXme episode, we are going to head back towards the […]

Dr Sneh Khemka thought leader, VHealth Virtual Population Healthcare

Virtual Health with Dr. Sneh Khemka

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr Sneh Khemka, thought leader in Virtual Population Healthcare. Ira Pastor comments: Population Health is a discipline that helps governments and large organizations manage the health of their populations better, primarily through infrastructure development (major IT systems), clinical data analytics, health & disease management, and […]

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 […]

Cheryl D. Hicks CEO Toilet Board Coalition tackling the sanitation crisis

Cheryl D. Hicks: Global Sanitation Crisis Endangering the Lives of Millions

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Cheryl D. Hicks, Executive Director and CEO at Toilet Board Coalition. Ira Pastor comments: So on the last several shows, as we have spent time on the themes of health, wellness, and aging, we’ve been speaking to a broad range of experts primarily […]

The History Machine Credit: Joe Neary

The History Machine: Filtering History’s Bias with Neural Networks

Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, deepfake and fake news researcher and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Niall Donnellan, co-founder (with Cathal O’Gorman) of The History Machine Podcast, a project which uses a neural network to answer some of the “what ifs” of military history. Amanda Christensen comments: Fake news and media bias have been some […]

Miri Rodriguez Microsoft

Miri Rodriguez, Microsoft: The Importance of Brand Storytelling in a Time of Crisis

Dr. Shima Beigi, Founder of Mindfulness Engineering™️ BSc, MSc, MSc, Ph.D., resilience scientist and ideaXme Rich Connectedness™️ ambassador interviews Miri Rodriguez, Storyteller and Head of Global Internship Program at Microsoft and author of Brand Storytelling. Dr. Shima Beigi comments: In this new episode of ideaXme Rich Connectedness Podcast series, I, Dr. Shima Beigi founder of […]

Sridhar Solur, Ai, IoT and Smart Homes

Sridhar Solur: Life on the Edge – Ai, IoT and Smart Homes

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Sridhar Solur, Executive Vice President, General Manager and Chief Product Engineer at the Shark Ninja Operating Company. Ira Pastor comments: So as we continue upon the themes of healthy aging and human enhancement, a principle that we’ve touched on of “Aging in Place”, a concept whereby […]

Ben Hammersley

Ben Hammersley Futurist Defines Our New Normal In The Age Of Coronavirus

Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest interviewer, interviews Ben Hammersley, one of the world’s leading futurists and founder of international Strategic Foresight agency Hammersley Futures. Amanda Christensen comments: Our world as we know it has seemingly changed overnight as countries globally make the decision to impose lockdown-type mandates in a worldwide effort to slow the spread of […]

Prioritising Facts Over Fear in the Age of Coronavirus

Prioritising Facts Over Fear in the Age of Coronavirus

Media manipulation is not a new phenomenon, but the means and speed by which fake news reaches the general public is drastically changing thanks to the instantaneous nature of social media. With social media algorithms and our own patterns of content consumption favouring sensationalist content, it’s easy to prey on the public’s desperation for information […]