For over 25 years, XPRIZE has convened the brightest minds from around the globe to tackle the world’s greatest challenges. One of the most pressing problems facing humanity today is food insecurity, and the need for nutritious, affordable, and sustainably-sourced food has reached critical status. In this exciting episode hosted by XPRIZE Founder and Executive Chairman, Peter H. Diamandis, we’re talking to world-renowned author, philanthropist and business strategist, Tony Robbins, as he discuss...
Dec 07, 2020•29 min•Season 3Ep. 10
In recent years, a large number of AI for Good projects have been deployed all over the world, using AI to solve critical issues such as poverty, hunger and climate change. While certainly well-intentioned, these projects often miss crucial elements in their design and deployment, which can result in a large amount of fanfare but very little impact. In today’s episode which was recorded at AI for Good, a global summit hosted by ITU and XPRIZE, we’re joined by Sasha Luccioni, a Postdoctoral Resea...
Dec 05, 2020•27 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Collaboration. The Superpower of the 21st Century XPRIZE convenes the world’s brightest minds to help solve some of the most pressing challenges, and for this special Giving Tuesday episode, we’re taking a look back at 2020 with avid entrepreneur, philanthropist and XPRIZE Trustee Paresh Ghelani; physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance Task Force Daniel Kraft; and Sonny Kohli, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at CloudDX, a co-winner of the $10M ...
Nov 29, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Welcome back to another edition of Future Positive, a podcast from XPRIZE. We convene the world’s brightest minds, across a kaleidoscope of cultures and points of view, revealing their inspirations, and how and why they will change the world. Since the foundation of the AI for Good movement, there have been many great examples of how AI can help solve the world’s problems to address the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals. But, AI technology is being developed in such a manner that its governa...
Nov 21, 2020•36 min•Season 3Ep. 7
For today’s episode, we’ll hear from AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio who is a Turing-award winning computer scientist, AI XPRIZE advisory board member, and one of the “godfathers of machine learning”. In a special recording from AI for Good, a global summit hosted by ITU and XPRIZE, Yoshua takes us on a deep dive into how machine learning is helping us in the fight against Covid-19. Yoshua pulls the curtains back on two AI projects, one around prediction of contagiousness, and a second on antiviral dru...
Nov 14, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Welcome to “Future Positive,” a podcast from XPRIZE. We convene the world’s brightest minds, across a kaleidoscope of cultures and points of view, revealing their inspirations, and how and why they will change the world. The views on this podcast are those expressed by guests as their own personal views and their appearance on the podcast does not imply an endorsement of the guests or their views by XPRIZE.” The gloves are off. The end of the 20th century saw the implosion of communist dictators...
Nov 07, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Welcome to “Future Positive,” a podcast from XPRIZE. We convene the world’s brightest minds, across a kaleidoscope of cultures and points of view, revealing their inspirations, and how and why they will change the world. The views on this podcast are not those of XPRIZE. Democracy’s obituary? Part 1: The Dark Side of Technology The end of the 20th century saw the implosion of communist dictatorships across the globe. In 1989 with the fall of the Berlin wall, we saw democracy greatly expanding, a...
Oct 30, 2020•59 min•Season 3Ep. 4
For many indigenous communities, passing down knowledge to the next generation is critical to cultural survival. The preservation of these cultures have traditionally been done through the study and documentation of languages, traditions and rituals. In today’s episode, we’ll start by hearing from Burr Settles, Head of Research and AI at Duolingo, and go into a discussion between Davar Ardalan from IVOW AI, AI writer Chamisa Edmo, Alva Lim from Agora Food Studio, AI Researcher Victor Yarlott, an...
Oct 23, 2020•46 min•Season 3Ep. 3
The future of mobility is electric, connected, autonomous and shared. With an estimated $100B invested in autonomous driving globally, autonomous driving technology was pitched as the biggest change in mobility since we stopped using horses. Yet in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, where is this autonomous driving (AD) future we were promised? This episode features a radically open conversation between World Economic Forum’s Head of Automotive and Autonomous Mobility Michelle Avary, Pro...
Oct 17, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In today’s episode, educator, developer, and game industry leader Gordon Bellamy talks about the rise of esports and how it has influenced the future of learning. As a catalyst to learn, create and experience the future, video games and virtual reality give us new creative outlets to realize our full potential. Gordon explores his career trajectory, from Tencent, MTV and Electronic Arts (as a designer on Madden NFL Football), ultimately leading him to a career dedicated to championing inclusivit...
Oct 10, 2020•39 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In this Labor Day special a racy conversation takes place around labor, race, and equity - it’s an important one. This week, XPRIZE’s own Shlomy Kattan sits down with New Profit Partner, Dr. Angela Jackson, and attorney / activist, Karen Fleshman to discuss the future of work. Over the course of this conversation we take a deep dive into capitalism’s historic inequality, how Gen Z will save us all and the tools and procedures necessary to make meaningful careers accessible to ALL. Dr. Angela Jac...
Sep 04, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 9
In this episode, Ali Velshi, TV journalist, NBC News correspondent and co-anchor of Velshi & Ruhle on MSNBC, sits down to talk with entrepreneur, author, lifestyle guru, and Founder of Bulletproof 360 and Bulletproof Nutrition, Dave Asprey. Ali and Dave met at XPRIZE Visioneering, to talk about how their experience gave them a necessary escape from the cynicism of today’s world and opened their eyes to infinite possibilities. Ali and Dave argue that innovation should be fun, and how surprisi...
Aug 15, 2020•14 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In this week’s episode, Dr. Emily Church, Executive Director of Equity & Education at XPRIZE, will be dropping in on a conversation between Brent Bushnell, entrepreneur, engineer and CEO/co-founder of Two Bit Circus and Chris Copeland, professional athlete who has played for the New York Knicks, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, ultimately earning the nickname "The X-Factor". In this candid conversation, Brent and Chris come together to talk about creativity, their experience at XPRIZE Vision...
Aug 08, 2020•17 min•Season 2Ep. 7
In this episode, XPRIZE founder Peter H. Diamandis discusses AI and how it is often portrayed in science fiction with world renowned sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson, at XPRIZE Visioneering recorded at Paramount Studios. Robinson questions our relationship with AI and the important future of synthetic medicine. Although he is inspired by space exploration, he argues that the race to Mars is not an urgent problem, but rather a reward for fixing the problems on planet Earth. Recently named by Fo...
Jul 18, 2020•17 min•Season 2Ep. 5
In this episode, our podcast host Dr. Emily Church looks at how technology is innovating modern medicine at an exponential rate to be smarter and proactive. In a special recording from Visioneering, XPRIZE founder Peter H. Diamandis is joined by two of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs: iBOT & Segway inventor engineer Dean Kamen, and science innovator and founder of United Therapeutics, Martine Rothblatt. They discuss the future of health and medicine where biology IS technology. Drawing fr...
Jul 18, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 4
In this episode, XPRIZE CEO and astronaut Anousheh Ansari, talks to SpaceX COO and President, Gwynne Shotwell, about working with interstellar innovator Elon Musk, and the company's plans for the future of space travel and exploration including its plans to build communities on the moon, Mars and beyond. Recorded at Paramount Studios during XPRIZE Visioneering, Anousheh invites guests to question Gwynne about her predictions for commercial space travel. Anousheh Ansari is CEO of the XPRIZE Found...
Jul 03, 2020•21 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Episode 2: In this episode, join XPRIZE founder and Star Trek superfan, Peter H. Diamandis for a special recording at Visioneering with LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis and Rod Roddenberry from Star Trek: The Next Generation live from Paramount Studios. XPRIZE’s vision of a future of abundance is inspired by Star Trek’s IDIC (Infinite Diversity Infinite Combinations) and this incredible line-up discusses their inspiration from the franchise including female empowerment, living in a post-scarcity worl...
Jun 27, 2020•31 min•Season 2Ep. 2
NEW SEASON Welcome to Future Positive from XPRIZE. This season we aim to bring you the most future-forward topics, covering everything from AI to avatars, to climate change, and more. We will share conversations from game-changing leaders, tech entrepreneurs and heavyweights from the creative industry - revealing their inspirations, and how and why they will change the world. Captured during Visioneering at Paramount Studios, Peter H. Diamandis is joined by Harrison Ford and Wes Bush from Conser...
Jun 22, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Welcome to the final episode of our new XPRIZE podcast series, Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19, featuring Caroline Kolta. In this episode, Caroline questions what role our food system played in leading to COVID-19, and what the future of our food systems will look like as we emerge from the pandemic. Caroline’s own work in food and agriculture led her to realize that it’s time to recognize the interconnectedness of animal health, people’s health, and planetary health. Car...
Jun 21, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Welcome to the latest episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series, Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19, featuring Anousheh Ansari, Anya Shakhmeyster, Catherine Connors, and Lisa Bilyeu. In this episode, Anya gets inside the minds of three women who are disrupting traditional gender stereotypes every single day. Lisa, Catherine and Anousheh share their personal mission for female progress, and some positive disruptions they see happening in our world due to COVID-19. Cather...
Jun 12, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Welcome to the latest episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Chris Classen. This June marks 50 years since the first permitted Pride Parade, taking place in Los Angeles in 1970, an audacious act in a time when your sexuality could leave you in handcuffs. In this week’s episode, Chris reflects on the beginnings of Pride, and with guest John D’Amico, former mayor and current council member of the City of West Hollywood, an...
May 29, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this week’s episode Emily shares her experience working and parenting at a time when schools are closed indefinitely. Even without this pandemic, Emily reflects on how a world without schools is a reality for many parents and children around the world. Dr. Emily Musil Church is the Executive Director of Education & Learning at XPRIZE, where she led the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE, and leads XPRIZE’s educational outreach and equity programs. Prior to joining XPRIZE, she spent over a decade...
May 15, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome to the third episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Neama Dadkhahnikoo and Devin Krotman. In this weeks podcast Neama Dadkhahnikoo and Devin Krotman discuss how artificial intelligence is being used during the Covid-19 pandemic and how this same technology will be able to be rolled out to tackle other problems in our uncertain future. From tracking to predicting the spread of infectious diseases to helping doctor...
May 07, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to the second episode of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Jacquelyn Morie. In this podcast Jacki looks at how humans require touch, studies show that babies who are never touched fail to thrive but the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the use of remote digital technology to the fore. We are now using digital platforms for our work, for our entertainment and for our social need for human to human contact. But how do we as...
May 07, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the first of our brand new XPRIZE podcast series - Not Going Back To Normal, Imagining Life After COVID-19 featuring Marcus Extavour. In this podcast Marcius guides us through the unexpected environmental side effects of the Covid-19 outbreak and how humans all around the world are responding with data driven optimism. This pandemic has brought clean air to the most polluted parts of the world and this unexpected environmental impact got Marcius thinking about other links between the ...
May 07, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 1
