Category: Interview
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294I_Erick A. Brimen, CEO of Honduras Próspera and NeWay Capital

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “You can’ have a choice if you don’t have opportunities.” Are you interested in the 3 tasks governance should do? What do you think about service-based governments? How can we create good governance and governments? Interview with Erick Brimen, CEO of Honduras Próspera and NeWay Capital. We…
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292I_Anthony Acciavatti, Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale University

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “It’s less interesting how technology changes people than how people change technologies.” Are you interested in urban water management? What do you think about overstressed urban infrastructure? How can we provide water as a right for everyone? Interview with Anthony Acciavatti, Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale…
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290I_Jen Borrero, a Colombian-Mexican Impact Entrepreneur and Community Developer

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Urban living is very dense, that lands it being more resource efficient.” Are you interested in housing affordability projects? What do you think about successful cities? How can we make the 2nd and 3rd order consequences as part of policy-making? Interview with Jen Borrero, a Colombian-Mexican Impact…
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288I_Dan Hill, the Director of the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “[Cities are] multiple systems, threaded together, nested inside each other, interacting with each other in different complex ways.” Are you interested in the city as tangle of systems and flows? What do you think is the connection among nature, technology and culture? How can we create real…
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286I_Junaid Islam, a secure communication expert

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “The future of cities is really something that is in our power to shape it if we are really getting involved.” Are you interested in how technology and non-technology fuses in an ideal urban future? What do you think about hard and soft infrastructure? How can we…
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282I_Keygan Huckleberry, Emergency Management Officer in Christchurch

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Some people are aware of the hazards, but unaware of the consequences.” Are you interested in disaster resilience planning? What do you think about 15-minute cities as a tool for disaster resilience? How can we create safe, informed and resilient cities? Interview with Keygan Huckleberry, Emergency Management…
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278I_Nadun Hennayaka, founder and CEO of Gaia Project Australia

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “The world is a city on its own, we are not really disconnected.” Are you interested in technology which enhances urban food production? What do you think about the world as a city on its own? How can we be responsible for everything we use? Interview with…
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276I_Beth McDaniel, President of Reactive Surface Partners at McDaniel and Associates

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “What we can’t do is be an ostrich and put our head in the sand and expect [climate change] to go away.” Are you interested in carbon capture technologies? What do you think about the opportunities within our collaborations? How can we shake off our boiling frog…
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274I_Richard Gill, CEO of RethinkX

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “[In] societal change we need to protect people, not jobs or industries.” Are you interested in transformational technologies? What do you think about cities being in competition? How can we embrace change even if it is messy? Interview with Richard Gill, CEO of Rethink X. We talk…
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272I_Frank Elavsky, accessibility and data interaction researcher

Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Our job is to imagine a future that is hopeful.” Are you interested in the difference among hope, knowledge and prediction? What do you think about our responsibility in imagining better futures? How can we use predictions better to prevent nightmarish scenarios? Interview with Frank Elavsky, an…
