Best Team Infra Podcasts (2024)

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Infra Dig Masterclass – PF for peace & climate change 26:59

4h ago26:59

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Returning to the Masterclass series of Infra Dig podcasts, this latest episode falls very much into the training and awareness category, delving into the impact that project finance can have on achieving peace and climate change goals. IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville talks to regular Masterclass guest Ravi Suri – global head of su…

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Agents @ Work: Dust.tt

31m ago

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We are recording our next big recap episode and taking questions! Submit questions and messages on Speakpipe here for a chance to appear on the show! Also subscribe to our calendar for our Singapore, NeurIPS, and all upcoming meetups! In our first ever episode with Logan Kilpatrick we called out the two hottest LLM frameworks at the time: LangChain…

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KKR: ‘We take a targeted-rifle approach’ to new strategies 33:14

2h ago33:14

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In this episode, Infrastructure Investor senior editor Bruno Alves sits down with KKR global head of infrastructure Raj Agrawal. KKR’s infrastructure unit has been on a remarkable growth trajectory, from being the 17th largest infrastructure manager in the world in 2014 to becoming the third largest in our recently released Infrastructure Investor …

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In the Arena: How LMSys changed LLM Benchmarking Forever

10d ago

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Apologies for lower audio quality; we lost recordings and had to use backup tracks. Our guests today are Anastasios Angelopoulos and Wei-Lin Chiang, leads of Chatbot Arena, fka LMSYS, the crowdsourced AI evaluation platform developed by the LMSys student club at Berkeley, which became the de facto standard for comparing language models. Arena Elo i…

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How NotebookLM Was Made

19d ago

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If you’ve listened to the podcast for a while, you might have heard our ElevenLabs-powered AI co-host Charlie a few times. Text-to-speech has made amazing progress in the last 18 months, with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode (aka “Her”) as a sneak peek of the future of AI interactions (see our “Building AGI in Real Time” recap). Yet, we had yet to see …

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Infra Dig – Highview Power… just so interesting 24:49

20d ago24:49

24:49

Here at IJGlobal we love to bring you podcasts on the most interesting developments on technology and innovation across the panoply of infrastructure assets classes – and this one’s a cracker. Well, to be fair, it’s not an actual “cracker”, this is an interview with Richard Butland, co-founder and chief executive of Highview Power, where we are dis…

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Building the AI Engineer Nation — with Josephine Teo, Minister of Digital Development and Information, Singapore

11d ago

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Singapore's GovTech is hosting an AI CTF challenge with ~$15,000 in prizes, starting October 26th, open to both local and virtual hackers. It will be hosted on Dreadnode's Crucible platform; signup here! It is common to say if you want to work in AI, you should come to San Francisco. Not everyone can. Not everyone should. If you can only do meaning…

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Building the Silicon Brain - with Drew Houston of Dropbox

14d ago

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CEOs of publicly traded companies are often in the news talking about their new AI initiatives, but few of them have built anything with it. Drew Houston from Dropbox is different; he has spent over 400 hours coding with LLMs in the last year and is now refocusing his 2,500+ employees around this new way of working, 17 years after founding the comp…

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Infra Dig – powering the eVTOL revolution 21:00

19d ago21:00

21:00

Another technology-based Infra Dig podcast – designed to foster greater understanding of the underlying assets that the infrastructure community invests in and lends to. This latest episode seen IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville sit down for a fireside with Yash Tripathy – head of product at battery software company About:Energy. Co…

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Will the US ever truly embrace private infra financing? 30:25

17d ago30:25

30:25

In this episode, Infrastructure Investor senior editor Bruno Alves sits down with Sadek Wahba, founder, chairman and managing partner of independent manager I Squared Capital. Top of the agenda is Wahba’s new book – Build: Investing in America’s Infrastructure – which chronicles the US’s underinvestment in infrastructure, contextualises the histori…

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Production AI Engineering starts with Evals — with Ankur Goyal of Braintrust

21d ago

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We are in 🗽 NYC this Monday! Join the AI Eng NYC meetup, bring demos and vibes! It is a bit of a meme that the first thing developer tooling founders think to build in AI is all the non-AI operational stuff outside the AI. There are well over 60 funded LLM Ops startups all with hoping to solve the new observability, cost tracking, security, and rel…

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IJGlobal Podcast – Octopus talks LGPS and social infra 20:03

27d ago20:03

20:03

Real assets are increasingly on the agenda for UK local government pension schemes, as they offer stable returns. Social infrastructure has been a rising investment focus due to impact it has on the local community and members of the scheme. Lisa Botter, Editor of IJInvestor (a service of IJGlobal, which is a Green Street company), speaks with Jack…

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Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)

29d ago

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We all have fond memories of the first Dev Day in 2023: and the blip that followed soon after. As Ben Thompson has noted, this year’s DevDay took a quieter, more intimate tone. No Satya, no livestream, (slightly fewer people?). Instead of putting ChatGPT announcements in DevDay as in 2023, o1 was announced 2 weeks prior, and DevDay 2024 was reserve…

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Infra Dig – Viridi Energy and the RNG story 25:42

1M ago25:42

25:42

When the opportunity cropped up to record a podcast on renewable natural gas – RNG – we jumped at it. This is a fascinating technology that is evolving fast and looks set to play an increasingly large role in the energy mix. In this latest episode of Infra Dig, Angus Leslie Melville – editorial director of IJGlobal (a Green Street company) – talked…

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Infra Dig – The Helios Towers Interview 27:04

1M ago27:04

27:04

The latest episode of the Infra Dig podcast focuses on telecoms infrastructure across Africa and the Middle East, interviewing an organisation that is driving the growth of communications across the region. IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville sits down for a fireside chat with 2 of Helios Towers’ leading figures – group CFO Manjit Dhi…

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Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting

1M ago

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OpenAI DevDay is almost here! Per tradition, we are hosting a DevDay pregame event for everyone coming to town! Join us with demos and gossip! Also sign up for related events across San Francisco: the AI DevTools Night, the xAI open house, the Replicate art show, the DevDay Watch Party (for non-attendees), Hack Night with OpenAI at Cloudflare. For …

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Has the UK water sector hit rock bottom? 23:30

2M ago23:30

23:30

In this episode, senior editor Bruno Alves, deputy editor Kalliope Gourntis and Americas editor Zak Bentley discuss the latest developments affecting the UK water sector, following the publication of our September cover story. That includes news of outreach to some of the industry’s biggest fund managers to inject equity into troubled utility Thame…

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A deep dive into the AI infrastructure opportunity 31:42

2M ago31:42

31:42

In this first episode of The Infrastructure Investor Podcast, senior editor Bruno Alves catches up with Marc Ganzi, chief executive of DigitalBridge, the renowned digital infrastructure outfit and the only specialist manager in the top 10 of our II 100 ranking of the largest infrastructure managers in the world. With AI infrastructure generating re…

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The Ultimate Guide to Prompting

1M ago

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Noah Hein from Latent Space University is finally launching with a free lightning course this Sunday for those new to AI Engineering. Tell a friend! Did you know there are >1,600 papers on arXiv just about prompting? Between shots, trees, chains, self-criticism, planning strategies, and all sorts of other weird names, it’s hard to keep up. Luckily …

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The Infrastructure Investor Podcast trailer 1:26

2M ago1:26

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Introducing The Infrastructure Investor Podcast, which delves into the latest trends in private infrastructure investment, bringing you insightful interviews with many of the industry’s most influential leaders, as well as original analysis from our award-winning team of journalists. To learn more and see all your subscription options, go to www.in…

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From API to AGI: Structured Outputs, OpenAI API platform and O1 Q&A — with Michelle Pokrass & OpenAI Devrel + Strawberry team

2M ago

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Congrats to Damien on successfully running AI Engineer London! See our community page and the Latent Space Discord for all upcoming events. This podcast came together in a far more convoluted way than usual, but happens to result in a tight 2 hours covering the ENTIRE OpenAI product suite across ChatGPT-latest, GPT-4o and the new o1 models, and how…

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IJGlobal Podcast – DEI and Women in renewables, US 51:07

2M ago51:07

51:07

IJGlobal’s editor, Ila Patel chats with Doseke Akporiaye, executive director of WRISE about her upbringing in Nigeria, witnessing energy poverty and the need to provide electricity as a necessity rather than a luxury. This laid the foundations for Doseke to build experience in start-ups, scaling businesses and social impact in the tech and renewabl…

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Efficiency is Coming: 3000x Faster, Cheaper, Better AI Inference from Hardware Improvements, Quantization, and Synthetic Data Distillation

2M ago

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AI Engineering is expanding! Join the first 🇬🇧 AI Engineer London meetup in Sept and get in touch for sponsoring the second 🗽 AI Engineer Summit in NYC this Dec! The commoditization of intelligence takes on a few dimensions: Time to Open Model Equivalent: 15 months between GPT-4 and Llama 3.1 405B 10-100x CHEAPER/year: from $30/mtok for Claude 3 Op…

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Why you should write your own LLM benchmarks — with Nicholas Carlini, Google DeepMind

2M ago

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AI Engineering is expanding! Join the first 🇬🇧 AI Engineer London meetup in Sept and get in touch for sponsoring the second 🗽 AI Engineer Summit in NYC this Dec! The current online AI discourse only has two camps: those who think AI is going to revolutionize everything, and those who think it's all hype. Today's guest, Nicholas Carlini, a research …

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Infra Dig – Solar PV Game Changer 29:13

2M ago29:13

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IJGlobal returns to one of its favourite subjects for this latest Infra Dig podcast – technology – and in this case how it impacts solar panels. IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville settles in for a fireside chat with David Ward, chief executive of Oxford PV, to hear how his company’s product is set to transform solar panel efficiency.…

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Is finetuning GPT4o worth it? — with Alistair Pullen, Cosine (Genie)

3M ago

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Betteridge's law says no: with seemingly infinite flavors of RAG, and >2million token context + prompt caching from Anthropic/Deepmind/Deepseek, it's reasonable to believe that "in context learning is all you need". But then there’s Cosine Genie, the first to make a huge bet using OpenAI’s new GPT4o fine-tuning for code at the largest scale it has …

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AI Magic: Shipping 1000s of successful products with no managers and a team of 12 — Jeremy Howard of Answer.ai

3M ago

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Disclaimer: We recorded this episode ~1.5 months ago, timing for the FastHTML release. It then got bottlenecked by Llama3.1, Winds of AI Winter, and SAM2 episodes, so we’re a little late. Since then FastHTML was released, swyx is building an app in it for AINews, and Anthropic has also released their prompt caching API. Remember when of coined the …

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IJGlobal Podcast – CapMan in the Nordics 28:55

3M ago28:55

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The Nordics have long been a haven for infrastructure, attracting investors from all over globe. Now, with energy transition ramping up, the region is becoming even more popular, with local infra managers benefitting from this trend. Lisa Botter, head of content for M&A and funds at IJInvestor (an IJGlobal service), speaks with CapMan’s Pia Kall, c…

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Segment Anything 2: Demo-first Model Development

3M ago

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Because of the nature of SAM, this is more video heavy than usual. See our YouTube! Because vision is first among equals in multimodality, and yet SOTA vision language models are closed, we’ve always had an interest in learning what’s next in vision. Our first viral episode was Segment Anything 1, and we have since covered LLaVA, IDEFICS, Adept, an…

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The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars Recap) + ChatGPT Voice Mode Preview

3M ago

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Thank you for 1m downloads of the podcast and 2m readers of the Substack! 🎉 This is the audio discussion following The Winds of AI Winter essay that also serves as a recap of Q2 2024 in AI viewed through the lens of our Four Wars framework. Enjoy! Full Video Discussion Full show notes are here. Timestamps [00:00:00] Intro Song by Suno.ai [00:02:01]…

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Infra Dig Masterclass – Why Infrastructure Goes Wrong 33:13

3M ago33:13

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The latest in the Infra Dig Masterclass series – delving into why infrastructure projects go wrong and the 10 Cardinal Rules to avoid this outcome – is a must listen… especially for people launching their careers in infra. In this episode, IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville sits down to chat for a second time with old friend Ravi Suri,…

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Llama 2, 3 & 4: Synthetic Data, RLHF, Agents on the path to Open Source AGI

4M ago

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If you see this in time, join our emergency LLM paper club on the Llama 3 paper! For everyone else, join our special AI in Action club on the Latent Space Discord for a special feature with the Cursor cofounders on Composer, their newest coding agent! Today, Meta is officially releasing the largest and most capable open model to date, Llama3-405B, …

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Infra Dig – Geothermal in the UK 23:32

4M ago23:32

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While not many people associate the UK with geothermal energy – and not without good reason – things look set to change dramatically on that front in the coming years. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville talks to Dr Charlotte Adams, a director at the newly established National Geothermal Centre (NGC) which is championing the proliferati…

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Infra Dig Masterclass – Project Finance Evolution 26:55

4M ago26:55

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The primary thrust of this latest episode of Infra Dig – IJGlobal’s podcast service – is the financing mechanism that underpins the delivery and operation of billions of dollars of infrastructure around the world… and how project finance is evolving. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville sits down for an enlightening interview with Ravi S…

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Infra Dig – ESG in Infrastructure 28:44

5M ago28:44

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One person’s meat is another person’s poison… a saying that has long been associated with the thorny issue of defining ESG. While this podcast does not focus on the definition of ESG in the infrastructure sector, it does shine a strong light into a dark corner. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville sits down for a chat with David Thomas –…

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Infra Dig – Offshore Wind 30:22

5M ago30:22

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Offshore wind went from nascent technology to mature in the blink of an eye… not something that will come as a surprise to anyone who has been kicking around the infrastructure community for a long time. Here IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville pulls up a chair for the latest Infra Dig episode, speaking to Dr Sherif Gebaly, investment d…

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Infra Dig – Banking Nuclear 37:36

6M ago37:36

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The thorny issue of nuclear power and its financability is the central theme for this latest Infra Dig podcast between IJGlobal and two senior bankers from Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking. IJGlobal head of content Angus Leslie Melville is joined by Natixis CIB energy transition specialists Ivan Pavlovic and Eric Benoist for an episode that d…

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Infra Dig – Battery Energy Storage 27:15

6M ago27:15

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An episode that warrants the tag line of "everything you ever wanted to ask about battery energy storage, but were too embarrassed to ask". IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville talks to Eva Zimmermann – research associate at Aurora in Berlin – about a technology that is an ever-growing asset class being targeted by infrastructure funds. …

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Infra Dig – The Energy Transition Podcast 46:11

6M ago46:11

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The full scope of energy transition is tackled in this latest Infra Dig episode… a longer-than-usual podcast (it’s a big topic) brought to you by IJGlobal. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville talks to Adrian Del Maestro, vice-president of global energy advisory at AECOM, in a (very) far-ranging discussion that covers all matters energy …

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Africa Uncovered – Roland Janssens, EAIF 29:16

6M ago29:16

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This latest IJGlobal podcast revives the “uncovered” series that delves into bigger picture market intelligence for infrastructure and energy. The focus of this podcast turns to Africa and sees IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville sit down for a chat with Roland Janssens – managing director of the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EIF…

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Infra Dig – Edward Wilkinson, GScan 28:12

7M ago28:12

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Infra Dig – the IJGlobal podcast service – returns to its core function with this latest podcast, building understanding in infra/energy sectors where knowledge is lacking. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville sits down for a chat with Edward Wilkinson, strategic corporate development lead at GScan, a company that wields a technology tha…

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Infra Dig – Hamish Lea-Wilson, Igneo IP 33:51

7M ago33:51

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The value of long-term investment by infra funds into infrastructure and energy assets is a central theme in this latest episode of the Infra Dig podcast. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville speaks with Hamish Lea-Wilson, a partner at Igneo Infrastructure Partners, who plays a key role in the fund manager’s origination and execution of …

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Infra Dig – California Drayage with CBRE IM 26:22

9M ago26:22

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Having taken a little too long to kick start the year’s podcast service, IJGlobal launches 2024 with an interesting fireside chat on an award-winning project led by CBRE Investment Management. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville speaks with Toronto-based Robert Shaw, managing director with CBRE IM's private infrastructure business who i…

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Infra Dig – Álvaro Ortega on US offshore wind 31:59

11M ago31:59

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The subject of today’s Infra Dig podcast is the US offshore wind sector and a particularly interesting company that has already featured in an IJGlobal podcast – Gazelle Wind Power. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville takes the podcast service across The Pond once again, this time to talk to Álvaro Ortega who recently started at Gazelle…

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Infra Dig – Henri Yoki of Exaum on AI in infra 25:27

11M ago25:27

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This latest episode of the Infra Dig podcast sees IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville pull up a seat to the fireside to discuss artificial intelligence and its role in infrastructure and energy. The guest on this podcast is Henri Yoki – founder and chief executive of Exaum Ltd – an interesting organisation that recently announced the la…

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Infra Dig – Chris Creed on the US DOE's loans programme 34:09

12M ago34:09

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Chris Creed chief investment officer at the US Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office talks to IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville about the exciting plans to drive investments across The States. In a far-reaching discussion that is a must-listen for everyone who has an eye on renewable energy across the US, Chris talks openly abou…

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Infra Dig – Ian Brown talks UKIB 28:06

1y ago28:06

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This latest episode of Infra Dig – the IJGlobal podcast service – sees the focus return to the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) for an update on progress. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville pulls up a chair for a fireside chat with UK head of banking and investments Ian Brown who is responsible for the institution’s origination and execut…

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REFF Wall Street - Charles Donovan on US Renewables 17:01

1y ago17:01

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The IJGlobal podcast is on its travels again, this time in New York at its REFF Wall Street conference run in partnership with Power Finance & Risk. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville collared keynote speaker Charles Donovan as he left the stage to record this latest episode of Infra Dig that focuses on the renewable energy scene in th…

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Infra Dig – SeaTwirl with Johan Sandberg 29:46

1y ago29:46

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Just as there's more than one way to skin a cat, there's more than one way to extract energy from wind... especially when you are operating offshore. IJGlobal content director Angus Leslie Melville speaks to Johan Sandberg. chief executive of SeaTwirl, about his company's truly fascinating innovation in turbines for the offshore wind industry. Tune…

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Infra Dig – CCS with Dan Carter, Wood 23:25

1y ago23:25

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Carbon Capture and Storage... but you were too scared to ask. This podcast has it all on the CCS front. IJglobal content director Angus Leslie Melville plays devil's advocate with Dan Carter, president of decarbonisation at Wood. In a 23-minute interview, Dan takes the listener through this technology that i…

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