On today's podcast we meet Don Scott, Chief Commercial Officer of Power Roll, a highly innovative flexible solar panel engineering and manufacturing firm. Don describes a career shift from information technology towards a focus on innovating in the energy transition. Power Roll are on the cusp of scale commercialization of their extremely light, fl…

Tim Brownstone, CEO and Founder of Kymira, a 10 year old breakthrough technological textiles firm. Kymira developed performance enhancing athletic apparel and are building out a line of biometric-tracking wearables for space, defence, professional athletic, and medical applications. Tim competed at international and national levels in a number of s…

Ankita Dwivedi, Founder of Firstplanit is interviewed around her newest tool to simplify the complexity amongst materials and systems decisions in the design and construction industry. Ankita led architecture, design, and sustainability teams for top Fortune 100 firm projects across the globe for 20 years. She worked on high profile building projec…

Christopher Templeton is the Founder of the UK Media firm Significant Void. Chris creates content across multiple channels including YouTube and Netflix. He is a documentary filmmaker and an activist. Significant Void creates materials for education purposes, and to share the benefits of emerging technologies, in addition to feature length filmmaki…

Jamie Burrows, Founder & CEO of Vertical Future talks us through the economics, energy implications, and higher yields from local production with vertical farming technology. Jamie spent 5 years in the US Air Force, before completing his PhD in Health Economics. In the nascent and enormous potential market for vertical farming, Vertical Future star…

Stephen McQueenie, CEO of SG Modular, a manufacturer of modular building solutions talks about a range of projects from humanitarian housing for Syrian refugees, the world class orphanage they built in Turkey, to tiny houses in Canada. The New York Times described SG Modular as the builders of the "perfect refugee camp". With housing shortages, hou…

Today's Global Business Podcast interview is with Mark Preston. With a long history of working with Formula 1 companies Arrows Grand Prix, McLaren, and Borland Racing, Mark founded the Super Auguri Formula 1 team, and more recently founded a Formula E team called TWR Techeetah. Mark is the Automotive Advisor to Oxford University's Saïd Business Sch…

Right now Australia is mostly under lockdown, dragging with it the Australian cinema industry. NSW & VIC represent about 70% of the Australian exhibition industry. This week on The Aus Media Report there are two conversations, each representing different conversations happening within the industry. First up there is a chat with Eddie Tamir and Benj…

In my quest to profile the most interesting products and services that are going global, this podcast interview is with Dr. Stephen Roop, the CEO of Freight Shuttle Express, a global leader in zero emissions heavy freight systems. FSX's systems are targeting cross-border, seaport, and highway corridor freight movement and decongestion with a highly…

Mumbrella founder Tim Burrowes has penned the book 'Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade'. He joins the podcast this week for a conversation about the past ten years in Australian media, along with a very general chat about the local media market.

There's two great interviews this week. First off The Aus Media Report chats with Optus' Clive Dickens about this week's launch of SubHub. SubHub is a new initiative by Optus to bring all of your digital subscriptions under one app, making it easier to keep tabs on what you're subscribed to (and how much it is costing). The second interview is with…

Just how much influence does Sky News Australia have? In a recent piece for Inside Story 'Is Sky News taking Australia by storm?' journalist and media academic Margaret Simons argues that reports of the news and opinion channels influence is overblown and she downplays recent reports of Sky News Australia's success in connecting with online audienc…

Jennifer Clinehens walks us through the fascinating world of applying Behavioural Science as it applies to brand marketing and customer experiences, including the "peak-end rule", "the ikea effect", "choice overload" and more... Jennifer brings a wealth of brand management experience as a senior Customer Experience Strategy Director at London's Hav…

Renewable Energy using the technology and expertise of Oil and Gas experts. Andy Wood with CeraPhi Energy outlines the huge potential for geothermal energy, utilizing modern risk management advances, to provide Zero Carbon baseload energy across geographies. Andy combines over 30 years of experience in Upstream Oil & Gas, with a strong environmenta…

Visual Afrofuturist Tim Fielder talks about his new Graphic Novel Infinitum. https://dieselfunk.com/By AHMED BEST

Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins is an African American digital artist, academic, cultural critic and advocate of STEAM fields. In her work she explores "techno-vernacular creativity" and Afrofuturism. https://www.nettricegaskins.com/By AHMED BEST

Well-known former TV producer Rob McKnight is launching a new streaming video service - Live+. He's a huge believer in live, studio-based TV and is out to bring live TV to the world of on-demand streaming. The service will launch later in the year. Its announcement today got the attention of Dan Barrett, so he pulled McKnight into the Aus Media Rep…

This week on The Aus Media Report we are talking about streaming services. How much do you know about TV from Africa? Probably not a lot. There’s a new streaming service that is set to change that. It’s called Demand Africa. It quietly launched in Australia streaming both a free streaming linear channel and subscription video on demand content thro…

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This week on the show I chat with Justin Papps from PwC Australia, editor of this year’s Australian Entertainment & Media Outlook 2020-2024. The report, now in its 19th year, examines Australian media consumers habits and how they’re changing: Where are Australians spending their money and time when watching TV? What are they listening to on the ra…

Dan Barrett is joined this week by film critic Luke Buckmaster (The Guardian, Crikey, Flicks.com.au) to discuss where technology is taking cinema. Is the future VR? AR? Is it something entirely different? How will we engage with screens going forward? What happens to cinemas as movies evolve with audience interests?…

The first in a series talking to young people about the future they'll inherit. This episode was recorded this summer before the November U.S. election.By AHMED BEST

This week on The Aus Media Report I am chatting with Jake Challenor. He’s the publisher of radio industry news site Radio Today. We discuss everything from the loss this year of the biggest name in radio, to Nine’s investment in bringing Brisbane’s only commercial talk station back to life, through to radio stations preparedness for the incoming di…

Spotify unveiled a new product feature a fortnight ago that caught my attention. The streaming music service has been pushing aggressively into podcasting and has announced that podcast producers can now place songs during a podcast. It is Spotify merging music and talk for its subscribers. You could be forgiven for thinking that this is starting t…

This week on The Aus Media Report: Film and media journalist Michael Bodey joins Dan Barrett to talk about the current state of going to the movies. The industry has been severely damaged by COVID-19 at a time where going to the movies for entertainment is becoming less essential thanks to the rise of streaming services. Technology reporter Daniel …

Broadcaster and writer Melanie Tait has revisited the culture of her youth through A Country Podcast - a new podcast series exploring the Australian iconic series A Country Practice. She discovered that the show actually reflects modern values and the politics of our moment surprisingly well. Tait tells us about why she started the podcast, but als…

Dan Ilic is the creator and host of A Rational Fear - a comedy panel podcast that has recently become a lot more active in the fight against climate change. Sarah Moran is the CEO of Girl Geek Academy. It's a company aiming to cultivate a passion for coding in girls to bring a greater gender balance to the tech industry. Girl Geek Academy has recen…

In Australia we don’t really talk about deplatforming people very often - certainly not to the degree you hear about internationally. Why is that? With Pete Evans causing controversy in the media this week Dan Barrett chats with Josh Taylor, reporter at The Guardian Australia. Also: A new broadcast channel launched this week to limited fanfare. 10 …

The Aus Media Report - 24 September 2020 This week: It has been just over a year since former Sky News journalist Ahron Young launched the streaming news and opinion video service Ticker TV. Young joins us to tell us about the growth of the channel over the year, how it works, and the future direction for this interesting service. Also, in the past…

Welcome to the first episode of the Aus Media Report. This week: Journalist Cameron Wilson on the rise of QAnon in Australia. What is it? How large a presence does it actually have in Australia? And should we be worried about its rise? Former ABC Breakfast radio host Spencer Howson is now teaching the next generation of radio talent. In an industry…

Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Tracy Drain.By AHMED BEST

Maynard Holiday former senior tech Advisor for the Obama administration.By AHMED BEST

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Author, educator, broadcaster and journalist Minister Faust talks to us about his work and his world of Afrotopianism.By AHMED BEST

Tim Fielder is an illustrator, world builder, animator and writer who creates narrative heavy afrofuturist fiction.By AHMED BEST

Meklit is a singer songwriter currently in The Bay Area that uses both her Ethiopian and American experience to create a unique Ethio-Jazz style. She is a TED fellow and one of the creators of The NILE Project, a collaboration of music from the countries that surround the Nile River basin. She's working with John Jenkins, Kepler Mission Analysis le…

Maurice Wilkins is creating the blueprint for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. He is building the culture of diversity and inclusion as part of the fabric of Chan Zuckerberg and is making sure that it will make that organization and any organization that follows the plan better.By AHMED BEST

VP of Design at Khan Academy and formerly of Apple, May-Li is a designer, programmer and engineer who fuses culture and dance to create and educate for the present, and construct an inclusive future for the globe.By AHMED BEST

Afrofuturist artist, philosopher and deep thinker Nyame Brown talks about what moves him and influences him to make his work. Nyame's rich history and self proclaimed bohemian upbringing give him the inspiration to create paintings that express what an afrofuturist reality can be.By AHMED BEST

As CEO of LOOMIA, a smart materials company based in NYC, Janett is bringing together two historically distinct mega industries, Tech and Apparel in service of making a smarter, more empathetic world. Janett talks about her education in design and theater and how she fell in to the fashion world. Loomia is at the cutting edge of creating the future…

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If you were to open your Ipad and move in to it with the promise of taking over all the functions, then you would be living in DYNAMICLAND. Dynamicland is a not for profit technology space that believes coding should be accessible through play and community.By AHMED BEST

Natalie W. Nixon, PhD is a design strategist and a hybrid thinker. At Figure 8 Thinking, LLC she helps organizations accelerate innovation and growth by developing meaningful strategy through design thinking and ethnographic research. She applies her diverse background in service design, anthropology and fashion, to help clients with culture transf…

Artist and Educator Karen Seneferu talks about her thought provoking and creative work. She pushes the boundaries of African influence art to create future and mixed media pieces that are exciting and unique.By AHMED BEST

In this episode, our resident Afrofuturist Dr. Lonny Brooks and I talk about a different point of view in the Mark Zuckerberg vs. Elon Musk AI debate.By AHMED BEST

Today on the podcast Kamal Sinclair, Director of the New frontier Labs Program at Sundance Institute joins us. Kamal and I started our careers together on the Broadway stage and she has since gone on to becoming one of the first ever Trans-Media producers. She's helped pioneer technologies such as Occulus Rift and art projects like Question Bridge …

Episode Three of the Afrofuturist Podcast features Afrofuturist author and speculative fiction writer Ayize Jama-Everett. Ayize is the author of the Science/speculative fiction novels The Liminal People https://www.amazon.com/Liminal-People-Novel-Ayize-Jama-Everett/dp/193152033X and is an amazing and thought provoking thinker. He is a world travele…

Episode Two of THE AFROFUTURIST Podcast, we talk to Maria Alvarez of Microsoft. Her official title is Partner Director of Engineer, but that title is only a fraction of her story. We talk about everything from her futurist mother who was the catalyst for her career in computer science, to artificial intelligence and the oncoming Machine Learning Re…

theafrofuturistpodcast hosted by Ahmed Best. This the very first episode and I'm excited to share it with you. Our first episode is with Dr. Lonny Brooks. He is a professor of communication at Cal State University East Bay and is the resident afrofuturist for this podcast. If you'd like to become a sponsor of the show please email ahmed@theafrofutu…