+Katapult Podcast
+Katapult gives you fresh insights into impact investing and how we can solve global challenges like poverty and climate. And of course, lots of healthy debates around new technologies. Every fortnight, Aurore Belfrage talks to some of the brilliant minds in technology and impact, in her search for answers to some of our most pressing questions.
Episodes
March 19, 2019
Meet Stine Jersie Olsen, Chief Consultant – Growth & Impact at Danske Bank. She's an expert on impact investing and emerging markets, and shares her insights into new opportunities and how to invest outside your comfort zone. She’s blown away by the entrepreneurial spirit she finds in Sub-Saharan Africa, and also by how emerging societies leapfrog (skip over) old technologies and go straight into the new, like solar energy ...
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March 12, 2019
Azeem Azhar is an acclaimed journalist, thinker, entrepreneur, investor and founder of The Exponential View. He shares his insight into what needs to happen for new technologies to actually have an impact –for everyone. The modern world was built on the back of a political belief of the rational man, but history has taught us that we’re anything but. Can we even agree on what needs to change in our world today?
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February 26, 2019
What’s the easiest way to take down a country? And how’s artificial intelligence entering modern warfare? Professor Fredrik Blix is an expert on cybersecurity and he says we must pay attention. He also warns that ‘no sane person on earth have Facebook’. Facial recognition, for example, can be used for good and bad. Chinese police walk around with AI glasses using facial recognition to spot wanted people. The same tool is used to fi...
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February 15, 2019
There’s no question about it: Shifting our diets will have a huge positive impact. Alessandro Demaio is a medical doctor who grew up in Australia in a big Italian, food-loving family. He’s an expert on poverty, diseases, and nutrition, and he works closely with Gunhild Stordalen as EAT’s chief executive officer. His message is clear: «Meat produced in a way that is disrespectful to animals and bad for the planet has no place in the...
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February 5, 2019
Please, can I order some DNA? It may sound like science fiction, but Dr. Tiffany Vora is looking at a future where anyone can go online, pick the DNA sequence they want and have it delivered. She talks about how we can use the various DNA to create cells that eat plastic or petroleum or convert sunlight into energy. We already have bacteria that are programmed to eat oil, it’s really a matter of creating something even more efficie...
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January 22, 2019
Meet Kyle Nel, author, CEO and cofounder of Uncommon Partners, talking about the power of storytelling. He claims that the West has simply lost its story in our constant fight to keep others away from our wealth. How do we create the stories about who we are, what we want to change and how we’ll get there? One of many things Kyle Nel and his team works on right now, is creating a set of stories or universal narratives about us. He ...
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January 8, 2019
Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2019 talking to the impressive Pakistani entrepreneur and investor Shiza Shahid. She’s the cofounder of The Malala Fund and has just launched her new investment platform Now Ventures. As we all know, Malala Yousafzai was almost assassinated by the Taliban for wanting to go to school, she was rewarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, and with the help of Shiza, she’s been able to spread the word globa...
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December 28, 2018
"How on earth can we use the state of consciousness called flow, with creativity and collaboration to solve the world’s crisis? Steven Kotler, award-winning journalist, author and cofounder of Research Flow Genome Project, has some pretty good answers to this question. He claims it’s the best and possibly only way to move forward if we want to survive as a species. But, there’s a problem: We suck at teaching people to become mo...
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93% of capital invested in tech 2018 went to all male founding teams says Atomico's report Diversity and Inclusion in Tech. Meet two trailblazing and impressive investors who are really moving the needle for diversity in technology - Arlan Hamilton founder and CEO of Backstage Capital and Sophia Bendz partner at Atomico.
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December 11, 2018
“What most people don’t realize, is how hackable and persuadable they are” says Aza Raskin, a physicist, designer, musician, serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of Center For Humane Technology. He talks about how technology’s changing our behavior and our values. How Facebook and Google are crawling deep into our brains to grab our attention and occupy our minds. He’s the son of Jef Raskin, the inventor of the Macintosh at Apple...
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December 3, 2018
How can we stop being dependent on fossil fuels? Peter Carlsson, the co-founder and CEO of Northvolt and previously Elon Musks right-hand man at Tesla, is a good person to ask. He helped launch the Tesla Model S, and right now, his Swedish company’s on a mission to build the greenest battery in the world. Peter Carlsson talks about the importance of our ability to store energy and his ambitious plans for both his business and the p...
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December 3, 2018
Aurore Belfrage was born in London, grew up in Saudi Arabia and moved to Sweden at the age of nine. She’s very familiar with the world of technology and venture capitalism, as an entrepreneur and investor – and she doesn’t mince her words about the current state of affairs. She promises to go deep into environmental issues, how the brain works, schools and education, new leaderships and how we can use technology to really move the ...
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