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+Katapult Podcast

by Katapult Future Fest

+Katapult gives you fresh insights into impact investing and how we can solve globalchallenges 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.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 12: Ingmar Rentzhog. Are we willing and able?

    In our last episode of series one, Aurore talks to Swedish entrepreneur Ingmar Rentzhog. His organization We Don’t Have Time aims to create the world’s biggest social media network to put pressure on world leaders to do the right thing. Not long ago, our leaders didn’t want to talk about a…

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  2. Ep.11. Stine Jersie Olsen. Tapping into Africa

    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...

  3. Ep.10. Azeem Azhar. Can tech build a better future?

    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...

  4. Ep.9. Dr. Fredrik Blix. Facing the Future

    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…

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  5. Ep.08. Dr Alessandro Demaio. What's on your plate?

    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...

  6. Ep.07. Dr Tiffany Vora. What is Life?

    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...

  7. Ep.06. Kyle Nel. Change is now... but it hurts

    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...

  8. Ep.05. Shiza Shahid. Investing for Education

    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...

  9. Ep.04. Steven Kotler. Flow and the brain

    "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...

  10. Ep.03. Sophia Bendz (Atomico) and Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital). Being LOUD about diversity - Live at at Slush!

    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...

  11. Ep.02. Aza Raskin. 'How do you know what you know?' Live from Slush!

    “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...

  12. Ep.01. Peter Carlsson. Recharge the Future

    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…

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  13. Ep.0. Meet Aurore

    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…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

+Katapult gives you fresh insights into impact investing and how we can solve globalchallenges 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.

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