Episode 4: Fennie Wang - Blockchain & Social Impact
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03/06/18
•25m
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This podcast features Fennie Wang from the ixo network, a nonprofit organization that uses blockchain technology to create social impact. A lawyer by trade, Fennie discusses how she pivoted her career from traditional securities law to blockchain, the impact of a chance introduction to Ross Ulbricht (the infamous founder of the Silk Road darkweb market), and how her latest project with UNICEF uses blockchain to improve attendance tracking in South African preschools.
You can find more information about the ixo network at their website http://ixo.network/ and on Medium, Telegram and Slack.
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Episode 3: Shobha Vanchiswar - Mukta Jivan orphanage in India
February 20, 2018
•24m
This episode features Shobha Vanchiswar, a writer and artist in New York who is leveraging her talents to help children halfway around the world. Together with her daughter, niece and friends, she is supporting the education of HIV positive girls at an orphanage in India called Mukta Jivan. Shobha talks about how she first got started by bringing school supplies and money to the orphanage, then expanded her support to build and fund a music program there, and how she uses her artistic and writing talents to sustain the flow of funds and support for the children. You can learn more about Shobha's work with Mukta Jivan at her website www.seedsofdesign.com/the-lucky-ones/the-lucky-ones/ and visit her online store of handpainted botanical notecards, soft furnishings and fabrics at www.seedsofdesign.com/shop/ and www.seedsofdesign.com/shop/the-printed-garden-collection/ (proceeds from the sales are donated to Mukta Jivan).
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Episode 5: Anna Pilette - Robotics & Drone Technology
March 19, 2018
•16m
This episode features Anna Pilette, a Geophysicist and a Technologist out of Portland Oregon. Anna shares her experience working with robotics and drone technology, her thoughts on the future application of this technology, and how she brings her scientific experience together with her artistic interest through her art company, Atomic Dumpling Media. She is also looking for a role working with a drone manufacturer. Learn more about Anna at her website www.aspilette.com .
Anna's bio:
For over two decades, Anna's work has been focused on imaging things under the waterline. She has worked on a wide number of projects like locating shipwrecks, finding bombs, teaching law enforcement how to find bodies, and more mundane stuff like finding the problems with pipelines. Her work has taken her around the world on every type of marine and subsea project that exists.
She's worked on every commercially based acoustic system, which were originally fixed, towed, and hull mounted sensors. Then, in 2008, she began working with autonomous vehicles. Since then, she's extended her work to include remotely operated vehicles and unmanned vehicles of every type. Today, Anna specializes in remote sensors though acoustics and optics based on unmanned vehicles.
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