Polar Futures (2021) - Episode 5, Author Anne Kirstine Hermann
When we spoke with Greenland’s Foreign Minister Pele Broberg on his country’s efforts to secure greater economic and political self-determin...
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20 of 60 episodesPolar Futures (2021) - Episode 4, Greenlandic Foreign Minister Pele Broberg
In the spring of 2021, a controversial rare earth metals mining project proposed in Greenland thrust the island’s “kitchen-table economic is...
Polar Futures (2021) Episode 3 - PolArctic CEO Leslie Cannavera
This is Part 3 of a five-part series, Polar Futures, produced by Investable Universe in 2021. When discussing the emerging Arctic economy, t...
Polar Futures (2021) Episode 2 - Quintillion Chief Revenue Officer Mac McHale
This is Part 2 Investable Universe's five-part Polar Futures series produced in 2021. The next-phase of the Arctic region’s economic evoluti...
Polar Futures (2021) Episode 1 - Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson
This is a special series produced by Investable Universe in 2021 as Polar Futures. For perspectives on the strategic challenges and opportun...
Megan O'Connor, Founder and CEO of nTh Cycle, on disruptive recycling technology--and an alternative commodity market-- for lithium-ion batteries
By 2030, there will be over 15 million tons of lithium-ion batteries ready for recycling, containing over $18bn just in the battery element...
Turner & Townsend's John Robbins on Building Back Better in 2021...and impacts of the Biden Infrastructure Plan
Recovery from the economic impacts of covid-19 has meant supply chain bottlenecks, worker shortages and rising building costs to major citie...
Entrepreneur Will Zell on a new kind of VC fund...plus what's disrupting U.S. manufacturing (and where)
Entrepreneur-investor Will Zell has made a mark in technology, real estate and other sectors. In 2014, he co-founded manufacturing disruptor...
DTN's Mary Friedrichsen Tangen on the emerging golden age of precision agriculture
With tens billions of venture capital money being directed at agtech startups in recent years, how different will farming and agriculture lo...
Phantom Space Founder/CEO (and former SpaceX founding member) Jim Cantrell on the future of space transportation
...If you thought (as we did) that space ridesharing (a la SpaceX or BlueOrigin) was the end-all, be-all of the emerging space transportatio...
Can critical infrastructure hacks be behaviorally predicted? ClearForce CEO Tom Miller explains.
Attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure, from small but potentially lethal attacks on municipal water systems to this spring's Colonial Pipe...
OHMConnect Co-Founder Curtis Tongue on combining energy technology with...a touch of Hollywood
California's OHMConnect has a cool take on smart energy: the company's mobile platform, which functions like a "virtual power plant," pays u...
Wade Guenther of Wilshire Phoenix Funds on a solid gold market for metal ETF's
Last year's covid-related market dislocations made gold shine as the preferred "flight-to-safety" trade. This year, with vaccination rollout...
Nadeem Nauthoo, co-founder of "School of the Future" TKS, on energy technology as imagined by young people
Solutions to global issues like climate change and energy transition, and the advancement of emerging fields like quantum computing and ethi...
Silicon Valley rainmaker and TokenMaker founder Ben Way on NFT's and the emerging market for asset digitalization
Investable Universe takes a minor detour in this episode: while we've talked about tokenization and digitalization of real assets on several...
Kathy Hannun, Dandelion Energy Co-Founder and longtime Google X engineer, on geothermal energy in the U.S.
Why hasn't the United States embraced the potential of geothermal energy like other countries have? This question vexed Kathy Hannun, former...
Raghu Kilambi of PowerTap Hydrogen on the emerging hydrogen (infrastructure) economy
As the global economy transitions to renewable sources, along with new applications in fuel cell batteries, in electric vehicles, and rocket...
Ceylon Graphite Chairman and CEO Bharat Parashar on the future of the global graphite market
Are boom times ahead for the global graphite market? An essential component in EV batteries and energy storage, in smart materials and Inter...
Are we in a "green energy bubble?" Piva Capital's Bennett Cohen on venture capital and energy technology
A 2020 report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers (cited by MIT Technology Review) found that from 2013-2019, early-stage venture capital funding in...
Digital pioneer Sukhi Jutla on how her blockchain startup is revolutionizing the U.K.'s billion-dollar gold and diamond jewelry market
Sukhi Jutla is co-founder and COO of MarketOrders, which has developed and scaled a highly practical and relevant retail application for blo...