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Join the conversation, focusing on how can we embrace a Digital Health Future so that we can help Africa leapfrog. From online doctors, chatbots, telemedicine, remote doctors, nanobots and more. Join these incredible experts as they discuss how to create a new healthy future fuelled by digital health.
Featuring:
Divya Chander: SingularityU Chair Neuroscience; Atlantic Council GeoTech Center
Dr. Chander is a physician, neuroscientist, and futurist who trained at Harvard, UCSF, UCSD, and the Salk Institute. She is Chair of Neuroscience and Faculty of Medicine at Singularity University, Visiting Scholar in Medicine (Bioinformatics) at Stanford (where she was on the Anesthesiology faculty for 8 years), and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center.
Babusi Nyoni: Co-founder of Sila Health
Babusi Nyoni is a tech entrepreneur working between Amsterdam, Nairobi and Cape Town.
He works in the fields of emerging technology and big data innovation with a particular focus on developing sustainable solutions for the global South.
With over 10 years of experience in the advertising, financial and technology industries, he specialises in contributing the practical skills needed to drive meaningful innovation in areas where scale and impact are hindered by structural limitations.
Adam Pantanowitz: SUSA Faculty Biotech, Hacking Humans & Robotics
Adam Pantanowitz is a fanatical technologist, who enjoys solving seemingly unsolvable problems, particularly with the help of cloud computing and machine learning. He is part of the SingularityU South Africa faculty with a focus on biotechnology and speaks about the future of technology with a focus on tech-human convergence.

Today On the Exponential Africa Show Mic Mann Interviews Lawrence Whittle, CEO of Parsable. A connected worker platform used to execute and measure work for industrial companies, taking analogue ways of working and digitising the workforce process.

Simply put, Parsable is helping customers fuse quality and execution together to build better products faster. Eliminate time-wasting paper procedure distribution, training, separate data entry, and manual work analytics, and continuously gather ideas for improving the work itself from employees and the work they do.

“Humans are not going away but their jobs are changing, and when jobs are changing you need to make sure that they are connected in the same ways that machines are connected. The efficiency gains of making sure humans to human and human to machines are connected are a clear driver for efficiency in the future” Lawrence Whittle.

This connected workforce is a must and closely related to the reality of the demographic change of the worker.

Watch the full Video to hear all about Parsable and the future benefits of liberating the industrial world by digitisation.

#futureproofAfrica

Endless West is using science and technology to reimagine how some of our finest consumed-goods are created. They create beverages that are made one molecule at a time. This new way of producing eliminates the need for traditional farming methods and their practices that strain the environment, such as use of pesticides, excessive water usage and carbon emissions. #futureproofAfrica #collaborativefutures

Today on The Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat on immersive VR with the Co-founder of the TESLASUIT - Dimitri Mikhalchuk!

The Teslasuit is a wireless haptic suit to fully experience virtual reality and the most immersive VR experience you can get today! A full-body suit that is worn together with VR headset to enter the VR world, the suit is calibrated to register movement and reactions. The full-body AR/VR suit and software suite accelerates the improvement of movement, reflexes and instincts, allowing faster, better improvement of the human mind and body.

Haptic Feedback: From subtle touch sensations to feelings of physical exertion, users experience scenarios as though they’ve lived them.

Motion Capture: TESLASUIT captures actions as they’re performed to establish baselines, create programs, and track improvement over time.

Biometrics: Embedded ECG and EDA sensors capture users vitals and emotional stress level, so trainees can prove their ability to perform under pressure.

Watch the full episode to learn more!
Teslasuit website: https://teslasuit.io/

Episode shot at the Australian SingularityU Summit in October 2019.
#futureproofAfrica

What are the benefits of having Augmented and Virtual reality in our present world and the future of humanity?

Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann has a great chat with SingularityU Faculty member specialising in Augmented and virtual reality - Rachel Sibley!

Education and training are a huge opportunity space; through AR and VR, we can scale immersive learning! Rachel says that we can dematerialise and thus demonetise by digitising the most high impact way of learning which is fully embodied interactive learning.

Rachel speaks of retention and efficiency through interactive, immersive learning being the most impactful way to scale children and adult education as well as retraining our workforce.

Rachel discusses what our children or next-generation would look like if they had an embodied relationship to concepts like quantum physics. “If we could create virtual worlds where we could expose our minds to these concepts, we would really open up entirely new domains of opportunity.” Rachel Anne Sibley.

Watch the full episode for more on this very relevant and fascinating topic!
#futureproofAfrica #AR #VR
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