"Smaller fish, like clownfish, they're very talkative. They exchange lots of information between each other when they communicate, they have their own social structures, and they debate among themselves as well so it's quite interesting to obse

117. Caspar Melville – It’s A London Thing

May 30th, 2021 1h 23m

"I think it's all the same thing. I use the term Black Music. I think you could use the term Jazz. Or you could use the sociological term Afro-diasporic music. There is something continuous - even in terms of how it evolves and changes and brin

116. Sofia Crespo – Artificial Life

May 25th, 2021 39m 50s

Sofia Crespo is a visual artist who uses artificial intelligence technology to create speculative biological life forms. "I think a crucial part of creativity comes from iterations... exploring all of the ramifications that a single idea can ha

115. Gary Pisano – Creative Construction

May 3rd, 2021 54m 37s

Gary Pisano is a Professor at the Harvard Business School and the author of Creative Construction: the DNA of Sustained Innovation. "I believe we can make progress. Our televisions are better than they were when I was a kid. Our phones are bett

114. Anna Grichting – Urbanism and Jazz

Apr 25th, 2021 41m 32s

Dr. Anna Grichting is a Swiss architect, urbanist and musician designing beautiful spaces for a sustainable world. "Your job as an urbanist or architect is to see what needs to be done to improve the environment, not just about real estate or m

113. Yaniv Balmas – Cyber Crime and Digital Espionage

Apr 19th, 2021 44m 50s

Yaniv Balmas is head of Cyber Research at Check Point Software in Tel Aviv. "In any new war, the interesting part for offensive cyber security is that the term "war" is not the war that we know. Not tank against tank or man with a rifle against

112. Julia Coney – Wine is Science

Apr 8th, 2021 34m 9s

Julia Coney is a wine writer, wine educator, speaker, and consultant. "I had a very early obsession with France because I was a James Baldwin fan and so I started taking French all through school. I knew I wanted to study abroad and I have a de

111. Nelly Ben Hayoun – Designer of Experiences

Mar 29th, 2021 49m 58s

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stepanian is a designer of experiences and founder of the Underground University. "I wasn't set up to meet with any Nobel Prize winners in Physics. I'm not set up to meet with any astronaut. But I don't give up. It's not about

110. Aram Sinnreich – Strange Historical Reverberations

Mar 22nd, 2021 1h 11m

Dr. Aram Sinnreich is an author, musician and professor of Communication Studies at American University in Washington DC. "Jefferson himself pointed out: Listen, we just got through the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, and before that we had the

109. Ariane Koek – The Wonder of Everything

Mar 14th, 2021 43m 36s

Ariane Koek is a global leader in Art Science curation and the creator of the Arts programme at CERN. "What inspires me? New knowledge. What makes me weird? I'm really into nuclear history. What haven't I done? I've never gone subatomic. Where

108. Robert Root-Bernstein – Sparks of Genius

Mar 7th, 2021 54m 55s

Robert Root-Bernstein is a world-leading expert on creativity in scientific research. "STEAM is going to allow us to at least graduate students who can hold a pipette and have some hand-eye coordination to go along with it and things like that.

107. Abrian Curington – Maps to the Stars

Mar 1st, 2021 32m 22s

Abrian Curington is a cartographer and visual storyteller. "I started with mapping on the fantasy side. Creating journeys when I'm reading a book, mapping out where the characters were going and what this new fantastical world looks like - and

106. Joseph Illidge – Great Responsibility

Feb 21st, 2021 41m 56s

Joseph Illidge is Executive Editor of Heavy Metal Magazine and co-founder of the Access Guide to the Black Comic Book Community. "If you look at the old Marvel characters from the 60s, one of the things that those creators were brilliant about

105. Ola Sars – Soundtrack Your Brand

Feb 15th, 2021 48m 7s

Ola Sars is the founder, CEO and chairman of Soundtrack Your Brand - a music streaming platform for businesses. "What we do is collaborate with independent academic platforms which is much healthier for running R&D. We have multiple research pr

105. Ola Sars – Soundtrack Your Brand

Feb 15th, 2021 48m 7s

"What we do is collaborate with independent academic platforms which is much healthier for running R&D. We have multiple research projects going on in the neuroscientific field, for example..." The post 105. Ola Sars – Soundtrack Your Brand ap

104. Dmitri Vietze – Music Tectonics

Feb 8th, 2021 44m 14s

Dmitri Vietze is the CEO of Music Tech PR company Rock Paper Scissors, and the founder and curator of the Music Tectonics conference. "I grew up playing acoustic instruments in the subways of New York City. I was always intrigued by how music w

103. Dora Palfi – Imagilabs

Feb 1st, 2021 35m 17s

Dora Palfi is the co-founder and CEO of imagiLabs, an ed-tech company creating gadgets that make programming more relevant and welcoming for teenage girls. "One of my favourite projects was by one of our super-users who turned the Imagicharm in

102. Siavash Mahdavi – AI Music

Jan 24th, 2021 41m 48s

Siavash Mahdavi is the founder and CEO of AI Music, which helps brands and creators connect with their audiences through customised music. "I really love what I do. I've managed to create the perfect job. Super geeky techy and using my own expe

101. Sandra Vengadasalam & Friederike Kleinfercher – bloXberg

Jan 16th, 2021 36m 6s

Sandra Vengadasalam and Friederike Kleinfercher run the Max Planck Digital Labs at the heart of the Max Planck Digital Library in Munich. "There's a problem that exists since the beginning of science - and now we see a chance to solve that prob

100. The Universe in a Grain of Sand

Oct 23rd, 2020 1h 47m

A compilation of some highlights from the past two years of the MTF Podcast, showcasing the brilliant, diverse and fascinating people of MTF.The post 100. The Universe in a Grain of Sand appeared first on MTF Labs.

99. Marta de Menezes – Nature?

Oct 16th, 2020 59m

Marta de Menezes is an artist who works with biological systems - including her own. "What does it mean to have a system in our body that decides what is 'me' and what is 'not me'? I need to understand better how that works."The post 99. Marta

98. Sumit Bothra – Managing Nicely

Oct 9th, 2020 1h 13m

Sumit Bothra is a music manager. He’s director of ATC Management and a board member of the UK Music Manager’s Forum. "Taking credit for the work that you do is not stroking your ego. It's about recognising your impact on history. And why should

97. Lotta Ahlvar – Designer Chair

Oct 2nd, 2020 57m 24s

Lotta Ahlvar is Chair of Design Sweden - the association that represents all Swedish designers. "The fashion industry is one of the world's biggest polluters. It's only the food industry that is worse..."The post 97. Lotta Ahlvar – Designer Ch

96. Marc Brown – Byta

Sep 26th, 2020 44m 21s

Marc Brown is the founder of Byta - a platform for sending and receiving digital music. "There needs to be substantial cultural change in the music business. Things have improved, but that's no excuse and there's a long way to go."The post 96.

95. Sara Herrlin – Music Tech Connector

Sep 19th, 2020 34m 57s

Sara Herrlin is, among other things, the founder of STHLM Music City. "Don't forget that music in Sweden is not a niche - it's larger than all of tech put together. So of course, Music Tech is small, but it's buzzing and growing with fantastic