Future Worlds Podcast

About Future Worlds Podcast

Future Worlds is the on-campus startup accelerator at the University of Southampton and we exist to help the aspiring founders at the University to change the world with their ideas. So few people really get to see what it's like to live the life of a startup founder and walk that journey. We're launching this podcast to give you that insight and the opportunity to meet the founders and hear their stories right from the ground.

Publisher

Future Worlds

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Jan 2021

Latest episode

25 Mar 2021

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Mar 2021

   Better Allies: Simple actions, simple challenge

   "I fervently believe in the potential of startup founders to have an outsize impact in the world, shaping and building our future. However, for that to be positive for everyone, everyone must be positively engaged. Shockingly, in the UK and around the world, less than 3% of venture capital investment goes to female led startups, and in the UK less than 2% goes to those led by people from ethnic minorities. While venture funding is not the only route to building a high impact company, it is the dominant path for tech startups, so the lack of diversity in the funding landscape is awful for these huge and under represented groups, but it is also bad for everyone: we all miss out through the rich diversity of human creativity being squandered by a lack of inclusion, and the picture is not limited to just tech startups. If we want a better world then all of us, especially those of us, like me, from over represented groups who benefit from great privilege, need to step forward to make a difference. Perhaps, like me, you want to see things change, but you struggle to know what you can do. I've always been disappointed by a lack of diversity and representation, but it has felt like a big issue that is beyond my ability to do much about. However, Grace Burton on the Future Worlds team recently introduced me to Better Allies (https://betterallies.com/), Karen Catlin's approach to creating more inclusive workplaces, which brilliantly tackles the deadlock by providing simple, everyday steps we can all take to turn intent in to action to make a difference. Therefore, I was very excited when Karen joined me to share her experience of 25 years building software products, serving as a vice president of engineering at Macromedia and Adobe, and pioneering the Better Allies movement. I’m a complete beginner, at the start of that journey, but I'm encouraged that making a difference is possible and, at the same time, I now feel accountable, because by making it so simple Karen leaves us no room for excuses for not doing what we can. Simple actions, simple challenge." Ben Clark: Director, Future Worlds

2. 

   3 Mar 2021

   20MINFOUNDER: Alena Golden, Rap Tech Studios – Combining tech and a passion for Rap into a platform of 10M users.

   Learn how Alena went from being a fan of hip hop and rap in Belarus, working with O2, and then to creating a worldwide entertainment and music platform with 800K monthly active users.

3. 

   2 Feb 2021

   20MINFOUNDER: Sarah Porter, InspiredMinds – Building a powerful community using the strength of AI

   Hear how Sarah went from selling her house and investing her life savings to building an influential worldwide community in science, technology, government and business using the power of AI and emerging technologies.

4. 

   2 Feb 2021

   20MINFOUNDER: Rob Dobson, Serial Entrepreneur and Investor – From ECS to a $100m exit and beyond

   This is a fantastic opportunity to learn and be inspired by Rob’s journey, going from a first-class honours degree in Electronic Engineering here at the University of Southampton to taking multiple companies to successful multi-million pound exits.

5. 

   22 Jan 2021

   CES 2021 - E8. Emitwise: Helping businesses monitor and manage their carbon footprint

   It's the last episode in our CES 2021 podcast series. In this final episode we are joined by Emitwise founder Mauro Cozzi. Emitwise is focused on helping large corporates to measure, track and profitably reduce their carbon footprint.

6. 

   18 Jan 2021

   CES 2021 - E7. Aura Vision: AI powered in-store analytics

   Today it's great to welcome back Aura Vision Co-Founder Dr. Daniel Martinho-Corbishley. Aura Vision is one of the great successes to come through Future Worlds in the last few years and has done some incredible things on the world stage since working with us. Aura Vision works with retailers and shopping malls to combine cutting edge AI with existing camera infrastructure to accurately count customers, demographics and engagement in real time.

7. 

   16 Jan 2021

   CES 2021 - E6. Absolar: Intelligent solar feasibility and carbon reduction planning

   It's a real privilege to welcome Absolar founder Dr Phil Wu for episode six of our CES podcast series. Absolar is delivering software that optimises the location of solar energy systems for buildings at scale. Listen to how they are planning to spark the next energy revolution.

8. 

   15 Jan 2021

   CES 2021 - E5. BOON: Privacy-first online personalisation

   Episode 5 gives you the opportunity to meet long term Future Worlds friend and BOON founder, Dylan Grey. BOON is an award winning startup that creates personalised shopping experiences for online users while preserving their data privacy.

9. 

   14 Jan 2021

   CES 2021 - E4. Inpulse: Stimulating real time muscle performance gains

   Welcome to Episode four of our CES 2021 podcast series. In this episode we welcome Inpulse founder Devon Lewis. Inpulse are making smart clothing that monitors and enhances muscle activity.

10. 

    13 Jan 2021

    CES 2021 - E3. Aquark Technologies: Unlocking the quantum future

    This podcast series shares with you the opportunity to meet the people behind the amazing technologies. We will take you behind the scenes so you can understand what it takes to go on your own startup journey. In episode three we are joined by Aquark Technologies founder Dr. Andrei Dragomir. Physicist Dr. Andrei Dragomir, part of the Quantum, Light and Matter (QLM) Group at the University of Southampton, is pioneering research in the heart of this burgeoning industry and has founded startup company Aquark Technologies to open up new possibilities in the field.

11. 

    12 Jan 2021

    CES 2021 - E2. Sentient Sports: AI powered player recruitment

    Experience and get to know Sentient Sports founder Ryan Beal in this second episode of our CES 2021 podcast series. Sentient Sports are using AI research into decision making to apply that to team sport to help top teams improve their decision making and team development.

12. 

    11 Jan 2021

    CES 2021 - E1. ArchAI: Using AI to automatically detect archaeological sites with founder Iris Kramer

    ArchAI is using computer vision and deep learning for the detection of archaeological sites to de-risk construction. In the first episode of our CES 2021 podcast series, get behind the scenes on this interesting challenge in the market with ArchAI founder Iris Kramer.

13. 

    8 Jan 2021

    CES 2021 - E0. INTRO

    We are launching a new podcast series to coincide with our sixth year of exhibiting at CES. This Future Worlds podcast series will give you the opportunity to meet the eight founders that will be unveiling ground-breaking University of Southampton innovations on the global stage at CES 2021.