The Next Wave Podcast

In this episode, we’re joined by Fatema Hamdani, Co-founder and CEO of Kraus Hamdani Aerospace. Fatema is the first guest to return to the TNW podcast, first appearing on the show in February 2020 after meeting TNW co-host Dean Nelson on Necker Island. KH Aerospace has made ground-breaking progress since then. Fatema leads an incredible team unlocking the potential of Unmanned Aerial Systems to augment and save lives, applied in everything from disaster relief and anti-poaching operations to military intelligence and reconnaissance. KH Aerospace has built the world’s first fully electric, zero-emissions UAV with the longest airborne endurance in its category. KH Aerospace is breaking world records with UAVs that can travel longer distances, stay in flight longer, and at higher altitudes than any before. KH Aerospace, a NightDragon company, includes NightDragon Founder Dave DeWalt and Kevin O’Connell, CEO and Founder of Space Economy Rising, LLC serving on the Board. Fatema and KH Aerospace co-founder Stefan Kraus have been nominated as finalists for an Edison Award, which celebrates the apex of product innovation. Past winners include Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Ted Turner, and Martha Stewart. A quote from Forbes states that “an aerospace colleague recently told Fatema and Stefan that what they’re doing for unmanned aerial systems is what the Wright Brothers did for flight.” On the podcast, Fatema addresses layering data from sensors and how much of the work done by UAS is being used to create #digitaltwins, among other topics.The K1000ULE by KH Aerospace is an ultra-long endurance fully electric UAS supporting an array of complex missions utilizing Beyond Line Sight Capabilities. Using edge processing, AI-powered analytics based on geospatial and third-party data, this technology is used for a number of capabilities, including defense, natural disaster, commercial use, and anti-poaching.KH Aerospace is shaking up the industry by making UAVs at a price point finally in reach of commercial enterprises and NGOs, instead of just governments. Projects with the armed services are showing what’s possible when startups fuse an innovative, entrepreneurial culture with the mission mindset of the military.As a citizen of the world with a nearly two-decade record of building startups, Fatema is keenly aware of the big challenges facing humanity and business today. She is relentlessly passionate about using aeronautics to contribute game-changing solutions. The foundation she started, DragonFly United, promises to fly KH Aerospace technology to higher heights for people and the planet. Fatema is also passionate about female-driven entrepreneurship. Follow KH Aerospace on LinkedIn and Twitter, and check out the KH Aerospace website for their latest news and media engagements.

In this episode, we're joined by Oxford PhD, Dr. Merritt Moore, a quantum physicist, professional ballerina, future astronaut-in-training, who is currently doing groundbreaking research in AI and robotics. Dr. Merritt graduated Magna Cum Laude in Physics from Harvard and holds a PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics from the University of Oxford. She also has a second career in professional ballet, previously with the Zurich Ballet, Boston Ballet, English National Ballet, and Norwegian National Ballet. She was awarded Forbes 30 under 30 in 2018, and she was one of the 12 selected candidates to undergo rigorous astronaut selection on BBC Two "Astronauts: Do you have what it takes?"Dr. Moore's background in ballet, physics, and aerospace has led her to programming and dancing with robots. Her motivation is to gain expertise in robotics and AI., which will be the future in space and here on earth. Invited as artist-in-residence at Harvard Art Lab, Merritt began exploring movement between human dancer and industrial robotic arm right. During the pandemic, she created many dances with robots, featured in TIME, Financial Times (F.T.), Vogue, BBC Click, and more. Merritt has been invited to be the featured speaker at the Forbes Women's Summit in N.Y., Princeton Physics Department, panelist for the U.S. Embassy' Women in STEM' Panel in London. She is also featured in the bestseller "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls."Follow Dr. Merritt Moore  on Twitter, Instagram and check out her website physicsonpointe.

This week we have a slightly delayed news update covering various topics: SpaceX helps Tonga restore internet after a massive volcano eruption; various Meta Updates including the official end of its Libra/Diem crypto project, threats to shutter EU ops; Trouble in Cryptoland as $3.6B of Bitcoin was seized by the DoJ related to the Bitfinex hack,  a $320M cross-chain hack between Ethereum and Solana, and the launch of OpenCBDC; Cyber Warfare and the NSO Group; California Net Neutrality laws upheld on appeal, and much more!Stay tuned for Episode 59 next week when we're joined by Oxford PhD, Dr. Merritt Moore, a quantum physicist, professional ballerina, future astronaut-in-training, who is currently doing groundbreaking research in AI and robotics - catch a sneak peak on YouTube. And Episode 60 the following week with our first return guest: Fatema Hamdani from Episode 6, Co-Founder & CEO of Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, which is a finalist for an Edison Award this coming April for their K1000ULE Unmanned Aerial System, a zero emissions drone that flies longer than any other electric aircraft in its size and weight category.

This week we're talking about the #1 Internet Technology of 2021: WebAssembly (According to The New Stack) and the organization building its future: Bytecode Alliance.We are joined by the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Bytecode Alliance: Till Schneidereit (Principal Software Engineer, WebAssembly @ Fastly and Former Sr. Engineering Manager at Mozilla) and Ralph Squillace (Principal Program Manager, Azure Core Upstream, Microsoft), two leaders in the continued development of WebAssembly. The Bytecode Alliance is an industry partnership created to forge WebAssembly’s outside-the-browser future by collaborating on implementing standards and proposing new ones. The founding members are Mozilla, Fastly, Intel, and Red Hat, with Microsoft, arm, Google, Shopify, Siemens and others joining in 2021 including EDJX. More recently, Amazon Prime Video also joined the alliance. Other sites mentioned:https://www.fastly.com/blog/edgehttps://deislabs.iohttps://webassembly.org/

This week we're talking about big deals and big tech and big stuff as Farmville's Zynga was acquired for 11 billion and NFT marketplace OpenSea raises $300 million at a scorching $13 billion valuation. Big tech staff movements are on the rise, people are moving all over the place, including Meta's head of PR resigning and Signal's CEO is stepping down. And our reports of 70 departures from Microsoft's HoloLens team to companies like Facebook Meta and other stories, including the successful assembly of NASA's big Webb telescope.

This week we’re covering the news and 2022 predictions (a few weeks behind due to COVID in the production studio). Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos was convicted of fraud, we discuss both her first HBO special as well as the film in production starring Jennifer Lawrence;  2022 Predictions, America’s Team Telecom is back Big Tech Cables for Google and M*** to China; we discuss the future of social media and alternatives like Mastodon, Discourse and more after Joe Rogan’s COVID Misinformation episode with Dr. Robert Maloney; issues with the “M”verse and some optimistic brainstorming; as well as China’s newest Coal-powered energy plant.

This week we have as our guest Hrish Lotlikar, the Co-founder & CEO of SuperWorld. Hrish  has recently been named one of the 30 most influential people in the Metaverse, and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Business Times, Entrepreneur.com and since recording, appeared on CNBC and was featured in The Economist. SuperWorld's virtual real estate platform is mapped over the entire surface of the globe, allowing users to purchase —virtually—any place on Earth. From skyscrapers and stadiums to historical monuments and iconic structures including wonders of the natural world, everyone has a favorite place that they would love to own in this virtual world where each plot of land is a 100m x 100m rectangle which is about the size of a city block. Recently Barbados became the first sovereign nation to announce they will be building an embassy in the metaverse on SuperWorld.

This week we’re covering the latest news, from the biggest Zero Day vulnerability in history, to Dorsey’s departure from Twitter, to huge data center acquisitions, the AWS Outage, the Edge, and more... 

Facebook vs Meta on face recognition and other intrusive tech. Biden's broadband plan. Bitcoin tax. NSO Group. Ransomware. Google gets into trading. Apple looking at Crypto. 

This week we have as our guest Matt Johnson, CEO and Co-founder of QC Ware. QC Ware focuses on Enterprise Software and Services for Quantum Computing with offices in Palo Alto and Paris, and soon, Tokyo. With one of the largest teams of quantum algorithm experts QC Ware strives to make quantum computing easily accessible by classically-trained data scientists and to offer performance speed-ups on near term hardware. Enterprise customers include Airbus, BMW Group, Goldman Sachs, Roche, and Total. Partners include AWS, D-Wave, IBM Quantum Computing, IonQ, Microsoft, and Rigetti. Matt as CEO of QC Ware also started and hosts annually the industry conference for Quantum Computing, Q2B, which happens every December, and each year includes the top industry and academic speakers and companies, including theoretical computer scientist Scott Aarronson, based at UT Austin, and John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, who coined the term Quantum Supremacy. Register here for the Q2B conference, happening in-person at the Santa Clara Convention Center December 7-9, 2021: https://q2b.qcware.com/Matt is extremely impressive with a very diverse background - he was formerly a partner at Apollo Management based in London and prior to that a managing director at Credit Suisse. Matt holds a BS from the US Air Force Academy and an MBA from Wharton. He also completed a solo crossing of the English Channel and remains an avid swimmer. 

This week our guest Dave Perrill, CEO and Co-founder of Compute North. A 25-year veteran of IT and InfoSec, Dave has been keenly immersed in the cryptocurrency mining industry and blockchain technology since its formative days. He founded and subsequently sold two technology companies, including SecureConnect, an ISP which morphed into a Managed Security Provider, and was ultimately was acquired by Trustwave Holdings in 2012. He also served as CEO of Wand Corporation, a leading point-of-sale and Digital Menu board provider to the Quick Service Restaurant industry. Dave has extensive experience in networking, data center engineering, scaling large IT systems, and security. He holds a BS in Management Information Systems and an MBA in Finance from the University of Minnesota. Dave has been a member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization) since 2015 as part of the Twin Cities chapter in Minneapolis.

Our guest this week is Kristen Buchanan, the CEO and Founder of Edify, an AI platform that enables engineers to be high performing. Edify’s first product, Eddy, is slack-native solution that helps developers and product managers build technical onboarding plans for their new hires. She received $2M of seed funding in Dec. 2020 right before being accepted into the TechStars Seattle 2021 Cohort. Prior to founding Edify, she consulted for various large organizations implementing onboarding and learning plans for engineering and product teams including AWS Elemental, OpenSky Alibaba, Puppet.and many others.

Our guest this week is Eddie Schutter, the Chief Technology Officer for Switch. He has over 25 years of experience and leadership in the data center and information technology industry for organizations including eBay, AT&T, DCF Technologies, The Green Grid, Data Center Pulse, and other various advisory boards. He is a Director on the iMasons BOD, Executive advisor of the Technical Curriculum Advisory Board for CNET Training, and Engineering Advisory Board for SMU Lyle School of Engineering.Eddie is a Navy veteran and he studied Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. He resides in Dallas with his wife of 28 years and their eleven children. 

Dean Nelson visits Texas and brings back a special gift. This week we're discussing China's Covid data creep, Amazon's plans to censor certain AWS customers, we check in on Steve Mullaney at Aviatrix, a 77-atom AI molecule, and Nasa's big UFO plans. 

This week we’re discussing the latest news making headlines in Big Hacks, Big Tech, Big Brother, Big Deals, and China. 

This week we have more updates on Apple privacy concerns, Microsoft Azure reveals a Top Secret Government Cloud while emerging threat vectors in the cloud prompt Biden to take action, the Indian Government is trying to establish a surveillance state, US Officials run into a few issues and Elon, who once feared Terminator-like AI, is now building Tesla robots

We’re  discussing the privacy concerns with Apple’s new child protection feature, Huawei pressuring US businesses for backdoors, China’s ownership stake in Bytedance and Weibo, SpaceX’s quiet acquisition of Swarm and what it means for 5G and IoT, and the news in crypto… 

Our guest this week is Joshua Schechter (shek-ter), Director of Cognitive Delivery and Implementation for Amelia, the Most Human AI along with additional products such as the Amelia Hyper Automation Platform introduced in 2018 for true end-to-end, enterprise-wide automation. He is passionate about bringing “Conversational AI” to the world, believing it is the foundation for the future state of work and will help usher in the next industrial revolution. Josh has been leading the implementation teams at Amelia for the past 4 years and has worked with many Fortune 100 enterprises. Visit Amelia.ai: https://amelia.ai/podcast/the-next-wave-podcast-joshua-schechter-director-of-cognitive-delivery-and-implementation-at-amelia/

Major investigation Reveals Israeli-based NGO Group’s Pegasus spyware has been used to spy on journalists, activists and others via Apple’s iOS -  Snowden pointed out., Amazon CloudFront, URL Shorteneing Servers, DNS Servers, and more.  China was accused of backing cyber attacks in a rare co-ordinated effort by the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the EU, Japan and NATO, followed by the DoJ charging 3 Chinese officials. Bezos landed safely and has since offered NASA $2B to reignite the space race. UFO or swarm of bugs? Object recorded over South Carolina ignites tabloid coverage.

This week we’re talking about a different Billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, successfully voyaging to space with 5 Virgin Galactic employees just days ahead of Bezos. Brad’s alma mater Brookfield entered a JV with Digital Realty to enter India and more.