The Innovation Show

On this week's innovation show we talk to Whitney Johnson, author of the critically acclaimed book 'Disrupt Yourself (TM): Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work' (2015) and 'Dare, Dream Do' (2012). Whitney also hosts the 'Disrupt Yourself' podcast. We talk about why everyone should consider disrupting their career, what the benefits are, how companies can assist and nurture disruption and much more. You can find out more about Whitney at http://whitneyjohnson.com/meet-whitney/ You can find a link that Whitney mentions on the show here: http://whitneyjohnson.com/innovationshow and http://whitneyjohnson.com/innovationsystem

We speak to Bill Liao, Co-Founder of CoderDojo and General Partner of SOS Ventures. He tells us of his journey in entrpreneurship and his latest focus on the RebelBio Biotech lab in Cork. We talk CoderDojo, Leadership, Education, BioTech, Ai, Singularity and much more. Nils Rehmann is CEO and Founder of Canuevo, a Cannabinoid Pharma approach to healthcare. Nils team has a unique approach to accessing Cannabis for health for Epilepsy, Insomnia and Pain relief.

Pioneer of new forms of media, CEO and founder of the Third Space Agency Andrew Melchior. After a childhood filled with the wonders of building televisions, radios and (primitive) synthesisers with his time served electronics engineer grandfather (ex Royal Corps of Signals), Andrew embarked on a journey to use his passion for electronics, music and art to visualise and create new forms of media. After a passage as Digital Tribal Chief with Magic Leap and a long standing career in music with EMI, he now works across multimedia, connecting researchers, inventors, engineers, performers and dynamic digital companies to bring about the 'adjacent possible'.

We talk to Professor Barry O'Sullivan, Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in UCC. He is also deputy president of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and current SFI researcher of the year. Barry discusses the impact of Ai, we talk about the inevitable bias in data based Ai and how it is extremely important to "teach" Ai responsibly. We discuss UBI, Universal Basic Income, job automation and the societal challenges ahead. "An inevitable revolution in healthcare is coming. In this revolution, the consumers are the drivers and technology is the equalizer." - Dr. Basil Harris Dr. Basil Harris is CEO and founder of Basil Leaf Technologies www.basilleaftech.com Basil and his team were inspired by Star Trek to create a tricorder, a portable Ai device that could tell whether you had pneumonia or diabetes or a dozen other conditions all by yourself. This is like the one waved around by Dr. McCoy on the Star Ship Enterprise. With it, people can monitor their own blood pressure, heart rate and other health vitals. Basil emphasizes how this device is to free up doctors and health practitioners, not to replace them.

Alternative Investment Explorer, AI and Agtech futurist Brian D Colwell joins us for a chat about the future of work, AI, economic singularity, his investment trend suggestions and much more. For more on Brian, visit https://briandcolwell.com Ronan Murphy, CEO of Smarttech 247 joins us to let us know about his latest global partnership with IBM Watson and how AI has led to more jobs in his firm. He also tells us about the global ransomware attacks and that there are much more where that came from. You can find out more about cybersecurity and threats from https://www.smarttech.ie/.

We talk to John Murphy, Co-CEO of 8 West Consulting, an award-winning, full service, an enterprise software development company with a 20 year history of innovation and on-time delivery. We talk platforms, security, nano robotics, the dark web and the "Irish" no. We talk about the team's side project in Health Tech, IoT and a platform for AR with a CPR app, which triggers drones when needed.

We talk to the pioneer in the development of integrative medicine approaches to sleep and dreams Dr. Rubin Naiman PhD. Dr. Naiman works with everybody from Fortune 500 CEOs to world-class athletes. He is author of the fantastic book Hush: A Book of Bedtime Contemplations and runs sleep and yoga retreats all over the globe. Find out more on www.drnaiman.com On the show we talk about the perils of not only sleep deprivation, but dream deprivation. We talk creativity, sleep aids, REM, dreams, dream eyes and much more. https://www.amazon.com/Hush-Contemplations-Rubin-Naiman-PhD/dp/0615979424

We talk to the pioneer in the development of integrative medicine approaches to sleep and dreams Dr. Rubin Naiman PhD. Dr. Naiman works with everybody from Fortune 500 CEOs to world-class athletes. He is author of the fantastic book Hush: A Book of Bedtime Contemplations and runs sleep and yoga retreats all over the globe. Find out more on www.drnaiman.com On the show we talk about the perils of not only sleep deprivation, but dream deprivation. We talk creativity, sleep aids, REM, dreams, dream eyes and much more. https://www.amazon.com/Hush-Contemplations-Rubin-Naiman-PhD/dp/0615979424 We talk to John Murphy, Co-CEO of 8 West Consulting, an award-winning, full service, an enterprise software development company with a 20 year history of innovation and on-time delivery. We talk platforms, security, nano robotics, the dark web and the "Irish" no. We talk about the team's side project in Health Tech, IoT and a platform for AR with a CPR app, which triggers drones when needed.

With a specialisation in leadership we talk to Dr. David Kahn. David found that most leadership content is great, but the delivery is geared towards academics, not frontline leaders. True to his growth mindset nature, he decided to do something about it and wrote 'Cape, Spandex, Briefcase: Leadership Lessons from Superheroes" David is also Editor of the great blog Leadersayswhat. On this week's show we talk to David about the traits of true leaders, which can be drawn from superheroes. We also focus on how these skills can be applied to true innovation.

We talk to co-founders of meetingroom.io Jonny Cosgrove and Dr. Abraham Campbell. We do the show in a VR meeting room and discuss the advantages and advancement of VR.