Finding Genius Podcast

Driving Next Generation Sequencing into Endocannabinoid based Clinical applications. Courtagen Life Sciences is a CLIA and CAP certified sequencing facility sequencing over 400 patients a month related to Epilepsy, Autism, Mitochondrial disease and Drug Metabolism. These diseases are tied to the EndoCannabinoid system (ECS) and we have the largest collection of patients clinically sequenced related to the ECS. Medicinal Genomics designs Cannabis Safety testing equipment and reagent such as qPCR technologies for microbiological testing and DNA purification tools specific to cannabis.

iPowow is the leaders in Participation TV; a real-time platform that engages viewers and connects them with the content on the television screen. Using their second screen devices, viewers are able to interact directly with the main broadcast, commenting on the TV story and at times influencing the outcome. The iPowow platform provides a perfect opportunity for brands to connect directly with the consumer through sponsorship integration on both the main broadcast and second screen. iPowow's real-time metrics and detailed analytics measure viewing habits across the networks and shows, leveraging valuable information in terms of viewer demographics, as well as levels of participation and engagement within the broadcast. With viewer engagement levels averaging 12%, iPowow redirects the viewing experience back to the main broadcast, increases show ratings and generates a new revenue stream for sponsorship and network ad sales. iPowow broadcast and brand partners include A&E Network; COMCAST; Channel 7 News; ESPN; Fox Sports; NBC Universal; Red Bull Media House; Reelz; Golf Channel; USA Network; Vodaphone, Quiksilver, and Yamaha.

REX is on a mission to do good for real estate consumers while also providing homes for those in the greatest need, wherever they may be. For a total fee of 2%, REX takes care of everything both buyers and sellers need, while removing traditional agent commissions of 5-6%. Our intelligent data-driven marketing, seamless transaction engine and licensed REX Agents to sell homes faster, create better experiences and yield huge savings for buyers and sellers. Plus, for every 50 homes we sell, we provide a home for a family in need. To date, REX has funded the construction of two homes for families in Cambodia. Powered by AI-Driven technology and expert agents, REX fees are 70% less than traditional and 50% less than discount brokerages.

The DigitalBits Project is an open-source software project used by the DigitalBits blockchain network. In addition to supporting fast & low-cost micropayments & remittances, Enterprises are also able to tokenize assets on the DigitalBits blockchain. Users are able to trade on-chain and the technology will automatically-trade (with multi-hop) in less than 5 seconds. Loyalty points & rewards are one of the asset categories that the decentralized DigitalBits blockchain is able to support. There are over $100Billion in unused points currently in the US alone and 1/3 of points issued each year (representing approx $16Billion in value) are never used.

Felix Bauer, co-founder, and CEO of Aircloak (aircloak.com) delivers an overview of security and privacy issues in an increasingly digital world. Felix Bauer studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge before bringing his talents to the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. He founded Aircloak in 2014 with co-founders, Paul Francis and Sebastian Probst Eide. Bauer is renowned for his work in privacy and security and is a regular guest speaker on the subject. Aircloak enables organizations to analyze and work with personal data in a safe and legal manner via their unique approach to data anonymization. As data collection on literally every person and business alike is becoming more common and often expected, Aircloak seeks to be the bridge between data and security concerns. Estimations indicate that human data is growing at a rate ten times that of common business data, and with artificial intelligence mining for more and more data, privacy is a crucial principle for all businesses and organizations. Bauer describes Aircloak's principal product as a proxy that sits in-between a database and an analyst, which allows the analyst to work with any kind of sensitive data, to query the data, but the output is then anonymized to protect the privacy of the individuals or entities. This groundbreaking technology allows important and useful data to be utilized without breaching privacy regulations or laws. From medical to financial applications and beyond, Aircloak's software is opening doors to data, but doing it the right way, the safe and legal way. Bauer discusses how their software can give marketing and data professionals access to valuable insider information in databases while maintaining absolute security and privacy protection of the identity of the individuals within those databases. Aircloak delivers the results marketers and data professionals are seeking in a manner that is 100% compliant with all regulations. The privacy expert delivers an overview of the process that their software utilizes to pick through data. He details how their software responds to queries and pulls the requested information, then analyzes all the relevant information for identifying data that should not be disclosed. The software scrubs the data essentially and removes all the identifying information that is legally required and mandated to be kept private, confidential, and secure. Additionally, Aircloak's software is designed to fight against breaches, such as instances in which someone may be issuing lots of queries to try to single out a particular answer that is private. And to keep their software working at the highest level, Aircloak has established a program that invites individuals to make an attempt to hack their software and access private data. If there is a successful breach, Aircloak's team gets to work to fix that breach immediately. However, it should be noted, out of 33,000,000 attempts, only two have been able to breach even minor data. Alarmingly, according to Bauer, 60% of the US population can be identified directly with access to only birth date, zip code, and gender. With data collection expanding exponentially, Aircloak's solutions are in high demand. From small organizations to large corporate businesses, the Aircloak system can be set up quickly on most systems to allow valuable data to be utilized right away.

Megan Ramos began volunteering on research projects with Dr. Jason Fung almost 20 years ago, while she was still in high school. At that time, Dr. Fung was just starting his career as a nephrologist, and has since become the well-known author of The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight and The Complete Guide to Fasting. Ramos' journey with Dr. Fung really took off while they were researching the effect of fasting on weight loss and overall health. "Fasting...saved my life...it is such a great tool to help get people into a place of good health before they start to experience complications because it takes us a while to change our dietary habits," says Megan Ramos. In 2012, Ramos founded Intensive Dietary Management, a program for which she continues to serve as director, guiding people through the process of achieving health through fasting. Among other topics, Ramos discusses the different fasting regimens that are best suited for different individuals, the ways in which people who are new to fasting can ease into it, the main challenges that are likely to be encountered, and the ways in which to avoid the physiological side effects that can occur within the first couple weeks of fasting. Learn more at www.idmprogram.com.

Dataperformers is an applied AI research company based in Montreal, CA, offering two main solutions for businesses: Stellar AI and SpecterNet. Mehdi Merai, CEO of Dataperformers, explains that the growth rate of startups is much greater than it is for manufacturers, with many seeing 300% growth in just six months. "The problem is that the data that financial institutions are using today are not up to date and the models are not made for a continued flow of data," says Merai. This is where Stellar AI comes into play, which works to match data from external sources with internal data in banks and other financial institutions, allowing for a more thorough profiling of companies, the ability to predict servicing and financing needs, and for the prioritization of tasks within sales departments. SpecterNet, on the other hand, utilizes deep learning and computer vision technology in order to detect, track, and identify objects in video content, providing marketing companies with a tool for in-store analyses such as threat-risk detection and customer behavior analytics. Tune in for the full discussion, and visit dataperformers.com to learn more.

We are not trying to replicate TV or create an experience that takes you away from TV, we are trying to make TV better by making it social," says Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of TOKtv. Television started out as a social activity, but for a number of reasons, including easy access to entertainment via mobile devices, many people these days are experiencing television alone. But for Fabrizio Capobianco, the social aspect of watching sports is vital to the experience of watching sports as a whole...and the 32 million users who have joined the TOKtv network seem to agree. Created in 2012, TOKtv is the world's largest social network in sports and has partnerships with the biggest football clubs in Europe. The TOKtv app allows people to connect with friends and fellow fans via a voice platform, take pictures with their friends as if they were sitting side-by-side in the stadium, and broadcast videos of themselves by simply shaking the mobile device--perfect for celebrating a goal. The app also helps sponsors activate relationships with fans through chat boxes and monthly voting contests. For example, sponsored monthly voting contests that used Twitter as the voting platform saw about 60 votes per month; using the TOKtv platform, sponsors saw closer to 20,000 votes per month--a true testament to the engagement of the TOKtv community. Tune in to learn more.

Amit Golan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Minute, a real-time AI video analysis platform that's helping publishers and content creators increase user engagement and generate more revenue on their video content. Today, video content is often hiding behind static images or titles that represent the video articles, meaning that users can't actually see the content. But with the use of AI, computer vision, deep learning, machine learning, and crowdsourced information, Minute is able to analyze a video and automatically identify the most engaging and visually compelling moments within it. By making sure that users are exposed to the seconds leading up to those moments, Minute dramatically increases user engagement and click-through rates 95% of the time, without showing the highlight itself. With the use of a prediction algorithm, Minute is able to automatically identify, replace, or deactivate any videos that result in decreased click-through rates or engagement--which only happens 5% of the time. Tune in to learn more about Minute's other products and ongoing projects.

Nancy J Kelley, JD, MPP, president & CEO of Nancy J Kelley + Associates, provides an overview of the current work in genomic research. As an executive and lawyer, Nancy J Kelley has over twenty years of executive management and board experience, with a critical focus on healthcare, life science, and research, especially as they relate to business and legal, government, non-profit, and academic areas. Nancy J Kelley + Associates' mission is to aid science and medicine through building and strategic planning, to push for scientific and medical breakthroughs. Their team works to advance translational genomic research that could potentially cure disease as well as improve the quality of life. Nancy J Kelley discusses her involvement with Genome Project-write (GP-write) an international project comprised of 200 scientists from 15 countries and over 100 institutions. GP-write's focus is to gather a full understanding of life, to reduce the overall expense of engineering and testing large genomes in cell lines, and create new tools and specific technologies for engineering biology. She relates how the project has a goal of understanding the blueprint to life provided by the Human Genome Project, but an equally important goal is to develop new technologies. The Human Genome Project was an international project with a primary mission—to determine the exact sequence of nucleotide base pairs that, together, make up human DNA, as well as to identify and map all genes of the human genome. The science executive explains that researchers must build genomes in order to fully understand how biological systems operate. And this understanding will have long-term implications in nearly every arena, from food, to new materials, to energy, healthcare and beyond. Through this work, researchers hope to find new ways to make cell lines resistant to viruses. Nancy J Kelley states that synthetic biology, or as she refers to it—engineering biology—is a growing field that businesses and governments are extremely interested in. And although the GP-write project is slated for a ten-year run only, her expectation is that GP-write will open the doors for continued study and developments for many years to come.