Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

Here Nikolas speaks with Rafeeq Bosch who has a long career in information technology leadership and transformation. He now works for Slalom Consulting where he’s building out a Foresight practise and helps clients see further and think bigger.

Rafeeq was a co-founder of the World Futures Society’s South Africa Chapter, and was instrumental in making submissions to the South African government’s 2030 National Development Plan. Rafeeq is also pursuing a PhD in Futures Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. His research area is the use of Futures techniques to help Emerging Economy nations participate in the 4th Industrial Revolution. 

“System of life” – A Metaphor for Re-imagining the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the Journal of Futures Studies - https://jfsdigital.org/2020/05/15/system-of-life-a-metaphor-for-re-imagining-the-covid-19-pandemic/

DARK FUTURES link - ‘Dark Industrial Revolutions’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy377vOaAi4

Connect with Rafeeq at rafeeq.bosch@slalom.com

See more of Nikolas’ work at https://www.nikolasbadminton.com

S2: Ep10 - Rafeeq Bosch talks about Africa, hidden futurists, and the power of Causal Layer Analysis

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 11 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

Here Nikolas speaks with Rocky Ozaki, the founder and CEO of the NoW of Work. Rocky is one of Canada’s most passionate evangelists and transformation experts on the NoW of Work (the Future of Work is NoW). For years he has preached that technology, a sharing economy and the connected generation would dramatically shift the way companies operated...and it was going to happen faster than most were predicting. We've since learned that COVID-19 was not only a more powerful influence to force companies to modernize, but it's also pushing the adoption of exponential technologies and the sharing economy at an even greater pace than ever before.

Connect with Rocky at https://www.nowofwork.com/ and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rockyozaki/ 

See more of Nikolas’ work at https://www.nikolasbadminton.com

S2: Ep11 - Rocky Ozaki talks about COVID-19 killing the paradigm of work, and the awakening we need

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 12 of the Exponential Minds Podcast. Nikolas Badminton, Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author, speaks to the amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions.

Here Nikolas speaks with Sashko [Sasha] Despotovski who has a decade of investment experience in the renewable + medical sectors, via posts with hedge funds and investment banks in USA & Canada. 5 years as M&A Director and Special Advisor at Big Four  in Norway. He is a venture capital fund manager in Luxembourg and Malta, Director to 2 publicly listed companies, & advisor to startups, and has raised 2.5+ billion USD. Today, Sasha is the Managing Director of Hinna Park Capital - a global microfund and advisory agency, focused on investing into late seed staged companies in Europe and North America.

Read more about Hinna Park Capital - https://www.hinnaparkcapital.com/

Reach out to Sashko - https://www.linkedin.com/in/saskodespotovski/

S2: Ep12 - Sashko Despotovski talks about shifting global investments and ‘green’ consciousness

S3: Ep1 - Melissa Eshaghbeigi talks about the empathetic and ugly future of social media

Melissa is a millennial on the Internet and exclusively thinks and talks about the world wide web. She's curious about the intersection of internet culture and real life and tells stories about what people are consuming online to inspire new, relevant and authentic ways for brands to connect with people. 

She also works as a Cultural Strategist and has worked on projects for Adidas, Levi's, Twitter, Miller Genuine Draft and most recently, the National Film Board of Canada. 

Here Nikolas and Melissa get into the good, great, bad, ugly, and terrifying future of social media and what it can be. Creative, empathetic, and a platform to encourage cultural change.

‘We need to talk about WAP’ - https://medium.com/@eshaghbeigi/we-need-to-talk-aboutwap-f852cce37bef

Watch her DARK FUTURES talk ‘It's 2039, you’re either stressed, depressed or cancelled’ here as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRNaL75VNDY

Twitter - @eshaghbeigi

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshaghbeigi/

S3: Ep1 - Melissa Eshaghbeigi talks about the empathetic and ugly future of social media

Futurist Speaker, Nikolas Badminton, presents the Exponential Minds Podcast features experts from all fields around the world discussing how humanity is impacted by the exponential growth in technology and the thinking behind it.

The host, Nikolas Badminton is a world-respected futurist speaker that provides keynote speeches about the future of work, the sharing economy, and how the world is evolving. Nikolas is based in Vancouver, BC, and speaks across Canada, USA, UK, Asia, and Europe.

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