Updates, Announcements and the Before It Happened Show.

Reforesting the Planet with Troy Carter – Episode 54

If Troy Carter gets his way, one day we’ll live in a world where “half or more of the planet is seen as sacred territories, where humans have only traditional uses for the land, and not industrial uses.” A world where “every year, there are more and more species of every kind flourishing.”

Humanizing Tech Through Art with Agnieszka Pilat

Artist Agnieszka Pilat's craft has evolved with the technology she portrays in her work. What’s next, a residency in outer space? If that doesn’t happen, her earthbound adventures will continue to delight...

The Future of Autonomous Trucking with Paula Bejarano – Episode 52

Currently the Director of Business Development at trucking giant Navistar, Paula Bejarano knows better than anyone that the autonomous trucking industry still has plenty to prove.

Finding Your North Star with Serial Entrepreneur Anne Cocquyt

Author of Dare to Launch: Mini-MBA for First-Time Entrepreneurs, Anne Cocquyt is a mentor and thought leader for founders around the world, who speaks from deep hands-on experience and her love of business.

Smarter Buildings. Smarter Planet With Mark Chung

Mark Chung had checked off all the boxes in a successful career. Status, power, money: he had them all in his corporate engineering job. Until one day, he wanted more...

Flying On the Road, with Untitled Motorcycles Co-Founder Hugo Eccles – Episode 49

Hugo Eccles grew up with a “petrol-head” amateur race car driver dad who ignited his passion for cars and motorcycles. In 2014, Eccles came full circle to his early passion for motorcycles, as co-founder of Untitled Motorcycles (UMC), based in San Francisco.

Next-Generation Aviation With Jacob Klinginsmith – Episode 48

Growing up in the shadow of Boeing in Seattle in the early aughts, Jacob Klinginsmith was destined for a career in aeronautics.

Putting the Human in Human-Computer Interaction, with Carlos Moreira – Episode 47

People, Planet and Profits: ESG Investing with Eddy Soffer – Episode 46

Rarely do you meet someone who is a champion of change in both their personal and professional lives. Meet Eddy Soffer.

Tracing Our Food Supply on the Blockchain with Niamh O'Connell

As one of blockchain’s earliest evangelists, Niamh O’Connell probably knew how the technology could help you or your business before you’d even heard of it.

Diversifying the Space Frontier With Kim Macharia

Kim Macharia will be the first to tell you she’s not a scientist. She’s not an astronaut, either—although she’s dying to go to space. But she may be the most important new voice in the U.S. space … well … space!

Ethics and Human Rights in Tech With Deb Donig

Deb Donig’s focus is the intersection of technology and human rights. In addition to teaching at Cal Poly, she’s the host of the Technically Human podcast, a show that features some of the most prominent tech thinkers and goes deep on the singular question: “What does it mean to be human in the age of tech?”

Solving the Cheese Problem with Change Foods' David Bucca – Episode 42

When David Bucca decided to leave a successful career as an aerospace engineer to launch the animal-free dairy startup Change Foods, the only thing he knew about cheese is that he no longer ate it...

Fermenting Better Meat wIth Paul Shapiro – Episode 41

Paul Shapiro is the co-founder and CEO of The Better Meat Co., a B2B startup that uses a special fermentation process to make plant-based proteins for producers of both meat and non-meat protein products.

Driving the Nostalgia of Motorcycles into the EV Era with Paul d'Orleans – Episode 40

Paul d’Orleans insists he’s not a nostalgic man.‍That might sound counterintuitive coming from the world’s foremost authority on classic and vintage motorcycles, but Paul is just as passionate about the future of two-wheeled transportation as he is about its past. ‍And the future looks electric...