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Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
In this episode, Desiree speaks with Kike Miralles and Josh Goldman, an alumnus of Imperial College, about mining critical minerals. They focus on exploration and discovery innovation to boost the output needed to fill the mineral demand and supply gap. Kike and Josh both share their experiences and insights working in this field - Josh by founding KoBold Metals, a startup backed by top investors like Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz and Kike by working in deep-tech venture capital and investing in the new mining innovation at Starlight Ventures. They also talk about how founders, investors, and companies should make sense of the geopolitical complexity in mining in addition to talent and research gaps in the mining industry.
Kike Miralles is a Principal at Starlight Ventures, a Miami-based venture capital firm for founders addressing the world's most pressing challenges and opportunities. Starlight partners early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science to pursue progress at scale. Starlight Ventures has a strong investing track record in decarbonization; Starlight's portfolio includes Carbon Engineering, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Impossible Metals, and Quaise among others. Prior to Starlight Ventures, Kike consulted for McKinsey and Company, completed his MBA at MIT, and earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s in the field of physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain and Ulm University in Germany.
Josh Goldman is the co-Founder and President of KoBold Metals, a startup aiming to leverage artificial intelligence to identify mineral deposits needed for transition to a low-carbon economy. Prior to founding KoBold Metals, Josh worked in oil and gas private equity, and also consulted for McKinsey and Company. He earned his PhD. in Physics at Harvard University, holds Master degrees in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University and in History of Science at Imperial College, and earned a Bachelors of Physics at Cornell University.
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Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Join us for the first ever episode of The Sports Buff, as we tackle how the sports tech start-up Stance is looking to create a new brand of smart watch. Their CEO and Imperial alumni Jayshan will take listeners through how start-ups are launched, funded and progressed.
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
In this week's episode, Desiree speaks with Tem on Nomadic Venture Partners’ investment thesis, the importance of the mining industry in the global economy and the world's decarbonization journey, geopolitical complexities with China and the Democratic Republic of Congo, risk and liability, ethics, decarbonization and innovation opportunities along the mining value chain, permitting reform, and advice for entrepreneurs working in the mining industry.
Tem Tumurbat is currently the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Nomadic Venture Partners, a climate tech firm accelerating decarbonization by investing in innovation across the mining value chain, as well as manufacturing, and transportation. Currently, NVP invests catalytic capital in pre-seed, seed, and Series A companies. Prior to NVP, he was an investment professional at Resource Capital Funds, a private equity firm focused on mining investments and a mining engineer at a variety of mining corporations. He received his Bachelor’s in Mining Engineering at the Colorado School of the Mines.
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Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
In this week's episode, Moritz speaks with Todd Smith, the co-founder of Safe Landing, an organisation by aviation workers for more sustainability in the industry. The two talk about the radical changes needed to decarbonize the aviation industry, the challenges that lie ahead and also why it is so crucial that most of Safe Landing’s members still work within the sector and drive change from within.
Todd is a former airline pilot, who has been flying airplanes across the globe until a medical diagnosis left him no choice but to pause his job. During that time he “ironically” as he says himself, traveled around the world and realized the damage global warming has already done. Shortly after Todd co-founded the non-profit organization Safe Landing to push for a radical change in the aviation sector.
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Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
In this week's episode, Desiree speaks with Mai Bui, Shiladitya Ghosh, and Nicholas Chadwick on a variety of topics related to carbon dioxide removal. We talk about the latest research around direct air capture hubs, technical differences between direct air capture and point source capture, challenges in commercializing DAC technologies, and advice for everyday people to support this industry.
Mai is currently a researcher at Imperial College informing policymakers with multiscale perspectives on a variety of carbon removal technologies. She also works heavily with the UKRI in completing due diligence on industrial decarbonization technologies and sits on the technical advisory board of Puro.earth, the world’s largest crediting platform for engineered carbon removal.
Shiladitya and Nicholas both met at Deep Science Ventures, a deep-tech venture builder based in the UK. Shiladitya is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mission Zero Technologies. Previously, he completed his PhD at Imperial College in post-combustion carbon capture and thermochemical energy storage. Nicholas is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mission Zero Technologies and prior to founding Mission Zero, he completed his PhD in Chemistry at UCL focusing on water sensing and semiconductors.
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https://www.stateofcdr.org/resources
https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/finding-a-job-in-climate
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Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
In this week's episode, Desiree speaks with Caroline de Bossart and Robert Höglund on a variety of topics related to carbon dioxide removal, including research gaps, role of government and venture capital investors in supporting market development, and supplier and buyer dynamics.
Backgrounds on the guests:
Caroline de Bossart is currently the Director of Neglected Climate Opportunities at the Grantham Foundation where she invests catalytic pre-seed and seed capital in underfunded areas within climate, like geothermal energy, carbon dioxide removal, and critical metal mining. Prior to the Grantham Foundation, she invested in later stage climate-focused technologies at CPP Investments and consulted for Bain and Company and FTI Consulting. She earned her Bachelor’s in Classics at University of Oxford.
Robert Höglund currently advises organizations on policy and carbon removal through Marginal Carbon AB. Robert also manages the Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund where he invests in climate-positive projects internationally. Robert is the co-founder of CDR.fyi, the largest open registry of durable carbon removal. Robert was part of the Science-based Target Initiatives' Net-zero expert advisory group and previously headed Oxfam Sweden's policy and communications team, where he authored the discussion paper Removing carbon now. He is also a member of Expert Group on Carbon Removals for the European Commission.
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https://www.stateofcdr.org/resources
https://marginalcarbon.substack.com/
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Thursday Mar 23, 2023
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
In this week's episode, Claudia talks to Professor of Marketing at Imperial College Business School, Eduardo B. Andrade, about sustainable consumption. They discuss the interplay of marketing and consumer behaviour, define sustainable consumption and uncover different human biases. After discussing the green attitude-behaviour gap, Eduardo introduces his obstacle-opportunity framework for addressing the barriers to sustainable consumption. Furthermore, he shares the best practice research in human behaviour and describes how this is usually done. Towards the end, Eduardo gives a tip on one change every one of us can make in order to become more mindful consumers.
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
In this week's episode, Claudia talks to Cyril Klepek, founder and CEO of Cyrkl, an international technology and consulting green tech company specializing in circular waste management by providing the largest recycling platform in Europe and unique Circular Waste Scans. Cyril talks about what led him to create Cyrkl, the journey to expanding to over 10 countries around Europe and how they attracted the biggest companies to join their platform. He talks about the waste management problem we are facing, the role of circular economy in the net zero transition as well as what different players can do to get us there. Cyril also talks about the solution his firm Cyrkl offers, and how it provides financial as well as CO2 savings. To see more, check out www.cyrkl.com.
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Hearing more about MSc Business Analytics alumni Miranda Zachopoulou’s journey to a career in data science and her experience working as a Data Scientist at NewNow group - a decision technology company that develops AI-powered decision solutions for businesses.
Connect with Miranda via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miranda-zachopoulou/
Resources recommended by Miranda:
- Feedly: https://feedly.com/
- Data science for business by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett
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Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
This week, Andreas speaks with Farida Lasida Adji (Ida), the IFC East Asia Lead for Green Buildings and Market Transformation program. In this episode, Ida talks about the IFC Green Building program and what it does with the clients across the emerging markets to transform their properties into green buildings. You will learn about IFC’s EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiency) standards and certifications. We also talk about some examples of implementation as well as their challenges and the key success factors. Ida also talks about the recent certification of Istiqlal Mosque, Indonesia’s and Southeast Asia’s largest mosque located in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Outro music by Kirk Zieser
Additional information
- On EDGE: https://edgebuildings.com/
- IFC Green Building: https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/climate+business/our+approach/promoting+sustainable+innovation/green+buildings
- The greening of Istiqlal Mosque: https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/news_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/news+and+events/news/indonesias-national-mosque-green-design