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Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
Join Henry and Daniel as they interview Jamie Lim, who just won her second SEA Games gold medal earlier this month. Jamie, a world-class karate fighter who doubles as a current MSc Business Analytics student at Imperial, tells her inspiring story and the challenges she’s faced along the way.
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Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
In this episode, Desiree and Moritz speak to Cody Finke, CEO of Brimstone about building decarbonization and cement decarbonization. Here, they focus on the founding story of Brimstone, Cody’s background, and why he focused on cement decarbonization. Cody shares his experience building a company in this sphere, Brimstone’s differentiation and process of making carbon negative cement, and the challenges the company faces in scaling their solution internationally. Cody, Desi, and Moritz also discuss the market landscape of companies working on cement decarbonization and the pros/cons of each solution. Lastly, they discuss risk and quality standards, stakeholder engagement, and the talent gap facing the industry.
Biography: Cody Finke is the co-founder and CEO of Brimstone Energy, a company working to commercialize carbon-negative cement by using calcium silicate rock. Cody completed his postdoctoral work as a DOE-funded Cyclotron Road entrepreneurial fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Finke received his Ph.D. from Caltech where he studied electrochemistry and industrial decarbonization. Prior to his Ph.D. Cody received a BA in Chemistry from Carleton College where he was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship by the US Government.
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Thursday May 11, 2023
Thursday May 11, 2023
In this week’s episode, Moritz sat down with Shapol and Rohan from Imperial College’s very own Karman Space Programme. The two have been part of the team from the very beginning, both managing multiple different departments. Together with their team they aim to build a reusable liquid bi-propellant rocket, thereby not only supporting the sector’s decarbonization efforts but also contributing to the research breakthroughs needed, to affectively fight the climate crisis here on earth.
And of course the all so important question about the colonization of Mars was asked as well – so tune in and learn more about how a space programme can actually support sustainability efforts!
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
Join Henry and Daniel as they discover what its like to manage sportsmen and women in a more digitised era. How does one become a football agent? Are they overpaid, and what is the future of how athletes connect with sponsors? These are all topics tackled in this week’s edition of The Sports Buff.
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
Vanessa is currently working as a Data Scientist in Product Analytics at Meta. She completed her bachelor’s degree in economics at Northeastern University in the US. After graduation, she worked as Business Intelligence Analyst across different functions such as web analytics, logistics, and payments at Wayfair for 3 years then moved to the UK.
She will share with us her career experience across different roles and countries. You may also notice we have a very beautiful podcast title today, butterfly tale. Let’s listen in to find out more.
Connect with Vanessa via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-emodi/
Resources recommended by Vanessa:
- Notion for goals-tracking
- Data Camp for technical training
Share with us a statistic, your feedback, and any topic you would like us to discuss via our email address: ibbapodcast@gmail.com
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
This week is Fashion Revolution Week, an annual campaign bringing together the world's largest fashion activism movement for seven days of action. That's why Claudia invited Ciara Barry, Policy and Campaigns Manager at Fashion Revolution to Green Minds to talk all things fashion. Today's episode also features Delphine-Maire Zacharias, a fellow MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance student of Claudia's, who led the Berlin Ambassador Group of Fashion Revolution. This talk includes:
- Rana Plaza's collapse importance in the fashion movement
- What Fashion Revolution does to improve the state of the fashion industry
- The inequality and wealth distribution in the fashion industry
- Fair living wage – Good Clothes, Fair Pay campaign
- GHG emissions associated with the fashion industry
- Who plays the biggest role in pushing the industry to become more sustainable
Fashion Revolution Manifesto: https://www.fashionrevolution.org/frw-2023/
Bangladesh Accord Website - https://bangladeshaccord.org/
Good Clothes, Fair Pay Campaign: https://www.goodclothesfairpay.eu/
Fashion Future and Sustainability online course: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/fashion-s-future-and-the-un-sustainable-development-goals-
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Strategic Marketing alumni and WARC Media data journalist Celeste Huang joins Senior Teaching Fellow in Marketing and Strategy James Eteen to discuss her current role and trends in media consumption and marketing.
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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