Bubbles: A podcast for curiosity Maiuran Loganathan

Dr. Odera earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Florida and is currently a professor at Minerva Schools. He has founded and led five organizations focusing on socioeconomic development, political development, and food security innovations in Kenya. He has also created and led two field schools on community development in Kenya. His work deals with issues of political development, citizen-politician linkages, microfinance institutions, the informal economy in Africa, and community development. He has researched, written, and taught extensively on these topics.

Even is the Co-founder of Glint Solar, a VC-backed startup that is using AI/ML and satellite data to do quick and comprehensive pre-feasibility analyses for floating solar sites. Even has experience from the U.S. State Department, Kroll Associates, NATO, Tysvar and more. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Macalester College. He was in 2019 awarded the title "Global Energy Leader of Tomorrow" by The New York Times and Energy Intelligence.

Marco is a Berlin-based musician, filmmaker, videographer and video coach. After studying filmmaking and journalism in London, Marco worked for CNN international. In 2012 his longing to be self-employed brought him to Berlin where he is producing promotional videos for social enterprises and tech companies. Marco is currently making music under the artist name Marco Mello.

Franziska is an Experience designer on a mission to make slow, human-centered space design the ‘New Normal’. She co-Founded Space & Pepper - an agency applying UX Design Principles to Community- and Hybrid Spaces. Franziska is also working with the Space Lab collective to research and design better living and working spaces. She has previously worked with marketing for Coca-Cola and Lufthansa.

Almir is a senior consultant at Forse. Previously he was a technical student at CERN- the European Organisation for Nuclear Research where he worked on development and maintenance of a beam dynamics simulation software. This software was used in the commissioning of the new linear accelerator LINAC4. (We will get to what all this means today). He is currently working with NRK (the Norwegian public  broadcasting company) on optimising their streaming service using F sharp - a functional-first programming language.

Einar Ingebrigsten is currently working as the Chief Scientist at DoLittle. A tech startup from Norway helping to create Line-of-Business applications. (We will get to what that means later). He has been programming since 1994 and worked on building playstation, PC and XBOX games, worked as a technology evangelist, worked with software for big enterprise and is now working at DoLittle.