Luminaries

Episode 26: Rugged Tech Exploration…With Mike Libecki

Duration 29:57

What’s the worst accident your laptop has survived? A drop? A spilled cup of coffee? Mike Libecki, National Geographic Explorer, is a little harder on his tech. His laptop has survived -67 degree temperatures and curious polar bears because his job is to travel to the world’s most remote and extreme environments. His passion is to make the world a better place. On this episode, learn how Mike’s non-profit organization is using technology to transform lives around the world.
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Artificial Intelligence

How AI Can Help Fight Poverty

November 14, 2018

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are among the new technologies leaders are relying on to help alleviate a global food crisis.

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Sustainability

5 Ways Technology Helps the UN Meet Its Sustainability Development Goals

October 22, 2018

Can access to digital technologies improve healthcare, education, and gender equality for people around the world?
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Virtual Reality

VR for Corporate Training: Making Employees Uncomfortable (Intentionally)

September 5, 2018

VR has emerged as the most effective way to train employees because it fully immerses people into a situation and creates empathy.
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Artificial Intelligence

Four AI-Powered Technologies Aimed at Helping Refugees

August 14, 2018

During a time when one person is displaced every two seconds, take a deeper look at four AI technologies providing life-changing philanthropic support and aiding people in flux.

Sustainability

Emerging Technologies: New Fuel for a Sustainable World

July 26, 2018

In the last of a series on how governments can realize 2030, we’re honing in on sustainable development. Sustainability used …