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Worldwide Engineering with Leon Abboud

Worldwide Engineering with Leon Abboud

By Leon Abboud, Founder & CEO of Worldwide Engineering

Learn how the world's leading engineers and innovators are changing the world on the Worldwide Engineering Podcast.
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How Fintech Is Reshaping Banking and Investing with Simon Chiocci

Worldwide Engineering with Leon AbboudMar 23, 2021

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Hyperloop, The Future Of Transportation

Hyperloop, The Future Of Transportation

Nusret Ali is the Outreach Lead at the Canadian Hyperloop Competition (CHC). The CHC is an organization that supports the future of hyperloop by organizing an annual, track-based conference.

Learn more about the Canadian Hyperloop Competition on https://www.linkedin.com/company/cahyperloop/



May 25, 202118:42
Solving The World's Ocean Plastic Pollution Problem

Solving The World's Ocean Plastic Pollution Problem

Aymane Berrerhdoche is the founder of Clinaqua Bottles, and the creator of the Aqua 1, an innovative reusable water bottle with water filters.

You can find Aymane Berrerhdoche on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aymane-berrerhdoche-70544b155/

Find out more about Proluo on: http://www.proluoupv.com/


Apr 19, 202142:28
Designing Akon City, Africa's Most Futuristic City with Hussein Bakri
Apr 05, 202145:03
How Fintech Is Reshaping Banking and Investing with Simon Chiocci

How Fintech Is Reshaping Banking and Investing with Simon Chiocci

Simon Chiocci is the co-founder and CMO at EnvestBoard. EnvestBoard is a fintech platform dedicated to helping investors, asset managers, wealth managers and institutional investor enhance their selection and decision making.

Link & Show Notes:

Simon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonchiocci/

EbnvestBoard Website: https://envestboard.com/

EnvestBoard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/envestboard/about/

Mar 23, 202140:50
CRISPR And The Ethics Of Gene Editing

CRISPR And The Ethics Of Gene Editing

Dany Sab and Steve Ndikumana are the founders of Pink Genomix, a personal genomics and biotechnology startup company based in Canada.


You can learn more about Pink Genomix here: https://pinkgenomix.com/



Mar 16, 202153:54
Designing The Future with Autodesk Global Strategy Lead, Mike Westlake

Designing The Future with Autodesk Global Strategy Lead, Mike Westlake

Mike Westlake is the Global Strategy Manager at Autodesk. Part of his role is to design and oversee the education programmes of Autodesk across the UK, Ireland and Central Eastern Europe.

Apply for the position of Manufacturing Strategy Intern at Autodesk here: https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/uni/job/Massachusetts-USA---Remote/Intern---MFG-Strategy_21WD45611

You can find Mike Westlake on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikewestlake/


Mar 08, 202142:60
Studying the Atmosphere of Brown Dwarfs with Laci Brock, Ph.D. Candidate

Studying the Atmosphere of Brown Dwarfs with Laci Brock, Ph.D. Candidate

Lacy Brock is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Arizona's Lunar & Planetary Laboratory and is currently studying the atmosphere of Brown Dwafs.

You can learn more about Laci here: https://beacons.page/stellerarts

Mar 01, 202124:46
MAiRA, the World's First Cognitive Robot with David Reger, Founder & CEO NEURA Robotics

MAiRA, the World's First Cognitive Robot with David Reger, Founder & CEO NEURA Robotics

David Reger is the founder of robotics startup, NEURA Robotics. NEURA just unveiled what it considers to be the world's first cognitive robot capable of learning, working alongside, and ultimately, serving humans.


David Reger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dregerofficial/

NEURA Robotics: http://neura-robotics.com/

Feb 23, 202136:52
12 Year Old Prodigy Mike Wimmer On The Future Of Robotics

12 Year Old Prodigy Mike Wimmer On The Future Of Robotics

Mike Wimmer is a 12-year-old robotics prodigy. He is graduating from high-school this semester (2021) aged 12 and is the founder and creative mind behind Next Era Innovations. Mike's goal behind Next Era Innovation is to build technology that enables people to live better lives.


You can find Mike at the following places:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-wimmer-9738b5167/

Website: https://nexterainnovations.com/

Feb 16, 202134:53
How Technology Is Disrupting Education with Navid Nathoo, Co-Founder TKS

How Technology Is Disrupting Education with Navid Nathoo, Co-Founder TKS

Navid Nathoo is the founder of a human accelerator program called The Knowledge Society. Prior to TKS, Navid started and sold companies in Silicon Valley, consulted for Fortune 50 companies, and worked on microfinance and early childhood education in developing countries.


Find out more about TKS here:

https://tks.world/

https://www.instagram.com/theksociety/

https://twitter.com/navidnathoo

Feb 10, 202147:40
China's Internet & Tech Revolution And Its Impact On The World with Matthew Brennan

China's Internet & Tech Revolution And Its Impact On The World with Matthew Brennan

Matthew Brennan is an international speaker and tech analyst focused on Chinese internet and technology innovation. His works and opinions have been featured in global media including The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, BBC, Financial Times, Forbes, Harvard Political Review, Quartz, TechCrunch, CNN, Business Inside.

You can get a copy of Matthew's new book "Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2MrrG2X
Feb 02, 202101:05:10
Major Acquisition In The Solar Energy Industry

Major Acquisition In The Solar Energy Industry

What does the recent acquisition by The Peck Company Holdings of iSun Energy LLC mean for the future of the solar energy industry?

Learn more here: https://isunenergy.com/



Jan 26, 202126:00
Sending the World's First Walking Rover To The Moon with Pavlo Tanasyuk, CEO of SpaceBit

Sending the World's First Walking Rover To The Moon with Pavlo Tanasyuk, CEO of SpaceBit

Pavlo Tanasyuk is a technology entrepreneur leading Spacebit with the first UK rover to fly to the Moon in 2021.


Learn more about SpaceBit on https://spacebit.com/

Jan 18, 202120:06
Understanding Chinese Intellectual Property Theft

Understanding Chinese Intellectual Property Theft

Toufic Adlouni is an Emerging Technology Lawyer and is the co-founder of Renno & Co, Canada's digital law firm.


You can learn more about Toufic and Renno & Co here:

https://www.rennoco.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/toufic-adlouni


Jan 12, 202148:48
When To Expect Level 5 Self-Driving Vehicles with Eli Burton

When To Expect Level 5 Self-Driving Vehicles with Eli Burton

Eli Burton is the founder of My Tesla Adventure and the creator of The Adventure of Starman. He's a futurist, and an advocate for human space travel and accelerating the transition of sustainable energy on earth.

My Tesla Adventures on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myteslaadventure/?hl=en

Eli Burton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EliBurton_

Jan 04, 202126:24
How German Company ZEISS is Automating Quality Control Inspections

How German Company ZEISS is Automating Quality Control Inspections

Stephanie Kobayashi is a Product Manager and Alexander Kovac an Applications Engineer at ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions.

ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. ZEISS develops, produces and distributes highly innovative solutions for industrial metrology and quality assurance, microscopy solutions for the life sciences and materials research, and medical technology solutions for diagnostics and treatment in ophthalmology and microsurgery.

Founded in 1846, ZEISS now has over 32,000 employees and is active globally in almost 50 countries.

You can learn more about ZEISS on https://www.zeiss.com/


Dec 22, 202023:27
Training To Become the First Astronaut on Mars with Alyssa Carson

Training To Become the First Astronaut on Mars with Alyssa Carson

Alyssa Carson is an astronaut trainee and American space enthusiast.

In 2013, Alyssa was recognized by NASA as the first person to visit all 14 NASA Space Visitor Centers in the United States and was the youngest person to graduate from the Advanced Space Academy.

You can find Alyssa on Instagram and on her website

https://www.instagram.com/nasablueberry/

https://nasablueberry.com/


Dec 14, 202042:18
The Great Infrastructure Challenge for Electric Vehicles with Zak Lefevre, CEO ChargeLab

The Great Infrastructure Challenge for Electric Vehicles with Zak Lefevre, CEO ChargeLab

Zak Lefevre is the CEO of ChargeLab. ChargeLab builds OCPP-compliant software for managing EV charging stations. ChargeLab also offers turnkey charging solutions including hardware, software, and installation for businesses and governments.

You can learn more about ChargeLab on https://www.chargelab.co/



Dec 10, 202050:10
How Three Founders Built a Multi-Million Dollar Startup

How Three Founders Built a Multi-Million Dollar Startup

🍫 Mid-Day Squares is the producer of nutrition bars intended to serve a healthy afternoon snack. In only three years, Mid-Day Squares grew from an idea into a startup with over $2.7 Million in VC funding.

The brains and co-founders behind Mid-Day Squares are Lezlie Karls, Jake Karls, and Nick Saltarelli.

You can learn more about the company on https://www.middaysquares.com/

Dec 02, 202052:00
Innovative Use Cases of Drone Technology with Nicholas Pilkington, CTO at DroneDeploy

Innovative Use Cases of Drone Technology with Nicholas Pilkington, CTO at DroneDeploy

Nicholas Pilkington is the CTO at DroneDeploy, a San Francisco based software drone company.

DroneDeploy is a leading cloud software platform for commercial drones and is making the power of aerial data accessible and productive for everyone. 

You can learn more about DroneDeploy on: https://www.dronedeploy.com/

Nov 23, 202028:41
The Looming Global Shortage of Lithium-Ion for Electric Cars with Vivas Kumar

The Looming Global Shortage of Lithium-Ion for Electric Cars with Vivas Kumar

Vivas Kumar is a global business leader and engineer who's worked at Tesla as a former Global Supply Chain Negotiator. He is earning his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is simultaneously a Principal with Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a leader in data and advisory services in Lithium-Ion battery and electric vehicle (EV) supply chain.


You can find lectures and talks from Vivas on his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivaswathkumar/



Nov 17, 202019:41
Impact of the US Elections on the EV Industry with Sass Peress
Nov 09, 202024:45
Building a Bitcoin Mine 101 with Evan Ryer

Building a Bitcoin Mine 101 with Evan Ryer

Evan Ryer specializes in establishing large-scale industrial blockchain mining operations, accounting for crypto-assets, and business development. He is the founder of HypeX.gg a leading social gaming platform.

You can find Evan on the following social platforms:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-ryer/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EvanRyer

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evanakatheking/?hl=en

Oct 27, 202032:57
3 Emerging Trends In App Development with Frank Courville

3 Emerging Trends In App Development with Frank Courville

Frank Courville is an iOS Development Consultant and helps companies build reliable and scalable applications.

On this podcast, Frank shared with us three major trends that will be shaping the app development industry this decade and how can we as engineers, developers, and entrepreneurs use these trends to create better apps for our customers and businesses.

You can find Frank on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3jgDQpU and on his website: http://ioscoachfrank.com/

Oct 20, 202030:58
The Booming AI Field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Jad Kabbara

The Booming AI Field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Jad Kabbara

Jad Kabbara is pursuing a Ph.D. at McGill University in the AI field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). On this podcast, we got to talk about the current state of NLP, and what are the future applications, of NLP in business, and politics.

You can best connect with Jad Kabbara on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jad_kabbara



Oct 12, 202032:01
How Tesla Is Reshaping The EV Landscape with Eli Burton

How Tesla Is Reshaping The EV Landscape with Eli Burton

Eli Burton is the founder of My Tesla Adventure and the creator of The Adventure of Starman. He's a futurist, and an advocate for human space travel and accelerating the transition of sustainable energy on earth.

Get a copy of The Adventures Of Starman here: https://starmangifts.com/product/the-adventures-of-starman-series/


My Tesla Adventures on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myteslaadventure/?hl=en


Eli Burton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EliBurton_



Sep 29, 202030:58
When To Patent Your Idea with Founders of Renno & Co.

When To Patent Your Idea with Founders of Renno & Co.

Toufic Adlouni and David Oram are the founders of Renno & Co, a law firm that concentrates on startup and emerging technologies law and helps startups grow, raise funds, & protect their Intellectual Property.

You can find more about Renno & Co. on their website: https://www.rennoco.com/

Sep 21, 202035:29
Building Blackbox, a Cutting Edge Silicon Valley Tech Startup
Sep 15, 202023:45
Working on the World's Largest Fleet of Electric Vans with Daniel Scott Mitchell

Working on the World's Largest Fleet of Electric Vans with Daniel Scott Mitchell

Daniel Scott Mitchell works as a Program Management Intern at Rivian on the Riivian Prime Van Project, which aims to deliver the world's largest fleet of electric vans to Amazon.


Daniel previously worked at some of the world's most innovative companies including Tesla, Formlabs, INF Robotics Inc and a few others.


You can subscribe to Daniel's upcoming podcast here: danielmitchell.info/podcast

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielscottmitchell/

Sep 07, 202031:22
The Future Of Space Exploration with Spacebit CEO, Pavlo Tanasyuk

The Future Of Space Exploration with Spacebit CEO, Pavlo Tanasyuk

Spacebit is a British Aeronautics company that develops space robotics technology for lunar and planetary missions. Spacebit is sending the first UK rover to the Moon in 2021.

Aug 31, 202001:02:06
The Parasitic Mind with Dr. Gad Saad, Ph.D.
Aug 26, 202038:51
On Colonizing The Red Planet with Giulia Carla Bassani
Aug 17, 202027:29
How Cloud Computing Is Changing The World with Hamza El Ghoujdami, Engineer at Google
Aug 09, 202038:20
Improving Cannabis Products Using Nanotechnology with Jonathan Cohen
Aug 02, 202049:56
The Innovations That Will Shape This Decade with Bran & Richard, Founders of Wevolver
Jul 25, 202036:45
Smart Homes, A Threat To Privacy with Estefannie Explains it All
Jul 17, 202043:15
The Dawn of Smart Mirrors with Zack Elorfi, Founder of HILO Smart Mirrors
Jul 06, 202023:12
Opportunities In The Cloud with Boris Nyasse
Jun 24, 202055:39
How To Turn Your Idea Into A Startup with Justin Hunt
Jun 05, 202044:10
The Future and Opportunities of Solar Energy with Sass Peress
May 29, 202033:12
Welcome to Worldwide Engineering

Welcome to Worldwide Engineering

Intro track to Worldwide Engineering's podcast

May 22, 202000:10