Disruption Everywhere Podcast

Intuitive Machines is a company developing lunar navigation and communication services for NASA's Artemis program. They recently secured a $4.8 billion contract to deploy lunar relay satellites and provide communication and navigation services. The company previously landed the first U.S. spacecraft on the moon in half a century with their Odysseus mission, despite a challenging landing. Intuitive Machines is also working on a lunar terrain vehicle and other space exploration technologies. Their Q2 2024 earnings presentation highlights their financial performance, upcoming missions, and expansion plans. The company is optimistic about its future, with strong revenue growth and a large backlog of projects.

Rocket Lab USA, Inc.'s investor update for the second quarter of 2024 highlights the company's strong financial performance, driven by an increase in launches and growth in its space systems business. In this podcast, we discuss detailed information on the company's launch services, including the Electron rocket and its business model, as well as its development of the Neutron rocket, which is designed to address the growing demand for medium-lift launch capabilities. Rocket Lab's space systems segment, which focuses on the design, build, and operation of satellites, has also experienced significant growth, with numerous contracts for national security and commercial space programs. The company's financial outlook for the third quarter of 2024 suggests continued growth in revenue and backlog, as well as ongoing investments in research and development.

This Podcast is a business update for AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (ASTS), a company building the first space-based cellular broadband network. It provides key highlights for the second quarter of 2024, including the launch of their first five commercial satellites and the addition of Verizon as a strategic investor and customer. The discussion also details the company's financial performance, including adjusted operating expenses and capital expenditures. The podcast includes details about their upcoming launch of the first five commercial satellites, which are expected to provide nationwide non-continuous service in the U.S. Additionally, the podcast reveals the company's focus on future growth by expanding its commercial ecosystem, increasing its U.S. government relationship, and beginning production of Block 2 BlueBird satellites.

In this episode of the Disruption Everywhere podcast, we will be discussing how creditworthiness assessment can benefit from the introduction of machine learning practices. Ioanna Stanegloudi, co-Founder & Chief Risk Officer of Finclude will explain the challenges European citizens face without a uniform credit scoring system and how the recent updates in European regulation help in this direction. European citizens are free to use their banking data as they see fit and fintech startups are here to take their financial well being to the next level.

On this episode of Disruption Everywhere, Frank sits down with Maia Monell, Co-founder and CMO of the Nav.it Money App. Nav.it is a neobank focused on bringing health and wellness strategies to financial management and provides mindfulness practices and unique data insights for their users (affectionately known as Nav.igators) to reflect on how their daily mood, wellness routine and spending habits affect each other, while providing financial health-oriented banking features.

This week on the Disruption Everywhere Podcast, our guest host is Madhu Reddiboina of RediMinds. RediMinds operates at the intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence. They specialize in building AI-based clinical applications to bring the future to point of care.  In this episode, we will dive into data acquisition and clinical data engineering, with the goal of building AI model optimization for the healthcare enterprise.

In today's digital world, we're interacting with more strangers than ever. From online dating to ridesharing, we're putting our safety in the physical hands of strangers. Without a way to verify and confirm someone’s identity before the first interaction, we’re leaving ourselves susceptible to fate. In this episode of the Disruption Everywhere podcast, we will be discussing a new kind of background check designed to proactively prevent gender-based crimes in the digital age with Kathryn Kosmides, Founder and CEO of Garbo. Listen in on how Garbo, a not for profit online background check platform, works with the limited information people have before an online date or rideshare while diving deeper than ever into crime reporting. Find out how Garbo provides more accountability, transparency, and information to proactively prevent crimes.

Currently, there are about 50 million people with Alzheimer’s, 50 million people with Dementia and 10 million people with Parkinson’s disease. Unfortunately, these disorders are difficult to treat, and many remain incurable. The existing treatments for Alzheimer’s (AD) have limited effectiveness and focus primarily on relieving symptoms rather than slowing the underlying disease. There is a major demand for new treatments, but despite significant efforts, few drug candidates have shown promising results. On this Disruption Everywhere podcast, we will be discussing how a protein called CDK5, has a significant influence on brain function, a key target for treating multiple neurodegenerative diseases with Dr. Kent Werner, Founder and CEO of Cogentis Therapeutics. Listen in on how Cogentis groundbreaking research discovers and develops first-in-class therapeutics that prevent neurodegeneration and restore brain function to benefit the lives of those patients and their families.

With an increase in globalization, the demand for language translations has too. Translations are needed for different types of businesses such as healthcare, legal, information technology, etc. The translation industry is continually growing with a prospected estimate of $61.5 billion dollars by 2021. The major challenges are the supply of quality translators and long lead times. Join us as we will be discussing the use of artificial intelligence with a global network of high-quality translators on this Disruption Everywhere podcast with Marguerite Halley, Cofounder and CCO of Berba.  Listen in to hear what tools Berba is using to improve some of the biggest issues surrounding translations services and how they are working to change the translation industry with a ground-breaking approach. Learn what differentiates Berba from other players in the market as well as the future of artificial intelligence in the translation industry.

Blockchain’s extraordinary ability to verify, transfer, and enforce the transfer of ownership rights make it the newly discovered ‘missing link’ of true online global trade. Blockchain technology impacts all business functions from sales, marketing, distribution, and finance to procurement, operations, services delivery, and regulatory compliance. Blockchain is a new utility and general-purpose technology. Like more mature utilities, Blockchain applications will eventually become ubiquitous and in fact, almost invisible. The challenge for today’s enterprise is bridging the gap and making Blockchain a differentiator ahead of the competition. Listen in as we will be discussing this topic on this Disruption Everywhere podcast episode with Beasy’s Founder and CEO Bob Kramich. Find out how Beasy specializes in making Blockchain easy by tackling the hard parts of the technology so that business users may focus on what matters most to them: solving problems and generating impacts.