LIVE FROM THE QUARANTINE – A Pod A Day #6: Innocent Mugenga answers community questions about education, entrepreneurship, community, leadership and how to stay positive in these times. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

LIVE FROM THE QUARANTINE – A Pod A Day #5: A remote conversation with Tua Asplund about co-working, community and going digital. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

LIVE FROM THE QUARANTINE – A Pod A Day #4: A conversation with Jimmie Temesgen about pan-continentalism, the fashion industry, and solutions around social and environmental sustainability. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

LIVE FROM THE QUARANTINE – A Pod A Day #3: A remote conversation with David Finnegan about business model innovation frameworks, leadership, and how businesses can survive through a crisis. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

LIVE FROM THE QUARANTINE – A Pod A Day #2: A remote conversation with Robin Andersson about marketing, learning and habits. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Live from the quarantine – A Pod A Day #1: Thoughts on Remoteness For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Charlotte Manning is the Community Manager of HON, a professional networking app that aims to expand knowledge, engage a female-powered community, and create personalized networks that empower the members to grow professionally and personally. How has her journey from Stockholm, Sweden to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and then back to Stockholm, and everything that happened in between, lead her to become the ideal person to run a value-based digital community? We are excited to learn more about...

A considerable part of our interpersonal interactions, or at least the initial determining portion, is about ascertaining the intentions of your counter-part. In a global economy where the number of transactions increases, as well as the need to share our resources, we must find ways to rely increasingly on cutting-edge engineering to design for trust. An increased need and opportunity arise for the problem-solvers. Are you one of them? For information regarding your data privacy, visit...

In this Ideacast, we are exploring the four subsequent stages of creativity, with a focus on the second stage – Incubation, also known as the zone where the creative magic happens. Sign up to the community at www.learnability.online for access to events and additional insights around the topics of society, technology and learning. Follow us on social media @learnability.tv. Stay curious! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

How does one kickstart an ecosystem? What makes you an investable person? And what made the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, decide to visit Africa? These are some of the questions we aim to answer in this episode with Noel Daniel. He is a co-founder of Kudu Ventures, a VC fund focusing on impact-driven startups, aiming to catalyze innovations and to bring reformative ideas and policies to fruition that could change the trajectory of Ethiopia's current socio-economic climate.  Thank you...

Betelhem Dessie is the youngest tech pioneer in Ethiopia, starting her IT career by the age of 9. She is today 20 years old and a co-founder/CEO of iCog ACC (Anyone Can Code). Amongst many of her brilliant accomplishments, she has educated thousands of students in Artificial Intelligence, developed and copyrighted four software programs.  We are also joined by Binette Seck, who is a partner to Betelhem and the reason she traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, to educate 70 students in...

Before recently becoming a political party leader with the mission of creating an inclusive society driven by autonomy and transparency, Katarina Stensson's experiences from studying engineering physics led her on a path of problem-solving. We sat down with her right after she returned from Kampala Innovation Week in Uganda, where her company was invited to represent Swedish educational technology startups working towards the African continent. "Learning from skilled people with diverse...

Numerous methodologies and terminologies stem from the emerged collection of studies on the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural, and social factors on the economic decisions of individuals and institutions. We tend to emphasize efficiency. Understandable given our modern times and that the increased access to data allows us to track our production capacity in novel ways. But, forecasts are becoming obsolete in times of rapid change, and perfect flexibility and agility...

Suzan Lindberg is the CEO of Scandinavia’s only insight-driven diversity management agency The Social Few. They utilize data-driven insights, digital marketing, and business development to create inclusive infrastructures in organizations and society. How can we utilize data in our pursuit of inclusion, and how can our economic growth accommodate our social emergencies? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Continuing on the topic of audio, but this time in conversation with Diana Mosa, the co-founder of Talking To Me, a Stockholm-based Voice Design agency that strives to create business and user value in a voice-first world. How smart can our connected lives become? Will our connections change if voice technology becomes our preferred interface, and how can technology affect inclusion? More at https://learnability.online/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

We had the opportunity to sit down with Victor Ganguly right before his big move to Mumbai, India where he is starting a company that aims to launch a podcasting revolution. He shares his journey from dropping out of school and being disowned by his parents, to finding his voice and achieving his goal of working within media with profiles such as Filip & Fredrik, and Peg & Penny Parnevik. This is one of our favorite conversations so far, and hopefully, you'll enjoy it as...

Amo Cartwright is well known as the joyful LinkedIn-profile spreading his inspiration around what he calls the Golden Mindset. We sat down with him to learn more about how he arrived at his philosophies, and how he managed to turn a childhood filled with abuse and hardship into a life filled with joy and inspiration. We are eager to announce a line-up of insightful episodes in the upcoming days, so don't forget to subscribe and follow Learnability in our social channels! For information...

The first black male model from Sweden, Roger Dupé is today internationally renowned and has worked for brands like Kenzo, Vogue, Jean-Paul Gaultier, GQ, Acne Studios, and Björn Borg.  In 2016, Dupé became historic as the first black model to front the exclusive Rolls-Royce brand. Now he has released his book, Den Motvilliga Modellen (The Swedish Model), in which he describes his journey into modeling and fight for equality. This episode covers some of this, as well as his hopes for the...

Elin Sundin is the founder of Maktbyrån (The Agency of Power). They work for a conscious, inclusive and brave societal leadership, much needed in a complex and ever-changing world. Our conversation explores the experienced differences and commonalities between the island where she grew up in Sweden and Brazil, which later became her adopted home. From politics in the City Hall to now venturing into entrepreneurship. Elin believes she is well-positioned to affect change. We hope you enjoy...

Was Flat Earth 2.0 enabled by the internet? Having to utilize our daily information consumption to better navigate in this digital age, meanwhile, deep fakes, fake news, and conspiracy theories blur reality and what is not. Learnability decided to have the following conversation with Mark K Sargent. A Flat Earth spokesperson, who followed up his 2015 release, Flat Earth Clues, with a featuring in the Netflix documentary, Behind the Curve. If transparency only is preferable until it isn't,...

New social behaviors have emerged, such as the subtle art (and the draining headache) of flirting through emojis and even sending nudes. Are relationships the social ritual that has been the most affected by technology? Are dating apps the reason why love has become both more social and anti-social, all at the same time? Join us in investigating the state of love in the age of dating apps, the developing immersive virtual realities, and human-robotics interactions. Lina Maria Mannheimer is a...

What does the term Cities As A Service entail? Using data to bring better and more flexible services that can be employed by the citizens? What are the moral and legal aspects to consider regarding the expansion of human life across space, for example by creating a commercial space market, mining asteroids or building bases on different planets? Let's explore the groundbreaking ways in which innovation can revolutionize how we view space, cities, and citizens. Namo Marouf is a civil engineer...

Technology moves faster than regulations. Automation, AI and new digital services will forever change the world of work, leaving us with the question: what measures should be taken, and by whom, to build a brighter future for workers? Linus Grandborg is a co-founder of Levels, and one of the initiators behind STACC. A learning community created to tackle the growing need for tech and digital talent. They do this by combining training, mentoring, and social events to speed up the development...

By your regular use of websites, apps, and social media, you create data related to your daily routines, what you buy, whom you talk to and whom you date. As we have come to spend increased amounts of time online, there is an increased effort in assuring our digital lives are allowed democracy. So, how can we adapt our economic growth to our social emergencies? How can we utilize data to achieve diversity and inclusion? How can we keep our integrity online, without having to give up our...

Jakob Grandin describes himself as a Cultural Entrepreneur. He is the founder of Stockholm's nightlife council, the 4000sqm flagship nightclub called Trädgården (The Garden), as well as the innovation conference Gather. As we will be collaborating with Gather in creating the upcoming six-part Gather Series, we thought it would be fitting to start it off with its founder and hear how he came to pursue these ambitious initiatives and what he aims to achieve with these movements. During the...