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Juan M. Hernandez - Founder, CEO at OpenFinance Network joins Future Tech Podcast. The OpenFinance Network is a blockchain-based protocol and framework for the trading, clearing, and settlement of cryptocurrency security tokens and other alternative assets. The OpenFinance Network is the leading trading platform for alternative assets, working with the millions of investors who hold assets in the $7.7T alternatives market (e.g. hedge funds, private equity, limited partnerships, non-listed REITs, business development companies (BDCs), Regulation D, Regulation A+, Regulation CF and other crowdfunded assets).
Veryan Goodship, Co-founder and CEO of Truba (truba.news), provides a detailed discussion on his company's technology-based news delivery, and how it was born of specific needs that occurred within the Canadian Financial Industry.
The Canadian economics graduate discusses his startup's mission to rethink the ways in which users receive news in our 24-hour, complex, streaming and constant news-heavy world. The news tech CEO outlines how current problems with the dissemination of news has created a situation where many people are actually less informed than perhaps pre-tech times.
Goodship explains how his company, Truba, works to deliver news via various methods that tailor a reader's news to their interests, in formats that they are comfortable with and may find more convenient. One such method is via Truba's "Daily Snap" product, which provides readers top-trending news that would be available through social media but through a newsletter format that allows the user to avoid social media altogether. Additionally, Truba provides personalized news feeds that are comprised from a particular user's click data input.
Essentially whatever the analytics have demonstrated the user is interested in due to their clicks and links followed, etc., would become the foundation for a tailored news platform. One of the benefits of this offering is that it can provide the interested reader with personalized news without the fear of being targeted or marketed to, or the fear of having their data being sold to third parties.
Goodship discusses the process that Truba uses to personalize a reader's news platform, including inputting of initial user information and the training of algorithms through user input. And he'll provide insight into how the AI algorithms use linear regression to decipher which features are most important.
The news tech CEO gives an overview of the many and various input that are used to customize news feeds, from term frequencies (such as how often terms show up in text), to term comparison, to title sizes and more. And he'll give us some notes on how machine vision (recognition of pictures and video) and audio analyzation (wave length and speed) play a part in the process of news selection algorithms.
Vertical farming is a practice that involves the cultivation of crops on multiple levels in a fully enclosed environment equipped with optimal artificial lighting and an optimal atmosphere. The results? Fresher, better, and healthier crops that are grown without the use of pesticides and are available to those who may otherwise be unable to access them--especially those who live in urban environments.
Gus van der Feltz is the head of member relations at the Institute of Vertical Farming, which works to both promote and advance the industry of vertical farming, as well as look after the interests of its members. This includes ensuring that employees receive quality training, and that operations remain compliant with rules and regulations.
The benefits of vertical farming include the ability to closely control the temperature and lighting in various growing systems, and in some cases, increase yield. For example, under the best possible circumstances, a head of lettuce can be grown outdoors in about 60 days; in a vertical farming environment, the same head of lettuce could be grown in about 35 days.
In addition, the taste profile of vertically-farmed crops has been recognized as superior to those grown outdoors in an uncontrolled environment. But at least one challenge remains: lowering the cost of these high-quality crops.
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Humaniq is a simple and secure financial services provider on a mission to help eradicate poverty using pre-eminent technologies including blockchain and biometrics. Humaniq is not just a commercial project. It is a worldwide mission, aiming to give people in developing nations more power to change their lives.
Safesite is transforming the way companies in high-risk industries manage their everyday safety and compliance needs. By combining innovative mobile and field-based technologies with ongoing virtual safety coaching, Safesite has proven to help customers prevent workplace incidents by up to 57%. Over 4,000 US companies trust the Safesite platform to streamline and ensure compliance activities, drive team safety engagement and empower every worker in their organization to be a safety champion.
Nina Luu - CEO & Co-Founder at Shippabo walks us through the products and services of Shippabo.
Shippabo is a cloud-based supply chain management platform built by a team of shippers and supported by logistics experts. Through Shippabo, businesses can oversee their supply chain from anywhere, at any time, and on their terms. We are committed to empowering everyone along the supply chain by bringing greater transparency, collaboration, and actionable data to the world of shipping and logistics.
Just a few years ago, a large law firm by the name of Dentons realized the coming changes that an overlap between technology and law might create, and wanted to get ahead of the game. As a result, Dentons created Nextlaw Labs with the vision of reinventing the practice of law using technology. As a subsidiary of Nextlaw Labs, Nextlaw Ventures emerged, which is an early-stage, legal-focused venture fund that invests in a variety of legal tech companies.
As the CEO and Managing Director of Nextlaw Ventures, Dan Jansen discusses just a few of the 10 legal tech companies currently in their fund, including ROSS Intelligence, which is an expert legal, research-driven tool that leverages AI to answer legal questions and create legal memos. Jansen believes that this technology will have a democratizing effect on the practice of law by allowing small firms to find the answers to complex questions that, otherwise, only larger firms might have the ability to answer.
Tune in to hear the full discussion, and visit nextlawventures.com to read about all 10 companies in Nextlaw Venture's portfolio.
Arvind Gupta began his career as a genetic engineer before entering industrial design, where he learned the process of productizing technology. Gupta has implemented what he's learned in his current role as the founder of IndieBio, a venture capital firm that funds scientists to become entrepreneurs and solve the world's most pressing problems using biology and technology.
As an example, Gupta discusses cellular agriculture, which is the process of producing food in cellular factories and a concept that Gupta says was foreign until IndieBio invested in it about three years ago. Since then, "It's changed the conversation about how we produce our food," says Gupta. Indiebio has also invested in a company that's matching cancer patients to clinical trials using AI, natural language processing, and a process referred to as "stratifying" patients, which allows for a greater understanding of exactly who they are and why they may or may not be responding to a particular drug.
Gupta discusses a variety of other topics, including the ways in which companies go wrong, the ways of thinking that create barriers to certain solutions, and what the team at IndieBio looks for in potential investment opportunities.
To learn more, visit indiebio.co.
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