Rowan Alawi initially pursued a career in tech, despite her family’s construction business. During her travel between Ramallah and Jerusalem, Rowan spotted a problem: construction workers were sitting on the side road, waiting for someone to pick them up. She decided to solve this problem and founded ‘Amal in 2019. At first, it was a simple Google form connecting construction workers with contractors. Today, ‘Amal has evolved into a construction workforce management platform.    This podcast is by Expo Live, produced by Kerning Cultures Network ..read more

When Loubna Ksibi’s aunt opened a restaurant, she didn’t know how to navigate the business side of it. Despite her talented cooking, the restaurant ultimately failed. Loubna realized there were no resources for women like her aunt, and became one of the founders of Meet My Mama, a culinary project in France. Today, Meet My Mama enables women from all over the world to make a living with their cooking skills, and has grown to include over 200 chefs.   This podcast is by Expo Live, produced by Kerning Cultures Network ..read more

David Davies grew up in a wheat and sheep farming area in South Australia, where he ran wheat silos and got to learn about wheat and sheep farmers. Today, he runs AgUnity, taking low-cost smartphones and adapting them to become essential tools for low-income farmers around the world, from Columbia to Ethiopia to Papua New Guinea.   This podcast is by Expo Live, produced by Kerning Cultures Network ..read more

For the past four years, the team at Expo Live has been working closely with 140 Global Innovators from all around the world. At the beginning of this series, Yousuf Caires, the Senior Vice President of Expo Live, introduced what the innovation programme is all about. Over the course of the show, we've spoken to an array of brilliant and bold innovators all over the world.     In our final episode, we leave the mic to Yousuf one more time, as he reflects on the impact of this programme and what's next for our Global Innovators.   This podcast is by Expo Live, produced by Ke ..read more

How do you change the design of a device that was invented over one hundred years ago? Back in 2015, a medical entrepreneur in Cameroon named Conrad Tankou started a social venture called GIC Space that develops cutting edge technologies to target the most urgent health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. One of them is the smart speculum: a new take on the device invented in the mid-nineteenth century used to screen for cervical cancer.  In today's episode, we're exploring Conrad's innovations at GIC Space, and how context is pivotal for the success of any business.  This podcast is b ..read more

Today’s story starts in Gaza back in 2009 when a doctor informed Reem Al Franji that her two sons have a developmental disability. Reem and her husband went home that day shocked, googling all of the terms the doctor used, but they couldn’t find any reliable resources in Arabic. Over the years, Reem expanded her own knowledge in parenting children with disabilities and eventually launched Habaybna in 20017 with her husband. Today, Reem is the co-founder and managing partner of Habaybna, an Arabic online resource for families of children with disabilities.    This podcast is by Expo L ..read more

When Jurij Dreo read a book entitled, ‘Electric fields of the brain: the neurophysics of EEG’, he was quite happy to see that there are people out there that share his convictions when it comes to how the brain should be studied. It always seemed like a small wonder to Jurij that one is able to pick up a small EEG device and get a recording of what the brain is doing.    Today, Jurij is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of a company called BrainTrip, based in Malta. BrainTrip is innovating quick and accessible screening tools for early detection of dementia. In today's episo ..read more

In 2015, Kitty Liao attended a humanitarian hackathon. The event brought together people from humanitarian organisations to present some of the most pressing issues they are faced with out in the field. One of these problems was that vaccines become spoiled before they arrive at the destination during transport. Kitty spent two months as a hacker in residence developing a solution and today, she is the founder of Ideabatic. Ideabatic is working to ensure that all children, wherever they are in the world, have a fair chance at life by innovating a vaccine delivery system.    This podc ..read more

As you’re listening to this episode, over 20% of the earth’s fertile land has already degraded. Deserts are spreading so fast that we may have 60 global harvests left. But about 15 years ago, an oil engineer from Norway figured out how to turn desert sand into fertile soil in less than seven hours — a process that until now had taken 7-12 years.  Today, we hear from Atle Idland, General Manager of Desert Control, a start-up that came up with a solution that could revolutionise the global war against desertification.  This podcast is by Expo Live, produced by Kerning Cultures Network ..read more

Siddharth Hande worked in the development sector for about eight years before starting Kabadiwalla Connect. The idea came about in college when he used to organise beach cleanups every week through a youth group called Reclaim Our Beaches. Today, Siddharth is the founder and CEO of Kabadiwalla Connect: they provide decentralised waste management solutions for cities in the developing world that's really powered by the informal sector.    This podcast is by Expo Live, produced by Kerning Cultures Network ..read more