Jonathan Ledgard's guest appearances

Jonathan Ledgard

Circular Economy 2017 Summit

Planetary Regeneration Podcast

McGill's Building 21: Thinking beyond the acknowledged, the recognized and the comfortable.

Tim Brown

David Krakauer

Nora Bateson

Joe Brewer

Jim Rutt

Vinay Gupta

Loren Cardeli

Nikki Silvestri

Ethan Buchman

Jason Snyder

Kim Stanley Robinson

Amanda Joy

Michel Bauwens

Leyla Acaroglu

Ken Webster

OwlTail

On this episode of Built on Regen, a community voices series of the Planetary Regeneration podcast, host Gregory Landua chats with Jonathan Ledgard. Jonathan has been a war correspondent, a novelist, a fellow at ETH Zurich, and is now an AI specialist working on a project called Dugong Dao. Tune in to learn more about Jonathan's fascinating life, and the potential to bring economic agency to endangered species like the East African dugong.Check out Jonathan's novels 'Giraffe' and 'Submergence,' and read his articles on Interspecies Money written for Wired and the Brookings Institution.Find the transcript for this episode here: https://tinyurl.com/046-JLedgard

On this episode of Built on Regen, a community voices series of the Planetary Regeneration podcast, host Gregory Landua chats with Jonathan Ledgard. Jonathan has been a war correspondent, a novelist, a fellow at ETH Zurich, and is now an AI specialist working on a project called Dugong Dao. Tune in to learn more about Jonathan's fascinating life, and the potential to bring economic agency to endangered species like the East African dugong. Check out Jonathan's novels 'Giraffe' and 'Submergence,' and read his articles on Interspecies Money written for Wired and the Brookings Institution. Find the transcript for this episode here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/046-JLedgard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/046-JLedgard</a>

046: #BOR - Jonathan Ledgard | Interspecies Money

Jonathan Ledgard is Director of Rossums, a new studio that seeks to identify technology opportunities for poorer communities. He was Director of the Future Africa Initiative at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) until 2016. Since 2012, he has led a consortium of leading roboticists, architects, and logisticians that seeks to build the first Droneport in the world in Africa in 2016. Jonathan Ledgard spent two decades as an award-winning frontline foreign correspondent for The Economist. His second novel, Submergence, a New York Times book of the year, is presently being adapted for Hollywood by Wim Wenders.

Jonathan Ledgard is Director of Rossums, a new studio that seeks to identify technology opportunities for poorer communities. He was Director of the Future Africa Initiative at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) until 2016. Since 2012, he has led a consortium of leading roboticists, architects, and logisticians that seeks to build the first Droneport in the world in Africa in 2016. Jonathan Ledgard spent two decades as an award-winning frontline foreign correspondent for The Economist. His second novel, Submergence, a New York Times book of the year, is presently being adapted for Hollywood by Wim Wenders.

Radical futures: Meet Jonathan Ledgard, Director of Rossums and author of Submergence, a New York Times book of the year

A set of powerful mega trends are rapidly advancing and shaking the foundations of society. The circular economy provides a design approach to harness these forces and modernise the economy. - Tim Brown, Chief Executive, IDEO - Jonathan Ledgard, Founder, New Machine

A set of powerful mega trends are rapidly advancing and shaking the foundations of society. The circular economy provides a design approach to harness these forces and modernise the economy. - Tim Brown, Chief Executive, IDEO - Jonathan Ledgard, Founder, New Machine

2017 Summit Jonathan Ledgard