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Hosted by Peter Marcus Bach · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 78 episodes
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In a world facing climate change, urbanization, and population growth, inspiring individuals are stepping up with innovative solutions. Each episode features passionate guests working at the cutting edge of science, engineering, technology, and design. Through their journeys, they share insights and personal growth while creating new ways of thinking for an uncertain future. Tune in for actionable advice and inspiration for young professionals aiming to make a difference. If you enjoy the show, please hit the follow or subscribe button! That's a small way you can help the show grow and reach many more ears! Show Website: https://www.petermbach.com/podcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tgcpodcast/
Peter Marcus Bach hosts The Grand Challengers Podcast, a education show with 78 episodes published.
Most of us now use AI every day. Very few of us could explain what it is actually doing. Anastassia Lauterbach thinks that gap is the most dangerous thing about this technology, and she has built a company to close it. S
What if the kitchen knife you have used your whole life was designed for a fight, not for cooking? Douglas Katz thinks we can do better. "If you designed a knife for a robot, it wouldn't look like the linear knife that w
What if the system you spent four decades building turned out to not be enough? David Gottfried is the father of the global green building movement. He founded the U.S. Green Building Council and the World Green Building
"Why is our architecture not as diverse as our culture is progressive?" That's the question Toronto-based architect Alexander Josephson keeps asking. On this episode, he doesn't pull punches. Alex is the co-founder and c
Why does profit feel a lot like breathing... necessary to stay alive, but never the actual reason you're here? In Episode 63, entrepreneur and business expert Jean-Christian Rindoni argues that businesses, like human bei
What does a horror-game-loving Italian engineer have to do with cleaning your wastewater? More than you'd think... and the journey starts in a paddy rice field. In Episode 62 of The Grand Challengers Podcast, host Peter
What happens to your rubbish when you live on an island with nowhere to ship it? On Grand Cayman, the answer is a 90-foot mountain of waste the locals call "Mount Trashmore" and it is not alone. Most of the world's 57 Sm
Why do some cities grind to a halt during storms while others recover quickly? The answer often lies in what happens when water, energy and transport fail at the same time, and whether the people managing them are actual
In a world racing toward automation and AI-driven efficiency, what happens to the humans inside the machine? With nearly a billion people worldwide living with a mental health disorder, youth burnout rates climbing, and
We train AI systems to optimize for metrics — but what if the real alignment problem isn't in the machine? What if it starts with us? Juan Pablo Carbajal is a physicist, interdisciplinary researcher, and educator at the
Every machine that lifts, digs, or hauls relies on hydraulics — a technology that hasn't changed in over 50 years. But what if you could replace that leaky, energy-wasting oil with a belt-and-pulley system that's three t
Fred Jordan, scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder of AlpVision and FinalSpark in Vevey, Switzerland reveals the power of mathematics to us and how he thinks differently when it comes to computing. We dive deep into how
Welcome to this Mini-Series on The Grand Challengers Podcast! The topic of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been in all our minds over the past few years and is gaining even more momentum with rapid advancemen
Julia K. Dietmar, co-founder and CEO of OpenWardrobe in Redwood City, California USA sheds some light on the sustainability of the fashion industry, the issue with overproduction, its environmental impact and how we can
Welcome to this Mini-Series on The Grand Challengers Podcast! The topic of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been in all our minds over the past few years and is gaining even more momentum with rapid advancemen
Mats Larsson, Founder of the Global Energy Transformation (GET) Institute, based in southern Sweden, discusses what it takes to transition to global electrification using sustainable energy. We delve deep into how we can
Alma Schellart, Senior Lecturer in Water and Engineering at the University of Sheffield, England dives into the world of urban drainage, models and uncertainty and shows us how models and data can can make or break trust
Makoto Kern, Founder and Principal Design Consultant at iiimpact in Austin Texas USA dives deep into the world of UX (User Experience) Design and shows us how a user-centric approach to software is essential, especially
Rob Wreglesworth, Associate Ecologist and Innovation Lead at The Environment Bank, Co-Founder of No Longer Known and Host of the Innovate Eco Podcast, based in the UK, goes deep on biodiversity and conservation from both
To celebrate 50 episodes of The Grand Challengers Podcast (main series), we return with another "Tables Turned" episode, this time featuring 26 questions from guests as early as Episode 2. Guests from across the show got
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