Hosted by Waheed Nabeel · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 47 episodes
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The Innovation Civilization podcast hosted by Waheed Nabeel, and friends of Empasco, features conversations with domain experts on the topics of civilizational progress, technology, history, philosophy, and the first-principles of the ideas that shape our world.
Waheed Nabeel hosts The Innovation Civilization Podcast, a technology show with 47 episodes published.
We're joined by David E. Spiro, political scientist and author of The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony: Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets. The book, published by Cornell University Press, challenged the sta
We're joined by Ian Morris, British historian, archaeologist, and author of Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels Ian’s central argument is both simple and radical: our beliefs about fairness, justice, hierarchy, equality,
We’re joined by Professor Tim Minshall, a leading authority on innovation and industrial strategy, and one of the most influential voices shaping how ideas move from labs into the real economy. Tim is a Professor of Inno
We kick off 2026 with a special episode with Luc de Leyritz, General Partner at Re7 Social, a first-check crypto fund, and one of the most philosophically grounded investors operating at the frontier of blockchain, DeFi,
We’re joined by Mehran Gul, author of The New Geography of Innovation, who paints a detailed picture on how innovation power is shifting from Silicon Valley to unexpected places - China, Singapore, Switzerland, and beyon
We’re joined by Samuel Kim, the Founder and President of the Center for Asia Leadership, who shares with us the unique challenges and differences of teaching leadership in Asia. Samuel has trained over 50,000 leaders acr
We’re joined by Hassan Haider, founder and managing partner at Plus VC, one of the most active early-stage VCs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with nearly 100 investments since 2020 and the #1 ranked venture
We’re joined by Tomicah Tillemann, former U.S. State Department official and President of Project Liberty, for a conversation on the entrenched problems of the Internet and how to rebuild it from the ground up with digit
We're joined by James Currier who explains how ‘network effects’ shape our economies, tech, civilisation and how to master that to our advantage. James is a five-time Founder, an angel investor in DoorDash, Lyft, and Pat
We’re joined by Professor Ravi Ramamurti, founder and director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University in Boston, who’s one of the world’s leading experts on innovation in emerging economies. Profes
We’re joined by George Sivulka, Founder and CEO of Hebbia, for a conversation on how does the future of white collar work look like with multi-agents. Hebbia is backed by some of the most legendary technology investors o
We’re joined by Dante Disparte, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle, one of the biggest issuers of stablecoins (USDC) in the world. This year marks an important inflexion point for stablecoins as a
In this episode, we're joined by Professor Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a Malaysian economist and thought leader who served as the Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development at the United Nations (UN) and Assistant Dir
In this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Benji Leibowitz, Chief Operating Officer at Molecule and Co-Founder of Pump.Science. Benji is at the forefront of the Decentralized Science (DeSci) movement, which ut
In this episode, part of our brand new Emerging Market Innovation Series, we sat down with Soumitra Dutta, Dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He's an expert on global innovation and the author
In this episode, we sat down with Daniel Eriksson, former CEO of Transparency International, to explore how corruption operates globally and what can be done to combat it. Corruption is one of the most pervasive challeng
We're joined by the US Science Envoy for AI, Dr.Rumman Chowdhury, who's a leading expert in responsible AI. We uncover the ethical, technical, and societal implications of artificial intelligence. As AI rapidly eats up t
We welcome Faisal Ali Rashid, Sr. Director at the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, to learn from Dubai's ambitious drive toward achieving net zero by 2050. Faisal, a leader in energy strategy and sustainability, oversees
We're joined by Dr. Denis Noble, Professor Emeritus of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford, and the father of 'systems biology'. He is known for his groundbreaking creation of the first mathematical mod
We welcome Bryan Johnson, multi-millionaire visionary entrepreneur and founder of "Don't Die." Known as the most measured man in human history, Bryan is pushing the boundaries of human longevity by meticulously tracking
Ian Morris
British historian, archaeologist, and author of Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels · Listening to Smile
1 appearance on this show
Tim Minshall
Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation and Head of the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge · University of Cambridge
1 appearance on this show
Mehran Gul
author of "The New Geography of Innovation"
1 appearance on this show
James Currier
Founder & General Partner · NFX
1 appearance on this show
Dante Disparte
Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy · Circle (USDC)
1 appearance on this show
Rumman Chowdhury
US Science Envoy for AI · Humane Intelligence
1 appearance on this show
Bryan Johnson
CEO and Co-Founder of WeInfuse, CEO of RxToolKit, CEO of InfuseTrack · Dane County or Madison Waste Management Department
1 appearance on this show
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The Innovation Civilization Podcast is hosted by Waheed Nabeel. The show is categorised under technology (society) and has published 47 episodes.
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