How virtual reality is changing healthcare

It’s probably the world’s best-known coffee chain but just over a year ago, business wasn’t doing well. Sales had slipped, customers were drifting away and the buzz had gone. Newly-arrived CEO Brian Niccol was handed a tough task: stop the fall and make the coffee shops somewhere ...  Show more

From the deserts of Tunisia to the boardrooms of global tech giants, we meet Karim Beguir, the mathematician who turned two laptops and 2000 dollars into Africa’s biggest AI firm. We hear how his company, Instadeep, caught the attention of Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and how it helpe ...  Show more

A new technology is emerging which could change the world as significantly as mobile phones or the Internet. That technology is Virtual Reality. Up to now it’s mainly been used for fun - but things are changing. Adam Shaw investigates how VR could change our lives and revolutioni ...  Show more

Today’s episode is with the founder of Proximie - Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram, BEM, the recipient of the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for 2018. She is an NHS surgeon, lecturer and clinical entrepreneur. Nadine drew on her passion for innovation, education and ...  Show more

We know that collaboration and increasing diversity within our teams can lead to more effective and insightful work and in the health, wellness and pharma fields, that diversity must include science. Eric Weisman and Renata Maia, 2023 LIA jurors, sat down with host Sarah Knights ...  Show more

Adam Sachs, CEO and co-Founder of Vicarious Surgical, a robotic surgical company backed by Bill Gates, on using robotics technology and virtual reality to perform surgical procedures. Rick Palacios, Principal, Director of Research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting, on the inve ...  Show more