🗣️🗣️My guest for Episode 9 📣📣
The stunningly talented MANON DAVE ❤️
In this episode of 'I Do What I Do,' I catch up with my very difficult to pin down friend, Manon Dave and we delve into his journey - a Creative Technologist, Product Designer, and Musician he has worked with high-profile names like Idris Elba and will.i.am. As always our conversation is wide-ranging covering Manon's career from school to ad tech to to music production, and his pivotal move to Berlin for Native Instruments, and his perfecting his integrative approach that blends creativity with technology. We discuss balancing numerous roles, the evolving significance of AI, and making 'cool shit.'.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Hello
00:41 Catching Up with Manon Dave
01:15 The Journey of 'I Do What I Do'
02:05 Manon's Career Highlights
04:16 The Impact of Creative Work
08:54 Personal Reflections and Relationships
14:56 From Archaeology to Music
18:20 The Role of Curiosity and Passion
21:38 Navigating Career Transitions
30:15 Understanding Key Roles in Tech and Creativity
38:26 The Power of Collaboration
42:47 The Future of AI in Creativity
43:26 The Value of Human Creativity in the Age of AI
43:54 The Rise of Prompt Engineering
44:42 The Shift from Technical Skills to Imagination
46:47 The Ethical Concerns of AI
48:37 The Importance of Guardrails in Technology
53:33 Balancing Work and Family Life
56:40 The Need for Personal Well-being
59:22 The Role of Consumption in Creativity
01:04:35 The Balance of Gut, Brain, and Grit in Career
01:12:08 What Will Manon Dave do?
01:14:24 Lipton Tea Time
MEET MANON DAVE 👋🏾
Manon is a good human, my friend and makes cool shit.
His official career life looks like this ...
an award-winning creative engineer and producer, developing transformative global AI experiences across multiple sectors and industries.
A frequent collaborator with artists and brands such as will.i.am, Idris Elba, LVMH and Google, Manon is currently featured as the ‘face of’ Apple Wallet following his development of the Mindvalley app .
Manon and will.i.am recently built Sound Drive in collaboration with Mercedes-AMG, a revolutionary AI experience, transforming driving into a real-time musical performance.
Working with Framestore and Che Lingo, Manon produced original music for the Refugee Olympic Team. Combining live footage and generative AI to produce a graphic-novel-style showcase of the athletes which was showcased at Cannes Lions and the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
The dude is recognised for game changing product innovations, including ROLI’s Seaboard and BLOCKS and Native Instruments’ MASCHINE. His passion for education is reflected in his ambassadorship at A.R. Rahman’s KM Music Conservatory in India, as well as launching a scholarship at the Royal College of Music, created in tribute to his daughter Maia, to empower young women to pursue careers in music.
And there's more, he has won prestigious innovation and design awards, including CES Best of Innovation and iF Design Awards. He has contributed to five of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions list.
He dives into using the transformative power of technology to produce more inclusive experiences. Demonstrating AI as a force for creativity and social good.
CONNECT w/ Manon 🤝🏾🤝
@manondave (instagram)
WE TALKED ABOUT…
💎 Follow your interests
💎 My Space was a dream maker
💎 You can only connect the dots backwards
💎 The Writers strike of 2007/2008
💎 Balancing the creative and the technical
💎 Finding like-minded folks, who enjoy the things you do to work with
💎 AI and opening creativity
💎 Making Cool Shit, can be lonely at times.
THINGS TO CHECK OUT
🔎 Royal Northern College for Music - Maia Scholarship
Conversations with extraordinary ordinary people about what they do, how they do and why they do.
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