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Months and MillionsFuture of Social Interactions: Stephan Bugaj | Chief Creative at Genvid | ex-Pixar | Sophia Robot Co-CreatorStephan Bugaj, Emmy-winning creator, ex-Pixar Technical Director and currently Chief Creative Officer at Genvid. Stephan worked with Amazon, Paramount, Fox, Warner Bros., Sony, and many others creating transmedia projects spanning feature films, television, video games, interactive and virtual reality experiences.Now Stephan creates interactive film experiences like Silent Hill Ascension and DC Heroes United where community impacts how the movie plot develops based on social interactions like voting, meta play and other interactive tools. Recently Stephan and production teams received Emmy in Emerging Media category for their work on Silent Hill Ascension and currently they are working...2024-12-051h 08
Months and MillionsHow R&D Works in Video Production: Kiryl DrazdovichMy guest is Kiryl Drazdovich, a video expert with more than 20 years of experience in computer graphics, animation, video production and R&D. Kiryl spent significant part of his career leading technical video production teams at Wargaming and most recently founded his own studio Mroya that creates outstanding video content for global brands.The main idea that Kiryl stands for with R&D is that creators should struggle with generating emotions and not with production tools that should be smooth and convenient.Together with Kiryl back at Wargaming Special Projects we experimented a lot at...2024-11-2148 minMonths and MillionsHow Emerging Tech Revolutionized Fertility Tracking: Katherine Sakovich | CMO of Mira CareMira Care is a California-based start-up that created a home-use medical device for hormone tracking. More than 100,000 women around the globe use it on daily basis to monitor their health and fertility.This episode covers conversation about an innovative smart product that managed to evolve from an early R&D stage to becoming a successful solution that helps thousands of women around the world to monitor fertility. Mira Care is a fertility startup that designed and engineered an at-home hormone ab with user-friendly smart devices and reliable AI services. It’s a miniature egg-shaped device that uses se...2024-11-0755 min
Months and MillionsInnovation for a Funeral Company and Many Others: Georgii MartsinovskiiGeorgii is a world-class inventor, author of more than 30 patents, PhD in laser physics and helps companies to make successful innovation predictable and within deadlines.With over 25 years of experience in development of new products, services and technologies he worked for Pepsi, Mars, Siemens, Novartis, Medtronic and many other world's leading companies. His key to success is innovative problem solving.The conversation is full of practical and insightful examples from Georgii’s experience where he shares his approach to making innovation real. We also discuss how innovation process changes in AI era, what tools and me...2024-10-2458 min
Months and MillionsHow Ex-VP Can Stay Curious and Innovative: Nadia DeshkovetsNadia Deshkovets is a TED-speaker, ex-VP and CMO at Carlsberg and now is a certified executive business coach. Nadia started her professional journey as a marketing manager in Belarus in early 90ths and grew her career all the way to Vice President of Marketing at Carlsberg in Vietnam, while remaining active, enthusiastic and empathetic leader. For the last 7 years Nadia also helps global business leaders as an executive coach and business trainer.In this episode we talk about curiosity as one of the key ingredients for successful innovators, entrepreneurs and executive leaders. We discuss how to nurture...2024-10-171h 16Months and MillionsWhy Middle East is the Frontier of Innovation: Victor MadueñoVictor Madueño is an award-winning business and innovation consultant who helps companies bridge their digital gaps through creative thinking, strategic frameworks and measurable outcomes. For the last 10 years Victor lives and works in Dubai and witnesses the development leaps in the Gulf Region that enable huge growth, reasonably unlimited opportunities and giga-projects like NEOM and Expo 2020 Dubai amidst the pandemic.In this episode we talk about what is digital transformation in clear and digestible terms, why many companies fail doing it and why others succeed. We delve into practical cases, including the project where Victor and h...2024-10-101h 09Months and MillionsHe Invented Teleportation: David Nussbaum | CEO of ProtoDavid Nussbaum is an inventor of holoportation technology, a CEO and founder of a company called Proto. He built a solution that beams people from all over the world to phone-booth-size boxes as holograms. The teleportation (to certain extent) is no longer a science fiction and I tested it myself at SXSW in 2022 in Austin, Texas. This is by far one of the most prominent and breakthrough technologies in the field of next-gen communication and telepresence.In this episode we discuss how David came to an idea of broadcasting people and made teleportation real, we talk about...2024-10-0347 minMonths and MillionsHe Builds Marketing as a Brand Dictator: Al KingAl King is a top-notch marketing professional who built rock solid brands for EA Games, 20th Century Fox and Wargaming. Al is a true marketing rockstar of video games, online and home entertainment, he stands behind the award-winning approach to understanding players aspirations and motives and helps game developers and online practitioners create compelling experiences and games that win players hearts without breaking a budget. I personally worked with Al at Wargaming for more than 6 years and together we collaborated on many global events, celebrated 100 Years of Tanks with real WW1 and AR tanks on Trafalgar square, helped win...2024-09-261h 04Months and MillionsHow Playing Games Improves Health: Ryan DouglasMy guest is Ryan Douglas, co-founder and CEO of DeepWell Digital Therapeutics. Ryan is a therapy designer, previously – a top executive and board member in several med-tech companies, deeply experienced in creation of smart medical devices, neurosurgical robotics. Now with his team he creates an industry of immersive medicine, developing games and mechanics that help people treat mental health issues. Ryan believes such games need to be available both over the counter for self-assessment and can be recommended by your doctor as part of immersive medicine concept.Find out about Deepwell DTx: https://www.linkedin.com/company/de...2024-09-191h 14Months and MillionsWhat Emerging Tech People Do: Matt DalyMatt Daly is an award-winning XR and Virtual Worlds producer. Together we made real a few dozen projects in immersive tech, R&D innovations, spatial computing and partnerships all over the world.In this first episode we delve into lessons learnt from building immersive projects, reflect about success of Wargaming Special Projects and how to turn early innovative initiatives into products. We discuss how tacos and margaritas help with ideation, what it takes to be a practitioner who makes innovation real, how AI helps to reduce effort required for idea validation. We also discuss trends in wearables...2024-09-121h 20Months and MillionsWelcome to Months and MillionsMonths and Millions is a podcast about big bold ideas and people who make them real with help of emerging technologies. The host of the show is Alex Babko, a professional tech leader focusing on innovation and emerging tech projects for more than a decade. As a Program Management and Innovation Director I bridge the gaps between strategy, innovation, design and engineering to bring futuristic ideas to life. With my guests we talk about lessons learnt from experience, human and business sides of innovation and how to deliver value with help of emerging tech.This is a...2024-07-1903 min
Live from Here HighlightsSong of the Week: Vail Monograph, Version 2 - March 21, 2020Chris Thile’s Song of the Week for March 21, 2020, “Vail Monograph, Version 2” (originally from October 19, 2019).
The band: Chris Thile, Aoife O’Donovan, Mike Elizondo, Jeff Babko, Matt Chamberlain, Chris Eldridge, Alex Hargreaves, Noam Pikelny.
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Lyrics:
“Canst thou send lightnings
So that they may go
And say unto thee here we are?”
A rhetorical question
From our Father In Heaven
To Job in his suffering
Here below
To Job in his suffering—
As we sent...2020-03-2300 minLive from Here HighlightsSong of the Week: Vail Monograph, Version 2 - October 19, 2019Chris Thile’s Song of the Week for October 19, 2019, “Vail Monograph, Version 2” The band: Chris Thile, Aoife O’Donovan, Mike Elizondo, Jeff Babko, Matt Chamberlain, Chris Eldridge, Alex Hargreaves, Noam Pikelny.
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Lyrics:
“Canst thou send lightnings
So that they may go
And say unto thee here we are?”
A rhetorical question
From our Father In Heaven
To Job in his suffering
Here below
To Job in his suffering—
As we sent the first lightn...2019-10-2100 minLive from Here HighlightsBreathe In - June 15, 2019Chris Thile’s Song of the Week from our June 15, 2019 season finale, “Breathe In.” The band: Chris Thile, I’m With Her (Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins), Mike Elizondo, Jeff Babko, Chris Eldridge, Alex Hargreaves, and Ted Poor.
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Lyrics:
Sing we now our mid-year hymn
Breathe in love
Breathe in
Shush your mind with oxygen
Breathe in love
Breathe in
You need this
Amen
Rest thy voice click-off thy pen
Breathe in...2019-06-1700 minLive from Here HighlightsSpring Training, Then and Now - February 23, 2019Chris Thile's Song of the Week, "Spring Training, Then and Now," from our February 23, 2019 show. The band: Madison Cunningham, Mike Elizondo, Jeff Babko, Alex Hargreaves, Abe Rounds, and Joel Shearer.2019-02-2400 minLive from Here HighlightsMerry Christmas from Laramie - December 22, 2018Chris Thile's Song of the Week, "Merry Christmas from Laramie," from our December 22, 2018 show. The band: Mike Elizondo, Jeff Babko, Chris Eldridge, Alex Hargreaves, and Ted Poor.2018-12-2400 min