On today's podcast we meet Don Scott, Chief Commercial Officer of Power Roll, a highly innovative flexible solar panel engineering and manufacturing firm. Don describes a career shift from information technology towards a focus on innovating in the energy transition. Power Roll are on the cusp of scale commercialization of their extremely light, flexible, thin film, highly customizable solar power technology. Lightweight flexible solutions for solar open up an exciting array of transportation, agricultural, car park, and commercial/industrial applications. Intended for ultra local manufacturing globally, Power Roll cites greenfield production facility costs of less than 1/10th of that of silicon panel production, driving the lowest levelized cost of energy in solar solutions globally.

Tim Brownstone, CEO and Founder of Kymira, a 10 year old breakthrough technological textiles firm. Kymira developed performance enhancing athletic apparel and are building out a line of biometric-tracking wearables for space, defence, professional athletic, and medical applications. Tim competed at international and national levels in a number of sports including 200m, tetrathlon, shooting, and rowing. He later dropped out of a Biochemistry PhD to pursue the development of biometric apparel for athletes. Kymira's technologies have since been used by astronauts at the European Space Agency and by a large number of professional sports teams including Rugby League, NFL, NBA, and top European football leagues. We learn from the mistakes of other high profile wearables technology firms such as Apple Watch, through to how Kymira aims to remotely monitor and prevent cardiac illness. 

Ankita Dwivedi, Founder of Firstplanit is interviewed around her newest tool to simplify the complexity amongst materials and systems decisions in the design and construction industry. Ankita led architecture, design, and sustainability teams for top Fortune 100 firm projects across the globe for 20 years. She worked on high profile building projects in Berlin, New York, Kuwait, and London, working for top global brands including Apple, Ferrari, Selfridges, Citi and JP Morgan. Throughout, she believed more could be done to accelerate the adoption of truly sustainable building decisions, leading to the founding of Firstplanit. With decades of research on environmental, social, and sustainability factors to help the construction industry drive better decision-making from home renovations through to industrial and infrastructure projects. Ankita believes we have the power to redefine what luxury is in the built environment.