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Global builders, technology, capital, and social impact.
Dinis Guarda’s interview series follows global builders through long-form conversations about technology, entrepreneurship, investment, and social change. Guests explain the systems behind their work, from AI adoption in India’s government to graph databases, genetic search, climate capital, fashion, and small-business ecosystems.
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Dinis Guarda’s interview series is a global business and technology program with an unusually broad lens. It is interview-centric and expansive. The show gives guests room to connect origin stories, company missions, national ecosystems, and large technical shifts without forcing every answer into a tight media clip. AI appears often, but not as a buzzword floating above the conversation. Dr. Preet Deep Singh’s episode looks at government AI adoption in India, including training officers, encouraging practical use inside departments, and building voice-enabled systems for entrepreneurs. The show is comfortable with institutional detail. It also spends time on the human behavior behind implementation, such as why people may ask better questions among peers than across hierarchy. In the Memgraph conversation, Dominik Tomicevic explains graph databases and knowledge-graph architecture through examples connected to NASA and Cedars-Sinai. That episode shows the program’s interest in infrastructure that sits behind more visible AI products. Alex Kotlar’s appearance turns toward genetics, bioinformatics, and tools that make complex genetic data easier to search with natural language. The science is treated as business-relevant, but also as part of a larger healthcare and research story. Tom Chi’s episode widens the frame again, moving through climate capital, invention, product design, embodied empathy, and the difference between consumer use cases and deeper social applications. Chandra Goyal brings the series back to founders and operators. His conversation covers startup funding, delegation, community, and the value of small-business networks. Deborah Sawaf’s episode adds fashion, emotional intelligence, women’s advocacy, and purpose-driven brand work. Across these conversations, the show keeps returning to builders who want their companies to matter beyond revenue. It is earnest. It can be repetitive, especially when the introduction restates the guest’s mission and the broader change narrative, but that repetition also gives the series its explanatory rhythm. The strongest episodes work like guided ecosystem maps, showing how technology, capital, policy, design, and personal conviction overlap. It is best for viewers who prefer context-rich business interviews to rapid-fire founder advice.
Made for: Designed for founders, investors, technologists, policy-minded operators, and curious business viewers who like long-form interviews with global context. It especially suits people interested in AI adoption, venture ecosystems, climate innovation, healthcare technology, and purpose-led entrepreneurship.
What sets it apart: The series stands apart by treating guests less as isolated success stories and more as entry points into larger systems: national innovation policy, data infrastructure, climate capital, healthcare research, fashion, and community building. Its strength is the broad connective tissue between personal mission and institutional change.
Dinis Guarda Youtube Podcast Series - Powered by citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil is a fast growing Thought leadership channel focused on profiling global leading inspiring people, leaders, CEOs, authors, technologists, academics. We highlight the ideas, products, inventions, software, books & solutions to the multiple challenges / opportunities we face in our cities / nations with the advent of Society 5.0 digital transformation 4IR AI Blockchain Fintech IoT disruptive tech Dinis Guarda is author of books such as 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech Reinventing a Nation" "How Businesses and Governments can Prosper with Fintech, Blockchain and AI?”, “Blockchain AI Crypto Economics"Dinis Guarda has…
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Founder and investor interviews connect emerging technology to the practical work of funding, adoption and organizational change.
Dinis Guarda gives founders, investors and technology leaders room to explain how ambitious ideas become working systems. The conversations move between company building and institutional adoption, with particular attention to the decisions behind implementation rather than…
NASA knowledge graphs pull your founder curiosity out of the keynote fog.
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A practical look at how India is turning AI training into government use.
India's shift from AI ambition into day-to-day government practice gives this episode its strongest throughline. Dr. Preet Deep Singh talks through the training of central government officers, the hesitation seniors and juniors can feel about asking questions around each other,…
A practical look at how graph databases give AI the context behind institutional knowledge.
Graph databases lead this episode into a practical question: how organizations can make their data usable for AI when context matters more than one oversized model.
A grounded PlayNext conversation about climate-focused investment, embodied empathy, and technology built with human consequences in mind.
This PlayNext episode keeps its feet on the ground while moving across climate-focused investment, invention, product development, advising, entrepreneurship, and the social uses of emerging technology.
A grounded fundraising discussion that connects research, delegation, business independence, and giving back.
Chandra Goyal treats startup fundraising as one part of a broader operating challenge. Founders, in his view, need to research their options, bring the right people into the process, and stop holding every responsibility at the center.
Italian morning radio with a wide-angle clock.
Irish business news, tested against real costs.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
India is the frame.
Technology is the starting point.
Dinis Guarda interviews Dr.
Dinis Guarda interviews Tom Chi, co-founder of Google X and founding partner of At One Ventures, about his career spanning astrophysical research at Harvard-Smithsonian at age 15, Microsoft Office, Yahoo Search, Google Glass, and climate-focused investment through his book 'Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future.' Chi's defining philosophy is that even experienced inventors are wrong 92% of the time — only 4 percentage points better than beginners — so the real skill is rapid iteration: his team built 150 Google Glass hardware prototypes in 10 weeks with three people using clay, wire, and coat hangers.
Yat Siu describes how growing up between Austria, communist-era Eastern Europe, the United States, and Hong Kong shaped his views on political systems, inequality, technology, and opportunity.
Host Dinis Guarda interviews angel investor and entrepreneur Chandra Goyal about his venture firm and investment strategies.
Dinis Guarda interviews Deborah Sawaf, a fashion entrepreneur and advocate for emotional intelligence in business, discussing her journey and the balance between IQ and EQ.