Barclays New Frontiers

How blockchain is helping agriculture | AgriLedger's Genevieve Leveille

In the latest episode of our #NewFrontiers podcast series, listen to Genevieve Leveille – founder and CEO of AgriLedger, as she discusses how blockchain can help overcome challenges in the agricultural industry.

The evolution of education | Professor Rose Luckin from UCL EDUCATE

With constant advancements in technology impacting different sectors, how could technology help educate people better, and what effect could this have on evolving education? In this episode, Professor Rose Luckin, founder and Director of UCL EDUCATE, explains how technology is both the cause and solution for change in the education sector, and how implementing technology like AI can create a personal education experience to help learners build knowledge beyond just information.

How APIs are helping freelancers get their money faster | Paid’s Natasha Foster

In this episode, Natasha Foster, co-founder and COO of Paid, explains how the use of new technologies like APIs can help FinTechs to connect businesses to financing that they wouldn’t normally have access to. Paid are a graduate of the Barclays Accelerator for FinTechs, and are helping freelancers and microbusinesses get paid faster. We discuss the journey that Paid have been on and how they are working to deal with an everyday frustration for their customers.

The power of machine learning | Oliver May from Streetbees

Streetbees are transforming the way brands do research. Through a global community of 2.6m users or 'bees', each armed with a smartphone app - Streetbees are able to carry out unique in the moment research when a user is purchasing or using a product, transforming the richness and timeliness of the insights. In this episode Oliver May, Co-Founder and COO of Streetbees explains how they use techniques such as machine learning to analyse rich, qualitative data and turn it into actionable quantitative insights.

eSports breaks into the mainstream | Fnatic's Sam Mathews

Sam Mathews is the founder and Chairman of Fnatic, an eSports team and brand that has made over $15m in competition prizes to date. eSports today is one of the fastest growing entertainment industries on the planet, with estimated global revenues worth around $1bn a year. Sam describes eSports as the "democratisation of entertainment," and he sees competive videogaming as a form of social networking. Indeed he says, "I don't know if you can even call Instagram a social network when you have something like a videogame where you're doing something together." In this podcast, Sam discusses the growth of the industry, its positive forces, and how technology is likely to make eSports more and more physical in the years ahead. It's a fascinating listen, and we hope you enjoy it.