Videos & Interviews
Dr Adriana Marais was on her way to the Red Planet. Then Mars One collapsed
"Elon Musk’s team at Space X is building the transport system to get the first humans there in the next decade… nothing changes… Nothing in this announcement causes me to waver…" — Dr Adriana Marais, quantum biology researcher Mars One is bankrupt. The company was...
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VIDEO: One-way ticket to Mars
Dr Adriana Marais recently spoke at Northfields International School in Mauritius about the possibility of humans settling on Mars. Her trip was organised by Sanlam Private Wealth Mauritius. Below is a video of her talk, created by Alex Nixon of...
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Women in Data Science – Flight to Mars by Dr Adriana Marais
WiDS is a global conference movement and community, taking place in 120+ locations during the month of March 2018. The presentation Flight to Mars by Dr. Adriana Marais ( Head of Innovation SAP Africa) was the keynote speech at the WiDS Conference in Walldorf, March,...
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Genpact Unplugged with Dr Adriana Marais
Dr Adriana Marais talks about space travel with Indira Sovakar, senior vice president of HR in the Delhi, India, office of Genpact, a global professional services and IT firm.
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Creativity for good: Refocusing innovators on what matters
Some organisations are renowned for their creativity. Their leadership empowers teams to think creatively and foster conditions in which creativity can thrive. This panel discussion takes a deeper look at creativity in the workplace.
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How to reclaim identity in a virtual world
We’re bringing information and devices online at an unprecedented rate, raising one of the fundamental questions of our time: how do we represent ourselves in this digital world that we are creating? And more importantly, how do we secure our identity in a digital world? We’ve heard about blockchain for currencies and smart contracts, a compelling and crucial application is in securing online identity.
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Digital identity: defining ourselves in a virtual world
Over the past few hundred thousand years, a new species has emerged – one that is rapidly and inexhaustibly producing huge volumes of data of their own: humans, says Adriana Marais, head of innovation at SAP Africa.
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Watch This Space: Expanding Our Imaginations And Our World
Credit: Originally published by the Huffington Post. I find myself living at a very particular point in the almost 4 billion years of the evolution of life on this planet. I feel extraordinarily lucky to be alive right now, when for the very first time, we are able to...
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Is life at its heart a quantum problem?
Credit: Originally published by the Mail & Guardian. In the beginning, during the first billion years (Gyr) of the Earth’s 4.5Gyr life, space debris bombarded the planet. High-energy collisions with meteorites up to 500km in diameter frequently disintegrated newly...
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The power of quantum biology
Credit: Originally published by the Mail & Guardian. A scientific response to the big question—“What is life?”—may remain elusive for some time, but research in the quickly emerging area of “quantum biology” offers intriguing possibilities. As the name suggests,...
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