The Samuele Tini Show - where business, innovation, and sustainability converge
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The Samuele Tini Show - where business, innovation, and sustainability converge
The Samuele Tini Show-Where business, innovation, and sustainability converge to shape our future. Join Samuele and global changemakers as they uncover bold ideas, share inspiring stories, and explore actionable solutions. Tune in and be part of the quest for progress!
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Stop Selling to Africa. Start Building With It | Robert Bach Casanovas
A European trade director who sends his own clients back home. Robert Bach Casanovas has run the Nairobi office of Catalonia Trade & Investment (ACCIÓ...
Winning at All Costs Is How You Lose Everything | Reina
Reina-Flor Okori competed in four Olympic Games. Three for France, then one final Games for Equatorial Guinea, where she carried the flag her parents...
Does Africa Need to Industrialise Before It Decarbonises? | Soha Benchekroun
What if Africa's biggest climate problem is the climate agenda itself?
Soha Benchekroun argues that for Africa, sustainability and industrialisa...
The B Corp Movement at 20: Reinvention or Retreat? | Christopher Marquis
Six years ago, Christopher Marquis wrote that the B Corp movement was remaking capitalism. Today the movement is twenty years old, ten thousand compan...
Merchants of Peace: Can Trade Still Prevent War? | Sebastian Ferrari
In 1919, a group of business people gave themselves a strange name: the Merchants of Peace. Their bet was that trading nations fight less. They had ju...
Stop Calling It Charity. Kenyan Coffee Is an Economy | Henry Kinyua
For years, men gathered in Kenyan trading centres, read the Nairobi Coffee Exchange price in the newspaper, did some quick math, and concluded their c...
The Maze, Not the Mouse: A Smarter Theory of Change
What if everything you do to "live green" makes almost no difference, and quietly makes things worse? Michael Maniates, author of The Living Green Myt...
Stop Funding Apps. Fund Warehouses. | Claire van Enk
Up to 50% of Kenya's fruits and vegetables never reach a plate. Not because farmers can't grow. Because nobody can reliably move, sort, price and pay....
GDP Became Our God: The Religion of Economic Growth | Tim Jackson
What if the obsession driving the global economy is not a strategy, but a religion?
In this episode, Professor Tim Jackson (University of Surrey...
There Is No Funding Gap in Africa. Here's What's Actually Missing
"There is no funding gap in Africa."
That is the provocation from Burak Buyuksaraç, CEO of Afri Capital and a 16-year business veteran in Tanzan...
Space-Based Solar: The $10 Megawatt Hour That Can Save Us | Martin Soltau
Oil above 100 USD. The Strait of Hormuz under pressure.The world scambling for energy. Again. and Again...
Every energy crisis sends us looking...
Fish Don't Vote: Why the Ocean Crisis Keeps Getting Ignored | Antoinette Vermilye
73,000 sharks are killed every day. 16,000 chemicals are added to plastics, and only 1% are regulated globally. The ocean is in crisis, but almost nob...
AI and Ubuntu: Can Ancient African Wisdom Fix Modern Technology? with Wakanyi Macharia-Hoffman
What if the ethical framework AI needs was coined thousands of years ago in Africa?
Wakanyi Macharia-Hoffman is co-director of the Inclusive AI...
Own the Road: Lessons for African Entrepreneurs
When Tonderai Njowera's father came home and asked, "Did you know you can own a highway?" it changed everything. That one question sent a young boy in...
Stop Disrupting, Start Building with Costas Papaikonomou
What if the most profitable climate investments aren't sexy at all? Costas Papayconomou, co-founder of Una Terra, spent a career in innovation consult...
Africa Doesn't Need the West. The West Needs Africa
What if the most powerful innovations don't come from billion-dollar labs, but from people who have almost nothing?
Navi Radjou left Silicon Val...
Women Don’t Own Their Time: The Hidden Constraint on Entrepreneurship
In this episode, I’m joined by Alisa Sydow (Professor of Entrepreneurship at ESCP Business School) to unpack what women founders are really navigating...
The Business Case for Syntropic Farming: 2.5 Hectares, 115k in Revenue (Forest Foods Kenya)
Syntropy isn’t about the tropics—it’s about the physics of life. In this episode, Samuele sits down with Sven Verwiel, CEO & Co‑Founder of Forest Food...
The 80/20 of Dairy Profitability: Nutrition + Reproduction
In this episode, Samuele speaks with Apollo Gabazira—Country Director at CARE International (Uganda) and an award‑winning regenerative farmer—about wh...
Can we really put a price on nature? This nature‑finance expert says we must.
When you clear a forest to plant maize and make charcoal, you’ve already put a price on nature—the future cash flows from the maize and the wood. The...
The Most Underrated Climate Tool You’ve Never Heard Of: Biochar Explained
We talk a lot about tree planting, but far less about what happens to all the agricultural and organic waste we burn or dump. That’s where biochar com...
Will Your Business Survive When Customers Start Asking for Proof?
In most emerging markets, “sustainability” has been designed for big exporters, banks and multinationals. Everyone else – the micro, small and medium...
Contested Conservation: What People Really Think | Special Episode 7 ORC 2025
Special Episode — Recorded live at the Oppenheimer Research Conference 2025.
The global conservation debate is loud — but often poorly informed...
Human-Centred Conservation: Redefining Our Relationship with Nature | Special Episode 6 ORC 2025
pecial Episode — Recorded live at the Oppenheimer Research Conference 2025.
How do we build conservation models that work for both people and na...
Stop Chasing Sexy Startups: Why Boring Businesses Win in Africa
Stop Chasing Sexy Startups: Why Boring Businesses Win in Africa
Fifteen years ago, Kyle Schutter had a choice: get a PhD in biofuels or move to...
Evidence Over Emotion: How Dehorning Reduces Rhino Poaching | Special ORC 2025 Episode 5
Special Episode — Recorded live at the Oppenheimer Research Conference 2025.
In South Africa’s fight against rhino poaching, data—not emotion—dr...
The Business of the Wild: Evidence That Conservation Can Pay ! Special ORC 2025 Episode 4
Special Episode — Recorded live at the Oppenheimer Research Conference 2025.
What does it really take to make wildlife land use financially sust...
A Talent Safari: How Startups Hire
Join Samuele tini as he walks listeners into the heart of the Silicon Savannah, tracing a personal journey from London to Nairobi with Ben Hyman, CEO...
The Green Dilemma: Energy Transition and Wildlife in South Africa | Special ORC 2025 Episode 3
Special Episode 3 — Recorded live at the Oppenheimer Research Conference 2025.
South Africa needs more clean energy and raptors need safe skies....
Parks Beyond Parks : Why Amboseli Works for People & Wildlife | Special ORC 2025 Episode 2
Special Episode 2 — Recorded live at the Oppenheimer Research Conference 2025.
In Kenya’s Amboseli ecosystem, people and wildlife have shared sp...
Walking with Gorillas: A One Health Story | Special ORC 2025 Conference Episode 1
Special Episode 1 — Recorded live at the Oppenheimer Research Conference 2025.
A scabies outbreak among mountain gorillas sparked a new way of...
Queuing for Clean Air: Inside Basigo's Electric Bus Revolution
Electric buses are not a pilot anymore. As Dorcus Wanjiru Kamotho explains, BasiGo already has ~100 e‑buses on the road across Kenya and Rwanda, with...
Compliance, Profit or Purpose. What really moves sustainability where you work?
Dr Anyse Pereira grew up in Cabo Verde, trained as a scientist in Europe, built programmes with the UN and Mercy Corps, and the corporate world—bringi...
EUDR From Plot to Plate: Traceability That Actually Works
What does it take to comply with the EU’s deforestation rule and create value for farmers and brands? Alessandro Chelli from Trusty explains how his t...
From comics to community: youth power at scale
How far can a story travel — and how much can it change? In this episode, Bridget Deacon, Managing Director of Shujaaz, Emmy Winner and leading B Cor...
Why Africa’s Businesses Are the Future (Not Just Emerging)
Too often we hear Africa described as “emerging.” But as my guest Tom Fels, CEO of Animarem, explains — Africa is already shaping the future of global...
Roam’s Revolution: Inside Africa’s Green Mobility Movement
Africa is driving an EV revolution—and Roam is leading the charge. ⚡
This week, Hans van Toor Strategy & Innovation Lead at Roam, explains how...
Can Business Really Save Wildlife? This CEO Thinks So
Can businesses genuinely help save wildlife and biodiversity?
Join us this weekend with former Ferrari and Omega executive Michele Sofisti, now...
Why Traditional Aid is Failing—and Partnerships are Winning
Traditional aid isn’t delivering. So, what’s next?
In this week’s podcast, Todd Kirkbride, an expert in private-sector partnerships with...
Bug Business: The Startup Turning Waste into Wealth
In this fascinating episode of The Samuele Tini Show, meet Tommie Hooft, CEO and co-founder of Proteen, an innovative startup transforming waste manag...