LOS ANGELES – Tony Lacavera’s job these days is a bit different than what it was not too long ago.
Instead of fighting for his place among the Canadian wireless players, the former CEO of Wind Mobile Canada heads a TV show under his Globalive Media which features segments such as a humanoid robot performing backflips and artificial intelligence beer brewing, among other things.
After airing in more than 437-million households across 70 countries on Bloomberg Television, the series will add Canada to the list through a new distribution deal with Bell Media. The series, Beyond Innovation, will air on BNN Bloomberg beginning Saturday, August 10 at 9 p.m. ET.
Co-hosted by Lacavera, “a venture capitalist with a billion-dollar exit to his name,” reads the press release, and journalist Michael Bancroft, “the program offers a rare insider's look at innovation and disruption at its finest. Lacavera and Bancroft travel the world in search of founders taking risks and betting big on our future in technology hotspots such as South Korea, Estonia, the United States and Hong Kong,” adds the release.
With 26 half-hour episodes, the debut season of Beyond Innovation features such notable guests as David Hanson, the pioneering engineer behind the lifelike humanoid robot "Sophia"; Jeremy Lin, the NBA point guard investing in a smartphone app promising to help young athletes train; and Dr. David Cheriton, the Canadian-born Stanford University professor who famously made one of the very first investments in Google.
"We're in the midst of a revolutionary time in which the once-impossible is now becoming the probable," said Lacavera in the release. "Viewers will appreciate our deep dive into innovation hubs around the world bringing new technologies to life and redefining the global economy as we know it."
The announcement with BNN Bloomberg follows Globalive Media's second-run sales of "Beyond Innovation" on a host of airline content providers airing episodes on United Airlines, Air France, Delta, WestJet, Japan Airlines, Kenya Airlines, Royal Air Maroc, Saudia and Middle East Airlines. The program's entire first season is also available on Infobase, one of the world's largest video streaming platforms for educators, librarians and students at more than 1,550 colleges and universities, reads the release.
