Season 4 of the ProGRESS podcast is under way...

ProGRESS / S4 E1 / 1 March 2025

Justin Kelly, Chief executive at Glass Futures

Business leader Justin Kelly stepped away from his C-suite role at the international engineering and technology company, Siemens, in 2022 and is now chief executive at Glass Futures, a not-for-profit tech membership organisation.

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ProGRESS / Bonus Episode / 1 March 2025

Mark Sumner, WRAP – the Waste and Resources Action Programme

Dr Mark Sumner was one of ProGRESS's earliest guests, so his 2025 return to the podcast to talk about the latest developments in his career feels like a seal of approval. Mark talks about leaving Leeds University's School of Design at the end of the 2024 academic year in favour of a new role at WRAP, the Waste and Resources Action Programme.

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ProGRESS / S4 E2 / 8 March 2025

Bushra Schuitemaker, Zoologist and microbiologist

Zoologist, microbiologist and science champion Bushra Schuitemaker has carved out a career in research and is determined to ensure young people from disadvantaged backgrounds know that science is for them too.

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ProGRESS / S4 E3 / Available 15 March 2025

David Kohnstamm, Chief sustainability officer and co-founder of Leafcloud

David Kohnstamm is a thermal engineer and the chief sustainability officer and co-founder of Leafcloud, which offers clients a truly green alternative to energy-hungry traditional data centres. David is scathing about the misleading use of the word 'cloud' to describe most data centres, since they are not the nebulous things that the word conjures up.

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ProGRESS / S4 E4 / Available 22 March 2025

Divya Kumar, Community engagement manager, Earthwatch Europe

Divya Kumar is a community engagement manager for Earthwatch Europe, planting and overseeing Tiny Forests around the UK – aiming for 300 by the end of 2025.

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