{"id":400,"date":"2015-06-11T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innercoaching.co.za\/talkpossibility\/?p=400"},"modified":"2025-02-05T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:05:11","slug":"the-journey-of-a-fire-detection-startup-with-emily-vining-ep-131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innercoaching.co.za\/talkpossibility\/the-journey-of-a-fire-detection-startup-with-emily-vining-ep-131\/","title":{"rendered":"The journey of a fire detection startup, with Emily Vining : Ep 131"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.innercoaching.co.za\/talkpossibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lumkani-Fire-Detector.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.innercoaching.co.za\/talkpossibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lumkani-Fire-Detector-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Detector\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Shack fires in informal settlements are an ongoing challenge and when not detected early enough, have disastrous consequences for thousands of people. A group of friends brought together their diverse skills, and turned the fire detection device &#8211; that started as a student\u2019s thesis project &#8211; into a viable product and business which is now saving lives and homes. Telana speaks with one of the founders and directors of Lumkani, Emily Vining, about their journey from startup to award winning social enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>For another podcast with Emily about her\u00a0<a title=\"Let's Talk Communication with Emily Vining\" href=\"http:\/\/talkcommunication.innercoaching.co.za\/how-build-relationships-with-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">communication skills, see the Let&#8217;s Talk Communication Episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Podcasts<\/h2>\n<h3>Audio:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6497\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-400-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/talkpossibility\/Emily_Vining_Fire-Detection_E131.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/talkpossibility\/Emily_Vining_Fire-Detection_E131.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/talkpossibility\/Emily_Vining_Fire-Detection_E131.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/talkpossibility\/Emily_Vining_Fire-Detection_E131.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.innercoaching.co.za\/talkpossibility\/?powerpress_pinw=400-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/talkpossibility\/Emily_Vining_Fire-Detection_E131.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Emily_Vining_Fire-Detection_E131.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 23:58 &#8212; 11.0MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innercoaching.co.za\/talkpossibility\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Video:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FLetsTalkPossibility%2Fvideos%2F840925419325695%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>About Emily Vining:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.innercoaching.co.za\/talkpossibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Emily-Vining.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.innercoaching.co.za\/talkpossibility\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Emily-Vining-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Director &amp; Founder of Lumkani\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Emily Vining is a founder and a director of Lumkani, a social enterprise and technology company based in Cape Town. Lumkani\u2019s mission is to radically reduce the destruction and pain caused by shack fires in informal settlements\u00a0 across South African and the Global South. She is one of a committed team of six people.<\/p>\n<p>Emily is driven to co-create design process that is participatory and user-centric. Emily works at building relationships with the end-users of Lumkani\u2019s technology to ensure that their technology solutions are aligned to the preferences of the people who use it. She believes in listening to people.<\/p>\n<h2>Contact and Info:<\/h2>\n<p>Cell:\u00a0072\u00a0482 4029<br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0emily at lumkani dot com<br \/>\nWebsite:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumkani.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.lumkani.com<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Lumkani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facebook.com\/Lumkani<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a title=\"@lumkanifire \" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lumkanifire%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lumkanifire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shack fires in informal settlements are an ongoing challenge and when not detected early enough, have disastrous consequences for thousands of people. A group of friends brought together their diverse skills, and turned the fire detection device &#8211; that started as a student\u2019s thesis project &#8211; into a viable product and business which is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,109,86,17,141,23,110],"tags":[148,151,152,149,150],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The journey of a fire detection startup<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Emily Vinning shares the journey of a fire detection startup social enterprise.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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