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Dinis Guarda Youtube Podcast Series - Powered by citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil is a fast growing Thought leadership channel focused on profiling global leading inspiring people, leaders, CEOs, authors, technologists, academics. We highlight the ideas, products, inventions, software, books & solutions to the multiple challenges / opportunities we face in our cities / nations with the advent of Society 5.0 digital transformation 4IR AI Blockchain Fintech IoT disruptive tech Dinis Guarda is author of books such as 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech Reinventing a Nation" "How Businesses and Governments can Prosper with Fintech, Blockchain and AI?”, “Blockchain AI Crypto Economics"Dinis Guarda has been listed in global fintech, blockchain, AI, social media industry top influencer in position 5/10/20/100 rankings: Top People In Blockchain by cointelegraph 2019, The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He is the founder of citiesabc.com openbusinesscouncil.org intelligenthq.com fashionabc.org ztudium.com techabc.org idna.technology
Jérémy de Champris - Smith Pearlson Artist - Anime Compositor From Near Death To Art Rebirth
Jérémy "Smith Pearlson" de Champris is a French multidisciplinary artist, character designer, graphic designer, music composer, and former audio engineer whose work combines visual arts, music, and Japanese-inspired creative storytelling.
From an early age, he developed an interest in drawing, music, graffiti, and motorsport, and later pursued professional training in audio engineering at the SAE Institute in Dubai. Alongside his studies, he performed as a bass guitarist.
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Jérémy de Champris Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
04:19 - Background
11:35 - The fatal accident
20:18 - The journey of resilience
25:32 - Reinvention in Japan
36:36 - Transitions of cultures
42:55 - Evolution of relationship with art & music
48:20 Who is Smith Pearlson?
52:13 - A multiverse with Smith
56:10 - Moon Dust
01:00:41 - The next project
01:04:55 - Closure
resilience #nevergiveup #animeart #storytelling #characterdesign #keepgoing
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Erald Ghoos is the CEO of OKX Europe, where he leads the company's European operations, including regional strategy, regulatory engagement, licensing, and market development.
OKX is a San Jose-headquartered blockchain technology company that operates the one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in terms of daily trading volume, and provides access to decentralised finance (DeFi) through its OKX Wallet.
Before joining OKX, Erald held senior leadership positions at several major financial and cryptocurrency companies, including Crypto.com and Binance.
Earlier in his career, he worked in operational, risk, payments, and compliance roles at Payreto, Funding Circle, Paysafe, BNP Paribas, Equa Bank, and AXA Bank Europe.
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Erald Ghoos Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
03:32 - Background
07:46 - Evolution of Crypto
16:27 - Crypto in Europe
23:36 - Achievements in Crypto
29:24 - OKX
35:16 - The OKX suite, fully regulated
39:58 OKX DEX
41:36 - digital assets as a service
45:15 - tokenisation & digital assets
51:21 - AI in trading
57:19 - closure
About OKX
OKX is a global cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 technology company that provides digital asset trading, investment, and blockchain-based financial services for retail, institutional, and professional users. The company has expanded beyond cryptocurrency trading to offer a broader ecosystem that includes self-custody Web3 wallets, decentralised finance (DeFi) access, staking services, API trading, and infrastructure for digital asset management.
Founded in 2017 by Star Xu, OKX today serves 50+ million users across 100+ countries and ranks among the top 3 global exchanges by derivatives volume and 120+ million retail traders.
In Europe, OKX operates through its European headquarters in Malta, where it has obtained regulatory approvals under the country's Virtual Financial Assets (VFA) framework and later secured a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) licence.
blockchaintechnology #crytpocurrency #fintechinnovation #cryptotrading #cryptoregulations
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Ben Broca is a French entrepreneur, product builder, and technology founder known for creating startups across software, consumer technology, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence. Ben is the Founder of Polsia, an AI platform that automates business creation and operations through a system of autonomous AI agents.
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Ben Cera Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
03:09 - Lessons from failures
08:06 - Polsia
14:41 - How Polsia helps businesses?
19:36 - Polsia: An autonomous company
28:45 - The 80/20 rule
37:20 - Polsia Case studies
43:17 - Risk Awareness of Polsia
49:58 - Navigating the AI era
53:46 - The Polsia vision
55:32 - Closure
About Polsia
Polsia, founded in 2025 is an AI platform that runs companies using autonomous AI, working 24/7. Currently running 1000+ companies autonomously, Polsia is designed to work toward business goals over time, carrying out tasks independently and providing users with updates on its progress.
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autonomousai #aiagents #businessautomation
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Nilesh Solanki is a British technology professional, community organiser, charity trustee, and humanitarian volunteer known for his work in digital transformation, community development, and charitable governance.
Nilesh is a Trustee and Assistant General Secretary of Sewa International UK — a humanitarian charity operating in 25+ countries.
He is also the co-founder and Director of Action for Harmony (A4H), a platform that brings together more than 200 Hindu organisations across the United Kingdom, convening more than 250 leaders from 120 organisations and 100 towns at the landmark Harmony Conference 2025.
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Nilesh Solanki Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
03:44 - Background
06:55 - Balancing corporate & social impact
10:15 - The Hindu culture
12:57 - Career at PwC
16:50 - A digital transformation expert
22:31 - Reskilling for AI & tech
27:31 - Building communities
32:47 - Embracing diversity
38:07 - Principles of Charity & service
45:21 - Timeless concepts of community
53:48 - Personal fitness
58:47 - Ethics in the AI and AGI era
01:04:26 - AI & Consciousness
01:10:44 - Closure
ai #digitaltransformation #leadership #responsibleai #futureofwork ork #communities
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Claire Pribula is an entrepreneur, venture capital professional, and business executive specialising in agrifood technology (AgTech), venture capital, strategic business development, and international market expansion.
She is the Co-founder and Managing Director of The Yield Lab Asia Pacific, an early-stage AgTech venture capital fund based in Singapore and part of the global The Yield Lab network, which invests in technologies addressing agriculture, food production, sustainability, and food security.
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agtech #foodsecurity #ai #agritech #innovation #climatetech #venturecapital #sustainability #citiesabcimpakt
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The Yield Lab Asia Pacific (TYLAP) is an early-stage AgTech venture capital fund headquartered in Singapore. It is part of the global The Yield Lab network of independent investment funds focused on identifying, investing in, and supporting technology companies developing solutions for agriculture, food production, sustainability, and food security. The Asia Pacific fund primarily invests in Seed and Series A companies across the region while leveraging the wider global network's scientific, commercial, and agricultural expertise.
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Anupriya Nagar is a producer with a background as an economist and art collector who produced Hanuman Ansh, a film set for release in June 2026, to create high-impact narratives that balance spiritual inquiry with commercial excellence.
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00:00 - Intro
02:24 - Background
05:52 - Film as a medium of storytelling
09:03 - Hanuman Ansh
12:47 - Influence on younger generations
15:46 - Why Hanuman Ansh?
19:23 - Spirituality & mental health
22:30 - The Production Process
26:11 - Digital promotions
30:29 - AI & Filmmaking
33:43 - Film engagement & audience
36:10 - Production with AI and VFX
38:57 - Music & spirituality
40:20 - Music Release
41:35 - Post-production roadmap
44:15 - Closure
filmmaking #storytelling #spirituality #AI #technology #innovation #culture #leadership #mentalhealth #genz
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Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld is Human-Centric AI & Future Tech | Keynote Speaker & Board Advisor | Healthcare + Fintech | Generali Ch Board Director· Ex-UBS · AXA. She is a globally recognised expert in digital transformation, AI, blockchain, and Web3 in major areas special in Finance and Healthcare.
She is the CEO and Founder of Marthaverse, a consulting and education platform that helps businesses and executives navigate digital transformation.
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Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
04:01 - Background
08:15 - From sci-fi to reality
14:10 - career in finance and fintech
21:10 - The imperative of people network education
24:58 - work Life balance
30:38 - Social impact work
33:49 - Marthaverse
38:36 - The duality of human nature
44:45 - The digital AI divide
53:53 - Tech products to empower humanity
01:00:38 - The Digital Zen Age
01:05:17 - Closure
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Marianne Hagen is the former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Norway.
She is currently leading UArctic - Seabed Curtain project, together with Professor John Moore of the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, who also leads the UArctic Thematic Network behind the seabed curtain project.
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Marianne Hagen Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
02:13 - The Norwegian Background
06:35 - Career
11:12 - Working for Sustainable Goals
27:40 - What makes Norway successful in climate conservation
36:22 - uArctic Seabed Curtain Project
40:03 - How can you slow glacier melting
49:57 - Not doing anything will cost trillions of dollars
01:01:40 - technology as solution
01:06:29 - How can we all make a difference?
01:11:11 - Closure
About the UArctic Seabed Curtain Project
The Seabed Curtain Project, an initiative of The University of the Arctic (UArctic), is a collaborative effort to address the global sea level rise caused by glacier melt caused by warm, salty bottom waters eroding the glacier from beneath. The project is funded by Shipowner Tom Wilhelmsen Foundation (which supports innovative environmental solutions), Outlier Projects (a silicon valley foundation) and supported by The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA ) and AIAC,( AIAC) American Industrial Acquisition Corp.
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Frederic Laluyaux is a French-American enterprise software executive, entrepreneur, and investor known for his work in analytics, automation, and decision intelligence.
Fred is the Co-founder, President, and CEO of Aera Technology, where he leads the development of AI-driven systems designed to automate enterprise decision-making. Under Fred’s leadership, Aera has enabled more than 50 million optimized enterprise decisions, driving measurable impact.
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Frederic Laluyaux Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
03:07 - Inception of Aera Technology
06:47 - An experienced leadership in Agentic AI
18:02 - What is Decision Intelligence
23:12 - Agentic AI for adaptive and autonomous operations
27:45 - A true Decision Intelligence framework
32:31 - Decision Intelligence for smarter business decisions
37:10 - Optimising enterprise efficiency
41:50 - How can C-level leaders be prepared?
48:07 - Self-Driving enterprise
54:15 - Tech Bottlenecks
01:01:00 - Adopting Decision Intelligence
01:07:00 - Closure
About Aera Technologies
Aera Technology is the decision intelligence company and creator of Aera, the first agentic decision intelligence. Aera unifies data, analytics, AI, and automation to continuously optimize and execute decisions at scale across the enterprise. Aera helps organizations anticipate change, respond with confidence, and create lasting value.
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Max Studennikoff is an entrepreneur, investor, and conference organiser with over 25 years of experience across education, property development, and international events. Max is the Founder and Chairman of CC Forum, a leading global conference laser-focused on investment in sustainability.
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Check out my previous interview with Max Studennikoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND8TUWFvsbU
Max Studennikoff Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
02:47 - Background
08:56 - History of CC Forum
14:28 - A decade of CC Forum
23:30 - The state of sustainability
32:32 - Why CC Forum?
38:27 - Family offices and investors
44:10 - Roadmap of CC Forum
50:54 - The CC Forum Community
54:50 - CC Forum events
57:53 - How to reach CC Forum?
59:22 - Closure
climatechange #aiforgood #impactinvesting #sustainability #esg #greeninvestment
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Bill Laboon is the Vice President of Ecosystem at the Web3 Foundation, where he plays a key role in shaping the long-term direction of the Polkadot, Kusama, JAM, and broader Web3 ecosystem.
At the Web3 Foundation, Bill focused on OpenGov initiatives, technical education, staking support, and decentralised node operations.
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Bill Laboon Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
03:55 - Inspiration in the modern Web 3.0 era
07:16 - Blockchain For User’s Application
14:50 - Polkadot and Web 3.0 Foundation Use Cases
19:52 - Blockchain for digital identity solutions
26:11 - Education in blockchain
35:17 - International Blockchain Certifications
40:53 - Courses at Web 3.0 Foundation
44:08 - OpenGov initiatives of Polkadot
48:08 - Blockchain & AI
54:13 - Encointer
58:00 - Trust in tech
01:03:37 - Blockchain & advanced deep tech
01:07:55 - Web 3.0 Foundation initiatives
01:12:16 - Closure
trusteconomy #digitalidentity #ai #web3innovation #blockchain_technology #aiforgood #techforgood
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Dr. Preet Deep Singh is a Vice President at Apna.Co, a unicorn to match jobs with candidates.
He has been actively involved in promoting the use of AI in public policy. He has trained over 50,000 Central Government officers including the Prime Minister's Office to use Generative Artificial Intelligence. He hosts multiple highly rated courses on AI on the Karamyogi portal.
Previously, Dr. Preet led the One District One Product (ODOP) initiative. As the lead of Startup India programme, Dr Singh worked on blockchain-based certificates, resolving the Angel Tax issue and defining Startups.
Dr. Preet was earlier at Invest India, the national investment promotion agency of India leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) Adoption for the Government.
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Dr. Preet Deep Singh Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
03:22 - Background
07:18 - The Sikh Culture
14:39 - Career
21:17 - AI adoption & reskilling
27:56 - AI adoption in govt
32:57 - Use case training programme
38:02 - Invest India
41:02 - One District One Product Programme
46:20 - Blue Machines AI
51:35 - Apna.co
55:45 - Angel Tax & blockchain-based certification
01:01:08 - AI adoption in India
01:08:43 - AI for citizen service delivery
01:15:43 - Sovereign AI LLMs
01:19:49 - Advice for young entrepreneurs
01:21:16 - AI Literacy
01:23:27 - Closure
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Dominik Tomicevic is a software engineer and technology founder, building high-performance data systems. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Memgraph, a London-based leading provider of high-performance graph databases and graph analytics.
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Dominik Tomicevic Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
03:33 - Background
11:02 - The Tech Ecosystem of Croatia
18:00 - What is a graph database
23:30 - Memgraph
32:10 - AI Hallucinations & traceable reasoning
41: 00 - Relational databases
49:00 - Data privacy & data redundancy
56:15 - Open source & AI Ethics
01:03:08 - Challenge vs opportunity
01:06:17 - Roadmap
01:11:46 - Closure
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Dr. Alex Kotlar is a geneticist, bioinformatics leader, and technology founder with nearly 20 years of combined experience across life sciences, healthcare, AI, and software engineering.
He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bystro AI, a platform designed to make large-scale genetic data easy to search and analyse using natural language, similar to how people use Google or ChatGPT.
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00:00 Introduction
03:43 - Background
12:50 - The inspirations in life
22:21 - Genetics with tech
29:30 - How smart is AI?
34:26 - What is Bystro.io?
42:29 - Agentic AI for genetics
47:38 - Bystro case studies
51:00 - Genome Biology
53:37 - AI in genetics & healthcare
01:04:18 - Personalised Healthcare
01:18:27 - Individual vs enterprise research
01:21:21 - Roadmap for Bystro
01:25:13 - Digital twin for personalised healthcare
01:34:07 - Closure
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Tom Chi is the Founding Partner of At One Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that supports companies and backs founders working in areas such as climate technology, energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure, with the aim of helping the global economy move towards a regenerative and sustainable model.
Tom Chi is also an author and thought leader in the field of climate and sustainability. His book Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future explores how investment can support technologies that enable economic growth while restoring natural systems.
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Tom Chi Interview Questions
00:00 - Intro
04:08 - Background
09:10 Career Highlights
12:09 - Google Glasses
15:00 Deep Tech Products & UI/UX
22:05 Rapid Prototyping
32:41 - Commercialisation of Products
40:09 At One Ventures
43:52 Climate Tech & Innovation
49:20 - Climate Capital
58:19 - Ecological & Economic Resilience
01:05:56 - Mitigating AI disruptions
01:18:40 - Managing disruptions
01:26:21 - Hope for the future
01:32:50 - Closure
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Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel, who founded numerous technology companies. Dr. Corenlius is the Founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Dr. Cornelius is also the President of the Unternehmertag, the Entrepreneurs Day - one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe, at the Tegernsee.
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00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Background
04:42 - The business sentiment in Europe
08:50 - From entrepreneur to a VC
14:15 - Resilience of an entrepreneur
21:10 PhD in Venture Capitalism
24:12 - Portfolio of companies
27:45 - Future of Defence
31:43 - AI innovation & growth in the EU
39:20 - Is Europe ready for shifts?
44:54 - AI at the Vatican
50:14 - Unternehmertag
56:15 - Passion for Life
01:00:29 - Wisdom of Life
01:02:59 Closure
About Unternehmertag
The 2026 edition of the event will take place from 18 to 20 March, at the beautiful Althoff Seehotel Überfahrt at Lake Tegernsee, focused on “The Great Re-Shuffle. Who Holds the Cards in Tomorrow’s World?” The Unternehmertag brings global leaders to a platform to analyse the challenges, develop solutions, forge alliances, and strengthen networks.
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Wasim Aslam is a British entrepreneur, brand strategist, and experience architect with over 15 years of leadership across digital media, design, marketing, and high-level relationship building. Wasim is the CEO of Artemis Privé, an exclusive private members’ club serving founders, family offices, investors, and global leaders.
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03:30 Background
08:15 Creative and Art Direction
12:00 Artemis Privé
15:53 A closed group for business
21:41 Ecosystem and Experience Economy
26:38 Network of wealth & knowledge
31:47 Shifts in wealth investment
40:38 Modern Marketing Challenges
43:40 Building Ecosystems is Crucial
45:40 How to reach Wasim?
46:20 Closure
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Yat Siu is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and policy advisor with nearly 30 years of experience in internet technology, digital media, gaming, and blockchain.
Yat Siu is a founder of Animoca, a mobile app and game publishing company that reached over 50 million downloads. After the success of Animoca, he co-founded Animoca Brands, where he currently serves as Co-Founder and Executive Chairman.
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00:00 Intro
04:11 - Background
13:55 The multiple hats
19:50 Education
27:55 Early Career
38:35 The story of Animoca
45:10 Impact of Blockchain and Crytokitties
53:00 Animoca Brands today
56:55 Decentralised education
01:02:30 Digital identity and reputation
01:07:15 Gamified Finance
01:13:05 - Web 3.0 Economy
01:18:10 Regulation
01:23:05 - Future
01:38:25 Closure
About Animoca Brands
Animoca Brands is a global leader in blockchain and gaming with the goal to provide property rights for virtual assets. The company develops and publishes games such as The Sandbox and works with well-known intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, and Formula E. The company has also built over 450 Web3 investments, supporting projects such as OpenSea, Axie Infinity, and Dapper Labs.
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In the second part of my interview with Rodrigue Vitini, Digital Sovereignty Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Berlin, we discuss data, cloud, and AI sovereignty.
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00:00 Coming Up
00:56 Intro
02:05 Ensuring Sovereign AI
15:24 Feasibility and operational sustainability
About Rodrigue Vitini
Rodrigue Vitini is a senior technology leader with more than two decades of international experience spanning cloud architecture, cybersecurity, digital sovereignty, and large-scale business transformation across Europe.
Rodrigue Vitini is a Digital Sovereignty Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Berlin, where he focuses on helping organisations design and operate cloud environments that meet the highest standards of data protection, security, and regulatory compliance.
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Rodrigue Vitini is a senior technology leader with more than two decades of international experience spanning cloud architecture, cybersecurity, digital sovereignty, and large-scale business transformation across Europe.
Rodrigue Vitini is a Digital Sovereignty Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Berlin, where he focuses on helping organisations design and operate cloud environments that meet the highest standards of data protection, security, and regulatory compliance.
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Rodrigue Vitini Interview Questions
00:00 - Coming Up
00:57 - Intro
05:22 - AWS European Sovereign Cloud
19:55 - Why do digital sovereignty matters?
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Fr. Daniel Brandenburg, LC, is a Catholic priest, author, speaker, and missionary with more than 30 years of religious and pastoral experience, beginning with his entrance into the novitiate of the Legionaries of Christ in 1993.
Fr Daniel Brandenburg REVEALS The Secret to LEADING Like No Other
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00:00 - 04:42 Introduction
04:43 - 09:10 Journey to priesthood
09:11 - 12:35 Religion gives meaning to life
12:36 - 16:04 Education background
17:05 - 21:34 Art Spirituality & Philosophy
21:35 - 26:07 Leader Like No Other
26:08 - 30:11 Leadership & Ethics
30:12 - 34:45 Faith-based leadership
34:46 - 43:03 Human dignity with technology
43:04 - 45:13 Is AI a sentient species?
45:15 - 52:05 Faith, Leadership & AI
52:06 - 56:16 Faith Navigates In AI Era
56:17 - 58:14 Principles of humility, faith, and dedication
58:15 - 59:30 Closure
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Sandeep Kabra is the National President of the All India Maheshwari Mahasabha, a leading organisation that represents the Maheshwari community. Under his leadership, the Maheshwari community has made significant progress in preserving its heritage while embracing modernity.
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00:00 - 06:20 Introduction
06:21 - 08:38 Jodhpur: The Heritage of Rajasthan India
08:39 - 12:38 The All India Maheshwari Mahasabha
12:39 - 14:53 Business & Service To Humanity
14:53 - 18:20 Tradition-Modernity Balance
18:21 - 23:08 The Maheshwari Global Convention 2026
23:09 - 32:44 Ethical Resilient Leadership
32:45 - 36:32 Sustainable MGC
36:34 - 38:30 Maheshwari Global Expo
38:31 - 39:23 Closure
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Tiffany Huddleston Nwahiri is a B2B Marketing Leader, Founder & CMO of 3rd & Taylor, Board Advisor, and Speaker. She is the Founder & CEO of 3rd & Taylor, a strategic marketing agency that specialises in helping B2B tech companies grow through data-driven marketing strategies.
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01:41 - 04:51 Background
04:52 - 08:04 Modern Marketing
08:05 - 11:14 Data-Obsessed B2B Marketing
11:15 - 13:55 3rd + Taylor
13:56 - 18:14 Mastering B2B Funnel Marketing
18:15 - 23:56 B2B Growth Audit Framework
23:57 - 28:31 CRM Ecosystems And AI
28:32 - 31:46 B2B ABM Funnels
31:47 - 37:15 B2B AI Integration Challenges
37:16 - 41:42 Integrating AI & Marketing
41:43 - 47:29 AI Agents vs Automation
47:29 - 51:41 Entrepreneurship In AI Era
51:42 - 55:42 Adapting Mindset For AI
55:43 - 56:42 Closure
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3rd & Taylor is a full-funnel revenue growth agency that helps organisations improve marketing, sales, and overall revenue performance. 3rd & Taylor has managed $3 million+ in annual marketing budgets, achieved 2x lead conversion rates, and successfully increased email engagement by 100% for clients. The agency supports leaders who want predictable growth but face challenges such as limited resources, rising revenue targets, unclear customer pathways, and gaps between marketing and sales teams.
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Graham Stephen is a Chartered Accountant with over two decades of experience across financial services, business development, pricing strategy, optimisation, and valuation. Graham is the CEO and Co-Founder of bizval, a platform that provides an independent, data-driven, and human-led valuation service to help businesses plan for growth, prepare for exits, raise funding, and navigate disputes.
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00:00 - 09:31 Introduction
09:31 - 15:53 The bizval Vision
15:54 - 20:12 bizval Global Business
20:13 - 27:59 Business Valuations & Global Economy
28:00 - 37:03 Global Economic Divides
37:04 - 47:16 IP in Modern Markets
47:17 - 49:36 Valuation Reality vs Hype
49:36 - 58:38 AI Powered Business Valuations
01:03:27 - 01:17:10 Understanding Your Business Reality
01:17:10 - 01:22:32 Closure
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bizval is an independent, data-driven business valuation firm operating across the UK, USA, and globally across six continents. The company has completed over 5,000 valuations with a total assessed value of more than $31 billion. bizval helps business owners, advisors, investors, and partners understand the true value of a business in a clear, practical, and defensible way.
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Carles Solà-Vila is a passionate art collector and forward-thinking digital transformation leader with over 20 years of experience in the fashion, luxury, and emerging technologies. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Artdott, a company established in January 2023, a company focused on integrating technologies like AI, spatial computing, and blockchain into the art world.
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Robert (REUKO) Milus is a multidisciplinary visual artist and ambient music producer based in Oslo, Norway. Known for his signature blend of hypnotic particle sculptures and cinematic storytelling, Rob has spent over 4 years creating immersive art that captivates global audiences. As the founder of Reuko Milus Studio AS, he focuses on nature-inspired particle simulations and luminescent sculptures for installations, immersive experiences, and interactive live visuals.
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00:00 - 01:34 Key Highlights
01:34 - 09:58 Introduction
09:59 - 30:12 Background
30:13 - 31:02 Multidisciplinary Journeys Shaping Creativity
31:03 - 41:07 Inside the Vision Behind Artdott
41:08 - 51:36 Inside ARTDOTT’s Global Immersive Strategy
51:37 - 1:03:20 Navigating AI, Authenticity, and the Future of the Creator Economy
1:03:21 - 1:11:10 Artdott Global Creative Roadmap
1:11:11 - 1:13:34 Closure
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Joanna Moczadlo is a dual-qualified lawyer, authorised to practice in both the UK and the US, with a distinguished cross-border practice spanning Corporate and Commercial Law, Data Privacy and Information Governance, Technology and AI, and Public Sector and Public Procurement.
Joanna provides legal support on AI, blockchain, and smart contracts, helping clients navigate Legal frameworks in fintech and PropTech, Compliance and governance in tech-enabled business models, and Responsible adoption of emerging technologies in multiple sectors.
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Ravinder Singh Johal is an experienced legal professional with over 20 years of managing large-scale real estate redevelopment projects, including compulsory purchase orders, development agreements with national developers, and the regeneration of residential estates with mixed-use developments.
Ravinder has held senior legal roles at several councils, including Basildon Borough Council, London Borough of Hackney, Essex County Council, Dartford Borough Council and Liverpool City Council, handling property, regeneration, and planning matters.
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00:00 - 01:08 Coming up
01:09 - 05:20 Introduction
05:21 - 08:15 Backgrounds
08:16 - 13:19 Tech law and real estate & Digitalisation
13:16 - 20:04 Dreamhome Investments & Ballentines LLP
20:05 - 22:56 data privacy and governance in real estate
22:57 - 25:38 due diligence frameworks
25:39 - 28:53 Cross-border real estate investments
28:54 - 35:36 Is AI going to disrupt law industry?
35:37 - 41:30 bespoke legal and real estate services
41:31 - 47:15 Gaps in the cross border real estate industry
47:16 - 51:09 Collaboration with Citiesabc
51:10 - Closure
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Dr. Konstantin Pavlidis, founder of Orassy Health. He is a pioneering cognitive scientist, integrative medical practitioner, author, metaphysicist, science educator, and international award-winning speaker with over 40 years of experience in various fields, including scientific research, therapy, traditional medicine, and movement arts.
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00:00- 1:19 Introduction
1:20 - 21:11 Background
21:12- 27:01 Journey into Integrative Healing
27:02- 37:12 Human Potential with Integrative Science
37:13- 51:04 Healing in the AI Era
51:05- 56:28 Zen Essence Yoga or Kum Nye Therapy
56:29- 1:04:04 Quantum Integrative Medicine?
1:04:05- 1:10:59 Orassy Health
1:11:00- 1:22:19 Life Blueprint framework
1:22:20- 1:29:48 Ancient Human Wisdom Integrated with AI
1:29:49- 1:38:35 Future of Human Wellbeing
1:38:34- 1:44:39 Closure
About Orassy Health
Orassy Health, founded in 2008 in London, is a pioneering centre for Integrative Healthcare that combines scientific innovation with time-tested healing practices. The company's mission is to offer personalised, holistic care that addresses mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. Orassy focuses on increasing awareness and consciousness as part of health, recognising that feeling good or performing well alone is not sufficient for true wellness.
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Mobin is also the Founder and Chairman of the Global and Commonwealth SMEs Club (GCSME). Under his guidance, the organisation has significantly advanced SMEs, particularly in developing nations, by addressing global poverty, promotes inclusive and impactful SME-driven economic development across 80+ countries.
The Global and Commonwealth SME Club (GCSME Club) is a global platform that connects business leaders, policymakers, and innovators.
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00:00 - 01:16 Coming Up
01:17 - 03:20 Introduction
03:21 - 17:13 Early life
17:14 - 30:32 Networks are important
30:33 - 48:52 Empowering SMEs with skills
48:53 - 56:32 Major challenges of SMEs
56:33 - 01:00:50 commonwealth global theme club
01:00:51 - 01:06:08 true characteristics of entrepreneurs
01:06:09 - 01:13:17 Failure is the biggest teacher
01:13:18 - 01:26:30 Challenges of an entrepreneur
01:26:31 - 01:27:07 Words of Wisdom
01:27:07 - 01:27:17 Closure
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Karin Volo, Chief Joy Bringer, is an expert in employee engagement, organizational development, and bestselling author. With 20+ years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies globally, she has insights on business building, cultural transformation, and high performance.
Karin is the CEO of Evoloshen, an organisation that provides corporate training and AI consulting to improve organisational performance and culture, without losing the human connection.
Karin is a Certified AI Consultant and Certified C-IQ™ Coach. She is acknowledged as a global leader and employee engagement expert.
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00:00 - 03:06 Key Highlights
03:07- 05:15 Introduction
05:16- 06:41 Education & Career
06:42- 12:54 1,352 Days: An inspirational journey from jail to joy
12:55 - 18:46 Karin’s joy and love for life
18:47 - 24:40 Gratitude and Resilience to tackle disruption
24:41 - 28:42 Career and trust rebuild
28:43 - 34:50 Building trust in AI
34:51 - 38:43 The fight against stage four cancer
38:43 - 41:40 Chief Joy Bringer
41:41 - 50:27 Transformative pillar of an organisation
50:28 - 56:37 Personal engagements vs AGI
56:38 - 01:01:40 Easy Park case study
01:01:40 - 01:06:44 Achieving the AI advantage
01:06:45 - 01:10:04 Preparing the leaders for tomorrow with AI
01:10:05 - 01:11:44 Closure
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Kevin O'Donovan is the founder of A Bit of This & That, a consultancy specialising in technology advocacy and advisory services. He has worked in senior leadership roles at major companies such as Intel, HP, and Compaq. He served as Intel’s Worldwide Sales Director for the Energy Industry and helped drive the adoption of innovative technology solutions. He is recognised as a thought leader, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies like AI and digital twin technology can accelerate the shift to cleaner energy.
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00:00 - 05:18Introduction
05:19 -10:37 Background
10:38 - 17:49 Leadership at major global corporations
17:50 -21:27 Corporate experiences
21:28 - 29:30 Influencer, creator
29:31 - 36:33 Marketing the technology
36:34 - 41:43 The journey as a creator
41:44 - 50:54 Areas of research
49:38 - 56:57 Industrial metaverse vs digital twins
56:58 - 1:03:43 Energy transition
1:03:44- 1:13:48 AI & Data
1:13:49 - 1:21:36 Tech Scouting
1:21:37 - 1:28:50 Quantum Computing
1:28:51 - 1:38:43 Closure
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Eric Piscini is a global technology executive, an entrepreneur, an investor, and a trusted advisor with over 25 years of experience in leading strategic innovation and transformation across industries.
Currently serving as the CEO of Hashgraph, he is responsible for steering the company’s growth and the acceleration of Hedera, a leading public network for dApps.
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00:00 - 01:06 Coming Up
01:06 - 03:22 Intro
03:23 - 09:32 Background
09:33 - 14:12 Education
14:13 - 19:39 Hedera network, Hashgraph protocol, and Council
19:40 - 24:55 The mission of Hashgraph
24:56 - 31:45 The Hedera blockchain
31:46 - 36:43 Hedera Council And Equity Lab
36:44 - 41:44 Tokenisation in Hedera
41:45 - 46:19 Leadership at Hedera
46:20 - 51:02 decentralised AI for trust
51:03 - 55:30 How Hedera Builds Trust in Blockchain?
55:31 - 59:30 Web 3.0 is the ownership of our data
59:31 - 01:04:20 Technology is an enabler
01:04:21 - 01:06:09 Education by Hedera
01:06:10 - 01:09:35 Hedera Improvement Proposal
01:09:36 - 01:13:20 Sustainability solutions from Hedera
01:13:21 - 01:16:45 Future trends in blockchain
01:16:46 - 01:20:08 Essential Skills for the future
01:20:09 - 01:21:25 Closure
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Melissa Aarskaug is a Tech & Cyber Growth Strategist, Speaker, Host and Community builder with over 17 years of experience.
Melissa is currently serving as the Global Vice President at Bulletproof, a GLI company, is a global IT and cybersecurity firm. The company is a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) and holds a Microsoft Threat Protection Advanced Specialisation.
Melissa has over 13+ years working for Gaming Laboratories International (GLI), a global leader in providing testing, certification, and professional services to the gaming industry. With laboratory locations on six continents, GLI serves over 475 jurisdictions worldwide.
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00:00 - 01:07 Coming Up
01:08 - 04:04 Intro
04:05 - 08:20 Background
08:21 - 11:23 Bulletproof, a GLI Company
11:24 - 14:23 Integrity & Innovation
14:24 - 15:39 Podcast & Book
15:38 - 19:33 Present & Future of cybersecurity
19:34 - 22:08 Cybersecurity is essential
22:09 - 32:58 Test your cybersecurity regularly
32:59 - 38:46 Deepfakes and Ransomware are real
38:47 - 41:56 Women empowerment
41:57 - 46:37 Tech & AI are not optional
46:38 - 49:26 Community
49:27 - 50:10 Closure
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Sunjeh Raja is the Director & CEO of the International Centre for Culinary Arts (ICCA Dubai), an international award-winning and world-class culinary training centre established in 2005.
ICCA Dubai with 12,000+ Students, 20+ Countries, Countless Inspiring Stories is renowned for its high standards in culinary education, offering globally recognised qualifications accredited by City & Guilds, London and awarded the "Recognition of Quality Culinary Education" by World Association of Chefs Societies (WorldChefs), a global authority on food standards and also by the Knowledge & Human Development Authority (KHDA), Government of Dubai.
Sunjeh is also exploring the future of food through the concept of the "Foodverse," an ecosystem that aims to revolutionise the food industry through technological and sustainability advancements.
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00:00 - 01:16 Coming Up
01:17 - 04:10 Intro
04:11 - 07:20 ICCA: How did it come up?
07:21 - 12:50 Innovation in food
12:51 - 13:10 ICCA Curriculum
13:11 - 16:56 The ICCA ecosystem
16:57 - 23:59 Education Programmes
24:00 - 28:06 Foodverse
28:07 - 31:47 An ecosystem of culinary experts
31:48 - 35:39 The UN SDGs & ICCA
35:40 - 38:30 The Future of Food
38:31 - 42:17 Culinary Training & Education
42:18 - 48:39 Health & Wellness with food
48:40 - 52:11 AI for food management & nutrition
52:12 - 54:26 The perennial food industry
54:27 - 56:23 Dubai is the future of food
56:24 - 57:15 Closure
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Aanshul Bafnaa, also known as "ModMonk” or “Modern Monk” is the founder of ModMonk and CEO of the ModMonk Consultancy.
With over 17 years of experience, she is a business psychologist, spiritual coach, professor, mystic, hypnotherapist, mindfulness coach, healer, and yoga expert, Aanshul provides corporate training in areas such as mythology, leadership, emotional intelligence, meditation, and stress management to C-suite executives, managers, and other professionals.
She also integrates practices like Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) into her coaching sessions by combining teachings from the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS).
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Aanshul Bafnaa Interview Questions
00:00 - 01:18 Coming Up
01:18 - 04:18 Intro
04:19 - 09:30 Background
09:31 - 15:20 The awakening call of spirituality
15:21 - 21:13 The ModMonk Consultancy
21:13 - 29:59 Challenges in corporates
30:00 - 38:25 Ancient wisdom for modern challenges
38:26 - 45:25 NLP & emotional freedom techniques
45:25 - 53:24 Toxicity: How to manage?
53:25 - 01:03:07 Conscious leadership
01:03:08 - 01:08:19 Educator and spiritual coach
01:08:20 - 01:13:13 Spiritual Author
01:13:14 - 01:25:40 AI & Spirituality
01:25:41 - 01:36:40 Key lessons in life
01:36:41 - 01:38:43 Closure
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James McLaughlin is a business advisor with over 35 years of experience. He is the Membership Advisor for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), where he facilitates connecting small businesses with services that will support their long-term success.
James is also the UK Partner for BizVal, a professional business valuation service, expanding BizVal's presence throughout the UK.
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00:00 - 00:56 Coming Up
00:56 - 03:20 Introduction
03:21 - 05:07 Background
05:08 - 09:07 Business journey
09:08 - 13:29 Change is consistent
13:30 - 17:47 Entrepreneurial mindset: the US vs the EU
17:48 - 23:29 FSB
23:30 - 31:14 BizVal
31:15 - 37:54 SMEs are important for global economy
37:55 - 42:10 How Businesses will shift with AI?
42:11 - 45:20 Entrepreneurial challenges
45:19 - 49:26 Digital transformation and business
49:25 - 55:59 Peer to Peer learning
56:00 - 01:00:02 The SME trend
01:00:03 - 01:04:09 How are businesses prepared for AI?
01:04:10 - 01:06:20 Words of wisdom
01:06:21 - 01:12:21 Closure
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Lord Timothy Clement-Jones, CBE is a Liberal Democrat House of Lords spokesperson for Science, Innovation and Technology. He is the Former Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence which reported in 2018 with "AI in the UK Ready Willing and Able?" and its follow-up report in 2020 "AI in the UK: No Room for Complacency".
Lord Clement-Jones is also the Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence, which he co-founded in 2017 and a Consultant on AI Policy and Regulation at DLA Piper since 2018.
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00:00 - 08:29 Introduction
08:30 - 12:56 Career
12:57 - 17:41 Politics
17:42 - 22:41 Regulation leads to innovation
22:40 - 29:42 Agentic AI vs AGI
29:43 - 34:49 Trust in AI is prime
34:50 - 39:27 Risks if AI is not used as a tool
39:26 - 45:24 Theft and cybersecurity
45:25 - 50:41 Education for children with autism
50:42 - 53:49 Living with the algorithm
53:50 - 01:00:22 Change is not changing
01:00:23 - 01:04:47 The AI governance framework
01:04:48 - 01:07:39 Make an impact
01:07:40 - 01:12:27 Closure
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Christopher Perkins is on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Global Markets Advisory Committee and its Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee, providing policy advice on digital assets and Web3 technology.
Christopher Perkins is the Managing Partner and President of CoinFund, a digital asset investment firm focused on supporting the development of decentralised technologies and the new internet economy. In this role, he manages day-to-day operations and works to connect cryptocurrency-native investment strategies with traditional finance.
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00:00 - 01:07 Coming Up
01:08 - 09:34 Background
09:35 - 12:44 Adversities are opportunities
12:45 - 15:50 traditional vs DeFi
15:50 - 18:52 Coinfund
18:53 - 23:15 Case studies
23:16 - 26:22 AI Web 3.0 & crypto
26:22 - 30:29 Ensuring accessible finance for all
30:30 - 32:54 Fund for the biggest boldest ideas
32:55 - 39:39 Crypto regulation
39:40 - 44:09 AI in Web 3.0
44:10 - 47:05 Relevance of Community
47:06 - 51:16 Stablecoins
51:17 - 54:19 Gaming for financial literacy
54:20 - 55:17 Coinfund for digital asset investment
55:18 - 55:56 Closure
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Anthony Scaramucci is an American financier, author, speaker and thought leader, and broadcaster who briefly served as the White House communications director.
Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm offering multi-strategy hedge fund products and advisory services for individuals and institutions.
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00:00 - 00:50 Coming Up
00:51 - 04:44 Introduction
04:44 - 10:10 US NAVY To Wall Street
10:11 - 15:49 Career in Investing
15:50 - 21:33 Skybridge
21:34 - 27:23 Author & Entrepreneur
27:24 - 34:25 The Crypto Journey
34:26 - 37:09 About SALT Platform
37:10 - 38:49 Embracing the failures in life
38:50 - 41:52 AI & Finance
41:53 - 44:33 AI For Crypto Adoption
44:34 - 44:56 Closure
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Penny Power is an entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, and community builder with over 25 years of experience. Penny Power is the founder of Business is Personal, a platform dedicated to helping business owners thrive through authentic networking, emotional intelligence, and peer-powered growth. She is a co-founder of BIP100 Club, a private community where top business owners can build relationships based on honesty, integrity, and mutual growth.
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Penny Power Interview Questions
00:00 - 01:01 Coming Up
01:02 - 09:40 Introduction
09:41 - 15:29 Community, and Connection
15:30 - 20:56 Academy Origin
20:57 - 23:12 Academy Highlights and Impact
23:13 - 28:00 Community Culture and Human Needs
28:01 - 34:00 Human Approach in Corporates
34:01 - 39:30 Business Cafe Vision
39:31 - 49:04 Business Failure, Personal Survival
49:05 - 55:55 Book Lessons and Self-Discovery
55:56 - 1:00:45 Emotional Intelligence in Business
1:00:46 - 1:05:47 BIP100 Model Explained
1:05:48 - 1:12:35 Awards, Self-Worth, Simplicity
1:12:36 - 1:16:05 Digital Youth Academy Journey
1:16:06 - 1:21:29 Human Touch in AI World
1:21:30 - 1:29:04 New Jobs, Niche Skills, Future Work
1:29:05 - 1:33:48 Community, Confidence, Overcoming Fear
1:33:48 - 1:35:11 Closure
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Erik Schwartz is a technologist and serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the tech sector, specialising in AI, information search and retrieval, and knowledge discovery.
Erik is the Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at Elysia.ai Labs. integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI into search technologies, offering automation, intelligent AI assistants, and multimodal AI experiences that help businesses unlock AI's full potential and achieve real operational outcomes.
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Erik Schwartz Interview Questions
00:00- 1:57 Key highlights
1:58- 05:59 Introduction
05:00- 12:51 Erik’s Background
11:00- 15:41 Erik’s Career Evolution
15:42- 21:03 Family Influence on Career Journey
21:04- 29:09 Video Intelligence at Comcast
29:10- 34:05 Building Elysia.ai Labs
34:06- 39:59 Generative AI and Search
40:00- 49:26 Challenges of Solo Entrepreneurship
49:27- 53:03 Client Interaction and Preparedness
53:04- 57:35 Bridging the Digital Divide
57:36 1:04:34 Building Collaborative Communities
1:04:35 -1:08:01 AI Agents in Business
1:08:02- 1:13:56 AI's Impact on Workplaces
1:13:57- 1:18:38 Ethical and Responsible Use of AI
1:18:38 - 1:20:46 Closure
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Prof. Ula Y. Taylor is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She specialises in African American history, black feminist theory, and intellectual traditions of African American women. Her research covers black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and civil rights movements from 1890 to 1980.
She is the author of The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam, The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey, co-author of Panther: A Pictorial History of the Black Panther Party and The Story Behind the Film and co-editor of Black California Dreamin': The Crisis of California African American Communities.
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00:00 - 01:18 Key highlights
01:19 - 07:56 Introduction
07:57 - 10:26 Career & Background
10:27 - 14:51 African-American History
14:52 - 19:04 Black Nationalism & Pan-Africanism
19:05 - 24:45 Lessons From Activism
24:46 - 31:12 Legacy of Black Panthers
31:13 - 36:01 Is Discomfort Necessary For Progress?
36:02 - 42:19 Community Feminism
42:20 - 48:54 Teaching Challenges with AI
48:55 - 54:00 AI Bias
54:01 - 58:05 Challenges in Black Studies
58:06 - 1:01:38 Role of Black Studies
1:01:39 - 1:08:07 Patriarchy and Nation of Islam
1:08:08 - 1:13:18 Advice for Young Learners
1:13:19 - 1:14:06 Closure
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Stani Kulechov is an entrepreneur and a pioneer in blockchain innovation, decentralised finance (DeFi) and the future of digital economies. He is the Founder of Aave, a decentralised lending platform on Ethereum that uses smart contracts and liquidity pools where depositors provide funds for borrowers.
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00:00 - 01:12 Coming Up
01:12 - 06:40 Introduction
06:41 - 12:22 Stani’s Background
12:23 - 19:17 About Aave Protocol
19:18 - 22:58 Building Community Ecosystem
22:59 - 27:20 Mass Adoption and User Experience
27:21 - 29:56 Introduction to GHO Stablecoin
29:57 - 33:18 Aave Labs Horizont Initiative
33:19 - 35:59 Case Studies and Ecosystem Engineering
36:00 - 39:48 Scalability and Regulation
39:49 - 44:42 Financial Systems and Social Systems
44:43 - 46:43 Bridging AI and Blockchain DeFi
46:44 - 48:42 DeFi Bridge Between Centralised and Decentralised
48:43 - 51:32 Aave Ecosystem Case Studies
51:33 - 53:47 Vision for Future of Decentralised Finance
53:48 - 54:56 Advice for Entering the Aave Ecosystem
54:57 - 56:16 DeFi for Financial Education
56:17 - 57:47 Closure
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Dr. Chris Trace is the Chief Academic Officer at KEATH.ai, an AI EdTech start-up that originated from the University of Surrey. He has also represented KEATH.ai at significant platforms, including UNESCO in Paris and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) in London. Prior to this, Dr. Chris was the Head of Digital Learning at the University of Surrey, where he led digital innovation and supported academic staff in using contemporary technological tools.
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00:00 - 01:04 Key Highlights
01:05 - 02:39 Introduction
02:40 - 07:31 Chris’s Background
07:32 - 14:21 Mentorship and Digital Education
14:22 - 19:28 KEATH.ai: Innovation in Digital Education
19:29 - 21:36 Scaling KEATH.ai Globally
21:37 - 24:45 Opportunities for EdTechs
24:46 - 31:43 AI in Education and Reskilling
31:44 - 37:34 AI-Powered Disruption in Education
37:35 - 43:00 AI, Ethics, and Human Impact
43:01 - 46:05 Closure
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John Nahas is the Chief Business Officer at Ava Labs, the company behind the Avalanche blockchain. At Ava Labs, he drives strategic partnerships and international expansion in key markets including Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. With a strong fintech background—having raised $18M and secured 43 licences at Onsa—he blends regulatory insight with innovation.
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00:00 - 09:26 Introduction
09:26- 11:43 Buying First Bitcoin 2012
11:44- 20:38 What Is Avalanche?
20:39- 27:48 Context of Avalanche Ecosystem
27:49- 37:56 Avalanche Use Cases
37:57 - 46:18 DeFi: A Means of Financial literacy and inclusion
46:19- 47:53 Avalanche Challenges and Opportunities
47:54 - 53:20 AI and Blockchain Crossover
53:19- 53:26 Closure
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J. Baylor Myers is the Vice President for Corporate Development at BitGo, a premiere leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, offering custody, wallets, trading, and financing for institutional clients globally.
Baylor has led the closure of BitGo’s $100 million Series C funding round with a valuation of $1.75 billion. During his tenure, he led two successful acquisitions that expanded BitGo’s product suite and services.
Baylor also launched BitGo Ventures, a proprietary investment vehicle aimed at catalysing the digital asset ecosystem.
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00:00 - 01:10 Key highlights
01:11 - 03:42 Introduction
03:43 - 06:37 Baylor’s Career Journey
09:15 - 12:48 Journey into the Crypto world
12:49 - 16:20 Treasury at the White House
16:21 - 19:16 The Blockchain Exploration
19:17 - 22:08 BitGo: Revolutionising Digital Assets
22:09 - 24:14 Global Institutional Network
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27:59 - 27:57 Digital Asset Adoption
27:58 - 31:57 Regulation Challenges in Crypto
31:58 - 35:04 Digital Assets and Tokenisation
35:05 - 40:20 Financial Inclusion and Literacy
40:21 - 42:56 Stablecoins & Crypto Innovation
42:57 - 44:35 Institutional Crypto Adoption
44:36 - 46:13 Governments Exploring Bitcoin Reserves
46:14 - 48:00 AI, Blockchain, and Crypto
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Larry Yang is a technology leader with over 30 years of experience in engineering and product management. He currently serves as the Chief Product Officer at Phononic, a company revolutionising solid-state cooling solutions for industries like data centres, pharmaceuticals, and HVAC. Larry has previously held senior leadership roles at global giants such as Google, Fitbit, Cisco, and Microsoft, where he led key product portfolios, including Fitbit's wearables division, which generated over $1 billion in annual revenue.
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Ben Goertzel is a computer scientist, AI researcher, speaker, author, and entrepreneur who coined the term AGI in 2003 and has contributed significantly to the field.
He is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a decentralised AI platform that leverages blockchain technology to provide open access to AI services, fostering collaboration across industries. With its AI marketplace, developers can monetise their innovations using the AGIX token.
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Alex Grimshaw is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Microsoft Azure in the United Kingdom, where he supports customers and partners across sectors to drive digital transformation using Microsoft Azure Cloud. Prior to this, Alex served as Microsoft UK Public Sector CTO, working with the UK’s largest Public Administration organisations, HM Revenue & Customs, and the Department for Work & Pensions. During this time, he focused on tech intensity, human excellence, and industrial empathy as core pillars of cultural change to impact customers, partners, and colleagues.
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J. Baylor Myers is the Vice President for Corporate Development at BitGo. Baylor has led the closure of BitGo’s $100 million Series C funding round with a valuation of $1.75 billion. During his tenure, he led two successful acquisitions that expanded BitGo’s product suite and services.
Baylor also launched BitGo Ventures, a proprietary investment vehicle aimed at catalysing the digital asset ecosystem.
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Ariel Assaraf is an entrepreneur and technology leader with over 15 years of experience helping companies unlock the power of their observability data. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coralogix, a leading in-stream data platform for full observability for logs, metrics, tracing, RUM, and security data. Ariel served in Israel’s elite intelligence unit, 8200, where he developed a data extraction platform and created unique intelligence tools by connecting intelligence and tech units.
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00:00- 05:57 Introduction
05:58- 09:12 Israel's Tech & Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
09:13- 11:36 Career Journey
11:37- 19:14 About Coralogix
19:15- 31:06 Data Analytics & AI Integration
31:07- 35:25 AI & Data Optimisation
35:26- 41:04 AI Transparency, Safety, & Consumer Responsibility
41:05- 44:49 Decision-Making with AI & Data Analytics
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About Coralogix
Coralogix, founded in 2014, graduated from the Microsoft Accelerator in 2016 in Tel Aviv and is now headquartered in California, United States. The company serves over 2,000 global customers, monitors more than 500,000 applications, and processes over 3 million events per second. It uses stateful streaming technology to analyse pre-indexed data. In December 2024, Coralogix acquired Aporia in a $50 million deal to enhance AI system transparency. The company also launched its AI Centre, which offers real-time observability for AI applications.
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Andrew Kiguel is a Canadian entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in investment banking, blockchain, AI, and robotics. He is the Chairman and CEO of Realbotix Corp., a company that creates AI-based human-like robots for companionship and social interaction. Realbotix is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and OTCQB.
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00:00- 02:07 Key highlights
02:08- 06:41 Introduction
06:42- 09:30 The Power of Delayed Gratification
09:31- 13:16 Andrew: The Entrepreneur
13:17- 18:10 Andrew's Crypto Journey
18:11- 20:51 Andrew in Metaverse Real Estate
20:52- 23:14 Navigating Risks
23:15- 25:34 Making Bitcoin Mainstream
25:35- 27:26 Building and Letting Go
27:27- 30:40 Realbotix: Robots for Human Interaction
30:41- 35:35 A Revolution in Human-Robot Interaction
35:36 - 41:21 Use Cases: Humanoid Robots
41:22 - 42:43 Robots and Accessibility
42:43 - 48:32 Humanlike Robots: Built to Scale
48:33 - 53:36 The Humanoid Robotics Tech
53:37 - 56:11 Realbotix’s Vision
54:03 - 59:14 Realbotix and Blockchain Integration
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Brian Evergreen is a recognised expert in artificial intelligence (AI) and strategy. He is the author of ‘Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of AI’.
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Oleg Kurchenko is a serial tech entrepreneur, investor, and business leader specialising in blockchain and DeFi technologies.
He is the Founder and CEO of Binaryx, a platform founded in 2019 dedicated to tokenising real estate assets using blockchain technologies and DeFi instruments.
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00:00 - 02:44 Introduction
02:44 - 8:14 Oleg’s career
08:15 - 12:37 Oleg founded Paytion
12:38 - 19:16 About Binaryx
19:17 - 27:57 Real estate tokenisation
27:58 - 31:27 How Binaryx simplifies real estate investment
31:28 - 36:32 Real estate tokenisation with blockchain
36:33 - 43:27 Real estate innovation
43:28 - 46:51 Binaryx token
46:52 - 49:10 Scaling Binaryx globally
49:11 - 54:00 Community and user engagement
54:01 - 58:12 Future of real estate investment
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About Binaryx
Binaryx is a user-friendly platform that allows people to invest in real estate by purchasing fractional ownership through tokenisation. By bridging the traditional property market with modern blockchain and DeFi technologies, Binaryx makes real estate investment accessible, starting at just $50.
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Chandra Goyal is an angel investor and entrepreneur. He is the Founder and Investor at KRG Ventures Limited, a boutique venture firm that specialises in making strategic investments in early-stage startups and small businesses innovating in sustainable and disruptive technology.
Chandra is a Member of the Board of Directors at the SOHO Business Alliance (since 2022), an organisation representing over 110 businesses, providing licensing and legal advice, networking opportunities, and economic empowerment initiatives.
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00:00- 00:16 Key highlights
0:17- 3:40 Introduction
3:41- 5:50 Chandra's Journey
5:51- 8:21 The Wisdom of Mentorship
8:22- 9:47 The Art of Negotiation
9:48- 12:01 Small Wisdoms Guide Big Business Decisions
12:02- 16:44 Chandra's Entrepreneurial Path
16:45- 20:57 Teamwork, Leadership, and Community Collaboration
20:58- 25:58 About Soho Business Alliance
25:59- 29:36 Addressing Tourism, Tax-Free Shopping, and Security
29:37- 32:53 Importance of a diverse team
32:54- 36:05 AI and automation in retail
36:06- 39:21 Building Global Investment Networks
42:19- 45:16 Mentorship: The Key to Startup Success
42:19- 45:16 Balancing Investors, Mentors, and Growth
45:17- 47:57 Why Most Startups Fail to Raise Funding
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About KRG Ventures Limited
KRG Ventures is a boutique investment management firm based in London
It offers tailored financial solutions primarily to angel investors, fund managers, family offices, banks, and select institutional clients. The firm specialises in sourcing investments and supporting sustainable businesses across technology, real estate, retail, fintech, health tech, clean tech, and consumer products sectors.
KRG provides investment management services, connecting global investors to profitable opportunities in UK commercial real estate, clean technology, and IoT (Internet of Things)-based retail management.
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The SOHO Business Alliance (SBA) is a non-profit organisation established in 2020 to represent and support businesses in Soho, London.
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00:00 - 06:00 Peter’s Journey
06:00 - 09:06 GSMA Intelligence
09:07 - 17:00 GSMA Intelligence: R&D
17:01 - 24:23 5G & AI Revolution
24:24 - 32:45 AI For Telecom Transformation
32:46 - 39:19 Satellite Integration: Mitigating Connectivity Gaps
39:20 - 42:57 Digital Transformation in Telecoms
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Tomer Zuker is the Vice President of Marketing at D-ID, where he focuses on promoting #generativeAI and #digitaltransformation.
He has worked with some of the world’s biggest companies, including #Microsoft, #IBM, and #AmazonWebServices (#AWS), as well as innovative startups.
Tomer also #mentors #startups, supports organisations like Clear Giving, and champions the use of #techforsocialgood.
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00:00- 3:03 Introduction
3:04 - 5:53 Tomer’s Background
5:54- 9:43 Career Journey
9:44- 16:26 From Marketing to Innovation
16:27- 24:01 D-ID: Digital Identity and AI Avatars
24:02- 31:17 What are AI Avatars
31:18- 38:12 Ethics in Innovation
38:13 - 44:54 AI Avatars are digital humans
44:55- 51:14 AI Avatars for education
51:15- 53:01 D-ID’s Initiatives for Creators and Developers
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About D-ID
D-ID is a global leader in #generativeAI, specialising in creating #DigitalHumans for various applications.
Founded in 2017, the company uses cutting-edge AI technology to produce #hyperrealisticvideos and interactive experiences, making it easier for organisations to engage with their audiences.
With offices in New York, London, Singapore, and Tel Aviv, D-ID has gained worldwide recognition and was named one of #TIMEBestInventions of 2024.
The platform has already generated over 250 million videos.
The company aims to revolutionise how people interact with AI by offering ethical and responsible solutions for digital identity and content creation. By blending creativity with advanced technology, D-ID enables businesses to tell compelling stories and enhance customer experiences.
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Harrison Seletsky is the Director of Business Development at SPACE ID, a platform that helps users register and use Web3 domain names across all EVM-compatible chains. His work focuses on advancing decentralised identity solutions and positioning SPACE ID as a leader in the Web3 space.
Harrison worked as the Growth and Strategy Lead at NFTrade, a leading NFT platform. He also gained experience in cryptocurrency and blockchain investments at Emerging Star Capital and worked in finance at Prager Metis CPAs, LLC. Harrison studied at Penn State University, earning a degree in Accounting and a Minor in Entrepreneurship.
Harrison is also a blockchain and Web3 innovation speaker at events like NFT NYC 2022 and 2023, sharing his vision for the future of decentralised technologies.
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00:00-2:16 Introduction
2:17- 5:07 Harrison’s background
7:04- 10:16 SPACE ID: Humanizing Crypto Wallets
7:04- 10:16 Web3 IDs: Simplifying Access and Usability
10:17- 14:11 Secured Crypto Transactions with SPACE ID
14:12- 20:22 Unified Web3 Identity for Easy Access
20:23- 23:51 SPACE ID Partners with Metamask
23:52- 29:16 Web3 and Traditional Finance
29:17- 32:01 SPACE ID Token
32:02- 35:51 SPACE ID's Vision
35:52- 38:08 Driving Web3 Growth with SDK and API Integration
38:09- 43:34 Advancing Web3 Adoption
43:35 -48:05 Web3 Gaming: Unified IDs and Monetization
48:06- 50:05 2025 Vision: Revolutionising Digital Identity
50:06- 51:05 Closure
About SPACE ID
SPACE ID, established in 2022 and based in Singapore, provides a universal name service network that connects people, assets, and decentralised applications (dApps) across blockchains. It serves as an online marketplace for domain name investments, enabling users to search, register, trade, and manage domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs) and name services. The company’s goal is to simplify interactions in the Web3 space by bridging blockchains with a unified name service.
The SPACE ID ecosystem includes innovative tools like the Web3 Name SDK, which supports domains such as .eth, .bnb, and .arb, making asset transfers across Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains straightforward. Its SPACE ID 3.0 platform helps communities launch their top-level domains (TLDs) with ready-to-use tools, domain marketplaces, and management APIs.
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Louize Clark is an AI and digital transformation consultant, with over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies, including The HEINEKEN Company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and Arcadia Group Ltd.
She specialises in helping businesses with AI and digital twin integration, risk management, and policy development, spanning multiple sectors, including hospitality, education and training, and construction.
Louize is the Founder of Keeping Ahead, a consultancy that offers tailored strategies to integrate cutting-edge AI technologies and embrace a future-ready mindset.
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Louize Clark Interview Questions
00:00 - 03:45 Introduction
03:46 - 17:17 Background
17:18 - 19:34 Building "Keeping A Head”
19:35 - 21:00 Balancing Personal Growth and Innovation
21:01 - 23:59 Digitalisation of businesses
24:00 - 27:00 Driving digital transformation with AI
27:01 - 30:57 Embracing digital transformation
30:58 - 36:46 Digital twin technology in construction and hospitality
36:47 - 39:50 AI in Construction
39:51 - 41:22 Balancing business and personal development
41:23 - 45:33 Discipline is key for leaders
45:34 - 49:19 Emotional Intelligence and CBT for businesses
49:20 - 54:36 Emotional Intelligence for a holistic growth
54:37 - 01:00:11 The impact of technological disruption
01:01:12 - 01:03:11 Adopting tech transformation
01:03:12 - 01:04:56 Closure
About Keeping A Head
Keeping A Head is a London-based organisation dedicated to helping individuals and businesses grow through the use of advanced technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI). Established in 2022, the organisation offers a range of services, including AI integration, staff training, and emotional well-being programmes. Its mission is to equip clients with the skills and tools they need to navigate the challenges of an evolving world while maintaining a balance between professional growth and personal well-being.
The organisation works with startups, non-profits, and established businesses, tailoring its services to meet specific needs. It focuses on areas like AI governance, risk management, digital transformation, and Smart Cities development.
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Rev Lebaredian is a technologist, entrepreneur, and business leader, with experience in simulation technology, artificial intelligence, and 3D rendering.
He is the Vice President of Omniverse and Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, where he leads the development and innovation of NVIDIA Omniverse™, a platform integrating Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), RTX™ rendering technologies, and advanced physics simulation into workflows for AI systems, robotics, and virtual world creation.
Rev is also a founder of Steamboat Software, which created innovative software solutions like reGroop and heyGroop for communication and decision-making. He has also contributed rendering and volumetric algorithms to VFX studios, with his work featured in popular films like Stuart Little, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and X-Men 2.
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00:00-8:47 Introduction
8:48- 12:33 Rev Lebaredian’s background
12:34-21:43 Future of Computing by NVIDIA
21:44- 29:22 Graphics to AI and Robotics at NVIDIA
29:23- 38:19 AI & Simulation at NVIDIA Omniverse
38:20- 49:31 Transforming physical simulation with OpenUSD
49:32- 57:43 Simulation of physical world using AI
57:44- 1:02:06 Engineering a human-centric Superhuman AI
1:02:07- 1:09:42 Humanoid Robots
1:09:43- 1:11:27 Closure
About NVIDIA Omniverse
NVIDIA Omniverse is a real-time 3D design collaboration and simulation platform that brings together rendering, artificial intelligence (AI), and physics simulation into a unified environment. It allows users to create, simulate, and operate physically accurate virtual worlds with real-time collaboration capabilities. Built upon NVIDIA’s core technologies, Omniverse integrates with a range of industry-standard tools and processes, providing professionals across various sectors—such as architecture, engineering, media, and entertainment—the ability to collaborate in a shared virtual space. Its development signals a significant leap forward in the use of AI, real-time rendering, and simulation across industries.
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Deborah Sawaf is a globally recognised fashion designer and changemaker, with over 30 years of experience in the luxury fashion industry, working with renowned brands such as John Galliano, Valentino, and Roberto Cavalli.
She specialises in creating luxury fashion brands and purpose-driven initiatives that integrate fashion, art, and social impact, with a focus on empowering women and addressing mental health awareness.
Deborah is the Founder and CEO of Thalé Blanc, a luxury fashion brand established in 2010, specialising in women's designer handbags, clothing, accessories, and jewellery.
Deborah is also the Founder and CEO of The Power of Words (launched in 2022), which combines fashion, pop culture, and art to break the stigma surrounding mental health, earning recognition from the Camara Nazionale della Moda Italiana and the United Nations as the world’s first socially sustainable brand.
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The Power of Words Foundation aims to promote emotional intelligence and erase the stigma around mental health well-being through art, simple and impactful EQ tools, technology, impact programs, podcasts, and fashion. The foundation teaches emotional intelligence through its Band Bond Initiative and Relational Emotional Development.
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Thalé Blanc, started by Deborah Sawaf in 2010, is a luxury fashion brand that creates women’s handbags, clothing, accessories, and jewellery. Each handbag is made in Italy using the best materials and special details like Swarovski crystals. The clothing collection combines bold and stylish designs with a modern, playful touch. Inspired by the 1920s, French Renaissance, and exotic cultures, Thalé Blanc’s signature cheetah symbol stands for grace and strength, which is reflected in every piece.
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Paul J. Foster is a global executive, strategist, and thought leader with a distinguished career spanning esports, the Olympic movement, and international consultancy. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Esports Federation (GEF), an international organisation for esports that promotes competition, community, and connection.
Paul is also the Executive Chairman of World Technology Games.
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Global Esports Federation
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World Technology Games
The World Technology Games is a global competition aimed at promoting and showcasing scientific advancement. The inaugural event is scheduled for Q3 2026. The five-day festival will feature gaming and technology competitions as well as a business leadership summit.
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Steven Rossi is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Worksport Ltd, a company listed on the Nasdaq Exchange (WKSP). He founded Worksport in 2011, focusing initially on producing tonneau covers for pickup trucks.
Under his leadership, Worksport has developed partnerships with major automotive manufacturers like Hyundai, Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Stellantis. These collaborations aim to integrate Worksport’s SOLIS solar covers and COR battery systems into electric vehicles.
Before starting Worksport, Steven had over 20 years of experience in the automotive industry. He launched his first business which is an auto parts store at the age of 18. Steven attended the University of Toronto, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Life Sciences, and later pursued Industrial Engineering at the University of Buffalo.
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About Worksport Ltd.
Worksport Ltd, founded in 2011 by Steven Rossi, is a U.S.-based company listed on the Nasdaq Exchange (WKSP). The company specialises in manufacturing tonneau covers for pickup trucks and has grown to become a leader in providing innovative and sustainable energy solutions. Worksport's product offerings include the SOLIS Solar Cover and COR Battery System, which are designed to deliver off-grid energy solutions for vehicles and remote locations. These technologies not only enhance the functionality of pickup trucks but also contribute to the growing demand for clean energy alternatives.
Through its subsidiary, Terravis Energy, Worksport has expanded its focus to developing hybrid energy systems that are 100% carbon neutral. The company holds a strong portfolio of over 150 patents and trademarks, demonstrating its commitment to innovation. Worksport has also established partnerships with major automotive manufacturers, including Hyundai, Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, to integrate its advanced technologies into electric vehicles. With a focus on sustainable growth, Worksport is well-positioned to lead the automotive and clean energy markets in the coming years.
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Pedro Domingos is a renowned AI researcher, tech industry insider, and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. An expert in deep learning, neural networks, and AI ethics, Pedro’s research work encompasses some of the most cutting edge concepts like the black box of deep networks, and Markov Logic Network.
Pedro is the author of the best-selling book ‘The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World’ (Basic Books, 2015), which has been translated into over twelve languages and sold over 300,000 copies.
His latest book, ‘2040: A Silicon Valley Satire’, published in August 2024, is a novel that imagines the 2040 presidential election, where the Republican candidate is an AI named PresiBot, and the Democratic candidate is a fake Native American chief seeking to abolish the United States.
Pedro is the author/co-author of over 200 technical publications in machine learning, data science, and other areas. He’s a member of the editorial board of the Machine Learning journal, co-founder of the International Machine Learning Society, and past associate editor of JAIR.
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World is a book by Pedro Domingos released in 2015.
The book outlines five approaches of machine learning: inductive reasoning, Connectionism, evolutionary computation, Bayes' theorem, analogical modelling.
Pedro explains these tribes to the reader by referring to more understandable processes of logic, connections made in the brain, natural selection, probability and similarity judgments.
The book suggests that each different tribe has the potential to contribute to a unifying "master algorithm".
Towards the end of the book the author pictures a "master algorithm" in the near future, where machine learning algorithms asymptotically grow to a perfect understanding of how the world and people in it work. Although the algorithm doesn't yet exist, he briefly reviews his own invention of the Markov logic network.
In 2016 Bill Gates recommended the book, alongside Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence, as one of two books everyone should read to understand AI.
2040: A Silicon Valley Satire
In a chaotic 2040 presidential race, an AI candidate named PresiBot is pitted against a Native American chief determined to dismantle the United States. The mastermind behind PresiBot is Ethan, the struggling CEO of KumbAI, a tech startup that created the AI as a last-ditch publicity stunt. However, with PresiBot prone to malfunctioning and spouting hallucinations, the nation's fate hangs by a thread.
Set against a backdrop of a dystopian, tech-dominated San Francisco, 2040 is a fast-paced, satirical narrative that skewers the modern American landscape. From the overwhelming influence of Silicon Valley’s tech giants to the fear-mongering surrounding AI and the increasingly bizarre political movements, the novel paints a sharp, witty critique of the near future. With razor-sharp dialogue and a plot that mirrors today’s concerns, 2040 offers a darkly comedic reflection on where we might be headed.
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Joachim Gossow is an experienced administrator from Germany. His journey in sports administration began over two decades earlier, with a background as both a professional handball player and coach.
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Ursula Romero is an international sport broadcaster, film producer and director, having an extensive career in international sports broadcasting.
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The World Games 2025 Chengdu
The WORLD GAMES, organised by the International World Games Association (IWGA), are an international multi-sport event featuring sports that are not contested in the Olympics, with few exceptions, and are held the year following the Summer Olympic Games.
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Juan M. Lavista Ferres is a data scientist, AI expert, and researcher. He is currently the Corporate Vice President and Chief Data Scientist of the AI for Good Lab at Microsoft.
In this capacity, Juan leverages technologies like AI, machine learning, and statistical modelling to support Microsoft's AI for Good initiatives, including AI For Earth - Sustainability, AI for Humanitarian Action, AI For Accessibility, and AI For Health.
In his latest book, AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Juan highlights how artificial intelligence and advanced data science can be utilised to address pressing global challenges in fields such as sustainability, humanitarian action, and health.
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About AI For Good Lab at Microsoft
Microsoft’s AI For Good Lab focuses on areas such as sustainability, humanitarian action, accessibility, and health. Co-Founded by Juan Lavista Ferres in 2018, the AI for Good Lab in has undertaken over 200 projects worldwide. The lab collaborates with prominent organisations like the United Nations, American Red Cross, The Nature Conservancy Group, PATH, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, Stanford University, and Johns Hopkins University, consistently using AI for the betterment of humanity.
The AI For Good Lab has gained global renown with branches in Redmond, New York, and Nairobi. The lab’s contributions have been published in top academic journals and conferences, including Nature Communications, JAMA Ophthalmology, and Scientific Reports. Their work has also been featured in prominent media outlets worldwide.
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Dr. Michael Everest is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of edYOU, a Web 3.0 education company focused on creating immersive and adaptive learning experiences using artificial intelligence.
Michael is also the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Academic Officer of Residents Medical, a consultancy dedicated to improving graduate medical education (GME) and healthcare systems worldwide. Residents Medical collaborates with top U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals, breaking down barriers to residency acceptance for qualified medical graduates and improving healthcare outcomes.
He also serves as the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of The Everest Family Foundation, a Los Angeles, California based non-profit organisation supporting students to find a suitable medical residency where they can further apply research. The organisation was created and founded as The Dr. Edwin Everest Foundation after the passing of his father, Dr. Edwin A.D. Everest in 2008.
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edYOU is a forward-thinking education company that leverages Web3.0 technology to create transformative learning experiences. Founded under the leadership of Dr. Michael Everest, edYOU is dedicated to redefining the educational landscape by making advanced, immersive, and adaptive learning accessible to everyone. The company’s platform utilises artificial intelligence to offer personalised tutoring through life-like avatars, providing real-time, interactive support tailored to each learner's needs.
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The Everest Foundation, based in Los Angeles, California, is a non-profit organisation that emphasises the need to focus on graduate medical education from a global perspective. For emerging economies, like those that The Everest Foundation serves, establishing a quality healthcare education system can be especially challenging.
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Chris Joannou is a growth hacker and ecosystem builder with extensive experience in the startup and venture capital sectors. He currently serves as the Vice President of Ecosystem Growth at Draper University, where he is responsible for arranging global partnerships and promoting collaborative ecosystems that support innovation and startup growth.
He has played a significant role in various partnerships and initiatives, such as the Draper University x Stellar collaboration, aimed at delivering hacker houses and accelerator programs.
Chris has been involved in ecosystem development across various global locations, including Oradea, Romania, and Austin, Texas, through partnerships with entities like Make IT in Oradea and Ga^3in Ventures.
Chris is an active investor and mentor, supporting startups such as Bevy, LawAdvisor Ventures, and SOSV MOX, and has a background in corporate innovation, B2B business development, and brand strategy. He has held various leadership roles, including Program Director at Startupbootcamp, Head of Marketing at Draper Startup House, CEO of Startup Melbourne
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About Draper University
Draper University, founded in 2012 by venture capitalist Tim Draper, is a private, for-profit educational institution based in San Mateo, California. It is recognised for its unique approach to entrepreneurship education, focusing on real-world scenarios and unconventional methods to foster innovation and business acumen among its students.
Draper University offers various programmes, including Hero Training, Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, and the GO! Entrepreneurship Immersion Program. These initiatives are designed to take entrepreneurs out of their comfort zones, encouraging them to develop and execute their ideas effectively.
The institution has garnered significant success, with over $240 million in venture funding secured by its alumni, who have founded more than 700 companies and created over 7,000 jobs globally. Draper University is also credited with nurturing eight unicorn companies over the past decade, highlighting its impact on the startup ecosystem. Its alumni have been featured in prestigious lists like Forbes 30 under 30 and have secured funding from renowned investors such as Marc Benioff and Marc Andreessen.
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Prayson Daniel is a data scientist, a philosopher, and a teacher. He is currently the Director of Transformation Lab at NTT Data, global innovator of IT and business services.
Prayson has been harnessing Machine Learning to boost business, foster customer and employee loyalty, grow revenue, multiply efficiency, and make data-informed decisions, while serving multiple roles at global corporations, including If Insurance, ProData Consult, to name a few.
As a Persuasive Technologist at Aalborg University, Prayson contributed to the development of The Virtual Lab for Prior Studies. A joint project between the Royal School of Library and Information Science (University of Copenhagen) and the Department of Communication and Psychology (Aalborg University).
He has also taught digital ethics, philosophy of religion, and public relation at Mariager Høj- og Efterskole, contributing to the development and teaching of persuasive web communication, data analysis and data visualisation using Python, Tableau, SPSS, and Excel BI.
Prayson is a Master of Science in Information Technology and Persuasive Design from Aalborg University.
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Prayson Daniel Interview Questions
00:00 - 01:08 Introduction
01:09 - 03:49 Prayson’s Background
03:50 - 05:30 Essence of human-centricity in data and algorithms
05:31 - 09:32 Ethical aspects of data modeling
09:33 - 11:34 Data model management using watsonx.governance
11:35 - 15:05 Effective and ethical use of data
15:06 - 18:02 A balanced data analytics model vision
18:03 - 21:41 Digital twins and data optimisation
21:42 - 25:05 The Digital Transformation Lab at NTT Data
25:06 - 25:30 Closure
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group. The company is a trusted global innovator of IT and business services headquartered in Tokyo, helping clients transform through consulting, industry solutions, business process services, IT modernisation and managed services. NTT DATA has a global reach having spread in over 50 countries.
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Eric Michael O'Neill is a national security attorney, corporate investigator, national cybersecurity strategist, and legendary FBI operative. Eric’s career began in the FBI’s counterintelligence trenches as an undercover operative. His undercover work brought down Robert Hanssen, the most notorious and damaging spy in United States history.
After serving in the FBI, Eric earned his Juris Doctor degree from The George Washington University Law School, with honors. He has since worked as a national security attorney and corporate investigator at top firms like DLA Piper.
Eric is the founder of The Georgetown Group, a premier security services firm, and he serves as a national security strategist to cybersecurity companies, including CyberSponse, Inc., NeXasure, and VMware Carbon Black.
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Eric O’Neill Interview Questions
00:00 - 03:16 Introduction
03:17 - 06:40 Eric’s career in FBI
06:41 - 10:54 Starting his career in cybersecurity
10:55 - 15:40 Cybersecurity in the era of dark web
15:41 - 23:27 What is dark web?
23:28 - 31:08 Eric captures Robert Hensen’s espionage
31:09 - 34:07 The damage caused by Robert Hansen with his espionage
34:08 - 36:44 Transition from FBI to law
36:45 - 41:09 Eric’s corporate cybersecurity experience
41:10 - 47:08 Counterintelligence versus defence
47:09 - 55:04 Strategies of counterintelligence
55:05 - 01:03:31 Future Cybersecurity measures
01:03:32 - 01:09:59 Mitigating cybercrime risk
01:10:00 - 01:12:25 The Invisible Threat
01:12:25 - 01:18:07 corporate security and social engineering
01:18:07 - 01:20:31 Cybersecurity roles in the future
01:20:33 - 01:22:52 The essence of ethics
01:22:53 - 01:23:32 Closure
About The Georgetown Group
The Georgetown Group is a Washington, DC-based risk consultancy and corporate intelligence firm established in 2008. Specialising in due diligence investigations, litigation support, cybersecurity, and public relations research, the firm aids clients in making informed decisions and mitigating risks. Their team, composed of professionals with extensive experience in law enforcement, security, and intelligence, focuses on uncovering critical information that provides clients with a competitive edge.
The firm’s services include conducting thorough background checks, cybersecurity assessments, and strategic intelligence gathering. Their diligence investigations examine the backgrounds and relationships of individuals and organisations to identify potential risks before acquisitions, hires, or business transactions. The Georgetown Group also provides cybersecurity consulting, helping organisations address both internal and external threats through customised incident response strategies and training.
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Dr. Michael May is a technologist and researcher, especially in the areas of AI, data analytics, machine learning and big data architectures. He is heading the Company Core Technology Data Analytics & AI at Siemens. In Siemens Corporate Technology, Munich, he is responsible for fourteen research groups in Europe, US, and Asia.
Before joining Siemens in 2013, Michael was Head of the Knowledge Discovery Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems in Bonn, Germany. In cooperation with industry he developed Big Data Analytics and machine learning applications in sectors ranging from telecommunication, automotive, and retail to finance and advertising.
Michael also coordinated two Europe-wide Data Mining Research Networks funded by the European Commission. He was also the local chair of the International Conference on Machine Learning ICML 2005, ILP 2005 and program co-chair of the European Conference on Machine Learning ECML/PKDD Industrial Track 2015.
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Michael May Interview Questions
00:00 - 02:35 Introduction
02:36 - 08:00 Micahel’s background
08:01 - 09:59 bridging the academic and innovation at industry
10:00 - 13:36 Siemens’ global reach for research and innovation
13:37 - 16:20 The concept of Generative AI and Industrial AI
16:21 - 19:24 How Industrial AI integrates with traditional systems of manufacturing
19:25 - 24:13 Regulating AI to create trust in LLMs
24:14 - 27:43 How Siemens builds transparency in Industrial AI innovations
27:44 - 30:41 AI regulation: An overview of the framework
30:42 - 34:59 AI products by Siemens
35:00 - 37:46 The concept of sustainable AI
37:47 - 41:50 The Industrial AI-Copilot approach
41:51 - 43:55 Siemens’ collaboration with major global corporations
43:56 - 46:22 Closure
AI with Purpose Summit 2024
The AI For Purpose Summit 2024, organised by Siemens, took place on June 10th and 11th at the House of Communication in Munich, Germany. The event, powered by the Siemens AI Lab, aims to bring together leading experts, industry leaders, and policymakers to discuss the pressing challenges and promising opportunities of integrating AI into various industrial sectors.
The AI For Purpose Summit 2024 emphasises the importance of developing AI solutions that not only drive efficiency and innovation but also adhere to ethical standards and regulatory requirements.
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Marcus Norberg is an experienced manager with a robust background in the hyperautomation and information technology industry. Currently serving as the Sales Manager at Apendo AB, he brings about four decades’ of expertise in sales management, business development, and strategy to develop technology solutions for clients. Prior to his current position, Marcus has held several top level positions at companies, including Consid AB, Xlent Technology, Merkantildata, and Sema Group. Marcus holds a Bachelor's degree in System Analysis from Mid Sweden University, and is committed to drive innovation, business growth, and strategic initiatives within the information technology and services sector.
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Marcus Norberg - Apendo - IBM Partner Interview Questions
00:00 - 01:04 Introduction
01:05 - 08:16 Apendo’s Innovations with watsonx model
08:17 - 09:12 Embedding cloud in Apendo’s services
09:13 - 11:16 Apendo’s solutions for Swedish municipalities
11:17 - 15:34 Integrating watsonx.governance with local policies and regulations
15:35 - 16:16 Closure
IBM TechXchange Summit EMEA 2024 Special
At IBM TechXchange Summit EMEA 2024, Marcus Norberg, Sales Manager of Apendo AB, discusses how watsonx technology enables businesses and organisations in Sweden with AI, Data, and Governance models with Dinis Guarda.
IBM TechXchange EMEA 2024 is an exclusive and curated event meticulously crafted for developers, builders, and user groups actively engaged with IBM products and hybrid cloud solutions. With a comprehensive agenda featuring more than 1,500 technical keynotes, specialised breakout sessions, immersive hands-on experiences, live product demonstrations, instructor-led labs, and tailored certifications, this summit caters to diverse user interests and learning preferences. Attendees can expect an unparalleled opportunity to deepen their technical expertise in a collaborative and dynamic environment.
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About Apendo IBM collaboration
Apendo AB has collaborated with IBM to address the challenges faced by smaller municipalities in Sweden amidst budget constraints exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Apendo's innovative solution, the Apendo Digital Assistant (ADA) for Municipalities, utilizes IBM Watson and IBM Cloud Pak technology to create an intuitive virtual assistant capable of automating citizen interactions. Trained with over 550,000 Swedish words, ADA provides efficient responses to residents' queries, ranging from COVID-related information to reporting maintenance issues. By leveraging Watson Assistant and Watson Discovery, ADA mimics human behavior, ensuring comprehensive and accurate responses. The technology not only streamlines citizen support services but also offers cost savings for municipalities. With a robust and scalable IBM platform, Apendo envisions a long-term impact, providing municipalities with reliable and innovative solutions while disrupting traditional pricing models through an Embedded Solution Agreement (ESA).
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Dilip Pungliya, a thought leader, author, investor, and entrepreneur, has brought positive impact to multiple industries with his focus and acumen in data. Dilip has a proven track record in delivering comprehensive solutions for business processes and data optimisation, including data modelling and governance. His expertise spans diverse domains, including investment and commercial banking, oil and gas, and government departments.
Dilip is the Co-Founder, VP, and Chief Business Officer at ztudium Group, a global leading and maker of 4IR technologies, including Web 3.0, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Metaverse.
He is also the Business and strategy advisor at Vishnu Prakash R Punglia Limited, a joint stock company that offers engineering, procurement and construction services for various infrastructure projects across India.
In his experience as a Data Architect, Dilip has held top level executive positions at organisations like Shell, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, a UK government entity for the environment, Deutsche Bank, ICBC Standard Bank Plc, BNP Paribas, and HSBC Investments.
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Dilip Pungliya Interview Questions
00:01 - 03:36 Introduction
03:37 - 05:34 Dilip's background
05:35 - 09:42 The cultural heritage of Jodhpur (India)
09:43 - 13:18 India's Transformation
13:19 - 19:42 From family business to technology and finance
19:43 - 25:49 VPRPL goes public
25:50 - 29:18 Education in India and the UK
29:19 - 31:38 Personal health, career, and social impact
31:39 - 33:49 Smart Cities and AI
33:50 - 34:54 Advice for young aspirants
About Vishnu Prakash R Punglia Limited
VPRPL is an infrastructure company headquartered in Jodhpur, operating across India. The company currently manages over 47 projects in 13 states, with a total value exceeding USD 365 million.
Vishnu Prakash R Punglia Limited (VPRPL) is one of India's rapidly expanding infrastructure development companies. The company was established in 1986 as a partnership firm under Chapter IX of the Companies Act 1956, registered with the Registrar of Companies in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. In April 2013, VPRPL transitioned to become a joint-stock company.
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Ludovic Phalippou is a financial economist, academic, author, and researcher. His research covers critical themes including the performance of private equity funds, risk and return estimation, liquidity risk premiums, and regulatory challenges in the industry.
Ludovic is the Professor of Financial Economics and the Academic Area Head of Finance, Accounting & Economics at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Under his leadership, the school recently created the world's first cinematised educational case study titled "Redeveloping Hope". The study emphasises financial tools and impact investing for MBA and EMBA students, caters to their Gen Z and Millennial preferences for visual learning.
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Ludovic Phalippou Interview Questions
00:01 - 03:05 Introduction
03:06 - 04:24 Ludovic’s background
04:25 - 06:05 the psychology behind research
06:06 - 07:32 Ludovic at Saïd Business School
07:33 - 11:54 teaching through visual media
11:55 - 21:19 Redeveloping Hope: financial literacy and education
21:20 - 26:24 technology and financial literacy in society
26:25 - 29:09 Research in Private Equity
29:10 - 31:44 global landscape of private equity
31:45 - 35:14 Private Equity Laid Bare
35:15 - 37:39 risk management and governance in private equity
37:39 - 40:27 the current state of global debt
40:28 - 45:59 AI, big data, and financial modeling
46:00 - 48:37 (financial tools for social and environmental challenges
48:38 - 50:04 private equity and financial economics: current landscape
50:05 - 52:13 social impact-driven v/s competitive capitalist economics
52:14 - 55:55 Systematic Investing with Big Data
55:56 - 56:34 Finance and Economics
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Saïd Business School, Oxford, UK
Saïd Business School is the business school at the University of Oxford. The school is a provider of management education. It is focused on impactful leadership, offering degrees, executive education and programmes for organisations.
The business school is fully integrated into the University of Oxford which allows them to provide excellent teaching in the areas of economics, law, sociology, psychology, politics, and international relations.
Saïd Business School has participants from over 50 different countries and a global perspective is emphasised in their research, classrooms, and educational community.
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Matthew Le Merle is a business executive, investor, and author with about four decades of experience in private equity and venture capital investments. He is the Managing Partner and CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors, an investment management firm specialising in blockchain technology.
Aside from his role at Blockchain Coinvestors, Matthew is also the Managing Partner of Keiretsu, a prominent early-stage venture investor backing more than 300 companies annually. He is also the Managing Partner of the Fifth Era LLC. The Fifth Era Office invests globally in private equity and venture funds, in addition to direct investments in operating companies and other private opportunities, including real estate.
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00:01 - 03:50 Introduction
03:51 - 07:14 Background
07:15 - 11:07 Experience in digital payments and assets
11:08 - 21:28 Impact of blockchain technology
21:29 - 20:02 Matthew in the blockchain investment
29:03 - 35:56 Blockchain investments and tokenisation
35:57- 45:04 Cryptocurrency market: Current scenario
45:05 - 54:48 Blockchain and tokenisation: Challenges and opportunities
54:49 -01:05:13 Interplay between blockchain
01:05:14 - 01:08:00 Closure
About Blockchain Coinvestors
Blockchain Coinvestors is a hyper-focused venture capital firm investing in blockchain companies. Headquartered in San Francisco with a presence in London, New York, Grand Cayman, Zug, and Zurich, the alternative investment management firm was co-founded by Alison Davis and Matthew Le Merle.
Blockchain Coinvestors’ investment strategies are now in their 10th year and are backed by 400+ investors globally. To date, it has invested in 40+ pure-play blockchain venture capital funds in the Americas, Asia, and Europe and a combined portfolio of 1000+ blockchain companies and projects including 80+ blockchain unicorns.
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Erik is the Director of Product Marketing at NVIDIA since 2020, where he’s focused on full-stack solutions in the areas of AI and data science.
Erik Pounds is a marketing and product management professional with over 20 years of experience in the technology and data science sectors, focusing on advancing data analytics and AI solutions.
In his capacity as the Senior Director of Enterprise AI at NVIDIA, Erik is responsible for promoting GPU-accelerated tools and technologies like the NVIDIA Merlin deep recommender system and the NVIDIA Riva (formerly Jarvis) conversational AI framework.
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06:07 - 09:39 Background
09:40 - 13:02 AI and data science innovations at NVIDIA
13:03 - 14:46 NVIDIA’s culture of innovation
14:47 - 17:08 NVIDIA partnerships
17:09 - 21:11 NVIDIA’s product suite and its applications
21:12 - 24:31 Challenges and Solutions in AI and Data Management
24:32 - 28:29 AI applications and case studies
28:30 - 31:49 Proprietary enhanced LLMs
31:50 - 37:01 Generative AI integrates in legacy systems
37:02 - 39:00 NVIDIA's GPU Technology
39:01 - 42:56 NVIDIA Blackwell
42:57 - 47:22 NVIDIA AI co-pilot AI assistant
47:23 - 51:56 From interactive avatars to virtual worlds
51:56 - 52:28 NVIDIA AI Foundry
52:29 - 59:01 Embracing tech advancements
59:02 - 1:00:16 Closure
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NVIDIA NIM, part of NVIDIA AI Enterprise, is a suite of accelerated inference microservices enabling organisations to deploy AI models on NVIDIA GPUs across various environments, including the cloud, data centers, workstations, and PCs. Utilising industry-standard APIs, developers can deploy AI models with minimal code, while NIM containers integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes for efficient orchestration and management of containerised AI applications.
NVIDIA NIM simplifies the development of AI applications, offering robust foundations such as NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, TensorRT, TensorRT-LLM, and PyTorch. This facilitates scalable and efficient AI inferencing, allowing developers to build powerful copilots, chatbots, and AI assistants, and enabling IT and DevOps teams to self-host AI models within their managed environments.
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Rupert Hofmann is a foresight practitioner, observational draftsman, author, and initiator. As a Strategic Foresight Practitioner, Rupert works for Audi Business Innovation where he started the cross-industry platform, Foresight Academy.
He studied at Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Passau University, Columbia University in New York City and at Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. In his PhD, he developed the Trend Receiver concept, a novel qualitative method that combines insight and foresight research and contributes to vision finding, long-term decisions and brand and product development.
As an observational draftsman, Rupert’s interest in people and their environment, behavior and motives also drives his observational drawings of people, street situations, malls, stores, offices, beaches and bars.
As an author, Rupert also regularly contributes his insights on topics like visionary competence, customer foresight practice and focus territory, and research on science fiction and facts.
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00:00 - 01:10 Introduction
01:11 - 02:21 Rupert’s background
02:22 - 03:42 Research and designing at Audi
03:43 - 04:32 How does Audi Business Innovation work?
04:33 - 06:31 What is Foresight Academy
06:32 - 08:21 Smart regulation, AI, climate change scenarios in EU
08:22 - 10:01 The essence of partnerships
10:01 - 11:14 Essence of tech revolution
11:15 - 11:31 Closure
About Foresight Academy
The Foresight Academy is a platform where companies from different industries explore how customers want to live in ten years and create shared visions of desirable future everyday life. This platform was started by Audi / Audi Business Innovation GmbH and it is realized by Foresight Academy GmbH.
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Kevin Farrar has over 36 years of experience at IBM acting as a trusted advisor on technology, innovation, and adoption in the sports industry. He provides input to strategic planning discussions to influence the client & IBM technology roadmap & plans.
As a member of IBM’s Global Sports & Entertainment Partnerships team, Kevin provides UK leadership on contractual negotiations and has overall responsibility for the UK programme governance & budget.
Kevin is IBM’s “face” of Wimbledon and has extensively featured in media coverage worldwide across TV, radio, online & print media, including BBC National News, BBC News Live: World Business Report, BBC Sport, BBC R5 Live, BBC R4: The World Tonight, BBC Arabic, BBC Click, BBC Tech Tent, World Service Radio, ITV National News, Japanese TV, Canadian TV, CNN, Fox News, Bloomberg and numerous other global MSM outlets.
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About Wimbledon IBM Partnership
Wimbledon works closely with IBM to provide fans with AI-generated insights and world-class digital experiences. As the Official Technology Partner of The Championships for the past 33-years, IBM has developed solutions to modernise and streamline workloads, and delivered innovative digital experiences to engage sports fans around the world through IBM iX, the experience design arm of IBM Consulting.
IBM Consulting leverages hybrid cloud and enterprise-grade AI to co-create an open and flexible platform of innovation for Wimbledon. This platform transforms over 2.7 million data points into actionable insights, automates critical business processes, and secures the tournament's digital operations, ensuring a seamless and engaging fan experience.
About ‘Catch Me Up’ feature
The new 'Catch Me Up' feature displays pre- and post-match player cards with AI-generated player stories and analysis via wimbledon.com and the Wimbledon 2024 App. Player cards will be personalised based on user preferences and data such as their location and myWimbledon profile, starting with their favourite players. Pre-match content will include analysis of recent performance and likelihood to win predictions, and post-match it will include key statistics and highlights. The feature will also create longer-form daily summaries of play.
'Catch Me Up' was built using IBM's Granite large language model (LLM) to provide AI-generated text using the capabilities of the watsonx platform. The model has been trained on the Wimbledon editorial style and will be monitored by the All England Club. The new feature is designed to help Wimbledon scale its content to both new and existing tennis fans globally, as well as provide fans access to timelier, curated coverage across ladies' and gentlemen's singles matches which are often happening simultaneously.
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Boris is the Senior Innovation Manager and Technology Strategist in the CTO Office at Siemens. Based in Nuremberg, Germany Boris responsibilities include innovation management, the development of technology strategies and roadmaps, and technology scouting. His areas of expertise encompass startups, quantum computing, industrial AI, scaling artificial intelligence, ecosystems, and the data economy.
Boris has contributed to several publications, including white papers and reports on topics such as service integration and management, fabric-based computing, and the concept of Liquid IT.
At ‘AI With Purpose Summit 2024’ event by Siemens in Germany, Boris is a panelist on “Challenges and Opportunities of AI Governance.”
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The AI For Purpose Summit 2024, organised by Siemens, took place on June 10th and 11th at the House of Communication in Munich, Germany. The event, powered by the Siemens AI Lab, aims to bring together leading experts, industry leaders, and policymakers to discuss the pressing challenges and promising opportunities of integrating AI into various industrial sectors.
The AI For Purpose Summit 2024 emphasises the importance of developing AI solutions that not only drive efficiency and innovation but also adhere to ethical standards and regulatory requirements.
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Raj Aditya Kapoor is a serial entrepreneur, tech innovator, educator, investor, and mentor with focus areas like blockchain, AI, Robotics, Cybersecurity, IoT, and cloud computing. He has designed and worked on 4 Blockchains, 5 Centralised Exchanges, 3 Swaps and 3 DEX's.
He is the Founder and Chairman of the India Blockchain Alliance, the largest Indian emerging technology tech think tank. Raj is also the Chairman of the Global Alliance for Artificial Intelligence and Innovation. He is an Advisory Board Member at over 60 Web3.0 companies including, Tata Elxsi, Spherium, Soulverse and more. He is also the CEO of Growth Alley Inc, USA.
Raj has also been actively involved in initiatives promoting sustainable development, environmental conservation, and social welfare. He is the India Strategy Lead at 5ire, a sustainable blockchain ecosystem. Some of the projects he has been involved in are: "Carbon Chain", "The Tree Chain", and "Nature Conservation Chain".
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About India Blockchain Alliance
India Blockchain Alliance (IBA) is a prominent organisation established in 2018 with the primary objective of fostering collaboration and advancement in the field of blockchain technology. As a not-for-profit entity, IBA is dedicated to promoting evidence-based adoption of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) across various sectors, both public and private.
Drawing expertise from diverse backgrounds including Blockchain, Academia, Information Technology, Computer Science, regulators, and policymakers, IBA serves as a hub for networking and knowledge exchange. Its membership comprises a close-knit network of experts and organisations, encompassing policymakers, academics, blockchain engineers, venture capitalists, and visionaries.
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About Thomas Normark
Thomas Normark is a distinguished leader in the fields of AI, machine learning, and robotics, currently serving as the Global Head of AI & Robotics at NTT DATA Business Solutions. With over 15 years of experience at NTT, he has been pivotal in demonstrating the tangible value of digital innovations, fostering co-innovation, and driving business growth. Normark's expertise extends beyond his primary role; he is a TEDx speaker, external lecturer, and an active member of several advisory boards, including the Videnscenter for Automation of Robotteknologi and the International Facility Management Association. He has also contributed significantly to the AI Innovation House and the First Chair Group's Think Tank.
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Thor Hauberg is a prominent figure in the tech and business strategy landscape, currently serving as the Director of Venture Lab at NTT DATA Business Solutions Nordics. With a rich background spanning over 15 years, Hauberg has consistently demonstrated his expertise in fostering innovation and strategic growth. His role involves engaging with ambitious B2B tech startups, leveraging his deep technical knowledge and extensive market insights to scale their products and solutions. Hauberg's career highlights include his tenure as Director of Business Development & Strategy at NTT DATA and his position as an external lecturer in innovation management at Copenhagen Business School.
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NTT DATA Business Solutions is a leading global IT service provider, dedicated to driving digital transformation and business innovation. With a rich history dating back to its inception, the company has built a reputation for delivering comprehensive IT solutions, including consulting, system integration, and managed services. As part of the NTT DATA Group, it leverages an extensive network of resources and expertise to serve a diverse range of industries. The company focuses on enhancing operational efficiency and enabling digital growth through cutting-edge technologies such as SAP, cloud computing, and data analytics. A client-centric approach and a deep understanding of business needs underscore its commitment to customer success.
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Tomasz Kostrzab is the Chief Technology Officer, currently leading the technology strategy and innovation efforts at TUATARA, based in Warsaw, Poland. With a background spanning over two decades, Tomasz has demonstrated expertise in information technology and services, particularly in areas such as Business Process, Enterprise Transformation, and Application Architecture. His professional journey includes significant roles at TUATARA, where he initially served as the Chief Technology Architect before assuming the role of CTO in June 2017. Tomasz's career also encompasses valuable experiences at IBM, where he contributed as an IT Architect, and at Orange Poland, where he worked as an IT Analyst.
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About TUATARA
Tuatara is a technology and consulting firm dedicated to revolutionizing customer experiences through a harmonious blend of innovative consulting and cutting-edge technology solutions. With a mission to drive digital transformation, Tuatara offers an extensive range of services, from back-end integration solutions to process digitalization and the creation of pioneering business models. The company operates at the intersection of technology and consulting, encouraging businesses to embrace change with agility, creativity, and spirit. Tuatara's commitment to exceeding expectations is reflected in its diverse portfolio of products, including Actionbot, Fintin, Tasil, and more, all geared towards providing businesses with a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
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In the second interview on Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast, Pradeep Goel, Founder and CEO of Solve.care, discusses the key aspects of a decentralised healthcare system, including the user identity, security, compliance. He also explains the tokenisation economy in the field of healthcare and wellness. In an era, increasingly taken over by AI, what are the challenges faced by the healthcare industry? These are the key things Dinis and Pradeep discuss in this episode.
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Pradeep Goel is the CEO of Solve.Care, a global healthcare blockchain company for digital health networks. The platform is involved in care coordination, improved access to care, empowering consumers with information, reduced benefit administration costs, and helping reduce fraud and waste in healthcare around the world.
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Solve.Care is a healthcare relationship management platform using blockchain to define the next generation of care coordination, benefit administration and payments. It helps streamline the way healthcare is managed, accessed, delivered, and paid for in a more secure, efficient, and cost-effective manner using easy, simple, and proven proprietary Web 3.0 technology.
The Solve.Care Platform is the foundation of an entire ecosystem where different interoperable digital healthcare networks are built and operated to serve the many different needs of healthcare, while removing barriers and frictions inherent in the industry. The Care.Labs enables users to create their own digital Care Networks in short time frame and low cost. Care.Labs effectively reduces the risk of your healthcare business' digital transformation.
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Xiaochen Zhang is a prominent figure in the fintech and blockchain space, with over 20 years of experience in leading initiatives that drive innovation and social impact.
Xiaochen is the Founder and CEO of FinTech4Good, a global network that collaborates with startups, industry leaders, nonprofits, and investors to harness blockchain, AI, metaverse, and cloud computing for social good.
Xiaochen serves as the Chief Responsible AI Officer & Executive Director at AI2030, an initiative aimed at harnessing the transformative power of AI to benefit humanity while minimising its potential negative impacts.
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FinTech4Good is a pioneering global network dedicated to leveraging emerging technologies for social impact and sustainable development. Founded in 2017, the organisation collaborates with startups, industry leaders, nonprofit organisations, and investors to create innovative solutions aimed at addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
The core technologies harnessed by FinTech4Good include blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), the metaverse, and cloud computing, which are utilised to build and support startups, offer expert consulting services, and provide professional development programs. The organisation's mission is closely aligned with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and revolutionising the finance industry to be more inclusive and efficient.
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Christy Lee Rogers is a fine art photographer, being an iconic personality for her underwater photography. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Rogers' artistic career has carried her all over the world, with her works of art exhibiting in exhibitions in Shanghai and Paris.
Christy recently collaborated with Disney and director James Cameron on the "Keep Our Oceans Amazing" campaign to support "Avatar: The Way of Water". Stars Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Winslet are captured in pictures. The artworks, released on March 8, 2024, are part of a limited edition series aimed at supporting The Nature Conservancy’s goal to conserve 10% of the world’s oceans by 2030.
Christy was featured in global magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar Art China, Elle Decoration, Global Times, The Independent, Casa Vogue, Photo Technique, Photo Korea and many more.
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In celebration of Avatar: The Way of Water and the global “Keep Our Oceans Amazing” campaign, James Cameron and Disney commissioned renowned underwater photographer Christy Lee Rogers to create a collection of photographs celebrating our oceans. The artworks – featuring the film’s stars Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet – will help protect 10 of our ocean’s amazing animals and their habitats, connected to the beauty of Pandora, as 100% of net proceeds* from the art sales will go to The Nature Conservancy and help protect our oceans.
On her website, Rogers states, “Water is healing—it’s life itself. And as the provider of life—oxygen to all through tiny phytoplankton, our oceans need our care more than ever right now. It is a great honor to be able to help James Cameron, Jon Landau, and the ‘Avatar’ and Disney teams in realizing that dream of clean and protected world oceans—through the release of these images for The Nature Conservancy.”
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Dr. Roger D. Silk is a leading expert in finance, philanthropy, and wealth management with over three decades of experience advising high net worth individuals and families. He is the CEO of Sterling Foundation Management, LLC, one of the first national charitable consulting and management firms in the United States.
Roger is also the President of Lifetime Perspectives, Inc., an organisation that provides innovative solutions in philanthropy and finance. He is a founder and board member of several non-profit organisations and a former bond trader at the World Bank.
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Sterling Foundation Management
Sterling Foundation Management is the oldest national private foundation management firm in the country and is the nation's leading facilitator of sales of income interests in Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRTs). The company works with a broad range of clients and high net worth individuals in developing solutions to help them achieve their philanthropic, family, and financial goals through the effective use of private foundations and other charitable planning vehicles and financial services.
Sterling is a leading provider of charitable planning solutions to financial, legal and tax advisors. The company was created specifically to work with advisors, as it neither manages nor holds assets, nor does it provide tax, legal or investment advice.
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About The Investor's Dilemma Decoded
‘The Investor's Dilemma Decoded: Recognize Misinformation, Filter the Noise, and Reach Your Goals’ by Dr. Roger D. Silk and Katherine A. Silk is a comprehensive guide aimed at helping individuals navigate the often confusing world of personal finance. With their extensive expertise developed over 43 years, the Silks tackle common misconceptions and challenges faced by investors. They offer readers practical tools and knowledge to critically evaluate various investment categories and products, aiming to provide skills that are rarely mastered by the average investor.
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Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, along with philosophy. He is known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test.
Nick is a Professor at Oxford University, where he heads the Future of Humanity Institute as its Founding Director. He is also the author of more than 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (2008), Human Enhancement (2009), Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), which became a New York Times bestseller and sparked a global conversation about the future of AI, and Deep Utopia, Life and Meaning in a Solved World, Ideapress, 2024.
Nick’s work has pioneered some of the ideas that frame current thinking about humanity’s future: the simulation argument, the vulnerable world hypothesis, the unilateralist’s curse, to name a few.
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Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
In his latest book, "Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World," Nick Bostrom shifts the focus from the potential dangers of artificial intelligence explored in his previous work, "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies," to envisioning a future where AI development unfolds positively.
As the conversation around AI continues to evolve, Bostrom probes the profound philosophical and spiritual implications of a world where superintelligence is safely developed, effectively governed, and utilised for the benefit of humanity.
In this hypothetical scenario of a "solved world," where human labour becomes obsolete due to advanced AI systems, Bostrom raises existential questions about the essence of human existence and the pursuit of meaning. With the advent of technologies capable of fulfilling practical needs and desires beyond human capabilities, society would enter a state of "post-instrumentality," where the traditional purposes of human endeavour are rendered obsolete.
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Pradeep Goel is an expert in blockchain, finance, technology, and healthcare, with about 3 decades of experience in blockchain, finance, technology, and healthcare. He has held CEO, COO, CIO and CTO roles at various insurance, technology, and healthcare companies.
Currently, he is the CEO of Solve.Care, a global healthcare blockchain company for digital health networks. Before establishing Solve.Care, Pradeep co-founded four healthcare IT companies, including EngagePoint, and Dakota Imaging (later acquired by WebMD), which ranked amongst the top companies in Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 and INC500/5000 fastest-growing companies lists.
Pradeep was also deeply involved with the healthcare initiatives of the Bush and Obama administrations to design and build several public programme solutions under the Health Savings Act and Affordable Care Act.
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Solve.Care is a healthcare relationship management platform using blockchain to define the next generation of care coordination, benefit administration and payments. It helps streamline the way healthcare is managed, accessed, delivered, and paid for in a more secure, efficient, and cost-effective manner using easy, simple, and proven proprietary Web 3.0 technology.
The Solve.Care Platform is the foundation of an entire ecosystem where different interoperable digital healthcare networks are built and operated to serve the many different needs of healthcare, while removing barriers and frictions inherent in the industry. The Care.Labs enables users to create their own digital Care Networks in a short time frame and low cost. Care.Labs effectively reduces the risk of your healthcare business' digital transformation.
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At IBM TechXchange Summit EMEA 2024, Dawn Herndon discusses the different aspects of IBM’s Partner ecosystem with Dinis Guarda, including the relationships with major brands, AI powered technology solutions like Watsonx, and governance and ethics.
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Dawn Herndon is VP of Build with IBM. She leads IBM’s build mission focused on co-creating, recruiting, and get-to-market with new ISVs and startups; global priority, FS Cloud & strategic build partners including ISV’s, MSP’s, MSSP’s, etc working closely with the Go to Market with IBM organization.
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Dinis Guarda has been listed in global fintech, blockchain, AI, social media industry top influencer in position 1/5/10/20/100 rankings: Top People In Blockchain by cointelegraph 2019, AI Power 100. He is the founder of citiesabc.com businessabc.net intelligenthq.com fashionabc.org ztudium.com, metaverseabc.tech techabc.org idna.technology.
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Cai Felip is an influential figure in the Avatar and Metaverse ecosystems in Spain, being active in the web, crypto and tech scenes.
He is the CEO of Union Avatars, a digital identity platform for creating avatars in different styles, including the hyper-realistic avatars, for social media, virtual reality environments and games. Union Avatars has created this realistic full-body character creator tool to improve user experience within virtual worlds and the metaverse.
Prior to Union Avatars, Cai built the Crucial Agency to manage US artists worldwide. Cai also served as the CTO of WalkABit in 2018, a cashback app.
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Union Avatars is a digital identity platform for creating avatars in different styles, including the hyper-realistic avatars, for social media, virtual reality environments and games. Union Avatars has created this realistic full-body character creator tool to improve user experience within virtual worlds and the metaverse.
The Avatar Lab offers customisation, offering over 170 different outfits, backgrounds, profile picture options, poses, hairstyles, and other features for developers and digital fashion designers.
Backed by 150 companies, including Telefonica, Accenture, and Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Union Avatars has built strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Outlier Ventures, Barcelona Activa, NVIDIA Inception Program, Metaverse Standards Forum, AWS Activate, Polkadot, and Mango Startup Studio.
Through its UnionID, users can consolidate their digital identities and assets in a nested NFT, ensuring easy interoperability and portability across virtual worlds and platforms.
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Shachar Daniel is an experienced executive with over 14 years of experience in leadership and business management roles. He is the CEO and co-founder of Alarum Technologies Ltd., a global provider of enterprise internet access and web data collection solutions.
Prior to founding Alarum, Shachar was the program manager at Prime-sense (which was later acquired by Apple), head of operations for project managers at Logic and project manager at Elbit Systems.
His educational background includes an Executive MBA from The Hebrew University, an MBA from The College of Management Academic Studies in Israel, a Program in Negotiation from Harvard University, and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from The Holon Institute Technology.
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Alarum Technologies Ltd. is a publicly traded company, dual listed on Nasdaq and TASE. It is a global provider of internet access and web data collection solutions. Its enterprise internet access arm, NetNut, offers solutions that are based on the world’s fastest and most advanced and secured hybrid proxy network. NetNut enables customers to collect data anonymously at any scale from any public sources over the web.
Alarum’s network offers enterprises with advanced tools to gather, analyse, and extract data from the web anonymously without getting misled, manipulated, or blocked. The infrastructure is optimally designed to guarantee privacy, quality, stability, and speed of the service.
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Cevat Yerli, a visionary video game developer who began crafting computer games at the age of 12. When Cevat was 19, he established Crytek, one of the largest video game developers in Germany. He has introduced acclaimed IPs like Far Cry and Crysis, and the innovative CryEngine 3D Platform, collaborating with industry giants such as Microsoft, Tencent, Sony, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
He had also launched GFACE, a social gaming network that hosted free-to-play titles streamed over the internet, in 2012. In 2017 Cevat Yerli launched The TMRW Foundation, a new for-profit deep tech organization. One of the foundation’s initial projects involved being contracted by the UAE Ministry of Health in the creation of a metaverse service center. In 2022, Cevat and The TMRW Foundation premiered ROOM 3D at the GITEX Technology Fair in Dubai.
TMRW Foundation
The TMRW Foundation is a hybrid tech company founded with the mission of building the third generation of the internet, known as The Internet Of Life™. This vision seeks to transition from the information and connection-focused internet of the past to an immersive, 3D internet where real-life relationships are fostered through natural, sustainable, and real-time interactions. The foundation focuses on developing technologies, products, and services that combine communication, gamification, digitalisation, and urbanisation to enable meaningful engagement across various aspects of life, including business, education, politics, sports, and entertainment.
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Arminder is an entrepreneur, mentor, and advisor with over 20 years of business experience. Graduate from The University of Huddersfield, currently, as the Membership Advisor of Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), he is helping the self-employed and small businesses access legal support, HR, tax investigation, health and safety, and much more.
Arminder is also the Estate Planning Consultant at Honey Legal, a firm that offers a full suite of estate planning services, including Wills, Trusts, Lasting Powers of Attorney and probate. The firm has over £21bn of assets protected to date. Arminder was also a Business Mentor at The West Yorkshire Enterprise Agency Limited, an initiative by the Chamber of Commerce that supported unemployed people, and the Can Research Ambassador with Cancer Research UK (CRUK).
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John Crain is a creative technologist and entrepreneur. He co-founded SuperRare Labs and as the CEO of the creator platform, John is building the Web3 art market. Prior to SuperRare, John led products for the ConsenSys spoke BlockApps, working with Fortune 500 companies exploring use cases for smart contracts and leveraging open data. He was also the Creative Technologist at MRY where he was involved in design & engineering of MRY Coffee App. John is also a mentor at Tachyon Accelerator that supports early-stage startups utilising blockchain and Web 3.0 technologies.
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Jonathan Perkins is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded SuperRare Labswith John. He is the CPO of the creator platform. With about two decades of experience in technology and founding start-ups, Jonathan has focussed on holistic product design from concept to market for clients including HBO and Viacom. He also co-founded Kickback Tickets, and CrewSpark, an NYC-based data science startup, where he was involved in product strategy, development, and front-end engineering.
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SuperRare Labs is a creator platform with a mission to revolutionise the art market through blockchain and NFTs. The platform envisions creation on Web3 art market. The SuperRare DAO is a multisig smart contract deployed on Ethereum. $RARE token holders collectively govern the SuperRare DAO, transparent self-governance arrangement. SuperRare Labs has helped artists and collectors around the world sell more than $280M USD worth of single edition NFT art so far.
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Alex is the CEO and Co-Founder of Intrinsic Medicine, Inc. (formerly Lupa Bio), a Seattle-based biotech company that has preclinical programs developing the oligosaccharides for conditions including atopic dermatitis, autism spectrum disorder, and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Alexandre De Rosa is a global award-winning executive, entrepreneur and researcher with over 30 years of experience in data centers, sustainability, clean and renewable energy, sustainable forest management, biotechnology, food and water security, and carbon offsets.
As the Founder of WMF Energy, an environmental remediation company that manages, develops, implements projects for forest conservation with social impact, he has an extensive experience in leading large-scale sustainable projects focusing on clean energy, waste management, GHG reduction and smart cities.
Alexandre is also an active UNFCCC member for sustainable projects and speaker on technology consolidation for sustainable living, water security, social risk, Amazon rainforest and biomass.
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Deniz Ozgur is an Istanbul-based entrepreneur, growth hacker, and a specialist in digital marketing technologies. As the co-founder of Space Runners, Deniz Ozgur has played a pivotal role in providing AI and Web3 tools to some of the world's leading fashion brands.
As a Partner at Evercopy, Deniz simplifies advertising processes through the amalgamation of deep marketing expertise and cutting-edge Generative AI on Microsoft Azure.
Deniz plays the role of a Mentor at an assembly accelerator, Farfetch With a focus on personalization, digital experiences, and the transformative potential of NFTs.
With a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University and a keen interest in technology and innovation, she is one of the 15% of female founders within the tech sector. She was also named in Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2023.
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Joachim Gossow is an experienced administrator from Germany. His journey in sports administration began over two decades earlier, with a background as both a professional handball player and coach. Gossow played a pivotal role in the success of The World Games 2005 in Duisburg, serving as the Sport Director for the Organising Committee, showcasing his organisational skills and dedication to sports excellence.
Since 2010, he has led the International World Games Association (IWGA) as the CEO, playing key roles in organising international events, including The World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung and The World Games 2013 in Cali, Colombia. His strategic approach aimed to address new challenges and opportunities, presenting the IWGA as an association aware of its growing importance in the global sports landscape.
Joachim Gossow's extensive background in handball, combined with over two decades of experience in sports administration.
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Ursula Romero - CEO of ISB International Sports Broadcasting & Film Director/Producer
Ursula Romero is a recognised international sport broadcaster, film producer and director. With an extensive career in international sports broadcasting, Ursula has worked for all Olympic and Paralympic Games since 1996 in a variety of production roles as well as two FIFA World Cups, while also hosting various World Championship events.
The daughter of legendary sports broadcaster, Manolo Romero, Ursula currently serves as the CEO of International Sports Broadcasting Company (ISB). An avid film-maker, Ursula is currently in post-production for her second feature film, Winter of the Crow, as a producer. She is also on the TV Commission of the UIPM Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (English: International Modern Pentathlon Union)
Ursula is a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Utah in Film Arts and Video Studies. She is also a graduate of the London Film Academy, holding a Master's degree in Cinematography and Film/Video Production.
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Jay Steinback has over 25 years of background in corporate ecosystems through technology, collaboration, and team structures.
He is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of yWhales, a platform focused on developing solutions in the enterprise blockchain space as well as creating B2B/B2E metaverse operating systems through yWhales Labs.
Jay also serves as the Co-Managing Director of FinRamp, a platform that aims to revolutionize the carbon credit issuance process by providing a regulatory compliant, secure, and transparent “Carbon Credit as a Digital Security” solution.
Jay Steinback has over 25 years of background in corporate ecosystems through technology, collaboration, and team structures.
He is the Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of yWhales, a platform focused on developing solutions in the enterprise blockchain space as well as creating B2B/B2E metaverse operating systems through yWhales Labs.
Jay also serves as the Co-Managing Director of FinRamp, a platform that aims to revolutionize the carbon credit issuance process by providing a regulatory compliant, secure, and transparent “Carbon Credit as a Digital Security” solution.
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Sharon Constançon is the chairman of the SA Chamber and the CEO of Genius Methods. Her leadership at the SA Chamber is marked by a strategic focus on promoting bilateral trade between South Africa and the UK, fostering growth in membership. Sharon, a Chartered Director and Chartered Secretary with an MBA, is also actively involved in various roles, including being the Non-Executive Director for Transact SA, and an International Committee member for CISI. She is also the CEO of Valufin, a forex advisory firm.
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Sharon completed her MBA in Business Management at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1988. During her studies, she was recognized as “Entrepreneur of the Year”. She, then, served at the University as a part-time lecturer for many years. Her focus was on teaching Service Industry Management and Small Business Management to MBA students, sharing her knowledge and expertise with the next generation of business leaders.
In 2006, she pursued further academic accomplishments by earning the Chartered Director qualification from the Institute of Directors. Sharon actively participated in various governance-related activities, including serving on committees and interview panels for Chartered Directors.
A South African born of English parents, Sharon has business interests in South Africa and the UK and is fully aligned to a key strategic goal of developing bilateral trade between the countries. Sharon is on the Court and is Chairman of the Membership Committee of the Worshipful Company of Company Secretaries, is a member of the International Committee of CISI, a contributor to the Risk Coalition and lecturer for the Qualifying Level Boardroom Dynamics course for the Chartered Governance Institute final examination program, and course leader for programs and seminars run by the Corporate Governance Institute (Ireland).
Sharon’s business interests are governance, risk management, business strategy, financial integration and reporting alignment, the customer and international trade.
Sharon’s deep understanding of Board behaviours, leadership and regulated industries brings additional value to Board Evaluations or Effectiveness Reviews. Her keen understanding of people, high level of personal EQ and competent communication skills support her achieving an insight to behaviours seldom recognised or addressed before. Sharon has been a Board Evaluator for more than 10 years and carries out many a year to a wide variety of industries, size of companies and governance structures.
Sharon is a NED for Transact SA and the Chairman of the South African Chamber of Commerce (UK) Limited and Trustee of North Dean Memorial Hall Charity. Thereby keeping in touch with the challenges facing all roles she evaluates.
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Anton Jefcoate is a software engineer and leader with over 15 years of experience in building software solutions. He is the Chief Technology Officer at Lyst, a global fashion shopping app, one of the most-downloaded premium fashion shopping apps on iOS globally. A Software Engineer from Canterbury Christ Church University, Anton's previous experience includes Senior Director at Just Eat Takeaway.com, where he oversaw order processing systems. An expert in the areas of technical vision & strategy and leadership, Anton was also Software Development Team Leader at IPT, where he managed an MVC Quiz website / app. In addition, he served as Development Team Leader at Interactive Prospect Targeting (plc), responsible for mentoring direct reports, overseeing architecture, and maintaining platform stability.
Anton started his career as a Software Engineer at Capricorn Productions, where he built personalised software applications.
Anton Jefcoate Biography
Anton Jefcoate serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Lyst, a prominent global fashion shopping app. With over fifteen years of extensive experience in software engineering and team leadership, Jefcoate has played a crucial role in shaping the technological landscape of the companies he has been associated with.
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Anton also served as a Software Development Team Leader at IPT, managing an MVC Quiz website/app. After that, he held the position of Senior Director at Just Eat Takeaway.com, where he demonstrated his expertise in overseeing order processing systems, .Net development, C# programming, and API development.
In his current role as CTO at Lyst, Anton Jefcoate reports directly to the CEO, Emma McFerran. He collaborates with key executives within the organization, including Sarah Karamian (VP, Monetization), Frances Dyson (SVP, People), and Jenny Cossons (Chief Partnerships Officer).
Lyst, the global fashion shopping app with a 1700% growth in new users on the Lyst app in FY21. The company reports over 160 million shoppers using the app and website to access a vast assortment of over 8 million products from 17,000 of the world’s leading brands and retailers. The Lyst app is also the most-downloaded premium fashion shopping app on iOS globally.
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Sir John Tusa is a British arts administrator, author, journalist and former presenter of BBC's Newsnight. He is the co-chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra and was formerly the managing director of the BBC World Service and the Barbican Arts Centre. Since 2014, he has been co-chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra. Tusa received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1993, and was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honours list in June 2003.
Sir John Tusa biography
John Tusa was born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, in March 1936. In 1939, when he was just a child, he relocated to England with his family. His father, John Tusa Sr., also known as Jan Tůša, held the position of managing director at British Bata Shoes. This company was an extension of the Czechoslovak shoe company, known for its innovative approach, which included the establishment of a pioneering work-living community around its factory located in East Tilbury, Essex.
John received his early education at Gresham's School in Norfolk before furthering his studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he pursued a degree in history.
Tusa commenced his career in broadcasting in 1960 when he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a trainee.
Most notably, John hosted "24 Hours," a current affairs television program that provided in-depth analysis and commentary on key events. Tusa's influential presence in media expanded even further when he became the inaugural presenter of "Newsnight" in 1979, a flagship BBC current affairs television program.
John was also the newsreader on BBC's "One O'Clock News" for two years in the mid-1990s. His responsibilities as a newsreader reinforced his position as a trusted source of information for the public. His notable anchoring of the BBC's coverage of the D-Day 50th anniversary celebrations in June 1995 and the momentous Hong Kong handover on June 30, 1997, further underscored his role as a respected news presenter.
Beyond his broadcast career, John ventured into arts and culture administration, further establishing his mark on the British cultural landscape. From 1995 to 2007, he served as the managing director of the Barbican Arts Centre in the City of London.
John also served as the chair of the Clore Leadership Programme from January 2009 to 2014. This program played a pivotal role in nurturing future leaders in the arts and culture sector, providing training and support to individuals with the potential to shape the future of the industry.
In February 2010, he took on the role of honorary chairman of theartsdesk.com, an influential online platform dedicated to arts and cultural criticism and analysis. In this capacity, Tusa continued to support and promote the arts in a digital landscape.
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Fayez Barakat is a fifth-generation ancient art dealer and the owner of Barakat Gallery. Once a friend to prominent 20th century artists, like Dali, Picasso and Warhol, Fayez Barakat is one of the world’s most prominent art collectors. Parallel to his success in the antiquities business, Barakat pursued a passion for painting, initially inspired by Pablo Picasso. Though he ceased painting for years, in 2010, he publicly exhibited his works, revealing a diverse range of styles and techniques. His paintings, categorized as abstracts yet defined by him as a form of realism, defy conventional abstract art concepts, representing his thoughts, feelings, and soul.
Fayez Barakat Biography
Barakat is a fifth-generation family-owned and operated enterprise, Barakat Gallery, founded over 125 years ago.
Fayez Barakat, born in 1949 in Hebron to Sadi Barakat, hails from the fourth generation of the Barakat family. The family initiated the Barakat Collection in the late 19th century, dedicated to amassing exceptional ancient art pieces from global origins. Barakat's journey into the world of antiquities began during his boyhood, working alongside renowned British archaeologist Dame Prof. Kathleen Kenyon in sorting and identifying shards from her excavations in the 'City of David' in Jerusalem between 1952 and 1958. His collaboration with Dr. Kenyon cultivated his expertise in pottery classifications and field archaeology principles.
Despite being offered a Fulbright Scholarship for medical studies in the United States at the age of 14, Barakat pursued courses in biblical and Middle Eastern archaeology at the Hebrew Union College, delving into the realms of archaeology, art history, and ancient coinage. Immersed in the family business, he became a self-made millionaire by 18, amassing a significant personal collection. In 1967, he opened his first major gallery in Jerusalem's Old City, becoming the first private antiquities collection acknowledged by the Israeli ministry. Over the years, he expanded globally, with galleries in Los Angeles, London, Abu Dhabi, Seoul, and Hong Kong.
Parallel to his success in the antiquities business, Barakat pursued a passion for painting, initially inspired by Pablo Picasso. Though he ceased painting for years, in 2010, he publicly exhibited his works, revealing a diverse range of styles and techniques. His paintings, categorized as abstracts yet defined by him as a form of realism, defy conventional abstract art concepts, representing his thoughts, feelings, and soul. Barakat's artistic style, characterized by vibrant chromaticism and influenced by Marc Chagall, showcases his mastery of over a dozen recognizable styles. Painting, for Barakat, serves as a form of meditation, enabling him to engage with profound themes and ideals, with his works encompassing subjects like fantasy, meditation, ecstasy, and nirvana.
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Matt Diamante is a seasoned Digital Marketer who currently serves as the Digital Strategist at heyTony, a digital marketing agency specialising in a range of online strategies. These strategies encompass web design, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), social media advertising, email marketing, and various other digital tactics aimed at helping businesses achieve growth.
heyTony's portfolio includes successful collaborations with renowned brands such as Labatt and Anheuser Busch in the brewing industry, Nivea in the personal care sector, and one of the most well-known sun care brands Coppertone, among others.
Matt Diamante Biography
In the early stages of his career, Matt Diamante earned a degree in Advertising & Marketing Communications Management from St. Clair College. Equipped with this educational foundation, he began his journey as a Digital Marketer.
Subsequently, Matt assumed the role of Head of Digital Operations at The Plaid Zebra, an online lifestyle magazine that experienced significant success, attracting an impressive 4 million page views during his tenure.
Building on his experience, he now serves as the Digital Strategist at heyTony, a digital marketing agency. This agency specialises in a wide array of online strategies, including web design, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), social media advertising, email marketing, and various other digital tactics, all aimed at facilitating business growth.
heyTony has established a distinguished portfolio, marked by successful collaborations with well-known brands. These include Labatt and Anheuser Busch in the brewing industry, Nivea in personal care, and the widely recognized sun care brand Coppertone, among others. The agency's services extend to improving customer acquisition through SEO/SEM (Search Engine Marketing), advanced analytics, and strategic media buying. They excel in managing projects of diverse sizes, from foundational websites to intricate online marketplaces.
Matt's skill set encompasses a range of expertise, spanning Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Advertising, Integrated Marketing, WordPress, and Web Design. His proficiency in these domains positions him as a valuable asset in the continually evolving landscape of digital marketing.
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Nick Otto is the Head of Global Strategic Partnerships for IBM. In this role, he is responsible for leading the largest and most strategic relationships in the IBM Ecosystem. This responsibility spans all ecosystem motions including Sell, Build and Service in IBM's $1B+ partners. His experience with IBM Consulting as well as internal IBM Corporate Strategy spans multiple functional areas including product, ecosystem, finance, sales, talent, and operations.
Nick Otto Interview Questions
00:00 - 05:00 Introduction
05:01 - 05:56 Nick's background
05:57 - 08:30 The evolution of strategy, innovation, and ecosystem at IBM
08:31 - 10:14 Partner Plus by IBM
10:15 - 13:06 Innovating with Watsonx through decades
13:07 - 17:14 How does IBM provide solutions to small businesses and enterprises?
17:15 - 18:38 IBM's focus on skills and education
18:39 - 20:41 Some real life solutions created by IBM
20:42 - 24:16 About Watsonx.governance
24:17 - 28:26 The vision of IBM's partner ecosystem
28:27 - 31:05 Enabling partner ecosystem with governance and compliance
31:06 - 33:54 Building an IBM IP in generative AI space with Watsonx
33:55 - 37:13 IBM's AI enabled model to empower humanity
37:14 - 40:06 Building a sustainable business model from existing ones
40:07 - 43:43 Risk model frameworks by IBM
43:44 - 46:18 The future trajectory of IBM's Partner Program
46:19 - 48:10 How can businesses find value in disruptive environments?
48:11 - 48:53 Closure
Nick Otto Biography
Nick got his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA in General Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
Nick's professional journey began as an Electrical Engineer at Polytron, where he honed his skills in designing distribution, manufacturing, and process systems for major electronics, aerospace, and consumer goods companies. Over three years, he demonstrated expertise in optimizing manufacturing systems, managing projects, developing PLC and HMI applications, and overseeing budgets.
With a transition to IBM in 2006, Nick's career trajectory soared. He spent 17 years at IBM, holding various key positions, including Executive Program Manager in the Corporate Strategy - Chief Analytics Office. During his tenure, he emerged as a global leader in AI and the Advanced Analytics Center of Competency.
Nick showcased his strategic prowess as Vice President for Strategic Partnerships, General Manager, and Director of IBM Partnerships & Alliances, contributing significantly to IBM's growth.
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Tatsuro Shirakawa is a specialist in law and public policy, with extensive experience in global economic collaborations and inventive strategies. Having worked previously with Accenture and now with EY Strategy and Consulting as Director, Tatsuro is focussed on areas like IT strategy, innovation, and international business, making him a sought-after expert in corporate circles.
Tatsuro Shirakawa Interview Questions
00:00 - 03:54 Introduction
03:55 - 08:20 Tatsuro's career and educational background
08:21 - 10:19 The Japanese culture of business
10:20 - 12:44 EY Japan's role in promoting Japanese markets worldwide
12:45 - 16:30 How can a technology business venture into Japanese markets
16:31 - 21:42 Initiatives by Japanese govt to foster foreign investments
21:43 - 27:38 Innovation hubs in Japan, and the importance of relationships
27:39 - 29:34 Startup active programs
29:25 - 33:06 Relationship between EY Japan and Japanese govt
33:07 - 40:14 Principles of Society 5.0 and how Japan can inspire the world
40:15 - 47:43 The Innovation ecosystem in Japan
47:44 - 54:07 Japanese influencers and leaders in technology and innovation
54:08 - 01:01:20 5 steps to do business in Japan
01:01:21 - 01:03:14 EY Japan is an important touchpoint to reach out in Japanese Markets
01:03:15 - 01:04:10 Closure
Tatsuro Shirakawa Biography
Tatsuro Shirakawa, born in Tokyo in 1988, is a Director at EY Strategy and Consulting known for his expertise in international economic collaborations and innovative strategies. His journey from Tokyo to the UK and back has shaped his global perspective, which he applies to create transformative strategies for the public sector.
Tatsuro spent over three years in the UK between 1996 and 1999, laying the foundation for his international outlook. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor's degree in Law and a Master's degree in Public Policy. He briefly studied at the University of Cambridge in 2010.
With over six years at Accenture, Tatsuro specialised in strategy and management consulting for the public sector. He crafted strategies that attracted foreign investment, fueled innovation, and facilitated Japanese companies' global expansion.
As a Director at EY Strategy and Consulting, Tatsuro's fluent business-level English and strategic insights aid foreign companies entering Japan. He played a role in enhancing Tokyo's reputation as a global financial hub by supporting the emerging technologies such as AI, Fintech, Robot, Gaming, IoT, companies' establishment.
Tatsuro's research focuses on economic and industrial policies, including innovation, startup support, and the impact of financial industries on the broader economy. His involvement in constructing investment chains underscores his role as a forward thinker.
Tatsuro Shirakawa, as a Director at EY Strategy and Consulting, continues to drive economic growth in Japan through cross-border collaborations and strategic insights, reflecting his multicultural experiences, academic achievements, and professional journey.
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Simon Schnieders is an entrepreneur, SEO expert, investor, advisor, and mentor for businesses across various verticals. He is the Founder and CEO of Blue Array, UK's most popular & largest specialist SEO agency, a B Corp offering a unique approach 'consulgency®' services (a hybrid of consultancy & agency). Clients include startups, scale-ups and incumbents such as Simply Business, RAC, Funding Circle, Floom & many more.
Simon Schneiders Interview Questions
00:00 - 04:00 Introduction
04:01 - 07:14 Simon's background
07:15 - 11:09 Dealing with personal challenges
11:10 - 17:35 Simon's journey into the world of SEO
17:36 - 20:08 Working with big brands establishing Blue Array
20:09 - 27:11 What is Blue Array's vision for the SEO industry?
27:12 - 36:43 The SEO industry in the current age of AI
36:44 - 42:20 Work done by Blue Array in the field of SEO education
42:21 - 46:33 The concept of consulgency
46:34 - 55:18 How Blue Array leverages AI
55:19 - 59:22 Simon as an angel investor and mentor
59:23 - 01:01:20 Closure
Simon Schneiders Biography
Simon Schnieders is an entrepreneur, SEO expert, investor, advisor, and mentor for businesses across various verticals. He is the Founder and CEO of Blue Array, UK's most popular & largest specialist SEO agency, a B Corp offering a unique approach 'consulgency®' services (a hybrid of consultancy & agency). Clients include startups, scale-ups and incumbents such as Simply Business, RAC, Funding Circle, Floom & many more.
Blue Array also published the Amazon best selling Mastering In-House SEO series, compiling contributions from 26 leading in-house SEO experts on topics ranging from successful case studies, getting tactics and strategy implemented, community building, and much more. Some of the events organised by Blue Array include ReadingSEO & LondonSEOMeetup, the capital's largest monthly SEO meetup. The agency also provides e-learning via the Blue Array Academy, an SEO training course with certification.
As an SEO expert, Simon has led in-house SEO teams at major companies like Zoopla, Mail Online, European Directories, and Yell.com.
Simon is also an angel investor and advisor to companies like ClickMechanic.com, Baked In, SonicJobs, and SafeBuy. He mentors at startup accelerators, including 500 Startups, MassChallenge UK, Wayra, Techhub, and Mayor’s International Business Programme, which is designed to fit very specific international growth ambitions to fast-growing, post-revenue companies in London.
Simon is a BSc in Business and Computing from University of Surrey. Outside of work, he serves as the Trustee of the homeless charity "New Beginnings" in Reading, UK. The organisation is dedicated to the prevention and relief of poverty and financial hardship.
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Anastasia Bondar is the Deputy Minister for Digital Development at the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine. Anastasia became the Deputy Minister in 2021, and at her current role, she is responsible for shaping and implementing state policies of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy in the areas of digitalization, digital development, digital innovations and informatization in the fields of culture, state language policy, information sovereignty and information security.
Anastasia Bondar Interview Questions
00:00 – 03:46 Introduction
03:43 – 08:30 Professional background
08:31 – 17:21 Anastasia’s shift to government roles
17:22 – 20:05 The unique cultural DNA of Ukraine
20:06 – 28:32 Ukraine bridges the cultural legacy and digital transformation across sectors
28:33 – 31:57 The Ukrainian vision for 2024
31:58 – 41:09 Digitalisation of culture for an integrative and collaborative society
41:10 – 45:20 Cultural projects and initiatives in Ukraine
45:21 – 49:14 Tech initiatives in Ukraine to foster international relationships
49:15 – 51:13 Closure
Anastasia Bondar Biography
Anastasia Bondar, born on May 16, 1981, in Kyiv, is a seasoned professional in the field of digital development, digital transformations, and digitalization. She holds a master's degree in international relations from the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, obtained in 2003.
Anastasia has over 15 years of extensive experience working for both Ukrainian and foreign telecom corporations and investment companies. Throughout her career, she has been actively involved in foreign economic activities, business development support, marketing, and operational management.
From 2019 to 2021, she served as the deputy head of the Odesa Regional State Administration for Digital Development. Following this, she assumed the role of Deputy Minister for Digital Development, Digital Transformations, and Digitalization at the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine starting from August 26, 2021.
As part of her activities, she coordinates the efforts of the Ministry of Culture, responsible for shaping and implementing state policies in the fields of culture, state language policy, promoting Ukraine worldwide, state foreign-language broadcasting, information sovereignty of Ukraine (in terms of managing the integral property complex of the Ukrainian National Information Agency “Ukrinform”), information security, among others.
Anastasia Bondar's educational background includes a master's degree in International Relations from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, obtained between 1998 and 2003.
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Chris J. Davis is a technologist and entrepreneur, YouTuber, Designer, Technologist, Writer, Producer & Musician. Chris is the CTO and Co-Founder of Film.io, a decentralised entertainment ecosystem that is democratising the filmmaking and TV industries using DeFi and other blockchain technology. Film.io empowers fans with more influence in the creative process, creators with key access to resources, and investors with more meaningful data. He is also Co-Founder and CTO at Ingredient X, inc.
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00:00 – 04:02 Introduction
04:03 – 09:12 Chris’s Background, inspirations and motivations
09:13 – 17:39 Working at the intersection of technology and art
17:40 – 25:30 Managing between the creative, software development, and business roles
25:31 – 37:59 Managing IP and digitalising film making
38:00 – 50:48 A user’s journey through Film.io
50:49 – 01:05:13 How does Film.io build a sustainable community
01:05:14 – 01:08:04 Closure
Chris J. Davis Biography
Chris J. Davis is a technologist and entrepreneur, YouTuber, Designer, Technologist, Writer, Producer & Musician. Chris is the CTO and Co-Founder of Film.io, a decentralised entertainment ecosystem that is democratising the filmmaking and TV industries using DeFi and other blockchain technology. Film.io empowers fans with more influence in the creative process, creators with key access to resources, and investors with more meaningful data. He is also Co-Founder and CTO at Ingredient X, inc.
The platform transforms today’s “Hollywood system” onto the blockchain, where fans, by participating before movies are made, have a voice in rating, reviewing and green-lighting the future of entertainment, developing an innovative metric that pre-validates the potential for a project’s success for creators, studios, networks and investors with transparency and fairness.
Chris is a versatile professional with over two decades of experience in design and engineering. Starting his academic journey in Art, Media Communications, and English at Asbury University, he later explored Music at the University of Louisville.
A pioneer in the early days of WordPress, Chris made significant contributions to its development, creating the first admin dashboard and theme system. His innovations extended beyond WordPress, making him an active member of the Infrastructure team for the Apache Software Foundation.
Chris has also played a vital role in various startups, collaborating with tech giants like Janus Friis. Currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer of Ingredient X, he focuses on cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain, decentralised finance, and non-fungible tokens.
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Daryn Smith is the CEO of Huble, a CRM and creative marketing consultancy that supports large and mid-market enterprises with the expertise to implement and augment HubSpot, as well as develop and execute creative marketing, sales strategy and websites.
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00:00 – 03:13 Intro
03:14 – 08:03 Daryn’s background: Motivations and inspirations
08:04 – 13:13 From software development to entrepreneurial trajectory
13:14 – 18:38 How do we empower businesses with technology?
18:39 – 23:33 Facilitating digital transformation of businesses
23:34 – 28:17 Huble: Working and case studies
28:18 – 33:39 Working in the age of AI and digital tools
33:40 – 35:49 The use of AI: FOMO from business leaders
35:50 – 39:38 Creating a culture of innovation at Huble
39:39 – 43:08 Having and working with a global team at Huble
43:09 47:09 HubSpot CRM: Working, ecosystem, and trajectory
47:10 – 49:36 Some important lessons for digital transformation of businesses
49:37 – 50:49 Closure
Daryn Smith Biography
Daryn Smith has over 25 years of experience in the fields of computer science and marketing, having held key roles in multinationals like InMobi and Verizon Business.
He is currently the CEO of Creative Marketing Consultancy Huble. The story of Huble starts when Daryn co-founded MPULL in 2012, later merging it with B2B Marketing Lab to create Huble in 2020. Currently, as the Group Chief Executive at Huble Digital, Daryn oversees a team of 170+ professionals.
As an entrepreneur, he has founded other companies, like ‘On The Bench’ (2018), a multi-side platform for getting and providing support in real time within marketing platforms; and loadtheshow.com (Afro Canvas Media) (2006), the first ad funded music download website launched Worldwide.
Daryn holds a diploma in Brand Management from AAA School of Advertising, and in Web Development from Blue Chip Institute.
Beyond executive duties, Daryn shares insights through the Digital Surfing podcast, emphasising digital transformation and growth.
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Dr. Sobhi Tawil is the Director of the Future of Learning and Innovation team at UNESCO where he currently leads the Futures of Education initiative, a project that, looking towards 2050, envisions possible futures in which education shapes a better world. A prominent figure within Unesco, he has taken different roles within the organisation since 2002, always in the field of education.
A PhD in Education and Development from Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, Dr. Tawil brings about 30 years of experience in teaching, education policy analysis, research and program management.
Dr. Sobhi Tawil Biography
Dr. Sobhi Tawil is a renowned education professional with a distinguished career. A PhD in Education and Development from Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, Dr. Tawil brings about 30 years of experience in teaching, education policy analysis, research and program management.
Currently, he is the Director of the Future of Learning and Innovation team at UNESCO where he currently leads the Futures of Education initiative, a project that, looking towards 2050, envisions possible futures in which education shapes a better world. A prominent figure within Unesco, he has taken different roles within the organisation since 2002, always in the field of education.
He has worked with several institutions and organisations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (Geneva), as well as the Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training (NORRAG).
As a renowned academic, he is a widely published researcher on issues of education policy in relation to identity-based conflict, social cohesion, and citizenship. He is, for example, the author of books like ‘Education, Conflict and Social Cohesion’ (2004); ‘Education au Maroc: analyse du secteur’ (2010) and the technical report ‘Educational Destruction and Reconstruction in Disrupted Societies: Final report and case studies’ (1997), among others.
His latest work is a paper in the field of large-scale learning assessments. His publication, 'The Promise of Large-Scale Learning Assessments: Acknowledging Limits to Unlock Opportunities,' addresses the more contentious aspects of these standardised assessments.
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Brandon Donnelly is an innovator in technologies like AI, ML, AR, VR, and digital transformation. Brandon holds 11 patents, 4 trademarks, and over 40 transformative projects. He has been recognized as a Global Talent by two governments. Currently, Brandon Donnelly is the founder of Intellect Horizon, a free digital conference with top minds and institutions focused on the transformative capabilities of AI, XR, and Web3. Their upcoming event, Starshot Startups, is an opportunity for early stage entrepreneurs and investors alike.
Brandon Donnelly Interview Questions
00:00 – 03:49 Introduction
03:50 – 06:11 Brandon’s background
06:12 – 08:48 Brandon’s academic focus
08:49 – 13:00 Career Highlights
13:01 – 19:08 What is Intellect Horizon?
19:09 – 26:10 Major panels at the Intellect Horizon
26:11 – 32:56 The relationship between AI and academia
32:57 – 39:31 The philosophy and ethics in AI
39:32 - 42:13 How to engage and participate in Intellect Horizon
42:14 – 43:03 Closure
Brandon Donnelly Biography
Brandon Donnelly is the founder of Intellect Horizon, a forward-thinking company at the forefront of technological innovation. With a career spanning several years, Brandon has demonstrated his expertise in various aspects of the tech industry. He currently leads Intellect Horizon, where he has been driving innovation in AI, ML, AR, VR, and digital transformation since August 2023.
In addition to his role at Intellect Horizon, Brandon also contributes his insights and expertise as an Advisor at MyTechDev, a position he has held full-time since January 2023, accumulating 9 months of service.
Brandon's passion for creating scalable businesses and pioneering groundbreaking advancements is underscored by his impressive track record. He holds 11 patents and has secured 4 trademarks, all emblematic of his commitment to pushing the boundaries of technology. Throughout his career, Brandon has successfully completed over 40 transformative projects, solidifying his reputation as a driving force in the industry.
Brandon's global perspective is evident through his extensive involvement in multinational tech partnerships, showcasing his ability to navigate complex international collaborations. His contributions to the tech field have earned him recognition as a Global Talent by two different governments, a testament to his exceptional skills and impact.
With a background that includes a postgraduate diploma in Strategy and Innovation from the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Strategic Communication from Regent University, Brandon possesses a strong academic foundation to complement his practical experience.
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Paul V. McEnroe is an award-winning engineer who achieved remarkable feats during his 23-year tenure at IBM. He spearheaded the pioneering development of the Universal Product Code (UPC), also known as the barcode, marking a groundbreaking commercial application of laser technology, barcode scanning, and magnetic Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) coding.
He chronicled his contributions to this transformative technology in his book, "THE BARCODE: How a Team Created One of the World's Most Ubiquitous Technologies," published by Silicon Valley Press in Fall 2023.
Paul McEnroe Biography
Paul V. McEnroe is an award-winning engineer who achieved remarkable feats during his 23-year tenure at IBM. He spearheaded the pioneering development of the Universal Product Code (UPC), also known as the barcode, marking a groundbreaking commercial application of laser technology, barcode scanning, and magnetic Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) coding. He chronicled his contributions to this transformative technology in his book, "THE BARCODE: How a Team Created One of the World's Most Ubiquitous Technologies," published by Silicon Valley Press in Fall 2023.
During his role as a group director at IBM, Paul further refined supermarket connectivity technology, evolving it into the Token Ring Local Area Network IEEE 805.2, connecting numerous computer systems worldwide. As Director of IBM's Raleigh Laboratory, he efficiently managed a vast team of engineers dedicated to the development of communication hardware and software.
Paul also made significant strides at Trilogy Systems Corporation, where he pioneered multi-chip module technology and successfully led the company through a merger with Digital Equipment Corporation.
Paul earned advanced engineering degrees from Purdue University and Stanford University, along with the honorary title of Doctor of Science, awarded by the Board of Trustees of the California State University and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, recognizing his technological achievements and community contributions.
Paul was named the University of Dayton's Most Distinguished Alumnus in 1999 and received prestigious awards from Purdue University. Paul also received the IBM President's Award for the Development of the Supermarket System.
Today, more than three decades into his retirement, Paul dedicates his time to ranching in the Santa Ynez Valley while actively supporting the Central Coast community as an advisor. His commitment extends to various non-profit organisations, including the Santa Barbara County Cattlemen's Association, the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, the Western Commercial Space Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the Cal Poly President's Council of Advisors.
In 2011, Paul and his wife founded The McEnroe Reading & Language Arts Clinic at the University of California Santa Barbara, further solidifying their dedication to educational advancement and community betterment.
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Alistdair Wilson-Gough is the Founding Partner of 50 International, which provides advice to the non-domiciled and newly resident to ensure that all the family’s off-shore and UK assets and interests are integrated into the most effective cross-border structures. Alistdair is also the founder of 50 Great Britain, a service for the entrepreneur and those with inherited or settled wealth, from inheritance or divorce, to ensure that family’s assets and interests are integrated into the most effective structures.
Alistdair Wilson-Gough Interview Questions
00:00 - 01:46 Introduction
01:47 - 05:25 Alistdair's family background
05:26 - 07:25 Professional career and key highlights
07:26 - 10:46 What is 50 International?
10:47 - 14:20 Complexities in taxation and compliance in the modern era
14:21 - 22:06 Shifting paradigms of building wealth and security
22:07 - 26:58 Tackling climate change with business ethics and conducts
26:59 - 30:14 How can businesses comply with global and regional ESG standards?
30:15 - 33:15 The core concept of ESG in business and life
33:16 - 40:30 How is 50 International making an impact on the world?
40:31 - 44:44 Tax analysis for a startup in the UK and EU economies
44:45 - 47:22 About the 50 International newsletter: Postcard
47:23 - 53:29 50 International's report on climate change
53:30 - 01:00:15 Geoengineering is the way to find solution to climate change
01:00:16 - 01:03:39 Staying positive in life
01:03:40 - 01:08:10 Everything that we do today is tracked: Insights from postcard
01:08:10 - 01:08:53 Closure
Alistdair Wilson-Gough Biography
Alistdair Wilson-Gough holds the distinction of being a Founding Partner of 50 International and 50 Great Britain. His extensive career revolves around tax and structuring advice to clients, both domestically and internationally. Alistdair's ability to foster strong relationships with senior barristers has equipped him with a wide-ranging skill set, allowing him to navigate complex tax challenges for clients, whether they are established or emerging wealth, UK residents, or non-domiciled individuals relocating to the UK.
A specialist in international tax and structuring advice, Alistdair is also the Managing Partner of Reid & Dyer LLP.
Alistdair solely instructs barristers to ensure precision in addressing clients' unique needs. With decades of experience, he seeks to optimise assets in line with a clients objectives while managing tax exposure, including expertise in Capital Gains Tax (CGT), Inheritance Tax (IHT) planning and other tax matters.
Alistdair has spent a major portion of his career, over 15 years, at KM Administration LLP, assisting clients in restructuring their family wealth and implementing tailored strategies across multiple jurisdictions.
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Artem Kopanyev is the current COO of Genesis, one of the largest global app developers. Apps of Genesis companies have been downloaded by more than 300 mn users globally and are used by tens of millions of users monthly. With an academic background in Finance, Artem started his career in 2014 at the Institute of Gerontology as a rehabilitation strategies developer and analyst. His key project at the Institute was “Movement therapy in Parkinson's disease rehabilitation”.
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Artem Kopanyev Biography
Artem Kopanyev is the current COO of Genesis, one of the largest global app developers. Apps of Genesis companies have been downloaded by more than 300 mn users globally and are used by tens of millions of users monthly.
In 2020, Genesis and Meta successfully held the first Startup Academy, to connect startup-minded entrepreneurs from 7 countries. The program is partnered by Amazon Web Services, Horizon Capital, Flyer One Ventures, AppsFlyer, Awesomic, Legal Nodes, Notion, Zendesk, and many more.
With an academic background in Finance, Artem started his career in 2014 at the Institute of Gerontology as a rehabilitation strategies developer and analyst. His key project at the Institute was “Movement therapy in Parkinson's disease rehabilitation”.
Two years later, he moved on to become the Analyst and Transaction Advisory Services at Ernst & Young, one of the Big Four accounting firms in the world.
As an Operations Manager, Artem first joined Genesis in 2017, and then Glovo, a food delivery company, to work with Genesis Technologies back again in 2020.
Outside the private sector, he is also a lecturer at Kyiv School of Economics, where he imparts courses related to product-based IT businesses.
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Sharon Constançon is the chairman of the SA Chamber and the CEO of Genius Methods. Her leadership at the SA Chamber is marked by a strategic focus on promoting bilateral trade between South Africa and the UK, fostering growth in membership. Sharon, a Chartered Director and Chartered Secretary with an MBA, is also actively involved in various roles, including being the Non-Executive Director for Transact SA, and an International Committee member for CISI. She is also the CEO of Valufin, a forex advisory firm.
Sharon Constançon Biography
Sharon completed her MBA in Business Management at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1988. During her studies, she was recognized as “Entrepreneur of the Year”. She, then, served at the University as a part-time lecturer for many years. Her focus was on teaching Service Industry Management and Small Business Management to MBA students, sharing her knowledge and expertise with the next generation of business leaders.
In 2006, she pursued further academic accomplishments by earning the Chartered Director qualification from the Institute of Directors. Sharon actively participated in various governance-related activities, including serving on committees and interview panels for Chartered Directors.
For her commitment to governance excellence, Sharon became a finalist for the Dr. Neville Bain Memorial Award in 2015. a Chartered Secretary and has focused academically on Boardroom Dynamics. She writes many white papers, articles, blogs, presents at conferences, runs workshops, chairs panels, runs roundtable, shares her professional journey learnings to help others improve theirs and a role model to women in business.
A South African born of English parents, Sharon has business interests in South Africa and the UK and is fully aligned to a key strategic goal of developing bilateral trade between the countries. Sharon is on the Court and is Chairman of the Membership Committee of the Worshipful Company of Company Secretaries, is a member of the International Committee of CISI, a contributor to the Risk Coalition and lecturer for the Qualifying Level Boardroom Dynamics course for the Chartered Governance Institute final examination program, and course leader for programs and seminars run by the Corporate Governance Institute (Ireland).
Sharon is a NED for Transact SA and the Chairman of the South African Chamber of Commerce (UK) Limited and Trustee of North Dean Memorial Hall Charity. Thereby keeping in touch with the challenges facing all roles she evaluates.
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Our guest today is Brendan Buckingham, currently working as Business Development Leader of Data and AI at IBM UKI. Brendan brings to the table more than 3 decades' experience of working in latest industry trends, best practices, a deep understanding of the Ethics and regulatory requirements.
This interview is sponsored by IBM.
Brendan Buckingham Interview Questions
00:00 - 02:13 Introduction
02:14 - 04:03 Brendan's background
04:04 - 07:09 Motivations and inspirations along Brendan's career path
07:10 - 11:00 What is IBM Think London 2023
11:01 - 18:38 Challenges and insights addressed at IBM Think London 2023
18:39 - 26:00 Watsonx: A holistic AI solution by IBM
26:01 - 34:43 Tech products andinnovations by IBM for SMEs and businesses
34:44 - 40:30 What trends and innovations are going to shape the future of AI, and how will IBM lead in these areas?
40:31 - 44:40 What to expect at IBM Think London 2023?
44:41 - 46:09 Closure
Brendan Buckingham Biography
Brendan Buckingham is a Business Development Leader in the UK with more than 3 decades' experience of working in latest industry trends, best practices, a deep understanding of the Ethics and regulatory requirements. With more than 27 years at IBM Ireland, he leads and manages teams involved in data tech, Red Hat IBM AI and more.
Brendan is part of IBM Data Science and AI Elite (DSE), a team that offers data science use cases and overcoming the challenges of AI adoption. Brendan combines his extensive experience across business and industry with technical skills to help CDO’s, Data Architects and AI engineers to collaborate with their business colleagues to develop strategies that address some of the most critical business challenges.
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About IBM
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York and is present in over 175 countries. It specializes in computer hardware, middleware, and software, and provides hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with 19 research facilities across a dozen countries, and has held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business for 29 consecutive years from 1993 to 2021.
As one of the world's oldest and largest technology companies, IBM has been responsible for several technological innovations, including the automated teller machine (ATM), dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, and the UPC barcode. The company has made inroads in advanced computer chips, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and data infrastructure.
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Today's guest is Dr. Albert Meige, an entrepreneur, teacher, and author, who has been professionally exploring the impact of technology on business, society, and humans for 20 years. Albert now heads the global institute Blue Shift (part of Arthur D. Little), which conducts studies at the intersection of technology and strategy.
Albert Meige Interview Questions
00:00 - 05:22 Introduction and Albert's background
05:23 11:22 Albert's inspirations and motivations
11:23 - 15:22 Creating a confluence of scientific research, entrepreneurship, and humanity
15:23 - 19:14 Career highlights: achievements and accomplishments
19:15 - 26:12 About Presans
26:13 - 31:00 Managing the community of 5 million people
31:01 - 38:22 Journey to Arthur D Little
38:23 - 48:15 Confluence of AI and other 4IR technologies with humanity: A macroperpective
48:16 - 55:12 Dealing with challenges and complexities of the tech revolution
55:13 - 55:45 Closure
Albert Meige Biography
As an entrepreneur, Albert founded Presans, an open innovation startup in France that leverages artificial intelligence to connect experts with large corporations on-demand. This venture earned him the Innovation Prize from the École Polytechnique. After selling Presans to Arthur D. Little, Albert now heads the global institute Blue Shift, which conducts studies at the intersection of technology and strategy.
As an academic, Dr. Albert Meige completed his Ph.D. in Digital Physics at the Australian National University, he worked as a researcher at the research centre of École Polytechnique in Paris. With an MBA from HEC Paris, he has served as an Academic Director for executive programs at HEC Paris and the Institut Mines-Telecom. He also teaches at ESCP.
Dr. Albert has been a regular contributor to HBR France since 2015 with articles on innovation management, on the future of organisations, digital transformation and on the future of work. He also speaks at various conferences and Ted Talks on these topics based on his research. Dr. Albert also shares his insights and research in emerging technologies like Generative AI, the metaverse, and other immersive technologies. Recently, he presented his viewpoint on AI and ChatGPT, where he created a 100% AI-generated article from a single prompt.
As an author, Dr. Albert has authored several books on innovation and digital transformation, including: “Innovation Intelligence: Commoditization. Digitalization. Acceleration. Major Pressure on Innovation Drivers”, published by Absans Publishing in 2015, and “A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: Advice from Leading Experts in the Field”, published by Kogan Page Publishers in 2011..
Dr. Albert holds two patents: “Method for identifying the named entity that corresponds to an owner of a web page”, and “Electronegative plasma thruster with optimised injection”, both registered at EU patents.
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Today, Dinis Guarda interviews Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner, authors of The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology. Juliette Powell is an author, a television creator with 9,000 live shows under her belt, a technologist, and sociologist. Juliette’s consultancy services are sought after by influential organisations including the United Nations, Microsoft, and Warner Brothers.
Art Kleiner is a versatile writer, editor, and entrepreneur deeply engaged in contemporary business and tech challenges. He is now the Principal and Editor-in-Chief at Kleiner Powell International. Prior to that, and as the editor-in-chief of PwC Global and the editor-in-chief strategy+business, PwC’s award winning management magazine with a circulation of 1.3 million, Art had published some of his bestsellers.
Juliette Powell Biography
Juliette Powell is an author, a television creator with 9,000 live shows under her belt, a technologist, and sociologist. She has recently co-written a book called "The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology" ( August 2023), which she co-authored with Art Kliener, brings together insights from engineering, business, government, and social justice perspectives.
Juliette is the Founder and Managing Partner at Kleiner Powell International (KPI), a New York City-based consultancy. She is also the Founder, researcher, and curator at Turing AI and WeTheData.org, mapping the data economy with Intel Labs.
Juliette’s consultancy services are sought after by influential organisations including the United Nations, Microsoft, and Warner Brothers. She promotes digital literacy, critical thinking, and collaboration and contributes to discussions on the future of the internet and connected society.
A business journalist, Juliette's research at Columbia University focuses on responsible AI deployment and ethical data exploration.
A graduate in Economics from Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and Finance and International Business from McGill University, Juliette is also the faculty at The New York University. She was the Miss Canada titleholder in 1989, the contest's first Black Canadian winner.
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Art Kleiner Biography
Art Kleiner is a versatile writer, editor, and entrepreneur deeply engaged in contemporary business and tech challenges. During his early career at the Whole Earth Catalog, he led the best-selling "Fifth Discipline Fieldbook" series.
As the editor-in-chief of PwC Global and the editor-in-chief strategy+business, PwC’s award winning management magazine with a circulation of 1.3 million, Art had published some of the bestsellers.
With a journalism master's from UC Berkeley, Kleiner is part of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches group. He's a faculty member at the New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
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Bill Laboon has 15+ years of experience in education, software development, project management, and technical leadership across various industries. Currently serving as the Head of Education and Grants at Web3 Foundation, Bill is responsible for supervising educational programs. Prior to this, Laboon held the position of Director of Education and Community within the same organisation. Preceding their tenure at Web3 Foundation, Laboon fulfilled the role of Technical Education Lead from 2019 to 2021.
Bill Laboon Biography
Bill Laboon has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries and roles. Bill is currently the Head of Education and Grants at Web3 Foundation, where he oversees educational initiatives. Prior to this, Laboon served as the Director of Education and Community at the same organization. Before joining Web3 Foundation, Laboon worked as the Technical Education Lead at Web3 Foundation from 2019 to 2021.
Laboon also has experience in academia, having worked as a Lecturer and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. Bill taught courses in software quality assurance, blockchain technology, and cryptocurrency, among others. During his time at the university, Laboon also led a team of developers on a project called QuACC, which focused on analyzing and comparing the internal quality of various cryptocurrency codebases.
Laboon has also worked in the private sector, with roles such as a Senior Software Developer at Think Through Learning Inc. and a Consultant at FP Complete. Additionally, they worked as a Technical Lead at UPMC Technology Development Center, where they were involved in a big data project for clinical document storage and search.
Earlier in his career, Laboon gained experience as a Senior Software Engineer at General Dynamics C4 Systems, where they led teams and implemented project management strategies for a military command and control system. Bill also worked as an Internet Application Specialist at Eyeflow and volunteered at the Welcome Center for Immigrants and Internationals.
Laboon's work experience showcases their expertise in education, software development, project management, and technical leadership across various industries.
Bill Laboon attended the University of Pittsburgh from 1997 to 2001, where they obtained their Bachelor of Science degree. Bill studied Computer Science, Political Science, and a related area of Mathematics during their time there. Later, from 2010 to 2012, they pursued a Master of Science in Information Technology degree at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on Software Design and Management.
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Daniel Doll-Steinberg is a specialist in the global derivatives and disruptive technologies. With an extensive career as an investor, advisor, and serial entrepreneur, Daniel has been pioneering in the field of innovation and technology.
During my previous interview with Daniel, we discussed EdenBase, a company that invests knowledge, capital and technology, enabling the next Game Changing tech-companies to achieve responsible growth and positive impact. EdenBase has till date helped many startups achieve $10’s billions dollar in market cap.
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In this edition, we will discuss his recently co-authored ‘Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies’, published by Wiley. The book explains the crucial technologies that are reshaping our world, ranging from foundational technologies to the hardware that bridges the gap between humans and machines.
Daniel Doll-Steinberg Interview Questions
00:00 - 02:37 Introduction
02:38 - 08:38 What are foundational technologies of the tech revolution?
08:39 - 22:52 The concept of World Rebooting: What, why, and how?
22:53 - 37:10 What should be the direction of Supervision?
37:11 - 51:07 Tech revolution and behaviour change
51:08 - 01:04:16 Navigating the change management
01:04:17 - 01:13:41 Managing the disruptions due to tech revolution
01:13:41 - 01:15:34 Closure
Daniel Doll-Steinberg Biography
Daniel Doll-Steinberg Biography
Daniel has played various advisory roles for UK Government and European Commission on innovation, growth and education policy, specialising in disruption and the Future of Work.
Focussing on emergent tech and disruptive technologies, like blockchain and metaverse, Daniel has co-founded several projects including the Atari Token and Tribeka Limited.
He has also been the seed investor in companies innovating and disrupting the Gaming, Entertainment, Marketing, Retail, and Blockchain spheres, including Epic Games, Collider, Threedium, to name a few.
A Bachelor of Engineering from The University of Manchester and an Honorary Senior Research Associate from UCL, Daniel has lectured on:
- supply chain disruption at UCL
- the future of the Real Estate industry at Wharton Business School
- applications of Patents at WIPO.
His latest book, "Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies”, Daniel explains the impact of an unsupervised technology revolution by the year 2040, while explaining the immediate action.
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Lionel Lee is an experienced executive, board member, investor and philanthropist in international business, advisory roles, and nonprofit leadership. He currently holds two major roles: as the chairman of Platinum Circle, a leading business group involving corporations with annual revenues exceeding USD100 million; and as the Committee Chair at The Better Foundation, a private foundation and endowment established in 2020 with a mission to improve the world through philanthropy and by supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Lionel Lee Biography
Lionel Lee is a highly accomplished professional with extensive experience in international business, advisory roles, and nonprofit leadership. Currently serving as the Committee Chair at The Better Foundation, he has made significant contributions to various industries and sectors across multiple markets.
Lionel Lee is the Chairman of Platinum Circle, a leading global business group of corporations, each having annual revenue exceeding USD 100 million, governments and intergovernmental organisations.He developed the group from a handful of enterprises in 2003 to an international community of corporations whose combined annual revenues exceeded USD1 trillion, government and intergovernmental organisations.
Lionel Lee has amassed a wealth of experience in international assignments, executive leadership and advisory roles. Over the course of his 20 plus year career, he has managed business portfolios totaling over USD 500 million in net asset value. His expertise spans diverse areas, including setting up and leading boards and management teams, developing comprehensive plans, policies, and procedures, ensuring operational efficiencies, improving financial health, raising capital, expanding to new markets, and driving business growth. He has successfully applied his skills and knowledge to more than 40 small to listed multinational corporations operating across 16 industries and sectors in 22 different markets.
Beyond his corporate endeavors, Lionel Lee has dedicated himself to supporting and contributing to numerous nonprofit organizations, NGOs, social enterprises,and grassroots initiatives in Asia, Europe and the US. By providing leadership, governance, resources, and support, he has made a meaningful impact on more than 10 organizations in the nonprofit sector. His commitment to social causes underscores his passion for creating positive change and uplifting communities. He is a recipient of awards and honors including World Economic Forum Young Asian Leader, Young Ambassador for Opportunity International USA, New Media Champion for People's Association Singapore and partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Prof. Paolo Tasca is an economist and a widely published researcher in the field of blockchain and distributed systems. He is known for his contributions to digital economics and has founded two significant blockchain organisations - the Distributed Ledger Technology Science Foundation (DLT Science Foundation) AND the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT). Under his guidance, the UCL CBT has become one of the world's largest research centres dedicated to blockchain technologies.
Paolo Tasca Interview Questions
00:00 - 01:20 - Introduction
01:20 - 10:20 - Career Background
10:21 - 25:28 - Story behind UCL Center for Blockchain Technology
25:28 - 37:51 - Work experience with central banks and DLT Science Foundation
37:51 - 48:00 - Prof. Tasca's academic and research work
48:01 - 55:45 - BigData in crypto community
55:46 01:01:00 - Future of blockchain: Integration with AI
01:01:01 - 01:04:29 - Closure
Paolo Tasca Biography
Dr. Paolo Tasca is a renowned digital economist and expert in distributed systems, with a specialisation in the blockchain field. He founded and chairs the DLT Science Foundation, a global initiative dedicated to advancing education, research, and innovation in the blockchain space.
In addition, Paolo is a Professor of Emerging Digital Technologies and Business Strategy at University College London, where he founded and directs the world's largest research center on blockchain technologies, UCL CBT.
Paolo's expertise has earned him global recognition, and he has served as a special advisor on blockchain technologies for esteemed organisations such as the EU Parliament, the United Nations, and various Central Banks. He has made significant contributions to the field of blockchain through his research, entrepreneurial ventures, and leadership roles in various organisations.
Prior to his current roles, he was the Lead Economist on digital currencies and P2P financial systems at Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt).
Paolo is the co-editor of three best-seller books in the field of blockchain, Fintech, DEFI and Web3: "Enabling the Internet of Value”, by Springer 2022, “Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledger Technology”, by World Scientific 2019, and "Banking Beyond Banks and Money”, by Springer 2016.
He also contributed with the New York Times sharing his view on the pitfalls of blockchain governance models. He has been Associate Editor of the "Journal of Risk Finance" since 2016 and Guest Editor (2017) and then Editorial Board Member (2018) of the "Journal of Digital Banking". In 2018 he joined "Frontiers in Blockchain" as Specialty Chief Editor for Fourth Industrial Revolution and now he is Specialty Chief Editor for Blockchain Economics.
In addition, he is the author of numerous scientific papers about systemic risk, P2P systems and distributed ledger technologies, which have been published by prestigious international scientific journals.
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Jonny Fry is a CEO, blockchain specialist, and influencer in the field of digital assets. He was honored with the Influencer of the Year award at the CryptoAM 2022 awards, recognizing his exceptional contributions to the industry. Additionally, Jonny serves as the Editor of Digital Bytes, a renowned publication that provides in-depth analysis of the blockchain and digital asset sectors, including comprehensive case studies.
Jonny Fry Biography
Jonny Fry is a researcher, thought leader, blockchain, Crypto economics, ICO, and funds specialist. With over 25 years of experience, he is a proven leader and manager, having established and floated Premier Asset Management Plc on the London Stock Exchange with over £1 Billion under management. He was also recognised as Influencer of the Year at the CryptoAM 2022 awards
Currently, he is the CEO of TeamBlockchain, a UK-based international influencer network that works with a range of service providers such as lawyers, accountants, exchanges, custody, insurance providers, and private and public companies to offer thought leadership, incisive analysis, and strategy.
He is also the Non-Executive Chairman of Gem Cap UK Ltd. that works with fund managers predominantly from the UK and USA assisting them with strategy marketing and distribution.
Jonny's expertise has positioned him as a trusted voice within the blockchain community. He co-founded The British Blockchain Frontier Technology Association (BBFTA), a growing network of experts, influencers, decision makers and entrepreneurs dedicated to increasing the understanding and adoption of blockchain and other frontier technologies.
Jonny has a wide knowledge of the UK investment industry including intermediary market distribution, FSA regulation for mutual funds, stock broking, discretionary management, structured plans and providing outsourced solutions to a range of external institutions.
Jonny is also a sought-after speaker and the Editor of Digital Bytes, a renowned publication providing in-depth analysis of blockchain and digital asset sectors.
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Adewole Adebayo is a prince from the Ondo Kingdom in southwestern Nigeria. A lawyer by career, he is Member of the International Bar Association (IBA), and entrepreneur, Adewole Adebayo is better known as a public affairs prominent figure and he actively participates in Nigerian politics as a member of the Third Force coalition.
Prince Adewole Adebayo Biography
Adewole Adebayo is a prince from the Ondo Kingdom in southwestern Nigeria. He is the direct descendant of Osemawe (ruler) Odunola and grandson of Osemawe Lamele.
As a public affairs prominent figure, Prince Adewole Adebayo actively participates in Nigerian politics as a member of the Third Force coalition. Adebayo announced his candidacy for the presidency of Nigeria in the 2023 election, with an agenda to bring back the lost glory of the ‘Giant of Africa’.
In recognition of his contribution to the development of Ondo State, Adewole was honoured by the state government for being the highest personal income tax payer in March 2021. He also received the Best Media Proprietor of the Year award from the Nigerian Union of Journalists in November 2021.
Prince Adewole Adebayo holds a Masters of Law from the University of Jos. Adebayo later attended law school in the United States of America, where he passed the New York Bar Exams. He is licensed to practise in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, California, New York, and federal courts in the United States. He is also a Member of the International Bar Association (IBA).
In the private sector, Adewole is a prominent Nigerian lawyer, who founded Adewole Adebayo & Co., House of Law, in 2002. The firm has been involved in significant legal cases, including representing Continental Transfert Technique Limited in a case concerning the constitutionality of a contract with the Federal Government.
Adewole is the founder of KAFTAN TV, an independent 24-hour television channel established in 2016. The channel is operated by KAFTAN TV Ventures, a trading and joint venture company headquartered in Ondo City, Ondo State, with additional offices in Lagos and Abuja. The platform is a member of the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria (BON) which is a broad coalition of public and private broadcast organizations
On philanthropic grounds, the Prince sponsors nearly 2,000 young Nigerians in tertiary institutions both in Nigeria and abroad.
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Today's guest is Pete Sayburn, a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and designer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Studiospace, a global marketplace for senior marketers looking to hire agencies. He is also an author, having co-written ‘Defying Gravity: Adventures of a Corporate Entrepreneur’, published in 2010. In a new podcast powered by openbusinesscouncil.org and citiesabc.com.
Pete Sayburn Biography
An MBA in Entrepreneurship from the University of Florida, Pete Sayburn now oversees Studiospace, a global marketplace of hand-picked, founder-led and award-winning agencies. Studiospace's clients include major brands such as Aviva, Jaguar Land Rover and Gala Games. Founded in 2022, it now has 200+ independent agencies spread across 12 countries and 36 cities.
Some agencies working with Studiospace include Rankin Creative, a creative agency founded by celebrity photographer Rankin. Rankin Creative has created eye-catching marketing and brand campaigns for companies including Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, LEGO, Samsonite, EY, Mercedes-AMG, Unilever and the NHS.
Pete’s previous endeavours include Market Gravity, an innovation business, which he founded in 2009. In 2017, Market Gravity was sold to Deloitte and he joined Deloitte himself. During his tenure at Deloitte, Pete served as the Global Customer Strategy & Applied Design lead at Deloitte Digital. He played a crucial role in driving innovation and helping organisations design and prototype new propositions and services.
Besides his professional career, Pete has co-authored ‘Defying Gravity: Adventures of a Corporate Entrepreneur’ that was published in 2010. The book offers solutions to real business problems that keep managers awake at night, including; what to do when a key member of your team walks out? Or when there's a hiring freeze? How to convince the board to invest without setting unachievable targets?
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Vijay Goel is a prominent figure in the business and legal communities, renowned for his remarkable achievements and contributions in bridging . He is the founder of the Indo-European Business Forum, an esteemed organisation established in 2007, which serves as a platform for influential business leaders from India and the UK.
Vijay Goel Biography
Vijay Goel is the the Chairman of ASSOCHAM UK, one of the largest Chambers of Commerce in India and former Chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce Asian Business Association.
Mr. Goel also plays a significant role in promoting business collaborations with Africa. He holds the position of Vice Chairman of the Africa International Business Forum, where he contributes to fostering economic ties between African nations and global business communities.
Recognized for his expertise and influential contributions, Vijay Goel is a valued member of several advisory groups and committees. He holds a position as a member of The UKTI Global Entrepreneur India Advisory Group, providing valuable insights and guidance for entrepreneurs and businesses looking to expand into the Indian market.
Mr. Goel is also an advisor to the Hinduja Group, which is a promoter of companies like Ashok Leyland, IndusInd Bank, and Hinduja Ventures, among others. He was also a Special Advisor to the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) for investments, an organisation that has top connections in more than 53 countries.
A lawyer by background, Mr. Goel has been Working at Singhania & Co for more than 15 years, where he has been advising clients on matters relating to corporate law, and laws relating to joint ventures and foreign collaborations. In one of his deals, his client, a Government of India Company, provided approximately USD 500 million to Reliance for their power project in the year 2009.
As a philanthropist, Vijay has been serving as a Local Coordinator for the Government of Andhra Pradesh (India) since April 2016, working towards the growth and development of the region.
Mr. Goel has been recognised and honoured with numerous prestigious awards throughout his career. In 2015, he received an award from the Indian Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley, acknowledging his outstanding contributions. In 2010, he was bestowed the Asian Achievers 'Award for Professional of the Year' by Britain's Minister of State for Justice, Lord Tom McNally, at a ceremony held at Wembley Stadium.
Mr. Vijay Goel was honoured with the 'National Law Day Award' in 2009 by Her Excellency, Smt. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil, the then Honourable President of the Republic of India, in recognition of his exemplary contributions to commercial law and strengthening Indo-UK business relations. Moreover, he was awarded the prestigious 'Asian Leadership in Europe' by Asian Who's Who International, further highlighting his significant accomplishments.
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Today's guests are Des Dearlove, a British business journalist, management theorist and a prolific author. He is also the co-founder of Thinkers50, the first global ranking of management thinkers with Stuart Crainer.
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Megan Reitz is Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult Business School. She is listed on the Thinkers50 ranking of global management thinkers, and HR Magazine Most Influential Listing. She was also recently shortlisted for both the Radar and Breakthrough Idea Awards. She is also a contributor to ‘Certain Uncertainty’.
Des Dearlove Biography
Des Dearlove is a British business journalist, management theorist and a prolific author. He is also the co-founder of Thinkers50, the first global ranking of management thinkers with Stuart Crainer.
A BSc in Politics and Economics from the University of Southampton. Des Dearlove has an extensive background in journalism. He is a former columnist to The (London) Times, and contributing editor to Strategy+Business. He was the co-editor (with Stuart Crainer) of the Financial Times Handbook of Management.
As an author, Des Dearlove has recently released a compilation titled ‘Certain Uncertainty: Leading with Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World’ released as a co-branded book series in collaboration with Wiley and Thinkers50. In ‘Certain Uncertainty’, he discusses how to build resilience and agility into our lives and businesses, and he does it through advice and fresh thinking from accomplished business leaders.
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Megan Reitz Biography
Megan Reitz is Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult Business School. She is listed on the Thinkers50 ranking of global management thinkers, and HR Magazine Most Influential Listing. She was also recently shortlisted for both the Radar and Breakthrough Idea Awards. She is also a contributor to ‘Certain Uncertainty’.
Megan writes, speaks and consults in the areas of leadership, dialogue, mindfulness, culture, change, coaching and team effectiveness. She is author of 'Mind Time' and 'Dialogue in Organizations' and 'Speak Up: Say what needs to be said and hear what needs to be heard' for Financial Times Publishing, which was shortlisted for CMI Management Book of the Year 2020.
Megan is a PhD in leadership and dialogue from Cranfield School of Management. Her doctoral work focused on how leadership and dialogue are constructed in organisations and serves as a call to examine and inquire into the quality of our relationships within organisational settings.
Megan founded Reitz Consulting, where she works with a number of international clients bringing her research to organisations through facilitation, teaching and speaking.
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Seamus Rocca is a financial expert and corporate leader with over two decades of experience working in the financial service sector. He is now the CEO of Xapo Bank and has worked as a Chartered Accountant in international companies, including Arthur Andersen, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Group, and Standard Chartered Bank, at senior executive levels with a focus on finance, treasury, and emerging markets.
Seamus Rocca Interview Questions
- Please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Tell us something about Gibraltar, its culture, geography, and some important facts about it.
- Please tell us about Xapo bank: what it does and how it works.
- Centralisation versus decentralisation models of banking and finances.
What are your views on the current gap between the conventional banking methods and the crypto scenario. As a banking professional, how do you think we can bridge this gap? - Could you please highlight some of the key features of Xapo Bank
- Please tell us about Xapo’s membership.
- Please share your Insights on current top news in the crypto world: crypto winter, FTX, and Financial Market crash in the US.
- What advice would you give to our audience who are tackling these waves?
Seamus Rocca Biography
Seamus is a qualified Chartered Accountant, and he studied accounting and finance at the University of Leeds. He also attended Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, where he studied executive leadership. He is also a member of ICAEW, a world-leading professional membership organisation that trains, develops and supports over 150,000 chartered accountants worldwide.
Seamus has a close working relationship with the UK Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) and was a certified Material Risk Taker under the UK PRA rules in his capacity as the Head of Liquidity at Standard Chartered Bank.
Seamus has worked at Xapo Bank for over five years, taking on the role of CEO in 2021, where he is responsible for overseeing the operations and strategic direction of the bank.
Seamus has played a critical role in making Xapo the first crypto company in the world to obtain a banking licence. Xapo Bank is a private bank headquartered in Gibraltar, which operates globally and is licensed as a virtual asset currency provider by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission.
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COP28, Bonn Climate Conference…. Global collective efforts for climate change are rapidly gaining traction. Dinis Guarda interviews Hirander Misra, CEO of ZERO13 which is a marketplace aggregation solution for carbon credits as well as ESG real-world assets, and Asad Sultan, CEO of Verdana and its subsidiary EcoConsortium, Asia-Pacific’s first digital carbon registry. The experts discuss the urgent need for end-to-end digital connectivity in the carbon eco-system for transparency, efficiency and scalability.
Hirander Misra, CEO of GMEX Group and ZERO13
Hirander Misra is Chairman & CEO of GMEX Group, a company that offers innovative solutions for the creation & operation of electronic exchanges and post-trading services and the CEO of ZERO13, part of the GMEX Group and a regulated digital exchange (SECDEX) and marketplace aggregation solution for carbon credits as well as ESG real-world assets.
In collaboration with Verdana and EcoConsortium, Zero13 offers turn-key digitalization across the carbon marketplace vertical. Given the size of this market ($12b today and growing parabolically), this is potentially a very valuable market proposition.
Hirander is very active in ESG, trading and in the digital assets sectors, bein also the Founder & Co-Chairman of FinComEco, a fully integrated Financial & Commodities Ecosystem providing services to help improve the livelihoods of Sub-Saharan African farmers using blockchain.
Hirander was one of the Top 10 influential business leaders of blockchain technology in the All Party Parliamentary Group 2018 report on the UK Blockchain industry. He is also on LATTICE80’s Top 100 influencer list for the UN Sustainable Developments Goal agenda for pioneering blockchain technology solutions. He is featured in the Financial Technologist 2019 list of the 50 most game-changing founders of FinTech companies.
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Asad Sultan, CEO of Verdana
Asad Sultan is a finance industry veteran CEO of EcoConsortium, a pioneering venture jointly established by Verdana and EcoRegistry, and the first digital carbon registry in the Asia-Pacific, with a function for digital measuring, reporting and verification (dMRV) embedded in the platform. He is also the founder and CEO of Verdana, a SaaS Platform and end-to-end automation dMRV and asset management solution that can be used to assess, validate, and certify carbon footprint data and analytics.
In parallel, he is an advisor to ZERO13, a regulated digital exchange (SECDEX) and marketplace aggregation solution for carbon credits as well as ESG real-world assets.
With more than 25 years of experience in the investment banking industry, Asad is also the CEO of Deutsche Malayan Ventures since 2019, a company that provides cross-border advisory services for investment and execution of high-value projects in Malaysia and the CEO of KL Tech City, a venture studio investing in tech industry startups.
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Michael A. Figueroa is the Senior Director of Strategy, Information Security Services at Toptal, where he leads Cybersecurity & Technology Strategies and Business Leadership, and research, for Toptal - a global remote company that provides a freelancing platform, connecting businesses with software engineers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers. The company has no headquarters.
Michael Figueroa Biography
Michael Figueroa holds a B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT and a M.F.S. in High Tech Crime Investigations from George Washington University. Michael was Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) in 2004.
Previously Michael was Principal Investigator (PI), Mobile/Cloud Security Research Lead at BAE Systems and SVP, Application and Security Architect at InfusionPoints.
Michael served as the Cyber Innovations and Services Lead at Draper Labs in Cambridge, MA between 2015 and 2016.
Between 2016 and 2019 Michael was President & Executive Director of Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC), where he effectively focused on improving how executives make decisions and engage the local counterparts in defending against advanced cyber threats in the ACSC's Collaborative Defense program.
Michael is a Senior Advisor to MassCyberCenter at the Mass Tech Collaborative in Boston. Where he advises government officials on improving policy and procedures for defending against modern cyber threats and incident response planning as part of the Cyber Resilient MA Working Group (CRMWG).
As a researcher and writer, he published papers such as “Reduced Realistic Attack Plan Surface for Identification of Prioritised Attack Goals” and “A SOUND Approach to Security in Mobile and Cloud-Oriented Environments.” Michael has been a lecturer at George Washington University and an Adjunct Professor at University of Virginia.
Michael is a certified youth soccer coach, world traveller, and philosopher.
With 20 years of experience as a small business/nonprofit leader and trusted advisor to state and federal officials, Michael has developed a multidisciplinary and community collaboration approach to improve how organisations use technology to drive their mission and business objectives.
Michael’s leadership philosophy centres on forging lasting partnerships and nurturing strong collaborative relationships across diverse, multidisciplinary stakeholder groups.
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Dr. Yossi Sheffi is an academic, author, entrepreneur and thought leader in engineering systems. He is the Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) and the Elisha Gray II Professor, where he focuses on systems optimization, risk management, and supply chain operations. Dr. Sheffi has authored influential books on management, including "The New (Ab)Normal" and "A Shot in the Arm." His new book, "The Magic Conveyor Belt," explores the future of supply chains and automation.
Dr Yossi Sheffi Biography
Dr. Yossi Sheffi is an esteemed academic and thought leader in the field of engineering systems. He holds the prestigious Elisha Gray II Professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and serves as the Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL). With a focus on systems optimization, risk management, and supply chain operations, Dr. Sheffi conducts groundbreaking research and imparts his knowledge to students at MIT and other leading institutions worldwide.
An accomplished author, Dr. Sheffi has written numerous influential books on management, including notable works such as "The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19" (2020) and "A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World" (2021). His forthcoming book, "The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and The Future of Work," released in April 2023, offer fresh insights into the evolving landscape of supply chains and automation.
Under Dr. Sheffi's guidance, the MIT CTL has achieved remarkable milestones, launching groundbreaking programs and initiatives. These include the MIT Master of Engineering in Logistics program, established in 1998, and the widely acclaimed MITx MicroMasters program in supply chain management, which has attracted over a million registrants since its inception in 2016. Dr. Sheffi's leadership and dedication to advancing education and industry collaboration have cemented the MIT CTL's reputation as a global hub for supply chain excellence.
Dr. Sheffi's influence extends beyond academia through his consulting work with government agencies and prominent global enterprises in the manufacturing, retail, and transportation sectors. Additionally, he is a serial entrepreneur, having successfully founded and led five companies, including LogiCorp; PTCG; e-Chemicals; Logistics.com; and Syncra Systems. All of them were later acquired by larger organizations. His expertise and captivating speaking style have made him a sought-after speaker at corporate and professional events worldwide.
Dr. Sheffi's academic journey includes earning a B.Sc. from the Technion in Israel (1975), an S.M. from MIT (1977), and a Ph.D. from MIT (1978). Currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Sheffi continues to inspire and shape the field of engineering systems through his remarkable contributions to research, education, and industry innovation.
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Aaron Lau is a tech entrepreneur and thought leader, a technology and marketing executive, who is well known for his work as Chairman & CEO of DDB Asia and as CEO of North America at Cheil Worldwide. He currently serves as founder and CEO of marketing solutions firm Gusto Collective.
Aaron Lau Biography
Aaron Lau is a prominent business leader who has held leadership positions in some of the world's largest marketing firms. He debuted into the world of entrepreneurship with Bravo Asia Limited which he established in 2006. The company worked alongside top-tier clients like Pepsi, New Balance, Three Mobile, and Moet Champagne. It grew from a small scale to a team of 50 employees, scaling the sales to US$15m, and went on to become a leading digital marketing business.
In 2012, Bravo Asia Limited merged with Cheil Worldwide, a global marketing firm listed on the Korean Stock Exchange, and part of the Samsung Group in South Korea.
Aaron served as the President (International) and the CEO of North America region at Cheil Worldwide, During this tenure, he led the company's global business across 53 offices in 43 countries outside of its home market of South Korea for over a decade.
Before joining Cheil, Aaron was the Chairman & CEO of DDB Asia, where he led an integrated network of branding, advertising, and marketing specialists in 26 offices across 14 markets in Asia Pacific.
Aside from his professional accomplishments, Aaron is also a recognised business leader who has sat on a number of advisory boards, including the Shanghai Xu Hui District Mayor's International Advisory Board and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council HK-China Business Council.
Additionally, he serves on the board of Parsons School of Design in New York, USA, The Nature Conservancy's Asia Pacific Council, as well as The Design Trust in Hong Kong. He is a long-term member of CEO International and YPO Gold in Hong Kong and New York.
He currently serves as founder and CEO of marketing solutions firm Gusto Collective. Gusto Collective, which Aaron founded in 2020, is the first ‘Brandtech’ holding company in Asia and has been recognised as “Forbes Asia 100 to Watch” 2022. Powered by technology, the company specialises in Web 3.0 marketing services, an augmented reality experience platform, a metahuman platform (MonoC), and luxury marketing services. Gusto collaborates with some of the world’s biggest luxury and premium brands clients including Harrods, Canada Goose, Swire Hotels, Estee Lauder Companies, CSL, DFI Retail Group, Tourism Australia and LVMH.
Aaron Lau's business career has been marked by his exceptional leadership skills, extensive experience in the marketing industry, and commitment to making a positive impact on society through his work with various organisations and advisory boards.
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Jean Lehmann is the current CEO & Founder of Cyber Capital HQ, and Cyber chain analytics. Jean is an author and thought leader that has been working at a strategic consulting and advisory firm in cybersecurity solutions and data intelligence services. He has accumulated over 20 years of experience as a financial advisor and management consultant, specialising in blockchain, AI, Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity.
Jean Lehmann Biography
Jean Lehmann holds a INSEAD/Wharton MBA, a DEA from HEC School of Management, an MSc from Eurecom/EPFL, and an Executive Certificate in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
Since he graduated, Jean Lehmann started his career as a Investment Consultant at Benetti Finance and, throughout the years, he has taken different roles as an advisor and consultant in leading companies in the sector such as ABS Quantitative Analyst at Cambridge Place Investment Management, Senior ABS Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Norddeutsche Landesbank or Senior Management Consultant at global technology and management consultancy CAPCO.
Jean has also served in the public sector between 2008 and 2010, serving as Municipal Government Investment and Financial Advisor in the Buzios Municipality, where he worked for the municipal Government of Buzios as an investment and financial advisor to the “Secretario do Governo”, the president of the commercial and entrepreneurial association.
His latest endeavour is as founder and CEO of Cyber Capital HQ a strategic consulting and advisory firm in cybersecurity and data intelligence solutions with clients in the UK, EMEA, Africa, and LatAm. CCHQ has particular expertise in the financial services and oil and gas sectors and advises organisations in the cost-effective re-engineering of their processes to achieve maximum business performance and productivity.
As a thought leader, he is a regular contributor, panellist, and moderator at renowned international Cyber Security conferences, an advisory board member in the Blockchain and Venture Capital sector, a guest lecturer at INSEEC Business School and a trusted advisor to Arie Capital Banking Group, the first specialised online digital corporate banking group, among others.
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Dinis Guarda interviews Gip Cutrino, COO of Runiverse, a metaverse gaming platform, in the latest episode of the Dinis Guarda YouTube podcast. The two discuss the mechanics of metaverse gaming and the global challenges it can solve. The podcast is powered by platforms like citiesabc, openbusinesscouncil, fashionabc, and sportsabc.Gip Cutrino Biography
Gip Cutrino is an Italian entrepreneur and thought leader specialising in blockchain and gaming. He is an experienced team leader and a creative marketer, having collaborated with many leading brands in the digital world.
Currently, he is the COO of Runiverse, a metaverse gaming platform, where he leads product development for an immersive and innovative gaming experience using blockchain technology. In March of 2023, Runiverse announced its collaboration with Polygon, a leading metaverse gaming platform, to bring new events and opportunities to the Gamefi community and thus contributing to the growth and adoption of Web3 gaming.
Gip Cutrino is a graduate from UCLA, and a former presenter of the Italian show, Le Iene, Gip has focused his career as an entrepreneur in the world of mobile gaming for the last 8 years. For example, Gip was involved in the launch of Eidoo SA, under the flagship of the Poseidon Group during the initial coin offerings (ICOs).
As an influencer and thought leader on blockchain, Gip collaborated with the popular YouTube personality, PewDiePie, on several crypto gaming projects. He has been promoting the potentials of blockchain technology in the gaming industry through his social media networks.
Gip also worked for the entrepreneur and influencer Gianluca Vacchi advising him on a crypto project focused on telecommunications.
Among his achievements and projects we can find Sgame, a platform where users can play their favourite mobile games while mining tokens. Another gaming app, Wallem, is called the Pokemon Go of crypto. It allows the users to capture tokens and cryptocurrencies while walking around the most important cities in the world. Wallem’s first test was during the ICO Race, with over 100 downloads.
AS COO of Runiverse
Under Cutrino's leadership, Runiverse has become one of the most innovative and engaging metaverse gaming platforms on the market. The platform allows users to challenge each other to races based on the performance of the crypto market, leveraging the unique capabilities of blockchain technology to create a truly immersive gaming experience.
With elements of finance and gaming, Runiverse provides a platform for players to earn rewards and customise their experience. It is powered by their utility token $RUNY. The platform combines blockchain gaming with crypto knowledge, by allowing gamers to translate their crypto knowledge into tangible rewards.
The platform leverages real-time data from Binance, offering a run-to-earn experience where players' speed is determined by market performance.
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Isaac Nichelson is a creative leader and entrepreneur with 25 years of textile and apparel industry experience. He is known for propelling cutting-edge product and market innovation in the realms of sustainability and circular resource efficiency. He is the current CEO and co-founder of Circular Systems SPC.
Isaac Nichelson Biography
Having worked with brands like Global Hemp Group Inc., The House of Marley, and Hilaturas Ferre, Isaac Nichelson possesses comprehensive fashion industry experience. A knowledge base that extends from raw materials production and apparel/accessory/footwear design and manufacture, all the way through branding, marketing and leadership of fashion and textile companies.
As one of the pioneers to promote sustainable textiles and fashion, California Apparel News named him “Eco-Johnny Appleseed” in 2007.
Isaac has founded a few eco-friendly and sustainable companies in the past, including Livity Outernational, the world's first stylistically relevant eco-lifestyle brand, and Sustainable Source Studios, the world’s premier eco-fashion agency.
He is presently the CEO of Circular Systems SPC, which he founded in 2017. Circular Systems is a Social Purpose Company providing the world's leading technologies transforming waste-to-value in the textile and fashion industries.
Circular Systems SPC received the prestigious Global Change Award in March 2018, for the Company’s Agraloop technology that converts crop waste into high value materials suitable for textiles. The award was issued by H&M Foundation.
With over 20 years of focus on sustainability in fashion, Isaac is regarded as a thought leader in the space. He works as an active contributor to industry think tanks and reports, including as a contributor to the groundbreaking 2017 Report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation "Lets Make Fashion Circular". Isaac is also a member of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, the Levi's Collaboratory, and the Textile Exchange.
As a speaker, Isaac also has been engaged in events like Global Recycling Forum, San Francisco 2015, Moving Beyond Sustainability Keynote, Amsterdam Holland, February 2020, to name a few.
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Roger Osorio is an internationally-recognised thought leader, executive coach, and reinvention expert, who has authored best sellers like "The Journey to Reinvention: How to Build a Life Aligned with Your Values, Passion, and Purpose”.
Roger Osorio Interview Topics
- Please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- How did you come up with the idea for “The Journey to Reinvention”?
- What do you think are the most important qualities for a successful reinvention?
- What do you think are the biggest misconceptions people have about reinvention?
- What advice would you offer to someone who is struggling to find the courage to start their own journey to reinvention?
- What do you hope readers will take away from your work?
Roger Osorio Biography
Roger Osorio is a BS in Finance and International Business from Penn State University and an MBA from Maryville University of Saint Louis. He is also an MS in Psychology, Leadership Development, and Coaching from Walden University.
Roger has held various executive level positions in organisations and Fortune 500 companies. For more than 15 years now, he has been sharing the wealth of his knowledge amongst younger generations. He teaches entrepreneurship to executive masters students for their M.S. degree program at Sarah Lawrence College and University of Pennsylvania.
As a speaker, educator, and facilitator, Roger has delivered over 500 talks and presentations to over 200,000 people around the world, including organisations, corporations, and brands like the World Bank, IBM, Google, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, UPenn, Inter-American Development Bank, Mastercard, Citibank, Asian Development Bank, and many more.
He also founded ‘The School of Reinvention’, a community-based coaching platform that empowers people to launch and succeed in personal and career reinvention.
As an author, Roger has written ‘The Journey to Reinvention: How to Build a Life Aligned with Your Values, Passion, and Purpose’, where he shares his personal journey of self-discovery, and offers inspiring stories, powerful exercises, and practical tips for readers on their own way to reinvention and creating a more meaningful life.
Roger has also served as a USSF licensed Soccer Coach at St. Louis Scott Gallagher Soccer Club and Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma. He also held the board membership of the International Soccer Academy.
He was also the Marketing Committee Member of Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce, supporting a variety of projects including focussed group studies, rebranding initiatives, website development, and workshop programs.
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Moh Belkhodja is the Founder of MetaKapsule and Head of Investments & Special Projects at Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA). Moh is a hospitality professional who brings over 15 years of hospitality and management consulting experience to the team of Investments and Special Projects for Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority . As the Director, he is responsible for the continuous expansion of the organisation's business strategies across the EMEA region.
Moh Belkhodja Interview Questions
- Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- How did you come up with the idea for METAKAPSULE?
- What new opportunities will the Metaverse create for the tourism industry?
- How can the Metaverse be used to create unique and innovative tourism experiences?
- How can B2B businesses use the metaverse to enhance their branding and marketing efforts?
- How can B2B businesses ensure that their Metaverse initiatives align with their overall business strategy and goals in the hospitality and travel industry?
- What role will AI and machine learning play in the development and operation of the metaverse?
- What is your opinion regarding the advancement and progress of the metaverse in the hospitality and travel industry in the upcoming years?
Moh Belkhodja Biography
Moh Belkhodja is a hospitality professional who brings over 15 years of hospitality and management consulting experience to the team of Investments and Special Projects for Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA). As the Director, he is responsible for the continuous expansion of the organisation's business strategies across the EMEA region.
He is a seasoned Eco, Wellness, Agri and Adventure (EWAA) Tourism expert who advocates for the combination of sustainable and conscious tourism along with the fractional economy to promote economic and social development.
Moh holds a Master's Degree in International Hotel Management from Vatel Hotel & Tourism Business School and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Management Information Systems from the Université Pierre Mendès-France. Having worked in various roles at Grand Heritage Hotel Group, IHG Hotels and Resorts, Renaissance Hotels, and many more, has a remarkable history of executing business development and global expansion strategies across the MENA region.
Moh is also the founder of METAKAPSULE, a movement and think-tank community of Metaverse experts that create events with a focus on “edutainment”. He is passionate about re-engineering mindsets to create an impact on humanity and bridging the PHYGITAL with web 3.0 by using the METAVERSE to build collaboration and partnership amongst customers, as well as between companies and customers.
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Dinis Guarda interviews Kendrick Wong, Co-Founder and Chairman of LiquidX, in the latest episode of the Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast. They discuss the unique projects taken up by LiquidX, including the Japanese style of animation, Anime, and the utility of NFTs and tokens in the metaverse and Web 3.0 space. The podcast is powered by citiesabc, openbusinesscouncil, fashionabc, and sportsabc.
Kendrick Wong Biography
Kendrick Wong founded and built two companies Scorpion Textiles & Wholesale and Shoppr to multi-million valuations before moving on to Omnilytics — his third venture and counting at age 29, together with Nikolai Prettner. It is a fashion analytics platform that offers real-time market intelligence data across 75,000 brands. Omnilytics' big data services are used by retailers worldwide, as well as by financial market clients as part of their due diligence. The company counts entrepreneurs, SMEs, and global companies such as Adidas and Ferragamo as its customers.
An active investor in the region, Kendrick co-runs a private equity firm, Weatherall Investments, investing in startups, venture capital funds, and blockchain companies within Southeast Asia.
Kendrick was featured in Forbes’ 2019 Asia 30 Under 30, and has many awards to his credit including Uber Challenge Hackathon, Facebook PARSE Challenge, and Best App for Commercialisation: All of these under the flagship of his companies, Shoppr.
As the Chairman of LiquidX, a Web3 venture capital studio for the metaverse, Kendrick progresses in his mission to provide the infrastructure for the entry and exploration of an ever-growing industry through its proprietary anime marketplace. LiquidX’s latest acquisition of Anime Metaverse, a publishing and licensing company focused on building anime, manga and drama in Web3 is another leap into the realm.
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Merve Kanat Dogan is a senior executive and serial entrepreneur with more than two decade's experience in foreign communications and relations, while working across various sectors, including pharma, health tourism, and technological devices. She is now the Vice President Business, Partner Turkiye & Central Asia at ztudium group.
Merve Kanat Dogan Biography
Merve Kanat Dogan has had a diverse career spanning various industries, including foreign trade, consultancy, banking, health tourism, medical, cosmetics, HVAC, electronics, automation, manufacturing, equestrian business, mining, and food service. She has also co-founded several companies and cooperatives, managed different departments, and established business relationships.
Among the companies she has worked for, we can find IS BANK, ERK PHARMA, KLIMA, EQUUSIR Germany GmbH. As the co-founder she has managed UTCM, FIL COSMETICS, QUANTUM HEALTH TOURISM COOPERATIVE, SUBWAY ORGANISATION and MERANKA Mining. Her broad range of experiences and skills would make her a valuable asset in any team or organisation that values diversity and adaptability.
To digitalise Turkish trade corridors, Merve co-founded UTCM Foreign Trade Co., to carry out import-export and consultancy duties since 2007. The company managed the entry of many foreign companies into the Turkish market and managed their country's activities including multi-faceted training on digital marketing, content creation, and sponsored advertising activities.
In her present role as the Vice President and Business Partner for Turkiye & Central Asia at ztudium group, she benchmarks her skills to create a robust network of businesses across these regions and create a global ecosystem that strives towards 4IR.
Merve has a degree in Economics from Hacettepe University and also has attended programs at Vienna University of Economics. After concluding her major in economics, she finished a program in foreign trade with success and went on to pursue a career in international business development and marketing. During her education life, she has always lived in various cities and finally graduated from International Christian School of Vienna which contributed her a lot in gaining multinational perspectives and opinions about the world.
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Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz are the guests in the latest episode of the Dinis Guarda Podcast to discuss the different aspects of their extensive professional careers and the Ecosystem Economy concept. In fact, the podcast highlights their recent collaboration on ‘The Ecosystem Economy’, a book that discusses the various aspects of the consumer-centric economy, the changing consumer trends, and the future of businesses and economies.
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Venkat Atluri Biography
Venkat Atluri is a Senior Partner and global leader of tech/telecom practice at McKinsey. With 22 years of experience in the firm, he has also co-founded and led the firm’s Internet of Things (IOT) practice. He is also an author and thought leader contributor at McKinsey, including co-authoring ‘The Ecosystem Economy: How to Lead in the New Age of Sectors Without Borders’ along with Miklos Dietz.
Venkat’s academic background includes an MBA in Strategy and Finance from the University of Chicago.
He joined McKinsey in 2001 and has held many leadership positions throughout his tenure at McKinsey. Venkat co-founded and led McKinsey’s IoT (Internet of Things) Practice. He also created a group that aims to incubate new analytic and digital assets, develop innovative client offerings, and build alliances and partnerships with innovators.
He has also led McKinsey’s efforts globally for the TMT Practice to help clients fast-track and sustain transformational impact.
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Miklós Dietz Biography
Miklós Dietz is a Senior Partner and also the Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company's Vancouver office, where he leads the Strategy & Corporate Finance group within the global Financial Services Practice. Miklós is a certified financial analyst, a member of the CFA Organisation, a founding member of the Hungarian Society of Investment Professionals and an author. He is the co-author of ‘The Ecosystem Economy: How to Lead in the New Age of Sectors Without Borders’ along with Venkat Atluri. In 2008, Miklós was awarded the Knights Cross of Hungarian Republic, for the support to the Prime Minister in managing the global financial crisis.
Miklós holds a MPhil, finance and econometrics from University of Cambridge, a JD law from Eotvos Lorand University, and a MSc, economics from Corvinus University of Budapest.
In 2001, Miklós joined McKinsey's Budapest office, and since then he has led over 400 projects in more than 40 countries across the world, covering multiple sectors, with primary specialisation in the financial sector, and focusing on business building, strategy, innovation, digital, large scale transformation, and marketing and sales topics.
Miklós is also the Chairman of McKinsey’s Panorama, the flagship project that mines a blend of banking and financial data sources—including proprietary data—to provide wide-ranging insights.
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Today's guest is Christopher W. J. Gaunt OBE is the Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Turkey and an accomplished business executive with invaluable international experience across several key business sectors. Spending a major share of the first few decades of his career in the beverage industry, Chris has held many top-level executive positions at international brands including Coca Cola, Wine and Spirit Division of the Whitbread Brewery Group, HP Bulmer and Allied Domecq, and Carlsberg International.
Chirs W. J. Gaunt Biography
Chris has over five decades of experience in building cross-border relationships and collaborations, especially in Central Asia, Africa, and the EU. In his present capacity as the Executive Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce Turkey, Chris is responsible for representing over 800,000 Turkish businesses and Chambers in the UK.
The British Chamber of Commerce in Turkey (BCCT) is the world's second-oldest British Chamber established abroad, and it offers a range of business services to promote networking and B2B matchmaking in the Turkish market. The chamber represents business people and companies of all sizes and from a broad spectrum of sectors, including major multinationals as well as a substantial number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from Turkey, the UK, and the surrounding region.
Since his joining at BCCT in 2014, Chris has led the chamber to serve more than 700+ UK clients, has delivered hundreds of market-related services, and has contributed to export wins totaling more than GBP 75 million. The chamber offers market information, market access, event management, and many other services in cooperation with its extensive business network and through its partnership with 14 local chambers of commerce in the most dynamic cities of Turkey.
In addition to his work with the BCCT, Chris was instrumental in the major restructuring project for a newly privatised group of FMCG companies during his time at Coopers and Lybrand in Croatia.
Prior to that, Chris was one of the faces that represented Coca Cola, he travelled across many countries and cultures, including Moscow, regions of Africa, and the then unknown areas of Central Asia, like Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, and other countries that broke up from the Soviet Union.
Chris was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 H.M. the Queen's New Year Honors list for services to Trade and British Commercial Interests. He is also associated with the boards of many international names including Global Thinkers Forum, Suzer Group Turkey, MLA College, and Young Guru Academy, to name a few.
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Nicki Hambleton is the Founder of NiH Consultancy and an Apple Distinguished Educator with over three decades of experience in teaching globally. She is an expert in integrating Technology and Art authentically in the classroom and using those for visual note taking. Nicki is also a trained Cognitive Coach and consultant in visual arts, thinking and learning strategies.
She teaches sketchnotes to students and adults through dedicated workshops and presentations and has authored a collaborative eBook on the process of taking notes digitally with other educators.
Nicki Hambleton Interview Topics
- Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations?
- How can visual note-taking help to reinforce and summarise learning?
- How can visual note taking be used in collaboration and group settings?
- What are some strategies for improving visual note taking skills?
- What techniques can be used to make visual notes more visually appealing and informative?
- How can visual notes be organized to make them easier to understand?
- What inspired you to create NiH Consultancy?
- What is the future of education?
Nicki Hambleton Biography
Nicki did her MA in Education. Her Masters’ thesis focused on the significance of incorporating visual and spatial methodologies for retrieval and notetaking and the effects on long term memory.
After her PG Certificate in Education, Secondary Art Education, Nicki Hambleton did a course in graphic design, and taught art at Primary, MYP, GCSE, IB and A Level. As Head of Expressive Arts, she has also taught at International School of Milan and Lincoln Community School.
Nicki has been teaching internationally for over 30 years in the UK, Italy, Ghana and Singapore. She is an advocate of amalgamating Technology and Art authentically in the classroom and passionate about visual note taking. Her extensive knowledge in communication design and creativity stems from her background in Graphic Design and love of drawing and she has presented to global audiences through Apple and Learning 2.
From 2010 to 2022, Nicki was a member of the United World College of South East Asia team for 12 years. During her time there, she has successfully risen to the challenge of becoming a leader in her field. She began as Head of Middle School art, a Digital Literacy Coach and was Head of High School Art from 2018-2022. Nicki is passionate about art and education and is dedicated to helping her students reach their full potential. She is an inspiring leader and mentor and is committed to ensuring that their students have access to the best art education possible.
In November 2022, Nicki started her own business as an educational consultant at NiH Consultancy. The company focuses on discovering the most fitting creative solution to client needs.
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Gediminas Galkauskas is an experienced data-driven marketer, a business growth expert and the current Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Atlas VPN, a leading virtual private network (VPN) provider. Being in the industry for more than two decades now, he has held various top level positions at some of the most prominent companies in Lithuania, like leading marketing campaigns and initiatives for Modern Times Group MTG, which includes the most watched TV in Lithuania, TV3 and Head of Marketing and Product Development at 15min.
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- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- About VPNs and VPNs for businesses
- How has Atlas VPN changed the VPN market?
- What new technologies have you implemented for Atlas VPN?
- What do you believe is the most important factor for success in the VPN market?
- How do you think the VPN market will evolve in the coming years?
- What do you think are the biggest challenges faced by VPN providers today?
- What new technologies will marketers need to be familiar with in order to be successful in the future?
Gediminas Galkauskas Biography
Gediminas Galkauskas holds a double Master of Arts degree in International Communication and Political Science from Vilnius University, Lithuania. Prior to joining Atlas VPN, Gediminas worked at a number of high-profile companies, including Modern Times Group MTG, AeroTime Hub, 15min.
As the Communications Manager at The Modern Times Group MTG, Gediminas managed a variety of marketing campaigns and initiatives for brands like TV Viasat, the most watched TV in Lithuania TV3, Power Hit Radio, and one of the most popular internet websites tv3.lt. He also held executive positions at multi-channel aviation digital hub AeroTime Hub and Marketing consultancy Hungry Scout.
At 15min, he held the position of Head of Marketing and Product Development, where he was responsible for marketing and developing business together with new products for the 2nd biggest website in Lithuania. He led the development of audio platform 15min Klausyk, paid content product 15max, etc.
His experience includes co-founding Pro Consulto, a boutique communications agency providing consulting and sales services to clients. And he also lectured about integrated marketing communications to the students at University of Applied Social Sciences, Vilnius.
Gediminas is a sought-after keynote speaker at marketing and tech events like Viasat Lithuania and writes a newsletter where he shares his insights on strategy, innovation, and trends in the tech and marketing sectors.
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Michael Stickler is a widely published author, philanthropist, and internationally sought-after conference speaker, specialising in Business, Finance and Thought Leadership.
He is the Publisher of Leadership Books, which he founded in 1999, and Get Published, which help aspiring authors turn their ideas into a book format, and provide additional assistance to design the cover and interior, and create targeted and integrated marketing campaigns. Both projects have grown to become leading book publishers that focus on non-fiction authors who have a larger business model (speakers, consultants, online trainers).
Michael Stickler Interview Topics
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- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- The creative process - Writing a book
- How did you start Leadership Books? Is there any special story behind it?
- Could you share more about the innovative business model which has been the basis for Leadership Books?
- What are the core features of Leadership Books that make it different from other publishing houses?
- About leadership and global thought leadership
- As a leader in modern publishing, do you have any advice for young authors or even old authors who have not had opportunities to approach new methods of publishing to step out and present their works?
Michael Stickler Biography
Michael is a graduate from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. His first book went from being “unsellable” (according to his publisher) to selling more than 300,000 copies using a new publishing methodology that he created himself. His best-selling book, A Journey to Generosity, is widely acclaimed throughout the Christian community.
A prolific author, Michael Stickler has won recognition for his work including ‘Cliven Bundy: American Terrorist Patriot’, ‘Journey to Generosity’, and ‘Life Without Reservation’.
It is worth noting some of his most acclaimed books, which includes ‘A Journey to Generosity’ in 2013, a devotional book that deepens the faith of a reader in 41 days, instilling an awakening change in them. In the same genre, Michael published in 2019 ‘Life Without Reservation’ where he shares key ways from the Bible to make life more meaningful and fruitful.
In the business and leadership literature, he has written several books, including ‘Continued Success’ in 2015. Here, Michael provides time-tested strategies, techniques, and expertise from the most esteemed minds in the faith-based nonprofit world to avoid planning pitfalls, develop a failsafe budget, with the goal to lay a foundation for a nonprofit's success.
For those building and creating foundations and nonprofit organisations, Michael’s books include ‘Foundation Building Campaign’ in 2014, ‘Christian Foundation Guide’ in 2019 and ‘Extreme Board Makeover’ in 2018, among others. In this last one, Michael shows leaders that the U.S. law requires each nonprofit organisation to establish a board of directors, the board plays a primary and important role in nonprofit organisations. They have vast responsibility, yet, unlike staff members, aren't paid for their work. A well-structured, well-managed and well-trained volunteer board is a must for ensuring nonprofit organisations carry out their mission and vision in the community.
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Robb Wilson is a serial entrepreneur, author, technologist consultant for Fortune 500 companies like Qwest and National Geographic, and former creative executive at Time Warner. He earned an Academy Award nomination for technical achievement as well as over 130 innovation, design, technology, and artificial intelligence awards, with five in 2019 including AI Company of the year and Hot AI Technology of the Year.
Robb Wilson Interview Topics
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- About OneReach
- How can conversational AI enable businesses to improve their customer service experiences?
- Could you tell us about the role of conversational AI in the future of business and what do today’s top leaders need to know ?
- What are the best practices for integrating AI technologies into our existing systems and processes?
- What inspired you to write the book Age of Invisible Machines:A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers?
- How can hyperautomation help improve the efficiency of operations in an organization?
- What is the purpose of creating a core enablement team for an organization's digital ecosystem strategy?
- What is your expectation of new applications of AI that are likely to emerge in the next decade?
Robb Wilson Biography
Robb Wilson is the co-founder of OneReach.ai, a low-code/no-code platform for building AI & bots. Under Robb Wilson's leadership in his role of Lead Designer and Chief Technologist, the company was recognized as the highest-scoring company in Gartner’s first Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Conversational AI Platforms report.
As an entrepreneur, he has founded four successful technology companies, including Effective UI, SkyBeam, Vision Nations, and, more recently, OneReach.ai. Robb Wilson is also the co-owner of UX Magazine, with a community of over 640k members.
His professional career includes being a technology research consultant for many Fortune 500 companies, including Qwest and National Geographic. He has worked as a creative executive at Time Warner and is an industry thought leader in the areas of emerging technologies and trends.
Robb has held executive roles at several publicly traded companies and mentored colleagues who went on to leadership roles at Amazon Alexa, Google, Ogilvy, GE,Salesforce, Instagram, LinkedIn, Disney, Microsoft, Mastercard, and Boeing.
As an author, he has co-authored two books to date:
Age Of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers. Wiley, September 2022
The book delivers an eye-opening and startlingly insightful blueprint for leveraging conversational AI in order to make your organisation self-driving—with a growing ecosystem of interconnected automations accelerating all aspects of your business.
Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software 1st Edition, published by: O'Reilly Media in March 2010
Robb Wilson is an experienced thought leader in the realm of conversational AI and hyper automation, and has played a part in creating a wide variety of products, apps, and movies.
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Nicola “Nick” Rosa is a serial entrepreneur, creative technologist, designer, digital transformation specialist, author, speaker, and a podcast host. He is the Metaverse Strategy Lead Europe at Accenture, bringing his experience of almost three decades in the fields of media and entertainment, and business and technology. Nick is also a Director at the Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) a non-profit entity producing the annual VR Awards.
Nick Rosa Interview Topics
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- About Metaverse
- Metaverse projects at Accenture
- What motivated you to write “Understanding the Metaverse:A Business and Ethical Guide”?
- What do you think are the most important aspects of the metaverse to understand?
- What are your thoughts on the current state of virtual reality in the Metaverse?
- How does the book explain the potential implications of the Metaverse for the economy?
- Are there any ethical considerations discussed in the book about the Metaverse?
- What do you think the future of the Metaverse will look like in terms of user experience and design?
Nick Rosa Biography
Nick Rosa's academic background includes a Bachelor in Science from Scientific High School Galileo Galilei Potenza. He also received a degree in Communication and Media Studies from Sapienza University of Rome. He is a certified Design Thinking Practitioner from IBM and Java expert from Sun Microsystems.
Nick has been working with emerging technologies since the beginning of his career, especially the immersive ones like AR, VR, XR, and mixed reality at multinational organisations like IBM IX, British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), XR Bootcamp, and The Academy of International Extended Reality.
As a digital transformation expert, Nick has previously worked for Virgin Radio Italy S.p.A., Mobile Interactive Group, net mobile U.K., and DigitasLBi, to name a few.
In his present role at Accenture, Nick is the Metaverse Strategy Lead for Europe & Growth Markets in the Metaverse Continuum Business Group.
As an author, In October 2022, Nick Rosa presented his first book “Understanding the Metaverse: A Business and Ethical Guide”, which was published by Wiley. The book delivers a thorough and intriguing exploration of the metaverse, including how it works, its current uses and discussions of potential possibilities we’re just beginning to understand.
Nick has also contributed to Atari, Google, Spotify, and Yahoo! as a writer collaborator.
As an entrepreneur, Nick also co-founded two digital transformation and strategy companies: Touch Ideas LTD and Black Rose Interactive. Among various projects his company successfully delivered an app for Pope Election 2013, The North Face, a TracKINGapp, and ParkinGO, a repark SRL.
Today, he is the co-host of a podcast series called “Field of View” where he interviews entrepreneurs, researchers, and pioneers in the field of Extended Reality and the Metaverse.
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Interview with Jennifer Sanders - Executive Director, North Texas Innovation Alliance & Brandon Branham - Chief Technology Officer and Assistant City Manager, City of Peachtree Corners (Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners).
Jennifer Sanders is a leader and thinker in smart cities and regions. She is, currently, the Executive Director of the North Texas Innovation Alliance, a consortium of cross-sector organisations including public, private, civic and academic entities, that works to build and implement a regional smart, connected and resilient strategy for North Texas.
Brandon Branham is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Assistant City Manager of Peachtree Corners, one of the United States’ first 5G smart cities powered by real-world connected infrastructure. He is the leader of smart city and IoT programmes under the flagship of the City of Peachtree Corners.
Interview Topics
- Could you both please start by telling us a little bit about your backgrounds?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration? What made you decide to jump deeper in the area of smart cities?
- Peachtree Corners had announced the partnership with the North Texas Innovation Alliance (NTXIA) since October this year to join hands in supporting the expansion of smart cities across the country through public-private partnerships. Could you share more about the vision, mission and how you think this partnership will be able to bring the citizens closer to innovation and new technologies which are invented to make their lives easier?
- According to the UN-Habitat, World Cities Report, 70% of the world population will be living in cities by 2030. At the end of the day, all inventions aim to create a better quality of life so the way we approach innovation is also very important. What do you think about regional approach and could you share more about the importance of collaboration between cities, Jennifer?
- For Brandon, what are the most significant features or services in Peachtree Corner that you want to develop the same to other smart cities in the country in near future?
- Do you plan to create a set of living standards for citizens in smart cities? What are the biggest challenges that you are facing at the moment?
- Does sustainability act as a key factor in your plan of development and what will you do to create a smarter but more sustainable city?
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Andy Ku is a game and metaverse developer, mobile gaming pioneer and tech entrepreneur, founder of software companies BlueArk, Nurien Software and, more recently, AlTAVA group.
Andy holds a BS in Architecture from Cornell University and also an MBA from Harvard Business School. Currently, Andy holds the position of CEO of ALTAVA Group, a Singapore-based luxury fashion metaverse that enables users to discover, interact, and express themselves through a hi-fidelity avatar. The Company operates WOY (World of You), a metaverse that provides Omni-platform experiential solutions which seamlessly connect consumers to the real-world and virtual world for high-end luxury brands and discerning partners. The company has successful collaborations with luxury brands including Thom Browne, Prada, and Balmain.
Andy Ku Interview Topics
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- What are your thoughts about the metaverse? And web3 and NFTs?
- How did Alvata Group get started? What was the vision behind it?
- User cases and projects
- Metaverse and metaverse projects in luxury fashion
- How can luxury fashion brands protect their designs in the metaverse?
- What are the key components of a successful luxury fashion metaverse?
- Future projects and ideas
Andy Ku Biography
After he finished his studies, Andy has been involved in startups since 2002, working with some of the world’s most recognisable names in media and gaming. Andy has been a pioneer in social gaming, having created MStar, a 3D-avatar-based fashion app.
He also founded BlueArk in 2014 to develop and publish games and digital education platforms by converting famous IP such as SpongeBob, Dora the Explorer, Toonix, and American Idol into digital forms. working with Viacom, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, XIX Entertainment, BlueArk Global launched these games and platforms in more than 137 countries.
Being involved in gaming companies throughout his career, he became CEO of Netmarble Corp. a mobile gaming company, in 2011. Established in Korea in 2000, Netmarble is a mobile game company in Asia and consistently ranks as a top mobile developer and publisher worldwide. As CEO of the company, Andy was involved in the company that developed games like MARVEL Future Fight, Seven Knights, Raven (Evilbane in U.S.) and Everybody’s Marble, among others.
In the beginning of his career, Andy founded Nurien Software in 2007, a social networking and online gaming company that developed platforms for virtual social networks and, prior to that, he took the role of CEO ASIA of Realtime Worlds, a UK based software company that develops action games and community games.
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Emmanuel Fenet is an Events Manager who has been organising content-focussed international events like conferences and summits. He has more than 25 years of experience in successfully managing events for Les Échos and The Wall Street Journal Europe, to discuss economic, financial, legal, and technological topics.
Emmanuel is the CEO of Chain Of Events, SAS, an event organiser specialising in conferences and trade events for professionals in the blockchain universe. The company was originally founded to organise Paris Blockchain Week Summit and Paris NFT Day.
With the Paris Blockchain Week Summit to be held in March of 2023, Emmanuel is currently looking after Europe's largest blockchain event with a vision to transform it into a globally renowned experience and the foremost business platform for the advancement of the Web 3.0 revolution.
Emmanuel Fenet Interview Questions
- Please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- Could you tell us more about Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2023 and what is the vision behind hosting this event?
- How will the Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2023 help to advance the development of blockchain technology?
- What are the most discussed topics you expect to see in Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2023
- What is the expected impact of the Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2023 on the global blockchain community?
- What are your views on regulating crypto and DeFi protocols after we witnessed a lot of number bankruptcy cases in last year ?
- How do you see the future of technology, especially blockchain, web3, virtual reality and AI in the next 5-10 years?
- What do you expect in the next conference, Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2024 ?
Emmanuel Fenet Biography
After his graduation, Emmanuel joined Les Echos as Conference Manager. After five years, serving in managing events at Les Echos, he joined Premier Cercle in 2002 as Associate Director.
In 2014, he founded Live Matters. The company was a conglomeration of more than 15 strong and unique live communication brands, including Habegger, Spaces, Satis&Fy, and BrainHub. Live Matters envisioned to become the leading global provider in live communication.
He was the Director of Conferences and Events from 2018 at Leaders League, a business services company and the rating agency that delivers C-level events, comprehensive rankings and in-depth analysis designed to bring the world’s markets together.
As the CEO of Chain of Events SAS, Emmanuel has been benchmarking his events organising skills and network for the blockchain universe, including global events like Paris Blockchain Week and Paris NFT Day.
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Darcy Donavan is a Producer, Actress , Artist, creator of stardawgs.com, founder Co-Owner of Income Island, CMO of E-Coin Finance, Author, Web3.0, NFTs Blockchain and Crypto Entrepreneur and Influencer with 7+ Million followers.
Darcy Donavan Interview Topics
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- What can you tell us about your career in the entertainment industry?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and how did you get involved in crypto space ?
- Could you tell us more about the E-Coin Finance project ?
- What potential does cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, especially NFT, have for the music and film industry?
- What role do digital tokens and blockchain technology play in the relationship between crypto and the media and entertainment industry?
- What would you like to see in the crypto industry in the next 5 years in terms of technology and diversity development?
Darcy Donavan Biography
Darcy Donavan began her career in the entertainment industry as a child actor and starred in a number of national television commercials at a very young age. Darcy started performing in children's hospitals and raising money for charities in her hometown. She later competed in talent and beauty competitions, winning the title of Ms. Nashville, Tennessee.
Darcy has appeared in roles for hit movies and television shows including, "Anchorman", "Modern Family", "Parks and Recreation", "Secret Agent Dingledorf", "Bones", "Six Feet Under", "Entourage", "Cult", "All My Children", "My Name is Earl", "Las Vegas" and "Nip/Tuck", to name a few. With her extensive knowledge in the business, Darcy is now producing her own projects in addition to her acting. Her work in film and television are only a few of Darcy's passions.
As a platinum selling recording artist, Darcy's release of her first album had catapulted her singing career and enabled her to tour with well-known artists across the nation. Gaining worldwide recognition with a number of tracks off of her second album, "Distraction," Darcy’s songs became number one ringtone downloads across North America. Darcy’s most recent single, "It's My Life," charted in the top 100 Dance Billboard Charts in four countries and she is currently working on a new album.
Apart from her career endeavours, Darcy has dedicated her life to inspiring others through her charity work and through her huge social media presence, sending words of inspiration to her millions of loyal fans daily. As a philanthropist, Darcy has been raising money for children's hospitals and several other deserving organisations including, Protect.org and Valley View Vaulters. For this, she was also named a World Peace Ambassador.
In addition to her extensive accolades, Darcy is also a savvy entrepreneur. Darcy keeps busy with her businesses and investments in Cryptocurrency, NFTs, the Metaverse, and projects throughout Web3.
Darcy is also a public speaker, influencing more than 7 million people around the world. She has delivered a number of keynote speeches at mainstream events including the world-famous NFT Expoverse, in Los Angeles in July 2022.
“Darcy’s Daily Dose of Inspiration” is her first book that is a best-selling inspirational guide. She donated a part of the proceeds from this book for supporting various organisations as charity work.
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Eugene Capon is a Futurist, Author, Speaker of the Metaverse, 360 Creative Director and podcaster of ‘Eugene Capon’ and VR Talk Show Glitched, among others. Eugene is a XR creator, making VR and 360 experiences with millions of views . He is also the author of ‘All The Things You Can Do In The Metaverse’ and ‘Get Serious About Social Media’.
Eugene is the President and Creative Director of Studio Capon, a level XR content creation and marketing company that uses various web, graphical, AR, and VR techniques. The company has a web presence of over 50 million impressions across multiple social channels.
Eugene Capon Interview Topics
- Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- Web3 Possibilities and Challenges
- Social Media in the Web3 Era
- The challenges of creator
- Creating better narratives with AI, metaverse and emerging technologies
- Social media - How it works and how to get the best out of them
- About his book
- What the future looks like
Eugene Capon Biography
Eugene Capon is a dual citizen YouTuber (United States and Canada) known for his online presence as a forward thinking Social Media Futurist, public speaker and 360 animation director under his production company "Studio Capon".
A social media futurist, Eugene's forward thinking attitude towards how we connect using technology has been at the forefront of his mission to connect the world and pave the way to the metaverse. In 2014 he graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts with an emphasis on "YouTube Studies" from Evergreen State. Upon graduation he went to work at the YouTube Consulting Agency, Press Play where he was focused on next level visual content in the motion graphics and animation genre.
In 2016 he quit his job as an art director to pursue XR and social media. Eugene's first project was producing the film "Journey VR". This film became an official selection at SIFF, a staff pick by Adobe and VEER, then would become the number one 360 video download on Steam for 30 days at the time of its release.
A year later he would produce and host GLITCHED, the first in VR talk show to be ordered as if it were a TV show. The show revolved around interviewing large name tech and social media influencers like Barnacules Nerdgasm, iJustine, Jake Roper of Vsauce3 and Gearlive. The show ran for a total of 3 seasons.
Since then he has been an avid XR creator making VR and 360 experiences with millions of views and one of the world's most profound evangelists of the Metaverse.
Studio Capon was created when he sold the second season of the in VR talk show GLITCHED which his YouTube channel was renamed as from CapondesignTV. The channel is co-ran with former radio personality Topher Welsh who co-hosted GLITCHED.
Published Works
‘All The Things You Can Do In The Metaverse’ is an educational book for children where siblings Jaden and Selena cure their boredom when they find a box with two VR headsets that suddenly appear in their living room. After the brother and sister put on the headsets a floating robot takes them into the Metaverse for adventures through a reality bending door.
‘Get Serious About Social Media’ is an ebook with tips and strategies for businesses to create brand awareness and marketing on social media.
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Wajdi Mereb is an engineer, architect and innovator who has more than 17 years of experience in digital transformation, assets management, and BIM (Building Information Modeling). Wajdi is the former Digital Transformation & BIM Manager at Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in Dubai. During his tenure there, Wajdi was awarded the ‘Innovator of the Year’ in the AEC Excellence Awards 2020 and the ‘Individual Achievement Award’ from the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) Global Awards 2019 in London.
Currently, Wajdi is the Senior Manager- Engineering Digitalisation- BIM & Digital Twins at one of the reputable governmental entities since 2021, where he manages all aspects of Project Design- BIM throughout all the RIBA stages ensuring project goals are understood and delivered, and milestones are met.
Interview Topics
- Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- About BIM
- The challenges of Digital Twins and BIM
- The future of Smart Cities and Smart Transportation
Wajdi Mereb Biography
Wajdi Mereb is a BSc. in Architectural Engineering and an MSc. in Engineering Management. He is also having a MSc. in Management and MBA from the University of Sheffield/ U.K. with distinction.
Wajdi Mereb’s major highlight was his role as the Digital Transformation & BIM Manager at Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in Dubai between 2015 and 2021. There, he helped integrate the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies with its ecosystem to improve transportation in the city. He represented RTA in the Dubai Digital Transformation Team in the construction sector and managed the UAE Building Smart chapter. In this regard, he also managed RTA’s internal project: Assets management digitisation and the Digital Twin technology.
Wajdi also led the successful BIM implementation in multi-billion strategic projects: “Metro Route 2020 project” valued at $3 billion value that was an integral part of Dubai’s proposal of UAE winning the EXPO 2021.
As a policy expert, he authored and monitored the corporate BIM Policies for Vendors & Employees at RTA. He also led RTA to be the 1st entity in the globe obtaining ISO 19650 & UK BIM Level 2 certificates, and represented RTA in launching the compliance Kite-marks for OPEX phase “PAS 1192-3” & Security minded BIM “PAS 1192-5” in partnership with BSI.
Wajdi has served many multi-billions projects varying in size & scope utilising various BIM authoring software including Autodesk Revit & Navis-works, Synchro, Bentley AECOsim Triforma and CDE platforms like Project-wise, BIM 360, & Aconex.
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Danny Goel is an Orthopaedic Surgeon, Clinical Professor, and keynote speaker. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Precision OS, a software company focused on immersive experiential virtual reality based medical education.
Danny Goel Interview Topics
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- How did Precision OS get started? Is there any specific reason that makes you establish this company?
- What is the mission and vision of Precision OS? And some user cases?
- Why do you think orthopaedic surgical education is perfect now for virtual reality?
- In fact, there are many other VR surgery training startups now. What do you think are the differences or strengths of Precision OS compared to them?
- What do you think about the future of VR and AR in surgery? Will it be easier to approach even with developing countries where the economy and infrastructure are not advanced?
- And what are the possibilities with the Metaverse in the field?
Danny Goel Biography
Danny is a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Manitoba, an Orthopaedic Surgeon from University of Calgary, and an MBA in Health and Life Sciences from the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management. He also holds a Shoulder Fellowship from Western University and Harvard Medical School. Since 2012, he has been associated with The University of British Columbia as Clinical Associate Professor.
Danny also contributes as Industry Advisor and Columnist at the Forbes Technology Council. He has co-authored more than 30 publications, and is widely sought as a presenter on surgical techniques. His ongoing research includes novel methods of surgical education and skill acquisition to deliver safe surgery towards improved patient outcomes.
He was awarded as the Gold Winner at the Reimagine Education Awards 2020 organised by the Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards and Conference.
Danny is a Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and Clinical Professor at UBC Department of Orthopaedics, Vancouver, British Columbia. He is also the Manuscript Reviewer at the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc., and the American Journal of Sports Medicine. He was also associated with the Clinical Faculty Advisory Council and Residency Training Committee at The University of British Columbia.
About Precision OS
Precision OS is a medical - grade learning platform to advance surgical readiness.
Surgery residents are getting less hands-on experience than ever, and it’s affecting their confidence and autonomy. A significant percentage don’t feel ready to independently perform core procedures upon residency completion,1 and over 90% opt for an additional fellowship year. In an effort to address this, The American Board of Surgery (ABS) recommended “rather than increasing the quantity of cases, we should be increasing the quality of teaching both clinical and procedural skills.”
The lack of access to high-quality surgical education is also affecting medical device companies. In an era of rapidly advancing technologies and procedures, training is often a rate-limiting factor. Current training approaches vary in effectiveness, and are not helping to address cost, and, most importantly, surgical mastery.
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Amrita Sethi is an award-winning, golden visa holder and the first NFT artist in the UAE. After a successful career, spanning 15+ years, in some of the world’s largest multinational financial companies, Amrita left the corporate world for a deeper calling, which led to the creation of a new multimedia art form, called “Voice Note Art”©️- now called “SoundBYTE”.
SoundBYTEs merge sound, technology and storytelling with NFTs giving her a perfect platform to showcase her dynamic art form. The unique idea led to her recognition and coverage with Forbes, CNN, BBC World news to winning awards, selected for Expo 2020 and creating live activations and installations in Middle East Asia and Europe. Amrita NFT’s have sold worldwide for under half a million USD and she regularly bridges the gap between physical arts and digital art. Amrita became the first NFT artist in the UAE.
Born and raised in Kenya, a British citizen of Indian origin, residing through Switzerland, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and the United Kingdom, before moving to Dubai in 2007 - Amrita’s art reflects her international diversity and combines the sweetness of tradition and storytelling with the energy and technology of the modern world.
Amrita Sethi Interview Topics
- Background
- From finance to arts
- Process of creating NFTs and virtual art
- Technology you use in your digital art
- AR and other effects in NFTs for creator economy: Case studies
- Amrita’s work
- Recommendations for young artists
- Disruption by technological tools
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Phil Barden is an author, speaker and consultant in the field of marketing, innovation and customer experience. He has over 25 years of experience, including senior roles at Unilever, Diageo, and Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile).
He founded Decode Marketing Limited in 2010, and combines hands-on, pragmatic, client-side brand management experience with leading edge cognitive & social psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural economics to provide analytical and predictive power, leveraging science to increase sales. Decode was awarded 'Most Inspiring and Provocative' in the Unilever Foods Fusion Awards.
Phil is the author of “Decoded: The Science of Why We Buy”, where he shares the latest research on the motivations behind consumers’ choices and what happens in the human brain as buyers make their decisions. The book was published by Wiley.
Phil also contributed two chapters to “Eat Your Greens”: a compilation of papers inspired by the genuine advances in marketing science.
Phil presents on decision science for the IPA Diploma, the APG Planning Skills Diploma and for various international MBA and MSc programmes. He is regularly invited to speak at industry events and to brand owners and their agencies.
Phil is also a Fellow of the Marketing Society.
Phil Barden Interview Topics
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- Consumer behaviour, marketing and businesses
- How can businesses and governments collaborate to achieve economic benefits from changing ecosystems?
- Principles of behavioral science and marketing?
- What are the biggest changes you see that have happened in the field of consumer behavior in the last few years?
- About your books
- About Decoded: The Science of Why We Buy
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Mark Mueller-Eberstein is a serial entrepreneur, strategic leader, bestselling author, active angel investor and international speaker, with presence in worldwide events like the World Economic Forum and TEDx talks. He has over 20 years’ experience in technology leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies, including Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.
Mark is the co-founder and CEO of CodexDF, a company that develops customer-focused enterprise software solutions to solve complex accounting, reporting and tax challenges for digital assets. As an entrepreneur, Mark is also the founder of the Adgetec Corporation’s consulting business since 2010. Adgetec’s mission is to help organisations and their leaders realise value globally. Mark is a global authority and personality about blockchain, compliance, angel investing, cryptocurrency, and accounting software.
Interview Question Topics
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration? What inspired you to pursue a career in technology and innovation?
- How has your experience in the tech industry shaped the way you approach problem-solving, especially the problem that you see in enterprise accounting?
- What do you consider to be the biggest challenge currently facing the tech industry?
- Could you share with us more about what CodexDF is doing and what makes it different from others?
- Does CodexDF focus only on enterprise or will it provide solutions for individuals as well?
- How can digital asset management improve the workflow of an organization?
- How does DeFi help to increase financial inclusion for people?
- What challenges does DeFi present in terms of security and compliance?
- What advice would you give to aspiring tech entrepreneurs who are just starting out?
- How do you see the future of technologies like blockchain, AI and cryptocurrency in the next 5 years?
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Andrea Winders is a creative Manchester-based entrepreneur and expert in tech, infrastructure, and smart cities. She is the Executive Director of Smart Cities Council, United Kingdom, and manages the organisation’s growth and drive objectives for the expansion of the smart agenda throughout the country.
Andrea Winders Interview Areas
- Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
- You have had a significant entrepreneurship career in the past launching projects, being expert in tech, infrastructure etc, but now you are appointed as the Executive Director of Smart Cities Council of the United Kingdom. Could you please tell us how and why you decided to switch your career from a more corporate area?
- Could you share more about the vision, mission of Smart cities council in the UK and how you think this new launching will be able to bring the UK citizens closer to innovation and new technologies which are invented to make their lives easier?
- Do you and your team plan to create a set of living standards for citizens in smart cities? And what are the biggest challenges that you think cities in the UK are facing on their ways to approach “smart cities” at the moment?
- What about the future of smart cities?
Andrea Winders Biography
Andrea Winders is a creative Manchester-based entrepreneur and expert in tech, infrastructure, and smart cities. She is the Executive Director of Smart Cities Council, United Kingdom, and manages the organisation’s growth and drive objectives for the expansion of the smart agenda throughout the country.
At Smart Cities Council, she has played a pivotal role in the organisations’ different initiatives in the UK, like Manchester's new DiSH (Digital Security Hub), a place for collaboration between Manchester's business and entrepreneurial community, academics, public sector organisations, and the voluntary sector to identify digital security threats and innovative responses to them. This hub offers a co-working space as well as access to state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.
Prior to that, Andrea Winders has held executive and managerial positions in companies like Spicers and Pink Ladies before joining Sunderland City Council as the Executive Director of Enterprise Investment. From here, she started her career working with organisations that empower cities and citizens.
She defines herself as a “an entrepreneurial business leader, with a unique mixture of talents and experience, in both private and public sectors, looking to change traditional thinking and doing to achieve positive change, wherever it is needed.”
About Smart Cities Council
The Smart Cities Council is an organisation that works to create action and impact around the key challenges and opportunities facing cities and communities today.
The organisation already counts Amazon Web Services (AWS), EY, ENE.HUB, Aurecon and GHD among its 100+ international members, and in the UK high profile organisations, such as global engineering services and digital infrastructure giant Valmont, life safety technology company Clevertronics, smart buildings dashboard provider Bueno Systems and digital transformation software innovator, Tr3dent, are foundation members of the UK Organisation, with UCLan, University of Lancaster as supporting academic partners.
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Gerd Leonhard is a keynote speaker, futurist & humanist, film maker, musician, and renowned author. He is the CEO of The Futures Agency. As one of the leading futurists worldwide, Gerd has presented at over 1500 leading conferences and events over the past 20 years in the field of digital ethics (the ethics of technology). He has an affluent experience of working extensively with the likes of Microsoft, NBC, Visa, Google, the European Commission, L’Oréal, Audi and IBM, just to name a few.
Gerd Leonhard Interview Questions
- Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- I must say your film “The Good Future” is really inspiring and it makes us think a lot about the future. The natural scenes that you captured look amazing. Could you share with us your motivation behind this project?
- When we talk about the future we not only mean our own future but also for our children as well. That’s when it comes to climate change, global warming, the transition to clean energy, sustainability development in general. In your opinion, what are the easiest things that we can do to contribute to a sustainable future?
- The Good Future Project is all about creating and spreading a new, positive narrative about the future and you said that we are seriously short of the will, the purpose, and the wisdom. So what is the message that you want to deliver to international companies and audiences in the world to create a correct mindset for all?
- How many members are there in the community of TGFP at the moment? What is your plan to develop this community in the future to help spread the message of a good future for all?
- What are your opinions on the connection between Technology and Humanity, i.e. digital ethics, technology regulation, the future of AI/AGI, human genome editing, longevity, transhumanism, the future of work and jobs, etc
- We all know that with the development of technology, especially AI (like the invention of Sophia the Robot), many people think that this is a threat to humanity in some ways, but everything has its pros and cons. Could you share with us your thoughts on this?
- The invention of robots and intelligent softwares somehow seem to be a threat for the future of work, I mean it can take the jobs of many people and even with higher efficiency. What is your advice for the next generations to develop themselves and adapt with the future of technology in a balanced way?
- How much control should humans have over digital society? Do you think that we will be way too much into the online world that we may forget about the reality sometimes?
- How do you see the future of technology, especially web3 and virtual reality in the next 5-10 years?
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Emmanuel Daniel is a Singapore-based entrepreneur, writer and global thought leader in finance. He is listed as a top 10 global influencer in the “Fintech Power50” list for 2021 and 2022. Daniel was awarded the Citibank Excellence in Journalism Award in February 1999. This was in recognition of his commitment to determining the impact of the Internet on banking.
Emmanuel Daniel Interview - Areas of Conversation
- Career in banking and finance
- The Asian Banker - Finance in Asia and in the world
- New trends in finance
- Crypto, blockchain, emerging tech
- Book - The Great Transition
- Personalisation of Finance
- Financialization of everything
- Future trends
Emmanuel Daniel Biography
Emmanuel was trained as a lawyer, has degrees from the National University of Singapore and the University of London, and attended a course on economics at Columbia University in New York.
He founded The Asian Banker in Singapore in 1996 and is the Chairman of TAB Global Pte Ltd, which runs The Asian Banker, Wealth and Society, and other content and community platforms.
His first book, “The Great Transition – the personalization of finance is here", was published in September 2022. In this book, Emmanuel outlines how the banking industry will evolve from being focused on platform technologies to a level of personalization never seen before.
Emmanuel is the creator of the Excellence in Retail Financial Services programme which benchmarks and ranks retail banks according to operational and service quality and is now followed in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
He also founded Wealth and Society, a global programme where wealth is assessed by its relevance to philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, or impact on the environment, sustainability, and well-being of the societies.
Daniel is also a writer on personal blog and speaks at international events around the world.
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Sallyann Della Casa is currently the Founder of Growing Leaders Foundation & GLEAC. She is a tech startup founder, a former lawyer, author, TEDx speaker, teacher, and curriculum developer in human transferable skills such as critical thinking, leadership, judgement and decisions etc. as it applies to emerging areas such as Web 3, Fintech, Sustainability etc. reaching out to global learners with her unconventional ideology. She recently launched the world’s first utility NFT of an industry expert’s time.
Sallyann Della Casa Interview Questions
- Please start by telling us a little bit about your background
- Cultural diversity with technological evolution
- Your solutions and making an impact across the world
- How are you using your NFT? What has been your journey?
- About Lovely humans
- Governments and decentralised systems
- In your journey to learn about human skills, is there anything that impresses you the most? Could you share with us about it?
- So what are the strengths of GLEAC features and programs that make you confident that can help discover and strengthen human soft skills & behaviour?
- How important is it to find the right soft skills of each person especially in a team, a group of many people and put it in the right place?
- Could you share more about GLEAC’s B2B platform and B2C products?
- How many organisations and companies in the world are using GLEAC’s services?
- How do you see the future of AI technology and HR in the next 5-10 years?
Sallyann is currently the Founder of GLEAC, a platform that co-pilots learning, innovation and problem solving with industry experts using cutting edge neuro-science and behavioural science, A.I. and Machine Learning for which she has a pending patent making her one of 4% of women globally as a sole founder. GLEAC powers the Unicef YOMA platform in Africa, it powers the JIO phone company platform in India and was also the official APP for Skills of the Future at Expo 2020.
As a lawyer, Sallyann practised law for almost a decade focused on business transactions, estate planning, and real-estate. She began her teaching and mentoring career at 24 as a volunteer at KAPOW, a US government life skill program developed by the National Child Labor Committee and approved by the School Board of Florida. She was volunteer of the year 7 years in a row..
She published ‘Who Will I Become’, a love letter to the 8 year old within all of us. It is about our own becoming over and over again until our last breath..
Recently, she dropped the world's first NFT that tokenizes industry experts and is building the first Metaverse Living Human Library of wisdom with the NFT experts profiles ( think Wikipedia our neighbourhood library in Metaverse and interactive).
In 2011, Sallyann founded the Growing Leaders Foundation. In a partnership with the UNDP, thousands of at-risk youths and adults have benefitted in financial literacy and her Foundation’s work delivering soft transferable skills such as communication, entrepreneurship etc. in the Caribbeans, Latin America, and the MENA region. She has worked with reputed companies such as Nestle, DP World, NBAD, Repsol, Mubadala, Careem, etc in the region and has delivered soft skills to over 25,000 youths and adults through her Foundation in the last 6 years.
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Today's guest is Elizabeth Mathew, an experienced Capital markets executive, Web3 builder, and an entrepreneur. She is the head of the Growth and Partnerships Division at MetaMask Institutional, building on business strategy for blockchain and Web 3.0.
Elizabeth Mathew Interview Questions
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- How did you start working for MMI? What is the most memorable moment you have had with MMI since the first day?
- What is MMI’s vision and mission?
- As the Head of Growth and Partnerships of MMI, what is your opinion around partnership/ collaboration with other top crypto players? Can you name some partners that MMI is working with at the moment?
- What do you think are the critical features for the sustainable development of MMI?
- What do you think about the importance of alternative custody solutions since many organizations are subject to rigorous requirements when participating in the DeFi ecosystem?
- We know that MMI has been partnering with Leading custodians like Bitgo and Cactus Custody since 2021, could you share more about this partnership?
- How do you see the future of digital transformation in the next 2-5 years?
- As a women leader in Web3 and startup operator since 2013, do you have any advice for Startups and young people especially for strong ladies like you to step up and confidently pitch their ideas?
Elizabeth Mathew Biography
Elizabeth Mathew holds a double Master of Business Administration: in Entrepreneurship from Columbia Business School, and in Finance, Economics, and General Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
With an international exposure of working with brands like Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan, she is experienced in Financial strategies like Fixed Income Sales, Trading and Structuring.
Elizabeth established Vizzynow in March 2018, and also offered her consulting services for SmartVizX, an early stage VR/AR Solutions Provider for the GCC Region in the Architecture, Real Estate and Construction space, where she was responsible for Business Development and Market Research. She has also worked for Securitize and ConsenSys in executive positions.
A certified Blockchain architect from Blockchain Council, she has focussed her acumen towards Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and Web 3.0. She has contributed for various publications including ALTCOIN Magazine, TabbForum, and Journal of Securities Operations and Custody.
As an author, she was involved in creating “Tokenisation: Assembling the building blocks of an institutional digital assets marketplace” for the Journal of Securities Operations and Custody, where she shared her thoughts on the transformation in the way business-to-business (B2B) consensus is established in traditional capital markets, as well as to be a pivotal part of the buildout of the nascent decentralised capital markets infrastructure.
Elizabeth volunteers to mentor the young women in the United Arab Emirates under the ‘A Promise of a Generation (POAG)’ initiative by E7: Daughters of the Emirates, an organisation that creates a networking and development experience for young women in the UAE by focusing on Inspiration, Training, Connection and Commitment.
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The guest today is Kareem Refaay, Managing Director MENA & GCC (The Middle East North Africa & Gulf Council Countries) at The London Institute of Banking & Finance, a registered charity incorporated by the Royal Charter and focused on financial education. He has over 18 years of experience as a financial educator and as an executive for top financial institutions such as GCC Financial Institutions including Standard Chartered, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Gulf International Bank, and Al Hilal Bank.
Kareem Refaay Interview Questions
- Academic and Early Professional Background
- Starting in Finance - Financial Education
- About The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF)
- The Importance of Financial Education and Literacy
- Financial Education: The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF)
- User Cases
- The future
Kareem Refaay Biography
After his Bachelor's degree in Management Sciences from Sadat Academy for Management Sciences in 2004, Kareem joined Standard Chartered Bank. He served the organisation in various banking and financial roles for the next four years. Meanwhile, he also did a Diploma in International Business from The University of Cambridge in 2005.
Kareem joined the National bank of Abu Dhabi in 2009 as an Assistant Vice President of Learning and Development. He benchmarked his skills as Vice President of Learning Development at Gulf International Bank, Bahrain, which he joined in 2012.
He did his Master’s in Business Administration, specialising in Strategic Management from the University of Atlanta in 2012. In September 2013, he joined National Bank of Abu Dhabi, UAE as Group Talent Manager.
In 2017, Kareem joined al Hilal Bank as the Head of Talent and The London Institute of Banking & Finance as the Managing Director of MENA & GULF.
Kareem is a global thought leader and has appeared in multiple talk shows. He has moderated various events, including a session on ‘Climate Finance in the MENA Region: Challenges and Opportunities’ at the WETEX and Dubai Solar Show.
He was recently interviewed by global media outlets like Bloomberg News to discuss the current global interests and future of finance and investments in the GCC Markets.
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Today's guests are Rajiv Sainani is a FinTech leader, specialising in trading systems and digital strategy, with more than 35 years of experience in international markets. He is currently the Europe Growth Lead of MakerDAO, an unbiased global financial system.
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Allan Pedersen is a FinTech private equity investor, global business strategist, and serial entrepreneur, who has been making significant impact in the fintech and insurtech markets with his innovative and out-of-the box approach. He is now the CEO of Motanelis Group.
Interview Questions
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your professional and academic background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivation or inspiration?
- Could you share with us your stories behind MakerDAO and Monetalis?
- For Rajiv, what do you think are the main features of MakerDAO that make it stand out from the industry which already had so many similar ecosystems and products?
- For Allan, we see that you used to work with many Fintech companies and VC firms? What was the main motivation for you to establish Monetalis?
- Why does Monetalis focus on Green Economy Growth?
- Why did MakerDAO and Monetalis decide to collaborate with each other in the new strategic investment of $500M USD (converted from $500M DAI) into a combination of US Short Treasuries and Investment Grade Corporate Bonds?
- What are the strengths from the partner that you see as the core thing to make this investment successful?
- You said this allocation of DAI will promote the usability of digital assets in the traditional space. Could you explain more about this?
- MakerDAO is made up of all MKR token holders, vocal community members, and ecosystem stakeholders. MKR holders have the sole authority to enact changes to the system through on-chain voting. So what happens if the voters’ decisions are not matched or equivalent to the vision/ principles of the organisation?
- What do you think are the main challenges and opportunities with blockchain for the global economy, especially for Fintech?
- How do you see the development of cryptocurrency in the next 5 years?
Rajiv Sainani Biography
Rajiv is a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Bath, and Master’s in Control System Engineering from National Higher School of Toulouse.
Rajiv has worked extensively with global players like JPMorgan, Refinitiv, Wirex, and Luno with a track record of driving innovation, growth and market share.
Allan Pedersen Biography
Allan Pedersen is an M.Sc. in Economics and Finance from Aarhus University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He holds certifications in emergent technologies like blockchain technology, cloud management, decentralised finance, and distributed technology from AWS, IBM, UCL, Duke University, INSEAD, and University of Virginia.
Allan has been the Chairman of the Board at Contemi Solutions, where he played a vital role in completing and integrating three FinTech acquisitions. He was also a board member of INTELLICARE - ASALUS CORPORATION, and Stonestep AG, .
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Today's guest is Kåre Kjelstrøm, Concordium’s Group CTO and CPO. He is a senior engineering leader with extensive hands-on experience in companies like Uber or Silverbullet and in building systems at scale. He has a proven track record of designing and delivering large distributed systems and infrastructure components in heterogeneous environments across multi-cloud and on-prem. Acting in the roles of leader, software architect, engineer, manager, mentor, and teacher, he enjoys defining, implementing, and running large scale IT-systems.
Kåre Kjelstrøm Interview Questions
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your professional and academic background?
- From coding to writing, what are the nuances?
- From a software engineering perspective, what is the cutting edge base of UBER?
- How did you come to blockchain?
- What blockchain solutions is Concordium involved in? How do you aim to move forward?
- About Concordium’s vision and mission now, what are the most significant things you aim to achieve to fulfill this mission as CTO and CPO of Concordium?
- We know that Concordium aims to embed encrypted ID into on-chain transactions in order to make ID credentials available to smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps) while maintaining privacy. Could you share more about the benefits this would bring to our community?
- What role does Concordium play within the digital currency space?
- Your views on Blockchain development these years? Do you think that Blockchain will play a crucial role in all aspects of our life in the coming years?
- About maintaining security in the digital world.
About Concordium
Concordium is a public-layer 1, science-backed blockchain, designed to balance privacy with accountability through its ID layer. The protocol level ID, ensures that every wallet is associated with a real-world identity that has been verified through a third party ID provider, so that people and companies can trust one another, while remaining private, with zero-knowledge-proof. With safe transactions, Concordium can unlock a global, multi-trillion-dollar economy, so bankers to regulators actually want to use blockchain.
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The new guest is Aurélien Ominus, an innovator, blockchain author of 'A Practical Guide To Blockchain In Business’ and others, at Eyrolles Business, serial entrepreneur & Blockchain Deeptech teacher at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Seein-apps.com, a SaaS platform that makes crypto investments sociable and engaging for users.
Aurélien Onimus Interview Questions
- Academic background
- Early career
- The state of blockchain
- Blockchain impact in France
- Blockchain and Real Estate
- As a blockchain author
- About 'A Practical Guide To Blockchain In Business’
Aurélien Onimus Biography
Aurelien Ominus is an innovator, blockchain author at Eyrolles Business, serial entrepreneur & Blockchain Deeptech teacher at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and active enthusiast sport athlete. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Seein-apps.com, a SaaS platform that makes crypto investments sociable and engaging for users.
He is certified in an Executive Program in Design Thinking from MIT Sloan School of Management. He also did a Master's programme from INSEEC San Francisco focused on start-up development.
He regularly contributes as an expert columnist on an innovation Subject linked to Start-up and Tech, including Blockchain, Web 3, Metaverse, Crypto, start-up, and fundraising at France 3 Corse Via Stella Via Nova.
He is also the former founder of Manager l'innovation, an innovation firm that helps create and manage ambitious start-ups, project and product management, Blockchain, Design Thinking, Lean Start-up.
As an author, Aurelien has published four books on blockchain: A Practical Guide To Blockchain In Business (his latest book, in October 2022, published with Eyrolles Business), Blockchain: A Revolution In Real Estate (2020, published with Eyrolles Business), The world after the Blockchain: what is behind Bitcoin (2020, self published), and Blockchain and ICOs (2018, self published).
He is also a Blockchain Deeptech teacher in Entrepreneurship & Innovation management programme at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
As a Coach and Manager of the INSEEC basketball team, he managed a team of 12 members, winning a majority of games in the French Championship.
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Hirander Misra is Chairman & CEO of GMEX Group, a company that offers innovative solutions for the creation & operation of electronic exchanges and post trade infrastructure in securities, FX, derivatives, commodities, crypto & digital tokenized assets.
A B.Sc in Economics and Economics History from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and M.Sc in Business Systems Analysis and Design from University of London, Hirander is one of the Top 10 influential business leaders of blockchain technology in the All Party Parliamentary Group 2018 report on the UK Blockchain industry. He is also In LATTICE80’s Top 100 influencer list for the UN Sustainable Developments Goal agenda for pioneering blockchain technology solutions. He is featured in the Financial Technologist 2019 list of the 50 most game changing founders of FinTech companies.
Hirander Misra Interview Questions
- Could you please start by telling us a little bit about your professional and academic background?
- Could you share with us about your earlier career path and your motivations or inspiration?
- About your products at GMEX
- Can you tell us more about the financial institutions you work with and the solutions you provide
- Back to basics, what is an API?
- What are the market trends and numbers that make people afraid of crypto. What can you say to bring in confidence in the space?
- Can you tell us some case studies to see some light in the blockchain space?
- About ESG initiatives you are part of
- Key highlights of GMEX business: collaborations and messages
- Wrap up
Hirander Misra Biography
Hirander Misra is Chairman & CEO of GMEX Group, a company that offers innovative solutions for the creation & operation of electronic exchanges and post trade infrastructure in securities, FX, derivatives, commodities, crypto & digital tokenized assets.
A B.Sc in Economics and Economics History from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and M.Sc in Business Systems Analysis and Design from University of London, Hirander brings an acumen that is backed by know-how and experience of more than 25 years.
He is a partner of Digital Partners Network (DPN) offering new age digital professional services and the world's first regulated tokenised hybrid fund - Digital Investment Fund PCC (DIF) for which he is Managing Director. He is also Chairman of SECDEX, the Seychelles based Securities, Commodities and Derivatives Exchange. He is also Founder & Co-Chairman of FinComEco, a fully integrated Financial & Commodities Ecosystem providing services to help improve the livelihoods of Sub Saharan African farmers using blockchain.
Formerly, he was the COO and Co-Founder of Chi-X Europe Limited, being instrumental in taking the company from concept in November 2005 to reality with the launch and ongoing development with a successful exit to Bats Global Markets for $365M.
Hirander is one of the Top 10 influential business leaders of blockchain technology in the All Party Parliamentary Group 2018 report on the UK Blockchain industry. He is also In LATTICE80’s Top 100 influencer list for the UN Sustainable Developments Goal agenda for pioneering blockchain technology solutions. He is featured in the Financial Technologist 2019 list of the 50 most game changing founders of FinTech companies.
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Gregory Griffiths is an entrepreneur, technology evangelist and huge advocate for the United Nations and the Sustainable Development Goals. Greg is the current chairman and founder of IDEAX Ventures, a global boutique consulting firm that specializes in Web3 (+Web2), Cryptocurrency, Technology and Innovation. He is also the founder of UCROWDME, a decentralised innovation and insights platform powered by web 3.0 technologies and professional investment deal portal.
Gregory Griffiths Interview Questions
- How did you start your diverse journey of being an entrepreneur, advisor, and an enthusiast in technology and finance.
- Energy drives the business and productivity: energy is the key.
- Highlights of Greg’s work with IDEAX
- How do you manage your different ventures, and what is your take on governance and challenges with crypto
- How are you working to demystify the concepts about technologies and digital tools, and how do you build your ecosystems and networks?
- Highlight the work of the organisations you are advising: The Block Space and CryptoNitro
- Moving forward with IDEAX and the roadmap
- Wrap up
Gregory Griffiths Biography
Greg has an honors Bachelor in Business Administration and Information Technology from RTE Business School, U.K., and Strategic Management and Innovation Specialisation from Copenhagen Business School. He also did an executive course in Corporate Strategy from UCL School of Management (UK).
Greg has held various executive levels at corporations including Spigit, Singtel Optus (where he achieved the largest corporate contract deal size value), Elcom and Nexon Asia Pacific.
Since 2004, Greg has been an active technology enthusiast, especially for blockchain technology and Web 3.0, and acted as Executive Advisor to tech companies like NZTwork, The Block Space, Credit Metaverse, and CryptoNitro.
He is also the Executive Board Member of AFEN Blockchain Network, a cutting edge NFT Project dedicated to the development of user-friendly blockchain solutions in real estate and education, arts & entertainment, and decentralised finance; and The Block Space, the largest Web 3.0 knowledge and talent space in the world.
He also serves as the Business Consultant at The Private Office of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Bin Faisal Al-Qassimi Group of Companies in Dubai, UAE.
A Forbes Author and Technology Council Member at the Forbes Technology Council, he was awarded the 'Frontrunner Award' within Information Technology at the Go Global Awards 2021 (International Trade Council). He has also received the Noonies Award by Hackernoon, where the best writers, thinkers, hodlers, leaders, and makers of the tech industry are now recognised.
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Tommaso Di Bartolo is a serial entrepreneur, startup investor, author, and an advisor to some of Silicon Valley's most renowned startup accelerators such as Google Launchpad, Draper University, and The Alchemist.
A Master’s in Electronic Marketing from Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing, Tommaso has built four tech startups from scratch and has two exits under his belt.
Tommaso is a frequent global keynote speaker at 10 default talks on topics including Future back innovation (his books), corporate innovation, and startup frameworks.
He is also Metaverse Business Counselor at Forbes Business Council, and Founder chairman of AlmaMeta.
He volunteers as mentor at BootstrapLabs, Mind The Bridge, the European Innovation Academy, The GSVlabs Pioneer Accelerator, and StartX.
He is a faculty member at UC Berkeley running a class on entrepreneurship and serves the role of guest lecturer at Stanford University. His expertise in metaverse and NFTs led him to serve as a professor at Everyrealm Inc during 2022. He is also the Founding Board Member at SiliconVal.ly, an institute that helps "future-proof" traditional corporations, by applying transformative innovation systematically.
Based in Silicon Valley, Tommaso speaks 7 languages, and is the author of "Navigating the Metaverse" and "Growth Hack Your Startup: How 'Creative Traction Methodology' Gets Innovators Traction”.
In his role as philanthropist, Tommaso is the Chair of the ProteinX
Foundation, a non-profit organization fostering next-gen proteins and sustainable packaging. He also hosts proteinX, a podcast series that is focused on next-gen protein.
Tommaso Di Bartolo Interview Questions
- About professional and academic background
- From Cecille to Silicon Valley, what motivated you?
- How did you establish between the different layers of your personality: entrepreneur, author, teacher, and technology enthusiast?
- How did you transition and now coordinate your different roles?
- About ‘Navigating The Metaverse’: how did the book come and what is the message?
- What is and what is not metaverse? What are some of the myths and misconceptions about the metaverse?
- How are we going to attract adoption of metaverse?
- How are we going to achieve this vision of the metaverse economy?
- How can we guide businesses in the metaverse?
- You wrote “Growth Hack Your Startup: How 'Creative Traction Methodology' Gets Innovators Traction”. Give us a highlight/ sneak-peek into it.
About the book “Navigating the metaverse”
Like the early internet and social media before it, the metaverse represents the next great inflection point in technology that will declare new winners and new losers of online business.
Navigating the Metaverse helps businesses and creators discover their "aha" moment by breaking down the metaverse by its parts, including NFTs, user trends, business models, and more. Readers will explore everything from the metaverse basics, its economy, to strategy, and advice on how to make a first or an existing metaverse project a success.
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Poul V. Jensen is the Managing Director of the European Businesses and Technology Centre (EBTC), currently based in their Delhi HQ. The EBTC is dedicated to generating new business opportunities and enabling transfer of technology between India-Europe, within the fields of climate change, sustainability, and biodiversity in the sectors of Energy, Environment, Mobility, and ICT.
Mr Jensen’s current main task is to execute the mandate of bringing the EU and India closer together, both in their strategic and operational relations. This includes addressing challenges in transferring clean technologies, providing input for developing clusters, and for developing procedures to enhance collaboration on R&D and innovation.
Poul V. Jensen Interview Questions
- Background in terms of cultures, academics, and profession
- How did you adapt to different culture on your journey to achievements?
- How is Europe positioning itself in today’s time?
- Maintaining the balance between Europe and India with EBTC and harnessing the potentials that lie within.
- If I’m a company in UK and want to do business in India, can I route through EBTC? (or how does EBTC create a channel of business and commerce between India and Europe/UK?)
- Some impactful breakthroughs under EBTC belt
- Challenges and nuances in business structure and strategies like Smart City development and CleanTech
- Case studies of a use case in sports (european side of innovation)
- Looking at innovation from EBTC from an Indian perspective
Poul V. Jensen Biography
Poul Jensen holds a Bachelors in International Trade from the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Master’s in Business Administration from CASS Business School London, Poul has served various roles throughout his career, ranging from commercial manager to consultant, and now a Managing Director at European Business and Technology Centre, New Delhi, India.
Taking on the role of senior strategic consultant at TransCare AG in 2002, a global consulting company with focus on transport and logistics, Poul took care of their International Business Development in diverse industries.
Currently, he is the Managing Director of EBTC Delhi since Jan 2010, an establishment dedicated to generating new business opportunities and enabling transfer of technology, within the fields of climate change, sustainability, and biodiversity. The focus sectors of EBTC are Energy, Environment, Mobility, and ICT.
As Managing Director, Poul is tasked to build a team and to create competency to bring European and Indian businesses and technologies together. The role encompasses strategic as well as operational responsibilities, all working in tandem with the ongoing EU-India Policy dialogues within these fields.
About EBTC
European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC) is a project advisory and facilitation organisation. As a trusted partner in the Europe-India Business Corridor, EBTC builds actionable intelligence through projects, clusters and programmes backed by its vast body of knowledge & innovative solutions.
EBTC enables smart collaborations between the two regions through its expertise, network and know-how, with specific focus towards sustainability, innovation, green technology and internationalisation.
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Zach Schleien is a serial entrepreneur, bestselling author, mental health advocate, and a digital marketer. With more than 10 years of experience as a digital marketeer, he is currently the CEO of Filteroff App, a video speed dating app for brands, nonprofits and influencers to connect with their audiences.
Interview Questions
- About your professional and academic background
- What brought you to digital marketing?
- Your experience in creating a dating app TopRomp
- What is Filteroff?
- How does this speed dating thing work?
- How do you build an audience around this app?
- As an influencer, for example, how would you guide your audience from theory to practical?
- A series of communities in your app, how is Filteroff different from other players in the market like TikTok?
- Your previous work with mental health and community building
Commonality between Filteroff and 18 percent is to community and face-to-face interaction (For quotes) - How does Filteroff deal with issues of ethics and mental health within different communities?
- How are you planning to scale up?
- How influencers can utilise the app, and highlighting some of the key examples of influencers or use cases.
- Why should I choose your app over others?
Zach Schleien Biography
Zach holds a Masters in Information Management from Syracuse University and has developed his career around entrepreneurship and as a digital marketeer, working with the likes of Johnson & Johnson and becoming Business Analyst for the Global Health Services team.
As a serial entrepreneur, Schleien has founded several companies like BeginU, a platform for college students to find projects and work opportunities to develop their skills, Top Romp, LIFT Protein Muffin and, more recently, Filteroff App.
After his friend’s passing with mental illness, Zach started different initiatives to help people with mental illness. He has launched several campaigns and projects like CaringCrowd, a crowdfunding platform for non-profits, NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness,( the nation's largest grassroots mental health organisation) and 18percent, a free mental health online community based off Slack. In 2 different campaigns, his organisations has helped more than 960 parents with children who have a mental illness.
As an author, he constructed an e-book at Bitly, where he was a customer service data analyst. In this book, he highlighted 37 key ways brands use Bitly. He also co-authored the #2 bestseller on Amazon, Hacking The Internship Process” while pursuing his Masters in Information Management at Syracuse University.
Zach was awarded uLeader Young Professional of the Year in 2018 and winner of the 33 under 33 category, Corporate/Fortune 500.
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Timothy Hughes is a bestselling author, creator, influencer, and a content sales professional. Tim is currently the co-founder and CEO of DLA ignite after a 25+ year career in sales and executive positions in companies like Oracle, Fujitsu, Sysao and more. Using his social media networks, Tim Hughes has been contributing to the creator economy in his given subjects of social and digital selling, digital marketing, leadership, and management.
Timothy is a bestselling author, having co-authored “Social Selling - Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers” now in its second edition and “Smarketing - How To Achieve Competitive Advantage through Blended Sales and Marketing”, both published by Kogan Page.
Having worked extensively for more than 35 years in sales and marketing, Tim has made possible large-scale sales transformations within different organisations, including Fujitsu, Sysao, e-Vector and DSP Global. But his most important role has been at Oracle as UK Business Development Director. His position at Oracle brought large-scale sales transformation and with the result of increasing by more than $100m the sales uplift of the company.
Interview Questions
- About your professional and academic background
- Early career and motivations
- Your role and the stories behind the foundation of DLA Ignite
- About DLA Ignite:
- Can you explain more about the impact of social media to every business function and how your transformation products can tackle the current challenges?
- Could you explain more about the 5 cornerstones of Social Selling?
- What do you think about “Influencer Marketing” since it has become more and more viral in recent years?
- Do you have any significant advice that you would like to give our audiences, especially the ones who are doing Business Development/ Sales or companies who are looking for a wide transformation?
- Please summarise the five pillars you mentioned in your book ‘Social Selling - Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers’.
About DLA Ignite
Timothy Hughes and Adam Gray formed DLAignite when they saw the effect that social media could have and realised that in the future social media would probably play a crucial role in the effectiveness of all organisations. They founded DLAIgnite in September 2016 and were almost immediately joined by Alex.
DLAignite maintains a permanent presence in all of earth’s diverse continents The benefit of global partnerships gives DLAignite the ability to pair organisations with local associates who understand specific regional linguistic nuance and cultural sensitivities.
To date through its associate and partner networks, DLAignite operates in territories covering well over 40% of the world’s population and is constantly expanding this.
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Company Website: DLAIgnite.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyhughessocialselling/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Timothy_Hughes
You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/c/TimothyHughes1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimHughesSocialSelling/
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Clubhouse: @timothy_hughes
Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@timothy_hughes
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QuHarrison Terry is an author and digital global expert growth marketer. QuHarrison is head of growth marketing at Mark Cuban Companies, a Dallas, Texas venture capital firm.
A true personality in LinkedIn and digital marketing, QuHarrison has co-authored the NFT Handbook, a detailed guide on how to create, sell and buy non-fungible tokens without the need for a technical background, and more recently, The Metaverse Handbook: Innovating for the Internet's Next Tectonic Shift, a guide to every aspect of the technologies and cultural change related to the metaverse.
QuHarrison has also been featured on CNN, Huffington Post, Xconomy, Cointelegraph, MobiHealthNews, MedCity News, and as the Co-Host on CNBC’s No Retreat: Business Bootcamp, a series that centres around the philosophy of Wall Street famous broker Joe De Sena and is materialized in his off-the-grid, elite Vermont training facility known as "The Farm".
QuHarrison Terry made it 4 times as LinkedIn Top Voice in Tech for his contribution to digital marketing and technology.
QuHarrison Terry Interview Questions
- Redefining metaverse
- You say the metaverse is till not here, but in my opinion, I’d say we are someway here. What in your vision of metaverse, is the feature that needs to be developed to create a bridge?
- Please summarise your vision for metaverse in the near future
- Your views on NFTs in the metaverse
- Pods (Artefacts) in the metaverse
- What do you think is the way to harness the true potentials that lie within the metaverse?
- My own vision of metaverse is holograms going around to create an immersive experience. What is your take on digital twins and latest advancements?
- How do you see sports and entertainment in the metaverse?
- If you certify everyone in the metaverse, the bots disappear. But, creators need those networks- a challenge and an opportunity here. How do you see this?
- How can users find their element in the metaverse?
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Braham Singh is a seasoned executive leader, author and global thought leader with more than 30 years of experience in the telecom industry, content delivery networks, and cloud services. Currently, Braham is the CEO of Big Data Exchange (BDx).
As an author, he has written the novel ‘Bombay Swastika’ and contributed to the Amazon Best Seller, Greener Data: Actionable Insights from Industry Leaders.
Braham Singh Interview Questions
- Background - Early Years
- About your professional journey from being in sales to an analyst in telecommunications, and then to data centers and cloud exchanges.
- Where does your passion for writing come from? How do you link it up to your science background?
- What would you highlight from your career?
- The Telecom Industry today
- What is BDx Data Centers?
- BDx and Data management in the web 3.0 era
- Data and metaverse
- Final remarks
Braham Singh Biography
Bombay born and chemistry science graduate, Braham Singh got his first job as a software systems analyst and spending some time in the telecommunications field, Braham made his way to the world of data centers around 2008.
Along his career, Braham Singh has worked with brands like Hutchinson AT&T, Sprint International, Globe One, Teleglobe International, BtN Access (now PCCW Global), and Hutchison Telecommunications, among others.
As an executive leader, Braham Singh has held key positions as SVP at Global Product Management of Reliance Communications & Global Cloud Xchange and also the CEO of Red Snapper, a Malaysian government-funded initiative, to promote the growth of wireless broadband in the country.
As the CEO of IDC and Associated Business, Braham played a leading role in developing HGC’s cutting-edge Big Data Exchange (BDx) services – a one-stop content exchange platform built for content providers, with a focus on cyber and physical security, as well as on containment.
CEO of BDx
Since 2020, he has been leading BDx as the CEO, overseeing the developments of the company’s data center, colocation and hybrid cloud solutions in Asia Pacific. Thanks to Braham’s leadership, BDx empowers enterprises to scale across the world from their centers in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Singapore.
As an author, he has written ‘Bombay Swastika’ a thriller that swings from a Nazi Berlin gearing up for its Final Solution, to 1964 Bombay, where Ernst Steiger, a German Jew, accidentally finds himself caught up in the murder of a young tribal, killed amidst allegations of something being stolen from a secure, American compound.
Braham Singh is also a contributing author to the Amazon Best Seller, Greener Data: Actionable Insights from Industry Leaders that debuted on Earth Day – April 22, 2022. Greener Data shows a series of insights from industry leaders pushing the boundaries of the sustainability conversation in the data industry and challenging all of us to collectively do more.
He is also a writer, author of articles like “Following The Sun”, where he commits to renewable energy in the context of Data Centers; “Traders & Astronauts” where he draws a parallelism between traders and astronauts from the Netflix show Away;
He also wrote the screenplay for Emperor, a political thriller set in Malaysia and based around their May 1969 race riots. Emperor, the novel, is near completion.
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Lars Seier Christensen is a Danish businessman, entrepreneur, and investor who co-founded what was to become Saxo Bank, a financial multi-asset trading and investment platform and the founder and CEO of Concordium.
After 20 years as co-CEO of Saxo Bank, he stepped down and founded Seier Capital to focus on investments in blockchain projects, including most notably the foundational blockchain protocol, Concordium. As the CEO of Concordium, Lars oversees the company’s development to become the first project to have an innovative user identity layer built-in at the protocol level. Based in Zug, Switzerland, Concordium utilises smart contracts and the cryptographic concept of zero-knowledge proofs, wherein users can verify that something is true without physically seeing the evidence.
Lars Christensen’s passion for the restaurant business drove him to own several gourmet restaurants, most notably Denmark’s first three Michelin star restaurants, Geranium, the hi-tech restaurant Alchemist, and the iconic Cafe Dan Turell in Copenhagen.
Lars Seier Christensen Interview Questions
- About professional and academic background
- About Saxo Bank and as a pioneer in FX and trading
2.1 Founding history
2.2 Technology and trading platform
2.3 Culture and ecosystem - Views on blockchain, first contact
3.1 Opportunities and challenges for businesses - Founding Concordium
4.1 Mission and Vision
4.2 Goals - Can you explain to us about the "big migration"? Businesses moving to blockchain
- Research from Citibank highlights the metaverse could be a $13 trillion industry by 2030. You wrote an article with the CEO of banknote and stamp printer, Royal Joh Enschede, about using secure virtual banknotes in the Metaverse.
- How do you see the ID in the inception of the data Avatars we are creating that will increasingly get bigger and bigger as the metaverse tech becomes mainstream?
- The future of Concordium, blockchain and businesses in the context of the metaverse
- Utility of Concordium in distinguishing between Digital Identity vs Physical identity.
- About maintaining security in the digital world.
- Future plans
- About Seier Capital
- Advice as a serial entrepreneur and investor.
About Concordium
Concordium is a public-layer 1, science-backed blockchain, designed to balance privacy with accountability through its ID layer. The protocol level ID, ensures that every wallet is associated with a real-world identity that has been verified through a third party ID provider, so that people and companies can trust one another, while remaining private, with zero-knowledge-proof. With safe transactions, Concordium can unlock a global, multi-trillion-dollar economy, so bankers to regulators actually want to use blockchain.
Concordium offers unique and global ID credentials for DeFi degens, metaverse players, and gamers, available to smart contracts, whilst preserving privacy. This, according to them, is the key to the mass migration of web2 to web3 and beyond.
Concordium’s native coin, CCD, is used for paying transaction fees, staking, rewards for node operators, and as a collateral/settlement medium for Concordium’s DeFi landscape.
With leadership from Volvo, IKEA, Credit Suisse, and 52M EUR raised to date, the team is now scaling the chain to their extensive network of the world's biggest enterprises.
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Taaha Nizam, CEO of HashCase and creator of 40 NFT collections, features at the latest episode of Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast series, powered by openbusinesscouncil.org, fashionabc.org, and citiesabc.com to discuss how NFTs are opening the gates to overall Web 3.0 experience.
Taaha Nizam Interview Questions
- Introduction
- Personal background, education, family, involvement with Polygon, early career
- Experience as a young entrepreneur
- Taaha’s company HashCase, new solutions in NFTs, Web 3.0
- NFT adoption, democratisation: the basics
- How to make NFTs more secure and easier to buy
- Clients and case studies from HashCase
- Democratisation of NFTs: issues (gas fees, NFT fraud, etc.) and solutions
- Metaverse, Web 3.0 discussion
- India’s tech ecosystem
- Final remarks
Taaha Nizam Biography
A graduate in engineering sciences from BITS (Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences), a technology and engineering institute in India, Taaha has been dedicating his efforts to understand blockchain and sustainability, allowing him to benchmark his knowledge for bringing up solutions for inefficiencies in different industries.
Taaha Nizam has an extensive background in different industries, such as AI, Cybersecurity, Fossil Fuels, Sustainability, and most notably, Web 3.0 and Blockchain Technology.
As an entrepreneur and CEO of HashCase, his goal with the platform is to allow users to access their NFTs without ever having to create a web3 account, bringing NFTs and digital assets closer to mass audiences.
As a researcher, he enjoys sharing his knowledge with the masses, particularly college students, and has given talks and hosted workshops with several colleges.
He also maintains an active blog centered on upcoming projects and innovations.
It is his belief that the gap between those who can/do use emerging technologies and those who don’t is something that is worth noticing and dedicating efforts to bridging. In doing so, he aims to bring the wonders of Blockchain technology to the masses and bring about a revolution akin to Paypal for digital payments.
About Hash Case
Founded in 2021, HashCase is a platform that offers a novel custodial wallet solution to allow users to access their NFTs without ever having to create a Web 3.0 account.
Their goal is to create a decentralised ownership of luxury items that ensures authenticity, and warranty, and becomes a utility token to a now verified and gated community that still retains the ability to stay anonymous. All this, without ever having to create a web3 account.
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Dr. Yıldız Tuğba Kurtuluş Kara is a social entrepreneur and a senior international political economy expert. Dr. Yıldız Tuğba Kurtuluş Kara is the current founder and president of the London-based Society 5.0 Institute. Along her career, she has played pivotal roles as a trade expert at the Ministry of Economy, Turkey and also represented the Istanbul Chamber of Industry in the national and international arena.
Dr. Yıldız Tuğba Kurtuluş Kara Interview Questions
1. Introduction
2. Can you tell us about your education and studies background
3. You have been working between many countries like Turkiye and the UK but also Japan and others. Can you tell us more about that experience and how do you see the importance of trade corridors and culture bridges?
4. Can you please tell us why you had an interest in Society 5.0? You established the Society 5.0 Institute in August 2017. It is a crucial undertaking, given that very few institutes and think tanks worldwide are active in this field. Can you share your story? How did you decide to launch this social enterprise?
5. What would you say if I asked you to make a five-minute pitch on Society 5.0 definition and vision?
6. Please elaborate on the importance of Society 5.0 vision for developing and developed countries.
7. What Society 5.0 means for economies and businesses?
6. How else is Society 5.0 vision named by other countries or relevant institutions? What is the general terminology referring to this concept?
7. What kind of services do you provide as a Society 5.0 Institute?
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The current COO of Blocksport, Samir Ceric is well-known as an investor, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, guest lecturer, mental health campaigner, and public speaker. He has managed various C-level roles at some of the leading brands, football clubs, and art & design organisations.
Interview Questions
- Academic and professional background
As investor
Entrepreneur
Senior Executive - About Blocksport.io
- About the Sports industry and SportsTech
- Blocksport use cases
- Blockchain and Sports
- As a mental health campaigner
Samir has a strong legacy within the creative industry including launching award-winning businesses. He is focused on blockchain technology and innovation in the fields of finance, investment, creative industry (film, music, fashion and art) and sport; aiming to create more transparency and openings in these industries for high level investments.
Currently, Samir Ceric is the COO of Blocksport.io, one of the world’s leading SportsTech solutions providers. He is also the Chairman of the Board at the Mayfair Investment Club, Chief Strategy Officer of RESULT Sports and sits on the Advisory Board of Walton Group, cross asset (crypto & fiat) digital brokerage and asset management firm.
He has been labelled as one of the ‘UK’s Most Powerful People in Art & Fashion’ by the Times Magazine and ‘London’s Top Tastemaker’ by Time Out London (alongside his wife, a renowned British fashion designer).
In addition to that, he has been working with a number of institutions and individuals as a mental health campaigner supporting initiatives Prince Harry, Prince William, and Princess Kate put together called Heads Together as well as Mind charity led by Stephen Fry.
Samir has appeared live or recorded on ITV, BBC, NBC News and has published articles in The Times, The Financial Times, Time Out London, the Guardian, The Sunday Times, Vogue Italia, Vogue UK, Madame Figaro.
In addition, he also won HCLUB 100 Award in Art & Design Category Issued by The Hospital Club in Nov 2013, and Walpole Brand of Tomorrow Class, Issued by The Walpole in Sep 2012, while being associated with Wolf & Badger.
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Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is a speaker and best-selling author on the future of work and technology. A Digital Speaker, Dr. Mark has deep expertise in how AI, big data, blockchain, the Internet of Things, and other digital technologies disrupt businesses, governments, and society.
Mark van Rijmenam Interview Questions
- Background - Education and early career
- Digital transformation today
- Mark’s books: Think Bigger
- Challenges and opportunities of emerging techs and blockchain
- Insights about the metaverse
- User cases of the metaverse
- Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy
Mark van Rijmenam Biography
He has a Bachelor's in Hospitality Management, a Master of Science in Marketing Management, and a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Technology Sydney. He has collaborated on research topics:
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Revising the ‘science of the organisation’: theorising AI agency and actorhood, Innovation, 23(1), pp.127-144
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Avoid being the turkey: how big data analytics changes the game of strategy in times of ambiguity and uncertainty, Long range planning, 52(5), p.101841
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The politics of openness. Cambridge Handbook of Open Strategy, Cambridge University Press, pp 307-325
He has inspired businesses, their employees, and audiences to embed smartness in their organizations, remain competitive in years to come, and apply technology responsibly. Nonetheless, he has worked with the likes of Santander, EY, 3M, Nestle, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Wipro, YonYou, FWD, and Capgemini.
Dr. Van Rijmenam has spoken in 20 countries across the globe and collectively inspired over 100.000 managers, directors, and C-level executives at leading organizations in banking, technology, insurance, and a range of businesses.
As an author, Mark has presented his insights through his books: Think Bigger, The Organisation of Tomorrow, and Step Into The Metaverse. He has also contributed to Blockchain by Dr. Philippa Ryan, and Blockchain Technology as the Operating System of the Digital Age, for Platform Revolution.
Dr. Rijmenam assists organizations to apply technologies in ensuring sustained competitive advantage. He thrives in an environment where he can apply digital technology to reimagine business models and governments to ensure their ethical application.
Step Into The Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy
In this book, Dr. Mark van Rijmenam maps out the extraordinary opportunities and challenges facing business leaders, consumers, regulators, policymakers, and other metaverse stakeholders trying to navigate the future of the Internet.
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Jason Michael Primrose is a serial entrepreneur, writer, storyteller, creator, strategist, experiential marketing guy, and influencer. Jason is well known for creating The Lost Children of Andromeda bestseller series. Being from a family of literature, poetry, and prose, Jason was magnetised to the world of storytelling from his tender years.
Jason Michael Primrose Biography
Jason Michael Primrose worked twelve hard years of consulting in brand and creative marketing to nurture his brainchild "The Lost Children of Andromeda" which is the first IP under the TCC umbrella.
He worked as a brand strategy consultant with Primrose Productions, XOMAD Digital Marketing, Three Cherries LLC, Coordinates Collection, good hYOUman, and Calaesthetics in the Greater Los Angeles area. He evolved in influencer marketing at I.AM+ and Blue Revolver Inc. He founded a consulting business "Caged Creative" in 2015 that is focused on connecting the talent of today with socially conscious and ethical brands (and vice versa) for partnerships, storytelling, disruptive content, and activations.
But it was Cluster Chronicles, a media, technology, and publishing company, that Jason founded and is currently the CEO of where Lost Children of Andromeda debuted.
He also founded AndromedaBEETS- an IP Expansion through coordinated NFT projects, leveraging literature as source material to create a gamified reading experience.
The Lost Children of Andromeda
The Lost Children of Andromeda is an immersive sci-fi experience that mixes elements of literature, art, and music. The story starts with Zosma, a Dystopian novel following a young, African American man on his heroic quest to rescue an alien refugee.
The original book series serves as the foundation for the NFT offshoot, which incorporates the use of non-fungible tokens into the reading experience.
Set 30 years in the future, the “Lost Children” metaverse combines role-playing, storytelling, and a timeline.
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Chris Cummins is the founder and CEO of Iconic Moments, the first NFT marketplace for the 450,000 museums, archives, and cultural institutions around the world. A former attorney, Chris has been involved in venture capital firms, education and in cultural businesses. Chris is now leading the NFT wave and its practical uses for museums and cultural institutions with Iconic Moments.
Interview Questions
- Background: History, from attorney to NFTs
- How did you enter the world of technology?
- How did you begin your journey of storytelling?
- The inception of Iconic Moments: The Narrative
- How are going to take your marketplace?
- What are your efforts to put NFTs to real-world value?
- How are you highlighting metaverse experiences with your work?
- How are you building your platform for Iconic Moments?
- How are you taking it forward in terms of funding, and planning? a bit of the roadmap
Chris Cummings Biography
He started his career as a law attorney at Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin and Roberts. He was also a Research Assistant to Prof. John Randall Trahan at Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University. He also worked as an Extern, Federal State Defender; Judicial Law Clerk for Judge Gur Holdrige and Judge Tureau at 23rd Judicial District, and for Chief Justice Bernette J. Johnson at Louisiana Supreme Court.
He was also the CEO of SwiftWing Ventures, a venture capital firm located out of Chattanooga, Tennessee, investing in great ideas, mentor companies, and bringing startups to the market.
Prior to founding Iconic Moments, Chris founded Pass It Down, an award-winning digital exhibit design platform transforming how museums and cultural institutions engage their visitors.
He was also the co-Founder of Woople, LLC. Woople makes e-learning simple, affordable, fun and easy for organizations. The company has delivered over 200 million minutes of educational content to Fortune 500 companies around the globe, liked over 1,000,000 times.
He is a graduate in Political Sciences & International Studies at Louisiana State University, and specialised in advocacy from LSU Law, where he was awarded as Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Champion, ABA National Appellate Advocacy Octofinalist, and Chancellor's Cup Senior Appellate Challenge Champion.
About Iconic Moments
Iconic Moments is the world’s first NFT marketplace and blockchain exclusively for museums and historical institutions.
The company helps to create a sustainable model for the preservation of history and for the cultural industry. Looking at the grim condition of this industry, and its future during the COVID-19 period, the team created a new model for the cultural heritage industry.
Iconic is a product of Pass It Down, an award-winning interactive storytelling platform, is one of the 40 organisations worldwide to be recognised for using technology as means of achieving UN's SDGs.
Iconic Moments was recognised at the World Summit Awards Global Congress 2022, awarded in the Culture and Tourism category in March.
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Carlos Salas, a cybersecurity expert, is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast Series.
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Carlos Salas is a software architect and AWS cloud specialist with more than 12 years of experience in fields such as Unix Administration, Software Development, Database Administration, Cloud Architecture, and Research and Development.
Carlos joined digital security and privacy solutions company NordLayer in 2021 and currently serves as an engineering manager there, supervising and coordinating the company’s efforts towards updating and deploying their privacy and security solutions.
A Master’s Degree in Informatics by the University of Vilnius, Carlos Salas is always innovating and looking for better ways to grow both professionally and personally.
Carlos Salas Interview Questions
- Career and Academic Background
- About NordLayer
- Mission
- Objectives
- Context
- Achievements
- Cyber Security And the Metaverse
- Information Authenticity
- Manipulation of Data
- Confidentiality
- How can we better protect people?
- The cutting-edge technologies of Web3 are revolutionizing industries and parts of everyday life, which also means they bring with them novel security threats. This begs the question: With such nascent technology, what other kinds of emerging threats are out there? And how do we protect ourselves?
- Cryptojacking and blockchain vulnerabilities
- Phishing Threats - as companies rush to be the first product on the market, holes and vulnerabilities that weren’t expected can appear, and there is a higher chance of data compromises.
- Education - Additionally, next-generation antivirus (NGAV) and endpoint protection solutions are a necessity - We need a combination of the human brain, instinct and AI machine learning to detect and flush out novel threats.
- The “freedom” and end-user ownership that Web3 will offer consumers is the same freedom that cybercriminals will also be able to enjoy. We need to find a solution whereby the vision of an autonomous web for all can be experienced, without opening up a huge can of worms.
About NordLayer
Nord Security is one of the leaders in providing digital security and privacy solutions for individuals and businesses. They are a home for advanced security solutions that share the Nord brand and values. Today, their products are used by millions of customers worldwide and acknowledged by the most influential tech sites and IT security specialists. Since 2012, NordLayer have been creating and building award-winning solutions for millions of customers and partners around the world, including:
NordVPN - world’s most trusted online security solution, used by over 15 million of Internet users worldwide.
NordPass - a password manager that securely stores and helps users organize their passwords by keeping them in one convenient place.
NordLocker - a file encryption tool that secures sensitive files and folders with zero-knowledge AES-256 encryption.
NordLayer - network access security that scales with businesses.
NordWL - An infrastructure, know-how and tools for businesses who want to build their own VPN products.
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Carolina Conforti is the co-founder of The Art Talks brand, designed to highlight the wonderful enthusiasm and creativity around the art world. Carolina was born in Napoli, one of the most romantic cities of the Italian “Magna Graecia” heritage. Her childhood memories are embedded by the dazzling baroque explosive colors of the Mediterranean Sea, whilst her mind is filtered by the sleepy yet eruptive monumental cities of Paestum and Pompei. Her life was a roller coaster of wonderful Art wanderings in the most charming European cities, which fed her restless passion for Art whilst touching multiple Art facades.
Carolina Conforti Interview Questions
- Background
- From Christie’s to present: Carolina’s professional journey
- Gradual evolution of art from traditional to modernisation and digitalisation of art
- Creating a bridge between the repressions from personal life, and creating your own ventures now
- What are your goals with Art Talks?
- Digital tools are capable of ensuring a thriving art economy, but are not accessible to all the artists: The paradox?
- Ingression of technology in art world: Bridging the communities through education
- Dealing with the dynamics of art economy and educating the art community: democratising the creative and art economy with sustainability
- Word of advice and good notes for the creator economy and art world
Carolina Conforti Biography
Carolina's first academic steps were taken throughout the breathtaking walls of the Louvres, where she fell in love with “Dessin Ancien”. Her Art career led her to the World’s most challenging auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Lately, she has been going through her own “Renaissance rebirth” fascinated by the more digital conversion Art is embracing. It is Carolina’s belief that in this surreal moment, what our culture and Arts are facing is best illustrated by Giuseppe Tomasi’s words in “Il Gattopardo”, “for things to remain the same, everything has to change”.
Through words, whispered in the sweetest way in one’s ear or howled to one’s heart, Carolina Conforti, a Zug based art historian, art critic, art collector and writer, has been pursuing her philanthropic meaning of Art.
About The Art Talks
Co-founded by Carolina Conforti in 2020, the “Art Talks” brand was designed to highlight the wonderful enthusiasm and creativity around the art world during these challenging past months. The goal is to pursue client engagement and the development of strategic partnerships through different initiatives like video-podcasts and a magazine.
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Christoph Zaknun is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at DAO Maker, a blockchain launchpad and a pioneer organized decentralized ecosystem that efficiently leverages human capital.
A Doctor in Medicine and holding a bachelor degree in Robotics, Cristoph Zaknun has had a diverse experience. Starting as an Assistant Neurological Head Trauma in Children in the Hospital of Austrian city Salzburg, he then moved to the Austrian Armed Forces as part of the AFRDU, Austrian Forces Disaster Relief Unit.
Cristoph entered the crypto and private business sphere in 2018, when he co-founded TGE Alpha Corp & DAO Maker. In 2019, he became CEO of DAO Maker. A position he still holds today.
As the Head of DAO Maker, he has been overseeing this blockchain launchpad project. DAO Maker is a growth technologies provider that creates SaaS solutions for nascent and growing crypto startups. Its flagship product is the DAO Pad, a multi-investment platform that allows DAO token holders to participate in early-stage token sales for stringently vetted upcoming projects.
Interview Questions
- Academic Background
- As a Doctor
- In the army (Relief Unit)
- Moving to crypto and private business
- About DAO Maker
- Crypto and blockchain based launchpad
- Decentralization
- Exchange
- NFTs
- DAO Token
- What does decentralization mean in Venture Capital?
- Future plans
About DAO Maker
DAO Maker is a growth technologies provider that creates SaaS solutions for nascent and growing crypto startups. Its flagship product is the DAO Pad, a multi-investment platform that allows DAO token holders to participate in early-stage token sales for stringently vetted upcoming projects.
Some of the most prominent projects launched via DAO Maker include My Neighbor Alice (ALICE), Orion Protocol (ORN), Seascape Network (CWS) and Infinity Pad (IPAD). A full list of projects and their performance is listed on the DAO Maker website.
Besides its popular DAO Pad product, DAO Maker also provides a range of additional services to nascent blockchain-based projects. These include incubation services, operations and advisory services, and another of its flagship products — social mining. Projects can use social mining to reward value-adding community members with their native token — helping to raise awareness, incentivize participation, increase liquidity and grow the number of holders.
The platform is powered by its native utility token, known as DAO. The token is used to participate in token sales on the DAO Pad platform, and can also be staked to earn a yield via one of DAO Maker’s vaults. The token will also be used for community governance in the near future.
DAO Maker is the brainchild of co-founders Christoph Zaknun, the platform's CEO and an early mover in the initial coin offering (ICO) space, and Giorgio Marciano (CTO), a heavily experienced entrepreneur and IT engineer with over 13 years of experience in software development. The two co-founders are joined by other C-level staff, notably including Hassan Sheikh (CMO), a former lecturer in Mathematics and experienced business strategist.
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Andrea Bonaceto is an artist and investor, focused who is well-known for creating colorful portraits of well-known people. Fellow at the Royal Society of Art in the UK of @thersaorg Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) @niftygateway, @asyncart
Andrea has been involved in NFTs through Eterna Capital, an investment management firm focused on blockchain technology. He launched Eterna Capital with 3 ex-BlackRock employees in 2018. Eterna Capital has established itself as a leading firm with a successful track record and institutional grade solutions.
Recently, he launched an exhibition on London’s major commercial street Oxford Street called “ab infinite”. The Italian contemporary artist and blockchain pioneer took over Flannels’ flagship store from 16th May with a new interactive installation of his work titled AB Infinite 1. The artwork represents an interactive snapshot of Andrea Bonaceto’s life in the eternal cycle that goes “ab infinite” (Latin for “from infinity”) to the origin, symbolised by the number “1”.
Andrea has launched a number of successful exhibitions combining technology, robotics and digital tools. For example, he launched a collaboration with Sophia the Robot in 2021. As with most of Bonaceto's work, Sophia's art is a self-portrait that combines the former's art history and previous works as well as the robot's own physical paintings and drawings on multiple surfaces that have been processed by its creator David Hanson.
Hanson, who works at Hanson Robotics based in Hong Kong, described the work as "iterative loops of evolution."
Andrea Bonaceto Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- How do you manage the differences between your work as an investor and the work as an artist?
- How do you see your evolution as an artist?
- How do you see the evolution of NFTs as someone that has been involved in blockchain and tech?
- How do you see your work as an artist in NFTs?
- How do you see the piece of art from the perspective of IP, ownership, NFT and technology wallet ownership?
- The ways to keep a NFT digital art piece? The technology, the wallets?
- How do you see human creativity and the robot - android collaborations?
- As we get into AI and singularity how do you see the collaboration between artists and machines - robots?
- How do you see the NFTs market and its impact in the art world?
About AB Infinite 1 Exhibition
As an interactive digital installation AB Infinite 1 invites members of the public to become artists themselves, encouraging viewers to alter the digital artwork through a specially designed AI (Artificial Intelligence) mechanism. Andrea’s purpose-built AI collects viewer interactions online through social media channels and turns these reactions or suggestions into visual responses which then appear as part of AB Infinite 1. This represents a new user-friendly form of AI, which does not require the user to be a software specialist or coder in order to manipulate it. Those viewing the installation on Oxford Street will be able to watch as AB Infinite 1 morphs in appearance as people interact with the piece on social media.
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Mr. Pradeep Multani is the president of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, India. Mr Multani oversees the decision-making process of this National Apex Chamber working at the grass-root level and with strong national and international linkages. The Chamber acts as a catalyst in the promotion of industry, trade and entrepreneurship. PHD Chamber, through its research-based policy advocacy role, positively impacts the economic growth and development of the nation. PHD Chamber is more than an organisation of the business community, as it lives by the chosen motto In Communities Life & Part of It and contributes significantly to socio-economic development and capacity building in several fields.
Interview Questions
- An introduction from you.
You have been involved in the world of yoga and Natural medicine for the last 40 years. Can you let us know more about it?
And can you tell us more about Ayurveda? - You are currently serving as the Secretary General of the apex pan India MSME centric PHD representing 130,000 direct and indirect business entities. Can you tell us about the organization and efforts?
- Can you tell us more about ongoing projects from the chamber to support businesses and provide policy advocacy, policy intervention, capacity building initiatives and socio economic development?
- The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in 1905. Since then India has been established as one of the leading business and economic nations. How do you see the history of the organization?
- With 42 million SMEs that represent around 45% of India workforce and exports. Can you tell us your efforts in this area?
- With 150,000 companies as its members base, PHD Chamber is a major organization focused on the development of small and medium businesses. What are your goals and how do you see the present and future of SMEs as the most important sector of our society?
- The PHD Chamber has been authorized by the Government of India to issue Certificate of Origin (Non-Preferential) to Indian exporters. Can you tell us about this?
- With Covid-19 there is an opportunity to redesign SMEs with digital transformation technologies and social impact. Can you tell us about doing business and commerce in India and how your organization can help?
- What are your final words and visions for the present and future of India?
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Sameep Singhania, Co-Founder of QuickSwap, is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast Series. Powered by citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil and hosted today by Hilton Supra.
Sameep Singhania, QuickSwap’s co-founder, has been a professional programmer for the past six years and has used his programming knowledge to become a software developer and consultant. Due to his extensive experience in blockchain, Singhania has been involved in different contracts, such as being the lead developer at ParaSwap, the blockchain developer at Bonded Finance and the blockchain consultant at YourVC.Club. For the software engineer, blockchain is his life, and because of his resilience, QuickSwap has become the biggest decentralized exchange on Polygon, seeing that it has reached a $1 billion valuation.
Sameep Singhania Interview Questions
- Career and Academic Background
- Entering the blockchain space
- The state of blockchain today
- How the blockchain works
- Founding Quickswap
- How Quickswap plans / support businesses from a decentralized perspective
- Decentralization in business
- Hack on GoDaddy
Sameep Singhania Biography
Sameep Singhania has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and has been a professional programmer for the past 6 years. He would characterize himself as a Software Developer, Blockchain Engineer and consultant who loves to work on exciting new projects and to meet new people from different cultures and backgrounds.
Sameep is a blockchain enthusiast who helps teams adapt their use cases to blockchain technology. Recently Sameep has been focusing his energy more towards Blockchain Technology (BC) to devise strategies for business clients to adopt Blockchain technology to solve transparency and trust issues.
Sameep co-founded QuickSwap, which has become the biggest decentralized exchange on Polygon, seeing that it has reached a $1 billion valuation.
One of his main goals is to bring diversity in technology and promote widespread adoption of Blockchain Technology. He is a co-Founder of Blockchain Development company and an active keynote speaker at University of Malaya, University of Kuala Lumpur, Institutions like IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, and other MBA institutes.
About Quickswap
QuickSwap (QUICK) is an Ethereum token that powers QuickSwap, a decentralized exchange that runs on the Polygon Network in order to provide faster and cheaper transactions on Ethereum. QUICK can be used to create and vote on proposals governing QuickSwap and can be staked to earn a portion of trading fees.
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Lars Rottweiler is an expert in banking and financial services transformations and understands how to improve operations and leverage modern technology. He has over 25 years of banking and consulting experience and is a distinguished speaker and influencer in digital banking.
Along with Vladimir Lounegov, Lars founded Mbanq in 2017. Mbanq is a FinTech company which sets up and operates banks for clients using its digital banking platform on a Software as a Service (SaaS) basis. Its proprietary technology provides an advanced, modular, end-to-end banking platform with everything required to instantly launch financial services for any use case.
Before founding Mbanq, Lars was Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and headed senior executive roles for PwC, Accenture and Infosys. His extensive banking industry knowledge is built on top-level engagements across the world.
Despite his role as CTO of Mbanq, Lars has also featured in events as a speaker and as a lecturer.
Lars Rottweiler Interview Questions
- Academic and Professional Background
- Digitization in today’s finance industry
- Working for multinationals to starting a fintech
- What prompted the establishment of Mbanq?
- Underlying technologies and Mbanq use cases
- How is Mbanq (or BaaS) changing the current systems?
- How does Mbanq solve the conventional challenges of banking, especially overseas transfers?
- Creating parallel financing solutions still pose a paradox (less than 10% of wallets hold more than 90% of the crypto. This is more centralised than the conventional system). How does Mbanq help solving this paradox?
- Cloud computing as a service by Mbanq
- Bringing up of labs for fintech education
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Today's guest of Dinis Guarda YouTube Podcast Series is Sundeep Reddy Mallu, the head of analytics and hiring at Gramener, which solves business problems for its clients by identifying data insights and presenting them as data stories.
Mallu advises executives at leading enterprises and NGOs on data science, helping organizations transform by building teams and adopting a culture of data.
A new interview conducted by Hilton Supra and powered by FreedomX, openbusinesscouncil and citiesabc.
Sundeep Mallu Biography
Mallu’s journey started in 2003 selling seeds at farmers' meets. A stellar journey which has brought him to now delivering business value to Fortune 100 clients globally via custom Data Science solutions.
In his current role as SVP Analytics, Sundeep Mallu advises executives on 1) aligning their data science strategy with business vision, 2) building teams to apply advanced analytics and data visualization, and 3) helping businesses adopt a data-driven culture.
Likewise, as a TA head, he owns the hunt for great team players, across industries and school campuses, and attracts them to join Gramener.
Sundeep Mallu has a diverse experience in client handling and working in multi-cultural teams across North America, Europe, Singapore and India. As an international speaker, he’s taken the stage at leading events conducted by organizations such as TEDx, O’Reilly Strata; and has conducted 100+ hours of corporate training and do guest lectures at B Schools.
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In the latest episode of Finding Your Atom podcast, Valentina Castellani creates a gripping narrative out of her experiences for co-hosts Amrita Sen and Dinis Guarda to throw light on the essence of a crafting process while realising life’s goals.
“Finding Your Atom” is the new podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil.
Amrita Sen and Dinis Guarda come together again, after the success of their previous podcast series “Music For” with another concept of recognising unique identifiers, and motivating the audiences with an increased mindfulness and self-awareness. The podcast is available on Dinis Guarda YouTube channel, and major podcast directories.
The presenters of the podcast are adept with the knowledge of meditation fundamentals, and consequently emphasise on negating the cacophony of the thoughts in our lives, focussing our energies on the relevant one. Thus, “Finding Your Atom” could be a unique opportunity to glue yourself with your own personality.
FindingYourAtom #ValentinaCastellani #FindingYourNetwork
Valentina Castellani Biography
Valentina Castellani is an Award Winning Film Producer, President and Chairman of Quinn Studios Entertainment, which continues the Legacy of Academy Award Winning Actor Anthony Quinn, in the fields of art and entertainment.
Valentina Castellani produced many Academy Awards candidate films, Internationally recognized and distributed.
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
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Professor Lisa Short is recognised as one of the top thought leaders and influencers in the world to follow for her work in digital tech, blockchain, crypto assets and EdTech. Lisa is a preeminent innovator, systemic change digital technology analyst, strategist & design ecosystem thinker with vast international experience founding & managing multiple companies and significant cutting-edge digital technology, value chain improvement projects, across different industry segments, and global markets including UK, APAC, Africa, Singapore, Europe & UAE.
Interview Questions
- Prof Short’s Background
- Bridging academics with business and technology
- Implementing the basics to practice (bridging principles to business): real-time cases
- Case study of work done in Africa
- Examples of work with United Nations
- About discrimination with women at work
- About EdTech
Lisa Short Biography
As Founder of Areté Business Performance, Mind Shifting, Hephaestus Collective Limited, P&L Digital Edge Ltd & Africa Agri Tech Ltd, and inventor of several Patents, Professor Lisa Short is at the driving force of digital technology enabled by resilient, cyber healthy businesses & people, fuelled by inclusion & education, and driven by impact commercially, and for a better place to live and work.
Authoring multiple papers, articles & reports, her current work includes co-authoring books on blockchain enabled ecosystems for higher and continuing education, and on blockchain, data, AI, IoT, privacy and cyber health for business. Appointed to the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies & Research as an expert Senior Policy Analyst, Lisa leads and is Group Chair of the Special Interest Group, CySME that focuses on cyber public health and research to support SME's and start-ups. Professor Short holds multiple Board Roles for EWOR, UK Cyber Security Association and International Cyber Security Expo.
A motivational and influential international leader Professor Short is regularly invited to analyse and resolve through digital technology some of the most pressing complex and difficult socio-economic problems.
Professor Short has delivered and worked with the United Nations; the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates; the Kairos Society EU, International Network of Appropriate Technology, UN Women; the International Immersive Learning Networks; The 36 Group; The UK Cyber Security Council Formation Project, and AAPG’s for Blockchain and AI in London.
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Valentina Castellani is an Award Winning Film Producer, President and Chairman of Quinn Studios Entertainment, which continues the Legacy of Academy Award Winning Actor Anthony Quinn, in the fields of art and entertainment.
Valentina Castellani produced many Academy Awards candidate films, Internationally recognized and distributed.
She won the prestigious US CONGRESS AWARD, The HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD, the English WIFTS Award as a “Visionary Producer” together with Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel and actress Gal Gadot.
Because of her ethical work as a producer, and her service to global society, Valentina Castellani was invited to speak at many International Organizations, including, The US Congress, United Nations, UNESCO, The YPO/Young President Organization and a number of International Universities.
Valentina Castellani Interview Questions
- Academic and Professional Background
- Getting into the film industry- from training to work/career
- How do you choose your projects?
- What is your production process?
- How would you describe your transition from real world film production to the digitisation of the process?
- How do films act as tools to make an impact on society?
- How can you channelise your energy for better leadership?
- Final Remarks - An Inspirational note
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Or Lenchner is a tech entrepreneur and a web and technology enthusiast. He is currently the CEO of world-known web data platform Bright Data, and in 2020, he became an official member of the Forbes Technology Council.
Ever since he became CEO of Bright Data, he’s helped to expand the company’s market base as an online data collection platform dedicated to delivering complete web transparency.
Furthermore, for the past three years, under Lenchner’s leadership, Bright Data has advanced its product offerings to include first-of-its-kind automated solutions, enabling its customers to collect and receive data in a matter of minutes. Among Bright Data’s thousands of customers are Fortune 500 companies, major e-commerce firms and sites, prominent finance firms, leading security operators, travel sites, academic and public sector organizations.
Prior to his career at Bright Data, Lenchner founded and managed several web-based businesses, developing digital assets and online marketing programs. Initially joining Bright Data as head of product development, Lenchner’s career and evolution at the company has been driven by his firm belief in a transparent, ethical-by-design web environment that contributes to an open, competitive market benefitting both businesses and society as a whole.
Or Lenchner Interview topics
- Academic and Professional Background
- What is Bright Data?
- What issues does Bright Data aim to resolve?
- What are some of your main use cases?
- Technical - How do clients receive the data?
- What makes Bright Data unique?
- Information is power… Ethics And Data
- Values - making the web transparent and giving back
- The future of the web data domain and how Bright Data plans to address it
About Bright Data
Bright Data Inc is a leading web data platform. Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions and small businesses all rely on Bright Data’s solutions to retrieve crucial public web data in the most efficient, reliable and flexible way, so they can research, monitor, analyze data, and make better decisions.
Their platform is used worldwide by 15,000+ customers in nearly every industry. They provide a cost-effective way to perform fast and stable public web data collection at scale, effortless conversion of unstructured data into structured data and superior customer experience, while being fully transparent and compliant.
Bright Data strongly believes that making public web data easily accessible is essential to keeping markets openly competitive, benefiting all of us.
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Dana Todd is a 3-time founder and digital innovation pioneer with 20+ years making digital experiences for humans, including a patent for SEO technology. Currently CEO of a global fashion marketplace, Balodana, Ms. Todd has been a subject matter expert regarding digital business for trade and national press, conferences, academic and legal engagements. Leadership background includes both agency-side and brand-side operations. As a former CMO, she employs a blend of digital and traditional marketing methods for integrated strategic planning and execution.
Interview Questions
- Personal and Academic Background
- Career
- Creating Balodana: Vision, Mission, What does it try to solve…
- Views on fashion industry
- Inequality in the global fashion market
- Digital transformation and Innovation in the fashion industry
- New techs: metaverse, NFTs, VR...
Dana Todd Biography
Dana Todd is a USA-based founder and businesswoman at the forefront of digital innovation for 20+years. She is currently the founder and CEO of Balodana, the first only marketplace that is exclusively women's made to measure fashions from around the world. Dana Todd founded Balodana in fall 2019 after many years in and out of the corporate world and entrepreneurship. Todd said the freedom of entrepreneurship ultimately led her to pursue this startup, which she hoped can give women greater confidence in their appearance and clothing. But the business doesn’t come without challenges. Accessing funding as a woman has been especially difficult, she said.
Dana has had a 20+ year career in management and executive positions. She has been an Internet pioneer through roles as co-founder of a top ranking digital marketing agency, founding board member of a global search marketing trade organization, patent holder for advertising tech innovation for digital news, and now a marketplace platform for disrupting the global garment supply chain.
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Jeff Hood currently serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of MetaCurio, a full-service Web 3 strategy company. MetaCurio works with global brands and talent looking to enter the world of Web 3.
Prior to founding MetaCurio, Jeff served as the Co-Founder of Block Squared Capital as well as an advisor to numerous blockchain companies. His passion for crypto led him to playing a major role in the ICO space in 2017 by starting a blockchain company in hopes of solving a real-world problem of transparency in the charitable donation industry; he later formed Block Squared Capital in an effort to create a funding vehicle for mature blockchain projects.
Interview Questions
- Academic and Professional Background
- Early career in blockchain and tech companies
- Unveiling blockchain beyond financial applications: NFTs
- About Metacurio: Vision, Mission, Goals
- Views on Web3
- The NFTs Revolution
- The Metaverse
- Working with Mike Tyson and project overview
- What the future holds for these technologies
Jeff Hood Biography
In 2021, Jeff was responsible for bringing Mike Tyson into the world of NFT’s and architecting his first collection in August of 2021 with renowned artist Cory Van Lew. That first collection sold out in 30 minutes, Tyson's second drop with Jeff sold out in 27 minutes and those two drops have generated over $20 million in sales to date.
Prior to co-founding Metacurio, Jeff was the co-founder of Block Squared Capital and a Managing Partner for Sciath Capital, as well as an advisor to numerous blockchain companies. With over 19 years in technology and consulting experience, and with extensive fundraising and M&A experience in Asia and the Middle East, Jeff is a global leader and spokesperson on leveraging the benefits of Blockchain in daily, real-world applications, and on the power of tokenization as a capital source. He has had a career that has included executive leadership roles in companies such as HCL Technologies and Zensar, as well as a successful IPO and exit with GSS Infotech.
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Today's guest is Author and Thought Leader Dirk Collier. In this episode, the three of them go on a journey through Asian and Indian culture, and how society changes over time fuelled by ideas.
“Finding Your Atom” is the new podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil.
Amrita Sen and Dinis Guarda come together again, after the success of their previous podcast series “Music For” with another concept of recognising unique identifiers, and motivating the audiences with an increased mindfulness and self-awareness. The podcast is available on Dinis Guarda YouTube channel, and major podcast directories.
The presenters of the podcast are adept with the knowledge of meditation fundamentals, and consequently emphasise on negating the cacophony of the thoughts in our lives, focussing our energies on the relevant one. Thus, “Finding Your Atom” could be a unique opportunity to glue yourself with your own personality.
FindingYourAtom #DirkCollier #FindingYourIdea
Dirk Collier Biography
Dirk Collier is an author, lecturer and expert in Asian and Indian culture. His passion for Asian culture and history was aroused as a result of his travels throughout the continent, predominantly in China and India.
As an author, in 2011, he published The Emperor’s Writings, a historical novel on the life and times of Akbar the Great (1542-1605); in 2013 came his essay Paths to Peace: Religion, Ethics and Tolerance in a Globalizing World, and in 2015, he published The Great Mughals and Their India, a non-fiction chronicle of one of the greatest dynasties in world history – the Mughal –from its founder Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last of the clan.
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
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Kewal Kapoor has an extensive and diversified portfolio, enabling him to have a deep understanding of various industries. Besides being a founder and creator of the CHAI Kreative & Advisory agency and its whole concept as well a chai lover himself, Kewal has also been: an assiduous researcher, a proficient writer, investigator and journalist, an experienced producer and director. This cross-industry experience is what makes him an exceptional consultant and creative strategist.
Kewal Kapoor Interview Topics
- Career and Academic Background
- How multiculturality in India is pushing innovation and social change
- How did you get into writing?
- And into creative industries?
- Writing and creativity in the Web3.0
- The Digital Transformation struggle for businesses and individuals
- About CHAI Kreative & Advisory
Kewal Kapoor Biography
Kewal Kapoor served as the Executive Producer with UTV, wherein he researched, scripted, conceptualized and created the first ever series on Tax Laws in India. He was also the force behind the first Human Rights show on Indian television. He went on to work on a story on the Kargil martyrs. As a journalist, he contributed several write ups in prominent Hindi dailies. As a Producer/Director, he researched, conceptualized and created groundbreaking TV documentary shows and series that bestowed him with acclaim and accolades.
He has been a consulting partner with some of the top advertising agencies in India. Since 2012, his focus has shifted towards work that creates genuine value in people’s lives. He has since dedicated himself to looking for, and often creating, opportunities and projects that focus on social communication and that redefine spaces of how subaltern issues can be dealt with, while making unique use of the advertising and digital ecosystem.
He is enthusiastic in technology as a tool to empower people and to add value to their lives, and in the lives of communities in general.
Ever since 2015, Kewal Kapoor’s voice has become synonymous with extensive work undertaken in technology related areas in addition to having conceived a first of its kind not for profit trust project on Mahatama Gandhi.
Today Kewal Kapoor is an opinion leader and influencer in technology related areas.
Kewal is also a registered member of FWA Mumbai. He is on the Advisory Board of The Poddar Foundation and has played a key role in the Mental Health and Mental Health brand "Silence Todo". His new company CHAI Creative and Advertising Private Limited is duly recognized by DIPP Government of India and has in very short time won the mandate of Advisory, Advertising and Marketing, including Digital Ecosystem of the largest affordable housing company of India.
Success requires having a strong leadership presence. Kewal possesses the vision, flexibility and resilience needed to steer the direction of our leading creative and consulting firm.
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Today's guest is Fitness and Boxing coach Andrew Woods. In this episode, the three of them go on a journey identify our core through fitness, mental health, and mind-body alignment.
“Finding Your Atom” is the new podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil.
Amrita Sen and Dinis Guarda come together again, after the success of their previous podcast series “Music For” with another concept of recognising unique identifiers, and motivating the audiences with an increased mindfulness and self-awareness. The podcast is available on Dinis Guarda YouTube channel, and major podcast directories.
FindingYourAtom #AndrewWoods #FindingYourCore
About Andrew Woods
Andrew Woods has dedicated himself to the world of boxing, fitness, and healthcare through instructing, educating, and inspiring communities for over 10 years. He started his formal boxing training in the city of Watts, California at the Broadway Boxing Gym as a (ABA) American Boxing Association coach while continuing his education in World History & Kinesiology at Cal Polytechnic University Pomona. Andrew’s achievements also include training amateur fighters as a certified USA Boxing Coach and as a group fitness boxing instructor at the Equinox Fitness Clubs in South Bay, Newport Beach, Westwood, Downtown LA, and Century City. He is also a well respected speaker & educator for the greater Los Angeles public schools, churches, recreation centers, and community colleges.
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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David Uhryniak is the Blockchain Strategy Director at TRON, a leading blockchain platform dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the Internet via decentralized applications (DApps).
David joined TRON in January 2022 right after the platform completed full decentralization in Dec 2021 and has become a purely community-governed DAO. In that regard, Dave will be a visible part of the team driving that effort and will identify key opportunities within the broad blockchain ecosystem, and ensure TRON is positioned to act on the opportunities.
Interview Topics
- Academic Background
- Early career
- Joining Tron
- First steps into blockchain. How did Tron become a blockchain platform?
- What’s the scope of Tron today?
- What’s Tron's legacy and what the future holds?
- What have been some major milestones for TRON in 2021?
- How is TRON getting involved in the booming NFT and GameFi space?
- Current vision on blockchain developments: NFTs, DeFi - Finance, Crypto
- Blockchain opportunities for the Metaverse
David Uhryniak Biography
David has been actively involved in blockchain since 2015 and has provided strategic guidance for global payment companies and insurance companies, among others. He has led the successful development of multiple use cases in financial services, healthcare, and the supply chain. He continually finds unique and creative ways to apply emerging technologies to enable corporations to achieve their strategic goals.
“Following early work in equity research and analysis, I have since focused on emerging blockchain markets as a management consultant and senior practice leader. My ability to leverage emerging technologies to create customer-focused solutions is proven, and I am always seeking out new means of minimizing risks and capitalizing on emerging opportunities,” David said about focusing on blockchain and emerging technologies.
David began his career as an equity research analyst at a leading U.S. mutual fund company, where he conducted a thorough bottom-up analysis of global and regional financial services companies. David has often been quoted in leading media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, and other publications.
About TRON
TRON is a decentralized, open-source blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, proof-of-stake principles. That is the principle for what its consensus algorithm and a cryptocurrency native to the system, known as Tronix (TRX), works too. TRON is dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the Internet via blockchain technology and decentralized applications (DApps). Founded in September 2017 by H.E. Justin Sun, the TRON network has continued to deliver achievements since MainNet launch in May 2018. July 2018 also marked the acquisition and the ecosystem integration of BitTorrent, a pioneer in decentralized services boasting nearly 100M monthly active users.
The TRON network has gained incredible traction in recent years, with over 74 million users on the blockchain and upwards of 2.8 billion transactions. In addition, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of stablecoins across the globe, overtaking USDT on Ethereum in April 2021.
The TRON network completed full decentralization in Dec 2021 and is now a purely community-governed DAO.
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Chris is a unique combination of insightful strategic thinker and highly-awarded writer. Chris is the Founding Partner and CEO of Verbal Identity, a strategic brand consultancy specializing in the power of language. Clients include Alphabet’s ‘moonshot factory’, LVMH, Vauxhall, John Lewis, and start-ups from fintech, data science, and beauty.
He founded Verbal Identity in 2010 to help company and department leaders define the strategic vision for their business and bring it to life with language. His firm has guided global and national brands, relaunches, and start-ups, from B2B and B2C to tech and luxury and everything in between.
Previously, Chris ran a project-based advertising agency for 10 years working with global clients and before that, he was one of London’s most awarded copywriters for his work across the Guardian, adidas, British Airways and the Conservative Party. In 2016, he was the convening President for the inaugural verbal branding jury at the LIA.
Chris is also a Bestselling Author. He has written two books to date: ‘Strong Language: The Fastest, Smartest, Cheapest Marketing Tool You're Not Using’ and ‘How Words Work’.
Chris West Questions
- Education and academic background
- The future of work - marketing
- The importance of verbal / language in today’s world
- About Verbal Identity
- Business success: the process
- How do you manage expectations with clients, business partners, etc?
- Leadership and motivation: How to be a good leader?
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Luke Stokes is the Managing Director at FIO, Hive Witness, FoxyCart.com and Co-Founder of eosDAC Custodian. An early adopter of crypto and blockchain technologies, Luke Stokes strongly believes that these emerging techs can be a mechanism for global non-violent consensus.
Topics:
- Can you tell us about your background and how did you end up in Puerto Rico?
- You have been working on payment and wallet solutions for some time now. Can you tell us your trajectory on it?
- Can you tell us about the Foundation for Interwallet Operability?
- You spoke about DAOs, governance solutions, and rethinking human coordination that is focused around intrinsic motivation, flow, dharma and the like and NOT based on extrinsic motivations like rewards, punishments, and threats. How do you see this and specifically the challenges between centralised and decentralized systems?
- According to crypto.com research in 2021, the number of global crypto owners almost tripled, from 106 million in January to 295 million in December. If we extrapolate a similar rate of increase in 2022, we are on track to reach 1 billion crypto users by the end of 2022. As someone very involved in crypto and the industry, how do you see this and what needs to be done to create a truly internet of trust?
Luke Stokes - Biography
As the founder of The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO), Luke manages this industry consortium, consisting of leading wallets, exchanges, crypto payment processors, and various other entities and community members dedicated to the pursuit of blockchain usability through the FIO Protocol.
Luke Stokes is passionate about voluntary systems of governance and has been involved in bitcoin since early 2013. He's been a consensus witness for the Steem blockchain since early 2018 and a custodian for eosDAC, a community-owned EOSIO Block Producer and DAC Enabler, since its inception.
With a computer science degree from UPENN, he built, bootstrapped and co-founded the shopping cart software company FoxyCart over a ten year period and is now focused on blockchain technology as a means to create a world we all want to live in.
Luke currently lives in Puerto Rico with his wife and three children and enjoys discussing everything from philosophy, to consciousness, to voluntaryism, to love and awakening.
About The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO)
The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) is an industry consortium, consisting of leading wallets, exchanges, crypto payment processors, and various other entities and community members dedicated to the pursuit of blockchain usability through the FIO Protocol.
The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) intends to operate as a Decentralized Autonomous Consortia in the future, with many active members of the community contributing value to the project. The vision of FIO is to operate as a Decentralized Autonomous Consortia (DAC), guided by the community and blockchain ecosystem. FIO encourages everyone to participate in helping define the FIO Protocol and to provide feedback on how to improve blockchain usability. As a Foundation they value:
- Openness and Transparency
- Diversity in Community
- Fairness
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“Finding Your Atom” is the new podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil. Today's guest is Leadership coach, Author of ‘The Way. Finding Peace in Turbulent Times’ Katey Lockwood. The three of them go on a journey to discover what drives Katey's career: a life dedicated to helping others.
FindingYourAtom #KateyLockwood #FYAWorkplaceWellbeing
About Katey Lockwood
Katey Lockwood was born and educated in the UK and began her career in media where she worked on the Harry Potter franchise and special effects team.
Her knowledge of cognitive psychology, EQ assessing, clinical hypnotherapy, philosophy and spirituality has enabled Katey to coach and teach, guide and mentor at the highest level. Her list of clients includes business executives, celebrities and high-profile sportspeople as well as those needing help and support in finding a more effective and happier way of conducting their life. Katey also does voluntary work coaching members of the public and friends.
The Way – Finding Peace in Turbulent Times is Katey’s first book co-authored with Vernon Sankey. The Way Course is their second venture as co-authors. They are both co-founders of ImproveMyWorld.com.
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
As an author, Dinis Guarda published the book 4IR: AI, Blockchain, FinTech, IoT, Reinventing a Nation in 2019, among others. His upcoming book, titled 4IR Magna Carta Cities ABC: A tech AI blockchain 4IR Smart Cities Data Research Charter of Liberties for our humanity is due to be published in 2020.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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“Finding Your Atom” is the new podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil. Today's guest is Leadership coach, Author of ‘The Way. Finding Peace in Turbulent Times’ Katey Lockwood. The three of them go on a journey to discover what drives Katey's career: a life dedicated to helping others.
FindingYourAtom #KateyLockwood #FYAEmpathy
About Katey Lockwood
Katey Lockwood was born and educated in the UK and began her career in media where she worked on the Harry Potter franchise and special effects team.
Her knowledge of cognitive psychology, EQ assessing, clinical hypnotherapy, philosophy and spirituality has enabled Katey to coach and teach, guide and mentor at the highest level. Her list of clients includes business executives, celebrities and high-profile sportspeople as well as those needing help and support in finding a more effective and happier way of conducting their life. Katey also does voluntary work coaching members of the public and friends.
The Way – Finding Peace in Turbulent Times is Katey’s first book co-authored with Vernon Sankey. The Way Course is their second venture as co-authors. They are both co-founders of ImproveMyWorld.com.
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
As an author, Dinis Guarda published the book 4IR: AI, Blockchain, FinTech, IoT, Reinventing a Nation in 2019, among others. His upcoming book, titled 4IR Magna Carta Cities ABC: A tech AI blockchain 4IR Smart Cities Data Research Charter of Liberties for our humanity is due to be published in 2020.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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Adam Hollander is a serial entrepreneur and using his extensive experience in game mechanics and motivation, has recently launched a new NFT generative collection called Hungry Wolves. Hungry Wolves is a gamified social-based NFTs platform that generates digital content on the Ethereum blockchain.
Adam has over a decade of experience successfully building and marketing products at scale. Passionate member of a number of prominent NFT communities, including BAYC.
NFTs #gamification
Adam Hollander Interview Focus
- Career background
- As a serial entrepreneur, can you tell us about your experience creating FantasySalesTeam and its acquisition by Microsoft?
- You have been doing amazing things in gamification. Can you tell us how you see gamification, especially when it comes to business and workplaces?
- Can you tell us more about Hungry Wolves?
- What are your views on NFTs, crypto and blockchain?
- Final remarks
Adam Hollander Biography
Adam Hollander is a serial entrepreneur and has spent the last decade launching and growing successful companies. In 2011 he founded FantasySalesTeam, a gamification platform which encouraged employee motivation through interactive competition. That company was acquired by Microsoft in 2015 and fully integrated into Microsoft Dynamics CRM. After spending two years with Microsoft as their Director of Gamification, he joined a medical education startup, OnlineMedEd, in 2017 as their COO and fourth employee. Adam spent 4.5 years with the company which now boasts more than 350,000 monthly users and recently completed a $25 million fundraise.
Adam has now turned his attention to a unique and fast-growing market: NFTs and has created a new NFT generative collection called Hungry Wolves.
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James Zhang is the CEO and founder of The Concept Art House. James has been on the cutting edge of digital entertainment for nearly two decades. Since its founding in 2007, James has built Concept Art House into one of the video game industry’s most celebrated art services companies, and continues to establish lasting partnerships with industry powerhouses such as Activision/Blizzard, 2K, Tencent, Kabam, Netease, and Supercell.
He additionally serves on several Advisory Boards including: 1World Online, a crowdsource service that combines social polling with analytics, Redemption Games, a leading casual game developer, Waygate, an interactive VR content platform and Wistla, a social activities mobile app.
James Zhang interview questions:
- How did you start your career?
- Can you tell us about your childhood?
- Can you tell us about the process of creating and producing the game and how you started to get involved in this industry?
- I understand that your career touches lots of areas but how did you start your company?
- How did you move from the creator part to the entrepreneur and the investor plus tech hats?
- How did you get into the blockchain industry?
- You have been through all the blockchain multiple waves from the beginning. Can you tell us about it?
- Why did you shift 100% to Web3.0 and can you explain to us the power of Web 3.0 and why it matters?
- “The combination of the fan community and the art is what gives NFTs their value,” said Concept Art House CEO James Zhang in an interview with GamesBeat. Can you elaborate on this?
- Your company is now at the intersection of NFTs, art, and gaming. Can you tell us more about that and how to envision these areas working together?
- As a global art what are your views on the Metaverse?
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“Finding Your Atom” is the fresh podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil. The two come together again, after the success of their previous podcast series “Music For” with another concept of recognising unique identifiers, and motivating the audiences with an increased mindfulness and self-awareness. The podcast is available on Dinis Guarda YouTube channel, and major podcast directories.
The presenters of the podcast are adept with the knowledge of meditation fundamentals, and consequently emphasise on negating the cacophony of the thoughts in our lives, focussing our energies on the relevant one. Thus, “Finding Your Atom” could be a unique opportunity to glue yourself with your own personality.
FindingYourAtom #MarkZunino #Passion
About Steven Husak
Mark Zunino is recognized as one of Beverly Hills’ leading fashion designers for Hollywood A-list celebrities and the global social elite. He is internationally known for his ability to accentuate a woman’s best features through detailed construction and design. Women of all ages, shapes, and sizes are looking to experience the body transformation that comes from wearing clothes designed by Mark Zunino, whether it's his sportswear, eveningwear, intimates or bridal gowns. His designs are sophisticated and feminine, putting a fresh twist on modern elegance with a progressive edge.
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
More interviews and inspirational videos on Dinis Guarda Youtube Channel
“Finding Your Atom” is the fresh podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil. The two come together again, after the success of their previous podcast series “Music For” with another concept of recognising unique identifiers, and motivating the audiences with an increased mindfulness and self-awareness. The podcast is available on Dinis Guarda YouTube channel, and major podcast directories.
The presenters of the podcast are adept with the knowledge of meditation fundamentals, and consequently emphasise on negating the cacophony of the thoughts in our lives, focussing our energies on the relevant one. Thus, “Finding Your Atom” could be a unique opportunity to glue yourself with your own personality.
FindingYourAtom #StevenHusak #SelfRediscovery
About Steven Husak
Steven Husak is an entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Continents Apart LLC. With optimism and a great sense of humor, Steven mentors a team dedicated to the success of every Continents Apart partner. Steven's belief is that CEO is not a title, it is a philosophy and his love of his work extends to his team of 'internal customers' as well as product partners and retail partners. Because he is passionate about helping others, Steven is also the founder of the Successful Professionals Alliance Network(SPAN) and has organized dozens of fundraising events for local, regional and national charities.
“Help somebody achieve their goals and you will have a client—and a friend—for life.” Steven J. Husak, CEO
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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Music For is the new podcast between artist, designer and producer Amrita Sen and citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil Founder Dinis Guarda. In this episode, the hosts welcome Nevin Densham, Writer / Producer at Trilogy Entertainment Group and Co-Producer of Netflix Altered Carbon, to talk about one of the most majestic and mysterious figures in history: the great Genghis Khan, hero or villain?
Thought as a collaborative work between the two, the podcast showcases the power of music to improve our wellbeing and healing as well as Amrita’s exclusive ideas in terms of narratives from World's Mythology. She aesthetically introduces a fresh perspective to the potentials of music in alleviating one’s inner self by taking an illustration of Buddha’s life and other great characters of history.
MusicFor #MusicForGenghisKhan #NevinDensham
About Nevin Densham
Nevin Densham was born in Los Angeles and has been writing professionally since 2004, trained under television and feature Writer/Producers Pen Densham and John Watson. He sold his first feature script off a pitch in 2004 to MGM/UA in a meeting with MGM Chairman Chris McGurk entitled Flesh and Blood, based on the book Blood Crazy by English horror maven Simon Clark. Since then, he has helped develop several television series with Trilogy Entertainment Group as well as continued his work in feature writing. Recently, he sold his second feature off a pitch, entitled Total Exposure, to independent producer Peter Elson.
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
More interviews and inspirational videos on Dinis Guarda YouTube
Music For is the new podcast between artist, designer and producer Amrita Sen and citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil Founder Dinis Guarda. In this episode, Amrita and Dinis explore the difficult concept of loss and grief and how music can help us get through them.
Thought as a collaborative work between the two, the podcast showcases the power of music to improve our wellbeing and healing as well as Amrita’s exclusive ideas in terms of narratives from Indian Mythology. She aesthetically introduces a fresh perspective to the potentials of music in alleviating one’s inner self by taking an illustration of Buddha’s life.
MusicFor #MusicForLoss&Grief
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
More about Amrita Sen
Read The Book: https://issuu.com/bollydoll/docs/awakened_art_edition_website
Listen To Amrita's Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/21n4V78skCmFZRgMxtLic0?si=4hirzwf-RLeeZJ6UrPFdpA
https://www.amritasen.com/
https://www.amritasen.com/music/
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
He has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays and governments all over the world.
He has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he coordinates executive Masters and MBAs.
As an author, Dinis Guarda published the book 4IR: AI, Blockchain, FinTech, IoT, Reinventing a Nation in 2019, among others. His upcoming book, titled 4IR Magna Carta Cities ABC: A tech AI blockchain 4IR Smart Cities Data Research Charter of Liberties for our humanity is due to be published in 2020.
He is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He was also listed as one of the 100 B2B Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow in 2020 by Thinkers360.
Music For is the new podcast between artist, designer and producer Amrita Sen and citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil Founder Dinis Guarda. In this episode, Amrita introduces the concept of the Fantasy Bubbles we all live in and the complex concept of reality, always from the lessons Buddha taught us.
Thought as a collaborative work between the two, the podcast showcases the power of music to improve our wellbeing and healing as well as Amrita’s exclusive ideas in terms of narratives from Indian Mythology. She aesthetically introduces a fresh perspective to the potentials of music in alleviating one’s inner self by taking an illustration of Buddha’s life.
MusicFor #MusicForBuddha #FantasyBubbles
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
He has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays and governments all over the world.
He has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he coordinates executive Masters and MBAs.
As an author, Dinis Guarda published the book 4IR: AI, Blockchain, FinTech, IoT, Reinventing a Nation in 2019, among others. His upcoming book, titled 4IR Magna Carta Cities ABC: A tech AI blockchain 4IR Smart Cities Data Research Charter of Liberties for our humanity is due to be published in 2020.
He is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He was also listed as one of the 100 B2B Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow in 2020 by Thinkers360.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
More interviews and inspirational videos on Dinis Guarda YouTube
Kireet Khurana is an Indian animator, filmmaker, storyteller, and ad-film director. In his career of 12 years, he has made over 300 short films, documentary films, ad films and also directed India’s first live action-3D animation film “Toonpur Ka Superhero”.
Kireet has won more than 30 awards, including 6 prestigious President's National Awards for his films, the first of which he won in 1995 for the animated film Mahagiri. He has made over 12 short films, and over 500 ad films.
He is also the creator of India's largest animation series, Vartmaan, with animation pioneer Bhimsain.
Recently Kireet Khurana released the film documentary 'The Invisible Visible', highlighting the plight of India's destitute millions suffering from homelesness.
'The Invisible Visible', is an 81 minutes-long documentary that will be released mid-2022. It has been shot across Mumbai, Delhi, Patna, Dehradun, Kanpur and a few villages in Maharashtra and Bihar.
About The Invisible Visible
THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE is a poignant 'Impact' documentary-feature on the estimated 70 million homeless people in India. It draws attention towards these 'invisibles' and seeks to 'visibilize' them. The sordid stories of the homeless people humanizes them and depicts how poverty has been criminalised under an archaic, draconian law in India. The stories unfold through the lens of India's leading crusaders - TARIQUE MOHAMMED, and his organisation members who have dedicated their lives for the homeless and destitute. The fight against injustice and violence is an ongoing one and THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE has some call to actions.
Check the trailer now: https://youtu.be/Paqgtj7kq5g
Kireet Khurana Biography
Kireet Khurana is an Indian animator. In his career of 12 years, he has made over 300 short films, documentary films, ad films and also directed India’s first live action-3D animation film “Toonpur Ka Superhero”.
After graduating from Sheridan College, Canada with high-honours in animation film making, he started his organization 2nz Animation Co. which makes animated films - shorts, ads or documentaries in 3D/ 2D/CG etc.
He won his first President's National Award in 1995 for the film “Mahagiri” a film about cruelty against animals. The film won two National Awards for Best Animation Film Direction and Best Animation, respectively. It also won a Certificate of Merit at the Mumbai Int'l Film Festival in 1996.
Over the years he has Won 5 President’s National Awards and 3 International Awards including Japan and Austria. He has also Won 15 Awards in various festivals in India and abroad. He is currently directing India’s first live action - 3D animation combo film “Toonpur Ka Superhero”.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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Music For is the new podcast between artist, designer and producer Amrita Sen and citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil Founder Dinis Guarda. In this episode, Amrita relives Buddha's wife Yaśodharā's story through her book "Awakened" and her inspiration for women.
Thought as a collaborative work between the two, the podcast showcases the power of music to improve our wellbeing and healing as well as Amrita’s exclusive ideas in terms of narratives from Indian Mythology. She aesthetically introduces a fresh perspective to the potentials of music in alleviating one’s inner self by taking an illustration of Buddha’s life.
MusicFor #MusicForBuddha #Awakened
Read The Book: https://issuu.com/bollydoll/docs/awakened_art_edition_website
Listen To Amrita's Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/21n4V78skCmFZRgMxtLic0?si=4hirzwf-RLeeZJ6UrPFdpA
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
He has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays and governments all over the world.
He has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he coordinates executive Masters and MBAs.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
More interviews and inspirational videos on Dinis Guarda YouTube
QuHarrison Terry is an author and digital global expert growth marketer at Mark Cuban Companies, a Dallas, Texas venture capital firm, where he advises and assists portfolio companies with their marketing strategies and objectives.
QuHarrison Terry made it 4 times as LinkedIn Top Voice in Tech for his contribution to digital marketing and technology. He recently wrote The NFT Handbook, a detailed guide on how to create, sell and buy non-fungible tokens without the need for a technical background.
QuHarrison Terry Interview Focus
- Academic and Professional Background
- State of Digital Marketing today
- As Head of Growth Marketing with Mark Cuban
- First step in the digital marketing space.
- You were the co-founder of Inevitable/Human – the futuristic media platform and community for future thinkers, VNM USA and 23VIVI can you tell us about these organisations?
- What’s the NFT Handbook book about?
- How do you see NFTs? Challenges and opportunities
- And how do you see the future of NFTs?
- What is your take on the future of NFTs trends and metaverse?
- How do you see the immediate future bearing in mind what we spoke during this experience?
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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Music For is the new podcast between artist, designer and producer Amrita Sen and citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil Founder Dinis Guarda. This is Music For Buddha 2 with Special Guest Suvarna Jha Sira, where Amrita, Dinis and Suvarna explore Buddha’s life by reconstructing the myth and they give a very personal note on the importance of his figure in current India.
Thought as a collaborative work between the two, the podcast showcases the power of music to improve our wellbeing and healing as well as Amrita’s exclusive ideas in terms of narratives from Indian Mythology. She aesthetically introduces a fresh perspective to the potentials of music in alleviating one’s inner self by taking an illustration of Buddha’s life.
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
He has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays and governments all over the world.
He has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he coordinates executive Masters and MBAs.
As an author, Dinis Guarda published the book 4IR: AI, Blockchain, FinTech, IoT, Reinventing a Nation in 2019, among others. His upcoming book, titled 4IR Magna Carta Cities ABC: A tech AI blockchain 4IR Smart Cities Data Research Charter of Liberties for our humanity is due to be published in 2020.
He is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He was also listed as one of the 100 B2B Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow in 2020 by Thinkers360.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
More interviews and inspirational videos on Dinis Guarda YouTube
Music For is the new podcast between artist, designer and producer Amrita Sen and citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil Founder Dinis Guarda. This is Music For Career, where Amrita and Dinis explore the analogy between music and career management.
Thought as a collaborative work between the two, the podcast showcases the power of music to improve our wellbeing and healing as well as Amrita’s exclusive ideas in terms of narratives from Indian Mythology. She aesthetically introduces a fresh perspective to the potentials of music in alleviating one’s inner self by taking an illustration of Buddha’s life.
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
He has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays and governments all over the world.
He has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he coordinates executive Masters and MBAs.
As an author, Dinis Guarda published the book 4IR: AI, Blockchain, FinTech, IoT, Reinventing a Nation in 2019, among others. His upcoming book, titled 4IR Magna Carta Cities ABC: A tech AI blockchain 4IR Smart Cities Data Research Charter of Liberties for our humanity is due to be published in 2020.
He is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He was also listed as one of the 100 B2B Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow in 2020 by Thinkers360.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
More interviews and inspirational videos on Dinis Guarda YouTube
Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator, and writer. PhD in architecture and mass media, Gadanho led a recognized architecture renovation practice until 2012, when he became the curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York. In 2015, Pedro Gadanho became the founding director of MAAT, the new Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon, working on projects with major multi-media artists such as Apichapong Weerasethakul, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Gary Hill, and others.
Pedro Gadanho Interview Topics
- Cities - The Pinnacle of Civilization
1.1 How do you see cities?
1.2 Ecological cities
1.3 Architecture and Arts in Cities - As a curator of MoMA and MAAT
2.1 Major achievements and takeaways
2.2 Challenges and Lessons
2.3 The role of the curators - About your book
Pedro Gadanho Biography
Pedro Gadanho has kept a high profile in the architectural field at large, with a regular presence in international conferences, juries and other consulting bodies. He was a consultant for the Rolex Mentor-Protegé Arts Initiative 2013, the MacArthurs Fellows Program, and the Pew Fellowship Programs for 2014, among others.
Profiles on his work and curatorial projects have been published in magazines and online sites such as New York Times, New York; Architecture d’Aujourd’Hui, Paris; ICON, London; DAMNo, Brussels; IndabaDesign, Cape Town, etc.
He is a Loeb Fellow from Harvard University. Currently, Gadanho is leading the Candidacy to European Capital of Culture 2027, for 19 towns in Portugal and Spain, at the border territory of Raia Central.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
More interviews and inspirational videos on Dinis Guarda YouTube
Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator, and writer. PhD in architecture and mass media, Gadanho led a recognized architecture renovation practice until 2012, when he became the curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York. In 2015, Pedro Gadanho became the founding director of MAAT, the new Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon, working on projects with major multi-media artists such as Apichapong Weerasethakul, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Gary Hill, and others.
Pedro Gadanho Interview Topics
- Education background - From Portugal to the world, Education
- As a Writer
- Science Fiction and its impact on our reality
- Architecture background - How do you see architecture now?
- Present state of architecture: evolution over digital platforms
- We are creating our own illusion of reality. How do you defend the blend?
- Challenges of the art world
- As a curator of MoMA and MAAT
- Major achievements
Pedro Gadanho Biography
Pedro Gadanho has kept a high profile in the architectural field at large, with a regular presence in international conferences, juries and other consulting bodies. He was a consultant for the Rolex Mentor-Protegé Arts Initiative 2013, the MacArthurs Fellows Program, and the Pew Fellowship Programs for 2014, among others.
Profiles on his work and curatorial projects have been published in magazines and online sites such as New York Times, New York; Architecture d’Aujourd’Hui, Paris; ICON, London; DAMNo, Brussels; IndabaDesign, Cape Town, etc.
He is a Loeb Fellow from Harvard University. Currently, Gadanho is leading the Candidacy to European Capital of Culture 2027, for 19 towns in Portugal and Spain, at the border territory of Raia Central.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
More interviews and inspirational videos on Dinis Guarda YouTube
Music For is the new podcast between artist, designer and producer Amrita Sen and citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil Founder Dinis Guarda.
Thought as a collaborative work between the two, the podcast showcases the power of music to improve our wellbeing and healing as well as Amrita’s exclusive ideas in terms of narratives from Indian Mythology. She aesthetically introduces a fresh perspective to the potentials of music in alleviating one’s inner self by taking an illustration of Buddha’s life.
About Amrita Sen
Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.
Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.
About Dinis Guarda
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.
Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.
He has been working with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, Davos WEF, Philips, Saxo Bank, Mastercard, Barclays and governments all over the world.
He has been a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, Group INSEEC/Monaco University, where he coordinates executive Masters and MBAs.
As an author, Dinis Guarda published the book 4IR: AI, Blockchain, FinTech, IoT, Reinventing a Nation in 2019, among others. His upcoming book, titled 4IR Magna Carta Cities ABC: A tech AI blockchain 4IR Smart Cities Data Research Charter of Liberties for our humanity is due to be published in 2020.
He is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He was also listed as one of the 100 B2B Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow in 2020 by Thinkers360.
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
More interviews and inspirational videos on Dinis Guarda YouTube
Susan Oh, Future of AI, Blockchain; Blockchain For Impact Global Summit @ UN HQ, Top 10 Frontier Women in Digital
Susan Oh is CMO for BeOmni by Beyond Imagination, the world’s most advanced humanoid AI robots, brainchildof by XPrize cofounder Harry Kloor, and inventor Ray Kurzweil (former Chief Scientist, Google) and the likes of Tony Robbins.
Susan is the recipient of the Quantum Impact Award #DecadeOfWomen in partnership with the UN GA as one of Top Ten Frontier Women in Digital, and speaks around the world on the role of AI and blockchain in serving the UN’s sustainable development goals.
Susan Oh is advisor and global ambassador to NeoFlow Asset Management, Impulse4Women. She is also founder of Muckr AI (Abbreviation of Muck Record) AI, which uses machine learning to grade the trustworthiness of content based on source behavior.
Susan Oh a founding Board Member of Blockchain Commission For Sustainable Development which has support from the Office of Partnerships UN GA General Assembly.
A former journalist since age 16 (CNBC, EIU, Newsweek), Susan Oh speaks around the world on digital financial inclusion, including at the UN GA, ITU, The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Maths and Sciences, and WEF Davos.
Susan Oh Interview Questions
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights - what you did and what you are doing
- Your present company / companies, organisations / major projects and focus?
- Founder of Muckr AI (Abbreviation of Muck Record) AI, which uses machine learning to grade the trustworthiness of content based on source behavior.
- Can you tell us about BeOmni by Beyond Imagination, the world’s most advanced humanoid AI robots?
- Can you tell us about your work as a founding Board Member of the Blockchain Commission For Sustainable Development which has support from the Office of Partnerships UN GA General Assembly?
- You are an advisor and global ambassador to NeoFlow Asset Management, Impulse4Women. Can you tell us about these organizations?
- Your work has been focused on financial inclusion models for value steps when using Al and blockchain - AI for automation, and blockchain in attempts for trustless systems for transaction. Can you elaborate on this?
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org
https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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Ken Gibbs is the Global Head, Social Media Marketing at Spotify, member of the Adweek Social Media Council and co-host of The Art of Storytelling at Soho House.
Boston, USA, born Ken Gibbs is a senior digital marketing executive with more than 20 years of experience. Gibbs has been working with global leading platforms and brands like AOL, Viacom, Amazon and now Spotify. Ken Gibbs is a forward-thinking executive with industry expertise and leading global strategies and solutions. Along his extensive career, he has effectively learned how to manage teams remotely, target marketing, content creation, and developed effective social media marketing strategies. Ken is skilled in managing people and processes to ensure measurable growth and impact, creating a culture of engagement and high performance, and crafting comprehensive plans with a wide communication and facilitation versatility.
Gibbs is highly recognized by the industry as a respected visionary and change-agent leading companies through the complexities of bridging marketing with technological solutions and identifying innovative ways to increase audience and engagement.
Ken Gibbs Interview Topics
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education. Career highlights - what you did and what you are doing.
- What were the main impacts you saw in the last decades when it comes to media?
- You have been working in the media, music industry and digital for years. And special working with creators. What do you think are the main challenges for creators, artists to deal with digital?
- As of the second quarter of 2021, Spotify had 165 million premium subscribers worldwide, up from 138 million in the corresponding quarter of 2020. Spotify's subscriber base has increased dramatically in the last few years and has more than doubled since early 2017. Spotify is a major platform that offers great tools like https://artists.spotify.com/. Can you tell us about it?
- How do you see the future of the music industry?
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https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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In this second interview, Dinis Guarda and Eric Yaverbaum goes through defining topics of our time, including the dichotomy between our physical organic self and our digital twin; the PR crisis, the importance of social media for business and the challenges of digital privacy and tech as a surveillance tool.
Eric Yaverbaum, CEO of Ericho Communications, is a communications, media, and public relations expert with over 40 years in the industry, having co-founded Jericho Communications and served as President from 1985 until its successful sale in 2006. Eric has worked with a wide-range of top-of-their-industry clients, including Sony, IKEA, Progressive Insurance, Domino’s, Beachbody, H&M, and fitness guru Jack LaLanne.
Eric is also a bestselling author who literally wrote the book on public relations – the industry-standard bestseller Public Relations for Dummies – as well as six other titles, including Leadership Secrets of the World’s Most Successful CEOs (with over a million copies sold). He is a regular TV pundit, and his expert commentary has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Washington Post, The New York Times, HuffPost, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox Business, Inc., and PR Week, among others.
Eric Yaverbaum Interview Questions
- Overview of how you see technology and media - special as the velocity of things and social media touch 360 everything we do and our society.
- We now have a physical organic self and a digital twin. As a PR expert, author, how do you see this and especially how can we cope with it?
- How do you see the importance of social media for businesses and for the future of businesses and as a personal brand builder?
- How do you weigh the way Facebook and the tech giants handle privacy and tech profits versus ethics?
- What do you think about general technology challenges with the advent of social media risks and AI increasingly risks?
- What are your takes on the vulnerability of our tech systems: cybersecurity, ethics, fake news and social media trolling?
- How do you see the PR crisis and what do you think would be the best way to handle them now, especially in the digital space?
- As a CEO, what are the top challenges you have had to face?
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https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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Siim Sikkut is the Government CIO of Estonia, officially titled as Deputy Secretary-General for IT and Telecom. In office since 2017, Siim Sikkut is in charge of the digital government and society as well as telecommunications and post areas. Mr Siim Sikkut has been working and launched the Digital Testbed Framework & Digital Government Innovation Model.
Siim Sikkut Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights - education
- Can you tell us some of the major improvements and solutions / benchmarks that made Estonia a success?
- What is the Estonian Government take on:
- E-residency
- Digital government and society as well as telecommunications and post areas?
- The data for e-Estonia is not stored centrally but instead uses a data platform run by the government called X-Road to link information from local hosts. What can you tell us about it?
- Estonia has one of the highest number of startups per capita in the world, and one reason is the ease of establishing a business. Since 2011, a new company can be registered online in less than 20 minutes and 98% of new companies are entered in the e-Business Register digitally. That initiative has made possible an impressive number of unicorns in Estonia: Skype, Wise, Skype, Ktech, Zego, ID.me. How can you weigh on this success?
- Can you talk about the Digital Testbed Framework And Digital Government Innovation Model?
- How do you cope with the challenges of digital disruption and fragmentation in tech and geopolitics?
- You were responsible for Estonia's plan for AI strategy. Can you tell us about that?
- You are the Chairman of the OECD Senior Digital Government Officials Working Party (E-leaders). Can you share how it works and the vision?
Estonia was the first Nation-State in the world to deploy blockchain technology in production systems – in 2012 with the Succession Registry kept by the Ministry of Justice. Also using blockchain for elections, health records. Can you tell us about it, some case studies? - You are also part of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), a non-profit association with a mission to ensure the development and strategic management of X-Road. Can you tell us about it?
- What websites and places can people come to know more about Estonia’s digital initiatives?
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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https://www.intelligenthq.com
https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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David Davies is the founder of AgUnity & creator of AgriUT, a solution to deploy smartphones and a digital Token to smallholder farmers to help them lift themselves out of poverty.
He was awarded the Future Agro Challenge (FAC) Global Agripreneur of the Year 2018 for his work as CEO of AgUnity for helping lift low-income farmers out of poverty. AgUnity provides a smartphone and blockchain solution that improves trust and cooperation for smallholder farmers and is also used as a platform for a range of problems including mobile banking for the financially excluded, and data collection for developed world farmers.
The work by David and AgUnity has been globally recognised by the likes of IFC World Bank, Mastercard Foundation, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Oxford University and more.
David Davies Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- Can you let me know about your views on blockchain and agriculture and supply chain?
- Can you tell us more about how your token and blockchain solution works?
- What are your views in AI and agriculture and supply chain?
- How do AgUnity manage issues with ESG?
- How do AgUnity manage issues with carbon neutrality and climate exchange?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- What are your visions for the present and future, especially regarding climate change?
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https://www.hedgethink.com/
https://www.citiesabc.com/
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A well-known lawyer and investment banker, David Kay is the Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Liti Capital, a Swiss investment company that combines blockchain-based solutions, advanced data analytics and investigative capabilities to conduct litigation funding. David is considered one of the most successful and in-demand litigation finance strategists in the history of the 15-year-old litigation finance industry and he led one of the largest international arbitration award in history - bringing in more than one billion US dollars of cash and securities.
David Kay Interview Focus
1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education, career highlights?
2. Can you tell us about Litigation Finance?
3. How do you see the bridges between centralised legal finance and decentralised blockchain law finance and the bridges between and the challenges arisen?
4. What is Liti Capital - the company, the tokens, organisations and focus?
5. Why is Liti Capital creating a platform to defend, educate and create the legal litigation finance basis for the crypto community - B2B2C and fight Crypto Fraud worldwide?
6. Liti Capital offers private equity for everyone. Can you elaborate on that?
7. You created BinanceClaim as a way to support traders affected by the issues of exchanges like Binance. Can you explain how it works?
8. You created cryptowatchdog as a large platform for the crypto, DeFi world can you explain the vision and how will work?
9. You have an offer for both B2C - B2B can you explain the strategy how traders and institutions can work with Liti Cpaital?
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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Melanie Eusebe is an award winning business strategist, working with clients to identify strategic priorities and initiatives for revenue generation and sustainable growth.
Fresh out of university, Melanie worked at Canada’s largest financial service institution, progressing quickly from Business Analyst to Manager of the Internet Channels. She moved to London and became a Big 4 Management Consultant and business advisor to aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as running strategic commercial initiatives and projects for global brands. In 2014, she launched The Black British Business Awards (#BBBAwards) – the largest awards programme of its kind, endorsed by Prime Minister May, the Mayor of London and esteemed business leaders.
Melanie Eusebe Interview Questions
- An introduction from you - background, cultural background, overview, education…?
- Can you tell us about your Education. You studied Philosophy, Political Science and French and the recipient of the Gordon Cressy Leadership Award. You moved to London to complete her Masters Degree in Philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London and you are now a professor of Leadership & Management, and Business Strategy.
- How do you bridge between philosophy, education and the corporate world?
- You kept a unique career that balances and works between teaching in universities and big corporations and Career highlights?
- Can you tell us about your views on Leadership and management? Special in the light of your philosophy background?
- Can you tell us about the Black British Business Awards organisations and focus?
- What are the biggest challenges when it comes to diversity and management focus on the topics of the awards?
- What are your views on data, our society, technology and digital transformations special in the light of your work on leadership, management, diversity?
- You have been working between ideas, education, SMEs and corporations. Can you highlight some case study or experience you feel relevant from your experience?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Podcast interview with Shawn Granberry, CEO of HipHopTV Streaming Platform - The Power of Hip Hop Culture
Shawn Granberry is CEO of HipHopTV, LLC, an USA-based 24-hour live streaming online platform. The platform features original programming, custom playlists, licensed content, and music videos. Shawn is an entertainment industry veteran with more than 25+ years of experience, promoting music and the entertainment industry in the West Coast.
Shawn Granberry Interview Focus
- Can you tell us from your work on education and working with leading universities and especially your work helping young people achieve a college education and survive the dangers of the streets?
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... How did you get into the entertainment industry?
- You were introduced to the entertainment industry through your mother’s job. Can you tell us about your mother and family business?
- Can you tell us from the beginning of HipHop that you and your family were there from the beginning?
- HipHop is a very powerful cultural phenomenon that touches music, culture, fashion, and social impact. Can you tell us about it from your history perspective?
- There are over 2,850,000,000 search results for HipHop and multiple people have different versions of it. Can you tell us about this term, movement and industry?
- Can you tell us about the role of HipHop TV platform and other platforms and how musicians and artists can use your platform as an educational and new revenue streams platform?
- Can you tell us about HipHopTV the organisations and focus?
- Cocina that manages Adsmovil, a digital advertising company with direct relationships to 1,200+ Latin American, Spanish, and U.S. Hispanic publishers, is partnering with HipHopTV, to bring A-list talent and data together to innovate and guarantee measurable impact for advertisers. Can you tell us about it?
- Can you tell us how HipHop TV wants to use NFTs and new related techs to help artists and musicians?
- How can we help artists, musicians deal with failure and work with global audiences?
- Can you tell us about Hip Hop culture and its global and heterogeneous nature - and its youth culture association?
- How do you see the main trends when it comes to the present and future of hip hop music and culture?
- What is coming to HipHopTV soon that you can share with us?
- As a music and producer that was in so much wild entertainment and music background you have also been involved in Berkeley. Can you tell us about this and also the relationship with Stanford?
- Can you tell us about the work on data, sports and the work with Stanford University and context with HipHopTv and your context work between music and sports?
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Daniel Liu is the Director of INFLUXO, a premier NFT creative studio and partner of INBlockchain, one of the most influential investment groups in the Asian crypto space, incubating blockchain projects like BigONE, RumSystem, MobileCoin, and Mixin. Before his asset management, compliance and angel investment experience in the blockchain space, he worked for Deutsche Bank and other financial institutions and investment firms in Europe. Daniel studied in Frankfurt am Main and Stuttgart in Germany and Wuhan in China and holds an MA from Frankfurt School of Finance.
Daniel Liu Interview Focus
- Can you tell us about your background and education?
- Career highlights - How did you come across blockchain and cryptocurrencies?
- About INFLUXO, organisations and focus?
- How did you approach football legend Ronaldinho and decided to create an NFT based on him?
- What are your views of today’s China blockchain and crypto ecosystem?
- What are your views on NFTs?
- What are the types of NFTs you think will bring more attention and hype?
- In your opinion, what are the challenges NFTs face?
Daniel Liu Biography
Daniel Liu studied Business in Germany, in Frankfurt and in Stuttgart. Starting off in the financial sector, Daniel secured a position in Deutsche Bank. After a while and from his involvement in the financial industry, he discovered blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
That first experience with blockchain took him to investigate and research more in these two technologies. He then decided to move back to China and become an entrepreneur working with blockchain and cryptocurrency projects. Back in Asia, he took roles in different companies as asset manager, compliance and angel investor, adding it to his experience in the blockchain space.
Daniel Liu went on to co-found INFLUXO, a premier NFT creative studio and partner of INBlockchain. Through INBlockchain, one of the most influential investment groups in the Asian crypto space, incubating blockchain projects like BigONE, RumSystem, MobileCoin, and Mixin, Daniel got in touch with celebrities and different athletes to propose them creating NFTs based on them. That is how they got to create a series of NFTs with Football Legend Ronaldinho.
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Rishi Kapoor is a MBA graduate and the founder and CEO of paus TV streaming platform for independent films. Rishi is an experienced professional in film distribution both UK and Internationally. A former executive at Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Warner Bros. and Disney. After many years working on distribution deals with Netflix, Amazon and Apple, he turned his attention to the independent film space, supporting independent filmmakers with his streaming platform paus.tv.
Rishi Kapoor Interview Focus
- Rishi Kapoor’s background - Education and background
- Background of creating Paus and building a live streaming service
- How does Paus TV work?
- You touched that 97% of creators don’t make any money. Can you tell us about that?
- Creative economy - how do you see the challenges in these areas?
- Film industry - Independent films - how do you see the industry?
- What can you tell us about digital transformation in the film industry?
- IP and royalty in the film industry?
- NFTs and film - how do you see this?
Rishi Kapoor Biography
As a sole founder with no coding experience, Rishi launched a prototype in his room for £120 called 'watchpaus'. He on-boarded several award-winning filmmakers and within a week managed to attract 50 paying users. Whilst 'watchpaus' was a rough, throw-away prototype to validate a certain user-behaviour, it was the first time he built a web-based product and surprisingly the feedback included comments on how professional the site looked. “This taught me the valuable lesson of always attempting new skills and never under-estimating one's ability,” Rishi mentioned about this first contact experience.
About paus.tv
paus is a new video platform dedicated to supporting talented content creators and helping audiences to discover inspiring work. It is a platform powered by audiences to support great work without adverts.
With paus, filmmakers can get their content in front of an audience that embraces and supports them. Creators are invited to submit their shorts or docs to paus to share their work with a like-minded community of independent film fans. It’s free and quick to submit, and once films are live on the paus app, audiences and supporters can show their appreciation by leaving a tip.
The unique digital tipping feature allows audiences to tip any film or filmmaker they want to support - any amount from 10p to £1000+, at any time. paus is integrated with native digital payment methods, such as Apple Pay, so the process is quick and easy, and gets the tip to the filmmaker with no friction. Unlike other video platforms, the scales are weighed in the creator’s favour as they keep 80% of every single tip.
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Interview with Susie Wang - Director of Global Social Media & Spokesperson at Huawei for Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil Podcast Series
Susie Wang is the Director of Global Social Media Communications at Huawei. Susie has travelled all across the world, from the USA to Europe and China along her career. She is the host of the media series Great Minds Talk for Huawei. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, BAInternational Development Studies and a Master of Science from the University of Oxford.
Susie Wang Interview Focus
- Education and Professional Career - 5:00
- Work and education.
- Culture background versus your education - 8:30
- Digital culture in China versus Rest of the world - 12:56
- Brands, influencers and Fashion in China - 22:00 - Follow up question: 24:10
- Media and series #GreatMindsTalk - 27:13
- Tech for Good - not a CSR program - 31:04
- Relationship with Universities - 33:32
- China is leading in tech with companies like TikTok leading the social media and super influencers. Can you tell us about that? 27:00
- 5G Solutions: What impact 5G will have on industries? What are Huawei’s solutions regarding 5G?
- Huawei has been working on a lot of indexes and data like the connectivity, trust index. Can you tell us about these projects? -
- Can you tell us about your role as Director of Global Social Media Communications at Huawei Technologies? - 40:33
- About the Digital Divide, what can we do to stop this worldwide issue? - 43:50
- The role of ESG on fighting climate change and environmental issues - 46:50
Susie Wang Biography
Chinese born Susie Wang is the current Director of Global Social Media Communications at multinational company Huawei. From her position, she understands the importance of knowing different cultures and synergies. That is what took her to travel the world and experience different regions and cultures: from Canada, where she spent quite a lot of time in Montreal, to Europe and Singapore and across Asia.
In 2018, Susie joined Huawei as the Director of Global Social Media Communications where she is responsible for public awareness, media outreach, online and print communications, the corporate website and social media channels, internal and external publications, and outreach events and activities.
Susie Wang holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, BAInternational Development Studies and holds a Master of Science from the University of Oxford.
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Daniel Doll-Steinberg is a serial entrepreneur and technologist, government advisor and co-founder of the Atari Token project. He is now the co-founder of EdenBase, which offers global shared spaces for innovative companies. Through these spaces, companies have the opportunity to collaborate with experts and technology providers on market adoption of disruptive technologies.
Daniel had a successful career in investment banking in London and New York. Daniel is a serial entrepreneur, founder of several companies in the entertainment, marketing and health spaces. He also advised the UK Government and European Commission on Innovation and education policy. He is a regular speaker on innovation and the Future of Work. Daniel is a cofounder of the Atari Token project with Atari, an Ethereum founder and several gaming legends and is now launching.
Daniel Doll-Steinberg Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Can you tell us about your cultural background and how that made you who you are?
- You started your career in trading and investments. Can you tell me about that experience and how that touched your career and tech career?
- What are your thoughts on the evolution of trading, finance and the role of technology in all of that?
- Can you tell us about the Atari Token company / companies, organisations and focus?
- Can you tell us about EdenBase?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- And what about Frontier Technologies?
- About AI: how to avoid a dystopian future?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
Daniel Doll-Steinberg Biography
Daniel started his career in global derivatives technology in London and New York. Following that he founded / co-founded several companies delivering disruptive technology platforms in the entertainment and marketing spaces. Since 2016 Daniel has focussed on the Blockchain, specifically bringing real-world companies to the Blockchain.
He also founded, with a group of gaming veterans and an Ethereum founder, a computer gaming blockchain project that has the potential to deliver the future of work. This project, called the Atari Token, is a decentralized cryptocurrency that was created to become the token of reference for the interactive entertainment industry.
For several years Daniel advised both the UK Government and the European Commission on innovation, growth, and education policy. This included being the two-term UK appointed member of the European Commission Enterprise Policy Group (Business Chamber) and a member of the UK Government’s EU Advisory Group for the Department of Business, Innovation, and Skills.
In January 2020, Daniel Doll-Steinber and Eric van der Kleij founded EdenBase, which invests knowledge, capital and technology, to enable the next Game Changing tech-companies to achieve responsible growth and positive impact.
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Nick Jonsson is the Founder & Managing Director with EGN (Executives’ Global Network) Singapore. A passionate about matching senior executives in confidential peer groups where they can help each other face challenges and identify opportunities, Nick has over 23 years of experience working across Asia, Australia and Europe representing major international firms. He is proficient in international general management, direct sales and marketing experience.
Nick is the international best selling author of "Executive Loneliness: How to avoid the workplace isolation," where he raises awareness, and aims to eliminate the stigma around the phenomenon of executive loneliness.
Nick Jonsson Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education, cultural and global network and the cultural nuances...
- How do you see the main changes between Sweden, Europe and Asia when it comes to work and digital?
- After living in Asia and multiple countries what were the main cultural shocks?
- You are the Founder & Managing Director with EGN (Executives’ Global Network), can you tell us about the company and your work?
- Can you elaborate on how your experience leading chambers of commerce and EGN now?
- ESG is now a global network of 14,000 members, representing more than 8,000 companies and 70 professions. How does it work to be part of the ecosystem and how do you cope now with Covid and all challenges with offline and online?
- In your book, "Executive Loneliness: How to avoid the workplace isolation," you raise awareness, and highlight the steps of how to eliminate the stigma around the phenomenon of executive loneliness. Can you tell us about the book and specific wellbeing for executives?
- Can you tell us some stories about the book research and case studies you want to share with us?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Jonathan Sims is the CPO for French company ENGIE/EQUANS and an experienced senior executive manager. Jonathan has more than 25 years of experience in different industries including engineering, energy and construction. Jonathan Sims has a strong connection with academia and holds four university degrees, including an MBA and a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), as an external advising practitioner to Nottingham Business School and guest lecturer at Durham Business School.
Jonathan Sims Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- How did you cope with your academic and corporate career?
- Can you tell us about your MBA and DBA fields of research?
- Can you tell us about the industry verticals you have been involved in - from change management, to legacy systems, environment, talent management, drive to zero carbon, digital twins, digital transformation…?
- How can businesses cope on a practical level with carbon neutral solutions?
- Engie SA is a French multinational electric utility company, headquartered in La Défense, Courbevoie, which operates in the fields of energy transition, electricity generation and distribution, natural gas, nuclear, renewable energy and petroleum. Stock price: ENGI (EPA) €11.56 -0.05 (-0.45%), Headquarters: La Défense, France, CEO: Catherine MacGregor (1 Jan 2021–), Revenue: 60.1 billion EUR (2019), Number of employees: 171,100 (2019), Subsidiaries: Cofely AG, Electrabel, ENGIE Home Services, more. Parent organizations: Sofina, Agence des participations de l'État, Equans… Can you tell us about Engie company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you see Carbon Neutral solutions for business?
- How can businesses cope on a practical level with carbon neutral solutions?
- ESG is a critical element of our business, society and government focus. How do you see Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance data refers to metrics related to intangible assets within the enterprise, a form of corporate social credit score. Research shows that intangible assets comprise an increasing percentage of future enterprise value?
- When it comes to supply chain and procurement with your experience working with hundreds of thousands, what are the most important subjects in order to simplify these big topics for SMEs and businesses?
- How do you see the geolocation challenges when it comes to supply chain, carbon neutral and the ESG challenges?
- How do you see your areas of expertise when it comes to #enterprisevalue, #corporatestrategy, and #culturetransformation / change management?
- Can you highlight some concrete examples on how you deal with challenges and politics in the big organisation you have been working in?
- You have been working in the energy and previously in the construction industry, very conservative and legacy industries. How do you see these industries when it comes to innovation and digital transformation?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR concepts?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Ryan Abbott, MD, JD, MTOM, PhD is Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Professor Ryan Abbott is highly regarded for his scholarship, teaching, and professional activities.
Professor Ryan Abbott is the author of The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press, and he has published widely on issues associated with law and technology, health law, and intellectual property in leading legal, medical, and scientific books and journals. Professor Abbott’s research has been featured prominently in the media, including in the New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, and VICE. He routinely gives keynote lectures and presents internationally in academic (e.g., MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge), government (e.g., World Intellectual Property Organization, World Trade Organization, UK Intellectual Property Office), and industry (e.g., AIPPI, American Chemical Society, INTERPAT) settings. Managing Intellectual Property magazine named him as one of the fifty most influential people in intellectual property in 2019.
Ryan Abbott Questions
- Profile and Background;
- Career
- Academic background
- You wrote the Book author of The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press. Can you tell us about the book?
- How do you see the Challenges of AI in general when it comes to Robotics?
- Can you highlight some of your work on the World Intellectual Property Organization AI?
- World Intellectual Property Organization AI case studies
- Case study as AI Artificial inventor project https://artificialinventor.com/
- Human to human, human vs machine, and machine to machine how do you see these interactions of our time?
- You wrote this article Punishing Artificial Intelligence: Legal Fiction or Science Fiction with Alexander Sarch can you elaborate on this?
- AI and health sciences and healthcare. How do you see this special if we bear in mind the case study of the nazis using IBM machines for doing mass murder?
- Cases studies you want to highlight from your work in the areas of AI and life sciences?
- At the moment we have all the sectors of legal tech and regtech. As AI and Law main areas grow and position new possibilities, what areas you would like to highlight given your research?
- You have a lot of work working in the areas of Patent and Trademark Offices. What areas you would like to highlight given your research special in the context of tech startups and innovation?
- You wrote a paper in 2011 looking at complementary, alternative and integrative medicine. Can you elaborate on this and also the possibilities special as a low tech historical contrabalance with all the tech and AI advancements?
- We touched a lot of the advances of AI and law and a bit on ethics. How do you see the challenges of human DNA engineering and life sciences life expansion?
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Based in the US, India-born Amrita Sen is a successful designer, singer, producer and entrepreneur, with particular expertise in the entertainment sector. Currently producing the Indian adaptation of John Le Carre’s ‘The Night Manager’, she also creates original Indian-themed art, furniture and clothing as the head of Amrita Sen Designs. With a B.S. from UPenn and an MBA from Harvard Business School, Amrita serves on the Board of Overseers of the Weitzman School of Design at UPenn.
Amrita Sen Interview Focus
- Introduction: Guarda and Sen discusses her youth in India and formative experiences.
- Education: Sen describes her time at UPenn and Harvard and how her alma maters prepared her for a career in business.
- Mentorship: Guarda and Sen discuss the prominent people who have shaped her life.
- First career highlights: Guarda and Sen discuss the highlights from the first half of her career, focused especially on Vault, the product licensing firm with high-profile celebrity clients, where she was CEO.
- Music and entertainment: Amrita Sen shares her background in the music and entertainment industries.
- Slumdog Millionaire: Guarda and Sen discuss her unexpected national debut at the 2009 Oscars, performing the hit song ‘Jai Ho’ from the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack by music legend A. R. Rahman. The number won the Academy Award for Best Original Song later that evening.
- New horizons: Guarda and Sen discuss how this pivotal life event opened up new directions for Sen’s career, in the music industry in particular. She explains how she went on to work with household names such as Timbaland and Justin Timberlake.
- Design: Guarda and Sen then turn the discussion to her equally impressive career in furniture and fashion design, sharing the origin stories of her brand.
- Books: Guarda asks Sen about her book ‘Cosmic and Eternal Love: An Everlasting Story’ (Galison: September 2016), which she wrote and illustrated herself.
- Present paths: Guarda and Sen discuss where she stands now in relation to her overall career.
- Thoughts for the future: Guarda asks Sen about her views for the future of the creative industries, focusing in particular on technological trends and how these might be used appropriately by artists to increase their visibility and remuneration.
- Last words: Guarda and Sen discuss how society needs to change in order to incorporate technology for a beneficial social impact on art and creativity.
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Interview with LaMondre Pough, CEO of Billion Strong, Mentor, Recognized Leader for the Community of People with Disabilities
A passionate speaker, seasoned coach, and enthusiastic content creator, LaMondre Pough is the CEO of Billion Strong, CSO for Ruh Global IMPACT, host of multiple podcasts, and the creator of the video series “Moment of Impact”. His ability to empower his audiences to embrace diversity and create environments where people truly belong, has helped him become a highly respected speaker, coach, and content creator.
LaMondre Pough Interview Focus
- Academic background
- Early career experience
- As someone who was diagnosed with a disability, how did you cope with it?
- Entrepreneurial career
- Can you tell us about Billion Strong?
- Can you tell us more about the idea of the Internet and technology as a utility to help people with disabilities?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations? How can these improve the live of millions of people with disabilities?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
LaMondre Pough Biography
In addition to Billion Strong, LaMondre serves as the Chief Sustainability Officer for Ruh Global IMPACT, Chairman of Arts Access South Carolina, and recently was inducted into the Susan Daniels Disability Mentoring Hall of Fame, Class of 2020, for his unwavering work supporting disability justice, racial justice, and COVID-19 related issues that impact the disabled community.
Dr. LaMondre Pough is also known as a passionate speaker, seasoned coach, and enthusiastic content creator, host of multiple podcasts, and the creator of the video series “Moment of Impact”. His ability to empower his audiences to embrace diversity and create environments where people truly belong, has helped him become a highly respected speaker, coach, and content creator.
Using colorful stories and stirring facts, LaMondre touches the hearts of his audience that can inspire waves of change. Each message, session, and video by Dr. Pough is a dynamic and unique experience. It is common for listeners to laugh, cry, reflect and come away enriched during his sessions. He challenges people to find purpose and ways to progress themselves in every circumstance.
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Richard Haigh, Managing Director at Brand Finance - “Bridging The Gap Between Marketing And Finance”
Richard Haigh is the Managing Director at Brand Finance. He has lectured at universities and business schools, including London Business School, on topics surrounding brand valuation and management.
Richard Haigh also has a BA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford, qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA) and became a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing with Brand Finance.
Richard Haigh Interview Focus
- Education and Professional Career
- Can you tell us about Brand Finance?
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus
- Can you tell us more about the methodology and technology behind the rankings system?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
Richard Haigh - Biography
Richard Haigh holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford and he is qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA) and became a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing with Brand Finance.
Since graduating from the University of Oxford, he has worked with international companies such as global banking group Standard Chartered Bank. He joined the bank in 2009, in which he was in charge of rotations on the Foreign exchange and commodities trading floor. The desks included the derivatives, spot and metal commodity trading desks to assist in front line support tasks and gaining a taste of the industry. “It was at Standard Chartered I gained my first taste of Visual Basic Editor, teaching myself the language to create an information recall macro to enhance the current system of commodity database management,” Richard Haigh mentioned about that experience.
In September 2009, Richard joined family business Brand Finance as Brand Analyst. Climbing up the hierarchy ladder, Richard became Managing Director in 2016. Along all these years, Richard Haigh has brought his expertise with global clients in various sectors including banking, telecoms, airlines, sport, media, food and more, and able to advise their clients about their Brand Hierarchy, and has devised and recommended methods for them to improve their Brand Architecture, Portfolio Management, and Brand Positioning.
About Brand Finance
Brand Finance evaluates the strength and value of more than 5000 global brands every year. Brandirectory holds all of the Brand Finance rankings, specialist reports and whitepapers published since 2007. With over 40 sectors and industries covered in 46 countries, Brandirectory is the most comprehensive collection of original brand valuations, brand strength analyses and royalty rate calculations.
Brand Finance’s brand value rankings have been certified by the Marketing Accountability Standards Board (MASB) through the Marketing Metric Audit Protocol (MMAP), the formal process for validating the relationship between marketing measurement and financial performance.
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Jiaying is a Post-Doctoral Fellow affiliated with the Information Law Institute. Jiaying Christine Jiang is also the co-leader of CBDC Project, cooperating with the China Center at Yale Law School; and contributor of the RegTrax Initiative at CodeX, Stanford Law School.
Jiaying Christine Jiang Questions
- Profile and Background;
- Intern, US Congress
- Academic work and research;
- Regulation of Blockchain - Your views on Blockchain policies and regulation in China and US
- Regtech
cooperating with the China Center at Yale Law School; - What are Central Bank Central Banks - CBDCs in general;
China CBDC; - Can you tell about your work as Contributor of the RegTrax Initiative at CodeX, Stanford Law School
- Your views on Fintech and AI and innovation in law and finance;
Jiaying Christine Jian Biography
Jiaying Christine Jian is originally from China but is now living in NYC. Her research focuses on the interaction between law and technology, especially policies and regulations on emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, smart contracts, digital currencies, FinTech, and LegalTech. Her doctoral thesis is about policies and regulations in the blockchain industry, comparing approaches in China and the US. In addition to blockchain research, she is also interested in Central Bank Digital Currency, smart contracts, computational law, comparative law, data rights issues, platform competition, and privacy issues.
At NYU Law, Jiaying currently analyzes if sandbox and technology can be a new regulatory approach for blockchain implementation. In addition, she is the co-leader of the Central Bank Digital Currency project, cooperating with the China Center at Yale Law School. She is also a contributor of the RegTrax Initiative at the CodeX, Stanford Law School.
Jiaying received her SJD from Emory University School of Law, LLM from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she received the Graduate and International Programs Award at the Annual Shattuck Awards, and LLB from Shenzhen University (with distinction). She is admitted to the bars in China and the State of New York.
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Eduardo Javier Muñoz, CEO at EVShare is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series. Both Eduardo and host Dinis Guarda goes through all the challenges in the Mobility Industry and how it is adapting to decentralization and blockchain.
Eduardo Javier Muñoz is a native of Argentina who lived 10 years in Brazil and works in projects in the United States since 2012. Over the past seventeen years, Eduardo Javier Munoz worked with International business, integration of complex value chains, product development, import-export, supply chain operations, and business consulting in Brazil, Argentina, and the US.
In the last 9 years, Eduardo Javier Muños developed an impressive career in ArqBravo Group, a sustainable mobility innovation company, leading its success in the US, integrating technology companies from all around the world to work over solutions on Sustainable Transportation, Renewable Energy sources application and communications.
As the EVShare's CEO, Eduardo is in charge of establishing operations, strategic alliances, articulating efforts with private and governmental institutions to create solutions to complex problems. Through the establishment of a collaboration between several mature technology providers, EV share was able to form a unique network which not only integrates modern mobility technology such as fossil-free, autonomous vehicles, but has also combined these with blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to guarantee the most efficient usage and sharing of energy and services within communities. These systems are aimed to be held by the communities themselves, thereby increasing the convenience of the citizens, as well as simultaneously lowering the environmental and health impact caused by conventional cars and lowering the amount of traffic accidents.
Eduardo Javier Muñoz Questions
- Background
- Career
- ArqBravo Group founder
- EvShare
- Can you tell us about the blockchain foundation of EvShare?
- EvShare touches all these areas: Zero Emission Micro-Transit services for Disadvantaged Communities, airports, resorts, campuses, Sustainability, Carbon footprint, self development vehicles… Can you tell us about this?
- Case studies you are working
- Los Angeles
- Minas Gerais
- You have been working in carbon footprint, zero emission solutions for years. Can you explain your work and the concept and the challenges we are facing on it and your solutions on it?
- Most of what you are doing is part of the biggest landscape of the concept and vision of Smart cities. How do you see smart cities and all the challenges and opportunities coming out of that?
- The EVShare platform integrates participants – vehicles, charging stations, energy producers, riders and the community – via a secure blockchain – based system comprised of series of Dapps (web3 Distributed Apps) and a public API, which allows EVShare and third party developers to produce apps or full custom enterprise solutions on top of EVShare’s platform. Can you elaborate on the areas and different players in this community?
- As we increase areas of IoT, smart cities, smart vehicles and smart buildings how do you see the areas of privacy related with AI, data privacy that come associated with?
- EvShare is in a phase of accelerated growth. What are your goals and focus now?
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Professor Xiaolan Fu is the Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green College at Oxford University and, through the TMCD, responsible for OxValue.AI as Chair of the Board. And Prof. Xiaolan Fu is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Podcast Series.
Prof Xiaolan Fu Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your recent books include China’s Path to Innovation, China’s Role in Global Economic Recovery, and The Rise of Technological Power in the South. Can you tell us a bit more about them and the role of innovation in China’s development?
- Can you explain to us what “Innovation under the radar” is? Any examples of that in the work you have been doing in Africa?
- Can you tell us about your work as Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College in Oxford?
- Can you tell us about the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), where you are the founder?
- You have been a consultant for UNDESA, UNCTAD, UNIDO, the World Bank, OECD, European Commission, ILO, the Commonwealth Secretariat, UKTI and the Chinese government. You serve on the Advisory Expert Group of the OECD Global Investment Forum and the DFID/ESRC Economic Growth Directorate (DEGP), and you are President of the Chinese Economic Association (Europe) and CEA (UK) in 2010-11. Can you tell us about this work with global organisations and how do you see the bridge between your academic and research work and the collaboration with these organisations? Especially when it comes to open innovation, academic research and policy making?
- Can you tell us about OxValue.ai organisations and focus?
- OxValue.ai brings new ways to look at companies valuation. Can you elaborate on how it works and the research and AI behind it?
- How do you see AI and Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation and ESG?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of business, work and the main trends in tech, innovation and society? Special with Covid-19 outcomes?
Xiaolan Fu Biography
Besides Pr. Xiaolan Fu’s position as the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), University of Oxford, she was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Ten-Member High Level Advisory Group of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism and to the Governing Council of the UN's Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries. Professor Fu is also a member of the UN SDSN Leadership Council led by Jeffrey Sachs and a member of the Council for Global Economic Transformation co-chaired by Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence. She is the 2019 winner of the CFA Asia-Pacific Research Exchange Award (CFA Insitute), the 2018 winner of the Best Journal Paper of the Year Award (European Academy of International Business), and the 2017 winner of the Best Paper Award (European Association of Management (EURAM) Innovation Strategic Interest Group).
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Deyan Georgiev, a Forbes 30 under 30, is Co-Founder and CEO of NitroPack, the all-in-one performance optimization service that is powering over 50,000 websites per day, providing lightning-fast load times and great PageSpeed scores.
Deyan Georgiev studied Finance at the University of National and World Economy in Bulgaria. After that he became an entrepreneur and went on to co-found Biomyc, which offers sustainable packaging alternatives for businesses across the globe. Biomyc was awarded best European start-up in the Green category at the Startup Europe Awards in 2017.
He was included in the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2021. Deyan says he was always interested in providing value in whatever he did and in the intersection between business and technology. NitroPack, he says, is a great example of that.
Deyan Georgiev Interview Focus
- Can you tell us more about your educational and career background?
- Coming from Bulgaria, to the US and the world? (advice for entrepreneurs - good for social media clip)
- How did you start your entrepreneurial career?
- What can you tell us about the evolution of software development and consumer solutions?
- What can you tell us about Biomyc?
- And when did you decide to found NitroPack and what are you trying to solve?
- What’s the importance and role of a business website performance?
- What’s the roadmap for NitroPack?
Deyan Georgiev - Biography
Deyan first got the programming bug in 2005, as a sophomore at Geo Milev, an English-language high school in Bulgaria. That year, he challenged himself to learn several languages — English, Javascript and HTML, among them. But his passion for programming, he found, was getting in the way of other more typical teenage interests.
“I wanted to be a developer but I also wanted to go out with girls,” Deyan said. “So, I put development aside because I wanted a social life.”
Fast forward to 2017, and after studying Finance at the University of National and World Economy in Bulgaria and later pursuing a variety of entrepreneurial interests, Deyan once again dove deep into computers. He co-founded Biomyc, which offers sustainable packaging alternatives for businesses across the globe. Biomyc was awarded best European start-up in the Green category at the Startup Europe Awards in 2017. Less than 18 months after conception, Biomyc scored big when it struck a deal with Mercedes Benz to make 3D printable, plant-based plastic engine parts that had always been made of standard plastic. Not only did the partnership lead to less plastic being used in their cars but the plant-based material reduced CO2 emissions four-fold.
Nowadays, his focus at NitroPack is making sure users don’t waste time slogging through painfully slow websites to find what they need. As a consumer, Deyan had been frustrated with slow websites and said he was amazed at how long it could take just to buy a tee-shirt online. With NitroPack, he felt they had developed a simple solution to a problem that affected most everyone and he thought it was a great business model. It was the perfect marriage.
Deyan says he was always interested in providing value in whatever he did and in the intersection between business and technology. NitroPack, he says, is a great example of that.
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Michael Beck, Project Lead At UNION and Principal at Cinematic Venture Partners is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Podcast Series. Both Michael Beck and host Dinis Guarda go through the latest trends in Blockchain development, and how crypto and #DeFi are defining the future of finance.
Michael Beck is the project lead at UNION and Principal at Cinematic Venture Partners and a business strategist and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the areas of health care, finance, and wealth management. During this time, he took on multiple roles such as founder, principal consultant and CTO. He also served as an AVP at a prominent capital management company where he performed software architecture and development related functions for a hedge fund with $14bn+ AUM.
Michael has a BA in Economics-Political Science from Columbia College of Columbia University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He holds five patents in areas related to decentralized cryptography with respect to management of data rights and entitlements.
Michael Beck Questions
- Profile and Background;
- Career
- Academic background
- Can you tell us about your five patents and your work in cryptography?
- How do you see DeFi and Centralised versus Decentralised Finance with a background in both how do you see the opportunities and challenges?
- Can you tell us more about Union?
- What are the things you want to push with Union?
- You have a background in health care, finance, and wealth management. These 3 areas are merging increasingly. How do you see the crossover between these areas?
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Nam Vu & Nghia Tran are the CEO and founder of Vietnamese based tech company tMonitor. A company trying to solve air pollution using the latest IoT, ML and AI technology, they tell us in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series all their solutions and offerings to create a cleaner world.
tMonitor is a smart hardware and software air quality monitoring solution to enable the short & long term control of all factors affecting community health, ensure safety, boost labor productivity, and ensure the compliance to both international and Vietnamese regulation standards.
In addition to helping people troubleshoot airborne pollution in their homes, tMonitor has empowered organizations to safeguard occupant health and champion data-driven sustainability initiatives.
tMonitor deals with a sudden and significant negative event, effectively handles the air quality crisis regardless of the scale with pre-planned scenarios to do the right escalation, limiting the damages and even preventing further damages.
tMonitor provides you with the most advanced technology designed to help you make the right choices and improve your well-being. The 13 air quality parameters we monitor use safety thresholds indicated by the EPA and WHO.
tMonitor doesn’t just tell you what’s bad. It detects toxins and tells you the exact air quality parameters that are unhealthy all in real time. Imagine having a small box of 6x3x3 inches powered by IoT and Machine Learning to build resilient and sustainable businesses by creating healthier indoor workspaces for everyone with better air quality and safety, thus improving productivity.
tMonitor Interview Focus:
- Can you tell us from you and your background?
- Can you tell us about tMonitor and focus?
- Can you explain the product and services offering and how do you work?
- tMonitor pioneers innovative air monitoring products, services and technologies that lead to improved air quality indoors. Can you tell us about the way your offerings work?
- You use IoT and ML to highlight best solutions to air control and data driven sustainability initiatives. Can you tell us about it?
- Both ambient (outdoor) and household (indoor) air pollution are responsible for about 7 million deaths globally per year; in the Western Pacific Region alone, around 2.2 million people die each year. In Vietnam, around 60 000 deaths each year are air pollution-related. Can you tell us how tMonitor uses artificial intelligence to understand pollution and how these insights can work to improve cities and countries?
- You have strong case studies around your product. Can you tell us some main case studies?
- Can you tell us how you are expanding internationally and how can people find you?
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Calvin NG is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with many successes and achievements on his belt (Digital Hollywood 2017: HKE2022 / Retech 2017: ASX:RTE / Citic Telecom 2007: HKE1883 / THE9 2004: NCTY). Today Calvin NG manages a $200 million blockchain and innovation fund at Plutus Ventures, which invests into many blockchain and technology companies worldwide. Calvin NG is the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Podcast Series.
Calvin NG Interview Focus
- Professional and Academic Career.
- First steps as an entrepreneur
- What did you learn from your experience in Malaysia? And from a lifestyle perspective and how business is done, what’s the difference between Hong Kong, China and Malaysia?
- Can you tell us more about some of your achievements back in the day?
- How is it to manage a successful fund?
- How and when did you discover blockchain and crypto?
- What do you -and Plutus VC- look at when it comes to investing in a new project?
- How do you see blockchain and crypto right now? What are your thoughts on DeFi?
- What is real DeFi?
- Can you tell us about DAO and your company MantroDAO?
- How do you see decentralization and centralization of systems today?
- What are your views on NFTs and other blockchain trends?
Calvin NG Biography
Calvin NG is the current general partner at Plutus VC, managing a $200 million blockchain and innovation and investing into many blockchain and technology companies worldwide. Calvin NG is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with many successes and achievements on his belt (Digital Hollywood 2017: HKE2022 / Retech 2017: ASX:RTE / Citic Telecom 2007: HKE1883 / THE9 2004: NCTY).
Alongside his work as general partner at Plutus VC, He sits on the board of two online games start-ups, an ecommerce Company and an entertainment fashion commerce Company in China. Calvin has extensive experience in the digital media, social networking, online games and gaming space. His past includes consultant to SULAKE Habbo.com (world largest teens virtual world). He was also the Vice President of CITIC PACIFIC (SEHK0627) and CITIC TELECOM 1616 (*IPO-2007: SEHK1883) responsible for their new strategy and new media development.
Prior to this Calvin was part of the team that successfully clinched the deal for World of Warcraft in China in partnership with THE 9 (*IPO-2004: NCTY) and also developed China’s first digital comics magazine and 3G comics on mobile.
In 2007 Calvin won third place in China Entrepreneur Competition (he was the only foreigner to have won a top placing till today).
Back in 2000 Calvin master-minded the control of more than 90% of cyber cafes in Malaysia and is the only Company that partners with all the major PC games publishers worldwide. A former veteran in the promotional advertising industry, Calvin had won numerous awards and tenders from top international clients for four years straight (Triumph International and Public Bank). During the Daytona USA craze back in 1994, Calvin took a video arcade game company from USD 5 million in sales to USD 50 million within just a year.
His entrepreneurship career started at the age of 17 where he was featured almost every year on the Malaysia Newspapers for operating the biggest teen charity events.
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David L. Kasten is an accomplished strategist and intelligence expert on Smart Cities and Government Tech Intelligence and the new guest of this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Podcast Series.
A former CIA member, David L. Kasten is an executive leader and manager with a comprehensive background leading strategic planning, operations, analysis, risk management and program implementation. David is the President and CEO of Poolbeg Group LLC with the ability to quickly identify issues, develop solutions, and build motivated, top performing teams to enhance operations and achieve objectives. Current TS/SCI with CI Poly, practiced in Arabic and German. David is now doing a PHD research on securities studies, intelligence smart cities in King's College London.
David L. Kasten Questions
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- How do you bridge the gap between the high profile military intelligence and the research academic?
- Can you elaborate on your academic research that built into the present PHD in King's College in history of military, tech, intelligence and ultimately now security data and all related areas?
- We have been changed by tech and society and in the last years tech has been increasingly changing everything we do as individuals, organisations, businesses, countries. How do you see these shifts and challenges both for intelligence, security and society?
- Your career is very stressful and comprehends a lot of intense moments that bridge values between success and failure. What Careers highlight the main successes and failures of such a complex career?
- Can you tell us about your company, where you are the President and CEO of Poolbeg Group LLC?
- How do you see intelligence and security special in a time of cybersecurity and digital transformation?
- How do you see AI and human engineering in the military conduct of warfare?
- One question is how can we manage ethics when the complexity of tech and AI is moving to singularity and the challenges, risks and the desperate actions that can potentially arise on that?
- You have been very interested in smart cities and related tech and funding. Can you tell us about smart cities and the cities as ecosystems?
David L. Kasten Biography
Mr. David Kasten is the Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Poolbeg Group LLC, a strategy consulting firm headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas, with clients in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. The Poolbeg Group focuses on delivering analytical tools to help leaders manage risk to meet strategic goals. These tools are born from a wide-ranging background
leading strategic planning, operations, analysis, risk management, and program implementation in some of the world's most demanding environments.
Dave is an accomplished executive-level leader and manager with a comprehensive background spanning 30 years of leading strategic planning, operations, analysis, and program implementation during his time in the U.S. Department of State, Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. Department of Defense. During his career as a U.S. Government Civilian, he has been appointed to elite leadership positions managing sensitive national security matters at the strategic level in a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational national security Community.
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Eric Yaverbaum, CEO of Ericho Communications - Communications and PR Veteran, Bestselling Author of Leadership Secrets of The Worlds Most Successful CEO's. Eric is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Podcast Series
Eric Yaverbaum, CEO of Ericho Communications, is a communications, media, and public relations expert with over 40 years in the industry, having co-founded Jericho Communications and served as President from 1985 until its successful sale in 2006. Eric has worked with a wide-range of top-of-their-industry clients, including Sony, IKEA, Progressive Insurance, Domino’s, Beachbody, H&M, and fitness guru Jack LaLanne.
Eric is also a bestselling author who literally wrote the book on public relations – the industry-standard bestseller Public Relations for Dummies – as well as six other titles, including Leadership Secrets of the World’s Most Successful CEOs (with over a million copies sold). He is a regular TV pundit, and his expert commentary has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Washington Post, The New York Times, HuffPost, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox Business, Inc., and PR Week, among others.
Eric Yaverbaum Interview Focus
- Professional Career: Can you tell us about yourself and how it all started?
- Career as Communications and PR expert
- How do you see PR and marketing now?
- With AI creating new waves, how do you see the challenges in PR communications?
- How do you see leadership nowadays?
- You are a bestselling author of Leadership Secrets of The Worlds Most Successful CEO's, what can you tell us about your book?
- Your new book is very inspiring, can you tell me more about it?
Rohit Karn Batra, Film Producer, Story Writer - Director Of Line of Descent, The Future of Fim, AI
Rohit Karn Batra is a film producer, story writer and director. Originally from India, Rohit Karn Batra wrote, produced and directed the 2019 crime film Line Of Descent, starring Ronit Roy, Brendan Fraser and releasing worldwide on theatres and Video on demand in the United states and on ZEE5 India. Rohit is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series. Hosted By Dinis Guarda.
Rohit Karn Batra Questions
- Introduction from you, background, overview, educational background
- Career highlights. How did you start?
- How did you start in the film industry?
- Can you tell us more about your filmography?
- Can you tell us about Line Of Descent and working with Hollywood star Brendan Fraser?
- New films - what do you have in pipeline?
- How do you see the film industry at the moment?
- What are your views on film, creative industries, technology and digital transformation?
Rohit Karn Batra Biography
Rohit Karn Batra was born in India. Originally, Rohit came from a non-film background. His parents are both teachers and he went through a traditional route. Rohit went on to study Computer Science at university, he got an Mba in New York and started his professional career in corporate America. But soon enough he turned to the film industry in 2010, his “true passion.”
Rohit started doing music videos, then started to get into other aspects, namely post production and line production. It gave him the ground experience to learn about the different facets of film-making. Rohit has acted as producer of a number of short films at the start of his career, including Roundabout (2010), which was his debut as a director and story writer too. Other works include directing and producing one episode of 2012 TV documentary series Eco Fashion and the short film Goggles (2013).
He then jumped into feature film after understanding the financial and technical end of things, which allowed him to raise money and make his debut film, Line of Descent.
Line of Descent
Originally known as The Field, Line of Descent is a 2019 crime film written and directed by Rohit Karn Batra, which became his first feature film, and starring Ronit Roy, Brendan Fraser, Abhay Deol, Prem Chopra, Neeraj Kabi, and Ali Haji. The plot revolves around three sons of a mafia patriarch who fight over the future of their crime family. The film was simultaneously released on 4 December 2019 in theaters and video on demand in the United States while in India it was released on ZEE5.
Pre-production started on 18 April 2016 and filming began on 18 June 2016. Brendan Fraser was in Mumbai for two weeks in May to film his scenes, which feature dialogue in Hindi and English.
The film was well received by the press, with Noel Murray from Los Angeles Times saying: “[Rohit Karn Batra] does a fine job of exploring the dynamics of a potentially lethal sibling rivalry; and he gets an entertaining wild-card performance from American Canadian actor Brendan Fraser. (...) There’s something to be said for drawing memorable characters, which Batra definitely does. This is less a movie about cops and crooks than a soapy melodrama about rich brothers at odds over the future of a family business that just happens to be illicit.”
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Selena Le is an entrepreneur and created an Impact Venture Builder called WSAFE to support, help and create innovative solutions from tech startups - from food, agriculture, new material, medical, health care, education, energy, construction, fashion... ,scientific, NPO, NGO, social Enterprise together solving today's existing problems. Selena is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesbac openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series.
Selena Le Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- About WSAFE
- How do you see the Vietnam startup ecosystem?
- How do you see ESG, Sustainability in the nature of your work with No Waste Vietnam?
- Can you tell us some examples of startups from Vietnam?
- What are your views on our investment and innovation on sustainability, society, technology and digital transformations?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
Selena Le Biography
Selena Le is the Head of International Village; Executive Director of WSAFE - Science and Technology Incubator for the aim of long-lasting development and the Founder/Director at No Waste Vietnam - A Climate and Environment Organization.
She has more than 10 years of startup and more than 15 years working with B2Bs, both domestically and internationally with leading brands. She has joined the Innovative Startup Ecosystem for more than 6 years since Vietnam officially joined in supporting startups along with the world.
She is also a Speaker/Judge/Coach/Mentor for Start-up Technologies/Entrepreneurs from pre-seed to Series B. In addition, she also assists businesses in scaling up tissue, internationalization, fundraising and increasing revenue. Her passion is working to promote sustainability that delivers sustainable solutions to the climate and the environment. Her background is Business Development, Economy, Language, Nutrition...
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Dror Fixler is the Director of the Institute of Nanotechnology, Bar-Ilan University and CEO FirstPoint Mobile Guard, a company that develops best in class #cybersecurity solutions or cellular devices, for security minded companies and individuals. Dror Fixler is the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series.
Dror Fixler Interview Focus
- You have an amazing academic and entrepreneur background. Can you tell us about that and how you have been managing that?
- Career highlights.
- Can you tell us about your background as an academic, hacker and serial entrepreneur. What have you learned from your experience in these areas?
- Can you tell us about FirstPoint Mobile Guard Ltd. company / companies, organisations and focus? Your company protects people, IPs and devices from cellular threats. This is the biggest challenge for our world economic digital flows. Can you elaborate on this?
- Sensors and the Internet of Things networks are affected by Fake Cell Towers, Man in the Middle Attacks, SS7 & Diameter Loopholes, Denial-of-Service, DDoS, Data Leaks, Malicious SMS, SMS Phishing & Hijacking, Malware Injections, Location Tracking, Stingray Attacks. Can you elaborate on this?
- Your company is part of the World Bank Group, and you are part of the 3GPP and GSMA 5G Security committee. Can you tell us about how these organisations are tackling this?
- The Darker Side of 5G Mobile Networks and Why Enterprises Need to Up their Mobile Security. Can you elaborate on this?
- With AI, nanotechnology and biology biohacking increasing power and other disruption tech, how do you see the main trends in tech and society?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations when it comes to education and special cybersecurity?
Dror Fixler Biography
Prof. Dror Fixler is an established entrepreneur with decades of hands-on experience in the telecommunications industry. He previously founded a pay by mobile startup, Raging Mobile (acquired), served as CTO Monitel A.N. Technologies Ltd., (telecom probing services), R&D and management positions at ECItelesystems and Septier, part a founding member of the Israeli HLS forces SIGINT group.
Prof Fixler Is a member of the 3GPP Partnership Project, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and GSMA 5G committees. He has led development of various telecommunication system and projects for many communication provider’s including: Fraud management systems, SS#7 network management and monitoring system, callback blocking
system, billing verification and inter exchange billing system. He has also built a GSMA-interface stack, for monitoring and intrusive systems.
He has been awarded top industry accolades; he received President International Fellowship Initiative Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. He was honored with the European Science Foundation’s Plasmon-Bionanoscience Award in 2015. In addition, he received an award from the Wolf Foundation to promote science and art for the benefit of
mankind.
Prof Fixler holds 13 patents, had published over 85 scientific publications and has organized 12 conferences. He is currently Head of the Bar Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials and a Professor of Electrical Engineering.
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Rupert Runewitsch is a marketing specialist and entrepreneur with over 15 years working in some of the best creative shops and consultancies (glue Isobar, Leo Burnett, VaynerMedia, MediaLink). Rupert Runewitsch recently turned all his attention to being a tech entrepreneur, with his venture My Vista being backed by his previous employer, Gary Vaynerchuk.
My Vista is a Big Data and Analytics company, creating a customer experience management platform that empowers people in any service industry to deliver tailored and premium REAL world experiences for its customers. Vista is the first platform of its kind that will use explicit customer preference data to power pull rather than push-based customer interactions. Today, customer service is largely reactive and centred around the most recent purchase, issue or information request. Their vision is to fundamentally shift this paradigm and empower customer service agents to become revenue generators enabled by high-quality consumer preference data that is explicitly shared and not taken.
Rupert Runewitsch Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- About Vista, your organisation and focus?
- How does your company implement Big Data and Data Analytics?
- What are the solutions your company offers?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
About MY VISTA
My Vista is a Big Data and Analytics company, creating a customer experience management platform that empowers people in any service industry to deliver tailored and premium REAL world experiences for its customers. My Vista is the first platform of its kind that will use explicit customer preference data to power pull rather than push-based customer interactions. Today, customer service is largely reactive and centred around the most recent purchase, issue or information request. Their vision is to fundamentally shift this paradigm and empower customer service agents to become revenue generators enabled by high-quality consumer preference data that is explicitly shared and not taken.
For businesses, My Vista combines a customer’s personal preferences together with proximity and timeliness of action. My Vista’s AI-driven messaging application will determine “next best action” for customer service agents together with contextualized templated responses aimed at delivering scale and efficiency.
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Widy Medina is an innovator and tech entrepreneur. Widy is the founder and CEO of two technology companies with vast experience ranging from robotics, product design, fabrication, automation to electronic assembly of consumer products, food and beverage tech, biotech, medical devices, and pharmaceutical industries.
Widy Medina Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- About Telebionix, what is it? What do yo try to solve? What are your main solutions?
- How do you see the MedTech sector?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
Widy Medina Biography
Widy Medina has over 25 years of experience with program management, product design/development, software development management, NPI, engineering design management, fabrication, automation, and full system integration. Cross-functional team management on projects including consumer products, medical devices, manufacturing, pharmaceutical process, food and beverage manufacturing, biotech and electronic assembly.
Widy Medina has extensive expertise in product design and development, industrial automation, industrial controls, tool design, machine design, and prototype development. Experience in Cad design (Autodesk/ Pro-E/ SolidWorks), PLC Programming, Motion Control, Robotics, machine /
plant level automation.
In 2019, Widy founded Burgundy Tech, a tech company for Automation Engineers. “We have been in the fire, we have gone through the pain and decided we will change the Automation world forever. Burgundy Tech is the partner you always wanted to have at the product representation and distribution side, we are and will be an extension of your design and development team. We will never be a product catalog and will never leave a customer alone in the dark of unlimited and unclear alternatives. Our mission is first to understand your application in detail and then work together on a viable, affordable and elegant solution,” Widy Medina mentioned about Burgundy Tech.
In January 2020, and along with Aghiath Chbib, he co-founded Telebionix, a MedTech innovation company headquartered in California. The company’s central objective is to develop industry standards for intelligent and interconnected medical devices while providing their customers with simple, effective, life-saving products and healthcare technologies.
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Dr. Leemon Baird is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, and is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Hedera. Hedera is the only public ledger that uses hashgraph consensus, a faster, more secure alternative to blockchain consensus mechanisms. Hashgraph works efficiently to verify transactions while ensuring the highest standard of security to prevent malicious attacks. Dr. Leemon Baird is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda openbusinesscouncil citiesabc YouTube Podcast Series.
Leemon Baird Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, academic background education...
- Can you tell us the history and about Hedera Hashgraph company / companies, organisations and focus?
- What is the difference between Hashgraph and most of the other blockchain solutions?
- What is the difference between the public ledger of Hashgraph and other traditional blockchains?
- You have some impressive network of global corporations and organisations using you that includes from the first fourteen Hedera Governing Council Members include: Boeing, Deutsche Telekom, DLA Piper, FIS (WorldPay), Google, IBM, LG, Magalu, Nomura, Swirlds, Tata Communications, University College London (UCL), and Wipro. Can you tell us about the ecosystem and some case studies?
- One of your council partners DLA Piper is leveraging the Hedera Hashgraph to create a tokenization solution. Can you tell us some of what has been done in these areas, especially on related solutions like NFT and related?
- Ethereum created a big community of developers that made it a massive platform and leading blockchain. How are you fostering your community?
- Can you tell us about HBAR, the native cryptocurrency of the Hedera public network? How is HBARs used to power decentralized applications and protect the network from malicious actors?
- Hedera will host an auction for two physical HBAR coins, represented by NFTs on the Hedera network, with all proceeds going to the Women’s Homeless Shelter in Dallas. Can you tell us about this?
- Can you tell us about the sustainable marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) you have been working on? Special when it comes to the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS), will be leveraged to facilitate the creation of secure, public token sale applications with an unmatched degree of sustainability?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
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Interview with Ian Calvert Futurist, Disruptor & Influencer - Helping Business With AI, Digital, FinTech, Social & Tech. Hosted by Dinis Guarda.
Ian Calvert is an Analyst, Futurist & Influencer helping SME. SMB & Corporate Co's with AI, Digital, FinTech, LinkedIn, Social & Tech. Ian is a Digital, Social and Technology Commentator who looks at both the "Future" and "Future of Work '' and to bring this to companies around the world whilst at the same time as combining it with making sure they are implementing CSR and SDG's.
Ian Calvert Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- How did you start looking at the future and when did you start defining yourself as a futurist?
- Can you tell us about the work you have been doing as a networker, a social media influencer?
- How do you see network and best practices on network both online and offline?
- How do you see the future of work and the future of technology, especially in the areas of your work research and expertise?
- What would be your career highlights?
- How do you see the technology challenges we are facing, special areas such as 4IR, Society 5.0 - and all areas of digital transformation?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact and what are your visions for the future?
Ian Calvert Biography
UK born Ian Calvert is an analyst, futurist and influencer working with SMEs and businesses to cope with Digital Transformation.
Starting off in 1988, Ian’s professional career has always involved working with SMEs and big corporations, as a project manager and executive, managing corporation’s struggles to adopt best practices and technology advancements. For example, Ian became in 2011 Board Member of Banbury & District Chamber of Commerce where he took various roles to promote services to local businesses as well as helping promote local businesses.
A milestone in his career came in 2012, when he joined Hootsuite Media Inc. as a Partner and Ambassador. Among his responsibilities were helping individuals and companies to take their Social and Digital to next level by being able to implement all the features and facilities that Hootsuite can offer to help manage a successful Social Business programme.
After that Ian Calvert specialized as a futurist and researcher, collaborating with major multinational companies. As such, Ian has developed over a number of years working collaborations with the likes of Barclaycard, Huawei, IBM, and Microsoft amongst many other established Technology Companies as well as Start-Up' too.
Ian Calvert has been focused on CSR and UN SDG's. One of the main areas of research very dear to Ian is the reflection on how to start to implement better "Future of Work" strategies. He is a known disruptor who has been focused on the real question: “Do you have a "Future of Work" strategy? If not - why? According to Ian Calvert: “The "Future" is here now but are you ready for it and are you going to let your competitors seize the advantage by moving ahead of you?”
Ian Calvert has been recognised as one of the Top 50 UK marketing and advertising Klout influencers on Social Media. Ian is Consistently recognised on Rise among their top 50 Global Social Sales Supremos.
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Sunny Gurpreet Singh is a software and industrial engineering expert, wellbeing and mental health specialist, and serial entrepreneur. Mr. Gurpreet Singh is the current CEO of Edifecs and RoundGlass.
His mission with RoundGlass is simple, yet ambitious: to “inspire people to embrace a life of #WholisticWellbeing to create a happier, healthier, and more joyful world”. He works to achieve this by investing in and developing new technology, sharing knowledge, and focusing on action for the good of the individual, community, and the wider world. RoundGlass is a company that defines him and his passions.
Sunny Gurpreet Singh Interview Focus
- You mentioned something very powerful that Life prepared you for that. Can you tell us about you: childhood, background, overview, education…? 2’04’’
- You move from India to the USA, can you tell us about that? 4’15’’
- Can you tell us about moving to USA to do your studies? 10’50’’
When you moved to the USA, you brought the India based spirituality culture, 4. how did you bridge that gap between USA culture and India? 15’35’’ - How did you Build edifecs.com? 21’22’’
- During the process of building edifecs.com you somehow went from failure to Unicorn; How did you manage failure and brought it back to its feet? What was your secret for that successful comeback? 28’35’’
- How did you discover wellbeing and wellness? And how did you come up with the idea of creating -and using- healthtech data? 35’35’’
- Round glass is a “Concept of how to live”. Can you elaborate on this? 39’34’’
- Holistic wellness is an approach to being healthy that looks at a person's health in a holistic way. This considers their body, mind and spirit. Attention to all three is needed to stay balanced. You created the concept of "wholistic wellbeing". Can you elaborate in a summary way? 43’55’’
- Corporate Wellness is something very dear to you. Can you tell us about how you see this concept? 48’55’’
- You mentioned that you see round.glass in a 20 years vision and journey. Your Vision architecture of round glass tribe, is a journey of bringing wellness to the world. Can you tell us how can we do that in actionable steps? 55’50’’
- You have been doing a powerful work on round.glass sustain and with round.glass foundation. Can you tell us about these initiatives? 1h 2’ 15’’
- Final words - message of hope. 1h 8’ 35’’
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Bobby Lee is an author, entrepreneur, and bitcoin proponent. Bobby Lee is the founder of BTCC, China's first and longest-running cryptocurrency exchange. A pioneer in crypto and bitcoin, and after selling BTCC in 2018, Bobby Lee went on to found Ballet, a company that makes easy-to-use physical cryptocurrency wallets headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Bobby Lee Biography
Bobby Lee was born in the Ivory Coast, Africa, and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University in 1998. During that time, we became a member of the Mayfield Fellows Program and earned an EMBA degree from CEIBS in China.
Mr. Lee started his career in Silicon Valley as a software engineer at Yahoo!, and led the development of the earliest online communities. After the Yahoo! Experience, Mr. Lee moved to China where he performed different roles in executive positions. For example, he was the CTO of SMG BesTV New Media, the largest IPTV operator in China with the most subscribers globally. He moved to Shanghai in 2007 and started off at EMC’s China Center of Excellence, as Director of Software Engineering, with responsibilities for Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage. He then went on to become the Vice President of Technology for Walmart's e-commerce business in China.
Lee became interested in bitcoin through his brother Charlie Lee, the creator of litecoin. In June 2011 Bobby Lee founded China’s very first crypto exchange, BTCC. Two years later, in November 2013, BTCC became the largest bitcoin exchange in the world, with a market share of about 31.7 percent, surpassing Tokyo-based Mt. Gox. The company was subsequently acquired in early 2018 by an investment firm in Hong Kong.
A year later, in 2019, Bobby Lee founded his second startup Ballet, along with other industry veterans. Ballet is a crypto company that aims to drive global adoption of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Ballet provides simple and secure cryptocurrency storage solutions for the global mainstream market.
Bobby Lee is also the author of The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You (McGraw-Hill, May 18, 2021). In the book, he makes a compelling argument for how Bitcoin will transform the global economy, as well as debunks common myths and dispels fears that surround Bitcoin -- arguing that this system is superior to traditional monetary systems.
Written for both Bitcoin enthusiasts and first-time users, ‘The Promise of Bitcoin’ offers best strategies for investing in Bitcoin, discusses the pros and cons, and covers the complicated yet more profitable method of Bitcoin mining. Additionally, Bobby gives predictions for the future, including price trajectory, use, and participation in the larger economy—as well as developments in regulation, technology, business, and society.
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Andrea Bonaceto is an artist and investor and founding partner at Eterna Capital. Andrea Bonaceto Andrea has been involved in NFTs as an artist through a collaboration with Sophia the Robot and through Eterna Capital.
As an artist, Italian born Andrea Bonaceto is well-known for creating colourful portraits of well-known people. He is also a fellow at the Royal Society of Art in the UK of @thersaorg Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) @niftygateway, @asyncart.
Andrea Bonaceto recently collaborated with Sophia the robot creating NFTs artwork. And as with most of Bonaceto’s work, Sophia’s art is a self-portrait that combines the former’s art history and previous works as well as the robot’s own physical paintings and drawings on multiple surfaces that have been processed by its creator David Hanson.
Bonaceto is also an investor through Eterna Capital, an investment management firm focused on blockchain technology. He launched Eterna Capital with 3 ex-BlackRock employees in 2018. Eterna Capital has established itself as a leading firm with a successful track record and institutional grade solutions.
Andrea Bonaceto Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- How do you manage the differences between your work as investor and the work as an artist?
- How do you see your evolution as an artist?
- How do you see the evolution of NFTs as someone that has been involved in blockchain and tech?
- How do you see your work as an artist in NFTs?
- How do you see the piece of art from the perspective of IP, ownership, NFT and technology wallet ownership?
- The ways to keep a NFT digital art piece? The technology, the wallets?
- How did you start your collaboration with Sophia?
- How do you see human creativity and the robot - android collaborations?
- As we get into AI and singularity how do you see the collaboration between artists and machines - robots?
- How do you see the NFTs market and its impact in the art world?
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Jewel Okwechime is a global environmental leader, expert in change management strategies for Oil and Gas companies. Jewel Okwechime is a fellow & chartered engineer with over 20 years’ experience assisting businesses such as Schlumberger, Woodside Energy, BP, Shell and ExxonMobil. Jewel is the Non Executive Director & Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and Investor relations for the VFD Group Plc. Jewel is also an Oil and Energy Consultant Business Development Manager for Deltic Energy Limited.
Jewel Okwechime Interview Questions
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education… UK, Nigeria
- Education in UK University of Surrey the bridges between cultural background UK, Nigeria
- Nigerian culture
- How is it to do business in Nigeria - The country is also named among the top best 10 improving economies globally for implementing regulatory reforms across six of the report's 10 indicators.
- How is it to do business in Africa?
- Career highlights:
- Working with engineering and oil and gas and energy
- Working with Tony Onyemaechi Elumelu
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus: VFD Group
- How do you see Africa in a time of 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- You have been working on cybersecurity and blockchain. Can you tell your views on these technologies?
Jewel Okwechime Biography
Jewel Okwechime is currently the Non Executive Director & Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and Investor relations for the VFD Group Plc. A Chemical Engineer she has 20+ years experience working with the likes of BP, Shell and ExxonMobil, and growing into becoming a global environmental leader.
Jewel Okwechime is a proven environmental control strategist within the global oil and gas sphere, reviewing the best available technologies and providing cost-saving options on-site. In fact, Jewel set up J&R Environmental Services in 2001, a successful environmental services consultancy and she works in process industry expertise and access to a large network and knowledge base. She – provides businesses and organisations, large and small, with practical, cost-effective solutions for achieving environmental and safety compliance.
Jewel Okwechime is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, the highest level of professionalism in chemical engineering. Jewel Okwechime also helps other engineers to become chartered.
A pioneering female engineer, Jewel OkwechimeI thrives on demanding jobs and overcoming challenges. Jewel Okwechime is always interested in specialist leadership roles within the environmental and oil and gas sustainability arena.
Jewel Okwechime holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Technology from the Halton College, Cheshire, England and a Masters of Engineering in Chemical and Bio-process Engineering from the University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, England.
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David Hanson, a leading roboticist, CEO and Founder of Hanson Robotics and creator of Sophia the Robot, among others, is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.
David Hanson is a global authority in AI and robotics. Through his company, Hanson Robotics, David develops robots that are widely regarded as the world’s most human-like in appearance. To accomplish these goals, Hanson integrates figurative arts with cognitive science and robotics engineering, inventions novel skin materials, facial expression mechanisms, and collaborative developments in AI, within humanoid artworks like Sophia the robot, which can engage people in naturalistic face-to-face conversations and currently serve in AI research, education, therapy, and other uses.
David Hanson Interview Focus
- Profile, and background;
- As someone that has made a bridge between fiction, the Science Fiction, Art, Poetry, Music and advanced tech, AI, robotics - How do you see yourself?
- You created multiple robots and after you created Sophia the Robot. This creation of robots is the most advanced stage of humanity's next evolution - how do you position the creation of Sophia the most advanced robot?;
Hanon open platform - open AI, 10. Sophia DAO - Decentralised Autonomous Organisation - decentralised AI?; - Robotics, Androids - Human evolution - AI - Singularity;
- Regarding NFTs, Hanson Robotics and Sophia have collaborated with artist Andrea Bonaceto to create digital artwork. How do you see creativity, robotics, art and blockchain NFTs?
- Will Sophia explore further her creator footprint? And What is Next regarding Sophia and Robotics?
- What can you tell us about Hanson Robotics, its Business model, entrepreneurship, DeFi, NFTs, collective intelligence, crowdfunding?
- How do you see Sophia and utilitarian robotics and their impact on humanity?
- Future of Humanity - humanoids
David Hanson Biography
Hanson worked as a Walt Disney Imagineer, both a sculptor and a technical consultant in robotics, and later founded Hanson Robotics. As a researcher, Hanson published dozens of papers in materials science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and robotics journals — including SPIE, IEEE, the International Journal of Cognitive Science, IROS, AAAI, AI magazine and more. He wrote two books including “Humanizing Robots” and received several patents. Hanson was featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Scientific American, WIRED, BBC and CNN. He also received awards from NASA, NSF, Tech Titans’ Innovator of the Year, RISD, Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, and the co-received the 2005 AAAI first place prize for open interaction of an AI system.
Hanson holds a Ph.D. in Interactive Arts and Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a BFA in film Animation video from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Joel Dietz, a Founding Member of Ethereum, Cryptoeconomics & Cyber Futurist Author and Entrepreneur is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series.
Joel Dietz Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Your educational background bridges the gap between ideas, philosophies and science and tech. Can you tell us about that?
- How did you become a cyber futurist author and entrepreneur?
- Can you tell us about your work as a Founder Member of Ethereum?
- Can you tell us about Swarm is a crowdfunding protocol built on bitcoin technology, enabling the backer of the project to experience the upside of the project?
- As an intellectual historian who helped found several key initiatives in the cryptocurrency space how do you see the crypto space and token economy?
- As a cyber futurist and also a historian how do you see the future in the moment when we are no special as technology disrupts all of our society?
- How do you see the foundational technologies of Blockchain and AI and its implications on society and governments?
- You are working on topics of Smart cities, blockchain and tokenomics. 10. Can you tell us about that and how to look at that in the context of digital, DeFi, governance?
- You previously developed the first blockchain voting systems to connect real world organizations with blockchain voting systems. What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- With the advances of tech, blockchain, AI and crypto we have been having major disruption and opportunities. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to improve day to day lives of people, get educational solutions and redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- You are an accomplished artist and community organizer. With blockchain and NFTs how are you using it and what are your visions for the present and future of creative industries and communities?
- Can you tell me about the forthcoming book "Principles of Holonic System Design."?
Joel Dietz Biography
Joel Dietz is a cyber futurist author and entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of several future tech trends including blockchain, tokenization, AR/VR and AI art. Joel Dietz was a founding member of Ethereum, founded the popular Metamask wallet. Joel achievements include being the most cited author on Google Scholar on "cryptoeconomics," put together the largest deal in the asset tokenization space, worked with the P2P Foundation and alternative economics experts on the first land-backed stablecoin. Joel Dietz has worked on an advisory basis for organisations like the Institute for the Future, BTG Pactual, Microsoft, American Express, Walmart, and Intel. Joel is the author of the forthcoming book "Principles of Holonic System Design."
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Dr. Liam Fahey is the Cofounder and Partner in Leadership Forum, and the creator and leader of its Intelligence Leadership Forum.
He has been a faculty member at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Boston University, and he now serves as Professor of Management Practice at Babson College.
His consulting, teaching, research and writing focus is on enabling organizations to win in the marketplace through enhanced marketplace intelligence and insight. He advises leaders, conducts workshops, consults to analysis specialists and engages with work teams in all facets of generating and leveraging marketplace intelligence and insight.
He is author or editor of eight books and over fifty articles or book chapters.
Service The first recipient of the Meritorious Award for Distinguished Service from the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).
Dr. Liam Fahey has been named in the top 150 management “gurus” based on internet search, index citations and media references in the 2003 Davenport and Prusak book What’s the Big Idea. Voted "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" by the Kellogg School students.
Dr Liam Fahey Interview Focus
- Background and Career
- Can you tell us about when you were Named in the top 150 management “gurus” based on internet search, index citations and media references in the 2003 Davenport and Prusak book “What’s the Big Idea”?
- Can you tell us more about the Intelligence Leadership Forum?
- The Leadership Forum is dedicated to enabling organizations to win. Please tell us more about how to attain and sustain a leadership position in your clients’ chosen markets.
- How does LF address leadership development, inclusion and diversity, executive assessment, coaching, integrated talent management, career management, and organization capability.
- As an author, can you elaborate on the book “Learning from the Future”?
- Business leaders are under great pressure to navigate the current global crisis and ensure their organisation survives and stays relevant. How do you define marketplace?
- In this era of uncertainty, it has never been more important to use data to develop informed business strategies to deliver objectives more efficiently and effectively;
- On average, about two thirds (68%) of data available to organisations goes unused, wasting time, money and opportunities;
Many organisations’ cultures emphasise analysis project completion, rather than insight contribution, while leaders don’t know what to do to encourage the crafting of insight;
What Does it Mean to be an Intelligence Leader? - Understanding the Digital Landscape: Some Implications for Intelligence Work. Special in the time of Covid-19 and all its challenges, we see many business and economic models being disrupted, what role is technology and digital transformation making to leadership?
- How do you look at the chaos around tech, management, cultures?
- Can you tell us more about 5 top tips to turn data into valuable insight and competitive advantage, what Uber & Apple can teach us about the importance of business insights?
- How can leaders establish an insight culture?
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Eloisa Marchesoni is a thought leader, influencer and better known as the youngest consultant in the Blockchain and A.I. sector, as well as influential author of articles for the major national and international newspapers.
Eloisa has been considered Europe's number 1 Token Model Architect, by Irish Tech News and, and highlighted in major Top 100 Leaders and Influencers in Italy in FinTech, Blockchain. Eloise was ranked in StartupItalia awards.
Eloisa Marchesoni has established herself as a successful role model for many aspiring entrepreneurs of the digital industry. In the last two quarters of 2019, Eloisa Marchesoni was nominated as #1 blockchain influencer by many reputable media outlets. She has been speaking in blockchain conferences, seminars since 2017.
Eloisa Marchesoni Interview Focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education… How did you start in the industry?
- You have been working and reflecting on crypto and blockchain for a long time. Can you tell your views on how you see these 2 disruptive technologies and the multiple waves that each area has been facing?
- Can you tell us about the Token Model Architecture you have been built? that analyses the structure of the token model, integrated with the ecosystem that it creates, during all phases of the token lifecycle (discovery phase, design phase and delivery phase)?
- How do you see the explosion of crypto and the special explosion we are seeing now?
- When we speak about Blockchain we can talk about Game theory and behavioral economics will be used as design tools, together with classical methods. DeFi and NFT models use this massive can you tell us your thoughts on this special on your side as a business leader, influencer, and crypto blockchain trader?
- Growth hacking has been exponentially growing as a concept for startups and businesses. As an influencer do you see growth hacking being empowered by Blockchain and DeFi reward systems?
- The DeFi crypto market cap is $93.29B, a 11.54% increase over the last few days. How do you see DEFi as we speak and some solutions or projects you have been involved in?
- How do you see the present explosion of NFTs?
- You have been Working with Wall Street. Can you tell us about that?
- Concepts of Society 5.0 and 4IR integrate most of the 360 areas of digital transformation. Can you tell us your views on this on a general overview of frontier tech?
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Vernon Sankey is an author, coach, leader, independent director and chairman and the current Chairman of the Audit Committee, Atos SE. Vernon Sankey has over 30 years of Board Of Directors experience in US, UK and EU, in FMCG (former CEO Reckitt, Chairman Firmenich) IT, Insurance (Board Director, chair remuneration com, Zurich Insurance), publishing (Board Director, chair audit Pearson plc) family and privately owned businesses (Cofra SA) and other smaller private and public businesses and start-ups.
Vernon Sankey Interview Questions
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... beginning history?
- From your Career highlights how do you deal with failure?
- How do you deal with multiple cultures in the corporations you have been managing?
- How do you see the research and philosophical teachings of your books and the sense of real time and technology obsessions we have now?
- “Sankey and Lockwood (in the last book The Way: Finding Peace in Turbulent Times) … unpack our deep-rooted everyday dilemmas … and point to concrete patterns of thought and action that we can take … Highly recommended!” —Peter Dahlgren, Professor Emeritus, Sweden. How to cope with patterns of thought and action within the dilemmas of everyday life?
- With Covid-19, our present challenges: what ways do you envision to redesign our society with wisdom, psychology, philosophy, technology and social impact?
Vernon Sankey Biography
British born, Vernon Sankey graduated from Oriel College, Oxford University and received his Masters of Arts from the University of Oxford in 1971. He started his professional career in Reckitt and Colman plc in 1971, and became Chief Executive Officer in Denmark, France, the USA and in Great Britain in 1992. A role he performed until 1999.
After his experience at Reckitt and Colman plc, he has also held several non-executive positions as Chairman or Board member. He held positions as Chairman of Thomson Travel Group plc in 2000, Gala Group plc (2000 - 2003), deputy Chairman of Beltpacker plc (2000 - 2005), Non-Executive Director of Pearson plc (1993 - 2006), Chairman of Photo-Me International plc (2000 - 2007) , non-executive Director of Zurich Insurance AG (1998 - 2012) and Chairman of its Remuneration Committee) He was a founder board member of the UK's Food Standards Agency (2000 - 2005) and a Non- Executive Director of Cofra Holding AG (2001 - 2007)
In 2000 Sankey set up an executive coaching company called REDCO Ltd of which he was Chairman. He has extensive experience in advising and coaching companies and executives on personal and corporate change and lectures on Leadership and Transformation Management.
In 2001, Sankey became the Governor of Harrow School and a Trustee (Royal Charter) of the John Lyon Charity, a role he performed until 2016.
Vernon Sankey is currently the Chairman of the Audit Committee, Atos SE, a role he has performed since 2005 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Besides his role as business executive, Vernon has lectured extensively on leadership, personal change and development and corporate and individual transformation in the UK and the US, at international conferences around the world and in schools and universities.
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Interview with John Gale, Startup Expert, CEO at Carverlon Ltd on Helping Hitech Startups In Silicon Valley And Europe for Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series.
John Gale is an entrepreneurial thought leader and business and startup expert and global expert. From 2011, John Gale is the CEO of Carverlon Ltd. Having worked in Silicon Valley and Europe, John has a proven track record in strategically identifying and penetrating new markets and developing and enhancing client partner/acquisition relationships.
John Gale Interview Questions
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- Your career from Silicon Valley to other startup tech hubs. Based on your broad experience, what are the differences, similarities between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world?
- Can you highlight some of the challenges about culture and entrepreneurship shifts?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
John Gale Biography
Having received his MBA from Northern Illinois University, John Gale first major experience as business executive was at International Thomson Information, where he became Vice President and Chief Technology Officer between 1982 and 1985.
In 1985, he became President of Information Workstation Group, managing the company’s operations and list of clients, which included Apple, European Patent Office, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Loral, Office of Technology Assessment of the Congress of the United States, Toshiba, Unisys, etc. He held that position until 1999.
In 2000, John joined Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs as Director. Founded in 1995, The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs is the largest nonprofit association in Northern California dedicated exclusively to helping technology entrepreneurs. John is currently a Director Emeritus. Previously, he was a member of the Board of Directors and later the Advisory Board. Previously he chaired the monthly program and other programs.
From 2000 and 2014, John Gale made a name in Silicon Valley, having executive roles in different companies and organizations, including Director of Silicon Valley Engineering Council or Director of IEEE Consultants Network of Silicon Valley, among others.
In 2011, he joined Carverlon as CEO. As the CEO of the company, he oversees the company’s daily operations, including realizing their mission of providing advisory and corporate development services to Hitech Startups between their 1st Seed Round and their A Round in Europe. This is a role he keeps on performing.
As an entrepreneur, John Gale founded Taligo LLC in Silicon Valley in 1999. It supports American startups and Intrapreneurs. Taligo’s clients include Arrow Electronics, NEC (Japan), Photonic Power Systems (acquired by JDS Uniphase), TechBA (a start-up accelerator funded by the Government of Mexico), etc.
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John Suit is an advising CTO at robotic dog company, #KODA. John is also
Chief Technology Officer at Cyber Reliant, responsible for Innovation and the technical direction of CRC. John has a background in cybersecurity, entrepreneurship and computer science. He is the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series. Hosted by Dinis Guarda.
John Suit Interview Questions
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Can you tell us about your Career highlights special in the multiplicity of areas and how this integrated with your present roles?
- Can you tell us about Koda?
- How is the company taking Koda to market and business related?
- Koda is a sensual psychological robot, a blockchain driven platform to decentralise data and protect it and is an AI driven Robot. How do you coordinate these 3 things?
- How do you plan the evolution of the dog's emotional intelligence and the behavior “deep learning” of the robot dog?
- Koda can work on projects with large computing power, and there will be educational apps for the kids to interact. Koda will get smarter everyday with the interactions with the family. Can you tell us about this?
- With which blockchain project will you work regarding speed, reliability and confidentiality ?
- How about cybersecurity related to Koda? How do you protect the data of the people interacting with the #robotdog and the ecosystem around the sensors and AI computing?
- Koda has multi-source and heterogeneous sensors, and can detect multiple things like gas and fire and warn someone immediately. Also, Koda can patrol your home with the settled routine and let you know if anything unusual happened. How do you manage these topics around people and especially in the idea of companying robots?
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Bart Smets, MD at IT2Profit, is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series. A seasoned leader who has worked ast CTO of Coca-Cola and other companies, he shares his insights about topics such as ICT, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Crypto, Tokenisation, OCT & Cybersecurity.
Bart Smets is a seasoned leader with a large international, intercultural experience in Business projects, Managed Services, IT and Security as well operationally as commercial. Bart Smets is the Chief Information Officer at Corona Direct Verzekeringen, MD at IT2Profit: ICT and Blockchain Strategic Consultancy. Having a background as regional CTO in Coca-Cola, Bart is also the Co-Founder and COO at SwissCryp, Co-founder at Lux Consulting.
Bart Smets Interview Focus
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An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
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What can you tell us about your role at ITProfit? What's the mission & vision of the company?
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Your work at Coca-Cola and your main takeaways from that experience? 3. Being a seasoned leader and now working with emerging techs, what are your views on blockchain?
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And what about Bitcoin, crypto and the tokenisation of many businesses and organizations we are going through?
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How do you see the challenges with the fragmentation of technology and close of technologies and systems? Special as technology - Internet protocols, Blockchain, AI advances so fast?
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With Covid-19 digital transformation has leapfrogged. What are your visions for the present and future of blockchain and AI special when it comes to the industry?
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Rod M. Sherwood III is the Co-Founder, Co-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer for Cinémoi NA (including CineMoiWorld) and Chairman of Multivision Media International. Mr. Sherwood III is better known for his executive roles in the entertainment industry, working with DIRECTV, Westwood One, helping with the syndication and distribution of programming to over 5,000 radio stations and 165 TV stations across the USA.
Rod M. Sherwood III has been involved in some of the largest companies in the world in different sectors, including the automobile sector as General Manager, Process Improvement at Chrysler, the tech sector as EVP & CFO and Head of Internal Operations for Loudcloud/Opsware, Inc. with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz; the space sector as President of Spaceway, SVP of Operations & CFO – Hughes Telecommunications and Space Company, among others.
Rod M. Sherwood III Interview Focus:
- Can you give us an introduction from you - background, overview, education?
- How did you start your career?
- Career highlights
- Can you share some of your experience in the multiple companies, organisations that you would love to share with us?
- After decades working with such massive companies in media and tv, radio, how do you see the present state of content industries?
- How do you see the future of the film industry?
- How do you see the way the world of Silicon Valley and Hollywood have been in their own boxes and connecting?
- You touched the media connections with fashion and consumer media with the CineMoiWorld. Can you tell us about that?
- One of your quotes is “Well I think it’s important to understand the key driving point behind a company. First, have a very clear sense of priorities and have them in sequence. Don’t try to do everything at once, but definitely drive forward; then understand what untimely makes a difference in terms of success, whether it is programming content, marketing or promotions of the various programs.” What other areas do you want to share with us of your vision?
- How do you see the technology world and shift between tech and media and society at large?
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Wit Sumathavanit is a business and thought leader and as he says is a Student of many. Wit is as he says a Meditator, Maker, Diver, Reader, Writer. Wit Sumathavanit has built a No-Code & Automate platform http://witwunder.com
Wit Sumathavanit is the Chief Support Officer for the Travel Technology Services Co., a family business in real estate and wellness and healthcare in Thailand. In this role Wit Sumathavanit leads and oversees the development and growth of the company and to develop and maintain great relationships within teams, and with suppliers and clients.
Wit Sumathavanit has also been working as a business angel and collaborating with entrepreneurs building growth tools, databases, spreadsheets, automations so they can focus on their customers. Wit has been, as well, involved in the blockchain and crypto communities in Thailand, Asia and worldwide.
Wit Sumathavanit Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Glenn Parry is professor of Digital Transformation and Head of Department of Digital Economy Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Surrey. Professor Glenn Parry is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series. Hosted by Dinis Guarda.
Prof Glenn Parry Interview Focus
- How did your profile Background come together?
- Can you tell us about the academic background Cambridge, Warwick, and now leading critical areas in the University of Surrey and the work you have been doing between the academic and business?
- You are leading the Digital Transformation as CoDirector of DECaDE - what is this department and some examples of the department work as Head, Department of Digital Economy Entrepreneurship and Innovation. How do you see the Digital Economy - specifically the bridges between the real economy and the digital twin economy?
- How do you see the changes between digital transformation inclusion and exclusion - special when it comes to corporations and governments and how to bridge the digital divide?
- What are the main differences between digitisation and digitalisation?
- Blockchain and supply chain is now a critical element but there are still substantial myths around decentralised ledgers technologies. Can you guide us through the concept and some major case studies you have been working on?
- You are a global authority on blockchain for good. Can you tell us about that and some vision and highlights?
- You have been working on Biological markers Digital and biological biomarkers solutions. This is going to be the next frontier when it comes to bioengineering and related solutions. Can you elaborate on this and some particular case studies?
- You have been involved in creative industries, music and art. We are now seeing a major growth of NFTs and Digital Art as a whole. Can you tell us about your background and how you see this?
Prof Glenn Parry Biography
Glenn Parry is a professor of Digital Transformation and Head of Department of Digital Economy Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Surrey. Prof. Glenn Parry is also CoDirector DECaDE: EPSRC Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy. Professor Parry is formerly a Professor of strategy and operations management at Bristol Business School, UWE, and senior visiting fellow with the University of Bath, UK. He authored and edited the textbook titled Service Design and Delivery published by Springer and published in international publications.
Prof Glenn Parry's work is characterised by an approach of partnering with organisations to develop creative solutions to challenges. He is interested in understanding what makes 'good' business. He works with organisations to help them with business models, value capture, servitization, and supply chains. He has managed research consortia within the automotive, aerospace, media and construction industries. He has published and edited numerous international journals.
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San Sunner is a Producer/ PR / Public Speaker/ Digital Strategist, focused on the 'Future of Work' and raising Global consciousness. She is based in London with a client portfolio including CISCO, IBM,Accenture and Tech-Connect. San is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series.
San Sunner is an employer branding / PR, podcast host at @businessfirsttv, public speaker and “flexipreneur”. She is currently the Associate Producer at reality tv and philanthropy show
The Social Movement, a series produced by Amazon.
San Sunner is the Associate Producer Red Knight Studios Company and in the quality she is working as Associate Producer The Social Movement.
Previous she was Social Media Marketing Manager REC-SOCIAL social media management focuses specifically on the recruitment industry.
Before she worked as UK Social Lead Manager for Accenture.
San Sunner Interview Focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- You have been researching in the areas of the future of work. Can you tell us some of the major trends you saw so far?
- As an expert in recruitment and work organisation what would you consider your Career highlights?
- What advice do you give to new people coming into the work world?
- You have in your profile the word “Flexipreneur”. Can you explain the concept?
- As we spoke you are the Associate Producer Red Knight Studios Company and in the quality she is working as Associate Producer The Social Movement. The Social Movement is a documentary series by Chris LaVoie (Producer of hit series Top Recruiter) that brings together CEO’s in a reality show that through philanthropy will have four days to change the world. The show will feature 50 leaders that can solve social and economic issues that are harming the planet. Some of these issues include income inequality, access to health care, global warming, hunger, and support for homeless people. Can you tell us what the project is?
- With the challenges you Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Emin Vali co-founder CCO of Keepface Influencer Marketing Tech Platform is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series. Hosted by Dinis Guarda.
Emin Vali is a marketing professional and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience in the Central Asia and Caucasus regions. He is a Co-Founder of Keepface, an influencer-marketing platform operating in MENA, CIS and LATAM regions.
Emin Vali Interview Focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Culture background - how is it to do business in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan?
- Startup ecosystem?
- Career highlights: you started with global corporations like Colgate Palmolive. Can you tell us about this experience?
- Your created Uptime and Keepface can you tell us about these companies / companies, organisations and focus?
- Keepface is a fantastic company doing something amazing in the areas of influencer marketing. Can you tell us about the platform and what you offer?
- How do you see influence marketing?
- How do you see all areas of digital transformation special looking between corporate and businesses startups and tech?
- The coronavirus has hammered a lot of businesses, but it has lit a fire under others, including the online game industry and other industries?
Emin Vali Biography
Emin Vali graduated from Azerbaijan State Economic University in Baku in International Economic Relations in 2004. Vali began his career in 2004 at Colgate-Palmolive Azerbaijan as the Assistant Brand Manager. Soon after, he was promoted to the regional role in the CIS Countries Head Office in Istanbul, later moving to Kazakhstan in 2007.
His experience as brand manager for big companies gave him the right expertise in digital marketing to start his entrepreneurial career in 2010. At that time, he founded Uptime Marketing Agency with operations in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
He is a Co-Founder of Keepface, an influencer-marketing platform operating in MENA, CIS and LATAM regions. As the CEO of Keepface, Vali oversees the business’ operations at top level. Keepface is focused on automating the brand-influencer collaboration process for making influencer marketing simple, quick, and profitable. Keepface platform allows brands to launch killing influencer marketing campaigns and to boost the ROI on the go.
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Francesca Sanderson, Director of Arts Programmes and Investments at NESTA is the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series. Hosted By Dinis Guarda.
Francesca managed an ethical equities fund at JPMorgan for eight years following an MA in Philosophy and Maths and periodic work in charity administration and fundraising. After this, she took a career break during which she travelled around Europe and settled for a year living off-grid in Portugal with her young family. On her return, she started working at Big Society Capital as an investment director, where she worked on a wide variety of social investment deals and research into social pensions.
Francesca Sanderson has also served as Treasurer of Cambridge House, a settlement in Walworth, South London, and has worked closely with UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, in a non-exec capacity.
Francesca Sanderson is passionate about literature and creative writing, and is a member of the National Academy of Writing. She also enjoys music, theatre and dance as an enthusiastic observer.
Francesca Sanderson Interview Focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- How did you mix the diversity of background from creative industries and finance, investment..
- Career highlights
- JP Morgan
- How did you look at this experience in Hedge funds and ethical equities funds?
- Can you tell us about NESTA the organisation and focus?
- Nesta is an innovation foundation. Innovation and creativity have a major shift now between tech, digital, funding, creative industries and the disruption coming from the 4IR / digital transformation?
- Can you tell us about the Nesta, Fundacion Compromiso and Upstart Co-Lab launch ‘Creativity, Culture and Capital: Impact investing in the global creative economy’?
- How do you see ESG and the UK and global creative industries?
- COVID19: How to maximize the economic and social impact of culture and support the creative economy? With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
About Nesta
Nesta is an innovation foundation. The organisation acts through a combination of programmes, investment, policy and research, and the formation of partnerships to promote innovation across a broad range of sectors.
Based in the UK, Nesta was originally funded by a £250 million endowment from the UK National Lottery. The endowment is managed through a trust, and Nesta uses the interest from the trust to meet its charitable objects and to fund and support its projects.
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Douglas Borthwick is the Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Business Development at #INX Limited trading platform company. A financial industry veteran with over 25 years of experience and a financial technology expert, Mr. Borthwick has worked with the likes of Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Latin American FX trading business Standard Chartered.
Douglas Borthwick Interview Focus
- An Introduction about you: personal background, professional career, achievements...
- Tell us about INX in a nutshell.
- What is INX - problems it solves
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How does it work?
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INX’s Mission is to bring regulated digital asset opportunities to institutions and retail Investors. Now that the digital assets industry has reached $1.3 trillion USD, there is a great opportunity for exchange. How do you expect to roll out this?
- INX offers a number of solutions combining traditional markets expertise and a new disruptive flah approach. Can you tell us about these solutions and how they impact a trader/investor?
- INX the first ever SEC registered Security Token IPO in U.S. history. Can you tell us more about this milestone and INX’s USA regulatory footprint?
INX is led by an experienced and dedicated team of business, finance and technology veterans. Can you tell us about the team and main achievements? - What is your road map and how can people invest/trade in your platform?
- Not many security tokens - digital assets succeed. How can you assure the investors that you will have volume and liquidity?
- You commented recently on the media about one important topic: From Crypto to Tokens. The Great Migration. How do you see this?
- NFTs had a watershed moment in 2021, which has seen digital NFT art sales grow by 2,800% to over nearly $200 million. Music NFTs are going mainstream as well. Are you planning to offer any of these solutions on INX?
- Coinbase, the dominant regulated cryptocurrency exchanges, is nearing its debut as a public company with a valuation pegged at $100 billion. How do you see this IPO?
- For people and investors watching/listening to us, why should they come to INX?
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Yechuan Charlie Hu, Blockchain Expert and Founder of Candaq Fintech Group is the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series. Hosted by Dinis Guarda, both experts talk about the future of blockchain and the opportunities regarding decentralized tech platforms And DApps.
Charlie Hu Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- You are based in China but you have a great global background. How do you see the Chinese innovation and the bridge between systems and cultures?
- You created Candaq Fintech Group. Can you tell me about the company?
- You are responsible for Tezos China ecosystem
- What are your thoughts on the PolkaDot network?
- How do you see the web 3.0?
- At the moment we have multiple challenges in the digital web world - the western web - internet - the chinese - the Russian. How do you see the challenges with this fragmented ecosystem where blockchain are opening new challenges and opportunities?
- How do you see the challenges with the fragmentation of technology and close of technologies and systems? Special as technology - Internet protocols, Blockchain, AI advances so fast?
- With Covid-19 digital transformation has leapfrogged. What are your visions for the present and future of blockchain and AI special when it comes to your work with Governments and universities?
- How do you see the valuation of tokens like Polkadot and Tezos that are as we speak the 5th biggest token and 23 respectively and the technology value and utility and research on this new ecosystem of crypto and investment and society?
Yechuan Charlie Hu Biography
Yechuan Charlie Hu is an expert on Web 3.0, decentralized technology platforms and applications. He is a founder and managing partner of Candaq Fintech Group, with offices in Hangzhou, Berlin and the Silicon Valley.
With Candaq Charlie has been focused on the incubation of and investment in Fintech and blockchain-based start-ups and offers professional tokenized initial offering advisory services. Charlie Hu has led investment and business development in more than 15 projects and cross-border international technology partnerships.
Yechuan Charlie Hu is also experienced in community building, technology driven innovation ecosystem development and growth marketing, currently leading the Chinese ecosystem for Polkadot and Tezos networks.
Yechuan Charlie Hu is also a member of the World Economic Forum Global Shaper Beijing Hub. Organizer of TEDxHangzhou, Organizer of ThingsCon Shanghai. Alumni of Aspire Academy Harvard leadership program.
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Adam Roosevelt is a Combat Veteran, Army Reservist, and CEO of A.R. International Consulting, LLC (ARIC) and SEM North America. He was the Nominee for Virginia’s House of Delegates in Legislative District 49 (Arlington & Parts of Fairfax).
Adam specializes in cyber, IT, defense, homeland security, business development and foreign relations in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the U.S. Decorated Army Veteran and public policy expert on foreign affairs, defense, homeland security, cyber, intelligence, and financial services.
Adam’s Media Appearances include NBC, NewsMax, The Weekly Standard, Red Alert Politics, Virginia Pilot, ARLNow, The Bull Elephant, and the Alexandria Gazette. Panelist and Speaker engagements include covering topics on: Foreign Affairs, Energy, Cybersecurity, Homeland Security, Transnational Organized Crime, Education, and the economy.
Adam Roosevelt Interview Questions
- Background and education.
- As an army veteran can you tell us some of the most important challenges you had during your career in the military?
- With your background in tech and security and experience in government and business. What were the biggest challenges you found in these areas specific for governments?
- You are the CEO of A.R. International Consulting, LLC (ARIC) and SEM North America. Can you tell us about these companies?
- You work with C-Suite Executive with experience in managing portfolios and sustaining mission essential programs for the federal government in the IC, defense, private sector, and for family offices. Can you elaborate some of the main challenges bridging these different areas?
- You ran for public office and is the Former Republican Nominee for the Virginia House of Delegates. Can you elaborate on this?
- You have been focusing on education. Can you tell us about that and your ways of looking at it from a STEM and coaching perspective?
- Cyberattacks will increasingly be used as proxy conflicts between smaller and bigger countries, funded and enabled by larger nations looking to consolidate and extend their respective spheres of influence. How do you see this?
- How do you see The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Context of military services? Special changes in governments, intelligence, tech - security - cyber security?
- Recently the French army released public information on augmented bionic soldiers. How do you see this?
- Digital Transformation special with Covid is now changing everything we see in society. How do you see the challenges in society and governments?
- How do you see the challenges of digital transformation in the Defense Sector Requires New Reality?
- Cybersecurity in the areas of finance and military systems is a massive challenge. How do you see this and special ways to look at this?
- How do you see the challenges of “minority surveillance” type of security monitoring surveillance tech that is now available in most of our cities and countries?
- How do you see the challenges with continued education in different parts of business and government?
- How do you see cryptocurrencies, blockchain and the challenges of its encryption DNA systems and the opportunities for society and general financial transactions and new systems?
- Can you tell about Dark Web / DarkNet and the challenges and how do you see this with your multiple areas of expertise?
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Olivia Gambelin is an AI Ethicist and the Founder of Ethical Intelligence who works to bring ethical analysis into tech development to create human-centric innovation. As the Chief Executive Officer of Ethical Intelligence, she leads a remote team of over thirty experts in the #TechEthics field. Olivia is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Series. Hosted by Dinis Guarda.
Olivia Gambelin Interview Questions
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Education background academia and industry?
- MS Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, concentration in AI Ethics with special focus on probability and moral responsibility in autonomous cars.
- Can you tell us about your Company Ethical Intelligence?
- When we look at evolution and AI tech multiple challenges how do you look at it from a philosophical perspective?
- How do you look at the grey areas of ethics around technology and AI?
Olivia Gambelin Biography
Besides her role as the founder of Ethical Intelligence and #AIEthicist, she is also the co-founder of the Beneficial AI Society, sits on the Advisory Board of Tech Scotland Advocates as well as the Founding Editorial Board of Springer Nature's AI and Ethics Journal.
Olivia holds an MSc in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, concentration in AI Ethics with special focus on probability and moral responsibility in autonomous cars, as well as a BA in Philosophy and Entrepreneurship from Baylor University.
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Axel Angeli is Management Strategy Advisor and Evangelist for Distributed Architecture (SOA, Cloud, EAI etc.) and Ultra Large Systems. He runs his own management consultancy, Logosworld, that specializes on SAP Project Rescue and is settled in Bruehl, Germany, next to SAP headquarters. With experience stretching back to 1984, Axel shares his knowledge as author, conference speaker and analyst to help companies find the best-of-breed strategy for their computing farms.
Axel is the author of the SAP R/3 Guide to EDI and Interfaces, a best-selling cookbook for developing IDoc and workflow applications in R/3.
Additionally, Axel Angeli is member of the 50 Experts Consulting Group. This is an association of seasoned experts for Digital future and complex and global project management. They bring in life-time competence in managing and rescuing countless complex projects. Rather than a traditional consulting firm, the 50 Experts are a modern virtual enterprise with presence all over the world.
Axel Angeli Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- You come from Germany that has a strong engineering background but is more well known for its car and industrial design technologies. Can you tell us about your German background, education and your work on software?
- Can you give us some highlights on your career?
- Can elaborate on the differences between 4IR, the present concept and industry 4.0, and its evolution?
- You mentioned agriculture 4.0 can you elaborate on this concept?
- Can you tell us about your company / companies: 50 Experts Consulting Group, Logosworld Technology & Research?
- How do you see the challenges with data, cybersecurity and all areas of digital transformation and special AI?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact? What are your visions for the present and future?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Michael Jansen is currently the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Cityzenith, a tech company that helps city governments and businesses make sense of their data — big and small through cutting edge technology such as Digital Twins and Big Data. Michael is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Podcast Series hosted by Dinis Guarda.
Michael Jansen Interview Focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Can you tell us about the research and evolution of the industry and tools in the last 20 years, specifically the bridge in bridge architecture, urbanism.
- Can you tell us about https://cityzenith.com?
- Your company is building Digital Twin Technology. Can you tell us about the tech?
- You mentioned in your website that “our planet must accommodate the equivalent of 10,000 new cities by 2050 just to keep pace with the projected population explosion”. Can you elaborate on this and special when it comes to the data concerns and ethics related?
- One of the articles in your site highlights as follows: “Covid-19 drives the international Smart Cities market boom with 500 urban areas around the world expected to adopt Digital Twin technology by 2025”. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact special when it comes to practical areas of governance and efficiency in bridge between tech and education?
- Cityzenith is particularly focused on smart cities. How do you see the evolution of cities and in particular the way we are digitising cities and the large strategies on smart cities, digital twins and AI, special when it comes to ethics, education and avoiding any dystopian scenarios?
Michael Jansen Biography
Michael Jansen is an impassioned architect, urbanist, and entrepreneur, and has founded and led high-growth companies in the U.S. and Asia for more than two decades.
Michael studied architecture at Yale and then Cambridge. In the early ’90s, right after graduation, he flew out to China and started with a major US architectural practice as a twentysomething junior project architect, being thrown on to massive Chinese urban-core regeneration projects that were twenty years too sophisticated for me. Throughout that experience, he learnt the inner workings of the city.
About Cityzenith
As CEO of Cityzenith, Michael oversees the development of the set of solutions the company is working on. Especially important is their focus on Digital Twins technology. In that regard, the company has recently launched SmartWorldPro Version 2 Digital Twin technology, which aggregates, integrates, analyzes, and visualizes all project and property information on a single 3D platform.
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As Digital Week Online kicks off, founder and CEO Dinis Guarda interviews Ivan Ivanov, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Digital Week Online with more than 15 years experience in business management and development. Ivan’s expertise coverage - e-commerce, EduTech, B2C marketing, F&B, cross-border trading, manufacturing.
Ivan Ivanov started in Russia, where he founded and was involved in different sectors ranging from hospitality to real estate and technology. In 2015 Ivan Ivanov moved to Hong Kong, China and was involved in different innovation projects in the manufacturing sector, technology, blockchain, and digital events. Ivan Ivanov was born in the city of Kazanluk, Bulgaria and grew up in a town called Gurkovo.
Ivan Ivanov's first experience with blockchain and crypto was in 2018 when he joined Enecuum ENQ as a Board Member. As Board Member of Enecuum ENQ, he helped the company build their decentralized environment and blockchain protocol, based on HyperDAG architecture. Enecuum ENG supported high quantity Tps, mobile phones nodes, private chains and building solutions for supply chains, fintech, governments, telecom and many other industries. In 2021 he became Business Development Advisor.
As an entrepreneur, some of his most successful projects are UPSTUDY GROUP, which he founded in 2014. UPSTUDY GROUP is an International education platform. Full package of services for private tutors, educational centers, students and parents. Online and offline tutoring, courses, HR services for educational centers. Special collaboration projects with leading e-platforms.
In 2018, Ivan Ivanov founded UVECON, a venture studio, based in Hong Kong and serving in the innovation and technology space. Together with their global partners from Europe and US UVECON is building a unique co-investment and projects sourcing network. Their key value is their reputation and years of experience in the space. As experienced entrepreneurs and investors, they know the pain points of the market.
Digital Week Online
Ivan’s latest project is DigitalWeek.Online, an online Summit that unites tech entrepreneurs, authors, investors, innovators, leading corporates, and key governments.
As Founder of Digital Week Online, Ivan is overseeing that the event is up to the challenge, offering a global cutting edge Digital Transformation programme that highlights the latest trends and issues regarding Society 5.0 - AI, Blockchain, COVID19 Impact, Smart Cities, FinTech, Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity, Corporate Innovation, Gaming & Entertainment, and more.
Digital Week Online is live now on YouTube.About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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Martin Signer is a financial and fintech thought leader and serial entrepreneur. Martin is the CEO and Founder of smartmoneymatch.com. Martin has a master's degree (lic. oec. publ.) in quantitative finance from the economic faculty of the University of Zurich.
Martin Signer Interview Focus
- An introduction from Martin Signer - background, overview, education, starting in traditional finance...
- Can you highlight some of your career highlights
- Can you tell us about SmartMoneyMatch.com organisations and focus?
- What are your views on our fintech special in Switzerland?
- With Covid-19 what challenges, opportunities, trends do you see now?
- What are your visions for the present and future of fintech special when it comes to investment, asset management and investment match?
Martin Signer Biography
Prior to his activity and founding SmartMoneyMatch he was responsible for the market risk management of the Clariden Bank. Besides his activity with SmartMoneyMatch Martin Signer is also active as a university lecturer and author of several publications.
Martin Signer was born in Zug and speaks German, English, French, and Spanish. His hobbies are sports (tennis, golf, and cycling), chess and music.
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Nameer Khan is one of Middle East’s Top 20 Fintech influencers, Chairman and Founding Board Member of the #MENA Fintech Association.
Nameer Khan has spearheaded key fintech initiatives with regional regulators and global monetary authorities for the development of regulatory regimes of various #Fintech verticals and establishing strongly knitted conducive Fintech ecosystem plus helping banks and insurance companies to transform into future forward organisations.
Nameer Khan Interview Focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights - from logistics, insurance to fintech?
- Can you tell us about MENA company / companies, organisations and focus - Chairman and Founding Board Member of the MENA Fintech Association?
- Can you tell us about the MENA region - challenges and opportunities? related with 22 regulators and highlight some case studies?
- You have been working with governments, big organisations and corporations in MENA. MENA has 2 areas: the Middle East and North Africa. 6. One is leading and other is facing lots of financial inclusion challenges. Can you tell us about this?
- How do you see the Fintech ecosystem between traditional finance, fintech innovators and blockchain digital currencies in all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations special with Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BCjt7a5CagY
Interview with Ludovic Courcelas, Government Strategy Lead at ConsenSys - Blockchain Solutions EU and Worldwide for Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.
Ludovic Courcelas is a technology enthusiast working for the world's largest mesh of #blockchain entrepreneurs and technologists. Ludovic is the Government Strategy Lead ConsenSys. Ludovic is committed to delivering high-stakes projects for corporations and governments, especially in the #EU. Previously Ludovic worked as a Developer Audience - Marketing Evangelist at Microsoft and after Innovation & Blockchain Assistant at BNP Paribas Securities Services before joining Consensys. Ludovic particularly enjoys working with developers and artists. Ludovic loves comics, video games, YouTube creators, science, and he was formerly in a competitive rowing crew. Ludovic is a huge fan of Damon Albarn and his different bands.
Ludovic Courcelas Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- How do you see the cultural backgrounds when it comes to France when compared with other countries and cultures?
- Can you tell us about Consensys?
- From your Career highlights can you tell us about working with the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum for the European Commission?
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus on working with governments and regulators?
- How do you see the blockchain industry at the moment?
- How do you see centralisation and decentralisation in Blockchain?
- Can you tell us about DeFi and the challenges and opportunities?
- What are your views on blockchain in our society, special on the border with technology and digital transformation at large?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society? Special with Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/D8IMbsNe2Vo
Linda Grasso is Chief Operating Officer at Digital Business Innovation Srl, an Italian Innovative Startup active in the world of R&D Consulting. She’s an Industrial Engineer passionate in Digital Transformation and her mission is managing Business Projects in Tech & Innovation fields through the use of both Operational and Strategic Planning Approach. Linda strongly believes in empowering Women in Tech and their Leadership Skills for a Better Sustainable Future.
Linda is an Industrial Engineer passionate in Digital Transformation and STEM. After Honors Degree at “Università di Napoli Federico II”, Linda started pursuing a business career that combines Emerging Technologies and Engineering Doctrine. She manages many projects in different fields, eg - Healthtech, Insurtech, IoT & Buildings - through the use of both operational and strategic planning approaches.
Linda Grasso Interview Focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... South of Italy to the world?
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- Can you tell us about the relationships between Italy and the world and working from there to the world?
- Can you tell us about B2B influencer marketing?
- You have been working in empowering women in tech, STEM. Can you tell us about that?
- You manage many projects in different fields, eg - Healthtech, Insurtech, IoT & Buildings. Can you tell us about that?
- As a young lady based out of Italy and with all Covid-19 challenges, what ways do you envision to redesign our society with digital transformation technologies, and social impact?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ns1-ky68LF4
Kohei Kurihara, Co-founder of Privacy by Design Lab - Designing The Future Data Society, Government Blockchain Association Tokyo
Kohei Kurihara is a global recognised thought leader and influencer, the co-founder of Privacy by Design Lab @pbdlab, develops data privacy by design lab - that works culture and collaborative measures for future data society.
Kohei is the President of the Tokyo Chapter at Government Blockchain Association, the community to consist of diversified talent and sectors. The platform is a part of blockchain practice with individual empowerment and seeks future government establishment.
Kohei Kurihara Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - Japanese background, overview, education...
- Japan has an unique bridge between old ancient traditions and culture and innovation and tech. Can you tell us about that?
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- Japan created the concept of Society 5.0
- You are particularly focused on the areas of tech disruption and data and related privacy main areas related with 4IR and all areas of digital transformation. How do you see this?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society? Special with Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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https://www.dinisguarda.com/
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https://www.citiesabc.com/
https://twitter.com/citiesabc__
Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TeTaR59LIoc
Sleem Hasan - Financial Market Expert, CEO & Founder Privity - Technology, Art & Interfaith Dialogue is the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.
Sleem Hasan is a Financial Entrepreneur with a truly global background. Born in Fiji of Pakistani parentage, raised in Nigeria, Oxbridge educated, worked with the Japanese at Nikko, and now resides in Dubai, UAE. Sleem founded Hasan Financial Corporation in 1996, an independent FCA regulated buy and sell side advisory firm focusing on the Japanese Markets based in the UK. Sleem Hasan is currently the CEO and founder of Privity, an early stage venture-focused firm in Dubai.
Sleem Hasan Interview Questionnaire
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Can you tell me about your geographical wealth background from Fiji, Pakistan, Nigeria, UK, Japan, UAE, Dubai?
- You have both a Oxford and Cambridge background. Can you tell us about this academic background where you studied Mathematics.
- How do you see the relationship between education and technology?
- Having studied under Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. How did this influence who you are right now? And how did this change your view on the relationship between Tutors and Mentors?
- Coming back to your geographic and multi-cultural background can you tell us how this changed who you are?
- You had a first startup after working in Nikkel and after you created Privity in Dubai. Can you tell us about that?
- In your career you have been going through multiple changes of the capital markets industry and financial industry and lately in data, STEM and technology that became a glue of all sectors and our global cultures. How do you see this going forward?
- During your career you saw the growth of Dubai and all the Middle East from being oil and gas powerhouse and exotic place in the desert to becoming one of the leading destinations and growth developments in the world. How do you see that?
- Do you want to give us some of your career highlights so far?
As a person that has a passion and focus on interfaith dialogue. What are your visions for the present and future of our society? - You have developed and special nurture a special passion for arts and technology. Can you tell us about it?
- Covid-19 has been a disruptor in many ways. It has its impact on health, financial and economics but is also a fast forward accelerator of digital and technology. What ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IW0kiUQ3Oo8
A global thought leader, educator and connector, Linda Goetze, M.Ed., has been engaged with blockchain technology since 2012. Co-Founder and EVP DFM Data Corp. Former President/CEO Blockchain Chamber of Commerce.
Linda is a leading global recognised Emerging Tech Thought Leader, Educator, International Keynote, Ethical Investor, and as she says: "Leading to Serve". Linda is a member of Mensa and former CEO of Balancing Health, Linda helped establish the Atlanta Neurotherapy Institute. Linda is an advocate - Fundraiser/Contributor, Bloom in the Dark, Inc.
Linda Goetze interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... from scientific education to business and technology?
- You were educated and brought up in multiple places and locations in the world. Can you tell us about it?
- Can you get us some of your career highlights so far special regarding your work with Blockchain Chamber of Commerce?
- You mentioned the 12 verticals of Blockchain?
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you see blockchain, AI - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y5HCX54oSIU
Sanjay Aggarwal is Chairman & CEO of Paramount Cables Group, one of the largest manufacturer companies in India. Sanjay Aggarwal is currently the President of PHDCCI and the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.
An expert in business growth, Sanjay has been an integral part of the growth story of Paramount Cables from a Rs 1 crore small scale industrial unit to one of the largest cable manufacturers in India. Sanjay personally led various key initiatives for Paramount Cables including the first public issue on Bombay Stock Exchange in 1994. Sanjay has also been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards over the past 34 years which include the National Small Industry Award 1984 given away by the President of India.
Sanjay Aggarwal Interview Questions
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Can you tell us about Paramount Cables - Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, where you are the Chairman & CEO at Paramount Communications limited.
- The 60 years of the Paramount Cables company reflect the growth of India in a lot of areas. How did you cope with the challenges of India's growth and all related areas?
- You are the President at PHD Chamber of Commerce. Can you tell us about the organisation and efforts?
- PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was established in 1905. Since then India has been established as one of the leading business and economic nations. How do you see the history of the organisation?
- With 42 million SMEs that represent around 45% of India workforce and exports. Can you tell us your efforts in this area?
- With 130,000 companies as its members base, PHD Chamber is a major organisation focused on the development of small and medium businesses. What are your goals and how do you see the present and future of SMEs as the most important sector of our society?
- PHDCCI Chamber has been authorized by the Government of India to issue Certificate of Origin (Non-Preferential) to Indian exporters. Can you tell us about this?
- With Covid-19 there is an opportunity to redesign SMEs with digital transformation technologies and social impact. Can you tell us about doing business and commerce in India and how your organisation can help?
- What are your final words and visions for the present and future of India?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3r2u5vYlxqY
Marco Robinson is the founder of the charity FREEDOMX with the explicit mission to stop homelessness using revolutionary #blockchain technology so you can see where your donations are going & witness the progression of the people you are helping.
Marco Robinson was Knighted for getting guide dogs into Malaysia & allowed into public places which has transformed the lives of 350,000 blind people.
Marco Robinson is a #1 Bestselling Author of 2 books , Award Winning Entrepreneur, WINNER of the I-property People's Choice Award Best Real Estate Investment Company & Tatlers Best Restaurants for NAKED Restaurant & founder of the fully licensed & bonded travel agency: NAKED TRAVEL.
Marco Robinson Interview Questions
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... you had very painful origins and you were homelessness. Can ?
- How did you manage the pain and the challenges you went through?
- You created Freemdomx to manage the challenges with homeless people and you are using blockchain technology for the platform. Can you tell us about it?
- You were Knighted for getting guide dogs into Malaysia. Can you tell us about it?
- From your Career highlights you have successful ventures like real state, restaurants and TV and also
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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https://www.intelligenthq.com
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https://www.citiesabc.com/
https://twitter.com/citiesabc__
Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NrCwhju2mLw
Sir Simon Mayall, Former British Army L. General, Middle East Expert, Author 'Soldier in the Sand'
Sir Simon Mayall is a senior adviser for Greenhill & Co, the investment bank. Previously, he had a 40-year long career in the British Army, serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo among other places. In the army, Mayall held the rank of Lieutenant General and between 2011 and 2014 was also Middle East Senior Adviser at the UK Ministry of Defence. While in the army he completed a Defence Fellowship at the University of Oxford, studying Turkish security policy, and held the offices of Deputy Commanding General in the Multi-National Corps (Iraq), Assistant Chief of the General Staff, and Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff. By family background, academic inclination and professional choice and circumstances, he served much of his time in Arabia.
Sir Simon Mayall Interview Focus
- Can you get us an introduction from you - background, overview, education?
- Can you tell us about the academic background?
- How did you connect the academic and the military background?
- From your military background which career highlights can you tell us?
- In your career there was always a bridge between academic history research, military acumen and execution back with politics and governments?
- Your knowledge of history has been always present in the way you managed your career both politically and military?
- From your parents' background you had a big part of the history of the British Empire and the creation of the new geopolitical order post WW2 that is still changing. How do you see this?
- The Middle East is a complex puzzle that from the dawn of civilization has been making and changing the global geopolitics. Can you highlight how you see this region?
- The Middle East has been in the state of persistent change and upheaval, there has long been a need for a comprehensive, yet readable study that can give the intelligent and interested lay-person a greater understanding of this diverse, complex region. Your book offers an unique mixture of history, politics, academic study and first-hand experience affords the reader an invaluable insight into a fascinating, fractured and frustrating area of the world. How did you build the book and the format of it?
- Your book is partly a personal memoir, that highlights public service, sense of responsibility, a big sense / conscience of history and the analysis of a very powerful and intense region. How did you manage these different areas?
- You recently were highlighted in a podcast about the Future of Defence. With so many things going on both on technology, AI, geopolitics, cultural values and history how do you see the future of defence?
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James W. Keyes, Adversity, Education, Serial Entrepreneur, Former CEO 7-Eleven & Blockbuster
James W. Keyes is known internationally as a transformational leader in business, education and social change. Now spearheading several new tech start-ups, he has served as CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, 7-Eleven and Blockbuster; launched many new organizations and is a respected social entrepreneur.
James W. Keyes Questions
- You had a difficult childhood. Can you tell us about that and an introduction from you - background, overview, education?
- You had a stellar education and that was a path toward freedom. Can you tell us about that?
- Can you tell us some of your career highlights. You started in Gulf Stream that was acquired by Chevron.
- After that you become CEO of Seven Eleven…
- And after you went to become CEO of Blockbuster?
- All these companies went through global financial crises and through massive adversity. Can you tell us that?
- You experienced very stressful experiences and some degree of failure and some real financial tsunamis. Can you tell us about that?
- Since then you have been focused on education and aeronautics. Can you tell us how you see education going through a massive challenge?
- With Covid-19 there are a lot of challenges but also opportunities. What ways do you envision to redesign our society, education, technology and ways to change with this crisis?
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Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fzL8y1kgnfo
Prakriti Poddar - Global Authority on Mental Wellness, CSO Indian National Women’s Parliament is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.
Prakriti Poddar is global authority on mental wellness and mental health. Prakriti Poddar works and focuses on #mentalhealth and #wellbeing and marries technology and ancient wisdom to deliver contemporary and effective solutions and unleash people's inner potential and to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health issues. Prakriti Poddar is the Global Head, using technology and ancient Mental Health, RoundGlass and the Managing Trustee of Poddar Foundation / Poddaar Wellness.
Prakriti Poddar Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... special your childhood particular history?
- You have a special background on a mix of religions, spiritual journeys and also a serial entrepreneur and business strong component. Can you tell us about that?
- How do you bridge all the multiple components of spirituality and holistic wellbeing and the components of religion, spirituality and narratives and also the components of our physical, mental and economic and financial body?
- You touched multiple components critical to our society - physical, mental, spiritual, and social-economic. How do you define wellness in the light of these areas?
- Can you tell some of your career highlights so far?
- In the history of humanity and spirituality there has always been a narrative of light and darkness. Good and evil and this increasingly more important special when it comes to technology and data. This depends on how we build the present and the future. How do you see this? The double sword effect?
- Poddar Wellness and Poddar Foundation focus on mental health and wellbeing and marry technology and ancient wisdom to deliver contemporary and effective solutions. Can you tell us about that?
- We are on the edge of a new moment of history. Where we have a kind of a new evolution - singularity where technology is augmenting and creating a new almost millennial moment. Wellness, technology and datafication will become more important than ever. How do you see this?
- You are now working as Global Head, Mental Health, RoundGlass. Can you tell us about this company and your work there?
- Can you tell us about your work as the Chief Strategy Officer with the Indian National Women’s Parliament. This is particularly important with 11. Covid-19 we are going through a big shift. As you wrote before, it is a moment to tackle mental. What ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Marcela (March) Gutierrez is the CEO & Founder of LAMARCH and Project Manager and a natural networker with 10+ years of experience working with tech startups and launching new projects. Deep focus in entrepreneurship, community building and strategic partnerships. She has been working with Governments, academia, accelerators and is focused on building relationships that drive growth.
Marcela (March) Gutierrez has collaborated with organizations such as Google, Mexico’s National Entrepreneurship Institute, Telefonica Movistar, Walmart, Neoris, OXXO, Banorte, Alestra, The Coca-Cola Company, MTV, Centraal, the Institute of Innovation and Transfer of Technology of Nuevo León and Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Marcela Gutierrez Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... From Monterrey to Mexico City and again to Monterrey. Can you highlight some of your career highlights?
- Can you tell us about your company LAMARCH, and the organisations you have been working for?
- From Monterrey you went to Mexico City, one of the leading global megapolis. Can you tell us about this city and also about Monterrey and its ecosystem and University?
- What can you tell us about the Mexico business and startup ecosystem and related world?
- You have said that your superpower is understanding human relations on a deep level and creating meaningful connections. Can you tell us about this?
- You have been working in XX (community of women leaders), and a volunteer at Pelican Bay State Prison through Hustle 2.0.
- How do you see personal development in the context of Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation? Specially with Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bz190zGDMog
Max Lautenschläger, Co-Founder, Managing Director and COO of Iconic Holding, a global crypto asset manager, started his career as a management consultant, where he advised Fortune 500 companies from the steel, utility, and retail industry on topics like digitalization, project management and IT integration.
Max Lautenschläger transitioned into Private Equity at an Asset Management group with € 40 Billion assets under management, then joined a fintech company builder, where he built several alternative finance startups from scratch together with the management team. He holds a BA in international management, an MBA, is Harvard educated and completed the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation. Additionally, he serves on the supervisory board of MLP, Germany’s biggest independent financial advisor group and is personally invested into several startups as a business angel.
Max Lautenschläger Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- How did you end up in the business, technology, startup, alternative investments world?
- Can you tell us about your background in Germany and the culture when integrated with international organisations, culture?
- You have a background on private equity background and asset management funds. Can you give us a bit of input?
- Can you tell us about Iconic Holding?
- Can you tell us about your career highlights special with startups and case studies you can highlight?
- You have a great crypto knowledge how do you see this new crypto spring explosion and main crypto landscape at large?
- How do you see blockchain and all related areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations special when it comes to Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- As a leader of Iconic Holding and a strong ecosystem what do you suggest for people looking at your organization and companies?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EjCLR5skjFc
Khalid Saad a FinTech entrepreneur and advisor that is passionate about starting new ventures and supporting existing ones. Khalid has worked closely over the years with numerous startups and companies on their digital and market entry strategies. Khalid is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.
Khalid Saad Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... Bahrain, UK...
- Can you get us some of your career highlights?
- Can you tell us about Bahrain and the country's business and financial ecosystem?
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- From the work you have been doing with multiple chambers of commerce, business and finance which highlights can you share with us?
- From companies wanting to get to Barhein can you highlight some of the main things you offer special in the regulatory frame, taxes and vision?
- Bahrain has released cutting edge regulatory frames unique in the world can you highlight this?
- How do you see Fintech and all areas of innovation around traditional finance, emerging new fintech platforms and more advanced crypto digital assets players?
- You touched Islamic banking, Halal economics - can you highlight that?
- How do you see blockchain and digital currencies going forward?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations? Special with Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Eric van der Kleij - Visionary Tech Leader, Co-Founder EdenBase.com, Creator of Level39.co, Former Adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Technation.io. is the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.
Eric Van der Kleij is a visionary and pragmatic technology personality, entrepreneur and CEO of Co-founder of edenbase.com, a company focused on building the community leading the future. Eric is an expert in super growth strategies. He is also behind FrontierNetwork.com (formerly C4DR.com), an international hub focussed on Blockchain, Fintech & AI, having previously created and led the famous Fintech hub #Level39 for the Canary Wharf Group between 2013 and 2016. He is Chairman of distributed ledger company Activeledger.io and quantum-safe security business Keybox.co. He also chairs the crypto-finance-conference.com in St Moritz, Switzerland. Across his extensive experience, Eric van der Kleij has been trying to support and bring growth to all the companies and projects he has been involved with.
Eric van der Kleij Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Your culture background? Culture diversity?
- Your company Adeptra was sold in August 2012 and listed NYSE FICO?
- You worked for the Department for International Trade where you led the strategy for and became first CEO of the UK Government's Tech City Investment Organisation (now Technation.io). This was tasked by the Prime Minister/No. 10 Downing Street with boosting investment, entrepreneurship and skills in the "Silicon Roundabout" area of East London. I would like to hear about this history?
- You created and ran Level39 to become one of Europe's most famous and largest hubs for Fintech, Cyber Security & Smart Cities technology companies. Can you tell us about that?
- This work together created the first and biggest hub of Unicorns in Europe. UK - London has generated more $B companies than other countries in the last years - adding five recently to its collection of close to 30. This was because of the success of #LondonTechCity and Level 39.
- Since then you created FrontierNetwork.com (formerly C4DR.com), an international hub focussed on Blockchain, Fintech & AI, the distributed ledger company Activeledger.io and quantum-safe security business Keybox.co. And now you are the CEO of Co-founder of edenbase.com building the community leading the future. Can you tell us about that?
- You are focusing on creating communities and super growth on Edenbase. Can you tell us about it?
- One of the things you are focusing is also on ESG Investing. Can you define how you see ESG and the way you are nurturing ESG with your new venture?
- How do you ESG with the challenges of ethics, social impact AI blockchain, 4IR?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- We are now facing 4IR and also the more human centric Society 5.0 - and all areas of digital transformation. What are your goals and how do you see the future of startups / business and the main trends in tech and society?
- You have a high achievement career. Can you tell us about some of your career highlights? And some tips for the startup and business leaders listening here?
- Last words of wisdom on edenbase.com and your goals with it?
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Carlo Centonze is an entrepreneur, textile specialist and CEO of HeiQ [LSE:HEIQ], a Swiss based textile innovator company which was listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market on December, 7 2020. A serial entrepreneur and textile specialist, Carlo went to co-found the textile innovator company HeiQ along with Dr Murray Height. Since 2004, he has served HeiQ as CEO, developing the firm from a two-employee company to 80+ employees, worldwide reach and a focus on sustainability and innovation.
Carlo Centonze, Founder of HEIQ Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Since 2004, you have served HeiQ as CEO, developing the firm from a two employee company to a company with 100 employees on four continents - working with more than 40 PhDs around the world and an ecosystem of 500 plus people. Can you tell us more about it?
- Founded in 2005 as a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), HeiQ is a leader in textile innovation creating some of the most effective, durable and high-performance textile technologies on the market today. You built some cutting edge products on textiles. Can you tell us about it and show some examples? The product Viroblock?
- HeiQ is a three-in-one company: Scientific research, Specialty materials manufacturing and Consumer ingredient branding, all for improving the lives of billions of people by perfecting the everyday product of textile. How do you manage this?
- You have been going through a recent IPO for HEIQ. Can you tell us about it?
- The textile industry is a massive global industry going through a lot of challenges. What are the main risks and opportunities you see, especially when it comes to sustainability and social impact?
- You are based on Switzerland and work around the world with global brands and organisations. How do you see the textile, fashion, retail industry as a whole?
Carlo Centonze Biography
Carlo studied Biology and Forest Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich where he graduated in 2003. Shortly after that, he earned his Executive MBA at the University of St.Gallen in 2007.
He started his professional career as co-founder of the ETH Spin-off Myclimate where he took the role of Head of Marketing between 2002 and 2003. After that first contact with environmental and sustainable organizations, he went to co-found the textile innovator company HeiQ along with Dr Murray Height. As such, since 2004, he has served HeiQ as CEO, developing the firm from a two employee company to a 80+ employee company as of today.
Alongside his role as HeiQ’s CEO, Carlo Centonze has also been proactive with similar projects. He became board of Director of C8 Investments Ltd. for 3 years between 2012 and 2015. And more recently, in 2019, he has taken an active role as Member of the Board of Directors of scienceindustries, a Swiss based business association of chemistry and pharma life sciences as well as Chairman of The Board of ECSA Emanuele Centonze SA, the largest Swiss owned company specialized in the distribution of chemicals.
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Robert Sharratt is the Managing Director, and founder of CrescoFin SA, a Genève, Switzerland financial, lending and banking fintech company. Robert is a professional with 20 years plus of experience in investment banking, trading, fintech, and in the last years a thought leader and ambassador in DeFI blockchain. Robert Sharratt is a Former investment banker, background in M&A, large financings, credit analysis. Robert has co-written the book 1%. The book that the financial establishment doesn't want you to read.: The first ever behind-the-curtain look at how banks really function, and their impact on society published in 2019
Robert Sharratt holds an MSc degree in Finance from London Business School. Robert Sharratt is part-Canadian, part-British, somewhat autistic and lives in Geneva. Robert Sharratt interests include mountain-climbing, chess, piano, programming and distrusting authority. In his early career, he was an M&A investment banker in London, then in private equity, and then moved to Switzerland to invest his own money.
Robert Sharratt Interview Focus
- Can you tell us about your background, education and experience?
- Can you tell us about Cresco?
- Context on Switzerland and the banking regulatory structure of Cresco?
- How do you approach the blockchain and DeFi approach on your product?
- How do you manage the insurance part of the interest-bearing deposit account?
- You financed the platform and recently you offered a security equity token in a decentralised exchange. Can you tell us about that? And your token?
- Can you explain how you are tokenising your equity you are offering?
- You wrote recently about Why do we still use banks? Banks are dinosaurs. And DeFi is the meteor.
- You wrote a book and recently you wrote about Swiss private banking in the age of Coronavirus. Can you tell us about it and the banking / money industry at large?
- How do you see the crypto and security tokens at large?
- Where can people find your security token and what exchanges are available?
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Rhona Morrell, Coco Airlie Consulting, Ark2030 UN Initiative, Change Management is the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube podcast series.
Rhona Morrell works across global clients in FMCG, Apparel, NFP, Retail goods and brands, what she does best is delivering projects and SOW’s with pace, tenacity & integrity all in an engaging and fun way, her ability to engage at all level is exceptional and she is not afraid to dig deep and ask the right questions. Rhona founded Coco Airlie Consulting in 2017.
Rhona Morrell Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... UK culture background;
- Career highlights
- About Coco Airlie Consulting, organisations and focus?
- How do you see the consulting work and the challenges and fears that come from that?
- How do you define change management special in a time Covid 19 and increasing digital disruption?
- About your podcast: The Rhona Morrell Podcast?
- You are a founding member of Ark2030 a global UN decade of change initiative to reverse climate change
- How do you see change management with the advent of 4IR and all areas of digital transformation? What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the present and future of work, special with Covid-19? What ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
Rhona Morrell Biography
Rhona Morrell's background is in commercial, marketing, innovation and supply chain with big brands like Red Bull, Red Bull Racing, Heineken, Epic Group, NEC Group, PolyGroup Trading (UK, Asia & Australia) has given her the bigger picture experience in business functions and industries. Rhona also provides a due diligence process for potential investors, that allows key questioning for investors to analyse and assess potential partnerships. Due to Rhona’s experience, she is well equipped to help investors with startups, as you get 5 in 1 with her skill sets.
Coco Airlie also provides engaging innovation and creative thinking workshops, for clients who need to solve a problem, but don’t know how, or to help drive creative thinking for new products etc.
Rhona is an excellent project manager and experienced in Stage & Gate & Innovation Process, she has launched successful brands/brand extensions into the UK and is currently working on launching a new FMCG brand into the UK with an Australian client. Rhona is passionate about change, the environment, keeping things simple and getting sh!t done!
She also is a business mentor for the Prince's Trust. Rhona is also a founding member of Ark2030 a global UN decade of change initiative to reverse climate change in 10 years, by restoring 500m hectares of savannah, forests, oceans, desserts etc.
She is the host of The Rhona Morrell Podcast, which seeks to bring a no BullS*** approach to business, life and will create interesting debate around many day to day challenges.
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
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Dr Clair Francomano is a Leading Professor of Medical & Molecular Genetics. Dr. Clair Francomano has been involved in the care of individuals with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome throughout her career. During her years at the National Institutes of Health, she spear-headed a longitudinal study on the natural history of EDS that ran for over 20 years.
Prior to that, Dr. Francomano joined Indiana University in August 2019 as professor of medical and molecular genetics at the IU School of Medicine and director of the Residency Training Program in Genetics at IU. Dr. Francomano attended Yale College as an undergraduate and received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she trained in internal medicine and medical genetics.
Dr. Clair Francomano Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Early genetics research: Use Cases
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- Where are we right now regarding genetics research?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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About citiesabc.com
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
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Rob Charles Wells is an investor and serial entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of Goldfingr. Rob Charles is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.
Rob Charles has demonstrated excellence as an entrepreneur for over 25 years and a sophisticated investor for over 17 years, in the following industries: technology, entertainment, real estate, Oil & Gas, commodities, heavy equipment, art, and M&A. He has the vision of finding niches early on, building top-notch teams, penetrating international markets and creating cash flow businesses.
His expertise is finding a niche, creating the concept, and building the company to a $25M to $50M market capitalization. Traditionally, he invests his own capital into his businesses, proving the concept before raising subsequent funding. His expertise is exhibited in a long track record of always executing.
Rob Charles Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education… You have a very diverse background can you tell us about it?
- With so many achievements can you give some of your major career highlights
- From the many companies you created and invested can you tell us the ones you think will be for prosperity?
- Can you let us know about Goldfingr organisations and focus?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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About citiesabc.com
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Jose Graca is a serial entrepreneur and an active technologist and expert in business tech and Fintech for 20 years. In this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series, both host Dinis Guarda and guest Jose Graca go through the challenges of becoming an entrepreneur and to find the right opportunities to get off the ground.
Jose Graca has built several companies from scratch with successful exits. Jose Graca has been formerly active in Retail, Consumer Products, Pharma, Chemicals, Airline, Healthcare, and Apparel building brands. Jose is the author: Cook a Business, #Fundraising for Dummies. His latest company, #Bizmoni, aims to create a social market economy where pioneer businesses and ideas can find a genuine opportunity to connect and come to life.
Jose Graca Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... Portugal, the Netherlands and 10 countries...
- Can you highlight some of your career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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https://www.dinisguarda.com/
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About citiesabc.com
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Dinis Guarda's 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT - Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/
Intelligenthq Academy for blockchain, AI courses on https://academy.intelligenthq.com/
Maomao Hu is a blockchain, fintech and AI entrepreneur and thought leader and the guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube series.
Maomao Hu started working professionally as a graphic designer at the age of 15 in China before making a pivot to financial technology in 2014 when he founded the Artificial Intelligence practice at management consulting firm The Capital Markets Company. Since then he has become a serial entrepreneur working with tech solutions.
Maomao Hu Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education… from USA to China and back to USA?
- Can you highlight more about the culture shocks background in China and the USA?
- Career highlights: you started with design and you moved into fintech, AI and after you discovered bitcoin and blockchain?
- Can you highlight some of the major things you found out with your experience in these areas?
- How did you get into cryptocurrencies and blockchain?
- How do you see fintech nowadays?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maomaohu/
http://www.siliconharlem.net/speakers/maomao-hu-kora/
https://www.joinideas.org/speaker/maomao-hu/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legends-Leaders-Hedge-Funds-Finance/dp/B07D5KWF7T
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Karl Smith, Polymath, Influencer, Authority UX UI, AI, IoT & Founder Human-Centered Design Society, is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube Podcast series.
Karl Smith is a polymath, influencer, authority in UX/UI, AI, IoT & Founder Director Human-Centered Design Society. Karl is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a member by invitation of BCS ELITE (Effective Leadership in IT) the CIO & CTO group and European CIO Association. He mainly works as an interim consultant, CIO, CTO, CDO or CXO but also joins companies on a permanent basis to deliver the change they are seeking.
Karl Smith Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education… How did you become a serial entrepreneur, thought leader, Polymath personality?
- Can you highlight some of your career highlights
- What are the biggest challenges you have faced when it comes to UX, UI and its impact in business and our society at large?
- How do you see the challenges when it comes to UI and UX - user interface, user experience both for devices and for data driven processes?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations, special AI ?
- What are your views and goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society, special with Covid-19?
Links And Sources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlsmith2/?originalSubdomain=uk
https://twitter.com/UserExperienceU
https://www.facebook.com/karlsmithconsultingwork
https://paradigm-interactions.com/
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/karl-smith
https://www.thinkers360.com/tl/profiles/view/3702
https://karlsmith.info/karl-smith-fellow-of-the-british-computer-society/
https://ucduk.org/about-ucd-uk/karl-smith-founder-and-director/
https://www.theawardsmagazine.com/top-100-global-thought-leaders-and-influencers-to-follow/
https://onalytica.com/blog/posts/whos-who-in-future-of-work/
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Alessandro Zamboni, Founder & CEO, Supply@Me Capital (SYME.L) and Director specialised in the Financial Services Industry and related strategic and digital models. Alessandro has 18 years of experience on internal governance, regulatory and enterprise risk management systems (Basel IV, Solvency II, …) for Banks and Insurance Companies. Alessandro is the Co-founder of DevoLab: think tank group of SDA Bocconi (School of Management - Milan) focused on innovation and exponential technologies.
Alessandro is the Founder of the AvantGarde Group: fintech hub, main shareholder of Supply@ME Capital plc. Co-founder of «Assofintech» (italian fintech association). Alessandro is a Specialist into digital – legal binding – technologies (distributed ledger, electronic signatures…).
Alessandro Zamboni Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Can you tell us about Supply@Me Capital PLC your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- You went public in March 2020 in London. Can you tell us about that?
- How does Supply@Me Capital PLC work?
- What kind of technologies are you using?
- With Covid-19 what solutions can you highlight in the supply chain and related solutions, special as across supply chain challenges are becoming riskier and more highlight finance and logistics?
- Are you doing anything in the context of the EU and governments?
- Are you doing or creating solutions on bridging the gap between
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
https://www.supplymecapital.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-zamboni-2124412/
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/21821801
https://bebeez.it/en/2020/03/18/italys-fintech-scaleup-supplyme-will-list-london-march-23-with-227-5-mln-pound-market-cap/
https://tools.morningstar.co.uk/uk/stockreport/default.aspx?SecurityToken=0P0001JILG%5D3%5D0%5DE0WWE%24%24ALL
https://www.stockopedia.com/share-prices/supplyme-capital-LON:SYME/
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/upload/SponsorFile/File/2020_04/1587634192_2020_SYME_Investor-deck_Q1_Proactive_Investors-(2).pdf
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/markets-hub/share/S273/ABAL/AbalGroup
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In this series of citiesabc openbusinesscouncil Youtube Podcast interviews, Dinis Guarda interviews Startup Bangladesh CEO Tina Jabeen about the current state of the startup ecosystem in Bangladesh and the enormous potential the country has for the near future.
Tina Jabeen is currently the CEO and MD responsible for Investment Advisor, Startup Bangladesh, ICT Ministry, Govt. of Bangladesh. She guided the team in crafting the investment and operations guidelines and building the accelerator. Tina coordinates international roadshows and strategic meetings with partners globally. She leads the investment and accelerator of Startup Bangladesh.
Tina Jabeen is a CPA with 25+ years of extensive experience in the PE/VC industry, with technical expertise in due diligence, return models, valuations, VC governance, legal and tax treaties. She held positions as the Director of Finance and Tax in Horsley Bridge Partner, a premier fund-of-fund and the Senior Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers, San Francisco.
Tina Jabeen Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education.
- How would you describe the change going from the vibrant leaders of startup society in San Francisco to the challenge and excitement in Bangladesh?
- How do you address the current perception and reputation of Bangladeshi startup culture and ecosystem on the world stage?
- What are your plans to build on this ecosystem and capitalise on your young and ambitious population to grow further?
- What industries and sectors do you see Bangladesh excelling in and why?
- How are you bringing together all these key parties to ensure Bangladeshi startups are being accelerated in the same way that they would say in San Francisco or New York?
- How are you working with Universities to actively identify and attract the best young talent?
- Government incentives have been key in fostering, nurturing & attracting new startups from around the world. What is Bangladesh’s strategy in this regard?
- The next five years hold a lot of disruption on many levels. Can you give us an insight into your ideology and preparation for this future?
https://www.startupbangladesh.gov.bd/
https://www.responsiblebusiness.com/speakers/tina-jabeen/
https://ibtbd.net/tina-jabeen-ceo-managing-director-startup-bangladesh-limitedict-division/
https://tbsnews.net/feature/panorama/start-ups-are-already-shaping-future-bangladesh-tina-jabeen-132070
https://cityalo.com/blog/conversation-with-tina-f-jabeen
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Neil Milliken, Global Head of Accessibility for Atos, Founder AXChat - Technology And Accessibility
Neil Milliken is Global Head of Accessibility for Atos. His role is to deliver better technology for customers and employees, embedding inclusive practice into the processes of the organization, which has thousands of employees and an annual turnover of billions.
Neil delivers strategy and services working with a wide range of clients helping them to develop policies, processes, and technology solutions to meet the needs of their staff and customers.
Neil Milliken Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... YOu had some disability issues on your own. How did that make who you are and you become the leader you are now?
- From your education in arts and culture to technology you bring a research and broader sense of social responsibility to the tech world?
- Disability and accessibility are critical as they are 60% of the population with related issues and there are things related with utility, UI and UX and other related how society sees these things. How do you see this?
- Can you tell us about your career main moments and highlights?
- Being in Atos, one of the world's leading organisations in tech, are there a lot of things you are doing interesting to look at the work you have been doing in these areas?
- Atos is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games. Can you tell us about it?
- You created AXSchat a big digital platform on accessibility and disabilities. Can you tell us some of the highlights so far?
- With 4IR and Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation, what are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact? What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
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Damu Winston, Founder of Finteachable.com, Covid19Funding.us, Future Proof Thinker Thought Leader is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda, cities abc openbusinesscouncil Youtube Podcast series.
Damu Rufaro Winston, Damu Winston, is an International Digital Advisor & Founder, serial entrepreneur, founder of Finteachable.com and a speaker at Arab EmTech & Startups Conference. Damu Winston is the author of the Kindle book I Don't Trust You: But Blockchain and Bitcoin Will Help. Having led globally distributed teams in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, India, Mexico, and US domestically, Damu Winston is an expert at building innovative solutions that empower organizations, harness diversity, and leverage cutting-edge technology to exceed expectations.
Damu Winston Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... from US to middle East, culture and multi dimensional things part of your personality
- Perspective of your education in US and west Africa - different cultures - diversity when it comes to the present challenges - growth mindset
- Can you give us some of your career highlights - special the platforms Finteachable.com, Covid19Funding.us?
- How does Finteachable.com work and some insights of the work in fintech and financial empowerment?
- Can you tell us some of your highlights on education and difference techniques and ways to get people to learn and get expertise - certifications?
- Can you tell us about your book: I Don't Trust You: But Blockchain and Bitcoin Will Help?
- How do you see fintech multiple areas and future proof banking?
- We are getting into Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation. What are your views on our society, technology and all 360 degrees areas of digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the society challenges with Covid-19?
- What ways do you envision to redesign our work ecosystems, the lack of energy, integration in an increasingly collaborative society, and banks with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future and a positive message for people listening to us?
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Debra Ruh CEO @RuhGlobal Digital Transformation Tech, Accessibility - How to Tackle Disabilities?
An interview for Dinis Guarda, citiesabc openbusinesscouncil series
Debra Ruh is an American businesswoman founder and CEO of @RuhGlobal and advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities. She founded TecAccess, which provides solutions designed for information technology accessibility for people with disabilities and for Section 508 compliance.
Debra Ruh Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... What were the cases that made you who you are?
- What brought you to to work on being an accessibility advocate?
- The history of your daughter and husband disabilities are very strong. Can you tell us about that?
- Can you tell us about your book on How Brands Can Learn to Engage with the Community of Persons with Disabilities and other minorities to Create 5. Solid ROI and Positive Social Impact?
- What are your views on accessibility and inclusion and overview of the global landscape special in the light of your work with the UN?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Anuj Khanna is the founder and CEO of Kashkind, a business loans marketplace. Anuj is focussed on solving the problem of making business finance easily available to SME's by automating the entire banking ecosystem and having one universal loan application process for all lenders.
Anuj Khanna Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- About kashkind.com organisation and focus?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
Anuj Khanna is a highly experienced business development, corporate expansion, finance, marketing and product development expert with over 20 years international experience working for fast growing technology brands including: Admarvel, ArqBravo Motors, Badoo, Bango, Boku, Buongiorno, Dialogue Communications, EVShare, FundLion, Further Networks, Globcoin, Isobar, InMobi, Infobip, Mobill, Monitor Clipper Private Equity, Mindmatics, Nokia, Neo Mobile, Netsize, Orange, Opera Software, Opera Mediaworks, etc.
Links / Sources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anujkhanna/
https://kashkind.com/
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Babak Behboudi, serial entrepreneur and business academic is the CEO of Synchronium. In this interview, led by Dinis Guarda, both experts go through today's most incipient technology challenges like the implementation of blockchain in businesses, the collaboration between tech and human and the future of businesses.
Babak Behboudi Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education... From
Azerbaijan to US, UK, Turkey… - You were one of the first personalities and companies working on blockchain and digital currencies in 2013. Can you tell us about this experience in the last 7 years?
- You have been involved in ICOs and digital currencies and created some digital currencies. Can you tell us about that?
- You have been very focused on tech business solutions for blockchain, special for supply chain management and business infrastructure. Can you tell us about it?
- You found multiple startups and companies, over 72 organisations. Can you highlight some of the main ones and the experience?
- Can you tell me about SYNCHRONIUM®? What are you guys doing and some of your products such as SynchroBit™ Hybrid Exchange, Oriental Cloud™, MakerApp™, InnovaNetwork™, SynchroPay™, WinkPay™, PickChat™, SynchroLedger™, SynchorSign™, Initium™.
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
Links / Sources
https://babakbehboudi.com/
https://synchronium.io/
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Jomar Reyes is the Founder of Brand Leadership Community
Jomar Reyes has 20 years of international business, traditional and digital marketing experience in leading positions in Australia, Denmark. Jomar's core skills are with taking strategic approaches to business development and marketing working with the latest marketing technologies, for B2B, eCommerce(B2C) and as partner relations manager working in channel marketing with vendors through online, events and branding initiatives.
Jomar is the founder and community architect of Brand Leadership Community platform and the main architect in setting up the community, industry relations and partnerships. This platform is part of the DCN Nordic.
Jomar Reyes has consulted directly to and advised leading global brands such as Apple, Adobe, Avid, Autodesk, Dell, Sony, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic and Canon to the professional markets with integrated '360' marketing campaigns. In recent years he has consulted and advised on eCommerce operations for B&OPlay, L'Oreal, Philipson Wine, content marketing (Articles and TV Production) for Saxo Bank, analytics strategy for DR and Unity3D.
Jomar Reyes Interview Focus
- I want to start with your rich cultural background, Philippine, Australia and Denmark - Nordics
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Can you tell us about the film community media festival and documentary work you did in Australia with Ron Cobb. I love that history and how it shows the evolution of cinema and film. Can you tell us about it?
- Can you tell us about the Music Producers Forum?
- Can you tell us about Brand Leadership Community and its focus?
- You have been growing communities, special working with marketing, eCommerce and Brand Leadership in multiple industries. Can you tell us about that and some of your insights in this?
- You are in Denmark, a very advanced digital economy and one of the top most productive countries. The COVID 19 pandemic of 2020 brought on a profound socio-economic impact to the entire world. Not only have businesses been forced to change in their approach but the term customer engagement is quickly evolving with customer expectations shifting, necessitating more intelligent customer interactions. What ways do you see the Nordics and Denmark in this context?
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Xavier Gomez is a #Fintech Thought Leader and specialist of #WealthTech with strong expertise in Private Equity
Xavier Gomez is a Fintech speaker and writer and regularly writes about the future of banking, fintech and emerging trends in finance, trading. Xavier Gomez is an expert of digital economy and more specifically innovations in finance.Xavier Gomez is a banker with expertise in Private Equity (Venture Capital), wealth management and a sharp interest in disruptive Finance inclusion and Regulation.
Xavier Gomez Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- You come from a typical financial and trading wealth management background. What are your insights on the industry in the last 15 years?
- Can you tell us an overview of your background and how do you bridge academic, digital, financial and business / entrepreneur areas of your work and profile?
- Can you tell us about INVYO, your company and its focus?
- How do you see the presence and future of the fintech and wealth management landscape?
- How to see the use of AI ML in capital markets and financial industry at large?
- Can you tell me some of the same major case studies in fintech, wealthtech and crypto / bitcoin trading you have been working on, especially as big banks and companies are moving to crypto?
- You have been a growing name as thought leader and influencer. Can you tell us about that?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with finance, trading technology, ESG and social impact?
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As the CEO and Founder of Innoplexus, Gunjan Bhardwaj, PhD, focuses his effort on managing exploratory and exploitative innovation. He recognizes the issue of security and data sharing in the EU and Innoplexus has taken advantage of the opportunity to make as much life science data available to his clients while aligning with GDPR.
Gunjan Bhardwaj Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- What are your insights on the culture challenges as being Indian and studying and now being and creating business in Germany?
- Overview of your background and how do you bridge academic, business and entrepreneur areas of your work and profile?
- Career highlights and areas of work?
- Work as an academic and patents?
- Can you tell us about Innoplexus AG, your company and its focus?
- How do you see the issues of ethics, geopolitics and data protection when it comes to bio sciences and all emergency tech - special AI and Blockchain?
- How to create AI in the context of the present challenges that humanity is facing - special bias, culture differences?
- Can you tell me some of the major case studies on bio and life science and healthcare you have been working on?
- What are your views on our society, special when it comes to Society 5.0 - 4IR, technology and digital transformations?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact and your visions for the present and future?
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Kieu My (Kimiko) Doan, Vietnam Digital Transformational Leader Ambassador Founder of YellowBlocks
Kieu My Doan, known as Kimiko is a #transformationalleader with a proven track record of generating revenue growth for startups and international companies across multiple industries. Her passion is to drive business growth, creating brand values, and promote innovation across the company.
Kieu My Doan believes in collaboration and works closely with business/technology/product leaders to understand their needs and build world-class marketing strategy and infrastructure from the ground-up to support the business growth. Kimiko is a change agent, problems solver, and promoter of results-oriented culture. Kieu My Doan has international work experience and excellent soft-skills to establish working relationships at different levels. Kieu My Doan core philosophy is "we succeed as a team" based on trust and commitment to the highest standards of products and services.
Kieu My Doan Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- How is Vietnam Culture and doing business over there?
- What are Vietnam's main industry and growing areas? Textile, telecoms, ecommerce, sectors...
- Career highlights - as entrepreneur, startup ambassador, creator of YellowBlocks?
- Vietnam major organisations, digital and focus to highlight?
- How do you see Emerging tech - Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- Can you tell us about your work with the government and collaboration with the Minister of Science and Technology?
- What advice would you give to people that want to connect in Vietnam?
- You are working in multiple companies and organisations such as Vingroup and ABCD and Quest Venture, can you tell us about these organisations?
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Fintech expert Dr. Efi Pylarinou is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube interview. Hosted by Dinis Guarda, both experts discuss the present and future of finance and the impact of Fintech and technology, including blockchain and crypto, in the future of the industry.
Efi Pylarinou Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
Greece - Maths
USA studies - Career highlights:
PHD - Chaos theory in finance
Solomon Brothers - WallStreet - How do you see the chaos and changes we have been facing when it comes to our society, governance and financial models?
- Change around parameters
Human rights / rational discrimination - Attractors - we are lost in defining the attractors - uncertainty issues special when it comes to technology. And it seems it creates more complexity.
- What solutions we can provide to this: Universal Income… disparity issues
- When it comes to the financial systems we have the legacy established systems, the emergent system and now also the disruptive decentralised cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, DeFy… and at the same time the meg powerful players like the Silicon Valley and Chinese players...
- How do you see the financial services - fintech industry ecosystem now?
- We have major challenges with financial inclusion and digital ID. How do you see this and how can we solve it?
- What are you doing with your work and platforms like daily fintech?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
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Grant Blaisdell is a leading personality in blockchain and crypto and a pioneer of blockchain technology applied to different sectors. In this new interview, hosted by Dinis Guarda, Grant Blaisdell tells us about his two new companies: Coinfirm and Copernic Space and how blockchain can help make the music industry a bit fairer.
Grant has been creating models and ventures at the intersection of tech, media, and branding since his teens, working and living in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and more recently in CEE. Grant is an early innovator in applying blockchain technology to various industries, companies. As an entrepreneur, Grant has co-founded the leading Blockchain Analytics and AML company Confirm and the digital asset marketplace for the Space industry Copernic Space.
Grant Blaisdell Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Culture background: USA and Poland?
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you see blockchain, crypto and its impact on different industries?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
Link - Sources
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https://www.crunchbase.com/person/gra...
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/d...
https://cryptoslate.com/people/grant-...
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Simon Hedaux is the founder and CEO of ReThink Productivity. His pioneering methods allow businesses to drive #efficiency, boost #productivity and optimise budgets. For nearly a decade ReThink has been transforming the way some of the world’s biggest companies operate – refining their processes, reviewing their systems, analysing change impact and ensuring they’re operating at maximum efficiency and productivity levels.
Simon Hedaux Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you see productivity and all areas of digital transformation?
- How do you see data and productivity?
- Can you tell us about a specific case study that you can highlight?
- Can you tell us about time management - your time and motion studies?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations when it comes to productivity?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- Can you tell us about your podcasts and where to find your research and case studies?
Simon Hedaux Biography
Simon Hedaux offers unrivalled expertise in helping businesses to manage whatever challenges they’re facing – whether they’re attempting to scale at pace, cut costs, stay agile to cope with ever changing customer expectations and operating model challenges or structure leadership teams to deliver business objectives. They make sure every penny spent is aligned to the company goals. ReThink works with everyone from small chains and medium sized organisations to multi-chain, multinational businesses, at every stage in their journey – whether they’re at crisis point or boasting rapid growth.
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William Bao Bean is a General Partner at SOSV - The Accelerator VC - the #2 most active angel and seed stage investors in the world 2019 with US$700m under management. At SOSV he is the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator the first accelerator to launch in Asia and the only accelerator in Asia to have a unicorn come through its program – Bitmex the #1 crypto exchange in the world by trading volume enabling anyone with a smartphone to access financial products and opening up investment to the unbanked.
William Bao Bean Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
Career highlights - equity analyst and technology, IPOs, investors accelerators - Bringing alibaba public - ant financial
- Your company SOSV - Chinaaccelerator, MOX companies, organisations and focus?
- As someone that comes from history and investment How do you see all areas of digital transformation and your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
William Bao Bean Biography
William Bao Bean is also Founder and Managing Director of MOX - the Mobile Only Accelerator - providing startups with free user acquisition to the 70m smartphone users on the platform. William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director supporting China investments. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, a venture capital firm backed by Softbank and Cisco, leading investments in China and South East Asia. Previously, William spent 11 years as an equity research analyst most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was a top ranked analyst for Asia Internet and China Tech, Media and Telecom and worked on IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft and eLong (Expedia China).
He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.
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Dinis Guarda interviews Micah Walker, the CEO of Grabba, a secure and effective identification and data processing for individuals, businesses and organisations in this new citiesabc YouTube podcast series. Both experts go through the rising challenge of cybersecurity and #digitalidentity and how new solutions like #biometrics and other technologies are helping to cope with them.
Micah Walker interview focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights - multiple industries sector
- Can you tell us about grabba focus?
- Can you tell us about biometric technology and your solutions?
- How do you deal with cybersecurity in your technology set up?
- How do you see digital transformation and data?
- Are you integrating blockchain and AI tech in your tech solutions?
- How do you deal with the ethics around data, cybersecurity and the outputs of data that come from your devices and tech solutions?
- What are your views on our society, nations, and how to deal with technology and digital transformations?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
Micah Walker Biography
Micah Walker is the CEO of Grabba, a secure and effective identification and data processing for individuals, businesses and organisations. Micah Walker has a diverse Executive Management background and International experience with Global Organisations.
Micah Walker understands the importance of leadership and the shift towards digital transformation as organisations and countries pursue globalisation, technology develops faster than ever and so does the framework and systems of organisational leadership. Relationships with stakeholders that are empowered to be dynamic and intuitive are both relevant to today's workplace and prepared for change.
As a growth specialised Executive Leader, Micah Walker has had the fortunate experience of leading a very diverse group of organisations through their journey in scaling up for growth. Some of the companies he has worked with include from a global coffeehouse business to an International fashion franchise, a listed corporate retailer to an expanding entrepreneurial technology brand, Walker’s engaging management approach has been galvanised over 15 years of high-level accountability based Asia, the Middle East, Australia and in project management across many other global markets.
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Gallery Director Aidan Meller is a specialist in modern and contemporary art and runs a gallery internationally. With over 20 years’ experience in the art business, he works closely with private collectors and is often consulted by those who wish to begin, or further develop their collections. He regularly has original works by the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, to older works such as John Constable, Turner and Millais. Aidan is the visionary mind behind Ai-Da Robot Artist.
Interview Focus
- Can you tell us about your Background - education - career?
- How the idea of creating a Robot Artist came into existence?
- As a visionary behind AI-Da how do you see the boundaries between art, literature, science, technology and engineering? Part of this work is a collaboration between 30 software programming, bots and Engineering. Can you elaborate where it finishes engineering and where it starts your innovation / creativity?
- Ai-Da is one of the fastest rising artists in history - can you elaborate on that?
- Ai-Da comprehends a big conscience on art, technology and Ethics: how do you manage that?
- As a founder, visionary and manager of Ai-Da work how do you manage the different verticals on art creation - sculpture - writing?
- Do you expect Ai-Da to influence a new art trend?
- How is it to manage AI-Da own identity going forward?
- Ai-Da is now a global success. What is in the pipeline you can highlight?
About Aidan Meller
An author on the subject of the art market and western art history, Aidan has been consulted by the media as an expert in his field, with recent appearances on the BBC, CNN and Sky News regarding affairs such as the exhumation of Salvador Dali. Aidan’s art discoveries include a collection of Pre-Raphaelite cartoons for stained glass from Heaton Butler and Bayne and Powell & Sons. Celebrated as a major Pre-Raphaelite find, the collection was authenticated by in-house and external experts.
The Aidan Meller Galleries continue to develop their art programs; their extraordinary growth was highlighted in 2016 when Aidan took on an Elizabethan Manor to showcase artworks. He now shows some of the rarest and most exciting works in the art industry.
AI-DA'S INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/0Fl6UjfM0ko
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Michael Stanley-Jones, member of the UNEP Ecosystem Integration Branch and Secretariat of the United Nations Alliance for Sustainable Fashion is the guest in this new citiesabc series interviews. Led by Dinis Guarda, Michael Stanley-Jones discusses the role of the United Nations in achieving the #SDGs and how the Alliance for #SustainableFashion can help promote a more conscious fashion industry.
Michael Stanley-Jones Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education.
- When was the moment you decided to change your life in Silicon Valley towards a sustainability activism career?
- Can you tell us about your career highlights so far working in the UN, Sustainable Fashion Alliance, as an environmentalist in Silicon Valley, etc.?
- Can you tell us more about the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?
- As part of the UNEP Sustainability Work Group, you supported the development and adoption of the UNEP Environmental, Social & Economic Sustainability Framework, which provides review, transparency, and grievance procedures. Can you tell us about your vision and how to put it in practice?
- You have been the inaugural Secretary and the first Chair of the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion, an inter-agency coordinating group (from Dec. 2018, as the Alliance's co-Secretary with Simone Cipriani, Head of ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative) since July 2018. Can you tell us about that role and your work done so far?
- How can we create a more sustainable world, focusing on two major topics - fashion and textile industry?
- Can you tell us about your work as author of "Reward and Renewal: The Poverty-Environment Initiative Final Project Report (2014-2018)" and co-author of J. Gupta et al, "Re-imaging the driver-pressure-state-impact-response framework from an equity and inclusive development perspective" (Sustainability Science, June 2019)?
- What advice do you give to individuals and organisations at the time of Covid-19 and on how to cope with the present challenges specially with advent of Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation when it comes to UN SDG and your work with UN, at large?
- About data ownership and technology. What are your visions on data ownership and the UN’s approach to it?
- You are a poet too. Can you tell us more about this creative side?
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Dinis Guarda interviews Bottler Distribution Group CEO Andy Weinstein in this new interview series for citiesabc. Both experts go through major challenges in the #SupplyChainIndustry and how to improve the communication between industries and #sustainability.
BDG Founder Andy Weinstein understands distribution. A working member of a third generation Pepsi / Dr Pepper Bottler in the Pacific NW, Andy is intimately involved with the operating networks that affect his family business. He has a lifelong familiarity with the business dynamics of the industry—an industry that delivers physical goods, day in and day out, across America.
Andy is witness to a sea change in the distribution industry, that is why he founded BDG. Delivery disruption, aka the Amazon Effect, and changing consumer preferences have rocked mainstream distribution. In response to rapidly changing retail and distribution ecosystems, legacy beverage distribution companies have responded by doing more of what they know, optimizing their beverage lines and cutting costs by cutting employees. But with year-on-year declines in carbonated soft drink volumes and competition from highly efficient logistics and delivery operations, most beverage distributors continue to feel the threat to margins and concern over the implications to future business.
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Dinis Guarda interviews Qiaoyin Yang, Senior Industry Solution Manager at Huawei Technologies, in this new interview for citiesabc. The interview focuses on the role of innovative ICT solutions that are applied to the #ElectricPowerIndustry and the challenges that companies face when dealing with massive electric grids and their legacy systems.
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Shameer Thaha is the CEO of Accubits, he supervises the company, which has become one of the world leaders in #Blockchain and #ICOtechnology with operations in Middle East, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong and USA. As a serial entrepreneur turned business leader, Shameer Thaha considers himself passionate about building highly efficient and performing teams focused on innovation and emerging technologies. Shameer Thaba believes AI & Blockchain have the capability to augment our abilities to innovate and push this world forward for good.
Shameer Thaha Interview Questions
- Studying in Singapore, considered one of the most innovative countries in the world, and working in India, regarded as one of the fastest-growing. What are the differences between the different areas/regions you have worked with? And what are your takeaways from every one of them?
- How do you see the evolution of the internet with social media becoming the most popular online tool? And as an expert in blockchain, how do you see the role of this technology in the future of the internet?
- From your experience working on the technology, government and financial side of blockchain, what can you tell us about the evolution of blockchain?
- The current challenge is how to make blockchain and digital transformation mainstream, with governments like China truly advanced in researching and implementing solutions, while others are lagging behind, struggling to implement basic technology solutions. What are your opinions on this issue?
- In your book, you wrote about the 2008 financial crisis and how IT managers and corporates reacted. We are experiencing another crisis, although the nature of this is different from 2008. What are the differences and similarities that you see between these two?
- Can you tell us more about previous projects you have been involved in and give us a hint of what lies ahead in the future?
- There are different approaches to how AI should be developed and regulated, with many myths surrounding it. What do you think about AI and how do you see this technology in the future?
- The world is dominated by data, but one of the challenges is that that data is owned and does not flow, and more importantly, it is not shared. What do you think about how the data should be collected and managed?
Links / Sources
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Simon Cocking is the Chief Editor of Irish Tech News and Editor in Chief at Crypto Commonwealth. Simon has been working as an advisory board member for several other successful ICO launches who have achieved their ICO targets, to help with marketing, media, PR and strategy. He has been included on many global influencer lists of people to follow for fintech, blockchain, AI and other tech related topics.
Interview focus
- About your background and professional experience.
- Can you tell us about Irish Tech News and your role as Editor-in-Chief?
- In today's world, there are major media conglomerates that tend to dominate the market. Being an independent and successful media portal is therefore challenging. Can you tell us about your experience running Irish Tech News and this trend in the media sector?
- Social media and algorithms now channel the information that users consume. This has brought challenges such as fake news and algorithm-driven content being the most popular and consumed. What do you think about this from your experience as a technology and media leader?
- You have been writing about technology for years, and recently more about blockchain and crypto. How do you see the evolution of cryptocurrencies and blockchain?
- What do you think of the new forms of financing that use blockchain solutions, like STOs for example? And what are your thoughts on blockchain as a standalone technology?
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing a key role in today’s technology innovations. What are your views on AI?
- Dealing with AI in the future is also another challenge. How do you see the future of AI?
- COVID-19 is the biggest disruptor in recent years. How do you see the challenges and opportunities that this crisis has brought?
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Muhammad Chbib is a serial entrepreneur, global thought leader and CEO at tradeling.com. Muhammad Chbib has international experience as a manager who has served several successful startups as well as large corporate organizations in Europe and the MENA region since the late 1990s. Throughout his extensive career, Muhammad R. Chbib has advised leaders at some of the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies during his tenure between 2004 and 2010 at McKinsey & Company in their Middle East and German offices.
Muhammad Chbib Interview focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Can you tell us more about your experience starting in Germany and moving from there to the Middle East? And also the cultural differences between these two worlds?
- Can you tell us more about your experience working at an established company like McKinsey?
- You have worked in both the corporate world and in the startup space. Can you tell us more about how you went from an established company like McKinsey to becoming the CEO of sukar.com, which was later acquired by Amazon?
- What would be the advice and suggestions you would give to a startup entrepreneur?
- You helped create the e-commerce wave in the Middle East. Then you moved to the travel industry, and now the Middle East is becoming important as a travel destination. So how did you switch from e-commerce to travel? How was your experience?
- What is tradeling.com?
- You have experience in research, creating online marketplaces, successful companies in different sectors... So with all that experience, what are the most likely scenarios, trends, etc that we will see after COVID-19?
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Minister Naokazu Takemoto currently serves as the Minister of State for Science and Technology of Japan, since September 11, 2019. First elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (HR) in the Diet in 2000, Naokazu Takemoto has since then performed different roles and positions within the Japanese government. Minister Naokazu Takemoto is part of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Originally from Minamikawachi District, Osaka, Naokazu Takemoto graduated from Osaka Prefectural Tomitabayashi High School, Kyoto University Law School, University of California, Berkeley.
Minister #NaokazuTakemoto is responsible for Science and Technology Policy, Intellectual Property Strategy, Cool Japan Strategy, and Space Policy, among others.
Interview Focus:
- An introduction from Mr. Naokazu Takemoto - background, overview, education…
- In terms of the highlights, could you tell us a little bit of that work, serving the Japanese government and the differences you saw in the Japanese economy in the last decades?
- So what would you highlight as a strength of Japan and some of the policies and strategies that Japan has been taking and the part that you are leading?
- Japan launched Society 5.0 as "A human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space. Can you elaborate more on this revolutionary concept?
- What I like about Japan is the balance between tradition and the modernity and innovation of technology. As a decision-maker and part of the government, what do you think are Japan's main strengths?
- From your experience plus someone who has gone through these changes, what makes Japan so special in terms of history, innovation and culture?
- COVID-19 is a worldwide crisis, though Japan seems to have managed it well. COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation. What ways do you envision to redesign Japanese society strategies in terms of digitalisation?
- What are the main goals that you have in terms of technology and the challenges that you see for the new innovation related specifically with the technology and scientific changes?
- In terms of your work and science, are there any areas where Japan is internationally working to expand some of its work in the areas of healthcare and wellness.
- At the moment with all these experiences, what would be the Advice to the young Japanese population and the rest of the world?
- No country in the world has 2000 years of history that was maintained. All other countries have experienced a downfall or a change. What do you think is Japan’s secret?
- Japan has some of the most advanced cities in the world. You have Tokyo, Osaka. Could you tell us the innovation of these Smart Cities?
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John Williams started his career in creative technology - as a developer on pioneering special effects software (including on-site work at Disney Feature Animation, LA) and broadcast automation for the BBC and others.
He became Digital Media CTO at a European startup incubator before moving to head up a media technology consultancy team at Deloitte.
John left to consult independently to broadcasters around the world before writing his first bestselling book Screw Work Let's Play and founding The Ideas Lab which has now helped thousands of people to start a business they love.
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A global personality on the blockchain and crypto technology world, Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar is a pioneer in web and internet technologies and development in Argentina and Latin America since 1995. Diego was also one of the first persons to foster and develop Bitcoin and blockchain technology in Latin America, which he has done since 2012. In addition to having created RSK Labs, the company responsible for bringing to life the codenamed platform Rootstock, the first open-source peer-to-peer smart-contract platform and payment network with a 2way peg to Bitcoin. Diego also has co-founded Koibanx, another blockchain company that is aiming to transform the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain technologies into real use cases, which serve as a driver for social and economic change. He is also behind IOVlabs builds low-cost, highly secure, easy-to-use platforms for the new global economy. Harnessing the benefits of Bitcoin with a suite of tools to create and protect growth, we’re planting the seeds for global financial freedom.
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Richard Wang joined Draper Dragon Fund in 2011. Richard Wang was born in Taiwan and moved after Hong kong. Presently he is based in Xangai. Richard Wang has over 18 years of business development, technical marketing and sales management in high technology space experiences. Prior to Draper Dragon Fund, Richard served as QunZhong E-Commerce’s CEO and successfully opened up new sales channels through PC internet, mobile internet and MSO. He also develops the franchise channel for further expansion of the distribution network and logistic service.
Richard Wang interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights and background to investment world
- Can you tell us about Draper Dragon: focus and main investments of Draper Dragon
- Relationship with Tim Draper and UK, Japan and Korea networks?
- You have been investing mostly on relationship between AI and Blockchain and you have invested with the likes of Telegram can you tell us about
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation special IOT, AI and Blockchain?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future, special when it comes to investment?
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Dr Mark Lomax is a seasoned healthcare and #HealthTech entrepreneur and medical doctor. Previously founded, built and sold an award winning business, MediHome that tackled as patients face healthcare. Key customer was the NHS and still is asked to present his thoughts of “How to Crack the NHS” at various conferences. Experience raising growth capital, international healthcare delivery, delivering high growth and building high-performing teams, delivering commercial success from the NHS.
Mark Lomax Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Medihome
- pephealth.ai
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you tackle the areas of data privacy and protection?
- How do you see healthcare in the context of Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformation when it comes to wellness and healthcare?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact, special when it comes to he?
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Eddy Travia is a leading pioneer Investor, thinker and guest lecture in blockchain and bitcoin startups since 2013. Nominated among the top 3 'Most Influential Investors of the Year' at Blockchain Awards 2014 with Marc Andreessen & Roger Ver.
CEO & Co-founder of London-listed Coinsilium Group Limited (AQSE:COIN), venture builder, investor and accelerator of blockchain startups. Coinsilium shares are traded on the Aquis Stock Exchange Growth Market in London.
Eddy Travia Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- What are your Career highlights?
- From Cannes to become an internet entrepreneur
- Internet investor and entrepreneur
- Bitcoin discovery 2013
- Can you tell me about Coinsilium Group?
- You are a pioneer investor in blockchain technology companies since 2013. How do you see the industry and the evolution of the ecosystem so far?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact? What are your visions for the present and future?
- How do you see 4IR, Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation? What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of blockchain, AI, decentralised models versus centralised systems and the main trends in tech and society?
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Sandra Tobler is an entrepreneur who worked in the IT space for many years. She has worked for IBM in various international roles since 2007. She then joined S-GE and later the state secretary of foreign affairs where she built the expertise for the IT industry and consulted Swiss IT companies with internationalization strategies. She also opened for the organization an economic representation in San Francisco.
In 2016, Sandra co-founded Futurae together with two PhDs from ETH Zurich's System Security Group.
Sandra Tobler Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- Fintech context
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Helen Yu is chief customer officer for Showpad,the world's leading sales enablement company.As CEO and founder of Tigon Advisory,Ms. Yu helps start-up technology founders accelerate growth through CXO as a service offering.Has led multibillion-dollar revenue growth for Fortune 500 enterprises,including Oracle,Adobe and Marketo.She was dubbed a Top 10 Global Influencer in Digital Transformation by IBM,Top 35 Women in Finance by Onalytica and a Global Top 10 Marketing Thought Leader,Global Top 5 Start-up Thought Leader by Thinkers360.
Interview questions
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- You are a global influencer in multiple areas.Can you tell us about #DigitalTransformation your obsession with #CXO and #GrowthHacker.
- How do you see the intersection of #Tech and #Humanity. #AI #Blockchain #Marketing #CX #IoT #CyberSecurity
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR, and all areas of digital transformation with what we are facing now with Covid 19?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations going forward special when it comes to AI and blockchain?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani are well-known collectors, Co-Founders of the #SamdaniArtFoundation, the Dhaka Art Summit and a new publicly-accessible sculpture park, the Srihatta-Samdani Art Centre and Sculpture Park, in Bangladesh. They are members of the Tate’s South Asian Acquisitions Committee, Tate’s International Council, Art Dubai’s Advisory Council and Alserkal Avenue’s Programming Committee, and are among the founding members of the Harvard University Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute’s Arts Advisory Council. Works from their collection have been lent to institutions and festivals. They are the first and only South Asian art patrons to receive the prestigious Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award in 2017. They have been recognized on Artnews’ Top 200 Collectors list and Art Review’s Power 100 list every year since 2015.
Interview focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Art scene worldwide
- Art world in Bangladesh
- Challenges and opportunities of artists and the industry in Bangladesh and South Asia
- About the Samdani Art Foundation. What are your mission and goals?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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David Jaques is a financial executive with more than 30 years of experience in the financial industry. His name has been attached to the nascent of #FinTech as the first CFO of PayPal (#CFOPaypal) and has since provided financial expertise and senior management to private equity firms (BlueRun Ventures) and banks (Silicon Valley Bank). Currently, David is CFO at Greenough Consulting Group.
Interview David Jaques focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- Barclays bank trajectory
- ilicon Valley Bank
- Paypal
- You worked with the leading Founders: special Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin. How was that experience?
- Nokya VC after changed to BlueRun ventures
- Iteration of the evolution of financial services into the digital fintech world we have now?
- Nokya first VC firm after changed to BlueRun ventures
- As a CFO and financial expert How do you see Fintech and its iterations with Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society, future of startups, work with technology and social impact? 12. And your visions for the present and future?
Founder of Digitzs Solutions, Inc., David Jaques is Chairman for Digitzs Solutions, Inc., Chief Financial Officer of Greenough Consulting Group and Chief Financial Officer & Director at Bluedot Innovation, Inc.
He is also on the board of Fortress Technologies, Inc. (Canada) and Member of Association for Financial Professionals, Inc.
In the past he occupied the position of Chief Financial Officer of 500 Startups Management Co LLC, Chief Financial Officer of BlueRun Ventures, Chief Financial Officer at Felicis Ventures Management Co. LLC, Chief Financial Officer & Director at Yinghong Guangda Technology Ltd., Chief Financial Officer for PayPal, Inc., Vice President of Barclays Capital, Inc., Senior Treasury Advisor at Barclays Bank Plc, Treasurer of SVB Asset Management and Treasurer & Senior Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank.
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Prior to joining Huawei Colm Murphy was the International Director of BSI Group's Cyber Security and Information Resilience professional services business, responsible for this business units growth beyond the UK and Ireland. Before that he worked with Deloitte and McAfee.
Previously, as a Director of Espion, Colm was a founding member of the management team responsible for growing the company to international success. Espion's Cyber security Technology Distribution business unit was acquired by Exertis (a subsidiary of DCC plc.) in November 2015 and its Cybersecurity Consulting business unit was acquired by BSI Group in April 2016.
Colm holds a B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin, and a Post Graduate Diploma from Dublin Institute of Technology. He has 20 years experience working in #Cybersecurity, Information Resilience, Privacy, eDiscovery & Digital Forensics and Incident Response in both sales and technical roles. He has led and managed a range of projects across EMEA, APAC and the US.
Interview Focus:
- Can you tell us about your Profile and background?
- What are your views on how businesses and governments can cope with digital transformation?
- How do you see the Cyber security industry best practices?
- There is no doubt about the importance of Cyber security, the important is how do you cope with that and prepare?
- How to protect cities and governments from cyber threats?
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5G is out there with a lot of challenges and opportunities. How do you see that?
- How do you see the unified or verified security standards in the 5G or telecom industry?
- What kind of challenges the industries are facing when the security standards are missing and the development progress of some security standards, such as 3GPP, NESAS?
- How could we measure cyber security? Both for countries, cities and businesses and What is the meaning of developing the security standards for public and industries?
- Can you tell us about Huawei’s progress in cyber security and security verifications? and especially the ERNW Reviews Source Code for Huawei 5G Core Network UDG?
- Can you share some case studies that you highlight as good practices?
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Max Studennikoff, Resident in France with an MBA degree from London, Max Studennikoff has been in business for over 20 years. A serial entrepreneur, Max set up and successfully developed a number of startups in such areas as international events management, property development, hospitality, and education. Max is a sought-after keynote speaker at major international conferences and an advisor to several global startups. He is currently organising a series of high profile conferences across the globe. These are showcasing alternative non-fossil-fuel based technologies multiplied by government strategies as the key factors for resolving existential issues humanity are facing today including Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Waste Management, Fighting against Poverty, Social Inclusion etc. Max enjoys foreign languages (I have a sound knowledge of as many as 7 of them), football, chess, classical music. What Max loves most of all, however, is restoring old buildings of historic and cultural value.
Interview Focus
1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. Career highlights
3. Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
4. How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
5. What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
6. What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
7. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
8. What are your visions for the present and future?
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David Siegel, Author, Thought leader and Serial Entrepreneur - Machine Economy, Digital Money, Founder of Pillar and Right Side Capital and the Giordano Bruno Institut
David Siegel is a global thought leader and author that is an expert in digital policy - transforming bad policy written on paper to running code that improves governance automatically. He is reflecting about the future of our society and the place of money on our society and machine economy and the road to digital money.
David Siegel Interview focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What is the Machine Economy?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and economy?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our economy with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Javed Jaffrey is an Indian actor, voice actor, dancer, comedian, impressionist known for his work in several Bollywood films and Indian television shows. His father is comedian Jagdeep. Often credited as the "1st Break Dancer of India". He has been associated with advertising since 1980 as a model, choreographer, copywriter, producer and director. He has appeared in the comical Maggi Hot & Sweet Sauce commercials, over the last 25 years, with stars from Pankaj Kapur to Nawazuddin Siddiqui.JavedJaffrey has been honored with the life membership of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy of Film & Television. He was also the brand ambassador of 1st India International Animation and Cartoon Film festival 2015.
Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Kartikay Saini, Scottish High International School - Challenging Education & Intellectual Disability
Dr. Commander Kartikay Saini is the Chairman of the Scottish High International School. He is considered a humanist and a certain kind of man, a man of integrity and quality, a true visionary to reach the pinnacle of success, and yet maintain an air of humility that is striking in its simplicity. It takes a man like Dr. Cdr Kartikay Saini, a humanitarian, a true leader to validate that success and humility co-exist.
Dr. Commander Kartikay Saini is Chairman of the Board of Directors for Special Olympics Bharat, the national Special Olympics Program for India; and serves on the Special Olympics International Advisory Committee.
Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- About education in India
- Intellectual disability and education opportunities
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main education trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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João Bocas is an expert and keynote speaker in wearable technology and is a globally recognized business thought leader, mentor, advisor, and entrepreneur. His passion lies in helping others, sharing experiences, transferring knowledge, working collaboratively, and helping businesses adopt the latest digital trends and innovations.
As a thought leader in wearable technologies, digital health, IoT and healthcare innovation, including AI (artificial intelligence), robotics and ML (machine learning), João explores the intersection of technology and business. This includes examining how new technologies continuously shape consumer behaviour, influence business models, and help brands amplify their message. He also analyses the impact of disruptive innovations and shares future trends in the marketplace.
Joao Bocas Interview focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Koji Murata is the Country Head at en world India, CEO at New Era India, Director at Future Focus Infotech, CxO Search, RPO, Tech Staffing. With more than a decade of association with en-japan inc., Mr. Koji Murata has worked on HR tech business, Job Board, Executive Search and New products for Senior Level candidates across Asia Pacific region.
Mr. Murata is heading Indian operation from January 2017 where through his strategic foresight, drive and determination, Mr. Murata is driving India business to new height. Aligning en world core competence ‘Success after Joining’ in dynamic market like India, not only he has brought a pyramid shift in Indian recruitment market with competitive value add service and with Data driven approach, his Indian team is leveraging en world global learning while maintain local competency in the market.
Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education…
- Japanese Background
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Michael Healy, Founder and CEO Unit.Ventures, Building the distributed marketplace economy with purpose.
Michael Healy is one of the founders and CEO of Unit.Ventures, focused on creating meaningful jobs and solving inequity. It connects providers and customers, as well as allows businesses and individuals to issue tokens for specific uses.
Michael Healy is focused on social impact and positive change through education, entrepreneurship and empowering individuals.
Michael Healy is a self-taught full-stack web developer and mobile engineer for iPhone and Android. He has digital design and video expertise which support in building useful products.
Michael Healy Interview Focus
- An introduction background, overview, education...
- Starting with background from Singapore to the world
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- Building the android app for wikileaks
- Crypto and lifestyle
- Property
- Singapore / Indonesia Southeast Asia
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Shailendra Singh has been a successful personality in advertising, business, sports and film and media industry. After kick-starting 23 successful startups in his career, entertainment maverickturned-social entrepreneur, Singh wants to revolutionise entertainment and sports by 2020 through disruptive creative content.
As Jt MD of Percept, Shailendra Singh has produced over 72 full-length feature films. He has been ranked as 12th most powerful man in Bollywood. Shailendra Singh was awarded 16 national awards including Best Film & Best Director for Kanchivaram; curates, writes and directs the third most viewed short film channel in India - Long Story Short Films.
Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- About your beginnings as entrepreneur and in the media industry
- How do you see the media and entertainment industry in India?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- The Sunburn Festival and the music revolution in India
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Kristof De Spiegeleer is a humanist & motivated entrepreneur, passionate about helping to make the world a better place through technology. Ever since childhood, Kristof’s main passion was computers and coding. Kristof calls himself a nerd. Later on, his curiosity about simply finding out “how stuff works” would change more to "how can I help make the world a better place.”
Interview focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- About ThreeFold, organisations and focus
- Building a P2P internet
- Can you tell us the role of blockchain in it?
- Digital Twins and the role of farmers.
- How data is created and shared in the ThreeFold network
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Anil Singh and Vivek B. Singh are brothers and the inspiring and passionate founders of Procam International. Procam is a leading sports organisation committed to elevate and enliven the professional face of sports and players. With an open, transparent culture founded on an unshakeable core of integrity, Procam offers turnkey 360 solutions for the wide spectrum of services required to successfully conduct premium sporting and ecosystem events. Procam International has pioneered crafting sporting events in India, boasting massive participation of supreme calibre in 50 fast growing events held worldwide. Procam has been building a sports, wellness and lifestyle community.
Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education…
- Transformation and sports in India
- About Procam: vision and goals
- Data and digital footprints models
- Charity work
- Countries and Sports revolution
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Daniel Duarte is a thought leader, investor in tech and social impact, a crypto evangelist and known as one of the leading Bitcoin traders in Brazil. He invested everything he had in digital assets in 2016 and managed to sell at the peak of the 2017 bubble. Daniel likes to trade on trends, based on fundamental market analysis.
Daniel Duarte has been building a network of investors, traders and entrepreneurs in Brazil and has a fast growing YouTube channel. Daniel Duarte has been managing a dynamic crypto and blockchain community and creates educational videos and research. Daniel comments on trends on crypto, blockchain, politics and economic macro economics, capital markets. Daniel Duarte strategies and trading recommendations have made him a Brazilian main commentator on blockchain, crypto and trading voice. Daniel Duarte can also be found writing on Cointelegraph.
Daniel Duarte Interview Focus:
- An introduction from Daniel Duarte - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Brazil today: challenges and opportunities
- How did you make your firs bitcoin?
- About Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
- Blockchain space and social impact investment
- Goals and how do you see the future of money and the main trends in tech and society
- With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
- Future vision
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Indiana Gregg is a force of nature capable of adapting and changing as both an artist, product designer and entrepreneur and business women. Indian Gregg was born in Terre Haute, USA. Indiana is a singer-songwriter, social impact and tech entrepreneur living between Lenzie near Glasgow, Scotland and Spain. Her music career run for some years and she had elements of pop, soul and folk.
Indiana was also founder and director of Kerchoonz.com, a social networking platform and artist aggregation and marketplace that was launched in 2008 and bought-out in 2010. The model for which changed the face of the music industry today.
Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights as a musician?
- Can you tell us about your company Kerchoonz.com?
- Kerchoonz.com, was one of the first social networking platforms and artist aggregation and marketplace that was launched in 2008 and bought-out in 2010. The model for which changed the face of the music industry today. Can you tell us about it?
- You are a serial entrepreneur can you tell us about it?
- Cosmetics industry experience?
- Work as an entrepreneur and creative person?
- Work on app interface, product design and UI and UX.
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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https://www.dinisguarda.com/
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https://www.hedgethink.com/author/din...
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Maya Zuckerman is an emerging media and technology leader. She brings a wealth of experience from different media silos: visual effects, film, production, video games, tech startups, product management and brand narratives. Her passion revolves around mainstream cross-platform media and transformational media as a vehicle in creating change on a global scale. She is the founder of TransmediaSF - an event and media agency, Expert-In-Residence for Brave Ventures and marketing manager of Keyframe-Entertainment - a Transformational Media Network that bridges Underground Electronic Music and mainstream culture. She is also developing the Science Fiction franchise - Em's Theory.
Maya Zuckerman Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, born, family, education. Israel and USA background
- Career highlights
- California / San Francisco growth and work in innovation
- IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
- Smart cities / Sustainability and Regenerative policies
- Your company, organisations you work with and focus
- With Covid-19 how do you see this as a way to redesign our society?
- Goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society
- A future vision for cities and the world
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Dr. Tanuj Nandan is Professor and former Head, School of Management Studies, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. His areas of interest include Financial Derivatives, International Finance and Corporate Finance. He possesses twenty-four years of research and teaching experience. Tanuj has a Background in statistics, economics and finance.
Dr. Tanuj Nandan completed his M.B.A. and Ph.D. specialising in Financial Management. He participates regularly in several national and international conferences and seminars, and contributes research articles and papers to journals of repute. He is also a reviewer to several journals. He conducts management development programs and training programs, and is invited to speak at various forums. He also renders consultancy services to corporate organizations.
Tanuj Nandan Interview Focus:
- Personal background
- Education and university background
- Career highlights and development
- India: cultural and economic landscape
- Financial Inclusion in India
- Research focus and main areas
- How do you see the present challenges in your industry expertise area
- How Covid 19 is impacting the world and the areas of your expertise
- What message of hope do you highlight in these times?
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Randall Bolten is the author of "Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You" and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You, published in 2012. Randall speaks frequently, and provides workshops and training to Fortune 100 companies in the area of presenting complex numerical information clearly and effectively.
INTERVIEW FOCUS
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company, organisation and focus
- What are your work priorities
- Future of Education
- Goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society
7 With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society - Future vision
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Armando Gonzalez is a technology entrepreneur and the CEO and Co-founder of RavenPack, the leading provider of big data analytics for financial institutions. At RavenPack, he oversees all product design and engineering of the company’s data products and analytical tools. Armando is a recognized expert in applied big data and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. He is widely regarded as one of the most knowledgeable authorities on systematic data analysis in finance.
Armando Gonzalez is a recognized speaker at academic and business conferences across the globe. Armando holds degrees in Economics and International Business Administration from the American University in Paris. As a thought leader, his commentary and research has appeared in leading business publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, among many others.
INTERVIEW FOCUS
- An introduction from Armando Gonzalez - background, overview, education...
- Armando Gonzalez Career highlights
- Emerging technology impact on financial industry
- Big Data analytics role
- AI and Machine Learning
- About RavenPack mission and focus
- What are your work priorities
- Goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society
- With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
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Rajat Prakash is an experienced Lawyer with a demonstrated history of working in the law practice industry. Rajat Prakash is a MD at Athena Legal, with a network of 200 lawyers in India. Rajat is a Skilled in Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Leadership, Public Speaking, and Litigation. Strong business development professional graduated from Cardiff University and The Scindia School, Gwalior.
Rajat Prakash Interview focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
- Legal framework in India
- Business in India
- Innovation in the legal world
- How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
- What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
- What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
- With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
- What are your visions for the present and future?
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Asad Sultan is a twenty-five year veteran of the investment banking industry, including fifteen years in Asia. Until 2008 he was the Managing Director and Country Head in India for US investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald. Asad started his career in 1990 with Citibank in New York, then Tokyo and London. In Hong Kong, he worked for Japan’s Daiwa Bank, and served as Division Director and Head of Asian Equities for Australia’s Macquarie Bank; following which he launched NYSE-listed institutional brokerage Investment Technology Group in Asia as regional Chief Executive Officer.
Interview focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company, organisation and focus
- What are your work priorities
- Goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society
- With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
- Future vision
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Daniel Sloan is a recognized leader in the blockchain/cryptocurrency space. As the new guest in this interview conducted by Dinis Guarda, Daniel Sloan talks about the company he is a co-founder of, Future Tech and his latest project "RebuildTheChain", a pandemic management system launched by Accubits Technologies to help people and their governments curb the coronavirus pandemic and revive the struggling economy.
INTERVIEW FOCUS
- an introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career background from Marines to recruitment and to founder and investor
- Companies: from SAP to co-founder Future Tech / RebuildTheChain
- Technology Blockchain and AI
- What are your focus with your ventures
- As an investor what is your focus and
- Goals and focus
- With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
- Future vision
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Jarrett Preston is the CEO/Founder of Idoneus and leads the development of the company’s short and long-term strategy and works closely with the Board and other members of the Executive Team to execute the company’s corporate strategy across all divisions. He is responsible for the implementation of the company vision and mission and communicates on behalf of the company. Jarrett is an expert in field of “value for value exchange” within the luxury asset markets.
Interview Focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- About blockchain and luxury assets
- About Idoneus: organisation and focus
- What are your work priorities
- Goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society
7 With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society - Future vision
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Joey Lin spent his student years in Singapore, from where he moved to the UK to study Mechanical Engineering at Newcastle University. After that he was awarded a scholarship in Nuclear Physics at Cambridge University. He soon realized what he really wanted to do: helping other students with their doubts about studying abroad. His project, Illume Research, is precisely about that, a technologically advanced education company that offers individually tailored research projects, personalized mentorship, online study platform and teaching management system. As Joey Lin understands education, platforms like this are critical in helping new students overcome their fears while harnessing the potential of edtech, mentorship and e-learning in the education of the future.
Interview focus:
Profile: Education, Professional background
Education in China and in the UK
About Illume Research
Technology and education: EdTech
Mentorship programs
The potential of e-learning: challenges and opportunities
Future vision
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Shannon Sagawe is a veteran private banker with a passion for innovation and innovators across all sectors. She made it her mission to help clients achieve their true goals, including those that are non-financially related. Shannon Sagawe married her deep knowledge of private banking with a passion for working with successful entrepreneurs; helping them manage, grow and preserve the wealth they have worked so hard to create. She recently started her own podcast "Shot Caller" to use her voice and fortunate status as an educated woman to help lift up those who come after and are all around her.
Interview focus:
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An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
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Career highlights
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Gender leadership
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Your company, organisation and focus
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What are your work priorities
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About Shot Caller podcast
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The importance of financial independence
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Goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society
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With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
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Future vision
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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https://www.dinisguarda.com/
https://www.intelligenthq.com/author/...
https://www.hedgethink.com/author/din...
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Dr William Wu, founder of One4City and Innovation Insight Lead at Cisco Innovation EMEAR, is the new guest in this interview series hosted by citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda. Both experts talk in-depth about trending topics in the eco city and smart city space, including new emerging technologies, the need for a holistic and international approach and collaboration between all players involved. Likewise, Dr William Wu tells us more about his new project, One4City, a comprehensive and evolving digital portal for a one-stop shop for UK Smart City solutions.
Interview focus:
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An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
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Career highlights
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Eco cities: history and definition
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Eco cities: Urban planning and development
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The Shift to Smart Cities
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One4City Overview: vision, focus and goals
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The main trends in tech for cities and society
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5G, AI, IoT & big data analytics in Smart Cities
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With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
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Future vision
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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Matthieu Merchadou Melki is the founder of Smart Florida. Matthieu is creating the Miami Beta City project through his Smart City Lab NOOS Labs. He is recognised as an impact Entrepreneur, Blockchain Evangelist and expert in the areas of Digital transformation, Logistics, Real Estate and Smart Cities.
Interview focus:
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An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
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Career highlights
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Your company, organisation and focus
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What are your work priorities
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About Blockchain and its impact
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Defining Smart City
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Smart Florida. How it started and collaborations between governments and companies
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Explaining the Miami Beta City project
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The NOOSphere solution 10. Future vision
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Anish Mohammed is a technologist with a multidisciplinary background who is passionate about technology. Over the years have been involved in architecting/building micropayments, reinsurance hubs, big data platforms for banking among other things. Have worked as researcher in security/cryptography both in industry and academia, with deep expertise in Blockchain and Cryptography. Currently focusing on Blockchain and Cryptoeconomics.
INTERVIEW FOCUS
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your work history
- Blockchain inception and status of the technology
- AI and status
- Blockchain and AI relationship
- AI and ethics
- AI challenges and development
- AI Singularity
- What are your work priorities at the moment
- With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
- Future vision
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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Henri Arslanian is a world leader in Crypto, Blockchain and best selling author. In this new series interview conducted by citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda, both experts talk about the current challenges and opportunities in finance, including disruptors like blockchain and crypto.
Interview focus:
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career highlights
- Your company, organisation and focus
- Importance of education
- Fintech from inception into now
- Crypto from inception into the bitcoin halving
- Regtech importance
- What are your work priorities
- Goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society
- With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
- Future vision
About Dinis Guarda profile and Channels
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Miguel Amaral is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa at the Engineering and Management Department and as a Research Associate at the Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IN+/IST. An expert in the areas of Technological Change, Entrepreneurial Dynamics and Social Innovation, Miguel Amaral and citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda talk about how digital transformation is changing the business environment while highlighting innovation as a force for social change.
INTERVIEW FOCUS
Personal profile
Academic background and professional career
Entrepreneurship background - Social Innovation Lab
Companies and social impact
Social entrepreneurship concept
Education: from theory to practice
Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IN+/IST research focus
MIT connection and DLab
Frugal innovation
India case studies and current research projects
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citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda interviews Country Managing Director of Germany at NTT Ltd., Kai Grunwitz on the opportunities and challenges of the society 5.0 and the digital transformation that is making it possible as well as the special focus on the cybersecurity aspect of it.
Kai Grunwitz Interview focus
- Introduction - background, overview, education...
- Career
- NTT company and focus
- How can we Accelerate digital business transformation with Intelligent Business, secure by design.
- Intelligent Business - Accelerate digital business transformation with 6. Intelligent Business, secure by design.
- Intelligent Workplace - Empower and connect your workforce to deliver the best customer experience, with an intelligent digital workplace, secure by design.
- Intelligent Infrastructure Drive business agility with intelligent IT infrastructure solutions, secure by design.
- Using technology to help build better cities and communities
- How do you see building an Intelligent Cybersecurity
- Cybercrime - Global costs will exceed $6 Trillion In 2021
- With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society tech infrastructure
- Future vision
Kai Grunwitz is an innovative and established executive with a high impact career in conceptualizing, developing and driving business strategies on behalf of dynamic enterprises. A key driver of business performance with 25 years experience in developing and managing a solution, consulting and/or professional services business with a track record of managing a large P&L and successfully launching new brands, service products and new organizations.
Kai Grunwitz Specialties believes in society 5.0 and the critical urgence of digital transformation and the importance of starting step by step to enhance people adoption to tech and processes. Be quick or adopt or die that was always the threat but now is increasing and changing the scale and demand in new velocities. We have a new normal and the changes with digital transformation will accelerate - the remote world will be the normal.
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“There has been a trend of rising attention for the sustainable industry; the future of smart cities is looking brighter every day and the feasibility of implementing a smart city is becoming widely increasing. With our affiliations, we are successfully creating an inclusive, tech-oriented system through the Smart City Master Planning and TechSandbox.”
Jaewon Peter Chun, President of World Smart Cities Forum.
INTERVIEW FOCUS
1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. Career highlights
3. South Korea background growth and work in innovation
4. Definition Smart cities
5. Your company, organisation and focus
6. World smart cities forum
7. ARK-i Labs - solution services around the world based in smart cities
8. XnTREE tech accelerator
9. With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
10. Goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society
11. Future vision for cities and the world
Jaewon Peter Chun was Born in South Korea, started with Investment Bank and started initially in investment / finance in tech and working in investing in high potential companies. He joined Level 39 since its inception and was involved in accelerating tech unicorns. In Level 39 he started also working with Canary Wharf group working on smart cities. He has been working in 10 smart cities around the world. Finance and technology worked as solutions that Peter wanted to relate with innovation solutions, special to cities and people.
Jaewon Peter Chun is now Chief Executive Officer, ARK-i Labs Full-time, since Nov 2019. He is the President, World Smart Cities Forum Full-time, Dec 2018. Jaewon is the CEO, XnTREE, Jan 2016. He is the Executive Director, Korea-Israel Chamber of Commerce (KICC), since Mar 2011. Jaewon Peter Chun has been a Partner, APEX Investment & Company, since Jan 2005.
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TNC IT Group has the vision to "unite the cryptocurrency world," and as founder Jason H. Jang tells us in this interview, they are doing everything they can to achieve it. Asked by citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda about the company's ambitious plans, Jason H. Jang goes through every project, including the recently launched tokenncoin, their massive blockchain M&A program and the blockchain based marketplace Buyaladdin. Likewise, both experts talk about the current state of the blockchain and the crypto industry, the regulatory challenges worldwide and the impact of COVID-19 in the sector.
INTERVIEW FOCUS
- Personal profile and professional background
- The state of blockchain and crypto
- Blockchain Regulation in South Korea and in the world
- About TNC IT Group
- Blockchain M&A program
- Tokenncoin
- BuyAladding and Alibaba shopping mall
- Smart Crypto Cities
JASON H. JANG BIOGRAPHY
Jason H. Jang is a corporate education and management professional, with extensive business experience as a trusted advisor in the ITTP program and Blockchain, conducting instructions and consultation among many international companies. Detailed knowledge of presentation, business negotiation, public speech, leadership, and Blockchain structure. Extensive experience in developing and managing diverse teams. Recognized for building capacity through meeting training needs and best practices. Ten years of experience in creating strategic and operational plans, business continuity plans, risk and crisis management planning for organizations, as well as corporate communications and spokesperson development.
Results-oriented, high-energy, hands-on professional, with a successful record of accomplishments in the networking, training, and communication transmission industries. Experience in R&D, mining center, exchange, and cryptocurrency social networking with focus on providing the recipient with the highest quality result. Fully compliant with coin development planning, ICO processing, managing mining machine, listing criteria management for listing the coin on exchanges, and legal provision for any types of blockchain related project.
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Prof. Michael Sung is a technology venture builder and investor, having founded various companies in diverse high-tech industries ranging from AI, blockchain, semiconductor, and new materials industries. In this new interview series, host Dinis Guarda and Michael Sung go through worldwide challenges and opportunities in the Fintech space and how new 4IR technologies like blockchain and AI can be seen as drivers of innovation for the future. Michael Sung also tells us about his CarbonBlue project, a tech-transfer and commercialisation platform that is focused on rapidly commercialising and scaling internationally-sourced high-tech innovation.
INTERVIEW FOCUS
- Biography, professional background
- Academic background and research focus as Director of the Fintech Research Center at the Fanhai International School of Finance at Fudan University
- About Fintech: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
- Dynamics of innovation in the Fintech space
- 4IR Technologies: blockchain - decentralized systems
- 4IR Technologies: blockchain and AI applied to cities and smart city projects
- About CarbonBlue project
BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Sung is an expert on blockchain and crypto-finance innovation, as founding co-director of the Fintech Research Center at the Fanhai International School of Finance at Fudan University. In addition, Prof. Sung is faculty at the Chinese Institute of Economics and Finance, a national-level think tank focused on developing finance innovation policy for central government. He is also a venture partner for FinNX, cross-border investment bank platform for Fundamental Labs, one of Asia’s top blockchain funds.
He has a strong background in cross-border technology transfer, strategic industry engagement, commercialisation strategy, business model innovation, and hi-tech entrepreneurship.
Prof. Sung has served in numerous advisory roles over the years for the HK, Taiwan, and China governments on international tech transfer, innovation ecosystem building, AI, blockchain, and Fintech policy for various top city and ministry-level officials. Prof. Sung was also the chairman of the steering committee for MIT Tech Review’s Emtech HK Conference. He has received various awards for technology entrepreneurship, including MIT Enterprise Forum’s Most Visionary Technology Award and Google’s Solve for X Prize. Prof. Sung received his Ph.D. in EECS at the MIT Media Lab/Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as well as a graduate financial engineering degree from MIT Sloan Business School.
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Dinis Guarda, author and founder of citiesabc.com, interviews Xiaochen Zhang, a leading global thought leader in the areas of fintech, sustainability, blockchain and economic digital transformation and founder of Fintech4Good. Xiaochen Zhang is an active policy maker and technologist leading initiatives and organisations such as the major organisation FinTech4Good, as President, and co-Chair of World Digital Economy Council, among other organisations. Some of his global work aims to look at social impact, business empowerment, financial inclusion.
Interview focus
- Background
- Cultural background
- Define Fintech
- Fintech for Good
- Fintech inclusion
- Create commercial business models to empower policy makers, mainstream organisations, global companies and governments.
- FinTech4Good
- World Digital Economy Council
- New business models related to economic digital innovation.
- Gap between policy makers and innovators
- Technology for doing good
- Academic and education teaching
- Programs for free for SMEs and learning models
About Xiaochen Zhang
Xiaochen Zhang, President of FinTech4Good, co-Chair, World Digital Economy Council, UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) Executive Council. He is also a member of the UN ESCAP Digital Economy Task Force and Green Business Task Force.
Listed as one of the Top 100 Blockchain Influencers by Lattice80, Xiaochen leads the design and implementation of FinTech4Goods’s strategy to introduce the most disruptive technological innovations in frontier markets. FinTech4Good was awarded the Best FinTech Impact Investing Network 2019 by Wealth & Finance International.
Xiaochen leads the design and implementation of FinTech4Goods’s strategy which aims to introduce impactful fintech and blockchain solutions to frontier markets through incubation, acceleration, and investment. He is a partner at Wemerge Capital, a Chairman of the Global Digital Economy Leadership Council, and serves on the Crowdfunding Professional Association Board of Director, member of the UN ESCAP Digital Economy Task Force and Green Business Task Force.
As a trusted figure in the digital economy and blockchain, he addressed 100+ high-level international forums as a keynote speaker and produced three blockchain and Fintech shows with 500K+ followers.
Prior to FinTech4Good, Xiaochen advised government agencies and multinational organizations on innovative finance, emerging technologies, and investment in positions at the World Bank, United Nations, and other international partnership platforms. He also taught entrepreneurship, innovative finance and blockchain courses at leading business schools.
He is also the founder of Blockchain Frontier Group, a co-chair of several blockchain labs, advisor of some leading blockchain start-ups, and a producer and host of the FinTech in China show and Blockchain Million Show.
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Christine Liu, Global Thought Leader, CEO/Founder of sHero consultancy and Champion Women Leadership is the starring guest in this new video interview. Hosted by citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda, both experts talk about the importance of building bridges between China and the rest of the world and the need to change the narrative, especially in times like this. Furthermore, as a women activist, Christine Lui founded sHero in 2007 and she began her crusade in the promotion of ‘dialoguing’ among women that cultivates collaborative actions and collective responsibility.
Based in Shanghai, Christine Liu has held leadership positions in multi-national companies ranging from luxury fashion to pharmaceuticals including Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and Honeywell. Christine is an accomplished Human Resources professional with many practical insights into human and organizational psyches.
Christine is the Senior Consultant for a New York based Lifestyle Marketing Advisory firm for its Asian Affairs, bringing brands to markets around the world. She is also the founder of sHero, a venture that aims to inspire and empower and offers women professionals total solutions for maintaining a satisfying balance between career and family.
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sHero: http://www.sherochina.com/
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Prof Michael Rovatsos is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, and Director of the Bayes Centre, the University’s innovation hub for Data Science and AI. He also represents the University at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for Data Science and AI. In his research he develops AI algorithms and architectures to support collaboration between humans, e.g. in sharing economy, electronic commerce, or logistics applications. In recent years, much of his work has focused on ethical aspects of AI, primarily through the development of methods for designing fair and diversity-aware AI algorithms that respect the values of human users.
Interview focus
- Personal background
- Education and university background
- Career highlights and development
- Research focus and main areas
- How do you see the challenges of education in your area
- How Covid 19 is impacting the world and the areas of your expertise
- What message of hope do you highlight in these times?
MICHAEL ROVATSOS BIO: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mrovatso/
SCHOLAR CITATIONS: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...
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Michael Terpin, blockchain investor and founder and CEO of Transform Group and BitAngels among others, joins Dinis Guarda in this new interview for citiesabc. A true legend in the blockchain and crypto space, Michael Terpin shares his expertise on the current state of blockchain and digital assets and how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting the industry.
In this interview, Michael Terpin looks at his beginnings in newswire and PR businesses that went from a small internet company to become one of the most important newswires in the world: Transform Group. Mr. Terpin also talks about his activities in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, including the theft of millions of dollars in crypto in 2018 and BitAngels, the first angel investor group focused on identifying, funding and mentoring seed- and early-stage startups in the digital currency space, including Bitcoin.
Michael Terpin is a blockchain investor and the founder/CEO of Transform Group, a global public relations, blockchain advisory and events firm that has served over 250 clients in the blockchain space, including more than 30% of the CoinMarketCap 100 companies and foundations. In addition, Terpin co-founded BitAngels, an angel investor network for digital currency startups. Terpin is also known for founding Marketwire, which was one of the world’s leading business newswires and which has since been merged with GlobeNewswire.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelte...
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Monty Munford, tech journalist, blockchain expert and Co-Founder at BlockSpeak podcast series, is the new guest in this interview series for citiesabc. As it is usual in the series, host Dinis Guarda and Monty Munford discuss major challenges nations, cities and people are facing today. Covid-19 and its impact on the economy and the crypto space and how it is a wake-up call for all of us to do it better in the future. In that regard, blockchain and cryptocurrencies might find in the post-Covid-19 world their best opportunity to stand up and become the drivers of change.
INTERVIEW STRUCTURE
- Profile and professional background.
- Work on media
- The COVID-19 pandemic. The great challenge of our time
- COVID-19 and its impact on blockchain and crypto industry
- Post coronavirus world. A look into the future of blockchain and crypto
- BlockSpeak podcast. How to become an eminence in the blockchain space
Monty Munford is a well known tech-journalist and blockchain enthusiast who started his career working for several years as a motorbike dispatch-rider in London, before retraining as a journalist at the London College of Printing in 1998.
From 2015-2019 Munford was a tech columnist for Forbes in New York and The Telegraph in London. He has also contributed to TechCrunch, Mashable, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Wired. MIT Technology Review, The Independent, The Inquirer, The Guardian,] The Observer, Financial Times, and The Times of India. He has a Google News-verified tech blog, Mob76 Outlook.
He has interviewed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, John McAfee, and Roger Ver. In August 2019, Munford reported that he had been defrauded of £25,000 in cryptocurrency, mainly Bitcoin and Ethereum, when his private keys were stolen from his Gmail account.
Munford has also written and self-published The Dust Bowls of Maturity.
In 2005 Munford joined mobile media games publisher and distributor Player X having previously worked for mobile game testing house Babel Media. Munford left Player X to devote his time to connecting UK and Indian mobile content providers working with Paramount and FC Liverpool, as well as to pursue acting in Bollywood. In 2011, he returned to the UK and set up his own consultancy Mob76.
He recently started his podcast BlockSpeak where he carries out Weekly interviews with influential people in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Space.
BlockSpeak podcast: https://blockspeak.io/
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Dr. Jamal Ouenniche, Professor & Chair in Business Analytics, University of Edinburgh Business School is the guest speaker in this new interview series for citiesabc. Asked by citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda, Dr. Jamal Ouenniche discuss from an academic point of view the role of academia and education in today’s business analytics, data and AI machine learning models and how important it is to create links, build relationships and utilize prominent researches in data and business analytics to thrive and drive business and innovation. And all of that in a convoluted world dominated by a global pandemic and the prospect of an economic recession.
INTERVIEW STRUCTURE
- Profile overview: Academic and Professional career
- Education, PhD and research focus
- Role in Edinburgh University
- How does Dr Jamal Ouenniche see business data, AI, machine learning, technology and education
- The role of Data, smart cities in the present global technological developments
- How do you see AI, Blockchain, 5G tech and AI working together
- The role of Edinburgh University and research in innovation and digital transformation
- The circumstances of COVID-19 and the effects in the world education, economy and tech economies
- How business data ownership and research can be optimized to avoid a data arms race
- Highlight some of the case studies of usages of business data for good and best practices
Dr. Jamal Ouenniche Biography
Dr Ouenniche is Professor and Chair in Business Analytics at the University of Edinburgh Business School (UK), Member of the Business School Executive Board, Head of the Management Science and Business Economics group, and Director of the MSc in Business Analytics. He holds BSc. in Mathematics and MSc. in Operational Research from the University of Montreal (Canada), and PhD in Operations Management from Laval University (Quebec, Canada).
Emmanuel Daniel, serial entrepreneur, financial expert and founder of The Asian Banker joins Dinis Guarda in this new series interview for citiesabc. As the COVID-19 crisis deepens in the West, both experts discuss potential economic consequences for nations, cities and companies, the impact on the financial industry and how the economic prominence can shift from West to East once the dust settles.
As the founder of The Asian Banker, one of the most prominents consultancies in financial services research, benchmarking and intelligence, Emmanuel Daniel is savvy in financial industry synergies, and he expects financial services to play a key role in dealing with this coronavirus crisis. Likewise, he shows some concerns about how well prepared the industry was to face a crisis like this, especially regarding digitisation and adoption of new technologies. “The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that the world banking has failed. With the advent of FinTech and emerging technologies, they have had no excuse to move their operations to the digital,” he said in the interview.
INTERVIEW STRUCTURE
1. Profile, professional background
2. Creating The Asian Banker
3. How do you see innovation in financial industry and banking
4. FinTech challenges and opportunities
5. Global economic crisis
6. World economy and finance in coronavirus times
7. Predictions and look at the future
About Emmanuel Daniel
Emmanuel Daniel is an entrepreneur, train enthusiast and writer. He is the founder of The Asian Banker in 1996, one of the most respected intelligence platforms in the financial services industry that now operates across Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is also the founder of Wealth and Society, a London-based programme focused on impact investment and philanthropy and Bankquality.com, the world’s first site for capturing consumer feedback on financial services.
He won the Citibank Excellence in Business Journalism for Asia in 1999 for his work on the internet in banking. “The Asian Banker Summit” won the best finance conference from the Asian Conference and Summit Awards in 2012.
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CRUNCHBASE: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/emm...
OPENBUSINESSCOUNCIL BIO: https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org/w...
From his role as Director of Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at University of East London, Professor Darryl Newport is an experienced academic whose main areas of focus are sustainable materials, circular economy, green economy and everything in between. In this new series interview for citiesabc, host Dinis Guarda and Prof. Darryl Newport go through major economic challenges, including those affecting city development and COVID-19. And he provides sustainable solutions for all of them.
Interview Structure
- Profile and education background
- Academic career
- About The Sustainable Research Institute and the University of East London
- Green economy. Challenges and opportunities
- Cities and smart city projects
- Green infrastructure
- Sustainability and circular economy solutions
- Case studies and research projects
- A look into the future
Professor Darryl Newport Biography
Professor Darryl Newport is Director of the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) and leader on a number of key research projects. During this current tenure I have united a number of research centres under the SRI Umbrella, including the Manufactured Aggregate Research Centre (MARC), Environmental Research Group and the Resource Efficiency Research Centre. I currently manage research staff with research interests aligned to SRI research ethos. The SRI currently supervises a number of PhD students. Darryl currently is Director of Studies for three students and sits on two additional supervisory teams.
Darryl's research focuses on sustainable use of materials, resource efficiency and the circular economy. These areas of research are particularly important for the development of our future cities and provide considerable opportunity for innovative material and process development.
In the recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), the SRI in partnership with UEL’s Architecture research team, submitted to UoA 16. This was a successful partnership and a very creditable showing for our first submission.
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ResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/...
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Mamadou Toure was born and raised in Cameroon in a not wealthy family. His school had over 100 students per class. From that humble background he became one of the world leaders changing Africa and pushing a genuine focus on the very African concept of Ubuntu “I am because we are.” An idea that can be seen in all his projects of social, economic and financial empowerment and impact. He understood from the beginning the importance of leadership, structure change, technology as a tool to change and impact and build social balance. His leadership has been shaping Africa and the young leaders with Africa 2.0 and many other projects. Mamadou has been working with the World Bank and his experience reinforced the importance of co-creation balance with technology and leadership.
Interview questions focus
- An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
- Career
- Your company and focus
- About Africa 2.0 foundation
- Vision behind Ubuntu: Goals and focus
- Covid-19: how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
- Future vision
Mamadou Toure Biography
Inspired by the wisdom of his ancestors, Mamadou Kwidjim Toure believes that co-creating a better world is possible when diversity is nurtured and access to opportunities is evenly distributed. This philosophy was the driving force behind establishing Africa 2.0, a non-for-profit pan African civil society organization with the aim to create a sustainable vision for the transformation of Africa.
Named one of the top 10 Most Influential Men in Africa by Forbes Magazine in 2014, Mamadou founded the Ubuntu Group in 2015 and built on his global network and investment savviness to launch socio-economic projects throughout the continent of Africa. His recent venture, Ubuntu Tribe, a platform promoting shared economy through digitization of gold and other mineral ressources as a means for financial inclusion and wealth redistribution received in 2019 a distinction as finalist at the African Bankers Awards. In 2020, he was listed among the top 30 most influential in the world in blockchain technology.
Over the past 20 years, Mamadou worked in instituons such as KPMG, BNP Paribas Investment Banking, IFC (World Bank Group) and finally General Electric as Managing Director in charge of Investments and Project Finance for Subsaharan Africa. He has worked on infrastructure, mining, agriculture technology projects exceeding a combined value of US$ 30 billion, thus creating opportunities and hope for many people in Africa. He has been at the forefront of international high finance and remains a strong proponent for digital economy as an engine for emancipation and shared wealth creation.
Mamadou holds MSc in Finance and completed education programs at Harvard Kennedy School on « Public-Private Partnership » in 2010, and « Global Leadership and Public Policy for 21st Century » as World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2018.
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Ben Goertzel is a leading world recognised artificial intelligence researcher, thinker, software engineer and serial entrepreneur. Ben is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, the Chairman of OpenCog Foundation, the Chairman of Artificial General Intelligence Society, the Chief Scientist of Mozi Health and Vice Chairman Humanity+ and his work, writing and ideas are influencing the way we perceive AI, technology and blockchain.
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Ben Goertzel Interview focus questions:
- An introduction from Ben - background, overview, education...
- The way you look at AI, AGI, open AI?
- Career highlights?
- Your companies and focus
- What is your main focus as a doer?
- Can you show an example of of open AI
- You have a focus on open AI and Artificial General Intelligence? Can you elaborate on this?
- You are a thinker, philosopher and as we look at evolution how do you see Singularity, special when it comes to the 2 visions of humanity the light side and the dark side?
- What are Ben Goals and focus as a thinker and a doer?
- With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
- As a science fiction reader, writer and enthusiastic what is your vision of the Future you would like to create?
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Ben Goertzel Bio:
Ben Goertzel is a leading world recognised authority in artificial intelligence research, inventor and serial entrepreneur. Ben is a deep thinker and also a man of action as the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, the Chairman of OpenCog Foundation, the Chairman of Artificial General Intelligence Society, the Chief Scientist of Mozi Health and Vice Chairman Humanity+
Goertzel is the chief scientist and chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC; chairman of the OpenCog Foundation; and advisor to Singularity University. He was Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (formerly the Singularity Institute).
Goertzel is the son of Ted Goertzel, a former professor of sociology at Rutgers University.[2] He left high school after the tenth grade to attend Bard College at Simon's Rock, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Quantitative Studies.[3]
Views on AI
Ben Goertzel's focus these days is the SingularityNET project, which brings AI and blockchain together to create a decentralized open market for AIs. It's a medium for the creation and emergence of AGI, a way to roll out superior AI-as-a-service to every vertical market, and a way to enable everyone in the world to contribute to and benefit from AI.
Ben's passions are numerous, including AGI, life extension biology, philosophy of mind, psi, consciousness, complex systems, improvisational music, experimental fiction, theoretical physics and metaphysics.
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Jorge Sebastiao is a technology thought leader, influencer and ICT expert in the area of cybersecurity with more than 35 years of experience in technology systems. In this new interview for citiesabc, carried out by Dinis Guarda, cybersecurity is a central theme as every digital system exposes new - and unexpected, risks. That is especially worrisome in Smart Cities projects, as Jorge Sebastiao points out. From that perspective, both experts speak about technology adoption in the Middle East and in the World, the Covid-19 pandemic and the development of emerging technologies like blockchain, AI or the roll-out of 5G.
Structure
1. Biography, education,
2. Professional career as ICT expert, CTO, Huawei until now
3. Challenges and opportunities working in different cultures and countries. 4. Middle East experience
5. Evolution of technology and its impact
6. Cybersecurity: threats, solutions and emerging technologies
Smart Cities
7. Covid-19 pandemic: how technology can help us fight the crisis back
Jorge is a seasoned ICT Expert in areas of Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud Computing & managed services focused on business value. He brings experience, creativity, structure and innovation to the solutions he architects through ICT infrastructure.
With over 30 years of ICT experience, covering C level on Cloud Computing, AI, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Physical Security, Managed Services, managed security services, business continuity and disaster recovery, as well as governance, risk management, compliance, auditing, certification. Served sectors include aviation, transportation, oil & gas, banking, financial, telecom, government, defense, healthcare, and education. Jorge created the process A6 of security: Assess, Architect, Apply, Administer, Awareness & Agility. He architects practical & business focused Cloud and Security solutions using standards and industry best practices.
He has been the speaker at numerous international conferences with topics including: ICS Security, ICT Security, Business Continuity, ICT Architecture (TOGAF), Wireless Security, Regulatory Compliance, Physical Security, Biometrics and Smart Cards, Ethical Hacking, ISO27001, ISO27002 (ISMS), ISO2000 (ITIL), ISO13335 (Risk Management), ISO22301 (BCMS), CobIT, Basel II, EMV-2, PCI-compliance, SOX, Info warfare, Fraud, Identity Theft, SAP-Security, CISSP, Forensics & Incidence Response.
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Brittany Kaiser, Co-Founder at Own Your Data Foundation, #OwnYourData campaign, and DATA (the Digital Asset Trade Association) and citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda are two experts concerned about digital identity and data privacy. And in this latest series interviews for citiesabc, both digital savvys speak in-depth about the challenges of today's digitization on people’s identity and how data has become the “gold” of our times. Brittany Kaiser worked at Cambridge Analytica during the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal and has since then focused on helping governments, businesses and people (through her own initiatives) to create a more transparent and fair use of private data.
Brittany Kaiser is an American former business development director for Cambridge Analytica which collapsed after details of its misuse of Facebook data were revealed to have potentially impacted voting in the UK Brexit referendum and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Kaiser testified about her involvement in the work of Cambridge Analytica before the UK Parliament and in private before the Mueller Investigation.
She defines herself as it follows: “I am an international law, diplomacy and data-driven campaigning professional with significant global experience. My work involves developing successful strategies for politicians, governments, and corporations to achieve their goals using cutting edge technology. Currently focused on legislative reform for digital assets such as personal data and tokens on the blockchain.”
Her latest initiatives are the Own Your Data Foundation, a non-profit foundation that is implementing programs that democratize digital intelligence education and create measurable social impact. She is also the Co-Founder of the Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA), a non-profit lobbying firm advancing legislative reform protecting the rights of individuals to control their own digital assets.
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Professor Kiran J. Fernandes, Dean for Internationalisation at Durham University Business School and Vice-chair of UK National Commission for UNESCO - among others, joins Dinis Guarda in this interview for citiesabc interview series. Both experts talk extendedly about major challenges worldwide including the Covid-19 pandemic, industry 2.0 and the role of technology in the industries and the economy, now and its impact in the future. As an academic in complex systems, Professor Kiran J. Fernandes believes today’s problems aren’t linear, and as such, there aren’t simple solutions.
Here are the topics the two expert go through in the interview:
1. Biography, academic background
2. Geopolitical and cultural challenges worldwide
3. Complex system perspective to provide solutions to today’s problems
4. Cities and connectivities. Trade corridors
5. Durham University career and ongoing research projects
6. Work with UNESCO
Professor Kiran Jude Fernandes is the Chair of the Operations Management Group and a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute. He is also a Fellow of the interdisciplinary York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis (YCCSA). He holds a PhD in Operations Management and Systems from the University of Warwick; a Masters (MS) from the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU) and a Bachelors of Engineering (Hons) degree in Production from Waltech. Prior to his current role, Professor Fernandes worked as the Pro-Dean for Research and Head of the Operations Management Group at The University of York. He started his academic career as an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. He worked as a sub-systems engineer at NASA - John C. Stennis Space Centre working for the Late Tom Cobb (Product Director for the Space Shuttle Main Engine Program). Working at NASA also allowed him to complete a professional program from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Dinis Guarda Interviews Edwin Diender, CDTO and Vice President, Global Government Business Unit, Huawei Enterprise - Profile, Education, Digital Platforms, Smart Cities and Digital Twins the Major Challenges our Society is Facing
Edwin Diender, CDTO and Vice President, Global Government Business Unit, Huawei Enterprise joins Dinis Guarda in this new series interview for citiesabc. Diender defines himself as a forward thinker and a business strategist whose professional experience has always been linked to digital transformation and sustainable business models. Both experts speak widely about major challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing digital and technology revolution on Smart Cities. For Diender, technology is actually helping us go through this pandemic and all the challenges we, as humanity, face. Because, as Diender says, “technology helps us do better what we already do best.”
Here are the topics the two expert go through in the interview:
1. Profile overview and career
2. Education
3. Your role in Huawei
4. How do you see digital transformation
5. The role of smart cities in the present global technological developments
6. How you see 5G tech and AI working together
7. The role of Huawei in innovation and digital transformation
8. The circumstances of Covid19 and the effects in the world economy and tech companies
9. how the social distance will change work circumstances and how companies like Huawei can help
10. Highlight some of the case studies of Huawei in the Coronavirus global scenario
Edwin Diender is adept on a range of subjects, from big data to safe and smart cities, to enterprise solutions. Not a salesman, not a technologist. A Tech strategist, accustomed to larger concepts. He has been globally involved in several (government) initiatives and programs; scaling from small up to medium and large roll-outs across the value chain. Mr. Diender is experienced in bringing to-market concepts and solutions for Smart City/Safe City and eGovernment, including Collaboration-enabled Business Process (CEBP), Big (Video) Data Analytics, and the Economics of Smart Cities.
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Dinis Guarda interviews ESG Sustainability Advisor, Activist, WEF Expert and Resilient Futurist Marc Buckley in this new interview series for citiesabc. In their dialogue, sustainability, environment and the role of technology collides as the answers to make the world a better place for future generations. In this context, cities are key to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, since they are the main scenario where human interactions take place. Marc believes that it is in cities that this change should occur: “We need to create a resilient infrastructure through emerging technologies to be prepared for the future.”
Marc has been involved in Climate Activism for a long time and he was one of the first to be trained by Al Gore. As a Climate Speaker he has made getting through the Climate Crisis towards Resilient Desirable Futures his life's work. He is an Advocate for the SDG's, UN Advisor as a Resilient Futurist, Social Innovation, Climate Change, Agriculture, Food, and Beverage Expert Network member of the World Economic Forum, Global Food Reformist, and Sustainable Futurist, Marc is on a mission to empower billions of global citizens to live an adaptive lifestyle of health and sustainability within planetary boundaries.
His aim is to reform the agriculture, food and beverage industry with impactful projects and moonshot companies. For example, he teaches and speaks worldwide on climate change and food reform. Marc has also taught entrepreneurs how to build and grow resilient, sustainable, and profitable businesses.
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Another interview with a leading global scientists and authority Prof Henning Walczak.
This is the citiesbac series of interviews with leading international thought leaders, influencers, academics and change makers by Dinis Guarda for citiesabc.com global platform for uniting and creating solutions for cities and a 4IR Magna Carta for humanity!
citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda, Professor Yu Xiong and Professor Henning Walczak talk about the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting every single aspect of the society and how healthcare systems all around the world struggle before this novel coronavirus. Prof. Walczak also highlights the importance of staying at home and the work done by health experts in searching for treatments and a vaccine.
Henning Walczak is Professor of Cancer Biology at University College London (UCL), United Kingdom, and Scientific Director of the Cancer Research UK-UCL Centre. Born in Germany, Professor Walczak previously conducted research at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and also worked for the biotech company Immunex Corportation in Seattle, United States. Together with the Heidelberg immune geneticist Peter Krammer he founded the biotech firm Apogenix, which he still advises. In 2007, Walczak transferred to London, initially to Imperial College and then to UCL. He has received numerous major awards, including an ERC Advanced Grant and the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award.
After being awarded the Humboldt Professorship in 2019, he is to join the University of Cologne to expand his research there.
Professor Yu Xiong is an academic, researcher and serial entrepreneur. He was trained as a computer scientist, then became a professor in various business schools across the UK. He is active in doing research, growing start-ups, creating his own companies. During his career, he has wide publications in top academic journals, and created business impact in multiple industries.
Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies. Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform and citiesabc, among others.
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Interview with leading global scientists and authority Prof Yu Xiong.
This is citiesbac series of interviews with leading international thought leaders, influencers, academics and change makers by Dinis Guarda for citiesabc.com global platform for uniting and creating solutions for cities and a 4IR Magna Carta for humanity!
As the world enters one of its defining moments, the need to develop and implement new technologies is greater than ever. Collaboration is critical in that endeavour, as no sole entity, whether a country, organization or individuals can do it alone. Prof. Xiong, a computer scientist, academic and serial entrepreneur shares his expertise on technology and highlights the much needed collaboration between countries to leverage the full potential of 4IR technologies and blockchain. For that reason, the world needs a 4IR Blockchain Magna Carta that lays down all the foundational aspects for this collaboration
And blockchain, as Prof. Xiong states, can have a key role in it. Blockchain, if well used as a set of foundational tools and especially as an ideology that can enhance, decentralise and empower the global societies and economies within a new framework, self regulated P2P governance and particularly creating more transparency and the distribution of opportunities.
Professor Yu Xiong is an academic, researcher and serial entrepreneur. He was trained as a computer scientist, then became a professor in various business schools across the UK. He is active in doing research, growing start-ups, creating his own companies. During his career, he has wide publications in top academic journals, and created business impact in multiple industries.
His research has been published in world leading and international excellence journals including European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics etc. His research has been funded by EPSRC (Engineering and Physic Science Research Council), Department of Business, Energy and Industry Strategies, British Academy, British Council, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapults, China National Science Foundation etc. Professor Xiong is a Fellow of University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He is also President-elect of Chinese Economic Association of EU/UK.
Dinis Guarda is the founder of citiesabc.com. He is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, guest lecturing in universities like Copenhagen Business School and C level positions. Dinis has been focused on how to digital transform cities, reinvent nations and create sustainable empowerment smart cities. Dinis has worked with new tech, building digital transformation, fintech strategies for governments and global organisations, and central banks. Dinis has co-created a bank, and been involved in the inception of innovative solutions for society and cities such as tokenisation and digital currencies. Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium, techabc, openbusinesscouncil.org and fashionabc.org among others.
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In this interview, Antonio Santos shares his passion for making the society more inclusive through the use of technology. In times of crisis like the one we are living in, technology has a key role to play to keep people united as well as the economy in motion. Antonio is also a great believer that technology can be utilized to accommodate a large range of employees with different needs with the purpose of improving their overall employee experience. Furthermore, he imagines that technology and the modern workplace will be strongly linked together in the future of work.
As he explained there are some key factors to stay relevant in the modern workplace:
“Stay flexible, adapt to change, develop your skills, appreciate diversity, keep up-to-date, brand yourself, make connections, be on the vanguard and follow your passion.”
Antonio Santos currently holds the Community Manager position at Atos. As an expert in Social Media and being an influencer and global thought leader himself, Antonio has become a Tech Ambassador from where he tells the world about Digital Inclusion, Social Media Engagement, Diversity, Future of Work, and Social Business. He is also a leading social media influencer on Augmented Reality, Connected Home, and Security.
Antonio Santos defines himself as an "innovation broker, who recognizes opportunities that link tech, ideas, and people through networking.” He regularly collaborates with Siemens and he is a member of their Influencer / Challengers program. Design thinking with a work out loud approach to social media and business networking.
Antonio provides digital consultancy across the different sectors of the organization specializing in Business Intelligence, Customer Experience, Social Business, Social Media Analytics, and Profiles.
Likewise, Mr Santos has extensive experience with Global Organisations, social enterprise technology, digital transformation, and transition projects, building teams in multicultural work environments around the world, to achieve high levels of performance, customer satisfaction.
As a social entrepreneur, Antoino co-founded six startups and he is currently involved in projects that include the Internet of Things, Coworking, Accessibility, and Digital Inclusion.
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