The Ideas From Europe Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ideas from Europe
Ideas from Europe is an accelerator for innovation with societal impact. Our mission is to create impact by connecting entrepreneurship, innovation and investment. In our podcast series we'll speak with entrepreneurs, innovators and investors in the four domains where we are active - personalised medicine, energy storage, people flows and space widsom for smart cities.
In this episode, Linda will be interviewing Pieter Willems.
Pieter is co-founder of PowerD and investor in renewable energy ventures at Faraday Keys. Pieter is inspired by the possibilities of a transition in society, having been involved in the transition to the digital economy, his passion now lies with a new turning point: the transition from fossil energy to renewable electricity.
His company PowerD is involved in the Ideas From Europe Round Table "Bringing Energy Storage Solutions to Market", presenting the case for integration of electric mobility in the power grid.
Sign up to join the session at https://ideasfrom.eu/events/european-round-tables-8-9-june/
In todays episode, Dave takes a virtual sit down with the Managing Director of Ideas From Europe Sonja van Meerbeek. They discuss how Ideas From Europe was founded, what it does today and where it's heading.
During the discussion, they talk about an upcoming series of roundtables, taking place on the 8th and 9th June. For more information, keep an eye on our web site https://ideasfrom.eu/ and don't forget to follow the Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook pages so you can stay in the loop and be first in line when registration opens.
In todays show, Linda talks with Grazia Fiore. Grazia is user programme coordinator at Eurisy, a Paris-based non-profit association of European space agencies, governmental offices and international organisations in charge of space affairs. As one of her activities, Grazia leads the Geospatial Cities Initiative in the European Smart Cities Marketplace
Today, Linda talks with Martijn Leinweber from the SBIC – the Space Business Innovation Centre in Nordwijk, the Netherlands. Martijn gives us an overview of the SBIC, what it does and how it can help companies and individuals looking to get started and make use of space data in their orgnisations.
We've selected a few clips from our Personalised Medicine roundtable discussion from 2020 in which our guests take us through the background and technology of personalized medicine, as well as the challenges they face in bringing it to market and how platforms such as Ideas From Europe can help.
Today, we’re dipping into the archives to bring you a segment from our virtual roundtable discussion about people flows, recorded in 2020.
In the clip you’re going to hear from our host Tess as she discusses People Flows with a range of professionals and entrepreneurs from across the sector.
In todays episode, Linda talks to Paul Vosbeek about energy storage with a flywheel. Paul is CEO and co-founder of QuinteQ Energy Storage. Having lived in the USA for many years, Paul brought home with him Boeing’s patented technology for a spinning flywheel storage solution.
Guido Dalessi is the CEO of Elestor, a company developing a flow battery with the aim to significantly lower the cost of energy storage. In todays episode, Guido explains a bit about the background of the technology and how it can be used to help with the transition to renewable energy sources.
Linda is joined by Hubert Spruijt, Carolien van Marwijk Kooy, Marnix Paanakker and Bart Kaas - ambassadors at KEK, a non-profit and voluntary organisation connecting likeminded young professionals who work on climate and energy challenges.
Note: This episode is presented in Dutch.
Klaas Akkerman is co-founder of company Greener Power Solutions (NL). Greener delivers clean mobile battery power - anywhere. Greener was founded in January 2018 to make an impact on the CO2 footprint of on- and off-grid energy markets, using mobile batteries and smart energy planning.
For our first episode we are meeting our future host, Linda van Duivenbode of the Extremely Useful Company. Linda has been working with Ideas from Europe for several years and is leading two of the major activity domains – Space Wisdom for Smart Cities and Energy Storage.
If you would like to get in touch with the show, don't forget to visit our website at www.ideasfrom.eu or email us at info@ideasfrom.eu