SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jonathan Pfaffenrot
On the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast, Jonathan Pfaffenrot creates deep dives with some of the brightest minds on nerdy topics around entrepreneurship while geeking out on digital health, biohacking and the never ending quest of human self-optimization and balance. Sample conversations include inventors, billionaires, founders, athletes and researchers.
On this episode of the SCR Podcast we are hosting Jeroen Tas who has a rermarkable career both as an entrepreneur scaling his company to $1+ billion in revenues, which got acquired by HP and being a senior executive as the former Chief Innovation Officer of Royal Philips.
Together with Jeroen we are starting the epsiode with discussing the critical skill of identifying windows of opportunities as an entrepreneur. Jeroen also shares his opinion on why he believes that early stage startups should be careful when choosing "random" revenue rather than focusing on developing a robust and visionary product.
On this episode of the SCR Podcast we are hosting Alex Louisy who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Upflow (YCW20).
Together with Alex we start-off by discussing all things that a second-time founder does different. Alex is sharing his experience of starting a company in France, getting into YC and pivoting the business by tackling the US market. Beyond that we also touch upon Stripe's concept of macro optimism/micro pessimism and exchange on the factual meaning of VC-Founder partnerships.
On this epsiode we are honored to host Phil Libin who is a serial entrepreneur. Among the companies he co-founded are Evernote, All Turtles and mmhmm. He is an expert in building great products with hundreds of millions of users.
Together we are getting Phil's opinion on building winning products that solve real problems and what it means to being a great product person. Phil also shares his opinion on why being opinionated in the early stages of building a product is far more important than talking to customers.
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On this epsiode we are hosting Matt Brown who is a Partner at the early stage VC firm Matrix, based in San-Francisco and Boston.
Matt previously founded Bonsai and Work4 and led merchant product at Afterpay.
Together we are diving into the art of balancing early stage product building and the ever increasing importance of distribution and challenges around platform dependencies. We are also covering a new defining category of SaaS products, which Matt labels as VERPs: Vertical ERPS.
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On this epsiode we are hosting the Lucy Jung who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Charco Neurotech, a company that developed a non-invasive wearable device for Parkinson's disease.
Together with Lucy we dive into the ins-and-outs of product design and development for hardware and medical products. Lucy gives an insight into her fundraising experiences and what it means to develop a global distribution system as a start-up.
For the first epsiode of the year we are starting with a little 2022 reflection on the podcast and the take aways for the upcoming year of hosting the show.
The SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast is going to be a place where some of the worlds most incredible founders and operators will share their learnings and experiences from building tech companies.
We are starting-off the year strong with upcoming conversations, hosting Phil Lubin (Co-Founder of Evernote) and Jeffrey Kaditz (Co-Founder of Affirm)
Dr. BJ Fogg is a behavior scientist and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University where he founded the Behavior Design Lab.
BJ is an expert on behavior change for health habits and author of the book "Tiny Habits", which is a New York Times Bestseller.
Among many of the interesting topics in this episode we are diving into the details of changing behavior towards improving human health and discuss the challenges of the healthtech start-up ecosystem targeting behavior change as a feature.
We are also touching BJ's new area of interest, which is tackling the science behind bad habits and approaches of tackling them.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are talking with Florian Brand who is CEO and Co-Founder at ATAI Life Sciences.
The company is aiming to develop differentiated treatments for patients suffering from mental health orders.
Having collected over $500m in capital with noteable backing from investors such as Cathie Wood at ARK Invest, ATAI is at the forefront when it comes to the psychedelics market.
Together with Florian we are covering the early founding of the company and dive deep into the company's funding model for compound development as well as the role of digital therapeutics in ATAI's treatment strategy.
On this epsiode we are hosting Tero-Pekka Alastalo.
Tero and his team founded BluePrint Genetics a Stanford University spin off that has been focusing on developing innovative technologies for rare disease genetic diagnostics. The company was acquired by Quest Diagnostics in 2020.
Together we are talking about the early stages of building Blueprint Genetics and the aspects of expanding companies in the US market.
We also cover venture opportunities for heart health and talk about CardioSignal, which is developing a disruptive mobile application-based technology to improve the detection of heart disease.
On this episode we are hosting Jason Moore who is the CEO of Spren a company focused on providing insights into human biology through its digital biomarker platform.
Jason and his team have been operating a profitable business for years before deciding to take a turn and take on venture capital to execute on a bigger vision. The company now provides biometric data through its SDK to other players in the health and wellness space.
We are talking about their bootstrapping journey and the different product development stages before they took on external funding as well as the product roadmap for the company in the overall digital health vertical.
On this episode we are hosting Jason Moore who is the CEO of Spren a company focused on providing insights into human biology through its digital biomarker platform.
Jason and his team have been operating a profitable business for years before deciding to take a turn and take on venture capital to execute on a bigger vision. The company now provides biometric data through its SDK to other players in the health and wellness space.
We are talking about their bootstrapping journey and the different product development stages before they took on external funding as well as the product roadmap for the company in the overall digital health vertical.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Corbin Petro who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eleanor Health.
The company has raised $82m to date and is building a hybrid care model for mental health and substance use disorder. Together with Corbin we tackled the founding story behind the company and the learnings she took from her past experience in healthcare.
Among many exciting topics we cover the go-to-market strategy of Eleanor and dive deeper into the reasons of why it is challenging to get a healthcare venture right.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Corbin Petro who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eleanor Health.
The company has raised $82m to date and is building a hybrid care model for mental health and substance use disorder. Together with Corbin we tackled the founding story behind the company and the learnings she took from her past experience in healthcare.
Among many exciting topics we cover the go-to-market strategy of Eleanor and dive deeper into the reasons of why it is challenging to get a healthcare venture right.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Matteo Franceschetti the CEO and Co-Founder of Eight Sleep.
The team at Eight Sleep managed to raise about $160m from leading funds such as Khosla Ventures, SoftBank or General Catalyst but also Angels such as Kevin Hart.
Eight Sleep is transforming the sleeping experience with their products by capturing incredible data on a person's health and providing the right sleeping temperature through their hydro-powered cooling technology.
Together with Matteo we are talking about his entrepreneurial journey and the journey of building Eight Sleep. We touch upon the challenges of building hardware products as well as some fundraising stories.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Matteo Franceschetti the CEO and Co-Founder of Eight Sleep.
The team at Eight Sleep managed to raise about $160m from leading funds such as Khosla Ventures, SoftBank or General Catalyst but also Angels such as Kevin Hart.
Eight Sleep is transforming the sleeping experience with their products by capturing incredible data on a person's health and providing the right sleeping temperature through their hydro-powered cooling technology.
Together with Matteo we are talking about his entrepreneurial journey and the journey of building Eight Sleep. We touch upon the challenges of building hardware products as well as some fundraising stories.
On this epsiode we are chatting with Andrew Herr who took his expertise from optimizing Nacy SEALs and pro-sports teams to build a scalable product through his venture Fount.
Together with Andrew we are talking about the founding story of Fount and talk about the product they are building with his team and how they strive to build digital product experiences.
We also dive into the data set they are building up taking a deep dive into the different health variables they are tracking and the reasoning behind the types of biomarkers and the frequency they collect.
On this epsiode we are chatting with Andrew Herr who took his expertise from optimizing Nacy SEALs and pro-sports teams to build a scalable product through his venture Fount.
Together with Andrew we are talking about the founding story of Fount and talk about the product they are building with his team and how they strive to build digital product experiences.
We also dive into the data set they are building up taking a deep dive into the different health variables they are tracking and the reasoning behind the types of biomarkers and the frequency they collect.
Together with Mette Dhyrberg Co-Founder & CEO of health tech company Mymee.
The company has developed a digital approach to managing autoimmune diseases, which combines a mobile app, data analytics and certified health coaches to identify triggers for disease symptoms.
We are diving into the approach Mette has taken together with her Co-Founder in building within the health space.
Together with Mette Dhyrberg Co-Founder & CEO of health tech company Mymee.
The company has developed a digital approach to managing autoimmune diseases, which combines a mobile app, data analytics and certified health coaches to identify triggers for disease symptoms.
We are diving into the approach Mette has taken together with her Co-Founder in building within the health space.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting the CEO & Co-Founder of Nightingale Health, the Finnish company behind the ground-breaking blood testing technology.
Together with Teemu we are tackling the founding story of the company and what it means to move from being a biotech company to a digital health company. We also dive deeper into the reasoning behind different market entry strategies and why Nightingale went public in Finnland.
Stefan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flowbio, a start-up focused on building the first real sweat sensor.
Together we are diving into Stefan's founder story and the vision for Flowbio and how they plan to position themselves within the wearable market.
Stefan is giving us an insight into the early days of forming the company and how his Co-Founder and CTO tackled the hardware challenge for developing a proper sweat sensor.
Joseph is a Professor of Dermatology at Harvard University. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of npj Digital Medicine one of the most relevant academic journals for publications at the intersection of innovation and digital health. Beyond that Joseph has been working and adivsing different healthtech ventures over the past years.
Together with Joseph we dove into the status-quo for the most relevant digital health applications and discussed opportunities and challenges.
Excited to host Rachel Soper Sanders who is teh Co-Founder and CEO of Rootine a health and wellness company focused on optimizing cellular nutrition through better data science and personalized health solutions to help people perform at their best everyday.
Rachel started Rootine shortly after finishing her MBA at Harvard and meeting her Co-Founder.
Together we are covering different topics around building ventures for personalized health and the opportunities and benefits related to optimizing a persons nutrient levels.
For this episode on the SCR Podcast we hosted David Mehlman founder of Ommyx.
Together with his team they are working on decoding personal health data across different tracking devices to determine what works best on an individual level.
David gives us an insight on his perspective for the connected health segment and the opportunities and challenges he sees. We are talking about different approaches and the go-to-market strategies for personalized health ventures.
Due to the recent turn in sentiment within the VC and start-up world we also touched upon the status-quo of the market and what it means for start-ups raising capital.
Phil Southerland is the CEO and Co-Founder of Supersapiens.
In 2019, Supersapiens approached Abbott about bringing their technology to the athletic community, and a partnership was soon established.
In September 2020, Abbott announced that its Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor had achieved a CE Mark. It is the first CGM approved for non-diabetic use in the world.
By combining Abbott's proven track record in glucose sensing technology along with Supersapiens' app and personalized analytics, athletes are able to better understand the correlation between their glucose levels and their athletic performance.
On this episode we are talking with Gil Blinder about his journey from leaving MIT to building towards human longevity.
Gil is the Founder of InsiderTracker a web-based personalized nutrition and exercise product.
The vision behind the company is to build a truly scientific product, every recommendation is based on publicly available research publications and clinical trials results.
Tune in for a deep dive as we cover multiple interesting topics around building ventures for personalized health.
On this episode we are hosting Ari Tulla who is a serial entrepreneur in the digital health space.
Together we are talking about his start-up journey that took him from Finland to the Bay Area and the story behind his first venture BetterDoctor.
We are taking a look at the field of nutrion and supplements and why personalization is unlocking the key component of better human health.
On this episode we are talking with Quin Sandler about wearables for biomechanichs and the health opportunities for analyzing human movement data.
Quin has an amazing founder story with his company Plantiga, which he started together with his dad. Together we are diving deeper into the approach his team is taking towards scaling towards mass market.
We talk about what it means to work with professional athletes in the NBA or NFL and the outlook for wearable companies.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Joshua Bonhotal who went from working in ProSports to being part of the world-class founding behind Future, the company providing one-on-one digital training with fitness coaches at home, the gym, or on-the-go.
Together with Josh we are diving into his incredible journey of starting out his career with the Chicago Bulls and moving on to building out the Sports Performance program at Purdue Univerrsity. We are nerding out on what it means to push constantly for high performance and how to optimize and structure around it.
We also are diving deep into the early days of building Future and what it meant for Josh to move give up his dream of becoming the GM of a major sports brand over an e-mail to join building a start-up that went on to raise over $100 Million.
On this episode we are talking with the incredible founder of Esper Bionics.
Esper is is targeting the $10trnl market for future electronic implants by starting of by challenging the protsthetics industry. The company is introducing one of the lightest prosthetic hands in the market, which is supported by the Esper platform for device control and body data collection.
Dima and the majory of the team at Esper are from Ukraine and have had remarkable luck in being able to relocate the majority of their staff before the start of the war in Ukraine where R&D had been operating. Esper is headquartered in New York and has already got some serious attention as one of their product demo videos hit 15 million views on youtube alone.
This episode is a special one for the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast as it represents the high quality of guests we have managed to get onto the show for the past two and a half years.
We have been fortunate enough to host world class scientists, investors, managers and entrepreneurs from across the globe.
Hosting the founder of a global brand such as Reebok and being able to getting insight into his thinking and learning from his journey is a privilege we are not taking for granted and are humbled by.
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On this episode we are hosting Roy Cohen who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Behavidence.
Roy and his team are building up a mental health diagnostics platform and recently raised $4.3m.
Together with Roy we are talking about his journey from marketing to Neuroscience and the story behind Behavidence as the team has been working for an entire year without a salary and has been founded completely remotely during the pandemic.
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Florian Hübner is the Co-Founder of Uberall, a platform supporting local customer experience.
Together with his long-time friend and co-founder they have been building the company from 0 to over 400 people globally since 2012.
(00:00) - From starting a PhD to Entrepreneurship
(08:39) - The early days of building Uberall
(15:12) - Realizing success of your start-up
(20:10) - How to keep up a high level of intensity for a decade
(30:11) - The future of local businesses
(34:23) - Metaverse vs. Physical world
(42:29) - Curiosity: Open-source software for coffee maschines and pizza dough chemistry
(50:08) - The case for IPOs
(55:10) - Sleep and high performance
On this episode we are talking with Marco Altini who is an expert in the topic heart rate variability, founder of HRV4Training and an advisor at Oura.
Marco has a PhD in Data Science and has been building up his company for the past decade, which is a science-based mobile platform that provides Heart Rate Variability (HRV) based insights to help you quantify stress, better balance training and lifestyle, and improve performance.
Together with Marco we dive into the opportunities and challenges of health data and wearables and share our thoughts on the current developments. Marco is working with professional athletes and sports clubs globally and gives us an inside into the scientific work behind improving athletic capabilities.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are talking with the CEO and Co-Founder of Ikona Health. The team at Ikona has built a platform that supports kidney patients on their care journey.
Together with Tim we are diving into the journey of building the company as Ikona has been bootstrapped and finding their niche for a couple of years. We are also diving into the different aspects that make up kidney care within the US healthcare system and the technological transformation waiting ahead for all aspects of the care journey.
The oura ring is a wearable device created by a group of finnish entrepreneurs. It is one of the most incredible wearable devices developed up until this day and has more than one million users world wide. Leading CEOs, athletes, founders or biohackers are using the oura ring to track sleep and recovery. It is widely considered to be the best sleep tracker available.
On this episode we are talking with Petteri Lahtela who is one of the Co-Founders and the founding CEO of Oura Health, the company behind the Oura ring. Petteri acted as the CEO until mid-2018 and as Chief Innovation Officer and President until mid-2020 when he departed the company together with his co-founder colleagues. Petteri talks us through the early years of founding Oura, when the small team from Finnland went early on into the US market. He tells us some interesting stories like how famous tech CEOs send him private messages to invest into Oura or how Oura got free marketing impressions worth millions by Prince Harry wearing the Oura Ring.
Petteri is a genuine person who cares a lot about building meaningful things. I was deeply impressed by our conversation.
Julian is an amazing young entrepreneur out of the Netherlands who invented a sleep robot to help his mother with her insomnia, eventually turning it into a leading start-up within the sleep tech space.
Together with Julian we talk about the science of sleep and the global scale of sleep problems as well as the building of his company somnox and the way they collect different types of data to analyze sleep and behavior.
This episode is a special one as we had to reschedule last minute because Julian was invited for a lunch with the king of the Netherlands.
Sophie is the CEO and Founder of Qunomedical.
On this episode Sophie shares her story from being trained as a doctor in Austria to joining McKinsey and later a Digital Health start-up in New York.
We dive deep into the business model of Qunomedical and the underlying problems of healthcare systems. Sophie is an incredible woman who balances the life of a founder and mother.
Ignas Survila is a Lithuanian entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Tyler Health.
Tyler uses a Continuous Glucose Monitor to provide biometric data on how your body reacts to different foods and activities.
(00:00) - Ignas talking about his first venture in Switzerland
(21:53) - The case for continuous glucose monitoring
(46:55) - Scaling wearables into society
(57:00) - Tyler Health's user and market focus
(01:12:10) - Hardware Innovation is hard
(01:20:18) - Lithuania and Eastern Europe Start-Up Ecosystems
Robin is the co-founder and Managing Director of delphai, a software company that has developed an AI-based B2B search engine. In addition, Dr. Tech is a member of the economic advisory board of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party and senior researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institute and MIT, with a focus on complex systems and financial models.
Together with Robin we talked about his path towards becoming a founder as well as the fundamentals behind the B2B SaaS product he and his team are building. We also slightly covered the opportunities for building features for corporate social responsibility data.
Allon Bloch is a serial entrepreneur. Joining the early founding team of WIX as Co-CEO back in 2008 he went on to co-founding Vroom (IPOed in 2020) and KHealth his latest venture, the latter having raised over $200 million to date.
Allon is a great guy who has lots of experience to share from building incredible businesses.
Our conversation mostly evolved around the complexity of medicine and what it means to build an intelligence layer on top of it, which at times went pretty philosophical. Medicine is fascinating, incredibly complex and we barely scratched the surface yet.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are launching our new format "InsideSCR".
For this format Jonathan and Rajarshi (Raj) Chakraborty are sitting down bi-weekly to discuss:
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News, trends and topics they care about in business, tech and beyond.
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Unlocking great ideas, stories, facts and data basically providing you with great research at your fingertips.
EPISODE OUTLINE:
(00:00) - 2021 Review
(22:28) - Plans and Upcoming Guests for SPEED CHANGE REPEAT
(55:08) - EU VC Landscape
(1:15:22) - Eastern Europe Start-Ups
Marlon is an incredible individual with an amazing story from being a founder to running a €125 million venture capital fund and building up a foundation focused on wildlife preservation in Africa.
Together with Marlon we are talking about his story on getting into venture capital as well as diving into the insights behind the Elevat3 fund as they keep themselves mostly under the radar.
We also touch upon start-up trends and Marlon's recent investment interests such as alternative proteins or construction tech.
Further Marlon also gave us a deep dive into the AMES Foundation, a community of makers, creatives, entrepreneurs, founders, investors and CEOs united by one goal, to stop the extinction of Africa's wildlife.
Marek Sacha describes himself as a geek, however his track record in building ventures underlines the great entrepreneur he is. S
tarting his first business in high school and studying mathematics and AI set him up to build businesses in different industries, which have been incredible successes such as Rohlik Group and Cera Care.
Together with Marek we touch on different topics taking advantage of his great expertise from building and scaling ventures in the e-commerce, digital health and industrial space.
Building highly scalable ventures is hard thats why we were happy to have Marek on the show to share his experiences and create an amazing deep dive.
Eugene has spent more than two decades in the healthcare industry taking on different shoes by both driving digital health in pharma, consulting and being an entrepreneur. Among the many things he has been involved in, he used to be the global head of Bayer's digital health partnership and investment arm G4A.
Being a US citizen he had the opportunity to live in multiple countries, which allowed him to see similarities and differences in the developments of the digital health space from a geographical point of view.
Nowadays together with his wife he is building up a digital health coaching start-up, which we dove deeper into breaking down the space of telehealth and health coaching.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast we dove deep into the massive industry of semiconductors. Andreas Schumacher ist the executive vice president responsible for strategy and the M&A activities at Infineon Technologies, which is one of the top ten companies globally for semiconductors. We unfold the scale at which the industry impacts the global economy and its implications for the future.
Together with Andreas we tackled the industry talking about its set-up, challenges and market players. Andreas gives us an insight into his perspective on approaching start-up collaborations as well as industry trends and much more.
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On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are happy to host Mike Granoff who has been involved at the intersection of technology and transportation since the early 2000s. In 2015 Mike started the venture capital firm Maniv Mobility out of Tel Aviv with the mission to back founders who are changing the way people and goods move. Since then Mike and his team have invested into over thirty companies spanning five continents.
Together with Mike we dove right into all the hot topics around the different sub-verticals of mobility. We cover infrastructure, circular economy for EVs and urban mobility solutions and planning.
We really enjoyed having Mike on the show and got the best out of his experience and perspectie on the massive mobility transformation.
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Ernesto is an amazing serial entrepreneur we had the chance to host on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast. Ernesto started his first venture disrupting the music industry when he was 27 in the dotcom era and went on to found multiple ventures through out the years. Two of his ventures were acquired by Snapchat and Twitter.
It was an honor to have him on the show as his experience in being a founder and working with countless founding teams is incredible. Together with his co-founder Ernesto established The Craftory a USD 400 million investment firm focused on challenger CPG brands.
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On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Beena Ammanath who has an impressive track record working in Tech within the Bay Area, non-traditionally for some of the biggest corproates in this world. Before joining Deloitte's AI institute she oversaw Data Science and Innovation at companies such as Bank of America, GE and HP.
Beyond that she is the founder of the NGO "Humans for AI", which aims to increase the number of women and under-represented minorities in AI with education programs, community and partnership.
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On this episode we had the pleasure to speak with Jeanne Shen, assistant professor of pathology at Stanford University. Jeanne started to engage in doing AI research within pathology after being introduced to Andrew Ng. Her initial motivation to start with AI as she claims, was getting more efficiency out of her work within pathology.
Together with Jeanne we are diving deeper into the wider spectrum of pathology and GI research and the massive potential for applying AI.
Jeanne also shares her perspective on the Bio startup landscape and the exciting things she has been observing and what founding teams need to take into account when tackling massive challenges.
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Yet another amazing founder story on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast as we host Naftali Harris.
Naftali was the first Data Scientist brought in by Max Levchin at Affirm and has some amazing stories to tell. Together with one of his colleagues at Affirm he went on to start SentiLink with the goal to stop synthetic fraud.
Tune in as we talk with Naftali about his experiences and incredible story from working in data science to becoming a founder!
Today we are talking with Daniel Grubbs who is the managing director of the Pepsi Group's Venture Fund.
We are covering the investment areas of the fund and major trends within the nutrition and health space such as cube based food for pure nutrition focused intake. Daniel is sharing his opinion on the shifts within food & beverages as we tackle D2C and the long term opportunities for influencer brands.
Lastly we touch upon the changing work flows when it comes to investing into startups in times of Covid-19.
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In this episode of the SCR Podcast we are talking with serial entrepreneur and robotics expert Paolo Pirjanian.
Paolo has had an incredible journey throughout his career starting at NASA after obtaining a PhD in Robotics in Denmark and going on to work on a startup, which eventually got acquired by iRobot and led him to become CTO at iRobot before starting Embodied.
Together with Paolo we dive deep into his personal journey and his experience building robotics start ups as well as the opportunities within robotics. We are talking about the story behind Embodied and the amazing technology platform it is building towards improving care and wellness and enhancing daily lives through socially and emotionally intelligent companions.
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After our summer break we are starting with a super interesting guest who is the Co-Founder and Global Head of the the BIOME, which is the innovation lab of biotech and Pharma giant Novartis.
Jacob LaPorte started his career with a PhD in Biochemistry at Harvard University working on the optimization of drug discovery.
In this episode we are talking about Jacob's journey and the story behind Novartis approach on building and pushing innovation capabilities. We cover the challenges of accelerating digital within the pharmaceutical industry as well as the strategy of scaling the impact of an innovation lab globally. Beyond that we also cover interesting start-ups and the approach the BIOME is taking towards creating collaboration initiative quickly and efficient.
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We recorded this episode a while ago together with Daniele and talked with him about his journey in leading the digital transformation at the Swedish multinational with close to a 100.000 employees and an annual turnover of around 45 billion Euro.
The Volvo Group is a massive manufacturing company with products, which bear massive opportunities for the application of digital technologies. Together with Daniele we talked about the digital strategy of the company and the most important projects. We touch on interesting use cases and the different opportunities and challenges when it comes to transforming such a massive enterprise at an industrial scale.
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On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are talking with Jeff Kaditz who is a serial entrepreneur and currently is building his latest start-up Q Bio.
Jeff is a super motivational guy who is taking us along his entrepreneurial journey. On this episode we are talking about his early days after grad school and are getting philosophical about what it means to be an entrepreneur besides the glorification in todays world.
Together with Jeff we are diving into the early days of founding Affirm and talk about how he met Max Levchin (Paypal Co-Founder) and Nathan Gettings (Palantir Co-Founder). We are also talking about the Biotech industry and in specific the story and idea behind his latest company Q Bio.
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This is a great conversation we recorded with Oren Etzioni who serves as the CEO at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which was founded in 2014 by Paul G. Allen who is known for being a Co-Founder of Microsoft, investor and philanthropist.
The AI2 was founded with the mission of conducting high-impact AI research and engineering in service of the common good. Headquartered in Seattle on the shores of Lake Union, AI2 employs over 150 of the world’s best scientific and engineering talent in the field of AI, attracting individuals of varied interests and backgrounds from across the globe.
Together with Oren who has been a professor at the University of Washington for over 30 years we are talking about the work of the AI2 and the journey from research to setting up and operating an AI first incubator. Beyond that we are covering topics related to challenges beyond deep learning and the status quo of AI research including the opportunities for different verticals at the intersection with AI.
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Michael Snyder is one of the leading genetics professors in the world based at Stanford University. Together with Michael we had the chance to discuss topics around personalized medicine. We are diving deep into the promises and hype that has evolved around the term through out the past years and tackle the status quo and recent work that Michael and his lab have covered in the past years. Beyond that we are also diving deeper into the challenges of discovering digital biomarkers and data collection when it comes to clinical studies for AI use cases.
Michael is an extraordinary scientist who has been involved in the founding and co-founding of many companies such as Personalis, SensOmics, Qbio @qbioinc, January, Filtricine, Mirvie, Protos, Protometrix (now part of Thermo-Fisher).
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Among many other topics, for the past year we have extremely focused on looking at the Health Tech space and were looking at the intersection of different fields such as the natural sciences and activities happening in the deep tech space.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are happy to talk with Christian Weiss who is the Managing Partner at Heal Capital, a €100m fund with the goal to invest into the next European technology-enabled healthcare champions.
Together with Chris we dive deeper into the status quo of the digital health scene from different angles. We look at the opportunities and challenges for startups but also link to the entire ecosystem including academia, VCs and governmental.
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One of the few episodes we have done in person in the last few months. We were fortunate enough to visit the global innovation center/hub of DHL in Germany and got an insight into the different activities and initiatives pushed by the global logistics corporate. Together with Matthias we talked about the strategic approach his team is using to go from proof of concept into production and setting up deep tech projects with different customers.
Obviously we talked about resilience and how DHL manages the corona related challenges. Besides we talked about corporate culture and the status quo when it comes to the future of the logistics industry.
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We are happy to have Dirk Hoke on the show who is the CEO of Airbus Defence & Space.
Together with Dirk we are talking about the different innovation projects his company is pursuing in order to stay at the forefront. We also extensively get an understanding of Dirk's view on digital initiatives and corporate digitalization strategies.
We are also covering the journey of UP42 a geospatial data marketplace and analytics platform, which started out as a spin off from the corporate.
Beyond that we are discussing the challenges within Europe to jump start innovation and transfer into society compared to the US and China.
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Super happy to host JJ on this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast who at the time of the recording of this episode is the AFWERX Chief Technology and Innovation Officer.
She serves as the military representative for technology outreach and engagement, bridging the gap between government and various technology communities to improve collaboration and communications, foster a culture of innovation, identify smart solutions to wicked problems and guide the development of future technologies to benefit the US Air Force, Department of Defense, Interagency and Allied partners.
We had a great time discussing innovation projects happening at the US Air Force and potential of collaborations between government entities and the start-up sector. Jen is sharing her experience working with some of the best hackers on improving security and innovation.
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On this episode we are talking about the global space race with Frank Salzgeber who is the head of innovation & ventures office at the European Space Agency (ESA).
We are talking about the increasing importance of the space sector on a global level, the start up scene in Europe and the strengths and weaknesses of the ecosystem compared to the US and China.
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On this episode we are talking with Jim Adler who is the Founding Managing Director of Toyota's early stage fund, Toyota AI Ventures.
It was great having Jim on the show as we previously covered a lot of topics on the application of AI within mobility. Together with Jim we talked about the VC industry and the idea behind Toyota AI Ventures. We are covering topics around corporate innovation tools and corporate venture capital.
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This is a wonderful conversation we had with Xihong Lin back in the end of November for the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast.
Xihong is a biostatistics professor at Harvard who since the outbreak of Covid-19 has done some amazing research with her team, which resulted in critical insights when it comes to the spreading of the virus as well as intervention procedures. Together with her team she partnered up in the early days of the virus to study its effects and the measures that were taken in China.
Among many things Xihong was invited by the UK parliament to present her findings and suggestions for potential government measures.
Together we are talking about the field of Biostatistics and the potential of applying Data Science for health related data and the current opportunities and advancements in the field of genomics. Furthermore we are discussing her research on the pandemic and have a philosophic talk about a potential future.
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On this episode we are talking with Christian Guttmann who has a diverse background being a startup founder, professor, Vice President and Executive Director at some of the largest international tech companies, successful startups and leading universities.
Currently Christian is the Global Head of AI at TietoEVRY one of the biggest IT service providers in Europe. Furthermore Christian is the Executive Director of the Nordic AI Institute, which is a global alliance consisting of outstanding individuals that have both: substantial industry experience in AI, and a significant scientific and technological track record.
Together with Christian we are talking about his experiences working in AI on different continents as well as the current developments within the research and corporate environment.
Beyond that we are also tapping into the different applications of AI, maturity levels of organizations and much more.
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A shorter episode with Henning Trill who as the VP Innovation Strategy together with his team at Bayer AG is building out various innovation initiatives and projects in order to establish a powerful innovation ecosystem across the company.
Henning did his phd at the intersection of physics and chemistry and is somebody that is deeply rooted within the health sector. Together we are talking about the biggest trends and opportunities within health when it comes to utilizing digital technologies.
We are discussing the potential in utilizing different type of health data and the different approaches already taking by big tech companies like Google or Amazon.
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Round 2 with Hans Uszkoreit on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast.
After having Hans on our Podcast a year ago we took the opportunity to once again have him on the show to talk about the many interesting things that have happened since the last time we talked.
On this episode among many things:
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we are talking about the different approaches governments in Europe and China used to tackle the Corona crisis with technology
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as well as the opportunities to digitize the vast amount of information that is created in our personal lives
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and the opportunities for European enterprises with Artificial Intelligence
Fei since last year is responsible for developing the AI strategy and capabilities of global software powerhouse SAP.
Despite being born in China, Fei actually started her career in Germany within academia. After completing her phd in computational linguistics she spend many years at the german research center for artificial intelligence (DFKI), where she also was entrepreneurially involved in a spin off.
Before joining SAP in May 2020, Fei spent 3 years at Lenovo in China building out the AI Lab at Lenovo Research. On this podcast we talk about her experience within academia, her time in China and the differences she experiences in both cultures when it comes to technology adoption. Beyond that we also talk about her current role at SAP and how she plans to establish AI as a core competence within the organization, introducing into the existing product portfolio and beyond.
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Great talk with Markus Sontheimer who currently acts as the CIO/CDO & Member of the Board of Management at DB Schenker.
He is accomplished in digital business topics and known as a digital lateral thinker due to his experience in developing the digital divisions of DB Schenker, Deutsche Bank and Daimler over the past ten years.
Together with Markus we are diving into his approach of tackling digital transformation within large corporations and the importance of building strong digital capabilities in-house.
We are reflecting on his learnings from the past decade and dive into the current digital strategy of DB Schenker as well as into the future of the logistics industry in regards to the acceleration of tech.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are talking with Joerg Hellwig who at the time of this recording holds the position of Chief Digital Officer of the chemical company Lanxess, with an annual revenue of over €7 billion.
Joerg is a great guy who is keen on trying things out and is not hesitating to test the unknown.
We talked about the set up of his team and the different initiatives they pursue but also about what it means to transform an organization that operates within B2B.
For this we also talked about the amazing story behind CheMondis, which is a venture that has been started by Joerg and his team and became the biggest european online marketplace for chemical products. This is a great success story as CheMondis is the perfect example of a corporate attacking their own traditional business model. We dive into the story, set up and learnings from building this ventures.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Tobias Fausch who at the recording of this podcast acts as the CIO of BayWa, a 17 billion € company operating in the agriculture, building materials and energy sectors. The business model of BayWa integrates the trading, distribution, logistics and services within the three sectors.
Taking into account the size and different verticals the company is operating in we though it would be interesting to dive into the different applications of digital technologies and especially to dive into the existing use cases at BayWa when it comes to AI.
We sat down with Tobias and talked about the different challenges within the CIO domain when it comes to balancing baseline infrastructure and simultaneously boost and support innovation within the organization. We are talking about the different use cases and the work that Tobias and his team are providing in order to technologically enable the creation of new business models.
Ralf learnt writing code at the age of 6, and started his first software company at the age of 16.
He studied nanotechnologies and system theory and wrote his doctoral thesis on human cell research.
Currently he is a Managing Director at Hapag-Lloyd leading the global digital business and driving the global digital transformation and change in 144 Countries.
On this episode Ralf is sharing his rich experience from being an advisor for a number of large corporations such as Daimler or Phoenix Pharma as well as the Federal German government.
We are talking about the digital transformation journey of the shipping industry and what it takes to get digital initiatives of the ground with a maximum return inside large corporations.
On this episode we are talking with Susanna Schneeberger a experienced C-Level executive.
Currently Susanna is on the board of a number of large industrial corporations and previously ended her role as Chief Digital Officer at KION the European market leader and world second largest supplier of forklifts.
Here are some of the things we are talking about:
- Susanna´s experience in leadership within large industrial corporates
- breaking down the role of a Chief Digital Officer
- Status Quo and future outlook for digital transformation in industrial sectors
- Myths, pitfalls and positive example of new business models
- Leadership in the 21st century and how it changes in a fast moving digital world
The uvex group is all about protecting people and on this episode we talk to its Chief Digital Officer who is responsible for leading the digital transformation of the family owned company.
With previous leadership positions at IBM and Schwan-Stabilo Bernd brings an interesting perspective from diverse industries as well as insights from the lens of being a CIO as well as a CDO. We talk about using sensors and other types of digital technologies within the safety industry and how technology is helping nowadays and in the future to keep people safe!
Daniel Theobald is the founder and CEO of Vecna Robotics, which delivers Automated Material Handling, Hybrid Fulfillment, and Workflow Optimization solutions featuring self-driving vehicles. An MIT graduate, Daniel quickly started out as an entrepreneur after university.
He is also the Co-Founder and President of MassRobotics, a non-profit organization with the mission to help create and scale the next generation of successful robotics and connected device companies by providing entrepreneurs and innovative robotics/automation startups with the workspace and resources they need to develop, prototype, test, and commercialize their products and solutions.
Tune in as we speak on the status quo within robotics and A.I. and what it means to tackle difficult challenges and build deep tech products.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we talk with Philipp Blome who is the CEO of METRO Markets. The company is wholly owned subsidiary of METRO, a leading personal specialist in the wholesale and food trade with an annual revenue of over 27 billion€.
Metro Markets is a B2B online marketplace aimed at HoReCa customers (hotel, restaurant, catering) and a perfect example for a successful corporate venturing initiative.
Together with Philipp who has spend his time over the past years in various positions within the company as well as building out real.digital, we are talking about the different aspects to building out a digital marketplace within the B2B space. Furthermore we dive into the challenges when it comes to building a corporate venture from scratch and what it takes to do so.
Natural Language Processing is a subfield of A.I where the main goal is to enable machines to analyze, understand and manipulate language.
That is why the academic field of linguistics and especially computational linguistics has really gained massive attention both in the academia but also industry. Therefore we invited Michaela Mahlberg on to the show to talk about her perspective on the field and where she sees the field heading. Michaela has a very fresh perspective when it comes to the collaboration between academia and industry, which lead to multiple collaborations already with her team and multiple organizations. She currently works with 'The Times' digital archive to apply data science methods to all their digitised issues back to 18th century - to explore political trends and how they were reflected in the news
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Ralf brings a unique perspective on the telecommunications industry, which we did not have yet to this extend on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast. Working all over the world within the industry he gathered extensive experience at companies such as BCG, PwC, Capgemini, IBM and Ericsson.
On this episode Ralf is giving an outlook on the telecommunications industry in regards to the impact of digital technologies and what it means for the shift between the different competitors.
We talk about the struggle of traditional players to meet demands for infrastructure and simultaneously create new products and services powered by digital technologies for the portfolio and many more interesting topics.
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Carsten is somebody that we were looking forward to have on the show for quiet a while and that is because of his massive experience when it comes to guiding large organizations through their digital transformation journeys.
In almost 20 years in executive roles focused on software-, data-, and digitally fueled growth, he has built-up several €100 million businesses and led company-wide transformation programs affecting more than 60,000 employees. His most recent capacities include Group Digital Officer at BASF, Business Development Officer at SAP and Global Head of the Center for Digital Leadership.
Besides that he hold various advisory board seats e.g. for the World Economic Forum and is an adjunct faculty member and teaches at Stanford Graduate School, University of St. Gallen and Mannheim Business School.
David Shrier is somebody that we finally had the chance to have on our show and talk about many interesting things among which are the field of corporate venture capital, innovation initiatives at large corporate and the future of education. David is involved in many things and is a particularly interesting guest as he combines both insights from the private sector working with some of the largest corporates and interesting start-ups as wells as the connection with leading academic institutions such as MIT and Oxford University.
David specialises in helping established organisations to build new revenue, having developed $8.5 billion of growth opportunities with C-suite executives for D&B, Wolters Kluwer, EY, MIT, GE/NBC, Disney, AOL Verizon, and Starwood, as well as private equity and venture capital funds. He has led several private equity and venture capital-backed companies as chief executive officer, chief financial officer or chief operating officer.
Stefano is Partner at Redstone, leading the firm’s cutting-edge investment cases and in-house technological development. He holds a PhD in financial computing from University College London, and degrees in economics and security.
Stefano consulted the Italian Government and the European Commission on matters related to data, finance and security. Together with Stefano we are diving deep into data driven methods in approaching Venture Capital and the idea behind VC as a Service. We also talk about the dilemma in Start-Up and Corporate partnerships and the landscape of A.I start-ups in Europe.
Building on the open source Robot Operating System (ROS), Apex.AI was founded in 2017 to enable developers to successfully implement complex, safety-critical software for autonomous mobility. Toyota's A.I Venture fund and Volvo are some of the big players that have invested into Apex.
Jan has been active in the field of autonomous vehicles for over 20 years among which he has been working in several positions at Bosch, Faraday Future and teaching at Stanford University.
Fun fact: On one of the first DARPA autonomous vehicle challenges he was asked by a famous Silicon Valley investor to work for one of his recent portfolio companies: Tesla.
Together with Jan we are talking in detail about the field of autonomous vehicles including the different players and the role of silicon valley in regards to the traditional players such as OEMs. We also go into detail about the different products of Apex and what the future holds for the company.
On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast I am hosting Alan Jacobson who currently is the Chief Data Officer at Alteryx one of the self-service Data Analytics platforms in the world.
Prior to Alteryx, Alan spent 25 years at Ford Motor Company in multiple roles, among which his last role was being responsible for the entire Data Analytics and Data Science activities of the company.
Together with Alan we are talking about his biggest learnings from accelerating Analytics capabilities at Ford , the importance of change management in the transformation towards data driven organizations as well as the status quo and future outlook for the Data Science space.
Bart is currently leading the activities within A.I & Robotics at the Dutch-Belgian retail company Ahold Delhaize. With an annual revenue of 66.26 billion Euro (2019) the company employs over 300.000 people worldwide. Together with Bart we are talking about the current activities within A.I and Robotics from a retail perspective and how he is pushing forward the application of it within the organization.
Bart is also the Co-Founder of the AIRLab (A.I for retail lab) with the goal to conduct research into socially responsible algorithms that can be used to make recommendations to consumers and into transparent AI technology for managing goods flows.
We dive into the culture of Ahold Delhaize and discuss how the organization keeps a high drive for innovation while operating on thin margins.
On this episode I am talking with Bernd Heinrichs who currently is the Chief Digital Officer Mobility Solutions at Bosch. At Bosch he and his team are developing new mobility solutions to generate new business for Bosch's customers and Bosch.
We are talking about possible future business models through the use of automotive data and what it means to develop new partnerships between OEMs and hardware + software suppliers. Beyond that we touch upon the transformation and major investments Bosch is undertaking in order to build out the proper technological competence such as Bosch's center for artificial intelligence.
André Loesekrug-Pietri, of both French and German nationality, held leadership positions in private equity, government, industry and as an entrepreneur. Starting as assistant to the CEO of Aerospatiale-Airbus, he then spent 15 years in private equity and venture capital, including 10 years with China, investing in European companies with global ambitions. In 2017, he paused from the private sector to become Special Advisor to the French Minister of Defence, responsible in particular for European Defense policy as well as technology and innovation. He is the Chairman of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (J.E.D.I.), aiming to accelerate France and Germany’s leadership in disruptive technology.
Together with André we are talking about the following topics:
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European Family Offices investing into emerging tech
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Venture Capital and Disruptive Innovation in China
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Status Quo of applied A.I China vs. U.S vs. Europe
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J.E.D.I building up the European DARPA
As the CEO Christian was instrumental in the transformation of Swisslog Logistics Automation in becoming the pioneer for software solutions in supply chain management and specialist for data and robot-driven logistics and automation solutions. Furthermore he increased the global presence of Swisslog, as the company is currently active more than 50 successful projects with partners like Coca-Cola, Arla Foods, IKEA or Alnatura implements.
Together with Christian we talk about the way his company is using data in order to develop new business models and building out software competences in order to develop smart solutions.
Dirk Ramhorst is a pioneer within the german corporate world. He started out as the first Chief Digital Officer of a German DAX company in 2013 at BASF.
Currently he is the CDO and CIO of the chemical company Wacker with an annual revenue of almost €5 billion. Together with Dirk we talk about the role of a CDO in accelerating transformation and innovation inside organizations. Dirk talks about how he structured the digital strategy for Wacker and what he has learned from pioneering as a CDO.
Timo is a Partner and the Head of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility focusing on strategic questions about the several disruptive trends affecting the mobility industry and the new business opportunities. These include the connected car, autonomous driving, electrification and shared mobility.
Together with Timo we are going through the 4 biggest fields in regards to the Future of Mobility: Electric, Autonomous, Shared, Connected.
Rasmus Rothe studied Computer Science at Oxford, Princeton and ETH Zurich.
After a short stay at Google he co-founded Merantix: A Berlin-based venture studio building transformative AI companies in industries such as healthcare and automotive.
Through its focus on A.I Merantix is fulfilling a unique position as a venture studio announcing the raise of a €25 million fund to build eight companies in the upcoming years. Together with Rasmus we are talking on the opportunities for specialized venture studios and the future of intelligent products. We are tackling the current landscape touching upon the affect Covid-19 and the long-term outlook for the applied A.I within the corporate world. As the Co-Founder of the German A.I association Rasmus has a second role with the goal to represent German A.I start-ups to collaborate with the German government. Since its establishment the German A.I association has developed close ties with the government and is working jointly on the national A.I strategy.
On this episode of the SCR Podcast I am talking to Mathias Wengeler who is the CEO and Founder of Atheneum Partners. Mathias has been an entrepreneur for the past 10 years and before that worked in consultancy worldwide.
Atheneum Partners connects the investment community and advisory firms with leading industry specialists around the globe in order to access key market information. In contrast to traditional research and management consulting resources, the Atheneum Executive Network™ provides clients with invaluable insight for expanding business and making superior risk-adjusted investments.
Together we are discussing the current trend his company is observing in the requests for expert knowledge within the technology space. Furthermore Mathias is explaining how the Atheneum platform works and how they are acquiring massive amounts of data on expert knowledge and building the largest expert database.
Nico Polleti describes himself as the classic petrolhead. He was fortunate enough to know two things early on in his life: Working with cars and becoming an entrepreneur. After being becoming one of the youngest directors ever to lead a Porsche sales centre he knew at some point that he had to get out of his comfort zone. In 2011 he co-founded his first company easyautosale, which was successfully acquired by Autoscout24.
With his current company Cluno he co-founded the first German car subscription company in 2017. Tune in and listen to our conversation on the future of personal mobility, the automotive industry and car ownership. We discuss the impact of the current crisis and how technology will or will not change the mobility landscape.
On today's episode, we host Carlo van de Weijer, the Managing Director of AI Systems Institute at the Technical University of Eindhoven.
Flying cars did not live up expectations. But are drones the future of mobility? Or is it Hyper-loop? Tune it to hear Carlo's prospective on the future of mobility.
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Marcel or Otto as he is called by his nickname is a truly remarkable serial entrepreneur successfully founding and exiting 3 companies. He holds dual citizenship with France and Germany and has served in both military forces.
Otto has had a remarkable career within the Defense space and knows the industry to an extent as only few do. This is a special episode and we are very thankful to Otto that he gave us the opportunity to visit him and talk about the use of advanced technologies within the Defense and military space. He successfully founded 2 companies in the Defense space where among his first company he worked on facial recognition biometrics getting into digital identity and identity security building up a B2G business having clients such as the US military forces. His company was one of the first to establish biometrics in national ID cards. His second start-up was one of the first to do A.I based cancer diagnostics!
We talk drones, the Defense market and the similarities of transforming large corporates and governmental organisations.
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On today's episode, we host Addie van Rooij, the Vice President People Operation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPE was created as a result of the devision of HP into HP inc and PHE.
Addie reflected about HP's development from being one of the founders of Silicon Valley to a global hardware manufacturing dominator to a company that is trying to reinvent itself in the AI first world.
Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist, professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the author of the book "Next Billion Users" and "Leaisure Commons". She earned her Masters in International Policy from Harvard University and a PhD in International Development from Columbia University.
On this episode of the SCR Podcast, Payal shares her stories from her work at Harvard and Columbia University. We also discuss her latest book and how the next billion internet users will emerge from the southern parts of the globe and the implication on the global economy.
Today's guest on the show is the incredible Bruce Daisley. At the time of the recording, he was the VP Twitter EMEA. Bruce is passionate about change in the workplace and thus is an author of a best-selling book "Joy of Work" and host of the podcast "Eat Sleep Work Repeat". I had a chance to host Bruce at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The same day he also gave a talk to the students of Erasmus Tech Community.
On the podcast we discussed the evolution of social media, use of Machine Learning at Twitter, relation between work and AI and the worrying trends in work.
On today's episode we host the amazing Heiko Schilling. At the time of the interview, Heiko was the Head of Navigation and VP Engineering at TomTom.
We have a great chat about TomTom's ability to reinvent itself. Heiko recalled the time when the IPhone was launched and the physical maps became a thing of the past. We also talked about challenges in achieving level 5 autonomous driving and the required infrastructure to make it happen.
On today's episode, we are hosting Marietje Schaake. She is the International Policy Director at Cyber Policy Center and International Policy Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centred AI at Stanford University. Prior to this, she was a member of European Parliament for 10 years.
The Wall Street Journal called her "Europe's most wired politician", while CNN called her a "rising Dutch star". I was lucky to catch her for a conversation amidst her very busy schedule.
Marietje shared her personal story of growth. From not even considering a career in politics to becoming one of most prominent Members of European Parliament. We discussed the role of regulation in the space of AI and how it can potentially spark new innovation rather than slow it down.
On today's episode we are hosting Daniel Gebler who currently is the CTO of Picnic, a company, which takes the experience of doing groceries online. They are the fastest growing Dutch scale up.
With Daniel we talk about building out a data native company, what is the role of AI in their business, future of retail and education.
He also warns us to be careful with the possibilities of AI. "We shouldn't do everything that is possible with AI" when referring to possibly knowing more about the customers' demand than the customer himself.
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This episode was supposed to come out as the last episode of 2019 combined with a reflection on the previous 6 months, our experiences and the weekly episodes we have published so far. However as always things turn out different and therefore this episode features Jonathan introducing Raj Chakraborty as the new Co-Host on the Speed Change Repeat show.
insideSCR is also a new format we are starting on the podcast which compared to our usual podcast episodes will be conversations between the hosts on all sorts of different topics, news and trends. The second #insideSCR episode will be a reflection on the episodes of 2019 featuring Benjamin and Jonathan.
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Atlantic Labs is a Berlin-based Venture Capital fund focused on seed & early stage investments in tech startups. We met up with Jens-Philipp who is a Partner at Atlantic Labs focusing on mobility ventures.
By far our personal favourite conversation that we had on this podcast.
Thomas Andrae is a successful entrepreneur and investor active on multiple boards of both traditional companies with a 100 year history to start-ups challenging the status-quo with state of the art technology. His large network to the major innovation hubs and educational institutions globally allows him to be at the forefront of technological innovation. His personal focus is within the mobility and A.I space where he is also invested into about 30 companies.
The reason for us to call this episode our personal favourite is because Thomas is not restricted in giving an honest opinion about economic or political developments and individual parties. Therefore this conversation was filled with many emotions, predictions and learnings.
Situational Intelligence = The ability to connect dots when you hear or see something for the first time, to the observations and experiences from your past, which makes you capable of spotting the opportunity for value creation right away.
Sebastian is the Vice President of Machine Learning for SAP Data Intelligence. Furthermore he is the member of the Study Commission Artificial Intelligence of the German parliament.
We had an amazing conversation with Sebastian about the platform and products of SAP and his view on the current developments within Machine Learning.
Starting out within investment banking to building up one of Germany's most iconic social networks to successful investments in companies such as Kreditech, Lieferando, kaufDA (Bonial) und brands4friends, Michael Brehm is an incredible entrepreneur that brings years of experience to the table. His latest company i2x is the market leader for automated real-time communication analysis and training based on specially developed speech recognition technology for the German and English language. Users can analyze complex conversations in real time with the use of artificial intelligence.
In this episode Jonathan talks with Christoph Wolff who is the Head of Future of Mobility Systems at the World Economic Forum. The episode was recorded in New York where the two met at the local WEF office to talk about the work of Christoph and his team within the space of mobility. Christoph was senior partner at McKinsey for 16 years heading the global work in logistics and infrastructure. As Board member of DB Schenker, he was responsible for the international growth and operations of the company´s rail division.
After obtaining his phd in Computer Science back in the 90s, Patrick van der Smagt showcases an interesting journey that includes the German Aerospace Center and a professorship at the Technical University of Munich he now is heading the fundamental research lab of the Volkswagen Group for machine Learning, deep learning, quantum machine learning and robotics.
We met up with Patrick in Munich at the lab and talked about his professional life and his views on the space of machine learning and A.I both from a research and application perspective.
Dirk Evenson has worked closely with the automotive industry for many years. Being responsible for the communications and marketing of one of the worlds biggest automotive shows for many years before founding his own company. Dirk shares his years of observation on the traditional players within the mobility vertical. We talk about past mistakes, status quo and the uncertain future.
As the managing director of UnternehmerTUM GmbH, Andreas Liebl is responsible for the appliedAI initiative with partners such as Google and NVIDIA. With 40 partners, the initiative is one of the largest initiatives in Europe in the field of applied artificial intelligence and answers the organizational, technological and strategic questions of companies in the use of AI. Before joining UnternehmerTUM, he worked for McKinsey for five years and did his doctorate at the Chair of Entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Munich. In his doctoral thesis, he accompanied 120 start-ups for a year and examined their corporate culture and identity.
Vivek is a great guy who is leading the activities of Shell within the space of E-Mobility and Advanced Biofuels. Essentially in his role he had the great opportunity in being part of the big revolution happening in the mobility space by setting the corner stone for the necessary infrastructure.
We talk about the perceived adaption rate of e-mobility, infrastructure, elon musk and Tesla.
Immanuel Schweizer is the Head of A.I Research at the corporate giant Merck KGaA.
We talk many thing but more or less dive deeper into the use of machine learning to create personalised medication and the possibilities of fighting cancer and developing new solutions to problems with data and algorithms that were previously untapped.
Antti Rantanen is one of the Founders of Avanto Ventures, a leading corporate venturing advisory in the Nordics. He has worked in various advisory roles for 20+ years in the forefront of Digital Transformation, through companies such as Accenture, Vibe, Avaus Consulting and advised leading European companies in various industries. He has also been involved in starting several companies during his career, from his own ventures to setting up new ventures for larger corporations.
Currently as the Co-Founder and COO he is taking up the massive challenge of building out the biggest physical ecosystem of everything related to mobility in the city of Rotterdam.
Antti is an incredible guy with great vision and an incredible story.
Hans Uszkoreit grew up in East Berlin and after getting into conflict with the DDR regularities and a short stay in prison he had to flee to West Berlin as he wanted to attend university.
His initial goal was to become a journalist but after he found interest in the topic of linguistic he went on to have an astonishing career within the space of artificial intelligence making him one of Germany’s most interesting individuals within the space.
In this episode we talk wiht Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl about Ethics in A.I and the difference between working at the forefront of technical research at world class institutions vs the German automotive industry.
Gunnar is an incredible Entrepreneur who sold his first Start-Up to Airbnb back in 2011 and later helped Airbnb with their international expansion. With his current company Wunder Mobility, Gunnar and his team are building the backbone/ operating system of future mobility concepts. We had a gerat discussion about a lot of interesting topics from a business and technological perspective with a focus on the mobility vertical. Tune in to get a grasp from Gunnar's incredible experience.
We visited the Lufthansa Base in Hamburg and recorded and interesting episode with Alexander Motzek who currently is leading the A.I Lab of the Lufthansa Industry Solutions.
We talk about the application of Machine Learning within the Lufthansa Group and the challenges in building out A.I competencies as a large corporate and why the GDPR is so important.
Lars has been active within the mobility space for many years. After spending time at Volkswagen Financial Services as the Head of Automotive Innovation working on Connectivity, E-Mobility and Mobile Services he joined the German railway company Deutsche Bahn AG as the Director for Mobility and Automotive building up a high-potential portfolio of investments at Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures (e.g. What3Words, Teralytics, Connected Signals, Ridecell, Coord, Renovo, GoKid, Trillium, Kepler Communications).
We talk about the mobility transformation, the mobility venture landscape and why a metropolis like Berlin does not need another 4-letter e-scooter company.
Claudia Pohlink is the Head of A.I at T-Labs and is working at the forefront of technological developments within this space. We talk about interesting use cases within the telco space and what it means to build out corporate innovation labs. Furthermore we dive into quantum AI and the dilemma of talent development and data literacy.
Holger is somebody that is deeply embedded within the global mobility space. He sold his first start-up on wep-mapping and geolocation data to Nokia. With his current company German Autolabs he is building the platform for Automotive voice assistants.
How do you take the silicon valley approach to challenging status quo and innovation to one of the largest chemical companies in the world?
Tune in as we tackle this question with Henrik Hahn the Chief Digital Officer at Evonik.
Uli Waltinger traveled 2 years across the globe and sat down with all the executives of Siemens and taught them most important things they needed to know in regards to Artificial Intelligence and all necessary digital topics.
Tune in as we talk about this journey, the massive opportunities in Industrial A.I and the challenges in building out a corporate A.I Lab.
This is our first english episode. Listen to our talk with Carlo Torniai, who is the Director of Strategy, Planning & Digital Ventures House at FIFA. Carlo was responsible for building the first Data Science team within the Product Excellence organization at Tesla focusing on sensor data analysis and customer experience. Prior joining FIFA he transformed the traditional Italian company into a data driven organization with a strong Data Science team.
Philipp Gerbert has been working within Consulting for more than two decades. As the managing director of the Munich office at the Boston Consulting Group he is focusing on the adaption of Artificial Intelligence at some of the largest organisations of the world.
Jens Monsees has been working with world leading tech companies for most of his professional career. After Spending several years with Google and companies like Bertelsmann he joined BMW as the Chief Digital Officer in the beginning of 2016.
We reflect on his journey within the automotive space and the massive technological shifts happening.
Dat Tran is very active on social media and a strong open source contributor and currently is the Head of A.I at Axel Springer.
Sowohl der Podcast Speed Change Repeat als auch die Hosts Jonathan Pfaffenrot und Benjamin Lehmann stellen sich vor.