Empowering Innovators: Recent Episodes
Startupbootcamp, Innoleaps & The Talent Institute
Empowering Innovators is a podcast series featuring interviews with top leaders of the industry talking about Innovation in large corporations and the latest technology trends.
On this special episode featuring Startupbootcamp's Co-Founder Ruud Hendriks, we discover more about Adyen, the European payment company behind Ebay's and Facebook's transactions, and also more about its co-founder and CEO, Pieter van der Does.
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Empowering Innovators is an original series featuring top leaders across various industries exploring corporate innovation. These intimate sessions are filmed at the Startupbootcamp Amsterdam headquarters.
www.startupbootcamp.org | www.innoleaps.com | www.thetalentinstitute.nl
Discover how one of the biggest dairy companies in the world, FrieslandCampina, tackles innovation, horizons, and intrapreneurship with their unique "Milkubator" innovation program in this interview featuring Aniruddha Kusurkar, Global Commercial Director.
Innovation and CPG: Eric van der Hoeven for Empowering Innovators. In this episode Eric explains growth through engagement, consumer trends and the future of CPG from his experience working previously on Danone.
50% of the trucks driving on European roads are empty or partially empty. Today, we talk to Avishai Trabelsi, CEO of Quicargo, on how they are solving this problem - from founding the company, learning from mistakes, being accelerated by Startupbootcamp and on building the right team for your startup.
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Empowering Innovators is an original series featuring top leaders across various industries exploring corporate innovation. These intimate sessions are filmed at the Startupbootcamp Amsterdam headquarters.
www.startupbootcamp.org | www.innoleaps.com | www.thetalentinstitute.nl
MediaMarktSaturn & Innovation - Martin Wild & Patrick de Zeeuw on Empowering Innovators // Martin Wild talks about his time as an entrepreneur and MediaMarktSaturn’s innovation projects, culture and how the retail giant is adapting to the latest technological trends in this new episode of Empowering Innovators.
Diversity & Serial Entrepreneurship: Empowering Innovators with Janneke Niessen & Patrick de Zeeuw // Janneke Niessen, serial entrepreneur and investor, talks about scaling with complementary skills and using individual strengths to build better teams, women in tech, empowerment, angel investment, and mentorship.
When we talk about open innovation or open banking, what is the importance of ecosystem building and having it really work? In this podcast, Elizabeth Kleinveld (Partner Success Manager at Startupbootcamp) chats with 3 active ecosystem builders in the FinTech sphere: Don Ginsel (Founder, Holland FinTech), Marco Scappa (Head of Fabrick Corporate Fintech) and Alessandro Longoni (Head of FinTech District). Find out more about their experiences building up collaborative and connected communities, how the ‘game’ has changed, and why nurturing such ecosystems are an integral part of the FinTech industry.
As the world gets more complex and digitised, how can large organisations transform themselves to meet the challenges of the new digital age?
Drawing from his experiences as Chief Digital Officer at PWC, Ilja Linnemeijer, speaks with Patrick De Zeeuw about the organisation's innovation journey over the last few years.
In which key areas is the company transforming? From Insurance, to Consulting to Tech - what does it take to lead the digital transformation of PWC’s different lines of services? Are there new opportunities for business model innovation for driving the company forward?
Patrick and Ilja also hone in on the FinTech domain and discuss trends in that sector that are relevant for PWC and the industry in general. And on the topic of talent, Ilja also discusses the impact of PWCs strong engagement within the startup ecosystem and how that plays a role in the organisation’s employer branding.
Watch more episodes from Empowering Innovators and learn how the big corporates approach innovation.
SEASON 1
— Innovation and Capgemini: Chief of New Technology Elias Ghanem & Patrick de Zeeuw on Empowering Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGkip8xdYQc
— Innovation and Vivat: CEO Ron van Oijen & Patrick de Zeeuw on Empowering Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdyjsceBZkU
— Innovation and Unilever: Global Head of Sales and Transformation Anshul Asawa & Patrick de Zeeuw on Empowering Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjUowzQ9aI
— Innovation and PwC: Chief Digital Officer Ilja Linnemeijer & Patrick de Zeeuw on Empowering Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxA1qQgEnws
www.startupbootcamp.org
www.innoleaps.com
www.thetalentinstitute.nl
BIO:
“Empowering Innovators is a video series featuring interviews with top leaders of the industry talking about Innovation in large corporations. Presented by Patrick de Zeeuw, the intimate sessions were recorded at the Startupbootcamp Amsterdam headquarters.”
EMPOWERING INNOVATORS:
PRESENTED BY: Patrick de Zeeuw
Direction: Giovanni Vaccari
Produced By: Mexx de Zeeuw & Julia Paskaleva
Support: Judite Nogueira
First Camera: Beatriz Mota
Second Camera: Roemer van den Biggelaar
Set Design & Wardrobe: Edith Jacques
Strategy Support: Kauan Von Novack
Marketing Support: Tasneem Hooghart, Antonio Filograsso
On-Set Support:
Kalina Breczewska
Sara Alegre Palacios
In the third episode of ‘Empowering Innovators’, Patrick de Zeeuw speaks with Anshul Asawa, the Global Head of Sales and Transformation at Unilever Home Care.
Drawing from his experiences in the recent years, Anshul reflects on the current state of the CPG industry:
- As consumers become increasingly ‘digital’ and ‘conscious’ how have things within the industry changed in the past 5 years?
- How can innovation accelerate the way we approach Sustainability?
Patrick and Anshul then discuss the evolution of Unilever’s innovation journey:
- How has leadership played a role in spearheading innovation across the organisation?
They also touch on the topic from the Talent front, where Anshul talks about how the ‘purpose’ and ‘culture’ of an organisation is a key factor in empowering an organisation’s growth.
SEASON 1
— Innovation and Capgemini: Chief of New Technology Elias Ghanem & Patrick de Zeeuw on Empowering Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGkip8xdYQc
— Innovation and Vivat: CEO Ron van Oijen & Patrick de Zeeuw on Empowering Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdyjsceBZkU
— Innovation and Unilever: Global Head of Sales and Transformation Anshul Asawa & Patrick de Zeeuw on Empowering Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjUowzQ9aI
— Innovation and PwC: Chief Digital Officer Ilja Linnemeijer & Patrick de Zeeuw on Empowering Innovators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxA1qQgEnws
www.startupbootcamp.org
www.innoleaps.com
www.thetalentinstitute.nl
BIO:
“Empowering Innovators is a video series featuring interviews with top leaders of the industry talking about Innovation in large corporations. Presented by Patrick de Zeeuw, the intimate sessions were recorded at the Startupbootcamp Amsterdam headquarters.”
CREW:
PRESENTED BY: Patrick de Zeeuw
Direction: Giovanni Vaccari
Produced By: Mexx de Zeeuw & Julia Paskaleva
Support: Judite Nogueira
First Camera: Beatriz Mota
Second Camera: Roemer van den Biggelaar
Set Design & Wardrobe: Edith Jacques
Strategy Support: Kauan Von Novack
Marketing Support: Tasneem Hooghart, Antonio Filograsso
On-Set Support:
Kalina Breczewska
Sara Alegre Palacios
www.startupbootcamp.org
www.innoleaps.com
www.thetalentinstitute.nl
BIO:
“Empowering Innovators is a video series featuring interviews with top leaders of the industry talking about Innovation in large corporations. Presented by Patrick de Zeeuw, the intimate sessions were recorded at the Startupbootcamp Amsterdam headquarters.”
EMPOWERING INNOVATORS:
PRESENTED BY: Patrick de Zeeuw
Direction: Giovanni Vaccari
Produced By: Mexx de Zeeuw & Julia Paskaleva
Support: Judite Nogueira
First Camera: Beatriz Mota
Second Camera: Roemer van den Biggelaar
Set Design & Wardrobe: Edith Jacques
Strategy Support: Kauan Von Novack
Marketing Support: Tasneem Hooghart, Antonio Filograsso
On-Set Support:
Kalina Breczewska
Sara Alegre Palacios
What does innovation really mean in the traditional industry of insurance?
In the second episode of ‘Empowering Innovators’ Patrick de Zeeuw speaks with Ron van Oijen, CEO of Vivat, a Dutch insurer that consists of a large number of well-known insurance brands.
Patrick and Ron discuss innovation in the traditional industry of insurance and dive deeper into what innovation means for an insurance company. They are discussing:
- What are some of the challenges he has faced in the last few years, bringing innovation into the company?
- How do you disrupt an industry such as insurance, where factors such as compliance and regulations come into play?
Last year, Vivat opened the Vivat Innovation Center (Vince) next to the Startupbootcamp headquarters in Amsterdam and in this interview Ron also shares his biggest takeaways thus far, with regards to the topic of collaboration (from a corporate perspective) with startups.
How does Capgemini tackle internal innovation, as the market evolves and technology advances rapidly?
In the first episode of ‘Empowering Innovators’, Patrick de Zeeuw, Co-founder of Startupbootcamp speaks with Elias Ghanem, Chief of New Technology and VP FinTech Europe at CapGemini, a professional services and business consulting corporation.
Capgemini is currently a partner with Startupbootcamp in programs running in both Amsterdam and Australia, and in this interview Elias shares some insights derived from his experiences (from a corporate perspective) working with startups and scale-ups.
He also reflects on innovation in the age of digital transformation and highlights some of the major trends Capgemini has come across recently.
As a company that is focused on the empowering the transformation of other companies - how does CapGemini inculcate a culture of innovation within its own organisation? What are the key technologies fuelling such change? Find out all this and more, in this first episode of Empowering Innovators.