SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast

Marcel "Otto" Yon - ex CEO Cyber Innovation Hub at German Ministry of Defense

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. 

Tune in and listen to this amazing conversation with Otto! 

Addie van Rooij - VP People Operation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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 - Author of "Next Billion Users"

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. 

Bruce Daisley - Vice President at Twitter EMEA

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.

Heiko Schilling - VP Engineering at TomTom

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.

Marietje Schaake - Human Centered AI at Stanford University

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.

Daniel Gebler - CTO at Picnic

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.

You can subscribe and listen to the „Speed Change Repeat“ Podcast on Spotify and iTunes. We publish new episodes weekly on Thursdays hosting leaders from all industries on topics around Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability.

#insideSCR - Introducing our new Co-Host

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. 

 

Stay tuned! 

 

Jens-Philipp Klein - Partner at Atlantic Labs

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. 

Thomas Andrae - Managing Partner Linden Capital GmbH

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.