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Considering shifts in business models and collaborative advantages
Today I sit down with Jonas Sveistrup. We talk about a business transaction; as it is today, as it is on Blockchain and why we may start to see more Blockchain use cases emerge. He also shares concepts and reasons related to shifts in business models and explains differences between AI and blockchain adoption cycles.
Jonas Sveistrup is an expert in blockchain technology and innovation and works as Technology Director at Devoteam. His focus spans a range of technologies, including blockchain, IoT, and GenAI, with a specific emphasis on applications in the public sector, industrial processing, and banking compliance.
As part of an industrial PhD program, Jonas collaborated with organizations like Erhvervsstyrelsen, CBS, and Deloitte to research the impact of blockchain technology on market practices, particularly in the areas of domestic and cross-border transactions. This work involved benchmarking and simulating trade finance applications across multiple blockchain platforms. With his extensive background spanning technology, policy, and real-world implementations, Jonas offers a unique perspective on the evolving landscape of blockchain and related innovations.
Related links or mentioned in this podcast
Cost of Trust (RMIT, Paper)
Unlocking Privacy on Ethereum with Paul Brody (podcast)
Evaluating trust infrastructure of emergent technologies (LinkedIn post)
AI’s impact of Business Models: A New Paradigm for Organizations (LinkedIn post)
00:15 How I met Jonas Sveistrup Søgaar
03:40 Jonas shares his study and career journey
08:00 Blockchain, a coordination mechanism
13:00 Green Act of Europe and the Digital product passport
16:15 Shift in business models, Scope 1, 2, 3
19:00 Collaborative advantage, co-innovation risk and adoption chain risk
24:33 Trust, transparency and traceability
28:56 Skills, the job market and adoption cycles
33:55 Ecosystems thinking, shares an example
36:00 Discussing de-dollarisation
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Editor and Digital Marketing by Preneil Pillay
Hosted by Prichelle Rugdeo
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What society needs to be in place in order for what we observe to be not only acceptable but also desirable?
I sit down with Attila Márton. We talk about what captures his attention when he is not teaching at the Copenhagen Business School or researching digitalization of core social phenomena. He shares what we can learn from ecological thinking, shares some ecological perspectives, discusses platforms as an organisational form and highlights some guiding principles a business, start up or individual could follow or be aware of in terms of digitalization.
Attila Márton is a Digital Ecologist. His research focuses on propelling ecosystemic thinking to make digitalization serve humanity. To this effect, he is currently exploring the co-evolutionary dynamics between platforms and their respective ecosystems, the political ecology of digital labour and AI, the sociology of digital knowledge and forgetting, and the re-decentralization of the Internet.
This podcast is powered by Station and the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship.
Related Links or mentioned in this podcast
A digital future of resilience: What can we learn from ecological thinking?
Selected publications
Voyant tools
00:47 Meet Attila Marton
08:07 Shares insights into his writing process
12:05 Attila’s selected publications: Digital, Information, Platforms and New
13:22 Discussing Platforms and Sharing Platforms
16:19 Platforms as an organisational form: changing how we are used to organising
18:10 Social media and labour platforms
19:18 Ecologies, a mind set
27:15 How do ‘ecological systems’ self regulate and what can we learn
28:48 First principles thinking
29:00 Shares an example, it was not the one I was thinking of
31:04 Discussing resilient and robust, within the system itself
33:20 Variety and redundancy
38:25 From an ecological perspective: AI
45:31 Asked to share one thing he would like us to know
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How can we be open to emergence and embrace uncertainty?
I sit down with Loes Damhof. She joins me to discuss her work; within Higher Education and the Emergence Academy, and how futures literacy could be used within a business context.
Loes Damhof was elected as Lecturer of the Year of all higher education in The Netherlands in 2016, and decided to spend the attached prestigious Comenis Award on developing Futures Literacy pilots. As a UNESCO Chair on Futures Literacy in Higher Education, she consults and trains staff of global organizations such as FutureWomenX, UNESCO, UNFCCC, ClimateKIC, FORMS, UN, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and Oxfam in multidisciplinary projects. As a Futures Literacy Expert, she designs, develops and facilitates so-called Futures Literacy Labs: collective intelligence knowledge creation processes across the globe that challenge and raise fundamental questions on leadership, migration, climate change and technology. She is a Future Fellow at Hawkwood College, a steering committee member of the Futures Oriented Museum Synergies and an editor for the Journal of Futures Studies.
1:50 Meet Loes Damhof
3:20 Shares her work as a UNESCO Chair on Futures Literacy in Higher Education
7:16 How is futures literacy used within a business context
13:00 Shares her work within the Emergence Academy
19:39 Sensing and sense making
25:36 Could we slow down?
33:15 Shares what she is presently up to
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How can we develop the capability of using the future in the present?
I sit down with Felipe Koch. He joins me to discuss images of the future, anticipation, UNESCO’s Futures Literacy and how people experience time.
Felipe Koch is an assistant professor of Brazilian Studies and Societal Innovation at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. He has a PhD in Sociology of the Imaginary and has recently been elected as Vice-Dean of the AEI International School, also holding the position of Head of Graduate Studies. He leads undergraduate and postgraduate minors within Management and International Trade at AEI. An expert in; exploring societal impacts of imaginaries, social innovation, and future studies, he is also a senior trainer in Futures Literacy and a keynote speaker.1:32 Meet Felipe Koch
4:26 What is Futures Literacy and Futures Literacy Labs
7:20 What is ‘anticipation’ and how do we use it
9:00 Felipe's work in Collective anticipation
15:25 The compass game and agency
19:22 Discussing how people experience time
24:56 Felipe's s advice on building Futures Literacy capabilities
28:15 AI and imagination
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Step into a Futures Literacy Lab; Future of… Enterprise 2074.
Today I sit down with Beatriz Carneiro. She joins me to share her journey into Futures Literacy and her academic journey. We get to step into a ‘Time machine’ to consider the Future of … in this case… Enterprise in 2074.
Beatriz Carneiro has a degree in Genetics and a MSc in Ecology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has experience in the intersection between management, biodiversity and climate change. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Environmental Sciences and Conservation at UFRJ, researching synergies within post-development philosophies and anticipation for future. She participates in the UNESCO Chair on Futures Literacy, a partnership between Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow - Instituto de Desenvolvimento e Gestão) and UFRJ.
3:10 Meet Beatriz Carneiro
10:25 Understanding Futures Literacy Labs
15:48 Step into a Time machine: Explore Enterprise in 2074
22:40 Discussing a Reframe scenario
30:50 Museu do Amanhã
41:24 How humans process the idea of the future
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How could Quantum startups begin their business development journey?
In this session, I sit down Nishta R. Nem. Since visiting the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Institute in Copenhagen, I was interested in understanding the start-up ecosystem for Quantum. I reached out to Nistha, who was available to speak to us and share her experiences in business development for this developing industry.
Nishta R. Nem is an experimental physicist with a PhD in fusion energy and a secondary specialisation in quantum physics. During her career, she has designed and built many different diagnostics and hardware. After gaining the necessary technical and scientific understanding of deep tech, she now helps early-stage quantum startups as a business developer. She assists first-time founders with the development of their business plans and fundraising and also leads the Venture Lab, Quantum program at Deep Tech Lab. It is an accelerator program for early-stage companies.
2: 39 Meet Nishta Nem
5: 43 Business development journey
9:06 Diana program
11:10 Venture lab Quantum program
13:30 Is a working prototype needed to support the application?
16:05 'Founder friendly' and investment cycles
20:47 The funding landscape: Denmark, EU and US
24:52 Understanding founder profiles
28:00 Understanding a ‘call’ for applications
30:30 Connecting to talent
33:03 Advice to founders
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What happens at one of the coldest places in the universe?
For this session, I visited the Centre for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI).
I visited my last guest, Michele Burrello, and today’s guest, Saulius Vaitiekenas at their lab. We took a tour of the lab and of the different quantum devices they develop and test.
In this episode, I discuss with Saulius the tangible ways in which quantum devices are created, particularly the technology and processes used to develop these platforms and we unpack some of the concepts we previously discussed with Michele.
Saulius Vaitiekenas' research combines different materials, such as semiconductors and superconductors, and constructing devices to create rare or non-natural physical settings. He is an experimental condensed matter physicist and studies emergent quantum phases in hybrid material platforms. A Lithuanian physicist, Saulius studied at the Free University of Berlin and got his PhD in Physics from the University of Copenhagen in 2020.3:38 Meet Saulius Vaitiekenas
5:43 A day in the lab at the Centre for quantum devices
7:30 Working in the clean room
8:30 Using lithography techniques
10:16 Touring the lab
14:40 Energy scales and observing materials
17:15 Dilution refrigerators, a technological marvel
20:10 Semiconductors and superconductors materials
24:20 Saulius's collaborations
24:56 Saulius shares views on how the field could progress: fundamental research, applications
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How does a theoretical physicist design beautiful quantum systems?
In this episode I learn how a theoretical physicist designs quantum devices and explores their physical characteristics. These quantum devices can be used as building blocks for quantum computers to solve some class of problems, like cryptography and logistics. While I was on the search for practical applications, I learn that the motivation for pure research often lies in the beauty of the system that is studied and exploring the border between "what is known and what is unknown".
Michele Burrello is currently an Associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute of Copenhagen, Denmark. He works on condensed matter theory and applications of quantum systems.
He is an Italian physicist and studied at the Scuola Normale of Pisa (Italy) and got his PhD in statistical physics at SISSA (Trieste, Italy) in 2011. He previously worked at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany).
For more information, you can read the following:
Unbreakable fibre network connection established between DTU and Niels Bohr Institute Quantum key distribution using deterministic single-photon sources over a field-installed fibre link2:28 Meet Michele Burrello
5:32 Discussing what a theoretical physicist does
6: 37 What is a ‘platform’ and ‘device’ within quantum physic
8:39 Basic research and theoretical aspects
9:00 How basic research could support commercial progress
10:24 How ideas could transfer to application
14:18 ones and zeros… how does information processing change
16:00 What is a ‘platform’ at the level of nano electronics
22:33 Discussing problems quantum computers could solve
27:00 Error correction
31:12 Michele’s interests in studying hybrid systems
33:10 Other branches of quantum technologies
35:00 A feeling of magic
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ITER, fusion energy supply chains and a case for fusion
Søren Bang Korsholm and I sit down to talk about the ITER project, fusion energy supply chains and a case for Fusion.
He is a senior scientist at DTUs Department of Physics, Project manager for the development of the Collective Thomson Scattering (CTS) diagnostic system for ITER under contract with Fusion for Energy.
He is also the co-founder and partner in the BigScience.dk initiative.
2:42 Meet Søren Bang Korsholm
4:00 Søren’s research within Plasma diagnostics
8:40 What is the ITER project
15:10 Søren’s role within the ITER project
16:57 A case for Fusion
22:33 Fusion energy supply chains
22:55 Søren’s role within BigScience.dk and DANFusion
25:20 Outlook for the future with respect to Fusion energy
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How can we copy the Sun as an energy source here on Earth?
In this episode I learn how Fusion is the energy of the Sun and stars and holds the potential for abundant, clean energy for humanity. However, there are challenges that emerge when trying to reproduce conditions similar to the core of a star here on Earth.
Matthias Wiesenberger holds a PhD in physics from the University of Innsbruck, Austria and currently works as a researcher at the Danish Technical University in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of several publications in theoretical Fusion physics, numerical analysis and high-performance computing.
1:25 Meet Matthias Wiesenberger
4:07 What is Fusion Energy
9:30 How can we model the Sun here on Earth
16:30 Design approaches, Inertial and Magnetic
26:50 Research within theoretical modelling
31:30 Leveraging high performance computing
33:30 Feltor, a software to study fluid dynamics (specifically plasma) and turbulence
35:00 Discussing commercial viability
38:46 Start-ups in Fusion Energy
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Welcome to the Digital coffee sessions. I'm your host, Prichelle. Every month I will delve into topics related to technology and the emerging future. In each episode, I sit down with researchers, entrepreneurs or enthusiasts, from various fields, who share their insights and experiences over a warm beverage in our virtual studio.
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