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Yahya Mohamed Mao Head of Business Development & Marketing at Swiss GRC
First published on www.swissfinte.ch (Zurich, Thursday, October 2nd, 2019) Considering children as our legacy for the future has never been as striking as after the emotional speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN Climate Change Conference. What is our planet supposed to look like tomorrow? Smart Cities, that seem to have been forgotten in the past, s...
05 October 2019
Paul Shumsky Technology Advisor at Entrepreneur
Customers have come to expect a level of personal service from companies that is the digital version of a 24/7 concierge. Think Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify, all companies that have set the bar for personalized, instantaneously responsive, and increasingly predictive real-time service across all points of contact with companies. Why is this degree...
17 September 2019 /retail
Hamza Khan Founder and CEO at Suburbia
In 1852, Elisha Otis invented the safety elevator. If the hoisting rope broke, its safety mechanism automatically brought it to a halt – as he demonstrated to dramatic effect at the 1854 world fair. As detailed in Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator, the American inventor stood on a platform high above the audience, before making the order ...
16 September 2019 /retail
Retired Member
Super apps are just appearing in the US and European countries, while in the Asian-Pacific region they already became a natural part of daily routine. So what are super apps and what is so special about them? The term “super app” was introduced in 2010 by the BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis. He defined it as a closed ecosystem consisting of mul
05 September 2019 /devops
Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel
According to Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham, authors of the brilliant book “Street Smarts, an all-purpose tool kit for entrepreneurs”, a fairly common problem with most entrepreneurs is what they call a “sales mentality”. By that they mean the entrepreneur’s preparedness to sell a product or service at any price, with a small or even negative marg...
14 August 2019 /startups
Rik Coeckelbergs Independent Advisor, Opinion Maker and Consultant at The Banking Scene
In April, I had the pleasure to participate in a challenger session with Julian Sawyer (COO at Starling Bank) and Noemi Papp (Head of Digital & Retail, at EBF) at 6th Nextgen Payments Forum in Cyprus. The panel was in the hands of an excellent moderator Peter Oakes. The title of this challenger session was: “Bank vs Fintech — Competition or c...
04 July 2019 /startups
Headline in Flemish financial newspaper "De Tijd" last Thursday : "Gents Teamleader neemt gas terug in buitenlandse expansie". Translated : Ghent-based Teamleader slows down international expansion". Teamleader, so-called specialist in sme-software, shuts down its sales offices in Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Milan, because &...
20 March 2019 /startups
Paul Dawson Researcher at NHS
Start ups are hard. When my mind prematurely wanders off to success I have to stop myself and focus on my product and service. I do know what my values are and what I hope to achieve and I am committed to making the invoice processing system in the UK paperless and smooth. I know my goods and service inside and out, I have a solid grasp of my m
07 March 2019 /startups
Richard Miller Product Owner at RegDefy (MV37)
For most people starting their own business is pretty daunting. Luckily bookstores are awash with books to guide, advise and stop you making mistakes along the way. In some ways there is too much choice! So in case you are looking for some last minute presents for the entrepreneur in your life, here are four suggestions. I have no relationship to ...
24 December 2018
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
All data is somebody's data. Not really owned - but somebody is having the often exclusive right to use it. Sometimes alone, sometimes together, sometimes the right to alter and delete it, sometimes no right to change or delete it. What will happen next - when GDPR is a? strong foundation and MyData.org - the global movement (now also legally inco...
21 December 2018 /ai
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