Blog

13 Aug 2020 | Speaker & host
CEO Night | Kyiv and online

I moderated a panel discussion on the benefits of investing and partnerships in CEE.

12 Aug 2020 | Podcast
Healthcare Hackers: FRADE — Staying on your feet

Joana Silva, who is a biomedical researcher at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS and manages the FRADE project, spoke with Andrew Wrobel about her experiences, the opportunities she and her colleagues and partners identified and the challenges like the recent COVID-19 pandemic that they had to overcome.

04 Aug 2020 | Podcast
Sustainable Impact: Technology (Modern Communications) with Victoria Masso

Andrew Wrobel speaks with Victoria Masso, the founder of Behaviour Hackers. Victoria is an international trainer based out of Birmingham in the UK. She’s been working on building bridges between technological advancements and human interactions using behavioural science.

21 Jul 2020 | Podcast
Sustanable Impact: Business: Customer experience with Peter Ryan

Andrew Wrobel speaks with Peter Ryan, the principal analyst at Canada-based Ryan Strategic Advisory. Peter is a globally renowned expert on customer experience, having worked with businesses and governments across the globe, advising them on matters ranging from vertical market penetration and service delivery to best practices. 

07 Jul 2020 | Podcast
Sustainable Impact: Travel with Mark Baker

Andrew Wrobel speaks with Mark Baker, a freelance journalist and travel writer, based in Prague since 1991. He has authored a number of guidebooks about Central and Eastern Europe, and his travel stories have appeared in National Geographic Traveller, BBC World News, and the Wall Street Journal. In the past, he has also been a correspondent for The Economist and Bloomberg. 

23 Jun 2020 | Podcast
Sustainable Impact: Talks Politics (Poland’s presidential election) with Professor Aleks Szczerbiak

With three candidates given a chance of making the second round run off – the current president Andrzej Duda, Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski and Szymon Hołownia, an independent candidate and media personality – Andrew and Aleks look at what a victory for any of the candidates could mean for Poland’s political future.

09 Jun 2020 | Podcast
Sustainable Impact: FDI with Elias van Herwaarden

Andrew Wrobel speaks to Elias van Herwaarden, principal at Locationperspectives consultancy and a member of the Site Selectors Guild, about the global trends in the business services industry, growth in the sector in the last few years, future prospects as well as emerging Europe potentially benefiting from the Covid-19 pandemic, as buyers look to relocate more...

08 Jun 2020 | Speaker & host
Polish Tech Day | online

I moderated a fireside chat with Professor Christopher Hartwell.

29 May 2020 | Speaker & host
Resilience and foresight — the world after the pandemic | online

I hosted a fireside chat with Ambassador Baiba Braže, Assistant Secretary-General for Public Diplomacy, and Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission.

27 May 2020 | Speaker & host
K.E.Y. Platform | online

I joined a panel discussion to share the experiences in social and economic transformation in emerging Europe that could apply in the future in North Korea.