Podcast

Emerging Europe Talks is a series of discussions offering insight and intelligence designed to help entrepreneurs, investors, governments and all knowledge-seekers navigate emerging Europe. Emerging Europe Talks is originally published on the Emerging Europe website and includes three shows: Sustainable Impact, Success and Failure and She’s Next empowered by Visa. I also hosted two more series: InnoStars Talks and Healthcare Hackers, powered by EIT Health InnoStars.

March 11, 2025
Innostars talks with Monika Stepanova of Lightly technologies

A Czech start-up is taking on one of the world’s most pressing public health threats—counterfeit medicines.

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February 19, 2025
Innostars Talks with Rita Rocha of NOVA Medical School

A Portuguese institution is reshaping medical education, preparing future healthcare professionals for a rapidly evolving landscape. 

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January 2, 2025
Emerging Europe Talks She’s Next with Amalya Yeghoyan 

“Growing up in Gyumri, Armenia’s second city, I was surrounded by traditions that often-placed limitations on women. My dream was always to escape, to leave for Yerevan, the capital, and start a new life. But life had other plans for me, and I’m glad it did."

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December 21, 2024
InnoStars Talks Marlena Sokół-Szawłowska of MoodMon

With help from EIT Health, a team in Poland is reinventing the way we diagnose and treat mental illness.

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September 6, 2024
InnoStars Talks with Jan Beger of GE Healthcare

Fly on an aeroplane and there’s only a one in a million chance of an accident. In healthcare, one in 300 patients is harmed during their healthcare journey. Technology, says GE Healthcare’s Jan Beger, will improve this figure.

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July 3, 2024
INNOSTARS TALKS with Maurizio Ferrari of Synlab

In today’s fast-paced world, the ability to work effectively as a team, both internally and with other stakeholders, has become more important than ever.

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April 24, 2024
InnoStars Talks with Mate Balazs Kovacs of AIP

In our first episode, Andrew Wrobel talks with Mate Balazs Kovacs, CEO and co-founder of AIPLabs, about his groundbreaking journey in combating skin diseases with AI-enhanced digital healthcare solutions.

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March 5, 2024
Emerging Europe Talks Reinvention and technology adoption with Rafael E. de Hoyos 

Technology increases productivity. But it also brings about other consequences: it creates, removes and modifies the tasks that are supposed to be performed. This in turn affects the demand for workers with new skills.  

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March 1, 2024
She’s Next with Havva Safarova 

Havva Safarova is an internet personality and a content creator with thousands of followers. She also educates others. She is the author of seminars and marathons that empower women and emphasise that, “the limit of women is only in their brains.”

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February 16, 2024
She’s Next with Viktoria Konstantinova

"One day, I came back and said ‘Mum, I got a four, and that’s really good because the rest of the class got threes.’ And my mother said to me, ‘Darling, you had better look at those who are ahead of you, not those who are behind,” says Viktoria Konstantinova,...

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February 9, 2024
She’s Next with Ana Nadiradze and Diana Kiguradze

“Our [solution] is an innovative platform for riders of any level to book and fully explore our tour features with the assistance of digital video routes. When you go to our website, you can see all horseback tours around Georgi,” says Ana Nadiradze, co-founder of Horsetours. 

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February 2, 2024
She’s Next with Agnieszka Hryniewicz-Bieniek

“I am a person that loves experimenting and learning by doing. So, it was just this passion that I have for doing something that makes the world better, but by learning from others, by connecting with other cultures, and learning from those who have already done more,” says Agnieszka Hryniewicz-Bieniek,...

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