Andreea Baciu, Chief Culture Officer at UiPath, the first Romanian unicorn and a global software automation company, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about automation for good and about people being at the heart of automation both as enablers and beneficiaries.
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.
May 31, 2022
Dime Galapchev, the founder and CEO of FinqUP, a portfolio management app that is scheduled for launch in September 2022, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about democratising and decentralising portfolio management.
May 17, 2022
Social and governance factors are still not treated seriously enough. One of the reasons is that they are less measurable than environmental impact, according to Professor Bolesław Rok, an expert on sustainability management, the circular economy, values-driven transformation, and sustainable entrepreneurship.
April 19, 2022
Ivan Bjelajac, a serial entrepreneur, one of the founders and the CEO of MVP Workshop, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the future of blockchain technology. They also speak about his earlier experience in building Devana Technologies – one of the most successful Serbian tech companies whose solutions were acquired by GoDaddy,...
April 5, 2022
Denys Zhadanov, a board member and previously the vice president of marketing at Readdle, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about how the company defines productivity and uses science and disruptive technologies to increase personal productivity. He also talks about the company’s successes and failures related to both marketing and products, and...
March 22, 2022
Genoveva Christova, one of the founders and owners (alongside Anelia Kassabova) and managing director of Ligna Group, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the company’s origins, successes, and challenges, and its further global expansion.
March 8, 2022
Alexandru Iliescu, one of the founders alongside his brother Tudor and the CEO of Mondly, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the edutech app and the future of learning languages. They also talk about the company’s successes and challenges in developing a solution used around the globe.
February 22, 2022
Michał Blak, one of the founders and the CEO of edrone, an artist turned into a tech entrepreneur, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about his company’s plans but also about his success of building a global company, and lessons he has learnt from his mistakes.
November 26, 2021
Zoran Aleksikj, one of the founders and the CEO of 351 Studio, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the firm’s work with Ed Sheeran’s team, about the studio’s other productions for musicians such as Bruno Mars and James Blunt, and labels like Universal or Atlantic Records.
November 12, 2021
Vene speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the development of fintech during her career, which now spans more than two decades, about women in tech, and about her own successes and failures on the way.
October 26, 2021
Adi Barel, managing director at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) hub in Israel, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about the Israeli approach to doing business, success and failure, the importance of tachles, chutzpah and yalla and – most importantly – what emerging Europe’s start-up founders can learn from the Israeli approach.
August 17, 2021
Julian Zawistowski, a visionary, entrepreneur, and the founder of the Golem Foundation, spoke with Andrew Wrobel about how to give power back to users, how to protect personal data, donating personal data, and the challenges emerging Europe is facing as far as data security, cyber-attacks and surveillance are concerned.
