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.

October 20, 2020
Sustainable Impact: Ethical marketing with Dobrosława Gogłoza

Dobrosława Gogłoza, head of strategy at the Warsaw-based All Hands Agency, which focuses on ethical marketing, spoke to Andrew Wrobel about sustainable production, business opportunities in the plant-based sector across emerging Europe and how companies should promote their products to a wide audience.

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October 15, 2020
Healthcare Hackers: Inocure – Designing next-generation drug delivery systems

Inocure’s CEO Matej Buzgo speaks with Andrew Wrobel about his start-up’s path to designing next-generation drug delivery systems and the multiple challenges he faces and offers valuable advice to potential researchers and founders working on innovative health solutions.

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October 6, 2020
Sustainable Impact: Future of media with Kinga Incze

Kinga Incze, one of the co-founders and the CEO of Whitereport Global, a UK-based cross-media business intelligence service provider, and of Mediaspace.Global, a global independent professional network for media, marketing, tech, regulation, speaks to Andrew Wrobel about the role of businesses and governments in shaping the future media landscape.

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September 24, 2020
Healthcare Hackers: Tully — Recognising and managing emotions

Marius Rus, co-founder and CEO of Tully, speaks with Andrew Wrobel about how his start-up helps children recognise and manage emotions and gives valuable tips to potential founders working on health solutions.

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September 22, 2020
Sustainable Impact: Real estate crowdfunding with Gustas Germanavičius

Gustas Germanavičius, one of EvoEstate’s co-founders and the start-up’s CEO, talks to Andrew Wrobel about real estate crowdfunding, the impact of Covid-19 on real estate transactions, and about the prospects for crowdfunding across the emerging Europe region.

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September 15, 2020
Sustainable Impact: Cross-cultural sales with Kasia Lanucha and Bob Spence

In the latest episode of Emerging Europe Talks, Andrew Wrobel speaks with Kasia Lanucha, a Cambridge University lecturer recognised as a cross-culture thinker and coach, and Bob Spence, the director of international business development for SaaS incubator C4DI @TheDock, who jointly run a series of seminars focused on cross-cultural sales, launched by the UK Department of International...

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September 8, 2020
Sustainable Impact: Capital Markets with Marek Dietl

In this latest edition of Emerging Europe Talks, Andrew Wrobel speaks with Marek Dietl, CEO of the Warsaw Stock Exchange since September 2017, about how the bourse is focused on innovation and technology and how it plays a key role in attracting investors to the emerging Europe region through, among other things, its...

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September 3, 2020
Healthcare Hackers: DocuMental — Mapping the state of mind

Eduard Maron, CEO of DocuMental, spoke with Andrew Wrobel about the challenge he faced as a young psychiatrist and how he created a solution that helps him and his colleagues diagnose mental disorders better.

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September 1, 2020
Sustainable Impact: IT with Mike Beares

To discuss this new initiative, as well as much more, Andrew Wrobel speaks with Mike Beares, the founder of Clutch. Prior to Clutch, Mike led a team of solution managers in the consulting and systems integration unit of Unisys Corporation. Earlier in his career, he worked in management consulting advising both Fortune...

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August 18, 2020
Sustainable Impact: International Relations – CEE and the US – with Tyson Barker

Andrew Wrobel speaks with Tyson Barker, Deputy Executive Director and Fellow at Aspen Institute Germany, about US relations with emerging Europe and possible post-election scenarios. Their chat comes ahead of the Emerging Europe and the United States: Towards 2030 conference scheduled to take place on August 27. For more information about the event,...

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August 12, 2020
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.

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August 4, 2020
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.

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