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.

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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July 21, 2020
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. 

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July 7, 2020
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. 

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June 23, 2020
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...

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June 9, 2020
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...

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May 26, 2020
Sustainable Impact: Health with Balázs Fürjes

In this episode of Emerging Europe Talks Health, Andrew Wrobel speaks with Balázs Fürjes, managing director at EIT Health InnoStars, about the impact Covid-19 will have on healthcare and health tech – both in the emerging Europe region and globally.

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