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How Venture Studios are revolutionizing Corporate Innovation, with Dianna Lesage, the Venture Studio Advisor

Platforms 4 Future - March 08, 2024 11:40 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this episode of Platforms for Future, Diana Lesage discussed the role of Venture Studios in corporate innovation, differentiating them from accelerators and venture capital firms by their unique model of building companies from the ground up. She highlighted their growth in niches like FinTech...

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Coursera and the future of B2B Education, with Lukas Lewandowski, the Regional Director at Coursera

Platforms 4 Future - February 06, 2024 16:05 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this episode of Platforms for Future, Lukas Lewandowski, Regional Director at Coursera, discussed B2B education platforms. He highlighted Coursera's growth, its response to COVID-19, and the role of online learning. The conversation also touched on AI's impact on education, emphasizing the imp...

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Past, Present and Future of IoT Platforms, with Hans-Michael Krause, Director Product Management ctrlX World Platform

Platforms 4 Future - January 11, 2024 07:57 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In this episode of "Platforms 4 Future," we dive into the world of IoT platforms, specifically focusing on industrial applications. Join us as we explore the challenges and possibilities of implementing these technologies in a conservative industry. Our guest shares their experiences and insights...

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How to scale your business with embedded finance? with Christoph Schnettler, co-founder of DoKuMe, and Cyrosch Kalateh,

Platforms 4 Future - December 05, 2023 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Embedded finance is a growing trend that has gained traction over the past decade. It refers to the integration of financial services into non-financial platforms or businesses. Traditionally, individuals or businesses would have to go directly to financial service providers to access services su...

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P4F #21 / SE2 with Jens Weghake, Platform Portfolio Manager from d.velop AG

Platforms 4 Future - August 23, 2023 06:26 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Hey everyone! Exciting news! 📢 We have a new episode of the Plattforms for Future Podcast, and this time it's in German! 🇩🇪🎙️  This episode of the "Platforms for Future" podcast is about B2B pricing and monetization. This is one of the most crucial topics and every platform needs to crack it. Mo...

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P4F #20 / SE2 with Martha Boeckenfeld, Top100WomenOfTheFuture, Founder MarthaVerse, Meta-Host

Platforms 4 Future - June 08, 2023 07:15 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Step into the future with our latest episode featuring Martha Beckenfeld. We're exploring the fascinating world of the Web3 metaverse and its impact on platforms. One area where the Metaverse is already having a significant impact is in the platform economy. Platforms such as Amazon and eBay hav...

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P4F #19 / SE2 with Jens Knodel, Head of Platform Engineering at Caruso, and Matthias Naab, Co-Founder Full Flamingo

Platforms 4 Future - May 15, 2023 13:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The Caruso alliance was formed 25 years ago by the Tech Alliance, a company dedicated to cataloging data for spare parts. Drawing on their experience and success, the alliance decided to create a platform for accessing and harmonizing car data. The goal was to make it easier for customers to acce...

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P4F #18 / SE2 with Martin Möller, CEO of DigiKoo

Platforms 4 Future - April 18, 2023 14:35 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
DigiKoo is a platform that is revolutionizing the way we look at data and its potential to combat climate change. The CEO of DigiKoo, Martin Möller, is a passionate advocate for using data to promote sustainability and mitigate the effects of climate change. In this podcast episode, we will discu...

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P4F #17 / SE2 with Gaétan Rougevin-Baville, CEO of Meero

Platforms 4 Future - March 28, 2023 08:38 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Meero has grown into a successful global platform that connects professional photographers and videographers with clients looking for high quality visual content. The platform was founded in 2016 and has quickly grown to become the largest on-demand photography service provider in the world, with...

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P4F #16 / SE2 with Peter Kraemer, Head of GaiaX

Platforms 4 Future - March 07, 2023 10:53 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Data safety and privacy is a crucial topic around the world. We need to have sovereign options on the market that will allow us as consumers and as citizens to make self determined and well informed decisions on who can do what with my data, for how long and to what avail, to what purpose. Usual...

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P4F #15 / SE2 with Eric Mangin, CEO, and Paul Thiroloix, CFO, of NooS

Platforms 4 Future - February 14, 2023 16:13 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Nowadays, it is very crucial to address the challenges around impact on the planet and society. But how to implement it and engage everyone inside of your organization? The answer: Network Effects. In our latest episode of the PIK podcast we talked to Eric Mangin, CEO, and Paul Thiroloix, CFO,...

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P4F #14 / SE2 with Marc Geckeler & Dirk Voigt, Tech Lead & Biz Lead at Volkswagen

Platforms 4 Future - December 20, 2022 12:44 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The story of DPP started 3 years ago. They went through a selection of partners, formed an alliance, listened to customers and onboarded a lot of plants. Transformation of a classical production company into a data driven platform is not an easy journey and therefore we have invited Marc Geckler...

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P4F #13 / SE2 with Martin Peters, CEO of DropFriends

Platforms 4 Future - December 06, 2022 14:06 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
With dropfriends, everyone of us can become an independent parcel shop and make the delivery service much more comfortable and sustainable. How? Our guest, Martin Peters, the CEO of Dropfriends is going to explain to us in the latest episode of the “Platform 4 Future” podcast. Tune in to learn ...

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P4F #12 / SE2 with Matthias Naab & Marcus Trapp of Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering

Platforms 4 Future - November 21, 2022 17:28 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
How can we make the Mittelstand and the SMEs competitive in the industry of platforms? Our new guests are coming from the largest research organization in Europe - Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering. The main task of the Fraunhofer organization is to keep the German and E...

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P4F #11 / SE2 with Tilmar Wilhelm Goos, Blockchain Expert

Platforms 4 Future - November 06, 2022 23:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Web 3, Blockchain, Crypto, Decentralized Finance are currently the most discussed topics in the business world. To get some more understanding we have invited as guest of this Episode a specialist in this field - Tilmar Wilhelm Goos, Swiss based international tax and business specialist, speaker ...

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P4F #10 / SE2 with Friedrich Fries-Henrich, Founder of Circulania

Platforms 4 Future - September 19, 2022 15:11 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
How to create interest from your target customers about your #marketplace? In this #podcast episode of #PlatformsForFuture, @Nathalie Dumas and @Matthias Walter interviewed @Friedrich Fries-Henrich, founder of @Circulania, a B2B platform for secondary raw materials, enabling companies to sell t...

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P4F #09 / SE2 with Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner, professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Platforms 4 Future - September 07, 2022 07:49 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
There are a lot of corporates exploring Blockchain and DLT technologies to enable new collaborative business models - but only a few are successful. In our conversation with Prof. Philipp Sandner from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, he reveals the latest trends of development of Blo...

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P4F #08 / SE2 with Leo Michellier & Paul Beguerie, Digital Product Owner + Project Manager of Organix by SUEZ

Platforms 4 Future - August 22, 2022 11:39 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A great example of how #platforms can support #circulareconomy : Organix by Suez is a #marketplace which connects producers of organic waste (farmers, food industry manufacturers, ports, municipalities…) with biogas plants, which transform them into energy. They combine two challenges: #wastemana...

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P4F #07 / SE2 with Kathrin Günther, Vice President at Business Solutions at Uhlmann PAC-Systems

Platforms 4 Future - August 09, 2022 08:44 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Pexcite is a future-oriented ecosystem for intertwined software solutions alongside the entire value chain of pharmaceutical products – from raw material to the end customer. Our guest Kathrin Günther, the Vice President of Business Unit Digital Solutions in Uhlmann Pac-Systeme, has revealed a g...

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P4F #06 / SE2 with Florian Klemt, Co-founder & CTO of Fashion Cloud platform

Platforms 4 Future - July 25, 2022 13:06 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fashion Cloud is a B2B platform, helping fashion brands and retail stores to work together through data sharing. In this episode, you will learn about: How they pivoted from a B2C application project into a B2B platforms used by the biggest German brands, How they manage to scale based on trust ...

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P4F #05 / SE2 with Frank Mattes, Expert in corporate business-building. Advisor (up to Fortune 10). Author.

Platforms 4 Future - July 11, 2022 14:51 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Scaling corporate start-up? Where to begin? Frank Mattes, experienced expert in corporate business building brought the major input to this topic in 2018 together with other 20 clients. The first book was called “Scaling Up Corporate Startups”, it focuses on one question: How can large companies ...

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P4F #04 / SE2 with Adrien Chaltiel, CEO & Co-founder at Eldorado

Platforms 4 Future - July 05, 2022 07:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Do your stakeholders think that your business is legitimate? We often ask ourselves whether we are legitimate enough but we barely ask the same question at the company level. Eldorado, a french platform facilitating the connection between entrepreneurs and investors, managed to raise faster tha...

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P4F #03 / SE2 with Katharina Hölzle, Director IAT, University of Stuttgart & Fraunhofer IAO & Marc Brechtel, PhD student

Platforms 4 Future - June 27, 2022 12:50 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The latest emerging trends in the market of platforms is a creation of a platform by multiple companies together and data platforms, therefore for today's conversation we have invited two researchers: Katharina Hölzle a professor for Technology Management and Human Factors at the University of St...

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P4F #02 / SE2 with Denis Tischler, Chief Digital Marketing Manager of Wind-Turbine.com

Platforms 4 Future - June 13, 2022 13:16 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Denis Tishler, Chief Marketing Officer at wind-turbine, unveils how the company went from a usual marketplace with no industry expertise, to being leaders of a niche ecosystem. When they started in 2012 in Germany, wind-turbine.com was pretty much as any usual online marketplace, helping sellers...

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P4F #01 / SE2 with Alessandro Pistillo, Director Digital Strategy of BASF

Platforms 4 Future - May 29, 2022 22:01 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Kicking of our series 2 of the “Platforms 4 Future” podcast with a chemical industry powerhouse and dinosaur - BASF. It’s the world leading chemical company with about 110.000 employees worldwide, 10% of them within R&D department spending 2 billion on innovation each year. More importantly, almo...

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P4F #017 with Henrik Hahn, CDO of Evonik Industries & CEO of Evonik Digital

Platforms 4 Future - November 11, 2021 09:40 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In our current podcast episode, we look at an aspect that doesn't come up so often in our conversations: the closing of a B2B platform. For this, we caught up with Henrik Hahn from Evonik Industries. Henrik is Chief Digital Officer of the Evonik Group and CEO of Evonik Digital. In his role, he ...

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P4F #016 with Thilo Kassen, Executive manager of Prisma

Platforms 4 Future - August 05, 2021 20:40 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
In our latest Episode we were very pleased to welcome Thilo Kassen, Executive Manager of PRISMA Capacity, the leading gas capacity platform in Europe. Together with Thilo we discussed the interesting shareholder model behind the company and how sustainability and climate change affect the future ...

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P4F #015 with Henrik Lauridsen - Founder & Managing Director of Gerbus Academy & Peter Evans - Managing Partner at PSI

Platforms 4 Future - July 21, 2021 13:10 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Platforms are an important topic for each company strategy. But we see in our projects a big knowledge gap on executive / leader level but also on team level. Companies think they can build platforms just like they built products. There was a study from BITKOM in 2019 showing this gap -> only 5% ...

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P4F #014 with Evangelos Avramakis, head of digital ecosystems R&D, Swiss Re Instiute

Platforms 4 Future - July 02, 2021 07:20 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Evangelos Avramakis is a recognised thought leader and advisor in the field of insurance industry. At the Swiss Re institute he works with focus on digital and consumer related topics as the Head of Digital Ecosystems R&D. Within his position, he analyses the mid- and long term developments of em...

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P4F #014 with Evangelos Avramakis, head of digital ecosystem R&D part of the research arm of swissRE

Platforms 4 Future - July 02, 2021 07:20 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Evangelos Avramakis is a recognised thought leader and advisor in the field of insurance industry. At the Swiss Re institute he works with focus on digital and consumer related topics as the Head of Digital Ecosystems R&D. Within his position, he analyses the mid- and long term developments of em...

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