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Siim Sikkut is the Government CIO of Estonia, officially titled as Deputy Secretary-General for IT and Telecom. In office since 2017, Siim Sikkut is in charge of the digital government and society as well as telecommunications and post areas. Mr Siim Sikkut has been working and launched the Digital Testbed Framework & Digital Government Innovation Model.

Siim Sikkut Interview Focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. Career highlights - education
3. Can you tell us some of the major improvements and solutions / benchmarks that made Estonia a success?
4. What is the Estonian Government take on:
- E-residency
- Digital government and society as well as telecommunications and post areas?
5. The data for e-Estonia is not stored centrally but instead uses a data platform run by the government called X-Road to link information from local hosts. What can you tell us about it?
6. Estonia has one of the highest number of startups per capita in the world, and one reason is the ease of establishing a business. Since 2011, a new company can be registered online in less than 20 minutes and 98% of new companies are entered in the e-Business Register digitally. That initiative has made possible an impressive number of unicorns in Estonia: Skype, Wise, Skype, Ktech, Zego, ID.me. How can you weigh on this success?
7. Can you talk about the Digital Testbed Framework And Digital Government Innovation Model?
8. How do you cope with the challenges of digital disruption and fragmentation in tech and geopolitics?
9. You were responsible for Estonia's plan for AI strategy. Can you tell us about that?
10. You are the Chairman of the OECD Senior Digital Government Officials Working Party (E-leaders). Can you share how it works and the vision?
Estonia was the first Nation-State in the world to deploy blockchain technology in production systems – in 2012 with the Succession Registry kept by the Ministry of Justice. Also using blockchain for elections, health records.  Can you tell us about it, some case studies?
11. You are also part of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), a non-profit association with a mission to ensure the development and strategic management of X-Road. Can you tell us about it?
12. What websites and places can people come to know more about Estonia’s digital initiatives?

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David Davies is the founder of AgUnity & creator of AgriUT, a solution to deploy smartphones and a digital Token to smallholder farmers to help them lift themselves out of poverty.

He was awarded the Future Agro Challenge (FAC) Global Agripreneur of the Year 2018 for his work as CEO of AgUnity for helping lift low-income farmers out of poverty. AgUnity provides a smartphone and blockchain solution that improves trust and cooperation for smallholder farmers and is also used as a platform for a range of problems including mobile banking for the financially excluded, and data collection for developed world farmers. 

The work by David and AgUnity has been globally recognised by the likes of IFC World Bank, Mastercard Foundation, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Oxford University and more. 

David Davies Interview Focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education... 
2. Career highlights
3. Your company / companies, organisations and focus? 
4. Can you let me know about your views on blockchain and agriculture and supply chain?
5. Can you tell us more about how your token and blockchain solution works? 
6. What are your views in AI and agriculture and supply chain?
7. How do AgUnity manage issues with ESG?
8. How do AgUnity manage issues with carbon neutrality and climate exchange?
9. How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
10. What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
11. What are your visions for the present and future, especially regarding climate change?

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A well-known lawyer and investment banker, David Kay is the Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Liti Capital, a Swiss investment company that combines blockchain-based solutions, advanced data analytics and investigative capabilities to conduct litigation funding. David is considered one of the most successful and in-demand litigation finance strategists in the history of the 15-year-old litigation finance industry and he led one of the largest international arbitration award in history - bringing in more than one billion US dollars of cash and securities.

David Kay Interview Focus

​​1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education, career highlights?
2. Can you tell us about Litigation Finance?
3. How do you see the bridges between centralised legal finance and decentralised blockchain law finance and the bridges between and the challenges arisen?
4. What is Liti Capital - the company, the tokens,  organisations and focus?
5. Why is Liti Capital creating a platform to defend, educate and create the legal litigation finance basis for the crypto community - B2B2C and fight Crypto Fraud worldwide?
6. Liti Capital offers private equity for everyone. Can you elaborate on that?
7. You created BinanceClaim as a way to support traders affected by the issues of exchanges like Binance. Can you explain how it works?
8. You created cryptowatchdog as a large platform for the crypto, DeFi world can you explain the vision and how will work?
9. You have an offer for both B2C - B2B can you explain the strategy how traders and institutions can work with Liti Cpaital?

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Melanie Eusebe is an award winning business strategist, working with clients to identify strategic priorities and initiatives for revenue generation and sustainable growth.

Fresh out of university, Melanie worked at Canada’s largest financial service institution, progressing quickly from Business Analyst to Manager of the Internet Channels. She moved to London and became a Big 4 Management Consultant and business advisor to aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as running strategic commercial initiatives and projects for global brands. In 2014, she launched The Black British Business Awards (#BBBAwards) – the largest awards programme of its kind, endorsed by Prime Minister May, the Mayor of London and esteemed business leaders.

Melanie Eusebe Interview Questions

1. An introduction from you - background, cultural background, overview, education…?
2. Can you tell us about your Education. You studied Philosophy, Political Science and French and the recipient of the Gordon Cressy Leadership Award. You moved to London to complete her Masters Degree in Philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London and you are now a professor of Leadership & Management, and Business Strategy.
3. How do you bridge between philosophy, education and the corporate world?
4. You kept a unique career that balances and works between teaching in universities and big corporations and Career highlights?
5. Can you tell us about your views on Leadership and management? Special in the light of your philosophy background?
6. Can you tell us about the Black British Business Awards organisations and focus?
7. What are the biggest challenges when it comes to diversity and management focus on the topics of the awards?
8. What are your views on data, our society, technology and digital transformations special in the light of your work on leadership, management, diversity?
9. You have been working between ideas, education, SMEs and corporations. Can you highlight some case study or experience you feel relevant from your experience?
10. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?

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Podcast interview with Shawn Granberry, CEO of HipHopTV Streaming Platform - The Power of Hip Hop Culture

Shawn Granberry is CEO of HipHopTV, LLC, an USA-based 24-hour live streaming online platform. The platform features original programming, custom playlists, licensed content, and music videos. Shawn is an entertainment industry veteran with more than 25+ years of experience, promoting music and the entertainment industry in the West Coast.

Shawn Granberry Interview Focus

1. Can you tell us from your work on education and working with leading universities and especially your work helping young people achieve a college education and survive the dangers of the streets?
2. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...  How did you get into the entertainment industry?
3. You were introduced to the entertainment industry through your mother’s job. Can you tell us about your mother and family business?
4. Can you tell us from the beginning of HipHop that you and your family were there  from the beginning?
5. HipHop is a very powerful cultural phenomenon that touches music, culture, fashion, and social impact. Can you tell us about it from your history perspective?
6. There are over 2,850,000,000 search results for HipHop and multiple people have different versions of it.  Can you tell us about this term, movement and industry?
7. Can you tell us about the role of HipHop TV platform and other platforms and how musicians and artists can use your platform as an educational and new revenue streams platform?
8. Can you tell us about HipHopTV the organisations and focus?
9. Cocina that manages Adsmovil, a digital advertising company with direct relationships to 1,200+ Latin American, Spanish, and U.S. Hispanic publishers, is partnering with HipHopTV, to bring A-list talent and data together to innovate and guarantee measurable impact for advertisers. Can you tell us about it?
10. Can you tell us how HipHop TV wants to use NFTs and new related techs to help artists and musicians?
11. How can we help artists, musicians deal with failure and work with global audiences?
12. Can you tell us about Hip Hop culture and its global and heterogeneous nature - and its youth culture association?
13. How do you see the main trends when it comes to the present and future of hip hop music and culture?
14. What is coming to HipHopTV soon that you can share with us?
15. As a music and producer that was in so much wild entertainment and music background you have also been involved in Berkeley. Can you tell us about this  and also the relationship with Stanford?
16. Can you tell us  about the work on data, sports and the work with Stanford University and context with HipHopTv and your context work between music and sports?

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Daniel Liu is the Director of INFLUXO, a premier NFT creative studio and partner of INBlockchain, one of the most influential investment groups in the Asian crypto space, incubating blockchain projects like BigONE, RumSystem, MobileCoin, and Mixin. Before his asset management, compliance and angel investment experience in the blockchain space, he worked for Deutsche Bank and other financial institutions and investment firms in Europe. Daniel studied in Frankfurt am Main and Stuttgart in Germany and Wuhan in China and holds an MA from Frankfurt School of Finance.

Daniel Liu Interview Focus

1. Can you tell us about your background and education?
2. Career highlights - How did you come across blockchain and cryptocurrencies?
3. About INFLUXO, organisations and focus?
4. How did you approach football legend Ronaldinho and decided to create an NFT based on him?
5. What are your views of today’s China blockchain and crypto ecosystem?
6. What are your views on NFTs?
7. What are the types of NFTs you think will bring more attention and hype?
8. In your opinion, what are the challenges NFTs face?

Daniel Liu Biography

Daniel Liu studied Business in Germany, in Frankfurt and in Stuttgart. Starting off in the financial sector, Daniel secured a position in Deutsche Bank. After a while and from his involvement in the financial industry, he discovered blockchain and cryptocurrencies. 

That first experience with blockchain took him to investigate and research more in these two technologies. He then decided to move back to China and become an entrepreneur working with blockchain and cryptocurrency projects. Back in Asia, he took roles in different companies as asset manager, compliance and angel investor, adding it to his experience in the blockchain space.

Daniel Liu went on to co-found INFLUXO, a premier NFT creative studio and partner of INBlockchain. Through INBlockchain, one of the most influential investment groups in the Asian crypto space, incubating blockchain projects like BigONE, RumSystem, MobileCoin, and Mixin, Daniel got in touch with celebrities and different athletes to propose them creating NFTs based on them. That is how they got to create a series of NFTs with Football Legend Ronaldinho.

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Rishi Kapoor is a MBA graduate and the founder and CEO of paus TV streaming platform for independent films. Rishi is an experienced professional in film distribution both UK and Internationally. A former executive at Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Warner Bros. and Disney. After many years working on distribution deals with Netflix, Amazon and Apple, he turned his attention to the independent film space, supporting independent filmmakers with his streaming platform paus.tv.

Rishi Kapoor Interview Focus

1. Rishi Kapoor’s background - Education and background
2. Background of creating Paus and building a live streaming service
3. How does Paus TV work?
4. You touched that 97% of creators don’t make any money. Can you tell us about that?
5. Creative economy - how do you see the challenges in these areas?
6. Film industry - Independent films - how do you see the industry? 
7. What can you tell us about digital transformation in the film industry?
8. IP and royalty in the film industry?
9. NFTs and film - how do you see this?

Rishi Kapoor Biography

As a sole founder with no coding experience, Rishi launched a prototype in his room for £120 called 'watchpaus'. He on-boarded several award-winning filmmakers and within a week managed to attract 50 paying users. Whilst 'watchpaus' was a rough, throw-away prototype to validate a certain user-behaviour, it was the first time he built a web-based product and surprisingly the feedback included comments on how professional the site looked. “This taught me the valuable lesson of always attempting new skills and never under-estimating one's ability,” Rishi mentioned about this first contact experience.

About paus.tv

paus is a new video platform dedicated to supporting talented content creators and helping audiences to discover inspiring work. It is a platform powered by audiences to support great work without adverts.

With paus, filmmakers can get their content in front of an audience that embraces and supports them. Creators are invited to submit their shorts or docs to paus to share their work with a like-minded community of independent film fans. It’s free and quick to submit, and once films are live on the paus app, audiences and supporters can show their appreciation by leaving a tip.

The unique digital tipping feature allows audiences to tip any film or filmmaker they want to support - any amount from 10p to £1000+, at any time. paus is integrated with native digital payment methods, such as Apple Pay, so the process is quick and easy, and gets the tip to the filmmaker with no friction. Unlike other video platforms, the scales are weighed in the creator’s favour as they keep 80% of every single tip.

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Interview with Susie Wang - Director of Global Social Media & Spokesperson at Huawei for Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil Podcast Series

Susie Wang is the Director of Global Social Media Communications at Huawei. Susie has travelled all across the world, from the USA to Europe and China along her career. She is the host of the media series Great Minds Talk for Huawei. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, BAInternational Development Studies and a Master of Science from the University of Oxford.

Susie Wang Interview Focus

1. Education and Professional Career - 5:00
2. Work and education.
3. Culture background versus your education - 8:30
4. Digital culture in China versus Rest of the world - 12:56
5. Brands, influencers and Fashion in China - 22:00 - Follow up question: 24:10
6. Media and series #GreatMindsTalk - 27:13
7. Tech for Good - not a CSR program - 31:04
8. Relationship with Universities - 33:32
9. China is leading in tech with companies like TikTok leading the social media and super influencers. Can you tell us about that? 27:00
10. 5G Solutions: What impact 5G will have on industries? What are Huawei’s solutions regarding 5G?
11. Huawei has been working on a lot of indexes and data like the connectivity, trust index. Can you tell us about these projects? -
12. Can you tell us about your role as Director of Global Social Media Communications at Huawei Technologies? - 40:33
13. About the Digital Divide, what can we do to stop this worldwide issue? - 43:50
14. The role of ESG on fighting climate change and environmental issues - 46:50

Susie Wang Biography

Chinese born Susie Wang is the current Director of Global Social Media Communications at multinational company Huawei. From her position, she understands the importance of knowing different cultures and synergies. That is what took her to travel the world and experience different regions and cultures: from Canada, where she spent quite a lot of time in Montreal, to Europe and Singapore and across Asia.

In 2018, Susie joined Huawei as the Director of Global Social Media Communications where she  is responsible for public awareness, media outreach, online and print communications, the corporate website and social media channels, internal and external publications, and outreach events and activities.

Susie Wang holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, BAInternational Development Studies and holds a Master of Science from the University of Oxford.

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Daniel Doll-Steinberg is a serial entrepreneur and technologist, government advisor and co-founder of the Atari Token project. He is now the co-founder of EdenBase, which offers global shared spaces for innovative companies. Through these spaces, companies have the opportunity to collaborate with experts and technology providers on market adoption of disruptive technologies. 

Daniel had a successful career in investment banking in London and New York. Daniel is a serial entrepreneur, founder of several companies in the entertainment, marketing and health spaces. He also advised the UK Government and European Commission on Innovation and education policy. He is a regular speaker on innovation and the Future of Work. Daniel is a cofounder of the Atari Token project with Atari, an Ethereum founder and several gaming legends and is now launching.

Daniel Doll-Steinberg Interview focus:

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education... 
2. Can you tell us about your cultural background and how that made you who you are?
3. You started your career in trading and investments. Can you tell me about that experience and how that touched your career and tech career?
4. What are your thoughts on the evolution of trading, finance and the role of technology in all of that?
5. Can you tell us about the Atari Token  company / companies, organisations and focus? 
6. Can you tell us about EdenBase?
7. How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
8. What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
9. What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
10. And what about Frontier Technologies?
11. About AI: how to avoid a dystopian future?
12. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
13. What are your visions for the present and future?

Daniel Doll-Steinberg Biography

Daniel started his career in global derivatives technology in London and New York. Following that he founded / co-founded several companies delivering disruptive technology platforms in the entertainment and marketing spaces. Since 2016 Daniel has focussed on the Blockchain, specifically bringing real-world companies to the Blockchain.

He also founded, with a group of gaming veterans and an Ethereum founder, a computer gaming blockchain project that has the potential to deliver the future of work. This project, called the Atari Token, is a decentralized cryptocurrency that was created to become the token of reference for the interactive entertainment industry.

For several years Daniel advised both the UK Government and the European Commission on innovation, growth, and education policy. This included being the two-term UK appointed member of the European Commission Enterprise Policy Group (Business Chamber) and a member of the UK Government’s EU Advisory Group for the Department of Business, Innovation, and Skills.

In January 2020, Daniel Doll-Steinber and Eric van der Kleij founded EdenBase, which invests knowledge, capital and technology, to enable the next Game Changing tech-companies to achieve responsible growth and positive impact. 

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Nick Jonsson is the Founder & Managing Director with EGN (Executives’ Global Network) Singapore. A passionate about matching senior executives in confidential peer groups where they can help each other face challenges and identify opportunities, Nick has over 23 years of experience working across Asia, Australia and Europe representing major international firms. He is proficient in international general management, direct sales and marketing experience.

Nick is the international best selling author of "Executive Loneliness: How to avoid the workplace isolation," where he raises awareness, and aims to eliminate the stigma around the phenomenon of executive loneliness.

Nick Jonsson Interview focus:

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education, cultural and global network and the cultural nuances...
2. How do you see the main changes between Sweden, Europe and Asia when it comes to work and digital?
3. After living in Asia and multiple countries what were the main cultural shocks?
4. You are the Founder & Managing Director with EGN (Executives’ Global Network), can you tell us about the company and your work?
5. Can you elaborate on how your experience leading chambers of commerce and EGN now?
6. ESG is now a global network of 14,000 members, representing more than 8,000 companies and 70 professions. How does it work to be part of the ecosystem and how do you cope now with Covid and all challenges with offline and online?
7. In your book, "Executive Loneliness: How to avoid the workplace isolation," you raise awareness, and highlight the steps of how to eliminate the stigma around the phenomenon of executive loneliness. Can you tell us about the book and specific wellbeing for executives?
8. Can you tell us some stories about the book research and case studies you want to share with us?
9. How do you see Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
10. What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
11. What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
12. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
13. What are your visions for the present and future?

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