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Kieu My (Kimiko) Doan, Vietnam Digital Transformational Leader Ambassador Founder of YellowBlocks

Kieu My Doan, known as Kimiko is a #transformationalleader with a proven track record of generating revenue growth for startups and international companies across multiple industries. Her passion is to drive business growth, creating brand values, and promote innovation across the company.

Kieu My Doan believes in collaboration and works closely with business/technology/product leaders to understand their needs and build world-class marketing strategy and infrastructure from the ground-up to support the business growth. Kimiko is a change agent, problems solver, and promoter of results-oriented culture. Kieu My Doan has international work experience and excellent soft-skills to establish working relationships at different levels. Kieu My Doan core philosophy is "we succeed as a team" based on trust and commitment to the highest standards of products and services.

Kieu My Doan Interview focus:

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. How is Vietnam Culture and doing business over there?
3. What are Vietnam's main industry and growing areas? Textile, telecoms, ecommerce, sectors...
4. Career highlights - as entrepreneur, startup ambassador, creator of YellowBlocks?
5. Vietnam major organisations, digital and focus to highlight?
6. How do you see Emerging tech - Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation?
7. Can you tell us about your work with the government and collaboration with the Minister of Science and Technology?
8. What advice would you give to people that want to connect in Vietnam?
9. You are working in multiple companies and organisations such as Vingroup and ABCD and Quest Venture, can you tell us about these organisations?

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Fintech expert Dr. Efi Pylarinou is the new guest in this Dinis Guarda citiesabc openbusinesscouncil YouTube interview. Hosted by Dinis Guarda, both experts discuss the present and future of finance and the impact of Fintech and technology, including blockchain and crypto, in the future of the industry.

Efi Pylarinou Interview Focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
Greece - Maths
USA studies
2. Career highlights:
PHD - Chaos theory in finance
Solomon Brothers - WallStreet
3. How do you see the chaos and changes we have been facing when it comes to our society, governance and financial models?
4. Change around parameters
Human rights / rational discrimination
5. Attractors - we are lost in defining the attractors - uncertainty issues special when it comes to technology. And it seems it creates more complexity.
6. What solutions we can provide to this: Universal Income… disparity issues
7. When it comes to the financial systems we have the legacy established systems, the emergent system and now also the disruptive decentralised cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, DeFy… and at the same time the meg powerful players like the Silicon Valley and Chinese players...
8. How do you see the financial services - fintech industry ecosystem now?
9. We have major challenges with financial inclusion and digital ID. How do you see this and how can we solve it?
10. What are you doing with your work and platforms like daily fintech?
11. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?

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Grant Blaisdell is a leading personality in blockchain and crypto and a pioneer of blockchain technology applied to different sectors. In this new interview, hosted by Dinis Guarda, Grant Blaisdell tells us about his two new companies: Coinfirm and Copernic Space and how blockchain can help make the music industry a bit fairer.

Grant has been creating models and ventures at the intersection of tech, media, and branding since his teens, working and living in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and more recently in CEE. Grant is an early innovator in applying blockchain technology to various industries, companies. As an entrepreneur, Grant has co-founded the leading Blockchain Analytics and AML company Confirm and the digital asset marketplace for the Space industry Copernic Space.

Grant Blaisdell Interview Focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. Culture background: USA and Poland?
3. Career highlights
4. Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
5. How do you see blockchain, crypto and its impact on different industries?
6. What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?
7. What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
8. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
9. What are your visions for the present and future?

Link - Sources

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Simon Hedaux is the founder and CEO of ReThink Productivity. His pioneering methods allow businesses to drive #efficiency, boost #productivity and optimise budgets. For nearly a decade ReThink has been transforming the way some of the world’s biggest companies operate – refining their processes, reviewing their systems, analysing change impact and ensuring they’re operating at maximum efficiency and productivity levels.

Simon Hedaux Interview Focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. Career highlights
3. Your company / companies, organisations and focus?
4. How do you see productivity and all areas of digital transformation?
5. How do you see data and productivity?
6. Can you tell us about a specific case study that you can highlight?
7. Can you tell us about time management - your time and motion studies?
8. What are your views on our society, technology and digital transformations when it comes to productivity?
9. What are your goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society?
10. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?
11. Can you tell us about your podcasts and where to find your research and case studies?

Simon Hedaux Biography

Simon Hedaux offers unrivalled expertise in helping businesses to manage whatever challenges they’re facing – whether they’re attempting to scale at pace, cut costs, stay agile to cope with ever changing customer expectations and operating model challenges or structure leadership teams to deliver business objectives. They make sure every penny spent is aligned to the company goals. ReThink works with everyone from small chains and medium sized organisations to multi-chain, multinational businesses, at every stage in their journey – whether they’re at crisis point or boasting rapid growth.

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William Bao Bean is a General Partner at SOSV - The Accelerator VC - the #2 most active angel and seed stage investors in the world 2019 with US$700m under management. At SOSV he is the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator the first accelerator to launch in Asia and the only accelerator in Asia to have a unicorn come through its program – Bitmex the #1 crypto exchange in the world by trading volume enabling anyone with a smartphone to access financial products and opening up investment to the unbanked.

William Bao Bean Interview Focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
Career highlights - equity analyst and technology, IPOs, investors accelerators
2. Bringing alibaba public - ant financial
3. Your company SOSV - Chinaaccelerator, MOX companies, organisations and focus?
4. As someone that comes from history and investment How do you see all areas of digital transformation and your views on our society, technology and digital transformations?

William Bao Bean Biography

William Bao Bean is also Founder and Managing Director of MOX - the Mobile Only Accelerator - providing startups with free user acquisition to the 70m smartphone users on the platform. William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director supporting China investments. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, a venture capital firm backed by Softbank and Cisco, leading investments in China and South East Asia. Previously, William spent 11 years as an equity research analyst most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was a top ranked analyst for Asia Internet and China Tech, Media and Telecom and worked on IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft and eLong (Expedia China).

He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.

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Dinis Guarda interviews Micah Walker, the CEO of Grabba, a secure and effective identification and data processing for individuals, businesses and organisations in this new citiesabc YouTube podcast series. Both experts go through the rising challenge of cybersecurity and #digitalidentity and how new solutions like #biometrics and other technologies are helping to cope with them.

Micah Walker interview focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. Career highlights - multiple industries sector
3. Can you tell us about grabba focus?
4. Can you tell us about biometric technology and your solutions?
5. How do you deal with cybersecurity in your technology set up?
6. How do you see digital transformation and data?
7. Are you integrating blockchain and AI tech in your tech solutions?
8. How do you deal with the ethics around data, cybersecurity and the outputs of data that come from your devices and tech solutions?
9. What are your views on our society, nations, and how to deal with technology and digital transformations?
10. With Covid-19 what ways do you envision to redesign our society with technology and social impact?

Micah Walker Biography

Micah Walker is the CEO of Grabba, a secure and effective identification and data processing for individuals, businesses and organisations. Micah Walker has a diverse Executive Management background and International experience with Global Organisations.

Micah Walker understands the importance of leadership and the shift towards digital transformation as organisations and countries pursue globalisation, technology develops faster than ever and so does the framework and systems of organisational leadership. Relationships with stakeholders that are empowered to be dynamic and intuitive are both relevant to today's workplace and prepared for change.

As a growth specialised Executive Leader, Micah Walker has had the fortunate experience of leading a very diverse group of organisations through their journey in scaling up for growth. Some of the companies he has worked with include from a global coffeehouse business to an International fashion franchise, a listed corporate retailer to an expanding entrepreneurial technology brand, Walker’s engaging management approach has been galvanised over 15 years of high-level accountability based Asia, the Middle East, Australia and in project management across many other global markets.

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Gallery Director Aidan Meller is a specialist in modern and contemporary art and runs a gallery internationally. With over 20 years’ experience in the art business, he works closely with private collectors and is often consulted by those who wish to begin, or further develop their collections. He regularly has original works by the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, to older works such as John Constable, Turner and Millais. Aidan is the visionary mind behind Ai-Da Robot Artist.

Interview Focus

1. Can you tell us about your Background - education - career?
2. How the idea of creating a Robot Artist came into existence?
3. As a visionary behind AI-Da how do you see the boundaries between art, literature, science, technology and engineering? Part of this work is a collaboration between 30 software programming, bots and Engineering. Can you elaborate where it finishes engineering and where it starts your innovation / creativity?
4. Ai-Da is one of the fastest rising artists in history - can you elaborate on that?
5. Ai-Da comprehends a big conscience on art, technology and Ethics: how do you manage that?
6. As a founder, visionary and manager of Ai-Da work how do you manage the different verticals on art creation - sculpture - writing?
7. Do you expect Ai-Da to influence a new art trend?
8. How is it to manage AI-Da own identity going forward?
9. Ai-Da is now a global success. What is in the pipeline you can highlight?

About Aidan Meller
 
An author on the subject of the art market and western art history, Aidan has been consulted by the media as an expert in his field, with recent appearances on the BBC, CNN and Sky News regarding affairs such as the exhumation of Salvador Dali. Aidan’s art discoveries include a collection of Pre-Raphaelite cartoons for stained glass from Heaton Butler and Bayne and Powell & Sons. Celebrated as a major Pre-Raphaelite find, the collection was authenticated by in-house and external experts.

The Aidan Meller Galleries continue to develop their art programs; their extraordinary growth was highlighted in 2016 when Aidan took on an Elizabethan Manor to showcase artworks. He now shows some of the rarest and most exciting works in the art industry.

AI-DA'S INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/0Fl6UjfM0ko

Links / Sources

www.ai-darobot.com
www.aidanmeller.com
www.instagram.com/aidarobot/

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Michael Stanley-Jones, member of the UNEP Ecosystem Integration Branch and Secretariat of the United Nations Alliance for Sustainable Fashion is the guest in this new citiesabc series interviews. Led by Dinis Guarda, Michael Stanley-Jones discusses the role of the United Nations in achieving the #SDGs and how the Alliance for #SustainableFashion can help promote a more conscious fashion industry.

Michael Stanley-Jones Interview Focus

1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education.
2. When was the moment you decided to change your life in Silicon Valley towards a sustainability activism career?
3. Can you tell us about your career highlights so far working in the UN, Sustainable Fashion Alliance, as an environmentalist in Silicon Valley, etc.?
4. Can you tell us more about the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?
5. As part of the UNEP Sustainability Work Group, you supported the development and adoption of the UNEP Environmental, Social & Economic Sustainability Framework, which provides review, transparency, and grievance procedures. Can you tell us about your vision and how to put it in practice?
6. You have been  the inaugural Secretary and the first Chair of the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion, an inter-agency coordinating group (from Dec. 2018, as the Alliance's co-Secretary with Simone Cipriani, Head of ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative) since July 2018. Can you tell us about that role and your work done so far?
7. How can we create a more sustainable world, focusing on two major topics - fashion and textile industry?
8. Can you tell us about your work as author of "Reward and Renewal: The Poverty-Environment Initiative Final Project Report (2014-2018)" and co-author of J. Gupta et al, "Re-imaging the driver-pressure-state-impact-response framework from an equity and inclusive development perspective" (Sustainability Science, June 2019)?
9. What advice do you give to individuals and organisations at the  time of Covid-19 and on how to cope with the present challenges specially with advent of Society 5.0 - 4IR and all areas of digital transformation when it comes to UN SDG and your work with UN, at large?
10. About data ownership and technology. What are your visions on data ownership and the UN’s approach to it?
11. You are a poet too. Can you tell us more about this creative side?

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Dinis Guarda interviews Bottler Distribution Group CEO Andy Weinstein in this new interview series for citiesabc. Both experts go through major challenges in the #SupplyChainIndustry and how to improve the communication between industries and #sustainability.

BDG Founder Andy Weinstein understands distribution. A working member of a third generation Pepsi / Dr Pepper Bottler in the Pacific NW, Andy is intimately involved with the operating networks that affect his family business. He has a lifelong familiarity with the business dynamics of the industry—an industry that delivers physical goods, day in and day out, across America.

Andy is witness to a sea change in the distribution industry, that is why he founded BDG. Delivery disruption, aka the Amazon Effect, and changing consumer preferences have rocked mainstream distribution. In response to rapidly changing retail and distribution ecosystems, legacy beverage distribution companies have responded by doing more of what they know, optimizing their beverage lines and cutting costs by cutting employees. But with year-on-year declines in carbonated soft drink volumes and competition from highly efficient logistics and delivery operations, most beverage distributors continue to feel the threat to margins and concern over the implications to future business.

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Dinis Guarda interviews Qiaoyin Yang, Senior Industry Solution Manager at Huawei Technologies, in this new interview for citiesabc. The interview focuses on the role of innovative ICT solutions that are applied to the #ElectricPowerIndustry and the challenges that companies face when dealing with massive electric grids and their legacy systems.

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