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Miguel Amaral is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa at the Engineering and Management Department and as a Research Associate at the Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IN+/IST. An expert in the areas of Technological Change, Entrepreneurial Dynamics and Social Innovation, Miguel Amaral and citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda talk about how digital transformation is changing the business environment while highlighting innovation as a force for social change.

INTERVIEW FOCUS

Personal profile
Academic background and professional career
Entrepreneurship background - Social Innovation Lab
Companies and social impact
Social entrepreneurship concept
Education: from theory to practice
Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IN+/IST research focus
MIT connection and DLab
Frugal innovation
India case studies and current research projects

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citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda interviews Country Managing Director of Germany at NTT Ltd., Kai Grunwitz on the opportunities and challenges of the society 5.0 and the digital transformation that is making it possible as well as the special focus on the cybersecurity aspect of it.

Kai Grunwitz Interview focus

1. Introduction - background, overview, education...
2. Career
3. NTT company and focus
4. How can we Accelerate digital business transformation with Intelligent Business, secure by design.
5. Intelligent Business - Accelerate digital business transformation with 6. Intelligent Business, secure by design.
7. Intelligent Workplace - Empower and connect your workforce to deliver the best customer experience, with an intelligent digital workplace, secure by design.
8. Intelligent Infrastructure Drive business agility with intelligent IT infrastructure solutions, secure by design.
9. Using technology to help build better cities and communities
10. How do you see building an Intelligent Cybersecurity
11. Cybercrime - Global costs will exceed $6 Trillion In 2021
12. With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society tech infrastructure
13. Future vision

Kai Grunwitz is an innovative and established executive with a high impact career in conceptualizing, developing and driving business strategies on behalf of dynamic enterprises. A key driver of business performance with 25 years experience in developing and managing a solution, consulting and/or professional services business with a track record of managing a large P&L and successfully launching new brands, service products and new organizations.

Kai Grunwitz Specialties believes in society 5.0 and the critical urgence of digital transformation and the importance of starting step by step to enhance people adoption to tech and processes. Be quick or adopt or die that was always the threat but now is increasing and changing the scale and demand in new velocities. We have a new normal and the changes with digital transformation will accelerate - the remote world will be the normal.

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“There has been a trend of rising attention for the sustainable industry; the future of smart cities is looking brighter every day and the feasibility of implementing a smart city is becoming widely increasing. With our affiliations, we are successfully creating an inclusive, tech-oriented system through the Smart City Master Planning and TechSandbox.”
Jaewon Peter Chun, President of World Smart Cities Forum.

INTERVIEW FOCUS
1. An introduction from you - background, overview, education...
2. Career highlights
3. South Korea background growth and work in innovation
4. Definition Smart cities
5. Your company, organisation and focus
6. World smart cities forum
7. ARK-i Labs - solution services around the world based in smart cities
8. XnTREE tech accelerator
9. With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society
10. Goals and how do you see the future of work and the main trends in tech and society
11. Future vision for cities and the world

Jaewon Peter Chun was Born in South Korea, started with Investment Bank and started initially in investment / finance in tech and working in investing in high potential companies. He joined Level 39 since its inception and was involved in accelerating tech unicorns. In Level 39 he started also working with Canary Wharf group working on smart cities. He has been working in 10 smart cities around the world. Finance and technology worked as solutions that Peter wanted to relate with innovation solutions, special to cities and people.

Jaewon Peter Chun is now Chief Executive Officer, ARK-i Labs Full-time, since Nov 2019. He is the President, World Smart Cities Forum Full-time, Dec 2018. Jaewon is the CEO, XnTREE, Jan 2016. He is the Executive Director, Korea-Israel Chamber of Commerce (KICC), since Mar 2011. Jaewon Peter Chun has been a Partner, APEX Investment & Company, since Jan 2005.

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TNC IT Group has the vision to "unite the cryptocurrency world," and as founder Jason H. Jang tells us in this interview, they are doing everything they can to achieve it. Asked by citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda about the company's ambitious plans, Jason H. Jang goes through every project, including the recently launched tokenncoin, their massive blockchain M&A program and the blockchain based marketplace Buyaladdin. Likewise, both experts talk about the current state of the blockchain and the crypto industry, the regulatory challenges worldwide and the impact of COVID-19 in the sector.

INTERVIEW FOCUS

1. Personal profile and professional background
2. The state of blockchain and crypto
3. Blockchain Regulation in South Korea and in the world
4. About TNC IT Group
5. Blockchain M&A program
6. Tokenncoin
7. BuyAladding and Alibaba shopping mall
8. Smart Crypto Cities

JASON H. JANG BIOGRAPHY

Jason H. Jang is a corporate education and management professional, with extensive business experience as a trusted advisor in the ITTP program and Blockchain, conducting instructions and consultation among many international companies. Detailed knowledge of presentation, business negotiation, public speech, leadership, and Blockchain structure. Extensive experience in developing and managing diverse teams. Recognized for building capacity through meeting training needs and best practices. Ten years of experience in creating strategic and operational plans, business continuity plans, risk and crisis management planning for organizations, as well as corporate communications and spokesperson development.

Results-oriented, high-energy, hands-on professional, with a successful record of accomplishments in the networking, training, and communication transmission industries. Experience in R&D, mining center, exchange, and cryptocurrency social networking with focus on providing the recipient with the highest quality result. Fully compliant with coin development planning, ICO processing, managing mining machine, listing criteria management for listing the coin on exchanges, and legal provision for any types of blockchain related project.

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Prof. Michael Sung is a technology venture builder and investor, having founded various companies in diverse high-tech industries ranging from AI, blockchain, semiconductor, and new materials industries. In this new interview series, host Dinis Guarda and Michael Sung go through worldwide challenges and opportunities in the Fintech space and how new 4IR technologies like blockchain and AI can be seen as drivers of innovation for the future. Michael Sung also tells us about his CarbonBlue project, a tech-transfer and commercialisation platform that is focused on rapidly commercialising and scaling internationally-sourced high-tech innovation.

INTERVIEW FOCUS

1. Biography, professional background
2. Academic background and research focus as Director of the Fintech Research Center at the Fanhai International School of Finance at Fudan University
3. About Fintech: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
4. Dynamics of innovation in the Fintech space
5. 4IR Technologies: blockchain - decentralized systems
6. 4IR Technologies: blockchain and AI applied to cities and smart city projects
7. About CarbonBlue project

BIOGRAPHY

Prof. Sung is an expert on blockchain and crypto-finance innovation, as founding co-director of the Fintech Research Center at the Fanhai International School of Finance at Fudan University. In addition, Prof. Sung is faculty at the Chinese Institute of Economics and Finance, a national-level think tank focused on developing finance innovation policy for central government. He is also a venture partner for FinNX, cross-border investment bank platform for Fundamental Labs, one of Asia’s top blockchain funds.

He has a strong background in cross-border technology transfer, strategic industry engagement, commercialisation strategy, business model innovation, and hi-tech entrepreneurship.

Prof. Sung has served in numerous advisory roles over the years for the HK, Taiwan, and China governments on international tech transfer, innovation ecosystem building, AI, blockchain, and Fintech policy for various top city and ministry-level officials. Prof. Sung was also the chairman of the steering committee for MIT Tech Review’s Emtech HK Conference. He has received various awards for technology entrepreneurship, including MIT Enterprise Forum’s Most Visionary Technology Award and Google’s Solve for X Prize. Prof. Sung received his Ph.D. in EECS at the MIT Media Lab/Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as well as a graduate financial engineering degree from MIT Sloan Business School.

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Dinis Guarda, author and founder of citiesabc.com, interviews Xiaochen Zhang, a leading global thought leader in the areas of fintech, sustainability, blockchain and economic digital transformation and founder of Fintech4Good. Xiaochen Zhang is an active policy maker and technologist leading initiatives and organisations such as the major organisation FinTech4Good, as President, and co-Chair of World Digital Economy Council, among other organisations. Some of his global work aims to look at social impact, business empowerment, financial inclusion.

Interview focus

1. Background
2. Cultural background
3. Define Fintech
4. Fintech for Good
5. Fintech inclusion
6. Create commercial business models to empower policy makers, mainstream organisations, global companies and governments.
7. FinTech4Good
8. World Digital Economy Council
9. New business models related to economic digital innovation.
10. Gap between policy makers and innovators
11. Technology for doing good
12. Academic and education teaching
13. Programs for free for SMEs and learning models

About Xiaochen Zhang

Xiaochen Zhang, President of FinTech4Good, co-Chair, World Digital Economy Council, UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) Executive Council. He is also a member of the UN ESCAP Digital Economy Task Force and Green Business Task Force.

Listed as one of the Top 100 Blockchain Influencers by Lattice80, Xiaochen leads the design and implementation of FinTech4Goods’s strategy to introduce the most disruptive technological innovations in frontier markets. FinTech4Good was awarded the Best FinTech Impact Investing Network 2019 by Wealth & Finance International.

Xiaochen leads the design and implementation of FinTech4Goods’s strategy which aims to introduce impactful fintech and blockchain solutions to frontier markets through incubation, acceleration, and investment. He is a partner at Wemerge Capital, a Chairman of the Global Digital Economy Leadership Council, and serves on the Crowdfunding Professional Association Board of Director, member of the UN ESCAP Digital Economy Task Force and Green Business Task Force.

As a trusted figure in the digital economy and blockchain, he addressed 100+ high-level international forums as a keynote speaker and produced three blockchain and Fintech shows with 500K+ followers.

Prior to FinTech4Good, Xiaochen advised government agencies and multinational organizations on innovative finance, emerging technologies, and investment in positions at the World Bank, United Nations, and other international partnership platforms. He also taught entrepreneurship, innovative finance and blockchain courses at leading business schools.

He is also the founder of Blockchain Frontier Group, a co-chair of several blockchain labs, advisor of some leading blockchain start-ups, and a producer and host of the FinTech in China show and Blockchain Million Show.

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Christine Liu, Global Thought Leader, CEO/Founder of sHero consultancy and Champion Women Leadership is the starring guest in this new video interview. Hosted by citiesabc founder Dinis Guarda, both experts talk about the importance of building bridges between China and the rest of the world and the need to change the narrative, especially in times like this. Furthermore, as a women activist, Christine Lui founded sHero in 2007 and she began her crusade in the promotion of ‘dialoguing’ among women that cultivates collaborative actions and collective responsibility.

Based in Shanghai, Christine Liu has held leadership positions in multi-national companies ranging from luxury fashion to pharmaceuticals including Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and Honeywell. Christine is an accomplished Human Resources professional with many practical insights into human and organizational psyches.

Christine is the Senior Consultant for a New York based Lifestyle Marketing Advisory firm for its Asian Affairs, bringing brands to markets around the world. She is also the founder of sHero, a venture that aims to inspire and empower and offers women professionals total solutions for maintaining a satisfying balance between career and family.

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CHRISTINE LIU BIOGRAPHY: https://www.workingmother.com/profile...
sHero: http://www.sherochina.com/

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Prof Michael Rovatsos is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, and Director of the Bayes Centre, the University’s innovation hub for Data Science and AI. He also represents the University at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for Data Science and AI. In his research he develops AI algorithms and architectures to support collaboration between humans, e.g. in sharing economy, electronic commerce, or logistics applications. In recent years, much of his work has focused on ethical aspects of AI, primarily through the development of methods for designing fair and diversity-aware AI algorithms that respect the values of human users.

Interview focus

- Personal background
- Education and university background
- Career highlights and development
- Research focus and main areas
- How do you see the challenges of education in your area
- How Covid 19 is impacting the world and the areas of your expertise
- What message of hope do you highlight in these times?


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SCHOLAR CITATIONS: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...
THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE: https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/resea...

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Michael Terpin, blockchain investor and founder and CEO of Transform Group and BitAngels among others, joins Dinis Guarda in this new interview for citiesabc. A true legend in the blockchain and crypto space, Michael Terpin shares his expertise on the current state of blockchain and digital assets and how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting the industry.

In this interview, Michael Terpin  looks at his beginnings in newswire and PR businesses that went from a small internet company to become one of the most important newswires in the world: Transform Group. Mr. Terpin also talks about his activities in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, including the theft of millions of dollars in crypto in 2018 and BitAngels, the first angel investor group focused on identifying, funding and mentoring seed- and early-stage startups in the digital currency space, including Bitcoin.

Michael Terpin is a blockchain investor and the founder/CEO of Transform Group, a global public relations, blockchain advisory and events firm that has served over 250 clients in the blockchain space, including more than 30% of the CoinMarketCap 100 companies and foundations. In addition, Terpin co-founded BitAngels, an angel investor network for digital currency startups. Terpin is also known for founding Marketwire, which was one of the world’s leading business newswires and which has since been merged with GlobeNewswire.

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Angel List: https://angel.co/p/michael-terpin
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Monty Munford, tech journalist, blockchain expert and Co-Founder at BlockSpeak podcast series, is the new guest in this interview series for citiesabc. As it is usual in the series, host Dinis Guarda and Monty Munford discuss major challenges nations, cities and people are facing today. Covid-19 and its impact on the economy and the crypto space and how it is a wake-up call for all of us to do it better in the future. In that regard, blockchain and cryptocurrencies might find in the post-Covid-19 world their best opportunity to stand up and become the drivers of change.

INTERVIEW STRUCTURE

1. Profile and professional background.
2. Work on media
3. The COVID-19 pandemic. The great challenge of our time
4. COVID-19 and its impact on blockchain and crypto industry
5. Post coronavirus world. A look into the future of blockchain and crypto
6. BlockSpeak podcast. How to become an eminence in the blockchain space

Monty Munford is a well known tech-journalist and blockchain enthusiast who started his career working for several years as a motorbike dispatch-rider in London, before retraining as a journalist at the London College of Printing in 1998.

From 2015-2019 Munford was a tech columnist for Forbes in New York and The Telegraph in London. He has also contributed to TechCrunch, Mashable, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Wired. MIT Technology Review, The Independent, The Inquirer, The Guardian,] The Observer, Financial Times, and The Times of India. He has a Google News-verified tech blog, Mob76 Outlook.

He has interviewed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, John McAfee, and Roger Ver. In August 2019, Munford reported that he had been defrauded of £25,000 in cryptocurrency, mainly Bitcoin and Ethereum, when his private keys were stolen from his Gmail account.
Munford has also written and self-published The Dust Bowls of Maturity.

In 2005 Munford joined mobile media games publisher and distributor Player X having previously worked for mobile game testing house Babel Media. Munford left Player X to devote his time to connecting UK and Indian mobile content providers working with Paramount and FC Liverpool, as well as to pursue acting in Bollywood. In 2011, he returned to the UK and set up his own consultancy Mob76.

He recently started his podcast BlockSpeak where he carries out Weekly interviews with influential people in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Space.

BlockSpeak podcast: https://blockspeak.io/
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