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Episode Title: 🇨🇭What affects a country's world competitiveness ranking in digital, the economy and politics🇨🇭

A very thought provoking, informative and wonderful conversation with Christos Cabolis, the Chief Economist and Head of Operations at the IMD, IMD World Competitiveness Center.

Christos examines the impact of Covid-19 on the economy, politics and social issues as well as dissect the World Competitiveness rankings, the different economies, a country's journey and readiness, digitalisation, application of innovation, political stabilities/instabilities and the role education plays in their algorithms. 

Some great insights into countries making an impact, emerging markets and what causes economies to go stagnant.

An academic through and through, Christo forensically answers the questions posed.  I would suggest a download, make a cup of coffee and listen to his wise words.

A thought provoking article was mentioned in this discussion. Please have a read. It's an article written by Christos Cabolis with  Jose Caballero.  The hidden impact of Covid-19

Many thanks to our sponsors KPMG, Accxia, DeVere Switzerland

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Series 2

Snippets of the latest episodes of Heads Talk

Subscribe to the show and see who has made what comments and in what context.  Very interesting discussions and insights from our Heads in Series 2. 

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Episode Title: 🇩🇪What Investors Should be Aware of with the Advent of 5G Technology: An Industry Insider's View🇩🇪

Recorded 04.08.20

In this episode of Heads Talk, Elaine Pringle-Schwitter is once again joined by a leading telecommunications and technology expert who not only sat on executive boards, but led them. With 5G on the horizon, Rene Schuster provides us with an executive, technical, social and political insights into its deployment. 

A must listen to and a call for a debate on some of the areas covered in this episode. Rene provided a thorough diagnosis of the current thinking around 5G and a balanced input to all the aspects and stories around this sometimes controversial issue. Please comment or feed questions to Rene, he'd be very happy to have a dialogue with you. 

Connect with René Schuster on linkedin.

Sponsored by Quality Transformation, Berd Capital 

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Episode Title: 🇬🇧The Technology Activist and Evangelist🇬🇧

In this episode of Heads Talk, Elaine speaks with one of Forbes World Top50 Women in Tech. 

Professor Sue Black OBE is a powerhouse in the technology industry, an academic, a savvy problem solver and a highly respected leader with over 40 publications to her name. 

A very inspiring conversation and a tenacious institutional leader.  

Sponsored by Quality Transformation   

Recorded: 14.07.20

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Episode Title: 🇿🇦Next Generation Security and Data Integrity in this Covid-19 Digital Era and Beyond🇿🇦

Recorded: 01.07.20

In this episode of Heads Talk, Elaine Pringle-Schwitter talks with a highly respected Chief Information and Security Officer about his role in the Covid-19 pandemic and the demands faced by CSOs. Johan Pieterse has been in the role of CSO/ CISO for a number of decades now. 

He currently is the Group CSO for a well known publishing house and we discussed some of the niche security problems faced by an organisation in his sector as well as the morphed role of the CSO. 

A very interesting conversation and a look at the future requirements in the cybersecurity space. 

Sponsored by Accxia 

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Episode Title: 🇬🇧What Knocked Covid-19 off the Front Pages?🇬🇧   

Recorded:  26.06.20

In this week’s episode of HeadsTalk, Elaine Pringle Schwitter is joined by a Financial Services Partner in PwC and a seasoned Tax, Asset and Wealth Management Advisor.

Teresa Owusu-Adjei is a dynamic leader with multiple layers to her profession, personality and life.

She talks about the financial and in particular, the international and domestic tax challenges as a result of Covid-19, the recent momentum with the BLM movement; and how the responses and actions within her organisation are led by the Chairman of PwC - Kevin Ellis.

Sponsored by Dow 

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Episode Title: 🇩🇪Who fortuitously rode the Perfect Storm of Covid-19?🇩🇪
 
Recorded: 07.07.20

In this episode of Heads Talk, Elaine is joined by a telecommunications industry giant!

René Schuster is the chairman of the board of VirtualStock. He is an expert in the telecommunications and technology industry and has an enviable record in growing global telecommunications and technology businesses. His most renowned achievement was as CEO of Telefonica Deutschland, in which he led the company through the largest IPO in Europe, growing the company from an initial 3€ billion evaluation into a 14€ billion organization.  

René has held a number of senior leadership positions including; the CEO of Adecco.  European CEO, Compaq computer corporation. Chief Operating Officer at VimpelCom, Global marketing director at Vodafone PLC. Senior Vice President at Hewlett Packard. He was also a director at IBM and the Managing Partner of KPMG, Consumer and Industry market EMEA. 

He gives us an insider's view to one of the few industries that has experienced an overall boost due to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent economic lockdown, whilst also touching on the rise of  the bio genetic engineering industry and a call for a debate. A very fascinating and insightful discussion not to be missed!

This episode is sponsored by Accxia

Accxia is the leading private Cloud platform in the Atlassian and Mattermost ecosystem combining intelligent solutions with security and control. Accxia’s clients profit from digitisation and automation of critical business processes in a cloud or hybrid architecture. 150 staff provide migration, engineering and support services to over 200 leading organisations in 32 countries.

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Episode Title: 🇬🇧 How to Implement a Data Driven Culture in your Organisation🇬🇧

Recorded: 10.06.20

In this episode of HeadsTalk Podcast, Elaine Pringle-Schwitter is joined by Eddie Short. 

Eddie is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer for O2 (Telefónica UK). Elaine and Eddie discuss how organisations can implement a data driven culture as well as why the role of CDO is becoming much more pivotal in organisations as they move to more data driven models.

Eddie has held several  senior roles, including, but not limited to vice president of Capgemini lead EMEA for KPMG where he led the global data analytics initiative. Chief data and analytics officer for Aon and chief data and technology officer for the British American Tobacco Company, where he led a 1 billion pound portfolio of global IT enabled transformation projects. 

Highly skilled in IT, he has been described by many as an astute and truly visionary leader. 

Sponsored by KPMG  https://home.kpmg

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Episode Title: 🇬🇧With the Inevitability of a Second Wave, What Should be done to Increase the Testing of Covid-19🇬🇧
 
Recorded: 17.06.20

In this week’s episode of #HeadsTalk, I am joined by a heavyweight in the field of medicine. Hilary Thomas Chief Medical Officer, a brilliant academic  with extensive practical experience in global health and life sciences, talks about redesigning the workplace health and safety behavioural framework, the lockdown mental health time bomb and how digitalisation and AI are helping health and medical practitioners to deliver accurate diagnosis as well as better care and services. 

A very interesting and riveting conversion with Hilary Thomas. 

Sponsored by KPMG Life Sciences: https://home.kpmg

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Episode Title: 🇬🇧 If Covid-19 happened during the Y2K crisis, what would we have done?🇬🇧
 
Recorded: 02.06.20

In this episode of HeadsTalk Podcast, Elaine Pringle Schwitter is joined by a special guest. Graham Oates, the former Managing Partner of KPMG UK and a veteran in the management consulting business. 

Graham talks about Covid-19, how that would have played out in his tenure when the crisis at the time was the Millennium bug - Y2K. 

He also provides insightful views on Brexit, the digital revolution, the 'winners' in this current pandemic and environmental issues. 

Sponsored by KPMG Netherlands: https://home.kpmg/nl/

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