We take one more peek at SAP.io Munich Foundry’s Fall Cohort. In part two of our start-up feature we speak with Mathias Stiefel, CEO of 8select and Leon Szeli, CEO of Presize.

Links

• SAP.io Munich Foundry’s Fall Cohort
• SAP.io on Twitter
• 8select
• 8select on LinkedIn
• Presize
• Presize on Twitter
• Video: SAP.iO Foundry Munich Fall 2019 Cohort Highlights

In this first of two special feature episodes we take a look at SAP.io Munich Foundry’s Fall Cohort. Julian Krenge, CTO of Parcellab, and Babak Mirzaie, CEO of Expivi, tell us about their start-ups and experiences with SAP.

Links

• SAP.io Munich Foundry’s Fall Cohort
• SAP.io on Twitter
• Parcellab
• Parcellab on Twitter
• Expivi
• Expivi on Twitter
• Video: SAP.iO Foundry Munich Fall 2019 Cohort Highlights

Controlling devices with your mind! We talk to Chris Anderson from CTRL-Labs about their brand new, non-invasive neural interface platform, a wristband that translates intentions into actions.

Links

• Chris on Twitter and LinkedIn
• CTRL-Labs
• CTRL-Labs on Twitter
• Video: CTRL-Labs – Controlling a Machine with your Intentions
• Neuralink
• Video: Elon Musk’s Neuralink Presentaion

In this feature episode we’re taking a closer look at IOTA, the first open-source distributed ledger that is being built to power the future of the Internet of Things with feeless microtransactions and data integrity for machines. Our guest is Dominik Schiener, one of the company’s founders.

Links

• Mark Zuckerberg defending Libra in US Congress 
• Google News on Quantum Computing
• IOTA MAM
• The IOTA Coordinator and its Coordicide
• IOTA Shimmer 
• Digital Identities with IOTA – medium.com
• Hackster & IOTA
• IOTA
• Dominik Schiener on Twitter

Together with Gordon Williams, we discuss how NFC & Bluetooth can be explored via the Espruino line of boards. As a special treat, we talk about Gordon’s latest Kickstarter project - the Bangle.js!

Links

• Gordon’s new Kickstarter Project - Bangle.js
• Gordon on Twitter
• Espruino Home Page
• Info about BLE
• NFC Beer Garden
• NFC Intro on Slideshare
• NFC on Android
• NFC on iOS
• The beer story
• The Tilt Repeater

Which 5 key technologies do you think could define the next five years? We discuss the first issue of Tech Beacon with Georg Kreimer, Head of SAP Customer Experience Labs.

Links

• Georg on LinkedIn and Twitter
• Tech Beacon
• Prototypes

We welcome our boss(!), Eugenio Cassiano,  Chief Innovation Officer | SAP CX, to talk about innovation in general and inside SAP Customer Experience.

Links

• Eugenio on Twitter and on LinkedIn
• Tech Beacon
• Zefiro
• Guardian
• KOI
• KOI Video

We discuss all things Visual AI with Ofer Fryman, CEO of Syte. In this episode you’ll hear all you’ve ever wanted to know about Deep Tagging, Visual Search and the process of preparing the data for a visual ML system.

Links

• Ofer on LinkedIN
• Syte website
• Syte on LinkedIN and Twitter
• FashionLabs prototype
• TechCrunch: Syte founding announcement
• Visual Search revolutionizing Black Friday
• Video: CX Live main event
• Video: Experience Innovation
• Video: Guardian
• Video: FINDMINE Start-Up Chat
• Tech Beacon

Together with Matt Netkow from Ionic we discuss cross-platform app development based on web technologies and progressive web apps (PWA). For everyone new to app development, we’re also introducing the key strategies for creating apps and compare some of the well-known app development frameworks in this area.

Links

• The Creativity Code
• Marcus du Sautoy on ‘Futureproof’
• Labs Team Excursion
• Chirp Chirp
• Design Thinking Camp
• WordPress, Kyma & WeChat
• Eugenio in Japan
• SAP.io Munich
• Feature Extraction – another view
• Smart Mirror v2
• Ionic Framework
• Matt’s Website

Both AI and Edge Computing are hot topics, but the combination of both is even more fun, as they enable completely new use cases and customer experiences. Listen to our interview with Mike Tyka (Software Engineer, Google Research) if you want to find out how these trending topics come together or how this is related to TensorFlow and new cool products like Google Coral!

Links

• enable.cx.sap.com
• Guardian – Open AI too dangerous to release
• TalkToTransformer
• Open AI – Better Language Model
• KOI: Demo in a Minute
• SAP Now Tokyo
• Feature Extraction
• Digital Female Leader Award
• Green Keeper
• Start-ups
• AI on the Edge
• Mike’s website
• Mike on Twitter
• Teachable Machine
• Google Coral & Teachable Machine