Podcasts 4 Brainport, featured by Radio 4 Brainport, 747AM and DAB+

At Radio 4 Brainport we had a great opportunity to learn from experienced speakers. What are the "secrets" of giving a great speach. In fact you can learn to be authentic in a fun way by interacting which people who share that passion to become a great speaker. 

Our guests are 

- VPPR (vice president of public relations) of Lighttown speakers Toastmaster club, as well as the owner the sf Selfmastery coaching company: Irina Iashvili, PhD. 

- Toastmasters' CC & CL: Competent Communicator and Competent Leader, but also the CEO of ONION EDUCATION, Peter J.M. Simons, and 

- board advisor, coach and a seasoned internal auditor Ralu Elena Nistor-Lustermans, MSc, CIA, CISA

Podcast host is Prof. Jean-Paul Linnartz

For many internationals, the Netherlans is all about wndmills, clogs and .... flowers. But in Valkenswaard, just south of Eindhoven you can experience what it means to see more than 2 million flowers in one big parade. Radio 4 Brainport interviewed Robin Wijnen of the organisation of Bloemencorso Valkenswaard.  

In Valkenswaard, the tradition of a flower parade stems stems from the liberation on September 17, 1944. After years of parades with decorated bicycles and wagons, the first flower parade moved through the streets of Valkenswaard on 17 September 1953. In those early years the cars were still 'uniform and almost symmetrical in construction'. Today, Bloemencorso Valkenswaard is an exciting spectacle of dahlias, technology, drama and music. The organisation calls it even a moving open-air theatre.

Over the years, the wagons became larger and more complex. In 1963, more than 150,000 dahlias were processed throughout the parade. With the same number of flowers on one car, we now speak of a small car: the total procession today counts almost 3 million flowers. Valkenswaard also explores the new construction technology and adds moving parts, plus theater and (live) music.

The meaning of freedom is different for every human being. Freedom creates and embraces diversity. To celebrate India's Independence Day, we spoke to the youth of today and young children about freedom. Let's listen to Kiara, Nevaan,  Anushka and Divya about their take on Freedom.

Photo taken at HTC during a Tea talk live program. 

In July 2022, cyclist Jonas Vingegaard won the Tour de France. It was a team success of Jumbo-Visma, building upon insights from Professor Bert Blocken, the team’s permanent advisor on aerodynamics since 2017. All main riders in the team have been in the wind tunnel with him to optimize their aerodynamics with the goal of gaining time. 

Radio for Brainport's Jean-Paul Linnartz also had an opportunity to visit the TU Eindhoven windtunnel, not with his bicycle, but with a radio microphone. In this interview, he chats with Bert Blocken about the combination of scientific research and the direct impact on sports.

On air on Radio 4 Brainport in 2019, still hot in 2022.

Sander Geerings and his Jamaician wife started "the Kingstonian" at the Vestdijk. On one hand they fill in the legacy of the dearly missed "hub", but on the other hand the Kingstonian should also become the place where international meet the locals.  

Relax. Connect. Reset, an interview by Jean-Paul Linnartz for Radio 4 Brainport 

Communication via Light, Li-Fi, can resolve the congestion of the radio spectrum. The EU Horizon 2020 project ELIoT works towards widespread deployment in the market. Standards are an important prerequisite for such mass deployment. As Light Communications can serve a wide variety of applications, a single standard is not sufficient to allow for high-performance cost-optimized solutions for all cases.

Current light communication standards already fulfill many of the requirements covered through the 5th generation mobile communication system (5G).  It can be leveraged with current 3GPP specifications to provide 5G services over light communication. However, further standardization is required to fully leverage the capabilities of light communications for use cases and requirements that are currently outside of the possibilities of wireless interfaces.

Our guest is Max Riegel, Nokia Standards – Senior Standards Specialist at Nokia. Host: Jean-Paul Linnartz

As the EU ELIoT project is nearing completion, Jean-Paul Linnartz asks Marcos Martinez, Director of Standards Engineering at MaxLinear about the learnings and prospects for a next generation of ICs that support wireless communication via light.     

A mini safari on the smartest square kilometer? Nuno Curado of Wild Eindhoven takes employees and visitors on a wild break. This time of year eggs have hatched. parents still feed the young bird that now leran to fly. Meanwhile falcons search for prey, ..

An intervew by Chaitali Sengupta of eindhovennews.com and Jean-Paul Linnartz on Radio 4 Brainport during the HTC open day June 11, 2022 

On May 8, Sunday you can walk into the Parktheater in Eindhoven. It is the Kick Off of the Peace Talent Contest. How creative are you in making something that promotes Peace? A Poem, a surprise box for kids, a statue, whatever peace of art.

Exact time and more can be found on stapjesnaarvrede.nl. Listen to the interview by Peter Simons with Kees Minderhout.

Photo Yaw Kuma Ansu-Kyeremeh

Our guest is Kris De Prins, managing director of Holland Expat Center South, short ‘the expat center’. Kris, together with his colleagues, runs the one stop shop for internationals coming to the region: they help the internationals with their formalities (municipal registration and residence permit), inform them on topics such as taxes, housing, healthcare, and they help them integrate in our society. 

The expat center helps approx. 600-700 internationals (working at 70-80 different employers) each month with their formalities and it organizes several events (webinars, workshops) the year around for internationals but also their employers. It is the place to start your journey in The Netherlands. Let’s find out in more detail what they are all about!’

Podcast and interview by Julie Allen for Radio 4 Brainport