SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast

On this episode we are talking with Christian Guttmann who has a diverse background being a startup founder, professor, Vice President and Executive Director at some of the largest international tech companies, successful startups and leading universities. 

Currently Christian is the Global Head of AI at TietoEVRY one of the biggest IT service providers in Europe. Furthermore Christian is the Executive Director of the Nordic AI Institute, which is a global alliance consisting of outstanding individuals that have both: substantial industry experience in AI, and a significant scientific and technological track record.

Together with Christian we are talking about his experiences working in AI on different continents as well as the current developments within the research and corporate environment. 

Beyond that we are also tapping into the different applications of AI, maturity levels of organizations and much more. 

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A shorter episode with Henning Trill who as the VP Innovation Strategy together with his team at Bayer AG is building out various innovation initiatives and projects in order to establish a powerful innovation ecosystem across the company. 

Henning did his phd at the intersection of physics and chemistry and is somebody that is deeply rooted within the health sector. Together we are talking about the biggest trends and opportunities within health when it comes to utilizing digital technologies. 

We are discussing the potential in utilizing different type of health data and the different approaches already taking by big tech companies like Google or Amazon. 

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Round 2 with Hans Uszkoreit on the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast. 

After having Hans on our Podcast a year ago we took the opportunity to once again have him on the show to talk about the many interesting things that have happened since the last time we talked. 

On this episode among many things: 

- we are talking about the different approaches governments in Europe and China used to tackle the Corona crisis with technology

- as well as the opportunities to digitize the vast amount of information that is created in our personal lives

- and the opportunities for European enterprises with Artificial Intelligence

Fei since last year is responsible for developing the AI strategy and capabilities of global software powerhouse SAP.

Despite being born in China, Fei actually started her career in Germany within academia. After completing her phd in computational linguistics she spend many years at the german research center for artificial intelligence (DFKI), where she also was entrepreneurially involved in a spin off. 

Before joining SAP in May 2020, Fei spent 3 years at Lenovo in China building out the AI Lab at Lenovo Research. On this podcast we talk about her experience within academia, her time in China and the differences she experiences in both cultures when it comes to technology adoption. Beyond that we also talk about her current role at SAP and how she plans to establish AI as a core competence within the organization, introducing into the existing product portfolio and beyond. 

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Great talk with Markus Sontheimer who currently acts as the CIO/CDO & Member of the Board of Management at DB Schenker.

He is accomplished in digital business topics and known as a digital lateral thinker due to his experience in developing the digital divisions of DB Schenker, Deutsche Bank and Daimler over the past ten years.

Together with Markus we are diving into his approach of tackling digital transformation within large corporations and the importance of building strong digital capabilities in-house.

We are reflecting on his learnings from the past decade and dive into the current digital strategy of DB Schenker as well as into the future of the logistics industry in regards to the acceleration of tech.

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are talking with Joerg Hellwig who at the time of this recording holds the position of Chief Digital Officer of the chemical company Lanxess, with an annual revenue of over €7 billion. 

Joerg is a great guy who is keen on trying things out and is not hesitating to test the unknown. 

We talked about the set up of his team and the different initiatives they pursue but also about what it means to transform an organization that operates within B2B. 

For this we also talked about the amazing story behind CheMondis, which is a venture that has been started by Joerg and his team and became the biggest european online marketplace for chemical products. This is a great success story as CheMondis is the perfect example of a corporate attacking their own traditional business model. We dive into the story, set up and learnings from building this ventures. 

On this episode of the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast we are hosting Tobias Fausch who at the recording of this podcast acts as the CIO of BayWa, a 17 billion € company operating in the agriculture, building materials and energy sectors. The business model of BayWa integrates the trading, distribution, logistics and services within the three sectors.

Taking into account the size and different verticals the company is operating in we though it would be interesting to dive into the different applications of digital technologies and especially to dive into the existing use cases at BayWa when it comes to AI. 

We sat down with Tobias and talked about the different challenges within the CIO domain when it comes to balancing baseline infrastructure and simultaneously boost and support innovation within the organization. We are talking about the different use cases and the work that Tobias and his team are providing in order to technologically enable the creation of new business models. 

Ralf learnt writing code at the age of 6, and started his first software company at the age of 16.

He studied nanotechnologies and system theory and wrote his doctoral thesis on human cell research.

Currently he is a Managing Director at Hapag-Lloyd leading the global digital business and driving the global digital transformation and change in 144 Countries.

On this episode Ralf is sharing his rich experience from being an advisor for a number of large corporations such as Daimler or Phoenix Pharma as well as the Federal German government. 

We are talking about the digital transformation journey of the shipping industry and what it takes to get digital initiatives of the ground with a maximum return inside large corporations. 

On this episode we are talking with Susanna Schneeberger a experienced C-Level executive.

Currently Susanna is on the board of a number of large industrial corporations and previously ended her role as Chief Digital Officer at KION the European market leader and world second largest supplier of forklifts.

Here are some of the things we are talking about: 

The uvex group is all about protecting people and on this episode we talk to its Chief Digital Officer who is responsible for leading the digital transformation of the family owned company. 

With previous leadership positions at IBM and Schwan-Stabilo Bernd brings an interesting perspective from diverse industries as well as insights from the lens of being a CIO as well as a CDO. We talk about using sensors and other types of digital technologies within the safety industry and how technology is helping nowadays and in the future to keep people safe!