Tech Talks Central

Combining organic chemistry, physics and electricity, StoreDot has created a chemical compound which, along with a complete redesign of the battery, allows it to charge very very fast (1 minute for a mobile). Doron Myersdorf, CEO & Founder and Erez Lober, SVP of Electric Vehicles at StoreDot -an Israeli startup that has raised 66 million in funding from Samsung Ventures- goes beyond mobiles and batteries to talk about how they’ve launched the Electric Vehicle sector, which they believe will be the most promising market for the future. We believe this is a startup that you should be keeping an eye out for in the future. We sure will. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Contiamo, a Berlin-based startup, present at this year’s 4YFN, has created a web-based Business Intelligence platform, that combines structured or unstructured data from many different sources into a single integration, offering useful data-driven results and a comprehensive approach to all members, of an affiliated organization. Michael Franzkowiak, founder and managing director of Contiamo, talks about his “incredibly powerful and flexible” platform and his vision to empower even traditional companies and organizations with the benefits that data-driven culture may bring to them. Deutsche Telekom is not only a supporting partner but also investor in the startup http://www.contiamo.com. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central

Paulo Rodrigues, CEO & Vesna Prchkovska, CSO & co-founders at MintLabs & Landon McKenna, COO/CFO at MintLabs

MintLabs, a startup company that participated at 4YFN, has set a really aspiring goal: to create the biggest database of imaging data of the brain, in order to build models of healthy and diseased ones. Paulo Rodrigues, CEO at MintLabs and his multi-national team of experts talk to TTC about their vision, emphasizing on their social impact goals. Their already popular data visualization platform allows doctors to understand the true state of a patient’s brain comparing it to a diseased one. Pharmaceuticals, on the other hand, have an objective reference to compare the impact of new drugs, before they enter the market. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central

Want to know the winners of the best British Startup at Mobile World Congress 2016? Giles Rhys Jones , Marketing Director of what3words talks about their product, how they came up with the idea and their strategic decisions that made them the company they are now. He also shares some mistakes they made during their startup rollercoaster and what are their next steps to grow their company bigger. Last but not least he points out what 4YFN and MWC offered to what3words and the benefits of participating. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central

Libelium CEO, Alicia Asin, despite her young of age is very knowledgeable when it comes to the Internet of Things hype and how she foresees her company growing within it. Dubbed as a baby unicorn by Silicon Valley, Libelium, is growing fast in the agricultural and smart city verticals of sensor and software infrastructure, for connected devices. She clearly defines their goals and main targets to become competitive in specific markets and to identify new ones, like water monitoring for irrigation and other purposes. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Ford is exhibiting at Mobile World Congress for the 5th consecutive year and Barb Samardzich, the Chief Operating Officer at Ford Europe, shared with us the new technologies and services Ford is offering. Learn what FordPass and SYNC3 technologies have to offer and what Ford’s R&D department is working on. She also highlights how important security and data privacy is and she talks about how sharing economy and Smart Cities can change the automotive industry. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central

A quite important benefit of the connected economy is electronic and -more specifically- mobile payments. Hiroyuki Sato, SEO at Docomo Digital, a subsidiary of the well-known Japanese carrier which is based in Europe, explains their new initiative that they hope will connect many different payment methods into one enabling platform which will offer global access to their customers via their mobile devices. Docomo Digital presence in MWC16 perfectly serves their purpose which is to start talking with many stakeholders in order to enable a mobile ecosystem, including regulators, financial institutions, operators. etc. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central

Jasper is a pioneering company in the Internet of Things era and they’re out to connect everything from devices, vending machines, bicycles, users, customers and about anything that can transmit data. Mark Thomas, Director of Connected Car Product Marketing at Jasper, explains the backend cloud solutions they offer their customers in order to provide the needed infrastructure for the development of IoT solutions. We ask Mark about how he sees the future of IoT and what he believes about future regulations and ethical questions that will arise from the monitoring of IoT devices. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Good news for travellers around the globe, which are now able to save some money on roaming for calls and data! Gregory Gundelfinger, Chief Executive Officer at KnowRoaming presented such a product at MWC16 offering uninterrupted and much cheaper service to frequent travellers. Their scheme is based on a special sticker placed upon the normal SIM card of the user, some kind of e-wallet and a lot of agreements with local operators, as KnowRoaming offers its services in more than 80 (popular) countries. Talking and texting prices differ a little from country to country, but the fixed price of $7.99/day for unlimited data seems really interesting. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis and Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central

Want to know more about Open source technology and security in the IoT era? Art Swift, President and Cesare Garlati, Chief Security Strategist at the prpl Foundation explain how they are creating an open community to drive new standards for the Internet Of Things. They highlight how critical security is for companies and where they mostly focus. They also refer to possible set of solutions that they have identified, and how security at a hardware level has room for a lot of improvement. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central