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The Future Makers Podcast
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The Future Makers Podcast episodes
- Real Estate: The Legal Mistake Buyers Keep Making In Cyprus Real Estate I Viktoria Iatsiuta
In this episode, host Annetta Benzar speaks with Viktoria Iatsiuta, CEO of MySpace Real Estate and Vidigroup, about what serious buyers ask for today, why clarity around legal aspects can make or break a transaction, and how demand is changing as Cyprus becomes a “safe haven” market for new regions.
Future Makers: Real Estate Series follows Cyprus real estate from the inside. The conversations cover demand, pricing, negotiations, and the legal details that decide whether a deal holds or falls into the cracks.
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Annetta Benzar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetta-benzar-13645710a/
Viktoria Iatsiuta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoria-iatsiuta-01800a206/
14 min - HR Leaders: Stop Saying “We’re A Family” At Work I Jolita Strasunskaite
In this episode of Future Makers: HR Leaders, Annetta Benzar speaks with Jolita Strasunskaite, Group Chief People Officer at payabl., about what HR really means inside a fast-growing company.
Jolita challenges some of the biggest assumptions about people leadership: that HR works only for employees, that culture belongs to HR, that AI will replace people teams, and that companies should describe themselves as “a family.”
From scaling payabl. from around 30 people to almost 300, to building a people strategy across diverse teams, Jolita explains why HR needs to be both deeply human and commercially grounded.
HR Leaders is a series of conversations with people leaders on hiring, culture, leadership, workforce change, talent strategy, learning, performance and building the workplace of tomorrow.
A production of The Future Media.
Links:
The Future Media: https://thefuturemedia.eu/
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Annetta Benzar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetta-benzar-13645710a/
Jolita Strasunskaite: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jolita-strasunskaite-879396225/
35 min - HR Leaders: If You Lie To People, They Know I Elena Dolya
In this episode of Future Makers: HR Leaders, Annetta Benzar speaks with Elena Dolya, Chief Administrative Officer at AdTech Holding, about the role HR plays when companies are navigating change, uncertainty, and fast-moving expectations at work.
Elena explains why HR should not be seen as a “psychological helper” or the department responsible for fun, but as a business function that connects leadership with employees and helps both sides work better together.
HR Leaders is a series of conversations with people leaders on hiring, culture, leadership, workforce change, talent strategy, learning, performance and building the workplace of tomorrow.
A production of The Future Media.
Links:
The Future Media: https://thefuturemedia.eu/
https://www.youtube.com/@thefuture-media
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Annetta Benzar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetta-benzar-13645710a/
Elena Dolya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elena-dolya-04a72640/
34 min - HR Leaders: “Resilience Isn’t Endurance” in Modern HR I Natale Mastoroudes
Resilience isn’t endurance. Endurance is “push, push, push” until something breaks.
In this episode of HR Leaders, Annetta Benzar speaks with Natale Mastoroudes, People & Culture Leader, about what HR really is, why “commercially aligned” HR can still be human, and how leaders can hit targets without burning people out. They also discuss what AI is already changing inside companies, and what HR should never outsource.
A production of The Future Media.
Links:
The Future Media: https://thefuturemedia.eu/
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Annetta Benzar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetta-benzar-13645710a/
Natale Mastoroudes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalemastoroudes/
36 min - HR Leaders: You Read the Room, Not the Screen I Marina Sevastidou
Is HR there for the business, or for the people?
In this episode of HR Leaders, Annetta Benzar speaks with Marina Sevastidou, Senior HR Business Partner at Wargaming, about what HR is really meant to do, how to spot culture shifts before they show up in metrics, why hybrid work still matters, and why technology should support HR rather than replace it.
HR Leaders is a series of conversations with people leaders on hiring, culture, leadership, workforce change, talent strategy, learning, performance and building the workplace of tomorrow.
A production of The Future Media.
Links:
The Future Media: https://thefuturemedia.eu/
https://www.youtube.com/@thefuture-media
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/thefuturemedia
https://www.tiktok.com/@the.future.media
Annetta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetta-benzar-13645710a/
Marina Sevastidou: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marina-sevastidou/
50 min - Beyond AI: You Are Responsible for What AI Does I Denis Romanovsky
In this episode of Future Makers: Beyond AI, Annetta Benzar sits down with Denis Romanovsky, Chief AI Officer at SOFTSWISS, to discuss how AI moves from experiment to everyday work.
They cover company-wide adoption, AI literacy, guardrails, security, cost, iGaming, human oversight, digital memory, cognitive freedom, regulation, and the skills people will need as intelligent systems become part of daily work.
Beyond AI is a Future Makers series exploring the reality and hype of AI, how intelligent systems are changing work, culture, creativity, institutions and everyday life, and what people need to understand about this evolving technology.
A production of The Future Media.
Links:
The Future Media: https://thefuturemedia.eu/
https://www.youtube.com/@thefuture-media
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/thefuturemedia
https://www.tiktok.com/@the.future.mediaAnnetta Benzar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetta-benzar-13645710a/
Denis Romanovsky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dionique/
50 min - The Legal Brief: AI Is Coming for the Lawyers Who Only Know the Books I Yiannos Georgiades
AI will not replace every lawyer. But it may expose the ones who only know how to retrieve information.
In this episode of The Legal Brief, Annetta Benzar speaks with Yiannos Georgiades, founding partner of Y. Georgiades & Associates LLC, co-founder of Kinisis Ventures, and president of the Cyprus chapter of the European Court of Arbitration, about how AI is changing legal practice.
A production of The Future Media.
Links:
The Future Media: https://thefuturemedia.eu/
https://www.youtube.com/@thefuture-media
https://www.instagram.com/thefuturemedia.eu/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/thefuturemedia
https://www.tiktok.com/@the.future.mediaAnnetta Benzar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetta-benzar-13645710a/
Yiannos Georgiades: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yiannosgeorgiades/
52 min - The Legal Brief: If You Don’t Have a Way to Sell It, Your Company Will Die I Violetta Skittidi
A legal tech startup can have the right problem, the right product, and the right timing — and still fail if it cannot reach the market.
In this episode of The Legal Brief, Annetta Benzar speaks with Violetta Skittidi, a lawyer and co-founder of Formulaw, about why her legal tech startup shut down, what she learned about distribution, and why selling innovation into the legal sector is harder than building the product itself. They also discuss AI, access to justice, law firm resistance, founder-lawyer communication, and why legal professionals may soon have no choice but to adapt.
A production of The Future Media.
Links:
The Future Media: https://thefuturemedia.eu/
https://www.youtube.com/@thefuture-media
https://www.instagram.com/thefuturemedia.eu/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/thefuturemedia
https://www.tiktok.com/@the.future.media
Annetta Benzar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetta-benzar-13645710a/
Violetta Skittidi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vskittidi/
38 min - The Crypto Economy: Crypto Used To Be Trading. Now It’s Business Infrastructure I Max Krupyshev
Max Krupyshev entered crypto in 2013, when Bitcoin, trading, and mining dominated the market. More than a decade later, much of his work is focused on something very different: stablecoins and the infrastructure businesses need to use them for payments.
In this episode of The Future Makers: The Crypto Economy, Max Krupyshev, Executive Leader of CryptoProcessing, joins Annetta Benzar to discuss how stablecoins moved from cryptocurrency exchanges into B2B payments, why the language around crypto is changing, and what wider adoption may look like.
They explore why stablecoins became useful to traders in the first place, how businesses began using them to pay suppliers and freelancers, what banks and card networks are doing in response, and where Cyprus fits into the growing crypto payments economy. Max also explains why he does not see crypto replacing cards entirely, and what he considers a more valuable measure of adoption.
The Future Makers: The Crypto Economy is a series of conversations on crypto as a new financial and internet economy, covering exchanges, digital assets, stablecoins, wallets, token models, infrastructure, regulation and what adoption really looks like.
A production of The Future Media.
Links:
The Future Media:
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Annetta Benzar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetta-benzar-13645710a/
Max Krupyshev: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkrupyshev/
22 min - C-Suite Rebuild: Build From Cyprus, Not Just For Cyprus | Filippos Kyprianou
Cyprus is climbing the global startup rankings. Filippos Kyprianou says the stronger measure of progress is whether founders based on the island can win customers abroad, grow their revenue and attract international investors.
The Director of Plug and Play Cyprus joins host Annetta Benzar for the first episode of The Future Makers: C-Suite Rebuild.
Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipposkyprianou/
Host: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetta-benzar-13645710a/
Produced by: The Future Media
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About The Future Makers Podcast
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The Future Makers Podcast is a series of in-depth conversations about how future-makers are made, in Cyprus and beyond. Host Annetta Benzar sits down with people who are a leading force in our shared future and looks past the titles. Together, they travel back to the people and moments that shaped them, walk through the choices and challenges they are living through now, and look ahead to the futures they are trying to build.
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