SPEED CHANGE REPEAT Podcast

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On the SPEED CHANGE REPEAT podcast, Jonathan Pfaffenrot creates deep dives with some of the brightest minds on nerdy topics around entrepreneurship while geeking out on digital health, biohacking and the never ending quest of human self-optimization and balance. Sample conversations include inventors, billionaires, founders, athletes and researchers.

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Marcel "Otto" Yon - ex CEO Cyber Innovation Hub at German Ministry of Defense

Marcel or Otto as he is called by his nickname is a truly remarkable serial entrepreneur successfully founding and exiting 3 companies. He holds dual citizenship with France and Germany and has served in both military forces. Otto has had a remarkable career within the Defense space and knows the industry to an extent as only few do. This is a special episode and we are very thankful to Otto that he gave us the opportunity to visit him and talk about the use of advanced technologies within the D...

Apr 09, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 35

Addie van Rooij - VP People Operation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

On today's episode, we host Addie van Rooij, the Vice President People Operation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPE was created as a result of the devision of HP into HP inc and PHE. Addie reflected about HP's development from being one of the founders of Silicon Valley to a global hardware manufacturing dominator to a company that is trying to reinvent itself in the AI first world.

Mar 26, 2020•57 min•Ep. 34

Payal Arora - Author of "Next Billion Users"

Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist, professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the author of the book "Next Billion Users" and "Leaisure Commons". She earned her Masters in International Policy from Harvard University and a PhD in International Development from Columbia University. On this episode of the SCR Podcast, Payal shares her stories from her work at Harvard and Columbia University. We also discuss her latest book and how the next billion internet users will emerge from th...

Mar 15, 2020•59 min•Ep. 33

Bruce Daisley - Vice President at Twitter EMEA

Today's guest on the show is the incredible Bruce Daisley. At the time of the recording, he was the VP Twitter EMEA. Bruce is passionate about change in the workplace and thus is an author of a best-selling book "Joy of Work" and host of the podcast "Eat Sleep Work Repeat". I had a chance to host Bruce at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The same day he also gave a talk to the students of Erasmus Tech Community. On the podcast we discussed the evolution of social media, use of Machine Learning at T...

Mar 05, 2020•59 min•Ep. 32

Heiko Schilling - VP Engineering at TomTom

On today's episode we host the amazing Heiko Schilling. At the time of the interview, Heiko was the Head of Navigation and VP Engineering at TomTom. We have a great chat about TomTom's ability to reinvent itself. Heiko recalled the time when the IPhone was launched and the physical maps became a thing of the past. We also talked about challenges in achieving level 5 autonomous driving and the required infrastructure to make it happen.

Feb 27, 2020•53 min•Ep. 31

Marietje Schaake - Human Centered AI at Stanford University

On today's episode, we are hosting Marietje Schaake. She is the International Policy Director at Cyber Policy Center and International Policy Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centred AI at Stanford University. Prior to this, she was a member of European Parliament for 10 years. The Wall Street Journal called her "Europe's most wired politician", while CNN called her a "rising Dutch star". I was lucky to catch her for a conversation amidst her very busy schedule. Marietje shared her personal sto...

Feb 20, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 30

Daniel Gebler - CTO at Picnic

On today's episode we are hosting Daniel Gebler who currently is the CTO of Picnic, a company, which takes the experience of doing groceries online. They are the fastest growing Dutch scale up. With Daniel we talk about building out a data native company, what is the role of AI in their business, future of retail and education. He also warns us to be careful with the possibilities of AI. "We shouldn't do everything that is possible with AI" when referring to possibly knowing more about the custo...

Feb 14, 2020•41 min•Ep. 29

#insideSCR - Introducing our new Co-Host

This episode was supposed to come out as the last episode of 2019 combined with a reflection on the previous 6 months, our experiences and the weekly episodes we have published so far. However as always things turn out different and therefore this episode features Jonathan introducing Raj Chakraborty as the new Co-Host on the Speed Change Repeat show. #insideSCR is also a new format we are starting on the podcast which compared to our usual podcast episodes will be conversations between the host...

Feb 08, 2020•25 min•Ep. 28

Jens-Philipp Klein - Partner at Atlantic Labs

Atlantic Labs is a Berlin-based Venture Capital fund focused on seed & early stage investments in tech startups. We met up with Jens-Philipp who is a Partner at Atlantic Labs focusing on mobility ventures.

Feb 03, 2020•38 min•Ep. 27

Thomas Andrae - Managing Partner Linden Capital GmbH

By far our personal favourite conversation that we had on this podcast. Thomas Andrae is a successful entrepreneur and investor active on multiple boards of both traditional companies with a 100 year history to start-ups challenging the status-quo with state of the art technology. His large network to the major innovation hubs and educational institutions globally allows him to be at the forefront of technological innovation. His personal focus is within the mobility and A.I space where he is al...

Jan 25, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 26

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