Niels Delater

A new enlightening episode of the Handelsblatt Disrupt podcast with Sebastian Matthes interviewing Yuval Noah Harari (The podcast is in English). Fits in perfectly with the crazy state of the world between AI everywhere, Musk's robots and Trump's divisive politics. The two discuss where we go from here - interesting thoughts, but not much cause for optimism. Here are a few quotes from Harari: „I read many times in history books about societies that destroy themselves, about societies that are taken over by these mass delusions and mass psychosis. But then to find myself living, actually living inside such a process, this is really terrifying.“ „It's very, very simple. If you have order and you attack this order and you don't put anything in its place, what you get is chaos. It's as simple as that. And we now have chaos agents in more and more areas around the world.“ „The few AI superpowers, they will have the ability to conquer and exploit the rest of the world in a different way. You know, in the 19th century, to dominate a colony, you needed to send in the soldiers. Now, to dominate a colony, you need to take out the data. If you control the digital infrastructure of a country and if you collect all the information on the people in that country and you also control their attention, you control that country. Imagine a situation in 20 years when somebody in China or in the US has the entire personal records, medical records, every joke people ever told, every medical test they did, every Love affair they had throughout their lives, of every journalist, every politician, every judge. (..) This country would be independent in theory, but in reality, just a data colony.“ „When you flood humans with too much information, they collapse. When you flood AI with a lot of information, it becomes better. So there are people in different places around the world today that say, this is now the golden age of totalitarianism. One hub, one center will decide everything.“ Sounds fun, doesn't it? 😳 Link down in the comments...

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ivoflow has been featured in the latest issue of Beschaffung Aktuell! 📰 In this feature, we explore how companies can tackle cost pressures and explain why ivoflow is more than "just" a Spend Cube. Our platform empowers businesses to uncover and implement savings effectively, while also focusing on sustainability and environmental goals. Check out the article to learn more about our solutions! A big thank you to Beschaffung Aktuell for the publication!  #ProcurementSolution #CostSavings #StrategicSourcing #ivoflow #beschaffungaktuell

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"Strategie der Bundesregierung für Künstliche Intelligenz Umsetzungsplan 2024" ("Federal Government Strategy for Artificial Intelligence Implementation Plan 2024"), published now in November 2024 by the Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation & Technologie & Digital Austria. 👇 This report provides an overview of Austria’s #ArtificialIntelligence Mission Austria 2030 (AIM AT 2030) implementation plan. The document details 47 actions across twelve federal ministries, either in progress or planned since 2024, to advance Austria’s national #AI strategy. Link: https://lnkd.in/dSJwa7eq #artificialera #web3 #web4 #web5 #fintech #digitalera #digitaltransformation #ailaw #machinelearning #deeplearning #generativeAI #trustworthyAI #explainableAI #aiethics #artificialintelligence #explainableAI #responsibleAI #foundationmodels #GPAI #GAI #LLMs #NLPs #GenAI #frontierAI #narrowAI #AGI #ethicalAI #adversarialAI

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Always asked myself, if I can be happy …always? As an entrepreneur you are in the natural habit of optimizing all aspects of a project so why don’t optimize your life? After many years of learning about what makes us happy, I think it is only a transient state. But maybe we can feel even better … when we are in Flow! Flow is the state of consciousness in which we forget space and time, are maximally happy, motivated and efficient. In this state, we feel our best and achieve the most. What do we need to achieve this flow? Why is it so important for founders and managers? I talk about this in the podcast with editor Elena Todeva Listen in and share your best flow moments. #flow #flowmoment #success #performance #motivation #alignment #leadership #newwork #startup #vc #entrepreneurship

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🎙️I recently had the pleasure of joining Max Ostermeier on his podcast, the Startcast Podcast. Max invited me to share my journey as a founder – from the very beginning to where we are today with MVP Factory. In our conversation, we delved into the lessons I've learned along the way, my perspective on startups and the mindset shift of Zebras vs Unicorns, founding in times of crisis, and some of the incredible projects like Yarded we're working on at MVP Factory.
 Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just curious about our journey with MVP Factory, listen in and share your thoughts with me. We covered a lot of ground, from the early challenges to the innovative solutions we're bringing to life today:
 🔹 The pivotal moments in my entrepreneurial journey 🔹 Insights on building and scaling startups  🔹 Behind-the-scenes stories from MVP Factory projects  🔹 How joining Ness Digital Engineering enables us to drive more innovation A big thank you to Max for the invitation, the great conversation, and your patience (it took us a while to find an appointment). I'm looking forward to part two ;) I hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed recording it! 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: ▶️Spotify | https://lnkd.in/ddhf9ywf ▶️Apple I https://lnkd.in/dFmBuVG5 #Startcast #Startups #MVPFactory #Innovation 

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🌟 Last week I spent two amazing days at the "Generative AI Strategies" course from AI Transformation Institute. A BIG thank you to Dr. Philipp Schlenkhoff, LL.M. and Sven Schmeier. Your dedication and knowledge really opened my eyes. The workshops, where we could develop our own AI strategies directly, were particularly instructive. I've taken away so much and am ready to apply what I've learned. Thanks to all my fellow participants for the inspiring discussions! Looking forward to implementing these new insights into my work and exploring further opportunities in generative AI. This course has definitely been a game changer for me. #AI #GenerativeAI #Innovation

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BNPL’s ‘Robin Hood effect’ benefits low-creditworthiness consumers with lower effective prices, unlike the ‘Reverse Robin Hood effect’ of credit cards, which favor higher-income users. For antitrust and consumer policy, this raises key questions about market power, price discrimination, and protecting vulnerable consumers. A pivotal issue in FinTech innovation and fairness!

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Interesting new episode of the Kassenzone podcast with Peter Pernot-Day from SHEIN, who talks about the history as well as current developments and the general business model. Three interesting tidbits: SHEIN has been active in Germany since 2015. As a company, it has also been profitable since that year - despite the low prices. SHEIN's goal is to create "High Engagement Experiences": Unlike purely search-driven retail, customers should open the app regularly, even if they don't want to buy anything specific. SHEIN is primarily an e-commerce company, but they explicitly use pop-up stores to enable interaction in the physical world - Pernot-Day calls this "ephemeral retail". Find out more in the podcast (it starts in German, but the interview is in English):

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October is finally here for the DACH Customer Excellence Awards & DACH Customer Excellence Summit. Time for the evalutations of the written entries followed on 25th of October in Wiesbaden with the live event. Many companies have entered the competition to win a prize by presenting the exceptional Customer Experience approach and many of them have succeeded. Congratulations to all participants for demonstrating their initiatives in CX. And congratulations to all their Clients as they are the winners overall. Every year we are supported by our judges that do an amazing job in evaluating the entries. First the written entries and second the live presentations during our day event. This year we welcome a returning judge, Dirk Sperrfechter (Kantar), in our judges panel. Thank you for joining us in our awards program. Dirk Sperrfechter has been helping companies to sustainably increase their business success through improvements in the area of ​​experience management (CX + EX) for over 20 years. The basis of his work is the motto: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”! The key to this is a comprehensive understanding of people – how they think, feel, evaluate, consume or behave or will behave. In case you would like to become a judge with us, please contact [email protected] or sign up directly on our homepage, www.dach-cxa.com, and we will contact us shortly. You want to join us and enjoy the live presentations? Simply contact us at [email protected] or book directly online your ticket at https://lnkd.in/e6ta8aTD.... We are happy to welcome you to this amazing event. #cx #dachcxa #dachcxs #customerexperience #cxinsight #cxmanagement #cxtrends #cxpa #ccxp #customer #strategy #cxtransformation #cxtip Insights by Kantar Kantar Kantar

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Public transport pricing, ticketing channels and punctuality are all tied. The region of Vorarlberg in Austria wants to reduce ticket sales by bus drivers. To do so, it will add a 50 cent premium to tickets purchased from the driver. In addition, it will reward loyalty with volume discounts: - Travel on 4 different days in the month: get 5% on all trips - Travel on 8 different days in the month: get 10% on all trips - Travel on 12 different days in the month: get 30% on all trips. The discount is obtained as a credit usable the following month, thus encouraging a "virtuous circle" of public transport use. https://lnkd.in/ea8iW-Mn

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📰 My Cofounder is featured in two leading newspapers this morning!👏👏 My cofounder at Footprint Technologies, Carolin Kleinert, gave two interviews for #Sueddeutsche and #Tagesspiegel about a recent study of Startup-Verband that investigated the socio demographic background of #startup founders. It clearly proofs founders typically are originating from families with academic backgrounds or from parents who are entrepreneurs themselves. The majority - but not all of them. Carolin is a great example of this minority who also made it without academic parents or without entrepreneurial role-models within their core families. I am sharing a similar family background, both of my parents do neither have an academic education, nor are they entrepreneurs themselves. It is possible, but it needs more visibility and sharing of such positive examples, so that more and more #Arbeiterkinder are considering becoming entrepreneurs as a career option. This would be a benefit for themselves as well as for our society and economy! For that reason I am celebrating the two articles about Carolin's personal story! 😍 👏 👉 Please check the articles and share them! 🙏

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🔥 🤝 New Partner @ Tela Network: Matthias Isler, Fractional CTO 🔹 "As an entrepreneur, your most valuable resource is often time." - Matthias Isler 📖 Read about Matthias Isler on Tela Blog: https://lnkd.in/d5bS_DGA 👉 Matthias Isler in one sentence: Matthias is a passionate technologist and entrepreneur with expertise in building cloud-based startups, and experience in business strategy, digital marketing, and managing high-performance remote teams across various industries. 🤝 Add Matthias Isler on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/d5QMcVUR ☕️ Follow Tela Network on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/dUEVryNw 💎 On Tela, every message pays you. Use Tela to reduce your inbox overload. 👉 You can sign up here: https://lnkd.in/d3gmiTzu 👋 Please consider sharing this post, and if you have any thoughts, let us know in the comments!

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//BREAKING NEWS - book launch alert 🚨 Finally, our little book on #strategicagility (in 🇩🇪 atm) is now available on Amazon and any other bookstore (Link in comments) In "Strategische Agilität - dynamische Strategieentwicklung und -anpassung in turbulenten Zeiten", my colleagues Lucas Sauberschwarz, Florian Lanzer, Thorben Sertler and I describe the basic needs of strategy development and adaptation in todays dynamic and uncertain environments. And we propose a directly portfolio management system for strategic agility. The book is not only based on our research at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and teachings at Woxsen University SGMI Management Institut St. Gallen, IU International University of Applied Sciences and other business schools, but also many consulting projects with established companies and organizations from venture.idea. Thanks to the #essential format from Springer Gabler, this book allows you a quick start into strategic agility, including practice comments from DEHN SE, Schaeffler, Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V., Hochland and many tools and templates to apply in practice:-) //END OF AD :-)

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#DMEXCO is next on the agenda. Three sessions are planed for me on stage: "Vergleichbarkeit und Standardisierung im digitalen Zeitalter – Die Reichweitenforschung der AGF" - on 18th from 10:10 to 10:50 on Future TV Stage. Discussing with Kerstin Niederauer-Kopf about the joint POC on combining AGF Panel Data with Utiq ID infrastructure to deliver a new level of audience verification. "Das hinausgezögerte Ende der Third Party Cookies: Zeitgewinn und Chance für die Werbebranche" - on 19th from 11:00 to 11:20 at Media Stage. Speaking with Rasmus Giese and Uli Hegge about the Post Cookie World and how Utiq and European netID Foundation can solve the issue. "Des Kaisers Digitale Kleider" - on 19th from 14:50 to 15:10 at Experience Stage. Speaking about a world where perception often beats reality, we rarely question the obvious. How do vanity, groupthink and the fear of social rejection influence our actions? And what this has to do with cookies and ID solutions.

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🚨 Some Personal News: After many years building and developing state-of-the-art products in Big Data, AI, and Quantum within startups, I have switched sides to help identify and build ventures with disruptive potential in these areas. I'm extremely excited that SPRIND - Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen has given me the opportunity to leverage my experiences in these fields and offer them to many more people across the German and European #tech ecosystems. SPRIND truly is a hub for disruptive innovations and an inspiring place to work. Thanks, Rafael, for building such a unique organization! What am I interested in for the short and medium term? 👉 Making industry data much more accessible and shareable. If Europe is to succeed in becoming more sovereign in high-tech development, this is one of the most important challenges to tackle. Without data, there is no AI, and we will lose the race. 👉 Smart and vertically integrated sensors. In this time of ever-expanding data and the need for real-time analysis, I believe the path forward to generating more powerful AI is to decentralize the processing. I’m excited to see the emergence of AI and/or quantum-enhanced sensors that process information already on-chip with relevant context given by a higher-level entity. 👉 Simulate everything! Many problems in AI are notoriously hard due to the lack of sufficient data combined with the slow timescales to create new data. Examples include anything connected to physical assets such as supply chains or economic policies. It remains a formidable challenge to create simulators for all these scenarios that let us speed up data generation and hypothesis testing. These are just some general thoughts. If you’re ideating or scaling in the space around AI, sensors, and Quantum, please reach out. I am always excited to hear about all the amazing ideas that our ecosystem is working on. #sprunginnovation #sprind #ai #ki #bigdata #quantum #sensors

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🔥 Get exclusive access to the Product Discovery Cheat Sheet 🔥 with 26 Product Discovery Methods that will enable you to "build the RIGHT THING" and not just "build the THING RIGHT" for your users. At konversionsKRAFT AG, we collected the most relevant methods that we have used in order to help our clients build and grow their digital products - you can use this board to evaluate your status quo and select the matching methods based on where you stand. To get access, follow these simple steps: 1️⃣ Connect with me and Anastasia Shvedova 2️⃣ Like this post ❤️  3️⃣ Comment on this post ("Brilliant, I want access!") 🚨 Disclaimer: this is the first version of the Product Discovery Cheat Sheet and we are looking forward to your questions and feedback while you are using it. Please feel free to approach us any time with your thoughts! #productdiscovery #discoverycheatsheet #productexperimentation #cromethods #testing #experimentation #growthmarketingsummit #growthmindedsuperheros #productmanagement

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On the road to TOA Tech Open Air Berlin. Eager to meet entrepreneurs and learn about the future of tech, art and science. I am curious to discover how these companies are already applying ai to improve business processes or inventing new ones. What will Ai's impact mean for your business? #toaberlin #toa-berlin #automation #artificialtechnology

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