This episode features Rik Van Bruggen, VP for EMEA at Hopsworks, a platform for Data-Intensive Artificial Intelligence, who unpicks the captivating and trending world of AI and Data. Find out what you need to make high quality predictions, save costs when developing AI solutions, as well as mitigate risk  - implementing best-in-class governance in a fast-changing world.   About our guest in this episode: Rik Van Bruggen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rikvanbruggen/) is Hopsworks' VP for EMEA and APAC, and has been working in the software and data infrastructure industry for more than two decades. He is an avid technical enthusiast, with a clear eye on how to use technology to generate value for organisations. He lives in Antwerp, Belgium, but frequently works with customers in different industries, across the globe. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This Episode features John Kelly, Chief Revenue Officer at Remote. John, who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding as an entrepreneur, will talks to us about his eight successful exits as well as the great leaps that are being made in the future and value of his talent recruitment and Employee of Record technology scaleup, REMOTE.   About our guest in this episode: John Kelly (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrkelly/) joined Remote during a significant phase of growth, including the recent acquisition of Easop — a solution that enhances cross-border equity support — and Remote’s expansion into new markets. He brings over 25 years of experience leading go-to-market teams in both high-growth SaaS businesses and large global enterprises. His impressive track record includes previous roles as President/COO at SupportLogic and senior leadership positions at Hired, DemandBase, Symphony Talent, Oracle, and SAP. He reports directly to CEO Job van der Voort. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This episode features Joana Kamenova, Commercialisation Officer at the European Space Agency. The European Space Agency (ESA) is an OVHcloud Startup Program partner and collaborates around the support of startups in the Space industry. We’ll find out about the biggest misconceptions in the space industry and discover the wealth of opportunities that Space offers startups looking to scale.    About our guest in this episode: Joana Kamenova (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joana-kamenova-464805140/) is a Commercialisation Officer at the European Space Agency (ESA), where she focuses on several cross-cutting activities such as fit-for-purpose partnership building, business incubation, technology transfer, disruptive innovation and sustainability. Joana founded the ESA Partnership Initiative for Commercialisation (EPIC) that links up deeptech start-ups with established space and non-space companies. Currently, Joana manages ESA commercialisation activities in the UK, building on management experience within Austria, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Poland and Switzerland. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This episode features developer, David Bonilla Fuertes, the founder of Manfred, who has almost 20 years of experience founding and leading tech development for companies across multiple industries and is an industry influencer in Europe. David’s latest venture, Manfred, is changing the face of tech recruitment, as an open platform with a new approach to tech recruitment built by developers for developers. Topics include the complexities of tech recruitment, the value of new solutions as well as expert insights into tech recruitment from 20 years in the business.  About our guest in this episode:David Bonilla Fuertes (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbonillaf/) is a developer and entrepreneur who writes one of the most popular tech newsletters in Spanish, La Bonilista (https://www.bonilista.com/). With +20 years experience building digital products and services, he has worked for startups like Atlassian and founded a couple. The last one —Manfred (https://www.getmanfred.com/en), a tech recruiting boutique— was sold to the SNGULAR Group, where he works as Chief People Officer, caring for more than 1,400 people. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This episode features Josep Carmona who left his role as Professor of Computer Science, at renowned UPC University in Spain, to head up Process Talks, a startup that is challenging the future of work with a platform that automates office processes for people interacting with computers. Topics that are included in the discussion are large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP) and OpenAI. The episode explains why it is critical to consider LLMs early in a startup’s journey in order to scale, and how to do so.About our guest in this episode:Josep Carmona (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josepc1/) is a scientist who became an entrepreneur way past his forties. Currently, he is the CEO of Process Talks (www.processtalks.com (http://www.processtalks.com)), a company that is revolutionising office processes with (generative) AI. Josep also holds a Full Professor position at the Universitat Polictècnica de Catalunya, where in the last decade he was leading a research lab on processes and data science and its applications.   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This episode features Chris Holscher from holscher.one (http://holscher.one) who gives some fascinating insights into industry analyst relations, having been ranked in the top 10 of experts in this field. In this episode Chris shares some of the results of his cutting-edge research on how startups, analysts and investors can work together to get the biggest return on investment.   About our guest in this episode:Chris Holscher (https://de.linkedin.com/in/holscherc/) is a specialist in Industry Analyst Relations management for startups/scaleups in B2B tech/services. He helps to sharpen strategies and messaging, to accelerate product-market fit, de-risk investment and to amplify brand value. In 20+ years Chris has worked with global tech giants, scaleups and early-stage startups. He was voted a global top 10 expert in his field in 2022. Chris leads the "State of Startups with Industry Analysts" research and co-authored the startup chapter in the 2nd edition of „Analysts on Analyst Relations“. Chris lives in Hamburg, Germany. He is gladly addicted to all things Scandinavian and specialty coffee. Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This episode on tech recruitment features Courtney Robinson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zcourts/)  who has been through OVHcloud’s Startup Program with his venture, Hypi (https://hypi.ai/), a development platform for startups that enables them to develop low code web and development apps, effortlessly. As a founder with great technical expertise, Courtney shares how best to navigate tech recruitment and gives tips for hiring the right tech team to help scale your business. About our guest in this episode: Courtney is Co-founder and CEO of Hypi. He has over a decade of experience working in startup and scaleup companies doing everything from building social media platforms to advertising and ecommerce. With a technical background, he has a keen interest in databases, big data and AI. At Hypi, he is now using his technical expertise to bring cutting-edge technology to small businesses that would otherwise not be able to access it.   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This episode features Cedric Torossian (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedrictorossian), Entrepreneur, Fundraiser and Startup advisor (www.pollenise.com (https://www.pollenise.com/)). This show explores the critical topic of how a compelling narrative is absolutely key during idea generation, building of a team, first investment, through to scalability and exit. It influences, strongly and at low cost, both the value creation and value perception of an organisation in a way that significantly affects the company valuation and its exit.   About our guest in this episode: Cedric Torossian is a serial entrepreneur, fund and startup advisor specialised in ESG, the digital economy, innovation, and strategy. Cedric has a broad range of experience in growing start-ups from founder, non-exec board member/NED, advisor/coach and mentor building on 15+ years’ experience as an analyst for Wall Street investors working on investment strategies and performance projections of top listed retail, consumer and TMT companies. He works with founders and leaders to boost the value of their businesses and brands from startups, scaleups, SMEs to corporations in order to outperform the market, increasing valuation and profit. He recently joined as a cofounder Cordoba, a private equity fund to integrate new technology in media production companies both to boost their scalability & profitability as well as their sustainability. He also teaches entrepreneurship to Oxford University students.   Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This episode features Ilaria Pigazzini, CEO & Co-founder of Arcan. Arcan is a platform that enables companies to assess the quality of their software. Topics explored in this show are the benefits of assessing software code quality to save money and time developing software as well as tips from Ilaria on how Arcan used ecosystem support to grow their startup. About our guest in this episode:  Ilaria Pigazzini is CEO & Co-founder of Arcan. Arcan develops solutions for software architecture quality. They are developing a tool for architectural anomaly detection which mixes reverse engineering with AI. Her aim is to connect prominent research to the industry, stimulating the software architecture field with new ideas. Read more about Arcan here: https://www.arcan.tech/    Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.