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2 episodes with lausanne switzerland
2 episodes with lausanne switzerland
2 episodes with lausanne switzerland
2 episodes with lausanne switzerland
Despite increased participation in US long-distance running races, cardiac arrest incidence remains stable. Authors Jonathan Kim, MD, MSc, of Emory University, and Aaron Baggish, MD, of the University of Lausanne Switzerland, discuss the RACER 2 study and compare results with initial findings published in the RACER 1 study from 13 years ago, with JAMA Associate Editor Gregory Marcus, MD, MAS. Related Content: Cardiac Arrest During Long-Distance Running Races
In this episode, Dr. Alessandro Corda and Dr. Elizabeth Agnew sit down with Dr. Clara Rigoni, Maître Assistante at the Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), to discuss her book Honour-Based Violence and Forced Marriages: Community and Restorative Practices in Europe (Routledge). The book explores innovative approaches to addressing honour-based violence and forced marriages through alternative programs, presenting new empirical from case studies from the UK and Norway. Highlighting secular, community-based initiatives and multi-agency models, the conversation delves into how pluralism and the rule of law can be reconciled to improve women's access to justice, reduce secondary victimisation, and ensure more effective responses to these complex issues.
This week Dominic has Joseph Daher back on the podcast. They discuss how the Assad Regime has fallen. Moreover they dive into what Turkey is hoping to get out of the fall of the Assad Regime, how Iran's Axis of Resistance might be crumbling slowly, what Israel is hoping to get out of the fall of the Assad Regime, as well as the difference between the HTS and SNA. Joseph and Dominic also discuss Assad's prisons and the 'disappeared'. Finally, Joseph gives his hopes for the future of Syria. A heavy topic but an interesting one that needs to be shed to light! Joseph Daher, is a Swiss-Syrian academic and activist. He currently teaches at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), and at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and has been an affiliated professor at the European University Institute(EUI). He has worked with the EUI on the conflict in Syria and the aftermath of the war. Herewith Joseph has published multiple papers, which aimed to produce quality, strategic and accurate reports and analysis of wartime perspectives, challenges, trends and policy options in anticipation of post-conflict stabilisation in Syria.Moreover, Joseph is an expert on Syria, Lebanon, and the Middle East, and has worked for various UN Agencies, NGO's and research centers in consulting and expert mandates to conduct programs, trainings, and research for them. He is the author of three books: Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God, Syria After the Uprising: The Political Economy of State Resilience and Palestine and Marxism . Finally, he is the founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever. He is also co-founder of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists.The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members, and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with experts in a variety of fields to explore international relations. Our host is Dominic Bowen, Head of Strategic Advisory at one of Europe's leading risk consulting firms. Dominic is a regular public and corporate event speaker, and visiting lecturer at several universities. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest-risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests around the world to discuss international risk.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledge.Follow us on LinkedIn for all our great updates.Tell us what you liked!
In this episode of The International Risk Podcast, Joseph Daher and Dominic discuss Lebanese and Israeli relations, the case of Palestine, genocide in Gaza, recent Syrian history, and finally what a solution would be. Joseph Daher, is a Swiss-Syrian academic and activist. He currently teaches at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), and at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and has been an affiliated professor at the European University Institute(EUI). He has worked with the EUI on the conflict in Syria and the aftermath of the war. Herewith Joseph has published multiple papers, which aimed to produce quality, strategic and accurate reports and analysis of wartime perspectives, challenges, trends and policy options in anticipation of post-conflict stabilisation in Syria.Moreover, Joseph is an expert on Syria, Lebanon, and the Middle East, and has worked for various UN Agencies, NGO's and research centers in consulting and expert mandates to conduct programs, trainings, and research for them. He is the author of three books: Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God, Syria After the Uprising: The Political Economy of State Resilience and Palestine and Marxism . Finally, he is the founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever. He is also co-founder of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists.The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members, and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with experts in a variety of fields to explore international relations. Our host is Dominic Bowen, Head of Strategic Advisory at one of Europe's leading risk consulting firms. Dominic is a regular public and corporate event speaker, and visiting lecturer at several universities. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest-risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests around the world to discuss international risk.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledge.Follow us on LinkedIn for all our great updates.
With Juerg Schwitter, Ambra Masi & Panagiotis Antiochos, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne - Switzerland. Link to editorial Link to paper
Featuring Sophie Bacq, Professor of Entrepreneurship at IMD in Lausanne Switzerland. (Recorded 10/31/23)
This Week in Skating is hosted by Gina Capellazzi and Daphne Backman and is a cooperative project between Figure Skaters Online and Ice-dance.com. New episodes are available every Tuesday.Website: http://www.thisweekinskating.comEmail: thisweekinskating@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisweekinskatingTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/thiswkinskatingInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinskatingThread: https://www.threads.net/@thisweekinskatingPatreon: patreon.com/ThisWeekinSkating-------------------------------------------------------------EPISODE 116Event Results RecapSanta Claus Cup | ResultsBosphorus Cup | ResultsSkate Canada Challenge | Results British Championships Mexican Championships President's Cup Ranking Competition in Korea | ResultsAustralian Championships | Results General Skating News The IOC names the French Alps as "preferred host" for 2030 Winter Olympics and Salt Lake City as "preferred host" for the 2034 Winter Olympics. https://olympics.com/ioc/news/the-french-alps-and-salt-lake-city-utah-invited-into-respective-targeted-dialogues-to-host-the-olympic-and-paralympic-winter-games-2030-and-2034ISU Communications 2603 - Decisions of the ISU Council that met online on November 27 in Lausanne Switzerland.https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/32639-isu-communication-2603/fileAnnika Hocke and Robert Kunkel have withdrawn from the Grand Prix Final due to injury.Segment - Recent Interviews Nathan Chen exclusive - The Olympic champion on his new relationship with skating: ‘It's just for me', by Nick McCarvel, OlympicsJill Biden unveils White House ice rink, by Kathryn Watson, CBS NewsThis holiday season's coolest ice rink may be on the White House lawn, by Maureen Groppe, USA TodayGermany's Hase and Volodin share goals and aspirations, by Judith Dombrowski, Golden SkateVideo: Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin: Nov 2023 InterviewBehind the Scenes with Miami University: Training for Success, Katie McDonnell, U.S. Figure Skating Fan ZoneBack to Basics: Adaptive Skating, by U.S. Figure SkatingCleveland's Eva Pate looking forward to skating much closer to home in the next two months, by John Kerezy, Eye on ClevelandSegment - Social Media UpdatesNicole Schott has announced her retirement from competitive skating.Emma Goodstadt / Christian Bennett withdrew from Skate Canada Challenge after a collision in practice with training mates Sophia Gover / Billy Wilson French. Gabrielle Daleman had surgery Nov. 28 after suffering a freak landing at a competition in August, where she tore two ligaments. Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron are doing an internship at the Opera de Paris. Segment - Upcoming Events for the Week:Sk8 to Eliminate Cancer Cleveland hosted by Scott Hamilton and featuring Eva Pate & Logan Bye takes place on December 7Stars on Ice Holiday Tour is underway - visiting cities in Canada, and in Duluth, Minnesota. Tickets for the Spring Stars on Ice Canada Tour go on sale Dec. 7 (presale Dec. 5)Dec. 7-10, Junior and Senior Grand Prix Final, Beijing, ChinaDec. 6-9, Golden Spin of Zagreb, Sisak, CroatiaDec. 1-8, Australian Championships, Erina, AustraliaDec. 9-14, French Championships, Vanjany, FranceDec. 8-10, German Junior Championships, Dortmund, GermanyIDC and FSO spotlight IDC: Photos from Bosphorus CupSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/this-week-in-skating-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dr Antonio Pascual-Leone is a clinical psychologist and full professor at the University of Windsor (Canada) and honorary research professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He has co-authored two editions of Emotion Focused Therapy for Complex Trauma (APA) and has a forthcoming book on the Principles of Emotion Change (APA). His 2019 TED Talk on recovery from the end of relationships has been viewed over 5.5 million times.
Join me as I chat live with Robert Kryder of Kryder Exploration about his adventures and experiences. You don't want to miss this one! Currently living in North Central New Mexico, Robert Kryder has spent most of his life in the Southwest regions of the country as an adventurer explorer specializing in research and recovery. Kryder and his team make up Kryder Exploration with a dedication to exposing hidden truths and life changing realities of the world. Roberts discoveries have included many encounters with Bigfoot resulting in a multitude of diverse forms of evidence and research samples. Robert has operated KX for over 30 years in one form or another. He and his team have witnessed Bigfoot and other anomalies throughout the duration, with a concentrated focus on the Bigfoot enigma for the past five years. He has worked with Oxford University and the Museum of Zoology, Lausanne Switzerland as a multi sample contributor (as yet un- tested) to the now infamous "OLCHP " project. This work continues by request of the University of New Mexico, Gallup. Through the Executive Director, Christopher Dyer. And will be working with Dr. Dyer to develop not only the university study format and curriculum, but workshops and public dissemination seminars and classes. This work will ramp up seriously in the near future with top notch cooperation. Roberts limitless curiosity leads to his unyielding measures of truth. He has a deep love of the natural world and all creatures. Kryder Exploration is a custom for hire research and recovery company. Featuring services: Surface Surveys/Mapping Code Breakdown Subsurface Imaging 100' Deep 3D Excavation Archaeology Recovery Tracking First Response/Investigation Research/Location/Recoveries Include: Lost Cities Ancient Technology Treasure Meteorites Dinosaur Fossils Gem and Mineral Check out Robert's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/kryderexploration
Innovation technologique Liliane Bettencourt (2022-2023) - Lydéric BocquetCollège de FranceAnnée 2022-2023Colloque - La nanofluidique à la croisée des chemins : Nanofluidics: Exploring New FrontiersIn this talk, I will introduce a novel method based on liquid-activated quantum emission from native hBN defects for nanofluidic sensing. Liquids confined down to the atomic scale can show radically new properties. However, only indirect and ensemble measurements operate in such extreme confinement, calling for novel optical approaches enabling direct imaging at the molecular level. Using our method, we harness quantum emission originating from native defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) for molecular imaging and sensing in nanometrically confined liquids. We show that defect activation occurs through chemisorption of organic solvent molecules, revealing single-molecule dynamics at the interface through spatially correlated activation of neighboring defects. Defect emission spectra further offer a direct readout of local dielectric properties, unveiling increasing dielectric order under nanometer-scale confinement. Liquid-activated native hBN defects bridge the gap between solid-state nanophotonics and nanofluidics, opening new avenues for nanoscale sensing and optofluidics.Liquid-activated quantum emission from native hBN defects for nanofluidic sensingRonceray N., You Y., Glushkov E., Lihter M., Rehl B., Chen T-H., Nam G-H., Watanabe K., Taniguchi T., Roke S., Keerthi A., Comtet J., Radha B. et Radenovic A., Liquid-activated quantum emission from native hBN defects for nanofluidic sensing, 2022.Aleksandra RadenovicProf. Aleksandra Radenovic is a full professor of biological engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) She serves as the Head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology and is a renowned expert in the field of single-molecule biophysics. Professor Radenovic received her Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2003, following her attainment of a Msc. in Physics from the University of Zagreb (Croatia) in 2000. The research conducted by her laboratory has received numerous prestigious grants and awards, including the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant in 2010, the SNF Backup scheme Consolidator Grant in 2015, the CCMX materials challenge award in 2016, and the Advanced ERC grant in 2020. Her research interests focus on nanofluidics and developing techniques and methodologies that utilize optical imaging, nanopore sensing, and single-molecule manipulation to study the behavior of individual biological molecules and complexes. These studies are conducted both in vitro and within living cells, providing insights into the underlying mechanisms of cellular processes.
We are honored to be joined by three judges from the International Natural and Common Law Tribunal for Public Health and Justice, Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger, Pascal Najadi and Howard Bertram. We discuss the ongoing criminal investigation in Switzerland and their Tribunal's goals to bring Justice for the crimes against humanity. We also discuss how Geneva Switzerland may be the headquarters for the entire beast system and their New World Order. You can learn more about the Tribunal at https://exopolitics.blogs.com/international_criminal_co/ Follow Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger on her Telegram channel at https://t.me/Dr_Astrid_Stuckelberger See Pascal Najadi's video interviews on Rumble See Howard Bertram's work at the Tribunal website at https://exopolitics.blogs.com/international_criminal_co/ See Important Proven Solutions to Keep Your from getting sick even if you had the mRNA Shot - Dr. Nieusma Protect your family and your assets with Silver & Gold - Contact info@milesfranklin.com, tell them "Sarah sent you" and receive excellent service and the lowest prices in the country, guaranteed! MUSIC CREDITS: "Do You Trust Me" by Michael Vignola, licensed for broad internet media use, including video and audio See on Bastyon | Bitchute | Odysee | Rumble | Freedom.Social | SarahWestall.TV Biography of Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger is a scientist, researcher and teacher for 25 years at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva and Lausanne (Switzerland). She also gives lectures and is an invited professor in academic training throughout the world. As an international expert in different health and public health related issues, her main focus has always been about people's health and wellbeing, about disease prevention and longevity. Some of her expert perspective cover gender, aging, social determinants of health, disruptive innovation and health technologies, but also the spectrum on equity, ethics, human rights, and regulation. In this context, she has worked with WHO on International Health Regulation (IHR) and public health emergency management between 2009 and 2013, and created a Summer School on Global Health and Human Rights at the University addressing WHO IHR and United Nations health-related policies and global management. Based on her extensive experience at the UN, she often pioneers a unique scientific perspective in her analysis. For example, she develops modelisation of preventative epigenetic medicine and anti-aging aspects such as regenerative mechanisms and disease reversibility (4P/4R medicine). See more of her work on her website at AstridStuckelberger.com You can follow Dr. Stuckelberger on Telegram @ Dr_Astrid_Stuckelberger Biography of Pascal Najadi Pascal Najadi is a renowned international Swiss Investment banker, film maker, author and the son of Hussain Najadi, the founder of AmBank Group in Malaysia, who was assassinated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 29th 2013. Pascal Najadi served as a Management Board Member at Dresdner Bank, London and was in charge of Emerging Markets Capital Markets business covering Central Europe, Central Asia, the Russian Federation, Africa and the Middle East from 1993 until 2003. He was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, on August 20th 1967. His mother is Heidi Anderhub-Minger, a direct descendant of Rudolf Minger, former Swiss Federal Counsel and Swiss President before and at the beginning of WW2. Pascal Najadi is also a film producer and has produced the Swiss cinema movie "GROUNDING, the last days of Swissair" (2006), voted as one of the best films ever in Swiss film history. He has started producing a full feature docu-drama "The Najadi Assassination" in summer 2022 about the assassination of his late father Hussain Najadi in Malaysia. The renowned Swiss Filmmaker and Film Director Michael Steiner is part of his production team. Pascal Najadi resides in Switzerland and is married to ...
If you listened to my show last week about Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird, you know that Stravinsky's life was never the same after the premiere of the ballet in 1910. Sergei Diaghilev, the founder of the Ballets Russes and Stravinsky's greatest collaborator, said just before the premiere, “this man is on the eve of celebrity.” Diaghilev was absolutely right, as The Firebird made Stravinsky a Parisian household name practically overnight. Of course, immediately everyone wanted to know what was next. Stravinsky did too, and he was thinking that he needed to stretch himself even more, as even though the Firebird had caused a sensation, he still felt that it was too indebted to his teachers of the past like Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov and other Russian greats like Borodin or Mussorgsky. At first, Stravinsky dreamed of a pagan Rite, but quickly he changed course, wanting to write something that was NOT ballet music, and in fact would be a concerto for Piano and Orchestra. But instead of just a straight ahead abstract piece, Stravinsky had yet another story in mind. This time it was this: “In composing the music, I had in mind a distinct picture of a puppet, suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades of arpeggios. The orchestra in turn retaliates with menacing trumpet blasts. The outcome is a terrific noise which reaches its climax and ends in the sorrowful and querulous collapse of the poor puppet.” Diaghilev visited Stravinsky in Lausanne Switzerland expecting to hear more about the pagan rituals Stravinsky had been so excited about, but instead Stravinsky played him this strange piano concerto. But Digahliev, ever the visionary, saw the potential in this story and in this music for dance as well, and convinced Stravinsky to turn the piano concerto into a ballet, and Petrushka was born. Within a few months, Petrushka was written, performed, and was yet another sensation. Today, we'll talk all about the brilliant music that Stravinsky composed for the ballet, the integration of choreography and music, and the radical changes that this music heralded for the western music world.
INTRODUCTIONPackaging: the best starting point for more circular solutions and products? That was the title of the online Euro-Canadian Roundtable on December 15th, 2022, as a side event of the World Circular Economy Forum. And this episode is broadcasting the core conversation with our 6 inspiring panelists, from both continents. They raised some key points in terms of materials, consumers, waste, design, and GHG related to packaging. This captivating panel also highlighted the role of regulations as well as pre-competitive collaboration to expand circular packaging solutions.It was a real pleasure to organize and co-moderate this event with Anne-Laure Bulliffon. I hope you will benefit at the maximum from the good vibes that lead this initiative. And I can't wait to foster more Euro-Canadian bridging dialogues like this one. On this note: Keep in mind – right after this listening – to click on the very quick survey link to lay the foundations of our next event! LINK TO THE POST-PANEL SURVEYWe want to HEAR FROM YOU!This less than 5 min feedback will lay the foundations of our next Euro-Canadian Roundtables about packaging transition towards more circularity: https://5ef1ucivz7f.typeform.com/to/UYYXx256Thank you! A BIT MORE ABOUT OUR 6 CANADIAN AND EUROPEAN PANELISTS (WITH THEIR SHORT BIOS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Annebeth De Witte, CoPackx, The NetherlandsAnnebeth de Witte – owner of Copackx - helps FMCG companies with sustainable packaging development – as independent expertised project lead. Since 2020 she worked for companies like Henkel, JDEcoffee, HEMA, Riversidenaturals, Daelmans banket and Brandmasters.Copackx motto is “your companion in packaging”. Help FMCG companies from inside with sustainable packaging, bringing the expertise from outside” Geneviève Dionne, Eco Entreprises Québec, MontréalGeneviève Dionne has been a member of Éco Entreprises Québec's (ÉEQ) since 2010, and is the architect behind the packaging eco-design training and guidance team.Over the years, her expertise has served as part of several initiatives, such as the development of a Web portal and a simplified life cycle analysis tool for companies seeking to integrate packaging eco-design into their business practices, eco-modulation incentives as well as bold projects, such as an international packaging eco-design contest, an exhibition of the projects presented and co-authoring a book titled «Avons-nous besoin d'un autre emballage?» (Do we need another package?) and lately, the documentary «Unwrapping» (Tout déballer) about packaging, design and circularity.Ms. Dionne also has regular invitations as a guest speaker to share her insights on packaging eco-design, recyclability and the transformation of business practices.Ms. Dionne holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design and a Master's degree in Applied Sciences from the Faculty of Planning at University of Montréal (UdeM). She also has a graduate diploma specializing in Management and Sustainable Development from HEC Montréal and is a visiting professor at the University of Montréal's School of Industrial Design. Jean-François Guillerez, Conestoga College, TorontoJean-François Guillerez teaches Packaging Science at Packaging Programs at the School of Engineering and Technology at Conestoga College in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. He holds a Master Degree Of Packaging Science from the French Engineering school ESIREIMS ( esiec) École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de Reims completed by a Master degree in Environmental Engineering from Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He is also a lifetime Certified Packaging Professional. He has an extensive experience in Packaging design & development in Europe, North & South America. He worked for over 20 years in large food companies such as Nestlé, Maple Leaf Foods, Mondelez Intl. Active member of the Institute of Packaging Professional (Ontario Chapter), Jean-François is also on the Innovation Advisory Council of the Canadian Food Innovation Network. Jonne Hellgren, RePack, FinlandJonne Hellgren grew up in a small town in Finnish Lapland and moved to live and study Management in the UK. He is the CEO and co-founder of RePack, the first reusable packaging service for e-commerces helping to reduce waste and carbon footprint. Today, RePack is used by hundreds of online retailers in Europe and North America from global giants to brand owners. It's a multi-award-winning innovation that combines product, operational, and business model design in an elegant way. His background includes years of exposure to LCA's and ESG strategies of cities, companies, products, and supply chains, as well as countless hours in warehouses. This makes him enjoy working in the business and on the business. Arnaud Lancelot, Cozie, FranceArnaud is the CEO & co-founder of Cozie, a French cosmetic brand of natural & organic skin care products. Cozie is a pioneer in the circular economy: all the bottles are reused thanks to 2 schemes: deposit and in-store bulk.In parallel, Cozie is also providing all cosmetic brands with consulting services and bulk equipments to boost their market launch with reusable solutions.In short, Arnaud is passionate and dedicated to the circular economy – considering it as a crucial pillar to a sustainable development. Valerie Langer, Canopy, British ColumbiaValerie Langer is the Fibre Solutions Strategist at Canopy. She has been engaged in forest conservation initiatives for over 30 years. She works with non-profit, Canopy to accelerate globally availability of Next Generation alternatives to tree fibre pulp for manufacturing paper, packaging and Man Made Cellulosic Fibres. Valerie's focus is on large scale forest conservation by leveraging markets, investments and innovation. She was on Canopy's founding Steering Committee, is a Donella Meadows Fellow and, along with colleagues who helped craft the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements, was a recipient of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award. ABOUT THE 2 MODERATORS Anne-Laure Bulliffon, Albumine, France / Profil'Pack, CanadaAs an entrepreneur committed to ecological change, Anne-Laure founded PROFIL'PACK in Montreal in 2013 and ALBUMINE in Chambéry, France, in 2020.On both sides of the Atlantic, the two agencies share a common mission: to enable food and cosmetics manufacturers to rethink their packaging systems in order to include their products in the virtuous circle of the circular economy, to reduce waste and ecological impacts.Thanks to of her dual Franco-Quebec culture, she is keen to put her expertise and network of multidisciplinary collaborators in Canada and France to good use by creating a bridge of resources and innovation between the two countries. Anne-Laure is convinced that collective intelligence and access to innovation are the keys to a successful ecological transition.Anne-Laure graduated from ESIREIMS in 2005 with a master's degree in packaging engineering. She specialized in change management and environmental diagnostic tools (LCA, carbon footprint,...) and circular economy at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts & Métiers in 2020. Colienne Regout, Look4Loops, Canada / BelgiumColienne is the CEO and founder of Look4Loops.Colienne blends her research, operations, and user experience expertise at Look4Loops to regenerate business models for profit, people and planet. Her unique perspective on the circular economy is grounded in both her European and Canadian experience.As the 2022 Business of the Year of the CCF of Vancouver, besides analyzing through audits and operating «redesign, reuse, and regenerate» opportunities in the field, Colienne teaches at universities and facilitates interactive workshops. And when it comes to rethinking packaging, she has the ‘Develop Circular Packaging Solutions' online training and she hosts the ‘Unboxing Your Packaging' podcast. PODCAST MUSICSpecial thanks to Joachim Regout who made the jingle. Have a look at his work here.I am happy to bring a sample of our strong bonds on these sound waves. Since I was a child, he made me discover a wide range of music of all kinds. I am also delighted he is a nature lover and shares the Look4Loops 'out of the box philosophy'. He is an inspiring source of creativity for me.
“Something my mom always says - and she makes it seem so simple - is, ‘If you miss somebody, call them.' We have no excuse not to communicate with the people that we want to talk to.” - Zeke Crawford Ever Forward Club's Ashanti Branch is joined by Zeke Crawford. Zeke is from San Francisco, California, and Zeke and Ashanti first connected when Ashanti held a workshop at Zeke's Stuart Hall High School. Currently a professional basketball player based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Zeke loves to try new foods, explore new places, meditate, and watch anime. International life can be very difficult, but that hasn't prevented Zeke from maintaining close relationships. We're excited for you to learn about how Zeke navigates this world and his masks. (1:35) Ashanti's introduction. (8:30) Zeke and Ashanti reminisce on how they first met and why Zeke made a big impression on Ashanti. Then, Zeke introduces himself, his origins, and his professional basketball career. (13:30) Zeke shares the front of his mask - funny, friendly, trustworthy. (14:45) Ashanti shares the front of his mask - serious, funny, dedicated. (18:00) Zeke shares the back of his mask - scared, indecisive, confused - and the challenges of international life. (22:00) Ashanti shares the back of his mask - fear, worrier, doubt - and how images from social media make him disproportionately worrisome. (26:45) Zeke and Ashanti take time to emphasize that we need to take the initiative to reach out to others. (30:50) Zeke reflects on the day he and Ashanti first met at Stuart Hall High School and how he's taken those lessons around the world and in everyday life. (43:35) Zeke shares a final message with the audience. --- Connect with Zeke Crawford: Instagram: instagram.com/_zeke2fresh --- Support the podcast and the work of the Ever Forward Club: anchor.fm/branch-speaks/support Create your own mask anonymously at millionmask.org If you are interested in being on the Face to Face podcast, email us at everforwardclub@gmail.com --- Connect with Ashanti Branch: Instagram: instagram.com/branchspeaks Facebook: facebook.com/BranchSpeaks Twitter: twitter.com/BranchSpeaks LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ashantibranch Website: branchspeaks.com --- Send in a voice message: anchor.fm/branch-speaks/message --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/branch-speaks/support
On Calling Home, we head to the city of Lausanne on Lake Geneva, it's been voted the best small city in the world, in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Vaud. It's home to athlete and former Olympian, Rebecca Wardell. She now works at the International Olympic Committee headquarters. Lausanne also boasts the Olympic Museum and the Olympic Park on the lake shore. Away from the lake, the city rises in terraces, with plenty of shopping in mediaeval precincts, and there's an impressive 12th century cathedral in the gothic style.
Elisabeth Gerritzen, from Lausanne Switzerland, is the defending Freeride World Tour champion. She admits she has difficulty with that title. Eli talks about how she strives to be the best at what she does but always struggles to be satisfied with her own accomplishments and she desires to learn to be kind to herself. […] The post #206 Elisabeth Gerritzen – FWT Champion appeared first on Low Pressure Podcast.
Each time you make a decision, especially in a group setting, you are likely to be in a negotiation situation. Sometimes it is quite obvious; at other times, it is not.But one thing is clear that effective communication is directly proportional to effective negotiation. Better communication often translates into better negotiation. In today's episode, we will try and understand more about negotiation and get a few tips to get better at it.In this episode, we are talking about:What differentiates negotiation from other types of communication?How do you recognize when your conversation has become negotiation?Negotiation is win-win. What's the dark/invisible side of it?What is reactive devaluation? Why is it important?What is tactical empathy? How does it matter?More on "Why your offer is better than anything they could have in their pocket?"Three important things that one can do today to get better at negotiations?Limiting or damaging beliefs that stifle negotiation.How much being authentic and vulnerable can help or not help in negotiation?Dr. Savvas Trichas is a powerful keynote speaker who combines cutting-edge research with instruction creating motivational moments with practical value. He is a 3-times TEDx speaker (Las Vegas/USA, Lausanne/Switzerland, Athens/Greece). He has collaborated with several prestigious universities and organizations such as Stanford University, the University of Durham, the Ministry of Education and Culture, The Million Dollar Round Table, and the Association of Cyprus Banks. He is also associated with the FBI National Academy Associates Cyprus Police, where he serves as a guest lecturer on management, communication, and deception detection. In addition, Savvas Trichas is a Ph.D. holder in Human Resources Management and Marketing reviews manuscripts for international high-impact scientific journals related to leadership and organizational behavior, such as The Leadership Quarterly. His research interests focus on a specific nonverbal area, facial expressions, with his scientific publications ranking globally #1 and #2 in Google Scholar under the terms "leadership" and "facial expression." To be able to do so, he had to study the human face in depth. Consequently, he became an officially certified coder in the facial action coding system (FACS). FACS is a highly valid, widely used tool that combines anatomy with photo or video analysis observation to define exact facial muscle movement and intensity (Ekman, Friesen, & Hager, 2002; Trichas, 2015). Finally, when he's not on stage, Savvas is on TV analyzing important concepts of his expertise such as body language, leadership, lie detection, and psychology of communication.ABOUTICT Podcast is all about innovation, communication, and technology – a few key areas that are super important in today's world. If you want to know what it takes to be a better innovator, better communicator, and leverage technology to make this world a better place, please subscribe. Every week, I bring new perspectives, ideas, tips, and techniques so that you can improve all these aspects of your life. WEB: https://www.anandtamboli.comLINKEDIN: https://www.anandtamboli.com/linkedinYOUTUBE: https://www.anandtamboli.com/youtubeBOOKS: https://www.anandtamboli.com/amazonSupport the show (https://www.anandtamboli.com/author?s=podcast)
On this episode we travel to Lausanne, Switzerland, for Carlos Manaça first international gig in 18 months. He headlined “Before The End Festival”, and this is one hour selected from his Techno set. Don't forget to check Frank Pellegrino's “Reality” on Beatport here: https://bit.ly/FrankPellegrinoRealityBeatportAlso check Frank Pellegrino's “Reality” on Spotify: https://bit.ly/FrankPellegrinoRealitySpotify If you are a Radio Station and want to broadcast our weekly English spoken Radio Show, please subscribe it here: http://bit.ly/MagnaRadioShowSyndicast More info athttp://www.twitch.tv/djcarlosmanacahttp://www.facebook.com/djcarlosmanacahttp://www.instagram.com/djcarlosmanacahttp://www.soundcloud.com/djcarlosmanacahttp://www.mixcloud.com/djcarlosmanacahttp://www.twitter.com/djcarlosmanaca http://bit.ly/CarlosManacaYoutubehttp://bit.ly/CarlosManacaBeatporthttp://bit.ly/CarlosManacaSpotify http://www.facebook.com/magnarecordingshttp://www.soundcloud.com/magnarecordingshttp://bit.ly/MagnaRecordingsBeatporthttp://bit.ly/MagnaRecordingsTraxsource http://bit.ly/MagnaRadioShowSyndicast
Dr. Sabina Berezowka, from the university of Lausanne Switzerland, discusses with our host her team's recent study describing a novel “Prognostic Score” for assessing tumor regression following Neaodjuvant therapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The proposed combined prognostic score (PRSC) performed better than pTNM staging and previously published Major Pathologic Response (MPR) approach. Study by Berezowka et al, A prognostic score for non-small cell lung cancer resected after neoadjuvant therapy in comparison with the tumor-node-metastases classification and major pathological response. Modern Pathology, 34, 1333–1344, 2021. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41379-021-00777-y. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Anwar was raised in Penang, Malaysia, before moving abroad to live in several countries. He graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) Naval Architecture from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (United Kingdom,1979) and an MBA from IMD, Lausanne (Switzerland,1988). He works closely with Entrepreneurs and CEO's as a Mentor and Business Coach. Anwar serves on the Advisory Panel of the Taylor's University School of Hospitality and School of Business. He has been a Mentor at the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC) for the SE Accelerator Program - Malaysia's first social enterprise accelerator designed to improve lives and build a sustainable world. Anwar has over 40 years of business and management experience covering several different industries. His entrepreneurial spirit and interest in management sciences started with his job at FELS-Singapore, where he worked for several years. It was the entrepreneurial culture at FELS, that allowed the company to continually re-invent itself and stay relevant. He was first employed at a shipyard in Newcastle, England, which closed just 8 years after he left. FELS on the other hand continues to operate. These and other experiences made him realize that to survive companies need to adopt entrepreneurial practices. Anwar and Sri Vadrevu collaborated to write their book, which was published in 2017; 9-Entrepreneurisms – Management for a VUCA World. Put simply, Anwar and Sri Vadrevu remind corporate executives, “You don't have to start a business to be an entrepreneur”. The book highlights nine specific traits or practices that executives need to adopt in order to build agile and sustainable companies. Most companies will resist getting to get to the root of their problem and instead stick with a “band-aid solution” type of action. 9-Entrepreneurisms lays out a methodology for executives to re-evaluate, not just themselves, but the structure of the organization. Anwar is committed to bringing his learnings to every business and corporation. He encourages you to: Manage Like an Entrepreneur | Lead Like an Entrepreneur | Sell Like an Entrepreneur | Hire Like an Entrepreneur | Work Like an Entrepreneur. Website: https://www.anwarjumabhoy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today, I'm interviewing my client Barbara Boldt. She is a specialist when it comes to pitching to mastering the messaging that you use when you are networking. When you're connecting with new people. When you're sharing who you are and how you help others. We have a really beautiful conversation about how she came to the work that she does and the things that you could be asking yourself in your business, in your networking that allow you to be more effective in your messaging so that folks know when they meet you if you are someone who can help them. This isn't always easy especially when we're doing it for ourselves. I know I've struggled with it for years so I know you'll take away a lot from this conversation. You'll get some questions to be asking yourself and you'll be thinking about how can I be a better communicator in my business so that I can increase how much I earn. Find better clients who are ideally suited to the work that you do. Enjoy... Barbara said - "We learn new things, we meet new people or maybe we find another group of people who were able to help them we haven't thought about that. So I always talk about a pitch being a living breathing thing. It's never finished, it's never really done. There's a template and we customize it every time we give it depending on the audience." Barbara Boldt – Principal & Chief Pitch Polisher with Boldt Global, LLC. Barbara Boldt is an international facilitator, educator, and coach. For twenty-five years, she has been empowering global executives, managers, and entrepreneurs to deliver clear, impactful, persuasive messages. During the 20 years she lived and worked in Europe, she taught executives from more than thirty-five countries how to deliver professional presentations. All of this listening resulted in Barbara's superpower - an ability to hear and immediately identify what is not clear whether it is a grammatical error, an omission of a specific vocabulary, or a confusing structure. Barbara helps her clients master using the right words in the right order to achieve maximum impact. Barbara holds an M.A. in International Relations from The University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and a B.A. in Nutrition from the University of Iowa. She taught at the Swiss Federal Technical Institute in Lausanne Switzerland for 16 years and was awarded Best Teacher of the Year six years in a row. She currently resides in Southeast Michigan in the US. Learn more about Barbara: Website: https://boldtglobal.com/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/barbaraboldt Twitter: boldtglobal
Pedro and Peter share their experiences of relocating to the US. They discuss the East vs West Coast, the impact on hiring senior leadership, relocating during COVID, family life and building US networks.Pedro founded Nexthink in 2004 in Lausanne (Switzerland) which is still the main engineering and product hub. He relocated to Boston in March 2020. Here's a case study of Nexthink's US expansion. Pete founded Codat in 2017 in London to connect the internal systems of small businesses to banks, fintechs and other financial institutions. He relocated to New York in 2020 to lead the company's US expansion.
‘’As a surfer or a snowboarder, we like to draw a line as an artist on a canvas’’ – Géraldine Fasnacht Born in Lausanne - Switzerland, Géraldine Fasnacht is a world known freeride snowboarder, base jumper and wingsuit pilot. She is a pioneer who constantly draws new lines in the mountains with her snowboard and her wingsuit. Based in her favorite playground, Verbier, Switzerland, she gets inspired by the mountains and explores the most remote places on earth. Be it from the depths of Antarctica to the top of the Matterhorn, Switzerland. In 2002 Géraldine Fasnacht won the most extreme freeride competition in the world; The Verbier Xtreme. That was when her snowboarding career took off. That same year, at the age of 21, five additional victories catapulted her to the top of the freeride world. Always ready to go beyond her limits, she took part in International Freeride Competition and the Freeride World Tour for eight years. Géraldine loves discovering new horizons and experiencing new sensations. Since 2005 she has been carrying out groundbreaking expeditions to conquer the most beautiful summits. She has left traces with her snowboard on incredibly steep slopes, and has performed breath-taking wingsuit flights. Her high mountain knowledge gained with freeride snowboarding since the age of 15, combined with her experiences in parachuting since 1998, Géraldine performs world premieres in base jumping and wingsuit flying. Opening some of the most beautiful summits around the globe: Switzerland, France, Baffin Island, Greenland, Iran, Mali, China and Antarctica – from mythical peaks ranging from Les Drus in Chamonix - France, Holtanna - Antarctica, to the Matterhorn in Switzerland flying alongside great eagles. Her life is about risk management, pushing boundaries and team building. For about 10 years, Géraldine has given conferences worldwide, in French or in English, for individuals or companies. She shares her vision through the adventures and the experiences she has achieved. She keeps pushing the level of her passions higher perfectly managing the risks and she loves sharing her adventures through her conferences. For more than 11 years, Géraldine has been flying UL/LSA airplanes. Four years ago, she had the opportunity to obtain her PPL, instantly followed by a mountain rating on skis and wheels. Constantly drawing lines in the mountains, either on her snowboard or in her wingsuit, an idea started to grow bigger after fulfilling her dream of owning her own mountain UL/LSA airplane, an ICP Savannah taildragger named "Roméo". This idea, first made visible through her series of videos "LinéAire", is to go on a constant quest to find and ride new lines, combining mountain flying and snowboarding deeper than ever. In this episode, Géraldine shares with us her love for mountain flying and especially her constant quest to draw new lines with her beloved "Roméo" and on her snowboard, in the deep and immaculate powder snow of Swiss glaciers. If you want to discover more content about Géraldine, go checkout this episode's page on our website: www.thestolcollective.com Music credits: “Slowly”, Amon Tobin – Supermodified, 2000 Cover photography: Raphael Surmont
Visit www.agileinnovationleaders.com for the full episode shownotes (including interview transcript and bonus resources - free chapter of Where to Play and Navigator worksheets). Guest Bio: Dr. Marc Gruber is full professor at the College of Management of Technology at EPFL where he holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization (ENTC) and was Vice President for Innovation at EPFL in the 2017-2021 presidency period. Marc also acted as Associate (2013-2016) and as Deputy Editor (2017-2020) at the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), the highest ranked empirical research journal in the management domain. Furthermore, Marc is co-author of the book “Where to Play: 3 Steps for Discovering Your Most Valuable Market Opportunities”, which introduces the Market Opportunity Navigator – a practical business tool that was recently added to the ‘Lean Startup' toolset by Steve Blank and is used by tens of thousands of startups and established firms to improve their capabilities in opportunity identification and new wealth creation. Marc Gruber joined EPFL in the fall of 2005 coming from the Munich School of Management, University of Munich (LMU), where he held the position as vice-director of the Institute of Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (INNOtec) and established the LMU's Center for Entrepreneurship. He has held several visiting scholar posts at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he conducts research on technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. He is also a visiting professor at the Business School of Imperial College, London. Marc has published his research on innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship in several leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of Business Venturing. In an independent research study on the most impactful entrepreneurship scholars (Gupta et al., 2016), Marc was ranked as the worldwide #1 researcher in entrepreneurship for the 2005-2015 period (shared #1 spot), and among the worldwide top 5 for the 2000-2015 period. Beyond his research work, he is currently authoring a textbook on technology commercialization and was the co-editor of a textbook on entrepreneurship as well as a regular contributor to a weekly column on entrepreneurship in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”. Marc Gruber received a doctorate from the University of St. Gallen (UNISG) in 2000. In spring 2005, he received a venia legendi from the Munich School of Management (LMU) for his habilitation thesis on marketing in new ventures. Websites/ Resource URLs Where to Play website: https://wheretoplay.co/ Download WhereToPlay_Part1_Sample Chapter pdf here Download Navigator and Worksheets here Steve Blank's Blog on Flyability https://steveblank.com/2019/05/07/how-to-stop-playing-target-market-roulette-a-new-addition-to-the-lean-toolset/ Steve Blank's Blog on the Market Opportunity Navigator https://steveblank.com/2020/06/23/winners-rising-out-of-the-crisis-where-to-find-new-markets-and-customers/ Scott Shane's article on Prior Knowledge and the Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.11.4.448.14602 MIT articles on commercializing 3D printing: http://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printing https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/innovation-lessons-from-3-d-printing/ Marc Gruber contact/ social media: Email: mark.gruber@epfl.ch LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcbgruber/ Twitter: @MarcBGruber Books/ Resources: Where to Play: 3 Steps to Discovering Your Most Valuable Market Opportunities by Marc Gruber and Sharon Tal Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win by Steve Blank The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step by Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business by Rita Gunther McGrath The Theory of the Growth of the Firm by Edith Penrose The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty by Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan Related podcast episodes Steve Blank (Episode 1): http://podcast.agileinnovationleaders.com/website/1-steve-blank-on-the-need-for-innovation-showing-up-and-learning-from-failure Alex Osterwalder (Episode 3): http://podcast.agileinnovationleaders.com/website/s1e003-alex-osterwalder-on-the-3-characteristics-of-invincible-companies-and-how-he-stays-grounded-as-a-leader Sharon Tal (Episode 6): http://podcast.agileinnovationleaders.com/website/s1e005-sharon-tal-on-how-to-identify-the-best-market-opportunities-for-your-ideas-or-innovations-in-a-structured-way Interview Transcript Ula: 00:26 Hi everyone. My guest today is Dr Marc Gruber. He is a full professor at the College of Management of Technology at EPFL (a Science & Technology Higher Education Institution located in Switzerland). Marc is also the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialisation at EPFL and amongst his numerous other achievements, he co-authored the book Where to Play: 3 Steps for Discovering Your Most Valuable Market Opportunities with Dr Sharon Tal. This episode complements the conversation I'd had with Sharon in Episode 6. This time around, Marc shares his side of the story behind the book. He also explains how the Market Opportunity Navigator fits in with other Lean Start Up tools like the Business Model Canvas, Customer Discovery & Development, etc. With no further ado, ladies and gentlemen, my conversation with Marc Gruber. Enjoy! Ula: 01:35 Dr Marc Gruber, thank you so much for joining me on the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast. Marc Gruber: 01:41 Thank you very much for inviting me Ula. It is a pleasure to be here. Ula: 01:45 So, let's get started. Marc, I understand that you love art, can you tell me more about that? Marc Gruber: 01:52 I'm a very visual person. That's why I think early on, I developed this love for art. You know, I like to go to museums, galleries, etc. and I think it inspired my research work, how I write, but also the tools that I develop for managers, for entrepreneurs… Because it should be visual. It should be appealing. This is an interesting combination, because it combined somehow your love for the artistic, but also your research, you are typically very scientific, you are very rigorous and structured. And I think combining both worlds, it's actually quite an exciting journey. Ula: 02:26 Hmmm… Now, that's interesting. So, can you give me an example where your love for art has inspired your research work? Marc Gruber: 02:35 Well, I … it's less that it would inspire my research work in the sense that I have a concrete research question based on it. But it's more like, whenever I write, you know, write a paper or article, I think I have this… it can be a nice paragraph. But I know that I could always improve on that. It's more like a feeling that I have, that I think that there's an artistic quality towards writing research papers, that's where I see a lot of parallels. Because it's, in some sense, I when I write and there's a mistake, or there's something not so nice in the paragraph, I somehow view it, I see it, that's the link where art comes in… it can be improved. And same with music, you can hear if there's something that can be improved. Ula: 03:16 Now, that's an interesting analogy. I've also heard Steve Blank, say entrepreneurs are artists, and a good artist knows that the first instance of their work can never be the last one, there's always iterations. Marc Gruber: 03:31 Exactly. And I think that's when you write a nice research paper, or write any book or develop a tool, it should be the same type of instinct. You want to improve on it. You want to … not only do your best, but it has some intrinsic quality that you're trying to achieve that satisfies you. Ula: 03:49 Interesting, so do you paint also? Marc Gruber: 03:52 Yeah, I should make more time for it. There's no time now. I'm more of a passive art lover nowadays. When I go to conferences to give speeches, I like to go to the museums and galleries and check out the new artists, the established ones. You know, so it's, this is kind of nice because once in a while you see a nice piece, and then you acquire it and then, it travels with you for life, because you have it. Being one of these people, I like to collect these things, I would never sell them. Ula: 04:22 Who's your favorite artist? Marc Gruber: 04:24 My favorite one is Gerhard Richter from Germany. He's now 86 or so, he's a very accomplished person. He's one of the few who have truly shaped three, four different styles in art - coming up with them, you know. So you had Picasso with his different periods, but Richter has his very abstract art, and some photorealistic art, and so on. So, you really shape three, four different types of art movements in that sense. And that's quite impressive, because most artists are happy and satisfied if they can do one thing, you know, one type of trademark art, and he has done multiple. That's quite unique. Then you try to, as someone who likes art, try to understand what's the intrinsic quality that cuts across all of them. Ula: 05:05 So, the feeling of knowing when something is finished, is it like a satisfaction or a sense of pride… is something you can describe with words? Marc Gruber: 05:14 It's difficult to describe with words, but definitely, it's satisfaction - you like it. It matches your own aspirations. And you know it deep down and then you become immune to what reviewers would say. So you think, ‘Ok, I've done the work that I enjoy'. It doesn't mean that I'm neglecting what the reviewers would say, that's an intellectual stimulus that you get then from the outside. Ula: 05:37 Now moving on to your book, Where to Play: Three Steps for Discovering Your Most Valuable Market Opportunities. So, you co-authored this book with Sharon Tal. Can you tell us a bit about the inspiration behind this book? Marc Gruber: 05:53 This book goes back… my research work… to about 2001 or 2002, when I started teaching that was back then at the University of Munich, about this early stage in entrepreneurship. And I had entrepreneurs in front of me who always struggled to figure out, not doing the prototypes, etc. They struggled to figure out for whom to do the prototypes, what is a good market to play in. And drive it in multiple ways number one to understand which market domains are out there for them, and which they could address in seconds and which one is might or may not be such a good one. And this is a very interesting process that relies a lot on creativity etc. And we'll probably talk about this later on. But there was a paper by a very famous entrepreneurship researcher called Scott Shane. He studied 3D printing from MIT, how it was commercialized - as shown very nicely in his paper - that this technology, this innovation was commercialized by a couple of different people. But all of them basically applied it to the industrial domain, they knew best. Which basically meant, well, there were some people who applied it, maybe to print architectural models, others applied it to dentistry, etc. What was quite interesting for me was, the question while all of these people identified at least one opportunity, but there were some that were extremely valuable opportunities, some that were not valuable at all. So, in that sense, what I asked (in) my research was, you know, could an entrepreneur who sees more opportunities actually benefit from this choice that that he or she would generate? And this is a question that when you look at it, it's a very fundamental nature to entrepreneurship, because the market you choose shapes, not only the profit potential, the value creation potential, but it chooses, it also shapes the identity, in a way, of the company. So in that sense, I got intrigued by this question. I collected some data, then had the pleasure of having a research day at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, when I met Ian MacMillan, one of the very famous entrepreneurship scholars. It turned out that he grappled with the similar ideas that I had grappled with and I had data to investigate to analyze about these early stages in the entrepreneurial process. And we sat together, discussed it, and we have been working on this topic, as scholars ever since the first few papers came out, then end of 2008. This was a very rewarding journey that took a couple of years, then Sharon, my co-author joined the team, where she did her PhD on the topic, collecting data mainly in Israel. And after she was finished, you know, there were now more than a handful of papers. There were other authors who had started studying this topic, knowing this from the research side, but on the other hand, also seeing that there's a lot of interest by startups, but also then from large companies and understanding this early stage process better. And then Sharon and I said, ‘Okay, let's write a book.' ‘Let's solidify this; let's make sure that others can understand it and get it get access to the information because we cannot answer so many phone calls or write so many emails, always explaining the same thing.' So, in that sense, a book is a convenient tool to multiply yourself. And that's how it (the book) came about. But it happened over 15 years of research that then culminated in an effort to write a book. We initially thought it was three months' effort to write a book, it took us two years. Ula: 09:09 Oh, wow! So, 15 years of effort, of research and it took you about two years to now put together the outcome from the research. Marc Gruber: 09:19 Yeah, we thought you know, we've done the research so we should be able to write it down easily… develop a tool, a business framework around it. But that was the hard part, to write something where know the depth, where know it from the research side, you have seen thousands of cases, and then being true to yourself as a researcher and say, hey, it should be simple but not simplistic. And this is a fine line to walk for any author. Because the tool will be applied when it's simple (and) easy to use, but it also will only be applied if it delivers real value. Everyone can dumb down any question as much as one wants but then it's not useful anymore. Finding that fine line between having a simple tool but that is still useful, valuable. So, it took some time to iterate, develop different visuals, develop different explanations. After all, it I think it turned out nicely. It was just a journey that is common to anyone developing a prototype. So, in that sense, what we did there with the tool is nothing less, nothing more than developing another prototype. If you want to do it, well, it's not like a simple task. Ula: 10:22 I have read the book, it's so easy to read, very simple to understand, but not simplistic, as you've said. Why… it's quite easy to miss the amount of work it takes to make things easy and accessible. Marc Gruber: 10:36 After the fact it always looks (like) it's simple. That's exactly the reaction we want to have; that's what a framework needs to do. It needs to boil down… guide you to the main issues, help you ask the right questions and give you good answers. Great admiration for everything Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur did with the Business Model Canvas book, because that's a fantastic book to really enjoy. Ula: 10:58 I have read that, yes. Could you tell us a bit more about the Market Opportunity Navigator? Because that seems to be the centerpiece of the book Where to Play. Marc Gruber: 11:09 So, the book is called Where to Play as you say. It addresses this very fundamental question, ‘Which market domain should I enter?' This is a question, if you break it down analytically, you can say, ‘Hey I first want to understand (the) playground, you know, my opportunity landscape. It's not straightforward to figure this out. Some people might think oh, I can only play in one domain but I am yet to meet an entrepreneur who actually is trapped in one domain only. Normally entrepreneurs can play in multiple domains using their competencies. Let me give you a simple example. It's a drone company out of Lausanne (Switzerland), Flyability - that Steve Blank also featured in his blog post about the book. This drone company that has created a drone in a cage, of course for such a company, they were inspired by market needs in the nuclear energy domain, but then realized there might be better market domains out there. And they did it early enough to avoid any costly pivots. Oftentimes, companies realize that only after a couple of months, maybe even years that the market domain that they had originally identified is not as performant as it could or should be. Then they need to pivot. We wondered - with our practical work with startups, with innovators and established firms - how to make this process a bit more philosophical. This doesn't mean you have a crystal ball and exactly know what the future will bring; this is not at all the idea. Quite to the contrary, in innovation, we all know that you cannot predict the future. But what is particular is that you can also already in advance, try to understand some basic features of your markets. You know, some are highly congested, some are not, some are growth markets, some are shrinking markets, etc., etc. So, there are parameters where you can say, ‘I can make an informed choice.' Second, what you can do by having this from a bird's eye view is to bake agility into the DNA of your staff. Just think about the brand name you're gonna choose. If you have a company that is doing drones, you know, this company in Lausanne that I was talking about called itself Flyability. With this name, you basically can enter any type of domain. They could also have called themselves Drones for the Inspection of Nuclear Energy Plants. This would lock them in even more into this domain and would make a pivot even harder if it should become necessary. So, in short, what we want to do with the method is to provide you with a tool to figure out what are your potential domains out there, your opportunities. And second, provide a tool that allows you to become a more agile star. And both together I think, are a winning combination that allows you to navigate this difficult and uncertain process of startup creation, of early stage innovation. Ula: 13:47 Thanks a lot Marc for that. In your book, you summarized the Market Opportunity Navigator framework as consisting of three steps. Could you let the audience know what these three steps are please? Marc Gruber: 14:02 With pleasure! The Market Opportunity Navigator has a main dashboard which depicts the three steps. The first step is the opportunity bag, you know, it's a little bag where you collect all the opportunities that you identified. The second step consists of a matrix that allows you to evaluate the attractiveness matrix. And the third step is to enter a focus, could we say, hey, that's where I focus and these could be good plan B's, in case my plan A doesn't work out or a good growth option in case my plan A works out. These three steps are depicted on the main navigator board, but behind each step is a worksheet that helps you to walk through these questions and address the main question. So, the first worksheet is dedicated towards helping you understand the different playgrounds you have, you know, the different opportunities that exist for you. It creates, therefore, the opportunity landscape. The underlying idea is that you delink your existing competencies from a concrete application. You know, also in the case of this drone company, they should think about the drones, the capabilities, the competencies they have in their own right without really linking it to any domain. And then have a creative brainstorming session internally and externally with external people to understand what is really the scope of my activities. And this is the first worksheet that helps you to figure out the opportunity landscape. The second worksheet is a worksheet that helps you to evaluate these options that you identified. This is a worksheet that builds on 50 years of venture capital research. Most of your listeners will probably be familiar with the venture capital domain and know that one of the core tasks of a venture capitalist is to understand the prospect of an early stage venture. Venture capitalists have developed a rich set of tools basically to analyze the attractiveness of potential ventures that are presented to them. And we drew on 50 years of research in this domain, and this was really hard work to bring them together into factors that shape the attractiveness, and factors that shape the challenge level in ranking an opportunity, which will combine to provide you with an assessment of how good or not so good these opportunities are. Again, under uncertainty which means while you'll need to maybe adjust your information over time etc. (because these are six factors in total), it had to give entrepreneurs and innovators a more complete view of the factors that matter. Because you might have realized that yourself when you talk to the entrepreneurs, they always excited about the opportunities they're pursuing. Usually they focus on one dimension, you know, think about market size, ‘Wow, that's a big market - that's great!' … or competitive advantage, ‘Hey, we are ahead of the competition. That's great!' But normally what they don't have (is) a pluralistic view of all the key challenges that could hinder the development - time to first revenue, which is a key metric, as entrepreneurship has shown and how long it takes to make these sales, how difficult it is to make the sales, how big (the sales are), and so on. So, you have a couple of metrics that in combination are giving you a more rounded picture of how good or not so good the opportunity is. And if you do this, not only for one opportunity, but for multiple ones, you will quickly realize that not all opportunities are alike. You know, some are high growth, some are low growth, some are highly congested, some are not so congested. With some you have a high margin, with some you have a low margin. And in combination, you have the matrix, which is then the second step in the (Market Opportunity) Navigator that allows you to assess each opportunity, but also the portfolio that you have. The third step is then building on this one, where you can say, ‘Now that I've seen multiple opportunities, (I) have a portfolio in my hands, what should I actually do?' And there, the tool is non-prescriptive, you choose what you want to do, you know, we have in the matrix, the gold mines - low challenge level, high potential; we have moonshots which have a high potential, high challenge, we have the questionables - which have high challenge but low potential; and the quick wins - which have low potential, but also have low challenge level. So, you might want to say, ‘I'll start with the gold mine' or you might want to say, ‘I feel I am the next Elon Musk, I want to change stuff with a moonshot.' Others might say, ‘You know, I'll start with a quick win and use this to develop another opportunity; I'll earn money quickly but then I'll use the proceeds to do something bigger.' And still others might say, ‘Hey, I love this other domain so much. It's a questionable (domain) but, there's another dimension of pleasure that I get out of this.' So we're not prescriptive, but what we say is, ‘Look, you pick your favorite opportunity', but what we advise you to do is to say, ‘Hey, there might be a second opportunity, a third one that is closely related, so that you have growth options that you can efficiently exploit over time.' Or you have - if the first opportunity doesn't work out - you have a good plan B. That's actually quite an interesting concept. It's not something where you invest a lot of time, but in case things go sour, don't materialize, with your first choice… you know, you want to have a pivot that is not as painful as it could be. If you have to pivot, you want to have one that doesn't consume all your energy, your resources, your time or financial resources. Pivoting could be easier, if you have good foresight. Ula: 19:08 I like the illustration in your book, that's around having a backup plan that would help with a seamless pivot where required when you showed two mountains, and there was a bridge. It's kind of you know, depicted that when you have all these details, and you know what your backup plan is, you also would be working consciously to make sure the infrastructure is there, and you are not starting from ground zero again, if you need to pivot. Marc Gruber: 19:35 You can make it more flexible. Look at this drone example I gave you two minutes ago. This is something where you can say, ‘I know that the drone can be applied to inspecting bridges as much as it can be applied to inspecting silos, farm equipment, etc.' What you do is to build a drone that is going to be more flexibly adjusted. And this is like picking a great brand name that you can choose to use for these different domains. As much as that takes initially with a little bit of foresight, some agility into your venture that can make a big difference. When we talk to venture capitalists, they said, ‘Okay, this is a great tool, we wish every startup would come up with a Market Opportunity Navigator to (show) us, because it can clearly tell us that they have figured out what an attractive market is.' ‘They know what they do, they know what they don't want to do. They know what their plan B could be and they know that they are not a one trick pony that can only grow in this domain, but can grow in other domains.' This is creating an exciting value creation journey for the startup but also for the venture capitalists. Also, when you think about it, the little force that you can give to the entrepreneurial venture that is affordable under conditions of uncertainty, this little foresight that can get you a long way. Ula: 20:43 It could be the difference between success or massive failure really. Marc Gruber: 20:48 Absolutely, you know, I'm still yet to meet the first startup that really said, ‘I enjoyed pivoting.' This is often a task that creates not only financial inefficiencies, but a lot of worry in the team. You know, one of the founders firmly believed in a domain and that turns out to be not so great and the need for (a) pivot arises. It's also loss of status maybe within the team; there are quarrels, there are fights, there are redirections. This is not a pleasant period and if you can make this at least smoother by baking this agility as I called it into the DNA of your venture, a lot is gained. And if you maybe can avoid, like on average, not every startup, but on average, a significant number of startup can avoid pivoting then I think the process is also one where that is more rewarding. Ula: 21:38 You have explained the first two steps: searching broadly assessing deeply. And this all leads to the Agile Focus Dartboard. Can you tell us a bit more about that? Marc Gruber: 21:52 Yeah. So, you can picture in your head a dartboard actually with three layers… You have the focal element - that's the opportunity to focus on. And we are big supporters of the idea that you should focus on an opportunity, especially in your startup. When you have three, four people, it's nonsense that you chase too many balloons; you focus on one, but you keep others open as a secondary. Say, ‘Hey, I passively observe, I read newspaper reports maybe once in a while. So, I have a passive knowledge about these markets and keep myself current, because I realise that these might be interesting, additional options for me.' And then we have the third (outer) ring, which we call the storage where you say, ‘Look, there are some opportunities we studied, and they don't work out for us. So, we put these ideas away.' And this is actually more helpful than one might initially think. Because when I talk to entrepreneurs about this third step, they say, ‘Hey, look, this putting away is as valuable for us as the focus, because it helps you to keep what you might want to call mental hygiene. You have so many things constantly to address, to worry about in your venture, (so) if you can put something away, that's actually a relief. And that's why this third ring is actually much helpful to entrepreneurs. With the tools, you come from something unstructured, creative where you have a lot of opportunities, lots of options to something where you have evaluated them to a third step where you say, ‘Hey, that's where I should focus.' And that's then the focal point where, and I'm sure we talk about other tools later on, like a business model canvas, customer development, customer discovery, minimum viable product. We would say, ‘Hey let's learn with additional tools, whether this market domain that I selected is actually a good one.' So big picture of the tool is providing you with some kind of meta learning. You say, ‘Okay, that's what my company could potentially do.' I create (enable) agility. Now, let's learn about the ‘how to play' - the business model that works in your domain; the ideal prototype that you could develop for your target customers. So, the ‘where to play' and the ‘how to play' then form, the yin and the yang, if you want to call it that way. Ula: 23:57 You've nicely segued into the next question I have, which is about other business tools that the Market Opportunity Navigator can be used with? Can you go into more details on this, please? Marc Gruber: 24:10 So, when we designed the tool, we actually were careful in saying, ‘Hey, we know that there is a unique aspect to it that none of the other tools addresses. Let's design it in a way that's plug and play with the existing tools - so, it's non redundant. And actually, when we discussed with Steve Blank, he loved the idea so much that he'd said, ‘Okay, I'm gonna write a blog post about it, and integrate your (Market Opportunity Navigator) tool into my Lean toolset because it's missing some additional valuable learning that is critical for entrepreneurs and innovators.' So, it's non redundant with the other tools, but it forms a more complete tool, and therefore delivers value for the question but delivers that additional value to the other tools and vice versa. There's a nice blog post by Steve Blank called Stop Playing Target Market Roulette; a New Addition to the Lean Toolset. Ula: 24:56 Yes, I've read that. Marc Gruber: 24:57 Wonderful blog post, and it teaches this Flyability drone example, if you want to look at it. Ula: 25:02 We'll put it in the show notes. Yeah. Marc Gruber: 25:04 And there he explained actually how the tools work together. If you think big picture, you can say, well, the market opportunity navigator helps you to understand where to play, what is a good starting position for your venture. And then you would say, ‘Hey, for this starting position, for this domain, I now try to develop a business model that is appealing. And in order to develop a good business model, I need to figure out product-market fit.' So, I do customer discovery, I do a minimum viable product - we all know Osterwalder/ Pigneur's Business Model Canvas, you know. Steve Blank's tools about minimum viable product, customer discovery... Ula: 25:37 The Lean Startup… Marc Gruber: 25:39 …Exactly! The Lean method that is then extended and say okay, there's another layer to the lean that method. That's how he features it in the blog. So, what you have is basically, a nice suite of business tools that work nicely in conjunction. Each one adds value to the other one. And that's why I like to use them in my own classroom and my work with startups or with large enterprises. I like to apply them as a suite of tools because then people understand the logic behind each of them, but also get much more utility out of them if they combine them. Ula: 26:12 Hmm. So, it sounds like you know, the Market Opportunity Navigator gives you a view at a higher level, a macro level. And then once you've gotten those details and you've narrowed down on where to play, you can now drill down into you know, developing the business model canvas and testing your hypothesis using the Lean Startup method. Marc Gruber: 26:34 If you look at the Lean Startup tools, Business Model Canvas, as well… they don't really tell you where to play, you know, they assume that you have a market. Also, if you look at design thinking, you know, it's an important method nowadays and (needed) in the toolbox of any innovation manager, but it assumes you have a target market that is useful to investigate, to spend time before doing design thinking. But the question is, might there be a better target market out there where it's even more valuable to apply design thinking that is not addressed. Also, the Market Opportunity Navigator helps to address the question therefore, makes the design thinking method for that business model canvas all the other tools we have talked about, more valuable because it's more promising to do (use) them. Ula: 27:18 Do you so far, the focus of the conversation has been on how this market opportunity navigator framework is useful for startups? Can large organizations get some use out of it as well, if so, how? Marc Gruber: 27:33 That's a very good question. The book is written mainly from the perspective of startups. If you apply it to established companies, you know, I've done that multiple times now in workshops, this can be applied extremely smoothly. Established companies typically use the other tools. For the established companies, the where to play question is extremely important nowadays, because you know, you have all the new technologies that provide new competencies. And with the tool… I'll give you a very concrete example. You know, an established watchmaker can understand that when by putting sensors into the competence set, they could actually become a medical device company. Because they say, oh, we now have a watch that can measure your blood pressure, that can measure maybe your sugar level for diabetes, whatever it is, you know, and that's a where to play question. And technology enables so many new uses; AI, put AI into your established products, and you can become a different animal as a company. When you look closely what the very successful Silicon Valley companies are doing, they are not bound by their initial turf. A prime example is Uber. Uber moves wherever it can grow. Uber moves, wherever it can grow based on competencies, you know, and acquires new ones on the way to make the opportunity space even larger. I think we are living in an exciting time because technology enables so much that you can become as a company, a very different animal, that doesn't mean that you have to lose your first initial market domain. But it means you play in additional markets. And Rita McGrath, my colleague from Columbia Business School, she's very nicely depicted this in her book, The End of Competitive Advantage, where she says, look, we used to live in a world dominated by industry, we're actually nowadays living in competing arenas. That means, you know, wherever firms move, wherever they can grow, their measure of success is the share of the potential opportunity space. But that's a fluffy concept. What is an opportunity space? What's the share, you can get out of this one? That's a very pertinent question. And the virtual playbook gives you basically, the tool that helps you to understand what's your opportunity space, this doesn't fall out of heaven for the companies. If Apple moves into car manufacturing, this is an entrepreneurial step where they say, ‘okay, that's an opportunity that we identified'. Among many opportunities that they identified that this is one that they've deemed worthwhile to get into. And then there's managerial questions about how to exploit this opportunity to hire away people from Daimler, partner up with Fiat… whatever, you know, those steps are to explore this opportunity. But initially, there's the where to play question for Apple, for Uber, for Google, for any type of company, out there, and you can close your eyes to that and say, hey, we are only in our home turf, but then others might have set their sights on your home turf. Now think about what happened to the cellphone manufacturers, you know, they were attacked, they didn't die, because the second one, Ericsson took over Motorola and became bigger than Nokia. Now, it was the computer manufacturers who said, hey, we can play in the cellphone domain. And see, and that's where this arena concept is extremely pertinent. And therefore, tools that help you to understand what your competitive arena is - where to play - become important. That's where the book becomes important. What usually larger or more resource rich firms can do is to not only exploit one opportunity, but they can do multiple ones. So, the third step is one where they can focus on a handful, maybe a dozen opportunities in parallel, create an interesting pipeline. But even then, when I talk to the large companies, they don't want to waste money. They want to understand where they could play and what could be a good plan B if my first option doesn't work out. Ula: 31:10 They also want to be lean and agile. Marc Gruber: 31:13 If you can achieve a higher innovation outcome … strong innovation outcome, with less effort, with less resource consumption, of course, that's a winning formula. Ula: 31:25 Hmm. That's true. Do you then have any other books in the pipeline, will there be a sequel to Where to Play? Marc Gruber: 31:34 At the moment is no sequel plan because the book has been out for two years. When you look at how long it takes until books are known to people, understand and apply them… It takes some time until a tool actually is diffusing into the market. And a good example is Steve Blank's books. They were extremely successful, but it also didn't come from Sunday to Monday. But it took some time until people heard about them, saw them, saw the usefulness, they create a following. And then the same happened with Osterwalder and Pigneur's initial book, which was the Business Model Generation book, which took several years until it hit mainstream. That's why the Where to Play is a book, which was launched, people adopted it, it got translated into multiple languages, Steve Blank featured it as a part of the Lean Startup toolset in May last year. So, I think the journey is still on the early side. And so, I prefer setting my sights on helping others to apply it, understand its value, because I firmly believe in the value and how it can help people become more successful entrepreneurs and innovators. Maybe, at some point I'd say it's time for a second one. But you know, not yet, not quite yet. Ula: 32:42 No problem at all! Right!! So, are you a reader? Would you say you like reading? Marc Gruber: 32:47 I love reading. I like reading and I actually can read quite quickly - that's the benefit. But some of the stuff you don't want to read quickly and that's the annoying part, because then you don't have the time to read it slowly. Ula: 32:57 What would you say, are your two favorite books and why? Marc Gruber: 33:02 There is a book from 1959 from Edith Penrose. She's one of the eminent academic scholars. She has written a book called The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. This is an extremely insightful book in the sense that many of the things we're discussing nowadays are actually foreshadowed by her, half a century earlier. And it's a very nicely written book, it basically says, ‘Look, if you want to understand the growth of firms, you just have to look at the imaginative power of its C-suite and that is a function of their education and experience in print.' And it's just one element of the book, which makes it exciting because it foreshadows a lot of the diversification literature we see; the growth literature that we see nowadays. And it has very powerful patterns of explanation that help you to understand why some firms are growing very strongly, while other firms might be very constrained in how they think about what they could do. Ultimately brings it down to a very intriguing level of understanding because it connects the cognitive element to the resource base of a company. So, I recommend that definitely to everyone. Another one that I like a lot is The Entrepreneurial Mindset by Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan. This came out in 2000. And it's one of those books that combines a lot of entrepreneur insights. It's based on a couple of HBR (Harvard Business Review) papers that MacMillan and McGrath had authored in the late 80s and throughout the 90s. They put them all together in this book with a lot of added new content, and a lot of new theorization, examples, etc. So it's one of those books, you read it and say that was a milestone, too, when you read the book by Steve Blank and by Alex Osterwalder, from Eric Ries, the more recent one, but you begin to understand the intellectual roots that each and every book has the heritage of the thoughts, how the fields developed, how we nowadays think about stuff, but also where it has its roots maybe 20, 30 years ago, or in Penrose's case, more than half a century ago. Ula: 35:04 It is interesting, because you find out that there are connections and no field kind of suddenly springs up on its own, there are connections. Marc Gruber: 35:13 Yeah, that's it. If someone has a bit of reading time over the next few weeks, months, over the summer on the beach - this is definitely a set of books that you can take with you and you understand management and entrepreneurship, innovation management, in their very fundamental and intriguing manner. Ula: 35:31 I already have some of the books in my library, I now have some recommendations for new ones. So that's much appreciated. So, given how much you've accomplished over the years, what would be your advice for someone who is starting up and who might aspire to walk the path that you're on currently? Marc Gruber: 35:53 For me, it was important for my own career as a professor to understand where to play. In the sense that I always had more paper opportunities - articles or research opportunities than I could possibly do. So, I basically had my own portfolio of opportunities, and I had to discriminate where I thought this might be a better research question. This might be a more intriguing question than another one. So, I think I applied basically what I early on, you know, in my research what I later on said in the playbook. That's number one. Number two, you can always push harder. If you think your paper is nice, you can make it even nicer. That's like 110% level; you push yourself and try to understand what your limits are. I think that's an interesting aspect to discover within yourself and not to be too satisfied too early. Which makes you grow, basically a recipe for growth, because you say, ‘I push harder, I tried to learn more, I tried to write it even better' and then you push yourself over your own limits. And that's the satisfying part that leads to what I've just said earlier, when you know, I was talking about art and the implications for art. A good artist doesn't give up early, a good artist pushes himself to understand the new frontier. And I think as scientists, we are pushing the frontiers and, you know, in that sense, giving up too early is not a good recipe. You always can do better, because that's the way you learn. And that brings me to my third advice as to being a professor, being an academic. You get paid for pushing the frontier, and then you get even paid for talking about how you push the frontier. So, it's never boring, you know, because you try to push the frontier. It's a wonderful experience to learn more and to say, ‘Okay, I understood something that maybe other people have not yet understood', and or at least from this perspective, have understood, and then you talk about it, and you get feedback. It's a process that keeps you young as well. Ula: 37:46 It's important to enjoy the process as well, don't you think? Marc Gruber: 37:50 Yeah, but don't tell it to my employer because he is paying me for doing this job you know. Ula: 37:56 I wouldn't. Okay, right. So how can the audience reach you Marc? Marc Gruber: 36:27 The audience can email me at marc.gruber@epfl.ch. We have an interesting website that you might want to check out, it's called wheretoplay.co, www.wheretoplay.co. There, you can register for our newsletter. So, we every other month, we update the latest news, latest slides that you can download all this stuff for free. You can get webinars about the method. You can, if you're a trainer, a coach or consultant, you can get the material there for free to apply it in your activities. So, worksheets are in the open domain download. We have basic slides that you can use for teaching the method, for doing your consulting. All of that up on the website, check it out, wheretoplay.co. You just have to register and then all this material is available to you. Ula: 38:50 Oh wow. All for free? Marc Gruber: 38:52 All for free Ula: 38:53 Wow, that's impressive Marc Gruber: 38:56 You know, we're currently also working on an app - so that what I described as a process becomes more of a very playful exercise. Ula: 39:01 That's great. Are you on social media? Marc Gruber: 39:04 All on the usual suspects except for Instagram. Marc B Gruber on Twitter, it's on LinkedIn, on Facebook - you find me with my name. That's about it, you know? Ula: 39:14 Is there anything else you want, the audience to check out, or do? Marc Gruber: 39:19 You know, if people (would) send us emails about how useful it was? If you have the chance to apply (these concepts) please do and let us know your experiences. It's so rewarding for Sharon and myself to just listen to your stories, how it helped you, etc. You know, we get many stories of entrepreneurs saying ‘Oh, we wish would have applied it when we were young…' ‘…We could have avoided some mistakes', you know. Then they still applied and they are a bit progressed in their careers and that's exciting to hear as well. Please share your stories, email us, leave them on the website. We want to hear from you. Ula: 39:55 Great! Well, thank you so much for your time, Marc. It's been an absolute pleasure speaking with you. Marc Gruber: 40:02 It's my pleasure entirely. Thank you very much, Ula.
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Impact Leaders - Impact Investment and Performance with Purpose
New Series Today’s episode of IMPACT LEADERS is part of our new “series” (siris) called: “The Sustainable Investment Dilemma” Looking into how industries can help address the Climate & Social Crisis, in particular the financial industry, taking on the opportunity to address the way it has financed the activities that have taken us to our current situation. I invite you all to visit our sponsor’s website at ILAandPartners.com or the YouTube channel to watch the first video interview on this paramount subject and launch of this series. About this Episode To start our new series we have very special guests, Peter Wuffli, PhD, and Professor Vanina Farber, PhD, Founder and Chairs of the elea Foundation and the IMD elea Centre for Social Innovation. They are also the co-authors of the newly published book “THE elea WAY: A Learning Journey Toward Sustainable Impact”, which they are presenting and discussing during our conversation. FREE GIVE AWAY Get a digital copy of The elea Way Book - Send us a message via CONTACT US page (https://ilaandpartners.com/contact-us/) with Subject Line: The elea Way . ***Limited copies*** So hurry! Professor Vanina Farber, PhD, is an economist and political scientist with 20 years of teaching, researching, and consultancy experience. She holds the elea Chair for Social Innovation at IMD. Previously, Vanina was Dean of the Graduate School of Business and Associate Professor at Universidad del Pacífico in Peru. Peter Wuffli, PhD, is a senior leader and entrepreneurial philanthropist. He is the Founder and Chairman of elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization and the Honorary Chairman of IMD. Previously, Peter was a partner at McKinsey & Company, the CEO of UBS Group and the Chairman of Partners Group, respectively IMD. In 2015, he published the book Inclusive Leadership. The elea Way Book - The Learning Journey Toward Sustainable Impact The new book by Vanina Farber and Peter A. Wuffli summarizes insights from elea’s 15-year pioneering journey, from creating an investment organization, choosing purposeful themes, and sourcing opportunities, to partnering with entrepreneurs for impact creation. Elea Foundation Elea was established in 2006 with the purpose of fighting absolute poverty (i.e. less than USD 3 daily income) with entrepreneurial means. Elea is a philanthropic impact investor in the fields of agricultural value chains, informal retail and last mile distribution, employable skill building and digital solutions. Institute for Management Development (IMD) The Institute for Management Development (IMD) is an independent academic institution with Swiss roots and global reach, founded 75 years ago by business leaders for business leaders. Based in Lausanne Switzerland and Singapore, IMD has been ranked in the Top 3 of the annual FT’s Executive Education Global Ranking for the last nine consecutive years and in the top five for 17 consecutive years. Their MBA and EMBA programs have repeatedly been singled out among the best in Europe and the world. The tag line is Challenging what is and inspiring what could be. Highlights: Since the term was coined in 2007, there is now $500 -700 billion committed capital to impact investing. Social entrepreneurs are supported by organisations such as Ashoka, Skoll World Forum, WEF, Leaders of Tomorrow. Social entrepreneurship and impact investing are the two trends coming together bringing inclusive capitalism to solve and innovative solutions. I am a strong believer that capitalism is something great. Capitalism should be the solution and not the problem. But I also say we should make capitalism more inclusive. Talented people today want to work in companies that pursue meaningful purpose. Public expects capitalism to be articulated in a new way. We can do well by doing good. Every wealthy family particularly the younger generation is interested in these topics The elea Center for Social innovation focus on bringing social entrepreneurs with corporates Covid - All 20 active ventures survived. It was a humbling experience working with entrepreneurs through the pandemic. The pandemic gave us much more urgency and momentum. There is bigger recognition that systemic risks that are tail risks with low probability could happen. The idea of the system is much more concrete and the idea of interconnectedness becomes clear. The Elea Way Book allows for self learning, it is a practical and hands on book from a pedagogical perspective. It is the book that brings together social entrepreneurship and impact investing Standing on the shoulders of others - Bill Braden and Andy Kuper Bill Braden - CEO and founder of Ashoka - pioneer of social entrepreneurship Andy Cooper - Leapfrog, the first proof of an investment company that profit and purpose works. Fund managers should take a deeper look at impact. 3 phases of impact investment: $10k - Idea phase, competition $100k - Entrepreneur has to decide to fully commit, friends and family money not suffice. revenue of $0.5-2million - Not just concepts, building teams, working with government, 5-7 years Accion (https://www.accion.org/) harnessing digital technology to create financial inclusion Examples of investments: InkaMoss (http://inkamoss.com/) - helping 6000 farmers, small farm holders in Peru Dharma Life (https://dharmalife.in/) - supporting entrepreneurship in 40,000 villages in India BagoSphere (https://www.bagosphere.com/) - providing digital courses to improve employability skills in The Philippines Encouraged to see that social entrepreneurship, impact entrepreneurship and corporates are coming together. “No hay mal. Que por bien no venga” - There are 100’s of methods but nothing that suited our purpose. The elea Impact Measurement Method was developed for for measuring of impact on absolute poverty specifically for elea. This takes into account - factors and elea impact points/1000 Swiss Franc. Impact points serve 3 purpose: To set goals - how many impact point we want to achieve For comparability between ventures - capital allocation tool To communicate regular performance reporting Investors are not just competing for more impact points but internalising the impact,more than just seeing images. Quantifying impact helps the decision making process and applies theory of change. At some stage, in 5-10 years, impact becomes tradeable. These kinds of currencies become real currency and maybe blockchain will help us here to create markets with impact. When we look at impact it is still traded at a discount. My dream is that one day impact will be traded at a premium not at a discount. They are not called donors, they are called philanthropic investors who give us philanthropic investors. They become by being on the board, helping with strategy and risk management. It’s not about creating bigger institutions and organisations. It’s about how to build partnerships, how to build bridges across sectors. It’s about getting different type of organisations aligned. Collaboration in blended finance needs to be more agile. We are starting to see SDG funds of $500million with blended finance facilities. Keys to leadership is intentional influence. Leadership needs to be ethical, be more horizontal than vertical, and is able to get things done and mobilise people around solving problems. We need to learn and be thorough. We have wasted a lot of money. Entrepreneurship is more critical and scarce now than money for impact investment.” Time Stamp: [0:02:40] Intro to Vanina and Peter [0:05:20] What is impact investing? [0:09:12] Are we facing a Sustainable Investment Dilemma? Capitalism [0:11:20] Making impact vs making profit [0:13:56] UBS philanthropic arm brought in higher quality conversations with wealthy people [0:15:30] Spectrum of sustainable investing, impact and philanthropy [0:17:30] What is IMD [0:22:00] What is ELEA and why it was founded [0:24:00] Elea Center and social innovation [0:27:00] 10 years review and plan in 2016 [0:30:00] Launching a book in the pandemic in the summer of 2020 [0:35:00] The shift in urgency [0:36:40] Writing the book [0:40:00:] How to mobilise private capital, [0:43:30] The two trends of social entrepreneurship and impact investing [0:50:00] Practical and all inclusive book, limited give away [0:51:50] 3 phases of impact investments [0:54:30] Examples of elea investments [0:57:00] Transformation in corporations, How to pivot during COVID [0:58:45] “No hay mal. Que por bien no venga” [1:01:10] Mainstreaming of impact and social entrepreneurship [1:02:30] elea Impact Measurement Method and Impact Points [1:06:00] Impact Performance Report [1:10:30] Performance of elea investments [1:16:00] Spectrum of capital [1:16:45] Mindset of profit first or impact first [1:19:40] Impact aligned organisations, ecosystems [1:22:18] Blended finance is extremely promising but needs to be more agile [1:24:45] Vanina’s career [1:29:30] What is an impact leaders Useful links: Prof Vanina Farber Linkedin (https://ch.linkedin.com/in/vaninafarber) Peter Wuffli Linkedin (https://ch.linkedin.com/in/peter-wuffli-1153691b2) Elea.org (https://www.elea.org/en/) The elea Way Book: The Learning Journey Toward Sustainable Impact (https://www.elea.org/en/media/publications/the-elea-way-book) Inclusive Leadership: A framework for the Global Era book (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319235608) Elea Center for Social Innovation, IMD (https://www.imd.org/elea/elea-center-for-social-innovation/) Skoll World Forum (https://skoll.org/skoll-world-forum/) WEF (https://www.weforum.org/) Bill Drayton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Drayton) , Founder of Ashoka (https://www.ashoka.org/en-gb) Andrew Kuper (https://leapfroginvest.com/people/andrewkuper/) , Founder and CEO of Leapfrog Investments (https://leapfroginvest.com/) Accion (https://www.accion.org) - Harnessing digital technology to create financial inclusion Investment Companies InkaMoss (http://inkamoss.com/) BagoSphere (https://www.bagosphere.com/) Dharma Life (https://dharmalife.in/) Serco (https://www.serco.com/) - Donor to Elea Accenture (https://www.accenture.com/) IFC (https://www.ifc.org/) Uniliver (https://www.unilever.com/) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (https://www.gatesfoundation.org/) -------- Take action Connect with JP Dallmann on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-dallmann/) , Twitter (https://twitter.com/JPDallmann) , Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbyjp/) and Clubhouse. Contact us to help you transition into Sustainable & Impact Investing - ILA & Partners (https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-leaders-advisors) Impact Leaders is produced by Podcast Publishing (http://podcastpublishing.help/) -------- Important: The content shared on this podcast does not constitute a request, offer, recommendation or solicitation of any kind to buy, subscribe, sell or redeem any investment instruments or to perform other such transactions of any kind.
Bible Studies by Sister Maria Luisa Piraquive – Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ Int'l
Bible study: Hebrews 1 Hosted by Sister Maria Luisa Piraquive Worldwide Leader of the Church Location: Lausanne, Switzerland Date: October 26, 2019 Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International https://idmji.org/en/
Paul Gabie is the Co-founder and CEO of Proof & Company, one of Asia Pacific's leading independent spirit companies. With over nine offices across China, Singapore and Australia, Paul has established one of the most highly regarded creative teams in the bar world. Guiding the development of countless bars across Asia, five have ranked in the World's 100 Best Bars in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. In addition to engineering and law degrees, Paul holds also an MBA from IMD, in Lausanne Switzerland.
The perfect white snow, the bright blue sky, everything looks rosy in Olympic world as the 2020 Youth Olympics Winter Games in Lausanne Switzerland enter their second week. Team GB are celebrating success too with 5 medals on day 6 - and more sports start their action this week. But thousands of miles away in South America, Rio’s Olympic Park is apparently dangerous and virtually in ruins, 4 years on from the Games, and before the next summer Games start in Tokyo. A judge has said the place was "progressively battered by the lack of care" and "ready for tragedies”. A damning verdict on the three week Rio Carnival of 2016!There’s three retirements this week with one Olympian starting her new career at the age of 20!’This Girl Can’ promo from Sport England hits the right tone in trying to encourage more women to get active - and you have a role to play too!Plus there’s GB Bobsled success, a Lifetime achievement award for one of Britain’s best coaches, skateboarding, hockey and find out why Michael’s UK Sport trip this week nearly ended in a lonely night! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Tune into Aly & Fila Pres. Future Sound of Egypt Radio Episode 629 recorded live from D! Club, Lausanne, Switzerland 14/12/2019.
It used to be a thing of science fiction…growing human organs in test tubes and observing their behavior as we manipulate their environment. For David Pamies, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, this is daily life, although it may not always be ordinary. On today's episode, he discusses how he's using a brain organoid—an organ grown from human-induced pluripotent stem cells—to learn more about the toxins we come into contact with on a daily basis. He explains why and how this model is superior to far more commonly-used mouse models, and how it's also fueling research on drug treatment for an aggressive type of brain cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Such research includes testing the effectiveness of temozolomide, a commonly used chemotherapy drug. Dr. Pamies dives into the science behind it all and provides a compelling glimpse into the exciting and growing world of organoid-based research. Press play for all the details.
In July of 2014, Peter Anderson began his work as Director of Enrollment Management at Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Anderson secured his undergraduate degree from Middlebury College and his MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Following his work as an Institutional Derivatives Broker for Gottex Financial Services in Lausanne Switzerland, Mr. Anderson returned to education in the summer of 2000. Between 2009 and 2014, Mr. Anderson worked as Director of Admission at Lancaster Country Day School and he has served as Director of Financial Aid at Loomis Chaffee School and as an Instructor in U.S. and South African History at St. George’s School in Newport Rhode Island. In this podcast, Mr. Anderson reflects upon strategic and tactical thinking for the seasoned admission professional. http://www.ljcds.org
Компьютерийн шинжлэх ухааны мастерийн зэргээр "EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland"-д суралцаж буй Ч. Билгүүн ѳнѳѳдрийн зочноор оролцлоо. Электроник инжинерийн мэргэжлээр МУИС-ийг тѳгссѳн тэрээр код бичих сонирхолдоо хѳтлѳгдѳн мэргэжлээ солин суралцан, ажиллаж байна. Швецарь орны соёлын онцлог, сургалтын систем, оюутны амьдрал, дадлага ажил хийх боломж, болон олон бусад сэдвээр яраилцсан энэхүү дугаарыг хүлээн авна уу.
A Taste of Yellow - mixed by Mr. Mike from Lausanne Switzerland 2012
Photo credit: Thaler Photography On this episode, I Zoom in Aesha Ash and we chat about her experiences an elite ballerina and how important it is for her to empower young girls of color. Aesha has been a professional ballet dancer for 13 years. After attending the legendary School of American Ballet, she joined the New York City Ballet at the age of 18, where she remained for eight years dancing numerous soloist and principal roles. Aesha then joined the legendary Bejart Ballet, in Lausanne Switzerland, as a soloist. After enjoying success in Europe, she returned to the United States in 2005 where joined Alonzo King's Lines Ballet. After a tremendous amount of growth and learning, Aesha went freelance. She began working with Morphoses, founded by Christopher Wheeldon. Aesha has been featured in Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, Bazaar, Marie Claire, the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, to name a few. You will find Aesha featured in the New York City Ballet Workout II, Barbie Nutcracker, as well as the principal dance double for Zoe Saldana in the movie Center Stage. She is the recipient of the prestigious Mae L. Wein Award and has been honored by The National Women's History Museum with the Women Making History Award. Ms. Ash is currently working on The Swan Dreams Project. This project, which began in 2011, uses imagery to change stereotypes that surround women of color and individuals from underserved communities. She wants to remind us all that beauty and grace are not defined by race or socio-economic background. You can connect with Aesha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theswandreams The Swan Dreams Project is here: http://www.theswandreamsproject.org/
Currently living in North Central New Mexico, Robert Kryder has spent most of his life in the Southwest regions of the country as an adventurer explorer specializing in research and recovery. Kryder and his team make up Kryder Exploration with a dedication to exposing hidden truths and life changing realities of the world. Roberts discoveries have included many encounters with Bigfoot resulting in a multitude of diverse forms of evidence and research samples. Robert has operated KX for over 30 years in one form or another. He and his team have witnessed Bigfoot and other anomalies throughout the duration, with a concentrated focus on the Bigfoot enigma for the past five years. He has worked with Oxford University and the Museum of Zoology, Lausanne Switzerland as a multi sample contributor (as yet un- tested) to the now infamous "OLCHP " project. This work continues by request of the University of New Mexico, Gallup. Through the Executive Director, Christopher Dyer. And will be working with Dr. Dyer to develop not only the university study format and curriculum, but workshops and public dissemination seminars and classes. This work will ramp up seriously in the near future with top notch cooperation. Roberts limitless curiosity leads to his unyielding measures of truth. He has a deep love of the natural world and all creatures. Kryder Exploration is a custom for hire research and recovery company. Featuring services: Surface Surveys/Mapping Code Breakdown Subsurface Imaging 100' Deep 3D Excavation Archaeology Recovery Tracking First Response/Investigation Research/Location/Recoveries Include: Lost Cities Ancient Technology Treasure Meteorites Dinosaur Fossils Gem and Mineral
Nicolas Fasel University of Lausanne Switzerland speaks on "Host parasite interactions and metastatic leishmaniasis". This movie has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste at "Molecular Biology of Leishmania" workshop.
Nicolas Fasel University of Lausanne Switzerland speaks on "High-throughput drug screening in Leishmania infected macrophages". This movie has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste at "Molecular Biology of Leishmania" workshop.
Thierry Pedrazzini, Experimental Cardiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne - SWITZERLAND speaks on “Identification and characterization of heart enriched long non-coding RNAs”. This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Patrick returns to the spot in downtown Lausanne where he was detained and almost arrested by police, some nights earlier, for preaching to a large group of communists on the exact steps of an apostate church where he open-air preached in this clip! Patrick and James from England with Tantri from Singapore, Enrique and Helen from Spain, outreach in Geneva Switzerland, James visits the John Calvin’s Church and starts street preaching in multiple spots, A blessed day indeed! This is a faithful outreach by James and Patrick with the true Gospel of Jesus Christ from the King James Bible, the Authorized 1611. (Any mispronounced or missed words are not intentional). James takes you through various Scriptures to give you a clear understanding of the word of God.
ASM's Cultures magazine traveled to Colombia to speak with and film the researchers behind an innovative biotechnology project that is producing exciting results. The international Swiss – Colombian collaborative research team from the University of Lausanne – Switzerland, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and the Universidad de la Salle – Utopia campus has been working to create and test novel strains of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to improve cassava production. AMF forms symbiotic relationships with the majority of the world's plant species, including cassava and other major food security crops. By colonizing internal structures within the plant and extending its root system, AMF transports nutrients such as phosphate to the plants from inaccessible areas and sources in the soil. In exchange, the plant provides carbon to AMF species that have colonized the plant. The research team's studies show that, with the inoculation of certain AMF strains, only half of the necessary phosphate amendments are needed in nutrient-poor tropical soil to produce an equal or greater amount of cassava yield. On a large scale, this technology could potentially provide a more sustainable approach to resource management, allow small shareholder farmers to reduce their input costs, and help create a food secure future for many. In fact, an early model for this success is already being realized by graduates of the Utopia campus, all of whom come from conflict and post-conflict zones. By utilizing their education in agronomy in conjunction with this technology, they can begin rebuilding their home communities while ensuring a food secure future for Colombia and the greater global community. To learn more about ASM's Cultures magazine please visithttp://www.asm.org/index.php/cultures-magazine Read the latest issue on food security on the following platforms:iTunes - iPad Onlyhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/asm-cultures/id878473655… Google Playhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details…Flipbookhttp://mzines.net/publication.aspx?pid=829&pkey=grnbfxnlvPDF Versionhttp://www.mzines.net/…/ASM_Cultures_i4_141120_optimized.pdf Don't miss an episode of MicrobeWorld Video. Subscribe for free using iTunes or help support our work by purchasing the MicrobeWorld podcast application for iPhone and Android devices in the iTunes or Android app stores.
ASM's Cultures magazine traveled to Colombia to speak with and film the researchers behind an innovative biotechnology project that is producing exciting results. The international Swiss – Colombian collaborative research team from the University of Lausanne – Switzerland, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and the Universidad de la Salle – Utopia campus has been working to create and test novel strains of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to improve cassava production. AMF forms symbiotic relationships with the majority of the world’s plant species, including cassava and other major food security crops. By colonizing internal structures within the plant and extending its root system, AMF transports nutrients such as phosphate to the plants from inaccessible areas and sources in the soil. In exchange, the plant provides carbon to AMF species that have colonized the plant. The research team’s studies show that, with the inoculation of certain AMF strains, only half of the necessary phosphate amendments are needed in nutrient-poor tropical soil to produce an equal or greater amount of cassava yield. On a large scale, this technology could potentially provide a more sustainable approach to resource management, allow small shareholder farmers to reduce their input costs, and help create a food secure future for many. In fact, an early model for this success is already being realized by graduates of the Utopia campus, all of whom come from conflict and post-conflict zones. By utilizing their education in agronomy in conjunction with this technology, they can begin rebuilding their home communities while ensuring a food secure future for Colombia and the greater global community. To learn more about ASM's Cultures magazine please visithttp://www.asm.org/index.php/cultures-magazine Read the latest issue on food security on the following platforms:iTunes - iPad Onlyhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/asm-cultures/id878473655… Google Playhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details…Flipbookhttp://mzines.net/publication.aspx?pid=829&pkey=grnbfxnlvPDF Versionhttp://www.mzines.net/…/ASM_Cultures_i4_141120_optimized.pdf Don't miss an episode of MicrobeWorld Video. Subscribe for free using iTunes or help support our work by purchasing the MicrobeWorld podcast application for iPhone and Android devices in the iTunes or Android app stores.
ASM's Cultures magazine traveled to Colombia to speak with and film the researchers behind an innovative biotechnology project that is producing exciting results. The international Swiss – Colombian collaborative research team from the University of Lausanne – Switzerland, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and the Universidad de la Salle – Utopia campus has been working to create and test novel strains of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to improve cassava production. AMF forms symbiotic relationships with the majority of the world’s plant species, including cassava and other major food security crops. By colonizing internal structures within the plant and extending its root system, AMF transports nutrients such as phosphate to the plants from inaccessible areas and sources in the soil. In exchange, the plant provides carbon to AMF species that have colonized the plant. The research team’s studies show that, with the inoculation of certain AMF strains, only half of the necessary phosphate amendments are needed in nutrient-poor tropical soil to produce an equal or greater amount of cassava yield. On a large scale, this technology could potentially provide a more sustainable approach to resource management, allow small shareholder farmers to reduce their input costs, and help create a food secure future for many. In fact, an early model for this success is already being realized by graduates of the Utopia campus, all of whom come from conflict and post-conflict zones. By utilizing their education in agronomy in conjunction with this technology, they can begin rebuilding their home communities while ensuring a food secure future for Colombia and the greater global community. To learn more about ASM's Cultures magazine please visithttp://www.asm.org/index.php/cultures-magazine Read the latest issue on food security on the following platforms:iTunes - iPad Onlyhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/asm-cultures/id878473655… Google Playhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details…Flipbookhttp://mzines.net/publication.aspx?pid=829&pkey=grnbfxnlvPDF Versionhttp://www.mzines.net/…/ASM_Cultures_i4_141120_optimized.pdf Don't miss an episode of MicrobeWorld Video. Subscribe for free using iTunes or help support our work by purchasing the MicrobeWorld podcast application for iPhone and Android devices in the iTunes or Android app stores.
"Theoretical and Practical Course "Molecular Biology of Leishmania"
Nicholas Fasel University of Lausanne, Lausanne - Switzerland speaks on "Host parasite interactions and metastatic leishmaniasis - Theoretical and Practical Course “Molecular Biology of Leishmania”. This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
"Theoretical and Practical Course "Molecular Biology of Leishmania"
Nicholas Fasel University of Lausanne, Lausanne - Switzerland speaks on "Vaccine considerations, Leishmania antigens - Theoretical and Practical Course “Molecular Biology of Leishmania”. This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Thierry Pedrazzini, Experimental Cardiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Lausanne Medical School, Lausanne - SWITZERLAND speaks on "Novel non-coding RNAs in cardiac regeneration" . This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB
Philippe Rahm, born in 1967 studied at the Federal Polytechnic Schools of Lausanne and Zurich. He obtained his architectural degree in 1993. He works currently in Paris (France) and Lausanne (Switzerland). In 2002, he was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice and is one of the 20 manifesto’s architects of the Aaron Betsky’s 2008 Architectural Venice Biennale. He is nominee in 2009 for the Ordos Prize in China and was in 2008 in the top ten ranking of the International Chernikov prize in Moscow. In 2007, he had a personal exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. He has participated in a number of exhibitions worldwide (Archilab 2000, SF-MoMA 2001, CCA Kitakyushu 2004, Frac Centre, Orléans, Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg 2003-2006 and 2007, Manifesta 7, 2008, Louisiana museum, Denmark, 2009). Philippe Rahm was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome (2000). He was Head-Master of Diploma Unit 13 at the AA School in London in 2005-2006, Visiting professor in Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in Switzerland in 2004 and 2005, at the ETH Lausanne in 2006 and 2007 and he is currently guest professor at the Royal School of Architecture of Copenhaguen. He is working on several private and public projects in France, Poland, England, Italy and Germany. He has lectured widely, including at Cooper Union NY, Harvard School of Design, UCLA and Princeton. Matthias Böttger, born 1974, studied architecture and urban planning in Karlsruhe and London. He heads the Berlin-based think-tank “raumtaktik — spatial intelligence and intervention”. 2007/2008 he was Visiting Professor for Art and Public Space at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremburg. In 2008 he was commissioner and curator for the German contribution “Updating Germany— Projects for a Better Future” to the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. 2009 was a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Currently he teaches „Art + Architecture“ at the ETH Zürich and 2010 he runs the exhibition space aut - Architektur und Tirol - in Innsbruck and curates the series aut.raumproduktion.
The real charm of Lausanne lies in its charming lakefront. From local office workers to roller bladers strutting their stuff, the promenade is a great place for tourists to catch a glimpse of city life. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.
The real charm of Lausanne lies in its charming lakefront. From local office workers to roller bladers strutting their stuff, the promenade is a great place for tourists to catch a glimpse of city life. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.
Talking Robots - The Podcast on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
In this episode we interview Frederic Kaplan. After ten years of research at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris, he is now researcher at the CRAFT at the EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland where he supervises a new team focusing on interactive furniture and robotic objects. From curious AIBO robots to interactive robot computers and furniture, he has been exploring technologies permitting to endow objects with a personal history so that they become different as we interact with them and to learn from one another, thus creating an ecosystem in perpetual evolution.
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