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Policajti zasahovali u opozičnej političky Zuzany Šubovej, ktorá upozornila na kauzu haciendy, premiér Robert Fico nazval spoločný summit lídrov o Grónsku drahou večerou, ešte počas minulého víkendu sa stretol s Donaldom Trumpom výmenou za miliardový deal o jadrovej elektrárni. Trump v Davose urážal spojencov, vyhrážal sa im, no ustúpil z plánov obsadiť Grónsko. Koalícia novelu o extrémizme nateraz stiahne, Daniel Lipšic napriek disciplinárke zostáva na generálnej prokuratúre, a STVR má po roku a pol konečne aspoň nové logo. Sobotným Dobrým ránom vás sprevádzajú Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová a Jakub Filo. Otázky do nasledujúcej epizódy Dobrého rána sobota nám zasielajte na e-mail dobrerano@sme.sk, ideálne vo forme hlasovej správy. Do predmetu napíšte Otázka do sobotného Dobrého rána. Zdroje zvukov: Markíza, TA3, TASR, YouTube/SMER-SD, Demokrati, Bloomberg, Fox Bussiness, Associated Press – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Zdá sa, že Trump zatiaľ nezaútočí na Grónsko ani sa ho nepokúsi pripojiť silou – aj keď pri americkom prezidentovi človek nikdy nevie. No zdá sa tiež, že mierne ubral a hovorí o nejakej budúcej dohode. Otázkou však stále je, do akej miery jej súčasťou bude Dánsko. Tomáš Prokopčák sa v podcaste Dobré ráno o Davose, o Trumpovi a vývoji okolo Grónska a NATO znovu rozpráva so zahraničným reportérom denníka SME Danielom Hoťkom. Zdroje zvukov: Bloomberg News, CBS News, Fox Business, Česká televize Odporúčanie: A ak hľadáte na víkend príjemnú oddychovku, odporúčam minisériu Seven Dials na Netflixe. Poteší nielen milovníkov detektívok a Agathy Christie, na herecké výkony sa dobré pozerá a zase... nuž, príliš komplikovaná záhada to nie je. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Už je to týždeň vo veľmi krutých podmienkach, ale sme v poriadku, povedala pred niekoľkými dňami agentúre AP jedna z obyvateliek Kyjeva. V ňom už ruské útoky dokázali aj naraz odstaviť od tepla, vody či svetla milión ľudí. Teploty tu klesajú aj na mínus 20 stupňov a prezident Volodymyr Zelenskyj neskrýva frustráciu z nedostatočnej obrany a opatrení na ochranu obyvateľstva. Ako ľudia na Ukrajine prežívajú útoky na energetickú infraštruktúru, ostáva im počkať si len na teplejšie počasie? A čo s vojnou na Ukrajine robí snaha Donalda Trumpa získať Grónsko? O tom sa Nikola Šuliková Bajánová rozpráva so Stanislavou Harkotovou, reportérkou Aktuality.sk, ktorá žije v Kyjeve. Zdroje zvukov: AP, Youtube/Zelenskyy_President Odporúčanie: Predpokladám, že Pasáž od švédskeho autora Simona Stålenhaga viacerí dobre poznáte. Mne sa ju podarilo prečítať až teraz a týmto dystopickým príbehom s prekrásnymi ilustráciami som doslova nadšená. Už sa neviem dočkať, kedy sa mi do rúk dostane ďalšie autorovo dielo. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ozbrojenci kontrolujú ľudí, tých so zraneniami zabíjajú, je to znak účasti na protestoch, rozpráva Iránčanka, ktorá žije na Slovensku. Keď sa jej po týždni od začiatku protestov podarilo spojiť na dve minúty s príbuznými, prepukla do plaču. Počula to vytúžené: „Sme v poriadku“. Tisíce iných za svoj boj s teokratickým režimom zaplatili aj životom.Irán – ešte pred pár dňami krajina s celonárodnými protestami proti teokratickému režimu na čele s ajatolláhom Alím Chameneím. Tri týždne verejného odporu - v krajine, kde sa za odpor vešia. A to verejne. Napriek tomu vyšli do ulíc. Najprv nespokojní obchodníci, ku ktorým sa pridali mladí ľudia a študenti. Kritiku životnej úrovne a dražoby rozšírili o kritiku moci. V stovke miest po celej krajine.Reakcia? Armádna streľba do davov, zatýkanie, vyhrážky popravami. Následne informačný blackout. Vypnutý internet i telefonické linky.A Trumpov prísľub pomoci, „ktorá mala byť na ceste“. Po tom, ako Iráncov vyzýval k prevzatiu inštitúcií.Po inom prísľube – a síce, že režim prestane s popravami – americký prezident akoby na ten svoj prísľub zabudol.Bilancia? Irán bez protestov. Obete v tisícoch, vyše 20-tisíc zadržaných. A režim ajatolláhov naďalej pri moci.Čo na to samotní Iránci? Aj tí, čo sa na dianie doma pozerajú zo slobodného exilu?Z bezpečnostných dôvodov ich identitu nezverejňujeme.Podcast pripravil Jaroslav Barborák.
Have you ever struggled to get the information you need from a subject matter expert? Or maybe you're the expert (SME), and you're not quite sure what the instructional designer actually wants from you?In this episode, host Matt Pierce explores what subject matter experts actually need from instructional designers (IDs) to do their best work. Drawing from his experience on both sides of the dynamic, Matt breaks down seven key principles for building a strong SME-ID partnership that leads to better learning outcomes.From being specific with requests and setting clear boundaries, to giving early feedback and closing the loop on how information gets used, Matt offers practical guidance for creating a smoother, more productive working relationship.Matt also explores how video can strengthen communication between SMEs and IDs, whether that's recording verbal feedback, providing quick status updates, or simply adding a personal touch that helps you stand out in a busy SME's inbox.Learning points from the episode include:00:00 - 01:26 Introduction and the SME-ID dynamic01:26 - 03:25 Respecting SME time and being specific with requests03:25 - 05:57 Setting clear guardrails and context before asking for content05:57 - 08:11 Helping SMEs remember what it's like to be a beginner08:11 - 09:57 The importance of early, actionable feedback09:57 - 12:18 Pushing back when expertise doesn't serve the learner12:18 - 14:06 Giving SMEs something to react to rather than starting from nothing14:06 - 18:22 Closing the loop and using video to strengthen communication18:22 - 21:01 Matt's final take and outroImportant links and mentions:Camtasia: https://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/Snagit: https://www.techsmith.com/snagit/Audiate: https://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/audiate/
Bývalú riaditeľku protikorupčnej sekcie v Pôdohospodárskej platobnej agentúre zadržala polícia. Zuzana Šubová pritom roky hovorí o korupcii a o zneužitých dotáciách a teraz sa špekuluje, že sa ju možno nesnažia zastrašiť. Čo sa teda na PPA dialo a prečo polícia vyšetruje Šubovú? Tomáš Prokopčák sa v podcaste Dobré ráno pýta Petra Kováča z domácej redakcie denníka SME. Zdroje zvukov: Facebook/Juraj Šeliga, Youtube/Demokrati, Instagram/Tomáš Zdechovský, Youtube/Denník N Odporúčanie: Už dnes o 19.00 budú naši kolegovia z podcastu Piatoček vyhlasovať víťazov ankety Tragéd roka 2025 - a vy si to môžete pozrieť z pohodlia obývačky. Adam Blaško bude diskutovať s Ivetou Radičovou, Miroslavom Beblavým, Jakubom Gulíkom a Luciou Stuchlíkovou o tom, čo sa udialo v našej politike za posledný rok. Lístky na livestream nájdete na piatocek.com – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Join Deltek for a webinar showcasing the powerful capabilities of the Gage and Tool module in TIPQA, a comprehensive solution designed to streamline tool management and enhance quality assurance across manufacturing operations. In this webinar, you'll learn how TIPQA empowers teams to: Track Tool Usage with Precision: Record tool usage directly against manufacturing and inspection steps for full traceability. Simplify Tool Management: Utilize an intuitive check-in/check-out system to manage tool availability and accountability. Ensure Accuracy and Reliability: Automate calibration cycles and schedule preventative maintenance to maintain tool integrity. Adapt Maintenance to Real-World Use: Leverage dynamic maintenance cycles based on actual tool usage to reduce downtime and optimize performance. Drive Data-Driven Decisions: Perform Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility (Gage R&R) analysis to validate measurement systems and improve process control. Whether you're a quality engineer, manufacturing manager, or SME member looking to elevate your tool management strategy, this webinar will provide actionable insights and a firsthand look at how TIPQA's Gage and Tool module can transform your operations. Brought to you by: DELTEK Visit https://advancedmanufacturing.org/webinars for more webinars and an interactive experience with visuals.
Prečo hviezdy na nočnej oblohe blikajú a planéty nie? Čo by s naším telom spravilo pitie ťažkej vody a prečo by sa v ňom začali „zadrhávať“ metabolické procesy? Dá sa robiť teoretická fyzika aj bez náročnej matematiky a diferenciálnych rovníc? O tom všetkom diskutujú Jozef a Samuel. Podcast vzniká v spolupráci so SME. Bonusové epizódy a extra obsah k podcastom nájdete na https://herohero.co/vedator Samuelova nová kniha už je v predaji https://www.martinus.sk/3600333-limity-poznania/kniha Podcastové hrnčeky a ponožky nájdete na stránke https://vedator.space/vedastore/ Všetko ostatné nájdete tu https://linktr.ee/vedatorsk Vedátorský newsletter http://eepurl.com/gIm1y5 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17pthtwyjd/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Už vieme, že homosexuálne správanie je v prírode celkom bežné. Teraz však prišiel nový výskum, ktorý hovorí, aké má pravdepodobne evolučné dôvody a prečo má, špeciálne u primátov, svoj význam. Tento týždeň sa v podcaste Zoom vyberieme za našimi zvieracími príbuznými a spoznáme tiež schopnosti mimoriadne nadaných psov. Objavom týždňa je zistenie, ako rakovina kradne mitochondrie imunitným bunkám. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME si môžete vypočuť na jednom mieste na podcasty.sme.sk. – Ak máte pre nás spätnú väzbu, odkaz alebo nápad, napíšte nám na podcasty@sme.sk – Odoberajte aj (Ne)vedecký newsletter Tomáša Prokopčáka na sme.sk/nevedecky – Ďakujeme, že počúvate podcast Zoom.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Takmer presne na prvé výročie od inaugurácie Donalda Trumpa sa v jeho sídle na Floride ocitol Robert Fico s delegáciou. Za zatiaľ nie najtransparentnejších podmienok sa rodí dohoda s americkým Westinghousom o jadrovej spolupráci. Robert Fico mal šancu postaviť sa za Európsku úniu a odmietnuť Trumpove clá – teda pomstu za Grónsko. Šancu nevyužil. Nielen za to ho v podcaste Dobré ráno v rozhovore s Janou Krescanko Dibákovou kritizuje bývalý minister, diplomat a veľvyslanec v Dánsku MIROSLAV WLACHOVSKÝ. Zdroje zvukov: Facebook/Robert Fico, Youtube/SMER - Sociálna Demokracia, The Guardian, Youtube/BBC News Odporúčanie: Už v stredu je v bratislavskom Neptúne Tragéd roka, piatočkári pozývajú na zábavu do popuku a na kúsok sprostredkovanej hanby za výkony nominovaných. Ak nemôžete prísť, skúste si kúpiť aspoň lajfku cez videostream. Viac sa dozviete na piatocek.com. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nova epizoda podkasta pod zaštitom Međunarodnog PEN centra "Dobar loš zao" je u etru! U prvom delu emisije, Nenad Kulačin i Marko Vidojković radovali su se uspešnom protestu studenata u Novom Sadu, izrazili su zadovoljstvo nastupom Ane Bekute u Čačku, odahnuli jer nas najmanje jedan kreten neće sramotiti pred evroparlamentarcima i pohvalili se posetom naprednjaka domu Nenadove majke u Boru, u sred snimanja Smećarnika. Gost je profesor, aktivista i politički zatvorenik, Radivoje Jovović. Posle gostovanja u "Vanrednom intervjuu" na DLZ Patreonu, Jovović je dobio produženje pritvora, a DLZ ostao bez drugog Jujtub kanala, pa se gost i autori živo interesuju šta ih sada čeka. Dok to što ih čeka ne stigne, profesor Jovović je govorio o mitingu u Novom Sadu, razlikama među studentima, odnosu prema opoziciji, Sisolinijevoj paranoji, delegaciji evroparlamentaraca, ali i globalnim dramatičnim temama, poput Irana, Venecuele i Grenlanda. Sve ovo je tek delić uzbudljivog razgovora koji vas čeka. U Magarećem kutku doznaćete ko će silovati popa. Da bi DLZ opstao, pretplatite se na patreon.com/ucutatinecemo ili pošaljite donaciju na PayPal ucutatinecemo@gmail.com. Na isti mejl možete poručiti DLZ merch sa trajnim popustom.
Welcome back to the EUVC Podcast, where we bring you the people and perspectives shaping European venture.This week, Andreas Munk Holm is joined by Max Schertel, co-founder & CEO of finmid, and Tim Rehder, General Partner at Earlybird, to unpack the rise of embedded lending infrastructure for B2B platforms.From food delivery and PSPs to ride-hailing and fleet platforms, finmid lets marketplaces offer financing directly to their merchants – with a single integration, across 30+ European markets. Together, they break down why embedded lending is often new capital, not just smoother UX; how better data lets you underwrite the “invisible” SME segment; and what it really takes to scale regulated infra across a fragmented Europe.Here's what's covered:01:03 – What finmid does: One integration for platforms to offer any financing product to business users across Europe02:02 – Why embedded wins: Tim on data access, risk scoring, and turning platforms into “banks in all but the balance sheet”04:05 – Owning infra, not capital: Regulation, operations and data engine vs outsourcing pure funding to institutions06:43 – Economics & margins: Market size, 60%+ gross margins, and why net income beats headline spread10:47 – Customer examples: How Wolt Cash works, proactive offers in the merchant dashboard, and +80% retention uplift12:32 – Impact on the market: New capital for underserved SMEs vs just smoothing the bank journey17:57 – Ticket sizes & duration: Typical loans of €10–20k, up to ~12 months, 85% renewal and the path to larger, longer credit21:15 – AI & risk: Using generative and agentic AI in ops (adverse media) and data science (millions of data points, daily model iteration)29:20 – Scaling to 30 countries: U27 + UK, CH, IS – regulation, payments rails and why “ugly detail work” is the real moat40:17 – Partner alignment: Making financing core to platform metrics (GMV & retention) and hard-won lessons on incentives
In this podcast episode of "Get Your Fill: Financial Independence and Long Life," host Christine McCarron interviews Alistair Gordon, founder and CEO of Expertunity (also associated with the Expertship Institute) and author of the book Master Expert. Gordon is a leading authority on subject matter experts (SMEs), who are highly specialized technical professionals—such as software engineers, IT specialists, data experts, or engineers—who possess deep domain knowledge that keeps organizations running smoothly but often remains invisible until something goes wrong. He estimates there are about 40 million SMEs worldwide, many of whom feel stuck in repetitive, mundane tasks after years of honing their technical skills, leading to frustration, underappreciation, and limited career growth. Christine, a former SME herself in software, shares relatable experiences of translating complex jargon between engineers and clients, highlighting how SMEs often get pigeonholed into narrow roles, over-rely on technical expertise, and struggle with communication due to heavy use of jargon.
Šikanovanie, grooming, sexuálny a násilný obsah či nerealistické štandardy krásy a sexizmus – to je len časť problémov – alebo skôr reality – ktorej deti a tínedžeri čelia na sociálnych sieťach. Materské spoločnosti o tom vedia, no odmietajú s tým niečo poriadne urobiť. Čoraz viac krajín preto prijíma opatrenia, ktorými prístup na Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat a ďalšie deťom obmedzujú či dokonca zakazujú úplne. Vlani v decembri k takému kroku pristúpila Austrália ako vôbec prvý štát na svete. Je úplný zákaz tou správnou cestou a čo v tomto smere robí Slovensko? Aj o tom sa Nikola Šuliková Bajánová rozpráva s Jakubom Godom, publicistom a špecialistom na digitálnu komunikáciu, ktorý spolupracuje s Progresívnym Slovenskom. Zdroje zvukov: Youtube/ABC News, Youtube/Sunrise, Facebook/Matúš Šutaj Eštok, TV JOJ, TA3 Odporúčanie: V rozhovore sa rozprávame o knihe Úzkostná generácia od Jonathana Haidta, ktorá prispela k zintenzívneniu debaty o používaní sociálnych sietí deťmi a tínedžermi. Jakub Goda dopĺňa pre utvorenie si obrazu o tejto knihe aj text Má Jonathan Haidt pravdu o smarfónoch, ktorý niektoré Haidtove tvrdenia kritizuje. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
„Vnimanie! Vnimanie!“ Takto sa obyvatelia mesta Pripjať 27. apríla 1986 dozvedali z megafónov a sirén - po prvý raz oficiálne a takmer po dvoch dlhých dňoch – o katastrofe, ktorá sa odohrala v neďalekej jadrovej elektrárni Černobyľ. Z tejto, dnes už legendárnej, seriálovej scény automaticky prechádza mráz po chrbte. Situácia, keď sami cítite, že sa deje niečo veľmi zlé, ale všetci kompetentní zaryto mlčia, je presne tým obrazom, v ktorom sme žili aj my – občania komunistického Československa. Mnohí si dodnes na to pamätajú – na informačné embargo, na to ako sa zvesti o približujúcej sa hrozbe šírili len zlovestnou šepkandou i na prvomájové sprievody, do ktorých sa pod holým nebom – zamorovaného z východu rádioaktívnym mrakom - museli zapojiť všetci. Oslavoval sa komunistický sviatok práce a vo vzduchu nad hlavami viselo nebezpečenstvo, o rozsahu ktorého ľudia netušili. V tomto roku si budeme aj v našom mesačníku Historická revue pripomínať 40. výročie černobyľskej jadrovej katastrofy. Tá sa neodohrávala len v Sovietskom zväze, neďaleko ukrajinského Kyjeva. Vo väčšej či menšej miere zasahovala do celej Európy, mala bezpochyby globálny dopad. Čo to však bolo za prekvapenie, keď sa o skutočnej hrozbe i ľudia na Slovensku dozvedali len zo západného rozhlasu či v listoch od svojich známych žijúcich na kapitalistickom Západe? Čo sa to deje, keď rakúski a západonemeckí pohraničníci otáčajú celé vlakové súpravy späť do Československa? A prečo ľudia prestávajú v obchodoch nakupovať mlieko, ovocie či zeleninu? Prečo vláda a strana mlčia, čo nám zatajujú? Tento raz sa v podcaste Dejiny pozrieme na to, ako sa i u nás na Slovensku zatĺkalo, ako sa zatajoval a úmyselne zľahčoval rozsah černobyľskej katastrofy. Ale i o tom, ako informovanosť a nálady verejnosti monitorovala ŠtB. Rozprávať sa budem s historikom Petrom Jašekom z Ústavu pamäti národa. – Ak máte pre nás spätnú väzbu, odkaz alebo nápad, napíšte nám na jaroslav.valent@petitpress.sk – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcastySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Poznáte jeho texty – teraz ich budete môcť aj počuť. Každú nedeľu vo svojej podcastovej aplikácii nájdete trochu iný formát Dobrého rána – Roth číta Marca. Eseje a komentáre publicistu Sama Marca v podaní herca Roberta Rotha. Načítaný text: https://www.sme.sk/komentare/c/nech-teba-a-celu-tvoju-rodinu-postihne-agresivna-rakovina-pise-samo-marec – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SNS chce znižovať tresty za extrémizmus, Hlas je proti a Smer chce o tom najprv diskutovať s koaličnými partnermi a Kaliňák sa postavil za Magáta, Rastasa a Bombica. Maroš Žilinka napadol na Ústavnom súde koaličný prílepok ku kajúcnikom a v kauze predaja parku Voderady štátu začal prokurátor trestné stíhanie. Premiér odcestoval do USA a nášho kolegu Petra Schutza napadli v obchodnom centre v Košiciach. Sobotným Dobrým ránom vás sprevádzajú Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová a Jakub Filo. Otázky do nasledujúcej epizódy Dobrého rána sobota nám zasielajte na e-mail dobrerano@sme.sk, ideálne vo forme hlasovej správy. Do predmetu napíšte Otázka do sobotného Dobrého rána. Zdroje zvukov: TV Markíza, TA3, Infovojna – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nemá ani 60-tisíc obyvateľov, no tento ohromný ostrov môže byť kľúčom k prežitiu NATO a západných spojenectiev. Donald Trump sa totiž rozhodol, že chce Grónsko a ak mu ho neodovzdajú, dánske teritórium jednoducho napadne a potom si ho privlastní. Či si teda kúpia USA Grónsko, či sa ho pokúsia vojensky obsadiť a čo si o tom celom myslia Grónčania a Dáni? Tomáš Prokopčák sa v podcaste Dobré ráno pýta Lukáša Onderčanina. Zdroje zvukov: Youtube/Bloomberg News, Youtube/CNN, Youtube/Sky News Australia, Youtube/Bloomberg Television, CNN Odporúčanie: U nás doma sa teraz vo zvýšenej miere počúvajú uspávanky a ak by som mal teda niečo odporúčať, tak špeciálne album Uspávanky Katky Koščovej a Martina Husovského. Ale ak máte nejaký dobrý tip na pekné uspávanky vy pre mňa, napíšte na tomas.prokopcak@sme.sk, budem rád. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Koncom tohto mesiaca bude parlament rokovať o vládnom návrhu zákona, ktorý výrazne obmedzí používanie katastra nehnuteľností. Dostupnosť informácií bude mať viac úrovní, pričom za taký list vlastníctva si bude potrebné zaplatiť. Je jedno, či sa oň bude zaujímať novinárska obec, mimovládna organizácia alebo obyčajný človek, ktorý chce kupovať nejakú nehnuteľnosť. A to nie je všetko, návrh podľa niektorých interpretácií prichádza aj s pokutami za zverejnenie údajov o tom, ako bývajú napríklad naši politici. Nikola Šuliková Bajánová sa o téme rozpráva s reportérom denníka SME Michalom Katuškom. Zdroje zvukov: Youtube/Nadácia Zastavme korupciu, STVR, TA3, Youtube/TASRTV Odporúčanie: Niekedy ma udivuje, ako veľa dokážu povedať aj celkom útle knihy, ako autor dokáže so slovom narábať úsporne bez toho, aby robil kompromisy v obsahu. Taká je aj Strieborná metalíza od Tomáša Hučka, ktorá je mojím dnešným odporúčaním na záver. Zhltnutú ju máte hneď a nielen preto, že je krátka, ale najmä preto, že je výborná. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Allen and Joel are joined by Pete Andrews, Managing Director at EchoBolt. They discuss the company’s new BoltWave inspection device, the shift from routine retightening to condition-based monitoring, and how ultrasonic technology helps operators manage blade stud and tower bolt integrity throughout the turbine lifecycle. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Welcome to Uptime Spotlight, shining light on wind. Energy’s brightest innovators. This is the Progress Powering tomorrow. Pete Andrews: Pete, welcome to the program. Good to be back. Yeah. See you face to face. Yeah. Yes. This is wonderful. It’s a really great event to catch it with loads of the. UK innovation that are happening in the supply chain. So it’s, yeah, really nice to be here. Allen Hall: This is really good to meet in person because we have seen a lot of bolt issues in the us, Canada, Australia, yeah. Uh, all around the world and every time bolt problems come up, I say, have you called Pete Andrews and Echo Bolt and gotten the kit to detect bolt issues? And then who’s Pete? Give me Pete’s phone number. Okay, sure. Uh, but now that we’re here in person, a lot has changed since we first talked to you probably two years ago.[00:01:00] You’re a bootstrap company based in the UK that has global presence, and I, I think it’s a good start to explain what the technology is and why Echo Bolt matters so much in today’s world. Pete Andrews: Yeah, absolutely. So, um, as you said, we’re a uk, um, SME, there’s a team of 13 of us based here in the uk. Yeah. But we do deliver our services internationally, but really focused on Northern Europe. Yeah. But increasingly we’ve done more in the US and North America, a little bit in Canada. Um, but our big offering really is to help wind turbine operators and owners reduce the need to routinely retire in bulks. So we have a quick and simple inspection technology that people can deploy, find out the status of their bolt connections, and then. Reti them if necessary, but the vast majority of the time we find that they’re static and absolutely fine and can be left [00:02:00] alone. So it’s a real big efficiency boost for wind operators. Joel Saxum: Well, you’re doing things by prescription now, right? Instead of just blanket cover, we’re gonna do all of this. It’s like, let’s work on the ones that actually need to be worked on. Let’s do the, the work that we actually need to, and instead of lugging, like we’re looking at the kit right here, and I can, you can hold the case in one hand, let alone the tools in a couple of fingers. As opposed to torque tensioning tools that are this big, they weigh a hundred kilos, and those come with all of their own problems. So I know that you guys said you’re, you’re focused here. You do a lot of work, um, in the offshore wind world as well. Yeah. I mean, offshore wind is where you add a zero right? To zeros. Yeah. Everything else is that much more complicated. It costs that much more. It’s you’re transitioning people offshore to the transition pieces. Like there’s so much more HSE risk, dollar risk, all of these different spend things. So. The Echo Bolt systems, these different tools that you have being developed and utilized here first make absolute sense, but now you guys are starting to go to onshore as well. Pete Andrews: Yeah, that’s right. So I mean, as as you said, that there’s really [00:03:00] three main benefit areas we focus on. The first one is the health and safety of technicians, right? As you said, some of the fasteners used offshore now are up to MA hundred. So a hundred millimeter diameter bolts, Joel Saxum: four inches for our American friends. Yeah, absolutely. Pete Andrews: And they probably weigh. 30 kilos plus per bolt. Yeah. Um, so just the physical manual handling of that sort of equipment and the tightening equipment for those bolts is a huge risk for people. If you think 150 bolts lifting or maneuvering, the tooling around on on its own can cause all the problems. So as well as the inherent risk of the hydraulic kit failing. So occasionally we see catastrophic tool failure. Is, which have really high potential severity, you know, sort of tensioner heads ejecting or crush injuries from Tor. So that is really a key focus for our customers, just to [00:04:00] keep their teams safe, but also you have to be the cost effective and the the major cost benefit we allow is that we don’t have to revisit every bolt and every turbine like you’d have to do if you were retyping. So we believe there’s something of the order of a million pounds per installed gigawatt saving. By moving from a routine REIT uh, maintenance strategy to a focused condition based inspection, you significantly reduce the amount of intervention you make and keep your turbines running more and reduce the boots on the ground on the turbine. So three real kind of, um, key. Benefits for people adopting our technology Allen Hall: because we routinely see tower bolts being reworked or retention depending on who the manufacturer is. And I’m watching this go on. I’m like, why are [00:05:00] we doing this? It seems, or the 10% rule, we’re tighten 10% this year, and they’ll come back and see how it’s going. That’s a little insane, right, because you’re just kind of. Tensioning bolts up to see if one of them has a problem and then you just do more of them and we’re wasting so much time because echo bolts figured this out years ago. You don’t need to do that. You can tell what the tension is in a bolt ultrasonically, which was the original technology, the first gen I’ll call it, uh, that you could tell the length of the bolt. If the length of the bolt is correct within certain parameters, you know that it is tension properly. If it’s shrunk, that probably means it’s not tensioned properly. That’s a huge advantage because you can’t physically see it. And I know I’ve seen technicians go, oh, I could take a hammer and I can tell you which ones are not tensioned properly wrong. Wrong. And I think that’s where equitable comes in because you’re actually applying a a lot of science simply [00:06:00] to a complex problem because the numbers are so big. Pete Andrews: Yeah, I mean that, that, that’s been the real. Driving force between our offering is to simplify it. So ultimately we’re based on a non-destructive testing technique. It’s an ultrasonic thickness checking technique, but when from the non-destructive testing background, it’s crack detection, people have time, they can be, it’s a very precision measurement. People have to be trained in the wind industry. We’re trying to inspect. A thousand, 2000 bolts a day at scale. It’s a completely different, um, ask of the technology and the way the technology has been developed historically has required too much technician expertise, too much configuration and set up time, and hasn’t delivered on the, on the speed that’s needed to be efficient in wind. And that’s where our bolt wave [00:07:00] unit we’ve, that we’ve developed over the last. 18 months, let’s say, where all of our focus has gone to make it as slick and as easy for a client technician to pick up with minimal training. It’s through an iOS interface. Everyone understands it intuitively. Um, it’s a bit like using the camera app on your phone. You know, you’re just hitting measure, measure, measure, measure, measure 10 seconds a bolt as you move the, um, ultrasonic transducer across, and then the data gets moved. Automatically to the cloud, to our bolt platform. And customers can view it in near real time. The engineer in the office can see the inspections happened. They can see if there are any anomalous bolts, and then there can be communication there and then whether an intervention is necessary. So it’s sort of really changed the way our customers think about managing their, um. They’re bolted joints. Joel Saxum: Well, I think these are, these are the kind of innovations that we love to see, right? Because [00:08:00] we regularly talk about a shortage of technicians, and this isn’t, I was just learning this this week too, like this is not a wind problem. This is a everywhere problem. No matter what industry you’re in. Use are short of technicians. But we’re seeing like a tool like this is developed to be able to scale that workforce as well. Right. You don’t need to be an NDT level three expert to go and do these things. ’cause there’s a very few of those people out there. Right? Right. We know the NDT people, a lot of NDT people, and that’s a hard skillset to come by. Yeah. This can be put in the hands of any technician. Yeah, a quick training course. Just, Hey, this is how you use your iPhone. You can check Instagram, right? Yeah. Okay. You can off figure. Yeah, have fun. See you at lunch. Um, but they can, they can make this happen, right? They can go do these inspections and you’re getting that, that, uh, data collected in the field. Centralized back to an SME that’s looking at it and you don’t have to put that SME in the field and try to scale their ability to go and travel and do all these things. They can be in the office making sure that the, the QA, QC is done correctly. I love it. I think that that’s the way we need to go with a lot of things. [00:09:00]Uh, and you’re making it happen. Pete Andrews: Yeah. And it’s a real kind of. F change in mindset for us. So originally when we started Ebot, we were using third party hardware. Yeah. Which required a bit of that specialism. Yeah. A bit of care about the setup of the project, getting multiple parameters configured before you got going. And it wasn’t really something we could put in the hands of a customer. Joel Saxum: Yeah. Pete Andrews: Which meant Ebot scale was limited to what our own team could go and do, and regionally as well. You know, so we’re UK based. Probably 60% of our customers are uk, but now we have this Northern Europe offshore wind is obviously on our doorstep, but then increasingly we’ve done more and more in North America, so we’ve probably been to five or six sites now in North America and expect that to be a growth market because we can, we can now ship the devices over there, give some virtual training help. Uh, [00:10:00] people set themselves up and then that opens up that market, you know, so it’s been a real change in strategy for us, but has allowed us to have far more impact than we otherwise would just try to be a pure service. Allen Hall: Well, let’s talk about the big problem in the states of a minute, which are the root bushing or inserts that are loose in some blades. When you lose that pushing, you also lose the tension on the bolt that can be measured. Is that something you’re getting involved with quite a bit now because of just trying to determine how many bolts are affected and, and where we are on the safety scale of can we run this turbine or not? Is that something that EE bolt’s been looking into? Pete Andrews: Yeah, absolutely. So I, I’d say there’s sort of two halves of what we do. There’s the, there’s the bulk wholesale monitoring of. Typically static connections to eliminate this routine retitling where it’s not needed typically, typically. But then we have these edge cases of certain [00:11:00] connections and certain platforms that have known bolt integrity problems, and we are working with clients to really, um, manage those integrity risks. Blade stud is an absolute classic, you know, sort of, I think almost every turbine OEM on some, if not all of their platforms has got. Embedded risk into their blades, pitch bearing connections. Um, so yeah, exactly as you said, our customers are using the technology for two things really. One is to ensure the bolts have been tightened to the preload that was specified or the target window. And quite often we find there is an opportunity to increase the preload and therefore increase the resistance to fatigue failure. So. You know, particularly on older sites where the bolts perhaps not in the condition they were on day one. Well, they definitely won’t be. Um, when people have gone and retti them, they haven’t got back to where they, they should be.[00:12:00] So we can prove that and increase a bit of that resilience, but then also start to look for the segments around the joint where, um, the bolt might start loosening or failures are occurring, and find areas where they can really hone in. And actively manage risk. And that sort of leads to what we’ve decided to do for the next year, particularly with Blade Stud in mind, is evolve this technology. So whilst it’s also measuring the elongation, we will do a defect scan at the same time. So you’ll monitor your blade stu, um, connection and we’re hoping that we can set the device to flag to you there and then. We believe this bulk has got a defect while you’re here, get it changed out before it fails and, and all the knock on problems, um, from there. Joel Saxum: So what you’re just pointing to there is a, is a workflow, right? So to me that is typical [00:13:00] of some of the amazing, innovative companies in the UK that I’ve run into throughout my career. And that is, you’re a group of SMEs, you know, bolted connections. That’s what you do, right? But then you’re like, hey. If there’s a tool, we could make a tool that would make our lives a bit easier, then it’s like, well, we could make the entire industry’s lives a little bit easier as well. So let’s iterate on that. And now you’re able to send these kits around the world to look at these things. Hey, you have a problem with this specific model. We can help you with this because we know the failure mode and we know how to look for it. Let’s do that for you. Also here, you’re doing bolt bulk measurements. We got that for you. But it all kind of flows back to the fact that Echo Bolt is a team. A bolted connection, SMEs that are making tools and being able to also provide consulting if need be. Yeah. Right. Um, to, to an entire industry. And I think that, um, this is my take on it, right? Wind is stop number one. I think you guys are gonna do a fantastic year, but there’s a lot of, uh, opportunity out there in bolted [00:14:00] connections as well. Allen Hall: A tremendous amount blade bolts being broken from defects in the crystalline structure. What appears to be a more. Rapidly developing issue across fleets that I’ve seen. I went to a farm this summer and the number of blade bolts that were there on the table that were broken on the conference room table was And the whiteboard office. Yeah. Yeah. This one, Joel Saxum: this one. Allen Hall: Your hard head is not gonna protect you from this one. It’s, it’s, it was this, um, I couldn’t imagine the amount of time they were spending hunting these things down. And of course, the only way they were finding ’em was they were broken. You like to catch ’em before they break because it becomes Joel Saxum: a safety risk. Just not too long ago we saw an insurance case where there’s an RCA going on and it is pointing at an entire tower came down. Right. And it is pointing at a mid, mid tower section bolted connection. How often do you guys run into those problems? Or are you contacted by insurance companies or anything like that to, to take a peek at those? Pete Andrews: We haven’t done anything directly for insurance [00:15:00]companies, but we have been engaged by. Engineering consultancies that are doing RCA type activities. Okay. Um, things like at the end of defect liability periods mm-hmm. A customer has, has seen, they’ve had a lot of, uh, issues from an OEM, maybe an OE EM has offered a modification or an upgrade, assessing whether that upgrade is actually solved the problem or not. We’ve got involved in, um, but the tower. Issue specifically. It’s actually very rare we find, um, problems with tower connections, but where we do is often where they haven’t achieved good flange flatness, ah, during installation or the bolts have been, let’s say, left out in the elements for a period and lubrication has been, has deteriorated before the bolt’s been installed. So there are cases out there, but what I would say is. [00:16:00] To think about your whole life cycle, so ensure the bolt’s installed correctly and we can help with that with a QA to say, yes, this torque or tightening method has got you to the load that you want. Do some through life monitoring, but often if you install it correctly, it will it’s operational life. You will have very little concern. But then in the UK market, we’re increasingly getting involved again at the end of life, right? Life extension where life extension turbines are 20, 25 years old. How does an operator make a decision to carry on running without replacing all bots? Um, and that’s where increasingly we being asked to use the technologist just to say, actually the joint is fine. The bolts have run in a good, um, operational envelope. Run them on. Don’t replace a hundred percent of them like you might have been recommended to from your, um, yeah. Turbine supplier side. [00:17:00] Allen Hall: So Pete, if someone’s doing a repower where they’re basically putting a new one in the cell on an existing tower, they’re making a lot of assumptions about all the bolts from the ground up that they’re gonna be okay. And I know we’re talking about that. We’re in a lot of installations where. If the turbine has gone through a repowered or two. So now those bolts are 20 years old. Yeah. And trying to get ’em to Joel Saxum: 30 35. 35 Allen Hall: 40. Yeah. I don’t know what they’re doing. By those bolted connections. Are they just like replacing the bolts? Are they hitting ’em with a hammer again? Is that the, yeah, Pete Andrews: I mean, they might replace ’em, but you’ve got a problem with the foundation bolts. ’cause they’re obviously often anchor bolts set into concrete, so you have to reuse them and. With the projects, both in wind and in process power industry with the chimney stacks to try and ascertain whether foundation bolts that are set into concrete are still suitable for operations. So look for corrosion losses, look for [00:18:00] defects. Um, so yeah, they’re all things that need thinking about before you just make the snap decision to repower. But I think Joel Saxum: a lot of that, uh, going back to a couple minutes ago, you were talking about at the commissioning phase, making sure that you have proper qa, QC of how these things were installed day one, and then making sure that before commissioning of a turbine, they’re checked. I think that’s really important. We’re starting to see that in the blade world now too, where we’ve been talking about it for a long time, and now when you talk to operators, they’re like, we’re getting inspections done on the blades before they’re hung. Or at the factory before they’re hung. After they’re hung. Like they want a good foundation baseline. Are you seeing that in the bolted connection world too? Pete Andrews: Yes. Sort of. It’s just emerging for us. What we’ve found is, so most of our customers are in the operational phase ’cause they are the ones feeling the pain. Yeah. Of the routine retitling work. When they do major components, they sometimes engage us to come and say, can you check [00:19:00] before and after the blade was removed? What was it? Before we took it off from a a bolt load perspective, what is it afterwards? Can you then recheck after 500 hours When we retalk it? And what we’ve seen there often is the initial install hasn’t got them to where they needed to be and they’ve had to go and do the break in maintenance or the 500 hour REIT to get the bolts to the right load. So one of the questions that we have is whether. Some of the defects are actually being initiated very early on in that initial running in period and whether if, if actually you’d taken the time at, at the point of assembly to make sure you were correct, whether that avoids some of the knock on integrity concerns. So yeah, it’s interesting area. Allen Hall: Well, bolts are what hold wind turbines together and you better know you have the right. Tension and [00:20:00] torque on your bolts to get to the lifetime of the wind turbine and to, and to check it once in a while. And I know there’s a lot of operators I can think of right now in the United States that are sort of doing that job somewhat. I I think they have missed out on opportunities to save a lot of money and to call it echo bolt. How do people get ahold of you? Because that’s one thing I run into all the time. Like, Hey, hey, you gotta talk to Ebol, call Ebol. How do they get ahold of you? Pete Andrews: So the easiest ways are via our website. Which is echo bolt.com. Um, LinkedIn, you’ll find us at Echo Bolt on LinkedIn. Reach out. Our email would be info@cobolt.com. So any of those route and you’ll, uh, reach me and the team and more than happy to speak to you about any of your faulting concerns or problems. We are, uh, yeah, we’re passionate about your problems. Allen Hall: Pete, thank you so much for being on this podcast. I, it is great to actually see you in person and see the bolt wave technology. It’s really [00:21:00] impressive. So anybody out there that needs bolt tensioning to checking tools, you need to get ahold of Pete at Echo Bolt and get started today. Thank you Pete. Thanks guys. It’s great to be here.
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Zdá sa, že morskí ježkovia vymierajú. Konkrétne pri Kanárskych ostrovoch, no aj na viacerých miestach už od roku 2021 miznú. A celá táto pandémia aj jej príčiny sú záhadou. Tento týždeň sa v podcaste Zoom vyberieme za vymieraním morských ježkov a pozrieme sa na konzervanty, ktoré môžu viesť k rakovine. Objavom týždňa je nový medzičlánok v histórii človeka. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME si môžete vypočuť na jednom mieste na podcasty.sme.sk. – Ak máte pre nás spätnú väzbu, odkaz alebo nápad, napíšte nám na podcasty@sme.sk – Odoberajte aj (Ne)vedecký newsletter Tomáša Prokopčáka na sme.sk/nevedecky – Ďakujeme, že počúvate podcast Zoom.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Banking innovation usually gets reduced to apps and features.But the real changes are happening underneath.In this episode of Couchonomics with Arjun, Richard Davies, CEO of Allica Bank, joins the couch to talk about how challenger banks are actually rebuilding SME banking in the UK.Richard breaks down why established SMEs need a very different banking model, why go-to-market is harder than building the technology, and how value, trust, and low cost structures become the real advantage over time.The conversation moves through how digital banking has matured in the UK, what open banking really delivers today, how AI is being used inside regulated banks, and where stablecoins and tokenised money actually make sense and where they do not.An honest discussion on SME credit gaps, the limits of the super-app idea, the role of humans in an AI-led bank, and what the next decade of challenger banking could realistically look like.
Udreli ho do hlavy, skončil v nemocnici a všetci sa pýtame, kto a prečo to urobil. Peter Schutz, komentátor denníka SME, sa stal obeťou fyzického útoku, polícia teraz zisťuje, kto bol páchateľom a či útok súvisí so Schutzovými komentármi. Hlavná komentátorka denníka SME Beata Balogová v podcaste Dobré ráno s Janou Krescanko Dibákovou opisuje, aké boli prvé okamihy zraneného Schutza bezprostredne po útoku, v akej je kondícii, ale aj akú mieru ľudskosti prejavil neznámy muž, ktorý Schutza dokonca niesol na rukách. Peter Schutz chce čo najskôr opäť písať. Odporúčanie Kolegovia z podcastu Piatoček budú už o týždeň, v stredu 21. januára vyhlasovať víťazov anticeny Tragéd roka 2025. Podujatie bude v bratislavskom klube Neptún, kde vás moderátor Adam Blaško spolu s hosťami - Ivetou Radičovou a Miroslavom Beblavým - prevedie všetkým, čo nominanti na tragéda za uplynulý rok urobili. Kúpiť si môžete posledných 11 lístkov a ak sa vám neujde miesto v sále, môžete si kúpiť livestream a sledovať ho z pohodlia svojej obývačky. Lístky nájdete na piatocek.com – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 207 with Sabine Mensah, Deputy CEO of AfricaNenda Foundation and co author of the State of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems in Africa 2025 report, one of the most comprehensive studies on Africa's digital payments infrastructure.The SIIPS 2025 report reveals the extraordinary scale of Africa's instant payments transformation, with 64 billion real time payment transactions worth nearly 2 trillion dollars processed in 2024 alone. Sabine shares what this rapid growth means for Africa's digital economy and why instant payments are no longer a fintech niche, but a core driver of trade, productivity, and financial inclusion across the continent.Drawing on insights from 31 countries, we explore why Nigeria has emerged as Africa's first fully mature instant payment system, the governance and interoperability decisions behind NIBSS's success, and the critical lessons other African markets must learn to scale inclusive payment infrastructure.The conversation dives into how instant payments are reshaping cross border trade, remittances, and SME cash flow, why payment systems are foundational to AfCFTA success, and how real time payments unlock faster settlement, liquidity, and growth for African businesses. Sabine also explains why scale alone does not guarantee inclusion, highlighting the importance of trust, consumer protection, and system design in driving sustained adoption.What We Discuss With SabineWhy instant payments have become the backbone of Africa's digital economy and a prerequisite for trade, growth, and financial inclusionHow Nigeria became the first African country to achieve a fully mature instant payment system and what other markets can learn from its governance and interoperability modelThe role of real time payments in transforming cross border trade, remittances, and SME cash flow under AfCFTAWhy scale alone does not equal inclusion and how trust, consumer protection, and system design shape who benefits from digital paymentsInstant payments as digital public infrastructure and what policymakers, investors, and founders must do now to unlock Africa's next decade of economic growthDid you miss my previous episode where I discuss Unlocking Diaspora Wealth: How Housing Investment Is Driving African Development? Make sure to check it out!Connect with Terser:LinkedIn - Terser AdamuInstagram - unlockingafricaTwitter (X) - @TerserAdamuConnect with Sabine:LinkedIn - Sabine Mensah and AfricaNenda FoundationMany of the businesses unlocking opportunities in Africa don't do it alone. If you'd like strategic support on entering or expanding across African markets, reach out to our partners ETK Group: www.etkgroup.co.ukinfo@etkgroup.co.uk
Superchrípka pred Vianocami zatvorila nejednu školu, s návratom po prázdninách sa objavuje znova. Ak ste si v rodine rýchlejšie ako inokedy poposúvali ochorenie, ktoré počas jedného týždňa skolilo celú rodinu, možno ste mali práve superchrípku. V Dobrom ráne s Janou Krescanko Dibákovou o víruse diskutoval infektológ Peter Sabaka, ktorý vysvetľuje, prečo je chrípka tentoraz iná, hoci ju na Slovensku máme už od roku 1968. Zdroje zvukov: STVR, Youtube/BBC News, Markíza Odporúčanie Naplno sa vracajú do práce už naozaj všetci vianoční dovolenkári, vracajú sa tak i dobré zvyky čítať noviny a počúvať podcasty. Vypočujte si teda najnovšiu epizódu podcastu Mikloš a Roháč: Kde je sever - a dajte si aj čerstvý, korenistý a ostrý Disinfo Report. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sme na prahu skutočnej všeobecnej umelej inteligencie, alebo nás čaká prasknutie technologickej bubliny? Ako môžu personalizované mRNA vakcíny a genetické testy zmeniť budúcnosť liečby rakoviny? A prečo sa mocnosti opäť pretekajú o Mesiac, zatiaľ čo nám na obežnej dráhe hrozí reťazová zrážka satelitov? O tom všetkom diskutujú Jozef a Samuel. Podcast vzniká v spolupráci so SME. Samuelova nová kniha už je v predaji https://www.martinus.sk/3600333-limity-poznania/kniha Podcastové hrnčeky a ponožky nájdete na stránke https://vedator.space/vedastore/ Vedátora môžete podporiť cez stránku Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Vedator_sk Všetko ostatné nájdete tu https://linktr.ee/vedatorsk Vedátorský newsletter http://eepurl.com/gIm1y5
Máme za sebou už štvrté Vianoce, ktoré obyvatelia Ukrajiny prežili v atmosfére agresívnych útokov ruskej armády. Tieto útoky, ako sme si už, žiaľ, možno stihli zvyknúť, systematicky mieria na civilné ciele. O mesiac nás čaká štvrté výročie začiatku ruskej invázie na Ukrajinu: 24. februára 2022 v skorých ranných hodinách prekročila ruská armáda ukrajinské hranice a začala najrozsiahlejšiu vojenskú agresiu proti suverénnemu štátu od konca druhej svetovej vojny. V tom istom čase sa Slovensko stalo prechodným či stálym útočiskom pre takmer 300-tisíc ľudí, ktorí boli nútení opustiť svoje domovy. Celkovo ich od začiatku ruskej agresie Ukrajinu opustilo viac ako šesť miliónov. Toto sú čísla - čísla, ktoré neraz rozpúšťajú ľudské osudy, v hoci hrozivej, ale zároveň neosobnej štatistike. Prinášame vám reprízu podcastu v ktorom sa pokúsime dať priestor príbehom ľudí z Ukrajiny, ktorí prišli na Slovensko. Historička Agáta Šústová Drelová sa rozprávala s dokumentárnou fotografkou Janou Rajcovou, ktorá sa rozhodla zachytávať príbehy a tváre ľudí z Ukrajiny, ktorí prišli na naše územie. Výstavy jej fotografii ste mohli v uplynulom roku vidieť naprieč Slovenskom. Tieto výstavy však predstavujú len zlomok portrétov a príbehov, ktoré Jana Rajcová vytvorila a ktoré môžete nájsť na webstránke www.exodus.report Portréty ľudí, o ktorých budeme dnes hovoriť, budete mať možnosť vidieť aj vo videoverzii tohto podcastu. – Ak máte pre nás spätnú väzbu, odkaz alebo nápad, napíšte nám na jaroslav.valent@petitpress.sk – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcastySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Poznáte jeho texty – teraz ich budete môcť aj počuť. Každú nedeľu vo svojej podcastovej aplikácii nájdete trochu iný formát Dobrého rána – Roth číta Marca. Eseje a komentáre publicistu Sama Marca v podaní herca Roberta Rotha. Načítaný text: https://www.sme.sk/komentare/c/ked-ma-pravdu-lubos-blaha-pise-samo-marec – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Slovenskí Maďari sa na Slovensku necítia ako plnoprávni občania. Sme tu iba ako akýsi hostia. Benešove dekréty boli snahou zbaviť sa menšinového obyvateľstva, tvrdí právnik János Fiala – Butora. Pojem Felvidék však nie je nič, čo by malo Slovákov urážať, uisťuje.Do slovenskej politiky sa nečakane vrátili temné tiene povojnovej histórie. Po takmer 80. rokoch sa vládna koalícia rozhodla natvrdo kriminalizovať veľmi vágne sformulované „spochybňovanie povojnového usporiadania“ našej modernej histórie.V realite ide o reakciu na snahu opozičného Progresívneho Slovenska zastaviť uplatňovanie takzvaných Benešových dekrétov pri štátom odobrenom habaní pôdy v mene desaťročia zamrznutej a napriek tomu – ako sa celkom zjavne ukazuje, opäť obživlej snahy uplatniť princíp kolektívnej povojnovej viny.Tento trestnoprávny bič na slobodu slova ako i princíp diskusie o uplatňovaní kolektívnej či dokonca dedičnej viny pritom pochádza od presne tej istej koalície, ktoré sa inak tak rada zaštiťuje slobodou prejavu a na erb Úradu vlády si okrem iného vyšila i kampaň „Rešpektujem iný názor.“Kauza pritom prerástla už aj naše úzke národné rámce a stala sa výbušnou témou maďarskej predvolebnej kampane, v ktorej opozičný líder bubnuje na poplach a do konfrontácie s Robertom Ficom stavia aj jeho dlhoročného politického spojenca Viktora Orbána, ktorý sa - napriek spojenectvu s Ficovým SMERom, obracia na ním samým neobľúbený Brusel.Ako tento spor dopadne a kde je skrytá skutočná pravda o tzv. Benešových dekrétoch? Je ešte v roku 2026 vôbec udržateľný koncept povojnového uplatňovania kolektívnej viny? Môžu Benešove dekréty ohroziť celistvosť a suverenitu Slovenska, na čom vlastne dnes stoja Slovensko – maďarské vzťahy, teda vzťahy dvoch národov žijúcich stovky rokov v jednom spoločnom Uhorsku. No a sú pre Slovensko dnes naši slovenskí Maďari skutočne plnoprávni občania v ich právach, možnostiach, ale aj v ich pocite súnaležitosti s touto ich dnešnou vlasťou?Počúvate Ráno Nahlas, s právnikom, odborníkom na ľudské a menšinové práva János Fiala – Bútorom. Pekný deň a pokoj v duši praje Braňo Dobšinský.
Spojené štáty pod vedením Donalda Trumpa zasiahli ciele vo Venezuele a uniesli venezuelského prezidenta Nicolása Madura. V Európe sú obavy, že ďalšie na rade môže byť Grónsko - Biely dom v oficiálnom stanovisku nevylúčil získanie arktického ostrova, ani využitím amerických ozbrojených síl. Koalícia chce meniť kataster, ktorý by skomplikoval prácu novinárom či mimovládkam a Smer si vie predstaviť spoluprácu s Republikou a opäť sme chýbali pri stretnutí koalície ochotných. Sobotným Dobrým ránom vás sprevádzajú Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová a Jakub Filo. Otázky do nasledujúcej epizódy Dobrého rána sobota nám zasielajte na e-mail dobrerano@sme.sk, ideálne vo forme hlasovej správy. Do predmetu napíšte Otázka do sobotného Dobrého rána. Zdroje zvukov: BBC, 360tka, TA3, TASR, Markíza, YouTube/Associated Press, SMER-SD – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Smer už otvorene hovorí o spolupráci s Republikou, Robert Fico rutinne posiela odkazy Európskej únii a spomína nové časy a v Hlase asi stále nevedia, kam vlastne chcú patriť. Zdá sa teda, že na Slovensku vzniká otvorene proruský a protieurópsky blok. Tomáš Prokopčák sa v podcaste Dobré ráno pozrie na politický vývoj spolu s komentátorom denníka SME Petrom Tkačenkom. Zdroje zvukov: TV JOJ, Youtube/SMER - Sociálna Demokracia, TA3, Youtube/Milan Uhrík – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
V Iráne od konca decembra prebieha nová vlna nepokojov a protestov. Od ich začiatku zahynulo najmenej 35 ľudí a bezpečnostné zložky zadržali podľa ľudskoprávnych organizácií stovky demonštrujúcich. Krajina sa zmieta v ekonomických problémoch a po masových protestoch z rokov 2022 a 2023 tak sledujeme ďalšie nepredvídateľné dianie, do ktorého sa navyše zapája – aj keď zatiaľ len z diaľky – americký prezident Donald Trump. Čo sa v Iráne deje a ako to môže dopadnúť, sa Nikola Šuliková Bajánová pýta zahraničného redaktora denníka SME Daniela Hoťku. Zdroje zvukov: News York Post, CNN, BBC News, Fox News, FRANCE 24 Odporúčanie Čo iné odporúčať v epizóde o Iráne ako Persepolis – či už v podobe autobiografických komiksov od Marjane Satrapiovej, alebo ich filmového spracovania z roku 2007. Príbeh zachytáva autorkino detstvo a dospievanie na pozadí iránskej revolúcie na konci 7. rokov aj vojny s Irakom a neskôr jej život v Rakúsku, ako aj pokus o návrat do vlasti. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
เกาะติดสถานการณ์ หลังกลุ่มประเทศยุโรปและนอร์ดิกออกแถลงการณ์หนุนเดนมาร์ก โต้สหรัฐฯ อ้างสิทธิครอบครองกรีนแลนด์ และความสำคัญของกรีนแลนด์ ทำไมสหรัฐฯ อยากได้ คาด GDP ปี 2569 จะโตต่ำ 2% เป็นครั้งแรกในรอบ 30 ปี สะเทือน SME แค่ไหน พูดคุยกับ แสงชัย ธีรกุลวาณิช ประธานยุทธศาสตร์ สมาพันธ์เอสเอ็มอีไทย
Je nepochybne osobnosťou roka 2025 a zdá sa, že bude aj roka 2026... a nemusí to znamenať dobrú správu. Americký prezident Donald Trump mení svojim fungovaním nielen Ameriku, no mení aj celý svet a svetový poriadok. Vyhráža sa tradičným spojencom USA, obdivuje diktátorov... a vo všeobecnosti je len málo predvídateľným. Tomáš Prokopčák sa v podcaste Dobré ráno rozpráva s analytikom a spolutvorcom nášho podcastu Kde je sever Daliborom Roháčom. Zdroj zvukov: YouTube/ABC News, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, SMER-SD Odporúčanie A dnes odporúčam televízne varenie, konkrétne druhú sériu Bitky kulinárskych kást na Netflixe. Fascinujúce je sledovať už len to, akú veľkú a drahú produkciu táto šou má. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Niekedy nás hudba nabije energiou, inokedy vyvolá zimomriavky či plač – a často ani nevieme prečo. Hudba je vraj univerzálnym jazykom, ktorý však môže byť aj riadne komplikovaný. V šiestej a zároveň poslednej epizóde podcastovej série Čo skrýva umenie sa ponoríme do sveta hudby – umenia, ktoré nás sprevádza životom, no len zriedka sa pri ňom zastavíme a pozrieme sa naň bližšie. Spýtame sa, čo je umelecká hudba a čo už nie, prečo sa niektorá hudba počúva „ľahšie“ než iná a prečo by sme vraj v hudbe mali hľadať aj samých seba. Pozrieme sa aj na to, prečo by noty bez interpreta boli len matematikou a fyzikou, čo všetko zo života umelca či umelkyne počujeme medzi tónmi a ako fungujú emócie v hudbe. Hovoriť budeme aj o slobode, tradícii, koreňoch, folklóre, jeho histórii, ale aj o jeho „zneužívaní“ politikmi. Podcast od autorky Kataríny Urban Richterovej vznikol vďaka finančnej podpore Fondu na podporu kultúry národnostných menšín a v spolupráci s denníkom SME.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ako experiment LIGO zachytil chvenie menšie než hrúbka atómového jadra? Čo by nám o fyzike veľkého tresku mohli prezradiť primordiálne gravitačné vlny? A ako bude vesmírna anténa LISA v roku 2035 sledovať zrážky supermasívnych čiernych dier? O tom všetkom diskutujú Jozef a Samuel. Podcast vzniká v spolupráci so SME. Samuelova nová kniha už je v predaji https://www.martinus.sk/3600333-limity-poznania/kniha Podcastové hrnčeky a ponožky nájdete na stránke https://vedator.space/vedastore/ Vedátora môžete podporiť cez stránku Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Vedator_sk Všetko ostatné nájdete tu https://linktr.ee/vedatorsk Vedátorský newsletter http://eepurl.com/gIm1y5
Na začiatku roka bilancujeme v našom podcaste Dejiny ten minulý, a preto by sme vám chceli ponúknuť to najlepšie z našej kuchyne. A keďže je dobré vykročiť v novom roku tou správnou nohou a s úspechom, nie je nič lepšie ako tento prvý krok urobiť s patričnou razanciou a gráciou – s neohrozeným protitureckým bojovníkom a barokovou superstar princom Eugenom Savojským. – Ak máte pre nás spätnú väzbu, odkaz alebo nápad, napíšte nám na jaroslav.valent@petitpress.sk – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcastySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Poznáte jeho texty – teraz ich budete môcť aj počuť. Každú nedeľu vo svojej podcastovej aplikácii nájdete trochu iný formát Dobrého rána – Roth číta Marca. Eseje a komentáre publicistu Sama Marca v podaní herca Roberta Rotha. Načítaný text: https://www.sme.sk/komentare/c/co-vsetko-sa-prave-deje-v-spojenych-statoch-pise-samo-marec – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rok 2025 bol náročný aj pre diplomaciu. Americký prezident Trump sa márne snažil presvedčiť Vladimíra Putina na mier na Ukrajine. Slovensko pokračovalo v zmätenej zahraničnej politike, a Robert Fico sa s Putinom stretol hneď niekoľkokrát. Čo dokáže diplomacia? Ako ochrániť demokraciu? Sobotným Dobrým ránom vás sprevádzajú Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová a Jakub Filo. Otázky do nasledujúcej epizódy Dobrého rána sobota nám zasielajte na e-mail dobrerano@sme.sk, ideálne vo forme hlasovej správy. Do predmetu napíšte Otázka do sobotného Dobrého rána. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bojové vrtuľníky, lode v pohotovosti, niekoľko hodín nezvestný venezuelský prezident s manželkou. Mimoriadne udalosti, ktoré sa v Caracase na severe Venezuely odohrali v noci z piatka na sobotu si na vrub pripísal americký prezident Donald Trump, ktorý bezprecedentný zásah v inej krajine označil za brilantný a v súlade so snahou zlikvidovať dosahy drogových kartelov v USA. Či je Nicolas Maduro narkobarónom Venezuely a zároveň legitímnym cieľom z pohľadu bezpečnosti USA - ako o tom hovorí americký prezident, alebo ide o chuť Američanov na venezuelskú ropu, v mimoriadnom Dobrom ráne analyzovala Jana Krescanko Dibáková s vedúcim oddelenia zahraničnej redakcie denníka SME Lukášom Onderčaninom. Spojené štáty nevylúčili ďalší útok, hoci ho zatiaľ nepovažujú za potrebný a vo Venezuele chcú mať vplyv na chod smerujúci k zmene režimu. Zdroje zvukov: CNN, CBS News, Fox News YouTube/Associated press – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rok 2025 v politike nepriniesol veľa momentov hodných pochvaly, bol však rozhodne bohatý na rozhodnutia, ktoré prospeli aktérom rôznych káuz. Politologička z Katedry politológie Univerzity Komenského Aneta Világi v podcaste Dobré ráno s moderátorkou Janou Krescanko Dibákovou hodnotí nielen politický rok 2025 cez udalosti, ale otvorene hovorí o autokratických prvkoch vládnutia a o zmene komunikácie s voličmi. Tá je najlepšie vidieteľná cez prejavy politikov na tlačových konferenciách, kde miera verbálnej agresivity dosiahla mimoriadnu úroveň. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nie vždy to ide tak, ako by sme si želali. Prajeme Vám všetko dobré v novom roku! – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Spoločnosť Paramount na jeseň tohto roka oznámila, že hudobná stanica MTV končí všade okrem Spojených štátov a Kanady. Prežije len kanál, ktorý vysiela reality shows. Končia u nás teda MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV a MTV Live. Ani tie zaoceánske stanice nemusia prežiť najbližšie obdobie, pretože ich vlastník povedal, že bude ich fungovanie ešte analyzovať. Z televízie 90. rokov si živo pamätám niekoľko vecí – okrem Mečiarovho "Neublížil som" tam patrí aj videoklip kapely Nirvana k piesni Heart Shaped Box na MTV. Zízala som naň ako zhypnotizovaná, aj som sa trochu bála, bola som, predsa len, stále dieťa. Ale nikdy som sa nedonútila ho prepnúť a s otvorenými ústami sledovala Kurta Cobaina a výraznú symboliku kulís a postáv v klipe. To pre mňa osobne znamená MTV, aj keď mi je jasné, že táto stanica priniesla svetu oveľa viac. Formovala generácie, revolucionalizovala hudobný priemysel a obohatila nás výnimočným MTV Unplugged. V novom roku už však nebude vysielať inde ako v Spojených štátoch a Kanade. Je to skutočne koniec jednej éry, ako tvrdia hádam všetky titulky článkov alebo sa táto éra skončila už oveľa dávnejšie? Nikola Šuliková Bajánová sa o prvej hudobnej stanici na svete, jej význame, prínose a napokon aj páde rozpráva s hudobným publicistom, moderátorom a producentom Jurajom Čurným. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifing See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Poznáte ten pocit, keď niekto hovorí len pár minút a je to, akoby vám hovoril z duše? A navyše je jeho prejav plný rýmov, prešpekulovaných vetných konštrukcií a silných emócií? Cítite, ako to vo vás vrie: radosť, hnev, slzy – všetko naraz. Ako je možné, že obyčajné slová majú takú silu? V 5. epizóde podcastovej série Čo skrýva umenie sa pozrieme na špeciálny typ poézie, ktorá vzniká pred živým publikom a reflektuje tisícky ľudských realít. Spýtame sa, kde sa končí „tradičná“ poézia na papieri, v čom sa od nej líši slam poetry a kam patrí umenie, ktoré dokáže vyburcovať obrovské davy. Je slam poetry len „umením dneška“ alebo dielom, ktoré obstojí v čase? A akú úlohu má literatúra v období spoločenského napätia? Bližšie sa pozrieme na umenie jednej z najzvučnejších slameriek dneška – na to, čo sa skrýva za jej sugestívnymi textami, kontrolovaným hnevom a hypnotickým prejavom. Podcast od autorky Kataríny Urban Richterovej vznikol vďaka finančnej podpore Fondu na podporu kultúry národnostných menšín a v spolupráci s denníkom SME.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
„Nemožno sa ubrániť túžbe, ktorú vám v očiach vyčarujú bublinky perliace sa v pohári a štekliace chute na podnebí. Je to totiž ušľachtilé, tekuté zlato s čarovnou žiarou...“ takýto opis sa v roku 1907 objavil v dobovej tlači, aby priblížil výsledok už vtedy dlhovekej a solídnej tradície, tradície výroby šumivého vína v Bratislave - známeho pod značkou Hubert. Jeho originalitu ocenil aj sám cisár František Jozef, keď po ochutnaní vraj zvolal „Dieser Champagner ist vorzüglich!“, teda „Toto šampanské je vynikajúce“. A práve tento šumivý unikát oslavuje svoje dve storočia. Jeho história sa začala písať v roku 1825, keď sa dvojica dvoch bratislavských mešťanov Johann Fischer a dr. Michal Schönbauer odvážne pustili do výroby šumivých vín, prvej v Európe mimo vlastného Francúzska, ktoré je považované za kolísku šampanského. Dnešným slovníkom by sme ich priekopnícky podnik nazvali úspešným startupovým príbehom, veď napokon už v 30. rokoch sa ich vína pod označením Fischer-Schönbauer ocitali na stoloch najváženejších rodín nielen v starom Prešporku, ale aj vo Viedni a v Pešti. Ešte väčšmi sa pod tento podnikateľský úspech podpísalo meno Pavlíny Hubertovej a jej syna Henrika Huberta, ktorí bratislavský klenot doviedli azda k najväčšej sláve, korunovanej celým radom prestížnych ocenení. Aj napriek turbulenciám, ktoré prinieslo do histórie tejto firmy dramatické 20. storočie, tradícia, chvalabohu, pretrvala a bez Huberta si hádam ani nevieme predstaviť silvestrovské oslavy či dôležité životné jubileá. Skrátka, s bublinkami radi spojíme i našu radosť a náš úspech. O dvestoročnej histórií šumivého vína na Slovensku sa rozprávame s historikom Štefan Hrivňákom. – Ak máte pre nás spätnú väzbu, odkaz alebo nápad, napíšte nám na jaroslav.valent@petitpress.sk – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcastySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Trí đóng lại năm 2025 và tuổi 33 của mình cùng với tập podcast số 100 – một dấu ấn thú vị. Trí nghĩ một phần là mình cũng đã có "tính toán" để nó rơi vào đúng dịp này, nhưng cũng có những trùng hợp thú vị mà không thể kế hoạch trước được.Chẳng hạn như việc anh Lâm về Việt Nam đúng lúc này. Anh Lâm là một người anh mà Trí rất mến mộ, và anh đã từng xuất hiện ở tập podcast số 17 – khi đó The Tri Way chỉ có vài trăm lượt nghe, còn rất mới. Việc anh trở lại ở tập 100 đúng như kiểu đánh dấu một hành trình 4 năm vừa qua: anh chứng kiến sự khởi đầu và anh đồng hành ở phần kết chương.Giới thiệu 1 chút thêm: anh Ngô Bảo Lâm là một luật gia, nhà đầu tư, và là cố vấn cho các công ty SME có trụ sở ở Mỹ và Việt Nam. Có thể ở Việt Nam không có nhiều người biết anh, nhưng đây là một nhân vật cực kì thú vị. Trí luôn yêu thích cách anh nói về văn hoá, địa chính trị, xã hội, con người và nhân loại. Facebook của anh Lâm: https://www.facebook.com/lam.ngobaoTập này cũng có khá nhiều thứ và Trí mong các bạn sẽ thấy nó hấp dẫn. Trí cũng xin dùng lại nhạc mở đầu cũ cho tập này cho giật gân chút :DMerry Christmas & Happy New Year 2026 Everyone!(00:00:00) Tập 100 & Những ngày đầu trên Clubhouse(00:06:46) Albert Camus và nỗi đau thời thuộc địa(00:15:25) "Chóng mặt" trước vực thẳm của Tự do(00:20:50) Ranh giới giữa Tham vọng và Ảo tưởng(00:27:02) Xung đột của các thế hệ(00:38:27) Nghịch lý "Tous Les Jours" & Căn tính người Việt(00:43:40) Sự thích nghi nhanh nhạy hay nguy cơ mất gốc?(00:49:22) Tìm "Vắc-xin" cho sự phơi nhiễm AI(00:54:35) Chính sự bất toàn tạo nên tính Người(01:01:47) Thao túng thuật toán & Cái bẫy Dopamine(01:10:42) Cộng đồng tưởng tượng: Điều gì gắn kết người Việt?(01:15:25) Khát vọng thoát bẫy thu nhập trung bình(01:24:50) Ảo ảnh "Eden": Đừng mang địa ngục đi theo mình(01:28:32) Kết
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Brian is: Managing Director, GlassRatner LinkedIn bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbuss I am Rolf Claessen and my co-host Ken Suzan and I are welcoming you to episode 170 of our podcast IP Fridays! We also want to wish you a happy holiday season and a successful year 2026! Today's interview guest is Brian Buss. He is the managing director of GlassRatner and my co-host Ken Suzan talks with him about the valuation of intellectual property rights and damages in infringement cases. But before we jump into the interview, I have news for you! A US start-up called Operation Bluebird is trying to take over the “Twitter” trademark. It has asked the USPTO to cancel Twitter word marks, arguing that Elon Musk's company X no longer uses them after the rebrand. Led by a former Twitter trademark lawyer, Operation Bluebird also filed its own “Twitter” trademark application. Commentators note that X could face challenges defending the legacy marks if they are truly no longer in use. In parallel, the US debate on patent quality and review procedures is intensifying. The USPTO proposed controversial rule changes that would restrict Inter Partes Review (IPR). The proposal triggered substantial backlash, with more than 11,000 public comments submitted—over 4,000 of them via the civil liberties group EFF. In the EU, a major trademark reform will take effect on 1 January 2026. It aims to simplify procedures, recognize new types of marks (including hologram, multimedia, and motion marks), and make fees more SME-friendly (e.g., lower base fees for the first class and discounts for timely renewals). Opposition procedures will be further harmonized across the EU, including a mandatory “cooling-off” period, so mid-sized brand owners should adjust filing and monitoring strategies accordingly. The Unified Patent Court (UPC) continues to see strong uptake, especially in Germany. In the first 18 months since its launch on 1 June 2023, well over 900 cases were filed, with German local divisions (Munich, Düsseldorf, Mannheim, Hamburg) leading in patent actions. While many early cases were filed in German, English now dominates as the main language of proceedings. The court has largely met its timelines, with oral hearings typically held within 12 months of filing. China has reached a milestone in its patent system: for the first time, a country has surpassed 5 million active invention patents. CNIPA emphasizes a strategic shift from “quantity to quality,” citing growth in “high-value” patents and higher commercialization rates for university inventions. China has also led global PCT filings for six consecutive years—signals of rapid technological progress relevant to IP planning for German SMEs. On 4 December 2025, the USPTO issued new guidance on “Subject Matter Eligibility Declarations.” These declarations allow applicants to submit additional evidence to support patent eligibility for emerging technologies such as AI systems and medical diagnostics, aiming to reduce the risk that breakthrough inventions are excluded from protection under strict eligibility case law. In December, the European Patent Office (EPO) introduced new patent-quality measures. Third parties can now submit observations on published applications or granted patents via a simplified online form. These Third-Party Observations—supported by evidence and even filed anonymously—go directly to examination teams to flag potential obstacles early. The Interview with Brian Buss: Ken Suzan interviews Brian Buss, a valuation and damages expert who describes his work as “financial detective” work: identifying what intellectual property and other intangible assets are worth and how they translate into measurable economic benefits such as sales, profit, earnings, or cash flow. Buss emphasizes that “IP” should be understood broadly, not only as formal rights (patents, trademarks, copyrights), but also as brands, technology portfolios, internet and social media assets, know-how, and other business intangibles that help generate economic value. A central point is that IP is often a company's most valuable resource but is rarely measured well. Buss cites a “value gap” he observed in middle-market public companies: market capitalization often exceeds the asset values shown on balance sheets, and much of the gap is explained by intangible assets and IP. He argues that valuation helps companies understand ROI on IP spend (prosecution, protection, enforcement) and supports better strategic decision-making. He outlines common scenarios that trigger IP valuation: internal management needs (understanding performance drivers), disputes about resource allocation (e.g., technology vs. marketing), external events (M&A, licensing, partnerships, franchising, divestitures), and pricing strategy (how exclusivity supported by IP should affect product/service pricing). On “how” valuation is performed, Buss summarizes the three standard approaches—cost (replacement/replication cost), market (comparable transactions), and income (present value of future benefits). He adds that strong IP valuation requires integrating three dimensions of analysis: financial factors (performance data and projections), behavioral factors (customer demand drivers, perceptions, brand recall, feature importance), and legal factors (registration/enforcement history and competitive IP landscape). For practical readiness, he advises companies to improve data discipline: maintain solid books and records; develop credible budgets, forecasts, and business plans; document marketing activities; and actively collect/monitor website and social analytics (e.g., traffic sources, engagement). He stresses that these datasets inform valuation even for technology assets like patents, because they reveal whether protected features are actually marketed and valued by customers. A concrete example is domain names, which he frames as “virtual real estate.” In due diligence for a domain sale, he would focus on analytics showing whether the domain itself drives traffic (direct type-ins, branded search terms, bookmarks) versus traffic driven by other marketing efforts. The key question is whether the address is known and used as a pathway to the business. In closing, Buss argues that while gathering the necessary information requires effort, the investment typically pays off through greater awareness of the most valuable assets, better strategic decisions, and stronger support for growth opportunities. He presents IP valuation as a virtuous cycle of information, insight, and improved decision-making—summed up in his recurring theme: knowledge of IP value is “power” to increase business profitability and enterprise value. Here is the full transcript: Ken Suzan: Our guest today on the IP Fridays podcast is Brian Buss. Brian is a managing director with Glass-Rattner Advisory and Capital Group. Brian provides financial analysis, corporate finance, and expert testimony around the world. Ken Suzan: Mr. Buss provides strategic advice for owners of intellectual property portfolios, transactional services such as acquisition due diligence and purchase price allocation, and valuation services for trademarks, patents, copyrights, brand assets, trade secrets, technology assets, and intangibles. Ken Suzan: During his career, Mr. Buss has provided valuation opinions and financial analysis in business disputes and in transactions, and he has been retained as a testifying expert and consulting expert in federal court, state courts, and arbitration proceedings. Ken Suzan: As an expert, Mr. Buss has provided over 100 expert opinions, served as an expert witness at trial and deposition, and has been published in numerous journals and publications. He is also a participant in the International Task Force on Intellectual Property Reporting for Brands. Ken Suzan: Brian holds an MBA from San Diego State University and a bachelor's degree from Claremont McKenna College. Welcome, Brian, to the IP Fridays podcast. Brian Buss: Thank you, Ken, for having me. I appreciate the opportunity. Ken Suzan: Excellent, Brian. Can you tell our listeners a little bit about your professional background and what you do in the world of IP? Brian Buss: Sure. I'm a valuation professional and an economic damages expert. Most of my work involves valuing intellectual property and intangible assets and, in litigation contexts, assessing economic damages—often related to IP disputes. My role is frequently to translate legal or technical issues into financial outcomes. Ken Suzan: When people hear “IP,” they often think patents, trademarks, and copyrights. In your work, how broadly do you define intellectual property and intangible assets? Brian Buss: I define it very broadly. Of course, there are the formal rights—patents, trademarks, copyrights—but there are many other intangible assets that drive value: brand reputation, customer relationships, proprietary know-how, trade secrets, data, software, domain names, social media assets, and the systems and processes a business builds over time. All of those can create economic value, even if they're not always captured well on a balance sheet. Ken Suzan: Why is IP valuation important for companies—especially mid-sized businesses that may not have a large in-house legal or finance team? Brian Buss: Because IP and intangible assets can be a large portion—sometimes the largest portion—of what makes a business valuable, yet they're often not measured or managed with the same discipline as tangible assets. Valuation can help companies understand what is actually driving revenue, profit, and enterprise value. It can also help them justify investment in IP creation, protection, and enforcement, and it can support strategic decisions like licensing, partnerships, acquisitions, or pricing. Ken Suzan: You've talked elsewhere about a “value gap” between what's on the balance sheet and what the market thinks a company is worth. Can you explain that concept? Brian Buss: Sure. If you look at many companies—particularly in the middle market—you'll often see that market capitalization exceeds the asset values recorded on the balance sheet. A significant portion of that difference is attributable to intangible assets and IP that accounting rules don't fully recognize unless there's an acquisition. That “gap” is essentially the market saying, “There is value here beyond tangible assets,” and much of it comes from intangibles. Ken Suzan: What are the most common situations where a company needs an IP valuation? Brian Buss: There are a few big categories. One is transactions—M&A, due diligence, purchase price allocation, and financing. Another is licensing and partnerships—setting royalty rates, structuring deals, or evaluating whether a proposed license makes economic sense. A third is internal management: understanding ROI on R&D, marketing, or IP spend, or resolving internal debates about what is really driving business performance. And of course, litigation—damages, reasonable royalties, lost profits, and other economic remedies tied to IP. Ken Suzan: In practical terms, how do you value IP? What methods do you use? Brian Buss: The valuation profession generally relies on three approaches: the cost approach, the market approach, and the income approach. The cost approach looks at what it would cost to recreate or replace the asset. The market approach looks at comparable transactions—if you can find good comparables. The income approach is often the most relevant for IP: it looks at the present value of future economic benefits attributable to the IP, based on cash flows, risk, and time. Ken Suzan: In addition to the financial methods, what other factors matter? For example, legal strength or market perception? Brian Buss: Exactly. A strong valuation integrates financial, behavioral, and legal analysis. Financial is obvious—historic results, projections, margins, pricing. Behavioral is about demand drivers—what customers value, how they perceive the brand, how features influence purchasing decisions, and what drives loyalty or switching. Legal involves the nature of the IP rights, scope, enforceability, registration and maintenance history, and the competitive landscape. IP exists at the intersection of all three. Ken Suzan: What kind of information should a company have ready if they want to do an IP valuation? Brian Buss: Good books and records are essential—reliable financial statements, product-level revenue and cost data if possible, and credible budgets and forecasts. They should also document marketing activities, product positioning, and the role of IP in commercialization. For digital and brand assets, analytics matter—website traffic sources, conversion data, engagement metrics, and social media statistics. The more you can connect the IP or intangible asset to measurable economic outcomes, the stronger the valuation. Ken Suzan: That's interesting—people might not think that marketing analytics matter for patents. Can you explain how those link up? Brian Buss: Sure. A patent might cover a particular feature or technology, but the key economic question is: does that feature drive demand? If customers value it and it supports pricing power, adoption, or market share, that's important. Marketing materials, customer communications, sales training, and analytics can help show what the company emphasizes and what resonates with customers. It helps tie the legal right to real-world economic value. Ken Suzan: You mentioned domain names earlier. Many people underestimate them. How do you think about domain names as an asset? Brian Buss: I often describe domain names as virtual real estate. The question is whether the domain is a meaningful pathway to the business. In a valuation context, you'd look at the domain's role in generating traffic—direct navigation, branded search, bookmarks, and repeat visits. You'd also look at how much traffic is attributable to the domain itself versus paid marketing. If the domain is known and drives organic traffic and credibility, it can be quite valuable. Ken Suzan: So, if you're doing due diligence on a domain sale, what would you look for? Brian Buss: I'd look closely at analytics: traffic volume over time, sources of traffic, geographic distribution, conversion rates, and the relationship between marketing spend and traffic. If traffic is mostly paid and disappears when marketing stops, that's different than sustained direct navigation. I'd also look at brand alignment, risk factors, and whether there are disputes or competing rights. Ken Suzan: For a mid-sized company listening to this, what are the biggest “misses” you see—things companies do that reduce the value they can capture from IP? Brian Buss: A big one is not collecting and organizing information that demonstrates value. Another is not aligning IP strategy with business strategy—filing patents or trademarks without a clear plan for how they support products, markets, and revenue. Some companies also underinvest in documenting commercialization and customer impact, which becomes important in transactions and disputes. And sometimes they simply don't revisit their portfolios to understand what is still relevant and what is not. Ken Suzan: How should companies think about ROI on IP spend—both the costs of prosecution and the costs of enforcement? Brian Buss: They should start by identifying the economic role of the IP: is it supporting pricing power, is it protecting market share, is it enabling licensing revenue, is it reducing competitive entry? Then they can compare the costs—filing, maintenance, monitoring, enforcement—against the value it protects or creates. Valuation can provide a framework for that, and it can also help prioritize where to spend resources. Ken Suzan: When valuation is used in litigation, what are the typical types of damages analysis you're asked to perform? Brian Buss: Commonly, reasonable royalty analysis, lost profits, unjust enrichment, and sometimes disgorgement depending on the jurisdiction and the claims. The specifics depend on the legal framework, but the core is the same: quantify the economic harm and connect it causally to the alleged infringement or misappropriation, using financial data, market evidence, and assumptions that can be tested. Ken Suzan: Are there misconceptions about valuation that you'd like to correct for our audience? Brian Buss: One misconception is that valuation is purely subjective or that it's just an “opinion.” A good valuation is grounded in data, established methodologies, and transparent assumptions. Another is that intangibles can't be measured. They can be measured—often through the economic benefits they create and through evidence of customer behavior and market dynamics. It takes work, but it's doable. Ken Suzan: If a company wants to prepare for a future transaction—say a sale or a major partnership—what are some practical steps they can take now to make their IP story stronger? Brian Buss: Maintain clean records, develop credible forecasts, and document the link between IP and business results. Make sure registrations and maintenance are up to date. Track how IP supports products and competitive differentiation. Collect evidence of brand strength and customer loyalty. And if possible, structure internal reporting so you can see performance by product line or offering. That helps in due diligence and helps buyers or partners understand what they're paying for. Ken Suzan: Any final thoughts or advice for owners of intellectual property portfolios, transactional professionals, or executives listening to this? Brian Buss: I'd emphasize that the investment in gathering the information needed for evaluation typically pays off. It creates awareness of the most valuable assets, supports better strategic decisions, and makes it easier to pursue growth opportunities. IP valuation is a virtuous cycle of information gathering, analysis, deeper understanding, and then decision-making. Knowledge is power, and knowledge of the value of your IP is the power to increase the profitability and value of your business. IP valuation is a key element of the management toolkit. Ken Suzan: Brian, well said, and thank you so much for taking time today to be on the IP Fridays podcast. Brian Buss: Thank you, Ken. I really appreciate the opportunity.
What does it really take to build a fintech company that quietly fixes one of the most frustrating problems SMEs face every day? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I'm joined by Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier, the Founder and CEO of iBanFirst, for a candid conversation about entrepreneurship, timing, and why cross-border payments have remained broken for so long. Pierre-Antoine's story begins in London, where his early career as an FX trader felt like a compromise at the time, yet quietly gave him a front-row seat to inefficiencies most people accepted as normal. That experience would later shape two companies and a very clear point of view on how money should move across borders. Pierre-Antoine walks through his first venture, Combeast.com, one of France's earliest FX brokerages for retail investors, and what he learned from selling it to Saxo Bank and staying on to run Western European operations. That chapter matters, because it exposed the gap between how sophisticated FX markets really are and how poorly SMEs are served when FX and payments are bundled together inside traditional banks. Out of that frustration, IbanFirst was born in 2016 with a simple idea: treat cross-border payments as a specialist discipline, not a side feature. Today, IbanFirst serves more than 10,000 clients across Europe and processes over €2 billion in transactions every month. We dig into why growth has continued while many fintechs have slowed, from a product designed to be used daily, to proactive sales, to a new generation of CFOs and CEOs who expect the same clarity and speed at work that they get from consumer fintech tools. Pierre-Antoine explains how real-time FX rates, payment tracking using SWIFT GPI, and multi-entity account management change the day-to-day reality for SMEs trading internationally. We also talk about Brexit, and how being rooted in continental Europe created an unexpected opening. Pierre-Antoine shares why expanding into the UK, including the acquisition of Cornhill, made sense, and why London's payments ecosystem still stands apart in scale and depth. Along the way, he is refreshingly open about the heavy investment required in compliance, trust, and regulation, and why nearly a third of IbanFirst's team focuses on operations and oversight. Looking ahead, Pierre-Antoine lays out a bold vision for the SME payments market, predicting a future where specialists replace banks in much the same way fintech reshaped consumer money transfers. As cross-border trade grows and currency volatility becomes a daily concern, his perspective raises an interesting question for anyone running an international business today: if specialists already exist, why keep relying on systems that were never designed for how SMEs actually operate? Useful Links: Connect with Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier Learn more about iBanFirst, Tech Talks Daily is sponsored by Denodo