Dr. Laura Bechthold is a social scientist and innovation professional from Munich. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrichshafen Institute for Family Entrepreneurship at Zeppelin University, she works on questions regarding responsibility and decision paradigms of family entrepreneurs. As the Director of Science Services at Philoneos GmbH, she supports family...
TECHNOLOGY FOR DEMOCRACY
The Conference on the Future of Europe was officially inaugurated on 9 May 2021. In their joint declaration, the three presidents of the EU-institutions spoke of ‘a citizens-focused, bottom-up exercise.’ EU citizens now have one year to feed this digital platform (https://futureu.europa.eu/) with ideas and events at European, national, transnational,...
LEADERSHIP IN EUROPE: WHAT IS NEEDED IN THE FUTURE?
The secret of good leadership is very complex. There are many things that enable a company to be more profitable. There are other things that lead to technological progress and innovation. But there are also leadership strategies that help to value employees and motivate them. The real specialists manage to...
WILL YOUR PERSONAL DIGITAL TWIN HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS?
The start-up company Mind Bank AI, in synergy with organizations such as the EU Tech Chamber and the European Senate, is spearheading an initiative that proposes to extend the protection provided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to your Personal Digital Twin. Artificial Intelligence has gone from being a...
INDUSTRY 4.0 – THE HUMAN FACTOR
David Ackerman is the CEO of Briefery. Briefery provides No-Code Tool for the Digitalization of the Shop-floor.
SILVERTECH IS OPENING UP A NEW ERA FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK
Over the past decade, some of the most rapid changes and the introduction of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity have been ushered in. The next decade will see even more exponential change and one of the ways to manage this change, whilst harnessing new capabilities, is through innovative business model...
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT BECOMES GLOBAL
1. Globalization - or not? 1.1 Factor 1: Economic framework Having contributed strongly to economic growth in the past decade, globalization has recently been viewed more critically again. After the political desire to “bring back production” emerged in the USA and became increasingly attractive in Europe, especially in the wake...
THE UN INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM 2021 INTERNET UNITED
The Internet was launched in 1983, and it has become vitally important for billions of people since the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1990. Today, economic, and political opportunities and the potential risks of the Internet are clear. Most of us access it daily, not only in...
INTERVIEW WITH IRENE JOVEVA: HOW EDTECH COULD CHANGE THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
Irena Joveva is a Slovenian politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. In parliament, she has since been serving on the Committee on Culture and Education. In addition to her committee assignments, Joveva is part of the Parliament’s delegation to the EU-North Macedonia Joint...
WITH GREAT TECHNOLOGY COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY: THE DUTY OF TECH
In 2015, when I returned from having spent exactly 10 years in China, I was excited to be part of the European tech sector once again. In Asia, technological advances and innovation were happening at lightning speed, making their position in the global marketplace robust. My excitement was soon quashed...