ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Mary Jane Alvero, CEO of GeoScience Testing Laboratory (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Mary Jane’s name is a fixture in any conversation about Filipino workplace excellence in the UAE. Through her exemplary hard work and discipline, she has […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Ainslie Young, Copywriter and Online Marketing Coach & Consultant Ainslie Young is a certified life coach who helps female entrepreneurs work smarter not harder to grow their businesses. What’s your story?I completed an honours degree in Psychology, (which I detested), and then went into a career in marketing and business development (where I also completed a Masters in Marketing). While I enjoyed the international […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Maria Lasprilla, Head of Core Product at Pipedrive (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Maria Lasprilla is the Head of Core Product at Pipedrive, a sales management tool designed to help small sales teams manage intricate or lengthy sales […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Kristel Kruustük, Founder and CEO of Testlio (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Kristel Kruustük, Founder and CEO of Testlio – an end-to-end QA management platform and community of expert testers that help businesses […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Women on Top in Tech – Nisha Maharaj, Managing Director at Niche Integrated Solutions (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Nisha Maharaj, Managing Director of Niche Integrated Solutions – established in 2013, a 100% black women owned and managed Organization. Niche Integrated […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Sue McLean, Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster. (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Sue McLean, Of Counsel of Morrison & Foerster. Sue McLean is an Of Counsel lawyer in the London office of international […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Women on Top in Tech – Anupama Vjai , General Manager at Schneider Electric India Private Ltd (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with Anupama Vjai, General Manager & Director for Monitoring Operations of Schneider Electric India Private Ltd. Previously, she worked as a Program […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP The World’s Most Powerful Women In Tech 2016 The power of female leadership is often underplayed. But recent changes in our world has opened up more opportunities for women take the top helm. Recently, more and more countries have opened up to appointing or electing a female leader. Whether in politics, sciences, or business, women are getting a better chance in landing a […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGY Women on Top in Tech – Clare Flynn Levy, Founder/CEO of Essentia Analytics (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with former fund manager and current financial software entrepreneur Clare Flynn Levy, Founder and CEO of Essentia Analytics. What makes you do […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Kailin Chan, Co-Founder of AlfaCloud Kailin Chan provides industry leading business cloud solutions for Asian businesses. What’s your story? It is literally a ‘connecting the dots’ journey for me. I started out as an engineer after graduation, developing financial software for the banking sector in Singapore. I later came to Hong Kong for my investment banking career on the frontline, […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Definition Of Living Who am I? It seems like such a simple question. Most of us wouldn’t hesitate. We would answer by referencing our cardinal points of orientation—things most of us will tell you “define a life”. We give them labels to point toward our lineage, contexts and shared rituals. The most powerful of these identity-givers are our […] Written by Anthony Fieldman May 10, 2022May 10, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Uncovering One Of A.I.’s Deepest Mysteries The black box problem is a profound mystery surrounding AI. It says that we may understand the input, we may understand the output, but the AI’s decision-making process which bridges these two is a black box we can’t seem to peer inside. When given the task of helping diagnose patients, for example, why might an […] Written by Ella Alderson May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why Data Is The Future Of Healthcare A growing number of studies around the world show that healthcare is steadily evolving into a science based on the analysis of mass data, on detecting the signs that make it possible to know, evaluate and eventually treat a person’s health problems preventively. This is a transformation that will fundamentally affect the development of science […] Written by Enrique Dans May 6, 2022May 6, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Understanding Agrivoltaic Technologies The success of a growing number of countries around the world with agrivoltaic technology, or locating solar panels on farms, a topic I have written about before, suggests this could be a win-win formula, particularly for the developing world. “Harvesting the sun twice”, a €1.6 million research project by the University of Sheffield in East Africa, has made great […] Written by Enrique Dans April 29, 2022April 29, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Can Twitter Really Bring Absolute Free Speech? Elon Musk is the planet’s number one billionaire. If anyone can turn cyberspace into a heaven – or hell – of free speech “absolutism” via a US$44 billion (£35 billion) Twitter takeover, then surely he’s the man. Right? When free-market elephants like Musk or Jeff Bezos (who bought the Washington Post in 2013) take charge of major mass-media […] Written by Empirics Asia April 28, 2022April 28, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. Its prime accomplishment was the expansion of our ability to abstract the world. Until then, pragmatism reigned, limiting most people’s thoughts and interactions primarily because we lacked the tools to extrapolate information, to wield it for things that lay beyond obvious […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked