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In the first part of our mini series Quenching the Future's Thirst, we are sitting down with Job van Schelven, Partner at PureTerra Ventures to learn about some of the challenges facing the planet’s water supply. We touch on such topics as how legacy infrastructure is causing significant water waste, how entrepreneurs pick a focus, and whether the conflicts of the future will be centered on water. Even though roughly 70% of the earth’s surface is water, issues facing water systems are often overlooked. Will humanity start paying attention before it is too late?
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In a special mini series about the ESI Sustainability Challenge, we are sitting down with Elizabete Rebezova from Renoinvestment to talk about why he and his team decided to join the ESI challenge and solve the problem they attempted to solve. We discuss such things as how to build a team of complete strangers, how to motivate house boards, and the benefits of joining a hackathon. Student Hackathons are a great way to learn about how the future is thinking about the current problems. Let’s learn about the future they envision.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In a special mini series about the ESI Sustainability Challenge, we are sitting down with Ricards Agapovs from Last Chance Cuisine to talk about why he and his team decided to join the ESI challenge and solve the problem they attempted to solve. We discuss such topics as how to join a hackathon when you don't know anyone, how to create new ideas, and how to prevent food waste. Student Hackathons are a great way to learn about how the future is thinking about the current problems. Let’s learn about the future they envision.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In a special mini series about the ESI Sustainability Challenge, we are sitting down with Matiss Katanenko from Green Dream to talk about why he and his team decided to join the ESI challenge and solve the problem they attempted to solve. We touch on such subjects what value hackathons bring to the individual participants, what prevents apartment owners from adapting sustainable upgrades, and how to make the transition from being a musician to wanting to start a company. Student Hackathons are a great way to learn about how the future is thinking about the current problems. Let’s learn about the future they envision.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In a special mini series about the ESI Sustainability Challenge, we are sitting down with Karlis Karolis, Baltic Head of Innovations at SEB bank to learn about why the company decided to be a partner for the challenge and how they chose a problem for the participants to try and solve. We touch on such subjects as how new innovation ecosystems grow, how to balance current business needs and future innovation, and what sustainability means to a bank. Innovation challenges are a great way to foster idea generation to solve the problems that face many corporations. We’ll see if this is used more and more frequently in the future.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the final part of our mini series Ensuring Sustainability, we are sitting down with Renata Sagatauskė Corporate Responsible Strategy & Development Manager from Rimi Baltic to learn about the supermarket chain’s journey to championing sustainability. We discuss such topics as how to get people interested in science, how to communicate sustainability, and how the supermarket ecosystem becomes more sustainable. To be able to meet the global challenges the world faces we need more corporations stepping up and taking the lead. By changing the options available to consumers, they can become sustainable with their dollars. Will this collaboration be enough to make a difference?
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the first part of our mini series Ensuring Sustainability, we are sitting down with Stine Junge, Global Head of the SDG Accelerator at the UNDP to learn about what it actually takes to have your startup be sustainable. We touch on such topics as how the different sustainability goals were created and how they are measured, the current status of progress on the SDGs, and why the UNDP decided to get more involved with innovation. It can often be difficult to understand all the consequences of a company's actions. It is necessary to effectively measure the right metrics. How do companies create the best processes to do this?
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the final part of our mini series Are robots going to take our farms too? We are sitting down with Lion David CEO at Frontier RNG, to learn his story and reflect on the first 3 parts of this series. We discuss such topics as how to grow things in the dessert, what innovation is like in a kibbutz, and how to build innovation expertise. As climate change threatens that amount of land that can be used for agriculture we will need ways to change arid landscapes. Looking at places that are already arid we might be able to find inspirations for this issue. Maybe robots will be a solution?
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the third part of our mini series Are robots going to take our farms too?, we bring back Martin and Aleksejs so we can have a dialogue between two different stakeholders in the Agtech. We touch on such subjects as the future of vertical and urban farming, potential of API's in agriculture, and how generation changes affect the space. Hopefully, through conversations like these we can help people and we can find ways to create farms that can meet the food needs of society.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the second part of our mini series Are robots going to take our farms too?, we are sitting down with Aleksejs Mališevs from AgroRobot to learn about how they started the company and how they are helping farmers be efficient in their fields. We touch on such topics as how to go from economics to robotics, how to make robots do delicate things, and how to expand across different crops. As humanity continues to grow we are putting a greater strain on the food supply forcing farmers to look for innovative solutions to keep up with demand. How will all this innovation change the farms of the future?
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the first part of our mini series Are robots going to take our farms too?, we are sitting down with Martin Gallardo, Director of Innovation, Digital, and Growth at PwC as well as a science fiction writer to learn about how robotics will change the agricultural industry. We touch on such subjects as why to be a science fiction writer, what trends should people be aware of, and what things are robots good at and not some much. Are we looking at a future where there are no longer any farmers working in the field…or is this an overblown fear?
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the final part of our mini series Upcycling for your Pets, we are sitting down with Sarah Sunderbrink, Social Media Lead at Zooplus, to learn her story and reflect on the first 3 parts of this series. By looking at her experience with the online pet store store, Zooplus, we can learn about whether or not consumers are actually asking for sustainable pet products and how pet companies need to communicate their sustainability. We touch on such subjects as how working with pets is a dream job for someone in social media, which consumers are demanding sustainability and how you can communicate it to your audience. Are people buying into a circular pet economy?
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the third part of our mini series Upcycling for your Pets, we bring back Maija from Zero Waste Latviai and Elvija, and Aigars from Fat Cat Leaves so we can have a dialogue between two different stakeholders around pet sustainability. We touch on such subjects as how to improve the cat owner's user experience, who is interested in sustainable pet products, and how sustainability can lead to better overall products. Hopefully, through conversations like these we can help people and we can find ways to have pets without destroying the planet.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the second part of our mini series Upcycling for your Pets, we are sitting down with Elvija Vanaga, and Aigars Reiters from Fat Cat Leaves to learn about how they started the company and how they are trying to make owning pets more sustainable. We go over such topics as pivoting from paper to pets, the environmental impact of cat litter, and what cities do with all their leaves. Pet ownership is a huge part of many people’s lives with some treating their pets similar to their children. We need to find ways to ensure we do this without destroying the Planet.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the first part of our mini series Upcycling for your Pets, we are sitting down with Maija KRASTINA , Communications at Zero Waste Latvia to learn about how to make products that have minimal environmental impact by minimizing their waste products. We touch on topics such as what is preventing people from joining the sustainability movement, how you can use data to build credible data, and why no one understands what it means to have a landfill in their background. Living on a planet with finite resources we can’t afford to waste any of them. We need to find a way to ensure that future generations can enjoy earth in the same way we do.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the third part of our mini series Organizing for a Good Time, we bring back Yuri and Justus, and Reinis so we can have a dialogue between two different stakeholders around marketplaces. We touch on such topics as how to capture consumer surplus, what is the value of search tools, and how to fuel community growth. Hopefully, through conversations like these we can help people and we can find ways to create better digital platforms.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the second part of our mini series Organizing for a Good Time, we are sitting down with Justus Bernhard, and Reinis Aniskovics from Jollity to learn about how they started the company and how they are helping families find activities to share with their children. We touch on such topics as how families find activities, how to create a marketplace that only focused on one side of the market, and how activity small businesses can digitalize. More and more families are turning to digital solutions to help them deal with the speed of modern life. How can they bridge the gap between the digital and the physical?
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the first part of our mini series Organizing for a Good Time, we are sitting down with Yuri Romanenkov, Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics Riga to learn about how digital marketplaces and platforms work. Recently more and more companies are creating these types of solutions that it appears they are taking over the world. The episode touches on such topics as what makes platforms unique, in what situations are platforms useful, and why are network effects so seductive. I wonder how this affects society at large.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the final part of our mini series Entrepreneurship Beyond Stigma, we are sitting down with Cindy Lee Alves , Founder of Ascension Institute and host of Sex on Shuffle podcast, to learn her story and reflect on the first 3 parts of this series. We touch on such subjects as how someone learns about sex and sexuality, how the internet has changed this period of discovery, and how sexual research often leaves out the experience of marginalized groups. Hopefully, this will help us understand which lessons for the industry that we can apply to society at large.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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In the third part of our mini series Entrepreneurship Beyond Stigma, we bring back Nikky from Liberos and Sara and Ksenia from Libet so we can have a dialogue between two different stakeholders within the Sextexh ecosystem. We touch on such topics as why physiology is not enough to define climax, how each person has a personalized orgasm profile, and how to counteract sexual misinformation. Hopefully, through conversations like these we can help people understand their own sexual needs better.
We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, Printify, SEB bank and RIMI for their support.
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