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In this episode of Beyond Core, we sit down with Bastian Herr, Head of Marketplace at GLOBUS, one of Switzerland’s leading premium and luxury department store chains, to unpack the evolving world of luxury shopping, curated platforms, and the transformative role of AI in retail.

In this episode of Beyond Core, we sit down with Jeremy Gottschalk, platform expert, author of "Bulletproof Your Marketplace", and founder of the Marketplace Risk conference series. Jeremy shares hard-earned insights on how platforms can navigate trust, safety, and emerging risks in an AI-driven world.

In this episode of Beyond Core, Nathalie LAMBORGHINI DUMAS and I we’re joined by Steffen Erath, Head of Innovation and Sustainability at Hansgrohe Group, to explore how a 120-year-old company is rethinking its role in a world shaped by climate challenges, digital transformation, and shifting customer expectations.

In this episode, we talk with Volker Gläser, CEO of Dish Digital Solutions, about how a digital startup inside a 60-year-old wholesale giant turned into a platform that's now at the heart of Metro's business.

The Status of Corporate Venture Building – with Martin Sondenheimer In this episode of Beyond Core, we explore the evolving world of corporate venture building with Martin Sondenheimer, former Global Head of Corporate Venture Building at Munich Re. With over two decades of experience in innovation, investing, and building ventures, Martin shares a candid and in-depth view of the current state of c...

In this episode of BeyondCore, we explore how ecosystem thinking can help business leaders unlock new growth beyond their core business. Our guest, James Meyer, a key leader at SRAM and former founder of Quarq Powermeter, shares how SRAM built its AXS ecosystem to scale innovation and create new market opportunities.

This episode of our BeyonCore podcast, hosted by Matthias Walter and Natalie Lamborghini, features Peter Sandberg, an innovation strategist based in Stockholm, Sweden. The discussion centers around co-innovation, ecosystems, and the shift from ego-driven innovation to collaborative innovation (eco-innovation).

In this episode of Platforms for Future, Diana Lesage discussed the role of Venture Studios in corporate innovation, differentiating them from accelerators and venture capital firms by their unique model of building companies from the ground up. She highlighted their growth in niches like FinTech and HealthTech, and the benefits of corporate venture building, where studios and large corporations c...

In this episode of Platforms for Future, Lukas Lewandowski, Regional Director at Coursera, discussed B2B education platforms. He highlighted Coursera's growth, its response to COVID-19, and the role of online learning. The conversation also touched on AI's impact on education, emphasizing the importance of trust and staying adaptable. Lukas advised platform leaders to embrace technologies like gen...

In this episode of "Platforms 4 Future," we dive into the world of IoT platforms, specifically focusing on industrial applications. Join us as we explore the challenges and possibilities of implementing these technologies in a conservative industry. Our guest shares their experiences and insights, discussing the importance of trust, reliability, and building a successful platform in the IoT ecosys...

Embedded finance is a growing trend that has gained traction over the past decade. It refers to the integration of financial services into non-financial platforms or businesses. Traditionally, individuals or businesses would have to go directly to financial service providers to access services such as banking, payments, insurance, and collections. However, with embedded finance, these services are...

Hey everyone! Exciting news! 📢 We have a new episode of the Plattforms for Future Podcast, and this time it's in German! 🇩🇪🎙️  This episode of the "Platforms for Future" podcast is about B2B pricing and monetization. This is one of the most crucial topics and every platform needs to crack it. Monetize one side, two sides, pricing differently, commission fee, subscription fee, and so on. There are...

Step into the future with our latest episode featuring Martha Beckenfeld. We're exploring the fascinating world of the Web3 metaverse and its impact on platforms. One area where the Metaverse is already having a significant impact is in the platform economy. Platforms such as Amazon and eBay have disrupted and transformed industries, and now there are about 21 categories of platforms. The question...

The Caruso alliance was formed 25 years ago by the Tech Alliance, a company dedicated to cataloging data for spare parts. Drawing on their experience and success, the alliance decided to create a platform for accessing and harmonizing car data. The goal was to make it easier for customers to access and use the data they needed. The Caruso alliance has achieved this goal by harmonizing the data and...

DigiKoo is a platform that is revolutionizing the way we look at data and its potential to combat climate change. The CEO of DigiKoo, Martin Möller, is a passionate advocate for using data to promote sustainability and mitigate the effects of climate change. In this podcast episode, we will discuss how data platforms like DigiKoo can help ensure a successful climate transition. DigiKoo is a subsid...

Meero has grown into a successful global platform that connects professional photographers and videographers with clients looking for high quality visual content. The platform was founded in 2016 and has quickly grown to become the largest on-demand photography service provider in the world, with over 100,000 photographers and videographers in over 100 countries. Part of the success story is the i...

Data safety and privacy is a crucial topic around the world. We need to have sovereign options on the market that will allow us as consumers and as citizens to make self determined and well informed decisions on who can do what with my data, for how long and to what avail, to what purpose. Usually data protection is governed by nations and their legal bodies. But in digital ecosystems the boundari...

Nowadays, it is very crucial to address the challenges around impact on the planet and society. But how to implement it and engage everyone inside of your organization? The answer: Network Effects. In our latest episode of the PIK podcast we talked to Eric Mangin, CEO, and Paul Thiroloix, CFO, from French platform NooS about that topic. The platform NooS helps organizations to activate and engage...

The story of DPP started 3 years ago. They went through a selection of partners, formed an alliance, listened to customers and onboarded a lot of plants. Transformation of a classical production company into a data driven platform is not an easy journey and therefore we have invited Marc Geckler, the Tech Lead and Dirk Voigt, the business lead from VolksWagen to share their success story. Data is...

With dropfriends, everyone of us can become an independent parcel shop and make the delivery service much more comfortable and sustainable. How? Our guest, Martin Peters, the CEO of Dropfriends is going to explain to us in the latest episode of the “Platform 4 Future” podcast. Tune in to learn more about the multi-sided benefits for stakeholders and our planet. E.g. how you can become a paid parce...

How can we make the Mittelstand and the SMEs competitive in the industry of platforms? Our new guests are coming from the largest research organization in Europe - Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering. The main task of the Fraunhofer organization is to keep the German and European industry competitive or make them competitive. Common thinking is that platform and ecosystem ec...

Web 3, Blockchain, Crypto, Decentralized Finance are currently the most discussed topics in the business world. To get some more understanding we have invited as guest of this Episode a specialist in this field - Tilmar Wilhelm Goos, Swiss based international tax and business specialist, speaker at conferences and universities an author of the book “Banking Bitcoins Taxation — The handbook of inte...

How to create interest from your target customers about your #marketplace? In this #podcast episode of #PlatformsForFuture, @Nathalie Dumas and @Matthias Walter interviewed @Friedrich Fries-Henrich, founder of @Circulania, a B2B platform for secondary raw materials, enabling companies to sell their industrial waste material as new products. When they started, Friedrich and his associate thought it...