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  1. 27/10/2022

    EP 31 - Nikolaus Sühr - CEO & Co-Founder at KASKO - If Your Technology Is Great but It Does Not Enable Growth, What’s the Point?

    The Wolfcast spent some high-quality talking with Nikolaus Sühr, the CEO & Co-Founder at KASKO.  KASKO offers an API-powered agile insurance product and distribution platform that operates between digital customer touchpoints and legacy IT systems. Some of the topics Nikolaus discussed: Remote working and distributed teams Enabling different channels of communication depending on the urgency The focus on providing growth to one's stakeholders The beauty of insurance and how it does not necessarily need to be disrupted The difference between input and output-oriented The three mental notes hidden in the word Enkelfähig Some other titles we considered for this episode: I’m Trying but I’m Also Preaching Water and Drinking Wine If You Don’t Use It, You Lose It A Gate to Move Things Along Enabling More People to Be More Efficient Value Creation and Long-Term Thinking This podcast is supported by Riskwolf.

    41 min

  2. 22/09/2022

    EP 30 - Dan Draper - CEO and Founder of CipherStash - Simple Protections Don’t Do the Job Anymore

    The Wolfcast learned a lot from its discussion with Dan Draper, the Founder and CEO of CipherStash.  CipherStash uses a searchable encryption scheme that enables data to be searchable even while it remains encrypted.  This gives data high-level protection without compromising usability. Some of the topics that Dan covered: What he learned while working for the Australian government Learning how to code on a BBC Micro Working for a startup in New York The increased scope of security attacks The necessity to improve cybersecurity awareness IBM’s report on The Cost of a Data Breach An analogy to F1 racing Separating access to the infrastructure from access to the data Other titles we considered for this episode: The Good Guys Are Doing That to Simulate What the Bad Guys are Doing Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting If Only It Was That Simple Now Our Interests Are Actually Aligned The Most Vulnerable Part of the System Is the Human Some other interesting links: The Effect of Google Search on Software Security The Impact of Information Sources on Code Security This podcast is supported by Riskwolf.

    52 min

  3. 21/08/2022

    EP 29 - Özgür Arslan-Ayaydin - Clinical Professor of Finance at University of Illinois at Chicago - Alternative Banking Systems

    The Wolfcast was interested to speak with Özgür Arslan-Ayaydin, Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Some of the topics that Özgür covered: Growing up in Turkey and studying Economics and Finance Relating economic theories to real life and looking for non-obvious contradictions Islamic Finance and how Islamic banks make money Risk sharing and trying to eliminate moral hazards The passion for teaching undergraduate students Finance The importance and difficulty of curating the overwhelming amount of information we receive Gold, cryptocurrency, and regulations Other titles we considered for this episode: Teaching Finance Is Very Rewarding, It’s So Dynamic and Applicable If I Get a Gain, I Should Provide a Gain as Well This Generation Is So Open to Alternatives Their Lives Are Changing in a Very Fast Pace Two Sides Have to Be Fair

    46 min

  4. 22/07/2022

    EP 28 - Struan Todd - co-Founder Pandamatics - Every Business Is Bound to Have a Cyber Attack

    Another episode, another panda...The Wolfcast was joined by Struan Todd, a co-Founder of Pandamatics.  Pandamatics is Asia's first and only pure cyber insurance coverholder. Some of the topics that Struan discussed: Getting into the risk insurance market and learning from Lloyds in London Exploring the world and getting a wider world-view because of his career in insurance Becoming an accidental entrepreneur How hybrid working improves the working environment The challenges of building algorithmic risk assessment The extent to which COVID raised the demand and awareness for cybersecurity and its insurance Other titles we considered for this episode: Attacking From Completely Covert Situations Driving the Overall Standard The Cyber Risk Is There Why Not Take the Risk? Expecting Someone to Come and Pick Up the Bill This episode was produced by Isabelle Goh.

    30 min

  5. 25/06/2022

    EP 27 - Frederic Stallaert - co-Founder at Paperbox.ai - Disruption Leads to Interruption

    The Wolfcast was joined by Frederic Stallaert, a co-Founder of Paperbox.ai. Paperbox employs artificial intelligence to automate the processing of emails and documents from physical and digital mailboxes. Some of the topics that Frederic covered: His passion for AI Writing a Master’s thesis on Machine Learning Risk taking in general Building Paperbox.ai The importance of partnerships Making technology accessible and affordable to create more impact Branding and marketing saliency Paperbox’s vision for the future Some of the other titles we considered for this episode: The Unicorn Capital of Belgium How Software Does Cognitive Learning If That Is What Working Looks Like, That Is What I Want to Do Values and Passion We Are Technologists by Nature Accessibility Leads to Impact

    34 min

  6. 16/06/2022

    EP 26 - Chris Kaye - CEO & co-Founder at Sherpa Insurance - The Appetite Was There to Do Things Differently

    The Wolfcast was joined by Chris Kaye, a co-Founder and the CEO of Sherpa Insurance. Sherpa Insurance closes the advice gap in insurance by putting a full coverage, digital adviser, in the palm of your customers’ hands. Some of the topics that Chris covered: The factors that encouraged him to found Sherpa in 2016 How moving around affected him as a person Social importance and responsibility in insurance Creating customer engagement The Sherpa Score Sherpa 1.0 was selling insurance, Sherpa 2.0 selling technology to insurance companies Other titles we considered for this episode: It Ended Up Not Being a Choice It’s Almost Like We Designed It to Be Opaque It Doesn’t Feel Like a Human-Centric Transaction Anymore Insurance Is for the Things You Can't Afford Insurance Allows You to Live Life

    43 min

  7. 27/05/2022

    EP 25 - Marc Hauser - F10 Incubator and Accelerator - The Biggest Risk Is Doing Nothing

    The Wolfcast was honored to talk to Marc Hauser, the Head of F10 Europe.  F10 is a global innovation ecosystem that believes the fastest route to innovation lies in early collaboration between startups, incumbents and investors. Each stakeholder benefits from shared skills, experience and insight. Some of the topics that Marc discussed: The early days of working with startups in Switzerland Starting out in consulting Founding his first startup in 2011 and why he did it Returning to the corporate world How the startup scene has changed and why startups are important How moving between startups and corporates help him understand what makes a startup successful Getting companies to move faster Risk assessment and risk management Helping people understand exponential growth How corporates work with startups Other titles we considered for this episode: It Didn't Scare Me Enough at That Point in Time I Just Loved the Energy Surrounding Startups I Will Regret It If I Don't Try It You Know From the Get Go That the Odds Are Against You We Help the Elephants Dance With the Mouse This episode was produced by Isabelle Goh.

    35 min

  8. 13/05/2022

    EP 24 - Gene Yu - Founder and CEO at BlackPanda - If You Have a Computer, You Are a Target

    The Wolfcast enjoyed our conversation with Gene Yu, the Founder and CEO of BlackPanda.  BlackPanda's origin story alone is inspiring and the rest of our conversation with Gene was amazing as well. Some of the topics we covered included: Getting into the United States Military Academy at West Point and studying Computer Science Going to war in the Army Special Forces for almost a decade after graduation His career prior to starting BlackPanda Being Asia's first cybersecurity InsurTech underwriter Cybersecurity risk and disintermediation scale well as there are no proximity limitations Gaming and crypto being one of the highest risk sectors The importance of data and data analysis Pricing cyber risk and calculating payouts Measuring data in real-time Infinite possibilities lead to infinite risks Insurance in the metaverse and the future of cybersecurity Some other titles we considered: We're Basically Cyber-Firefighting I See Security Differently Cybersecurity is NOT an IT Problem, It Is a Security Problem Security Advice Is Very Subjective It's a Different Terrain, but the Same Bad Guy Everybody Is at Risk The audio on this episode was expertly produced by Isabelle Goh.

    42 min
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