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Alex Bulat-van den Wildenberg

Changing the world starts with curiosity. It is the force that drives us to new discoveries, to exploration and new horizons. Without curiosity there would be no progress. Feeling stunned by discovery and amazed everyday, seeking for the inventions, innovations and technologies that have the power to improve our environment, our health, our work, our lives, our world! Let’s improve the world we live in by being curious!

  1. 02/05/2024

    EP24 Idealoading: Dr. Cara Antoine "Make It Personal"

    Dr Cara Antoine Esteemed colleague, friend, innovation activist, women in leadership role model, Tech4good champion, Technologist, Empowerment guru, Advocate for STEM, diversity and Equity, a light house in the industry with awards like “Global leader of the year”… “ESG officer of the year”..”Top 100 most influential women in business”, now adding best selling author with her new book make it personal.  “Organizations are static structures that only come alive through the actions of dynamic people.”  Having worked at amazing innovation power houses such Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Microsoft, and Polaroid. It is now my pleasure to work with her at Capgemini as the CTIO for North and Central Europe.  Let's dive in directly. Make it Personal: How did you come up with the concept for your New book and what compelled you to write it?“It’s not personal it’s business” you argue the opposite, why?The crisis of connection: Human connection are at the forefront of you thinking, I think some people struggle.how do we collaborate and communicate? Empowerment leadership in innovation:  I love the way you lead the charge on the way you give people an amazing creative boost to build new things.What 2 or 3 thing should we do or not do in Empowering peopleTech4Good is a choice: You fell in love with technology at an early age, and Troughtout your career seem to have the read throught the line that even technology needs to empower peopleStay Curious 🧐 I hope you have fun listening!  Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.nl/Make-Personal-Dimensions-Collaboration-Workplace/dp/B0CKJKH3V9 Follow Dr. Cara here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caraantoine/

    48 min
  2. 10/09/2023

    EP23 Idealoading: "Human Machine Understanding - The Machine as team a mate!" Michelle Lim & Ali Shafti

    🚨Super excited a new #idealoading #podcast with 2 brilliant people ❤️ Michelle Lim Ali Shafti on: "Human Machine Understanding - The Machine as team a mate!" Wouldn't it be great if machines could really understand us. The way we talk, think, react, work and interact. Wouldn't that be the perfect extension to us. A perfect collaboration between human and machine? That is exactly what Michelle and Ali are working on. Their field of research is on that fascinating cross road of Psychology & Technology, to build the world context for machines that human naturally have. We have discussed so many things, but here are the main topics and things you will learn from listing to this podcast: 🤔 What if your washing machine could talk and understand you? 😁 🤼‍♀️ How Machines are moving from tools to teammates! 🤖 What is machine empathy? 🧠 How do we build trust with the machine? 💁What do you see as uniquely human and difficult to replicate into AI? 🤷Will we have small personalised / finetuned models to our habits/thoughts rather than general AI? 📲Jarvis in the pocket - what will this mean for collaboration? Super excited, what an amazing conversation! Big thank you to my guest! And I hope that they will join us once more! Have fun. Bio's: Michelle Lin Psychology x Technology | Behavioural Scientist working on Human Machine Understanding. passion is in developing emotionally intelligent technology that can understand humans at least as well as a behavioural scientist can. Humans are adaptable yet resistant, intelligent yet irrational. Rich understanding of human cognition and behaviour, backed by empirical evidence, can help guide us through the infinite applications of technology. How best should we harness the power of Psychology? Ali Shafti Technical Lead in Human-Machine Understanding at Cambridge Consultants PHD kings London college, “created new methodologies for explainable and interpretable AI for more intuitive and trustworthy human-AI and human-robot interaction.” check out the other podcast episodes: www.idealoading.com

    46 min
  3. 06/30/2023

    EP 22 #Idealoading: Generative AI, All you need to know With Robert Engels & Mark Roberts

    Yes this session is fully focussed on Generative AI,  All you need to know.  Robert Engels & Mark Roberts try to deconstruct it for the masses in this 60min episode. Amazing people both holding PHD's in the field of AI, both have been working on AI since the late 80's, and experienced different waves already. Loved recording this episode as these are just brilliant mind to listen do and learn from, and we really tried to cut trough the buzz. I know this is Long awaited but it is here now #idealoading podcast recorded and coming this week! A long awaited one I think 🤔....With Robert H.P. Engels and Mark Roberts we go into everything you need to know about #generativeai and we went deep, deeper and deepest...but we had to cut it at 60min... so episode to should be in the work right?!  What will you learn in this episode: 🌊 Why is this wave different? 🏃‍♀️ What is in the HYPE, why now? looking at History vs Now! 🤖 There is not one AI 🥇 How to go from: "Good to Useful"  🏆 How and where to start with a simple 📝 check list you need! 📲 Ideale use cases for it  🚨 Principals and guidance 💁What is the job of the future? 🤯 The war in AI: Scale maximalist vs the Symbolist 🗣️Model whispers  Future reads to have a look at for different perspectives:  - Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman - AI 2024, Kai-Fu Lee - Future Proof,  Kevin Roose - You look like a thing and I love you, Janelle Shane - The Age of AI and our human Future, Henry Kissinger & Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher These two brilliant minds have been in AI for decades and I want to thank them for educating me, and spending the time to have this conversation. I learned a lot and I hope it is going to be useful for all of you. Have fun listing and don't forget to hit subscribe!  #ai #podcast #technology

    59 min
  4. 03/29/2023

    EP 21 Idealoading: "Business for Good, is just Good Business," Conscyo Marc Rietra & Katja van Beaumont

    🚨EP 21 Idealoading: "Business for good, is just good Business." It is official kicking of new season of #idealoading  with my dear friends Katja van Beaumont and Marc Rietra, who after 20+ years heart and soul in blue decided to follow their passion and started a company Conscyo, that focuses on conscious consulting, driving #sustainablebydesign thinking and transformation to a more sustainable future for everyone, making the difficult decisions instead of the easy one! It was such an amazing conversation, and a lot of learnings:  🚀 Starting your own company that goes against the grain of 🤔 rethinking everything, 🤯  Radical Transparency 👩  Transforming business also take transforming yourself 🏃‍♀️ Challenging yourself everyday   Just amazing to spend some time with these world changers that are trying to embed this into their work, challenge themselves while going against the mainstream and rethinking everything. it is easy to say you are doing something but it much more difficult to actually do it. Great to Always be learning from them! New thinking and curiosity keeps driving us all forward! So my hearty congratulations again, love ❤️, and Good luck 🍀 to them and their future endeavours! Check out the company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/conscyo/ https://www.conscyo.com/ #work #love #podcast #transformation #businessforgood #sustainability

    39 min
  5. 08/26/2022

    EP20 Leon Smiers; “The world is connected but is it interconnected?!” A Masterclass in integration!

    A #masterclass in #intergation by Léon Smiers; “The world is connected but is it interconnected?!” You guessed it the new #idealoading is here and it is all about integration and how to leverage it to drive growth and competitiveness! We talked about: How Integration drives innovation, #apifycation, eventdriven flow architectures, no data monetization without proper integration, metadata, #WEB3 and integration?!  One of the most important and yet most forgotten subject in Technology, so I thought let’s shine a light 💡 on it. Being overlooked and underestimated part of IT lead to most organization having a "spaghettini integration" situations. Today Leon and I Discuss what you need to think about before starting to add new systems and tools into you landscape and how you can start untangling your old (FYI it is now by adding olive oil 😊). Leon is the CTO for integration for Capgemini Netherland and has over 30year experience! Over the last 30 years he has implemented and architected many custom build IT systems and integrated complex landscapes for large companies. Leons passion is to explore new IT technologies and look for applicability for business problems. Acording to Leon growth and competitiveness can only be achieved if you Integration Technology, including API'S, BPM, Data Lakes and Machine Learning are helping you and not standing in your way.

    34 min
  6. 06/03/2022

    EP18 Jean-Marie Lapeyre: The Storm is raging in Automotive! (In a good way 😊)

    🎙 Amazing conversation  with Jean-Marie Lapeyre! Jean-Marie and team have just launched the #TechnoVision 2022 #automotiveindustry playbook ! We had a nice debate why automotive is such an amazing industry to be in right now. Thank you 🙏 for taking the time today Jean-Marie! playbook, download here We had a fascinating debate: - Technovision automotive playbook - 4 Big forces disrupting the automotive industry: #sustainability : Cars are becoming Sustainable by design! #Connectivity: It is not just between the car and you phone, but also car to infrastructure and car to car....! - Emerging business models: because new actors are coming in!  - autonomousdriving : The investment is huge, but the reality is that it will take some time! - What should automotive OEMs consider going forward.  About Jean-Marie Lapeyre  Jean-Marie is Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Global Automotive Industry at Capgemini.Before joining Capgemini, Jean-Marie held various executive positions with vehicle manufacturers, during nearly 15 years (GM ↦ OV ↦ PSA ↦ Stellantis). Driving technology strategy, leading cyber security transformation and operations, or delivering large scale international enterprise programs. Before the auto industry, he was Chief Technology Officer of the French Tax Authority Jean-Marie holds a Masters degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, as well as a post-graduate engineering degrees in Computer Science and Telecommunications happy reading, listening and stay curious! 🧐

    44 min
  7. 05/13/2022

    EP17 Thijs Pepping, Real Fake: playing with reality in the age of AI, deepfakes and the metaverse!

    🤫🚀Today I have the absolute pleasure release this #idealoading episode where I interview Thijs Pepping one of the co-authors of #RealFake: playing with reality in the age of AI, deepfakes and the #metaverse! What an amazing conversation, thank you Thijs for taking the time! And thank you to the co-authors Menno Van Doorn & Sander Duivestein. The distorted reality and echo chamber are of our own creation. Technology is just making it much more visible. Background, sneakpreview of questions and topics we have explored today: Thijs Pepping has a Master's degree from the University of Humanistic Studies and is fascinated by the relationship between people and technology. Especially when it comes to questions regarding life and death, love, the art of living, and the experience of time and reality. His philosophical reflections and critical notes can be found regularly in newspapers, on YouTube, public talks and in more intimate settings with organisations. Question & topics we explored: - Why real fake? - What was the angle for you you to Write Real fake? - What is The Shed at Dulwich?  - What is our reality and How are we Playing with reality? - Our media is changing how can we adapt? - Our second life in the immersive world of metaverse? - Digital humans is that our future? - 1 avatar or a multitude of avatars all representing us? - How are we Merging our lives and ourselves into a new reality, how can we redefine the way we look at reality? - How can we protect ourselves from fake news? Happy listening, Stay curious 🧐! And as always don't forget to subscribe and your thoughts 💭 and comments are always welcome! 🙏 Buy the book here: REAL FAKE

    45 min

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Changing the world starts with curiosity. It is the force that drives us to new discoveries, to exploration and new horizons. Without curiosity there would be no progress. Feeling stunned by discovery and amazed everyday, seeking for the inventions, innovations and technologies that have the power to improve our environment, our health, our work, our lives, our world! Let’s improve the world we live in by being curious!