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Rastko Petakovic
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Big small conversations. A place where we discuss interesting topics, recent and evergreen, big things and small. We live in a complex, fast-moving, and ever-accelerating world. To slow it all down and work through the complexities, we engage in the simple art of conversation with our friends from business, technology and arts.

  1. 06/30/2021

    Secrets of Private Equity

    In this episode we have an interesting guest, and a just as interesting guest host – Marko Ketler, Senior Partner in our network, who specializes in M&A and Finance and has tons of experience in private equity. His guest is Brian Wardrop, Managing Partner at Arx Equity Partners, one of the leading private equity firms in Central Europe, and if you want to know how PE firms select deals and what they look for in transaction partners, we highly recommend that you listen to the new episode.   Are we going to travel for meetings as we used to? Or is Zoom something that is here to stay; what will happen to working from home and working from offices; can we and when can we expect the post-pandemic recession – these are only some of the topics that we are covering in this episode of k/talks. You should also get recommendations for good books on negotiation or maybe secrets and lies in the Silicon Valley, to read this summer.

    45 min

  2. 06/02/2021

    Banking Cord Blood

    Far too often, parents ask questions around cord blood banking. Most commonly, these two - one: should we do it, and two: which bank. To address this recurring topic, and one that can be incredibly important and consequential for families, we hosted one of the most knowledgeable authorities on this topic, Dr. Frances Verter.  Dr. Verter founded the Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood in 1998, in memory of her daughter Shai. As a mother, a patient advocate and science researcher, she began compiling resources to help other parents make decisions on storing their children’s cord blood. As the body of knowledge around the clinical use of cord blood expanded, her work extended to those issues as well. The wealth of resources she has compiled addresses the questions from the beginning: whether parents should decide to bank cord blood, i.e. are there clinical uses for cord blood; and how to choose the right bank.Frances is also a cofounder at Celltrials.org, which collects and provides the data on clinical trials of advanced cell therapy.  This episode is in English. Resources:- [https://parentsguidecordblood.org/en]- [celltrials.org]- [https://www.cekammiminko.cz/2020/10/05/vnucka-darovala-pupecnikovou-krev-svemu-dedeckovi/]

    44 min

  3. 04/22/2021

    AI: Trick or Threat

    An MIT study showed that fake news travels six times faster on Twitter than real news. Different phenomenons occurring online are a powerful weapon and a fertile territory for spreading information based on a bias. Is AI a dehumanization weapon in the wrong hands or just a progressive tool? What is the cost of creating machine learning and similar algorithms? A grown and wild digital ecosystem based on an attention economy, engaging business model and behavioral advertising is editing reality thus becoming a vital policymaker. The utopic idea of the Internet and the existing perceptions of AI and robots, or as Meredith Broussard coined it Technochauvinism, is being challenged and rethought. Where lies a link between technology and justice? Is a relationship between competition and privacy laws on a good path? Why is ethics an important factor in the digital surroundings? In a new episode of the k/talks podcast with Ivana Bartoletti, a Technical Director at Deloitte and an internationally recognised thought leader in the field of responsible technology, we are discussing these and many more questions and concepts. Enjoy! More info about our guest at www.ivanabartoletti.co.uk Exclusively to our listeners, please see the discount code (KTALKS) for the purchase of the book “An Artificial Revolution” by Ivana Bartoletti (paperback, eBook or paperback and eBook bundle). This episode is in English. Books: Bartoletti, Ivana, “An Artificial Revolution”, The Indigo Press (2019) Broussard, Meredith, “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World”, MIT Press (2018) Crawford, Kate, “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence”, Yale University Press (2021)Dignum, Virginia, “Responsible Artificial Intelligence”, Springer (2019) Eubanks, Virginia, “Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor”, St Martin’s Press (2018) Pasquale, Frank, “The Black Box Society”, Harvard University Press (2016) Veliz, Carissa, “Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data”, Transworld Publishers (2020)Movies: “Coded Bias“ – Director: Shalini Kantayya (2020) “Social Dilemma“ – Director: Jeff Orlowski (2020) “iHuman” – Director: Tonje Hessen Schei (2019)

    1h 1m

  4. 03/09/2021

    Loading Dice

    Nebojša Đurđević is the CEO of Digital Serbia and chairman of Serbian Government's working group tasked with producing a strategy for strengthening the startup ecosystem between 2021 and 2025. To anyone expecting a dry conversation - this is anything but. Nebojša emigrated from Belgrade in the early 90ties, spent most of his professional career in startups across the world, and then came back to Serbia in 2018 to lead Digital Serbia's efforts to help the country catch up in the global digital race.  Nebojša is a passionate collector of old-timers. More precisely, Citroen old-timers, for reasons we try to discover walking and talking around Belgrade. We move through downtown Belgrade, Kalemegdan park and the fortress, all the way to the Victor monument overlooking confluence of Sava and Danube rivers.  All the way, we explore what makes startup ecosystems more or less successful, what role, if any, luck plays in that success and how combining collective experience from the most successful ecosystems, together with some of Serbia's unique advantages, can propel the local ecosystem even further. Learn more about Digital Serbia: WebsiteYouTubeThis episode is in English.

    1h 7m

  5. 11/16/2020

    Go Big or Go Home

    What spirit makes a true entrepreneur? One not only ready, but eager, to go off-piste? Is it the allure of entrepreneurial mentality, proximity to ideas as soon as they are born, camaraderie with brilliant innovators? All of the above? And what makes people get their skin in the game, staking their money, reputation and time behind an idea or a team? Julien Coustaury is the founder and a managing partner at Fil Rouge Rouge Capital, one of the first local VCs active in the SEE region. He has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing and services, much of it at CEO level, and has worked in more than 80 countries across five continents. In his early career he travelled the world building mobile phone networks literally from the ground up, and as his career progressed, he ended up building whole mobile phone companies from scratch. During his career, he participated in over $1.7bn of purchase, sale and financing transactions. Afterwards he became an active founder of ABC Accelerator in Ljubljana. As a serial investor in early stage businesses, together with his partner invested in more than 40 early stage ventures, and he still serves on the boards of a number of them. In this episode, we talked about his early career and beginnings, entrepreneurship, his investment style and current experiences.

    51 min

  6. 09/21/2020

    Legal Tech

    Most people view legal profession as traditional and slow to adapt to ever present forces of technology and innovation. In some aspects they are right and there are good reasons for moving slowly. In its core, legal profession is intrinsically based on trust and human to human interaction. Equally important, it is a part of the justice system and as such it cannot afford itself the luxury to “move fast and break things”. But it does move. Lawyers use AI-based systems to enhance document review processes, they work with contract automation, regtech tools and other innovative technologies. So, it seems only natural to have Maya Markovich as a guest to discuss all things legal tech. Maya is the Chief Growth Officer of Nextlaw Labs since 2015. Nextlaw Labs is the industry’s first and leading legal technology and innovation catalyst and intelligence hub, focused exclusively on legal innovation via early-stage legal tech. With her unique background spanning behavioral science, law, investment, and change management, Maya currently leads analysis, collaboration, launch, and adoption of early-stage legal tech. In this episode we discussed the challenges and opportunities of innovation in legal sector, how it’s like to work with lawyers on developing legal tech solutions, and how can legal profession leverage tech lessons that other industries have already learned. Maya was named one of five “Influential Women of Legal Tech” by ILTA in 2020, a “Woman Leading Legal Tech” by The Technolawgist in 2019, and an ABA Legal Technology Resource Center “Woman of Legal Tech 2018” – you can follow her on LinkedIn.

    49 min

  7. 09/11/2020

    Netocracy

    Do you remember how the regional startup ecosystem looked like without its big players, serious conferences, professional associations, extensive investments and specialized media? How did networking or the search for new sources of funding and support looked like ten years ago, in the absence of today's infrastructure? Leaving the secure job in companies in order to develop one's own business might look crazy back then, but how did successful examples affect future digital entrepreneurs Marko Mudrinić was a daily witness to these events. After he joined the netokracija.com as the editor for Serbia back in 2012, he distinguished himself as one of the leading IT journalists in Serbia, covering topics on Internet entrepreneurship, new technologies and digital trends. Marko shared with us his memories about the beginnings of the development of the domestic startup scene and IT entrepreneurship. Of course, we also talked about IT journalism, the future of the media and its specialization, what it is like to host a podcast, and many more. You can find out more about Marko on Netokracija.rs, or you can watch him as a host of Netokracija's "Office Talks" podcasts. The episode is in Serbian.

    58 min

  8. 09/04/2020

    Drosophila Melanogaster

    (This episode is in Serbian) Why do we sleep? The answer can seem obvious to everyone - because sleep helps us to rest, regenerate, preserve energy for the day ahead… However, the process that is so familiar to us remains among the most mysterious phenomena in biology – as a matter of fact, everything we just stated still remains at the level of the hypothesis.   So why is sleep necessary for life? Dragana Rogulja teaches neurobiology at Harvard Medical School Blavatnik Institute of Neurobiology, has dedicated her career to researching the molecular mechanisms that govern sleep. For this purpose, Dragana and a team of scientists from Harvard examined Drosophila Melanogaster, because sleep in the fruit fly is remarkably similar to mammalian sleep. Dragana revealed to us that flies, in the absence of sleep, behave similarly to humans - lack of sleep leads to numerous disorders and diseases, even death. Through a conversation with Dragana, we learned not only about similarities between flies and humans, but we also heard in more details about her long-term research, which for the first time offered to science something more than hypotheses when it comes to question of our need to sleep.   We encourage you to learn more about Dragana Rogulja's research at the following links:Rogulja Lab: http://roguljalab.hms.harvard.eduArticle: "Sleep Loss Can Cause Death through Accumulation of Reactive Oxygen Species in the Gut: https://www.dropbox.com/s/08f6yh5o9792kzf/Sleep%20ROS%20Gut%20Alex%20Yossi%20Keishi.pdf?dl=0

    55 min
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Big small conversations. A place where we discuss interesting topics, recent and evergreen, big things and small. We live in a complex, fast-moving, and ever-accelerating world. To slow it all down and work through the complexities, we engage in the simple art of conversation with our friends from business, technology and arts.

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  • Creator
    Rastko Petakovic
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2021 Karanovic & Partners
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    k/talks