TNW Podcast

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry.

In today’s special episode, we're happy to present an interview with Phill Robinson, founder of Boardwave — a networking platform for founders and CEOs working in the European software industry.

The conversation — recorded by our senior editor Linnea Ahlgren — focuses around Europe’s pathway to success. What are we doing right and wrong, compared to the other continents? What’s the future of the European software industry like? And what does AI have to do with it?

Here are the links for this episode:

• The white paper: “How the UK & Europe can lead the global software industry by 2034”

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry.

In today’s episode, Linnea and Andrii talk about a silent hangar in the UK, the fate of Boeing Starliner, the detention of Pavel Durov in France, renewable energy and Iceland, and a few things in between.

You'll also hear an interview with Andreas Saari, co-founder and co-CEO of Paebbl, a startup that — very simply speaking — stores captured CO2 in building materials, namely cement and concrete. It’s a fascinating story, I’m so happy to share it with you.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• UK 'silent hangar' to battle-ready aircraft, vehicles amid Russian GPS assault
• NASA will bring the Starliner astronauts home next year on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission
• How Telegram played itself
• Russian lawmakers hit back at arrest of Telegram chief Pavel Durov in France
• Iceland will tunnel into a volcano to tap into virtually unlimited geothermal power

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry.

In today’s episode, Linnea and Andrii talk about energy use at data centres, the state of Northvolt, submarine communications, and a few things in between.

You will also hear an interview with Chiara Petrioli, CEO and founder of Wsense, a company that’s created what it calls the underwater Wi-Fi to help preserve cultural heritage, monitor critical infrastructure, and do a lot of other things. Andrii sat down with Chiara last week in Rome, during the Rome Startup Week, to learn more about the company, the technology it’s developed, and the future the founder has envisioned.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Swiss startup bets on photonic chips to cut data centre energy consumption
  • Startups race to curb data centre energy use amid AI boom
• Europe’s great battery hope Northvolt fights for survival
  • Northvolt: the Swedish start-up charging Europe’s battery ambitions
  • Northvolt to cut more than 20% of jobs in battle for survival
• Communication with submarines

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry.

In today’s episode, Linnea and Ioanna talk about the entry into force of the EU's AI Act and what it means for companies, futuristic robotic surgery, meteor showers, and enter the sci-fi fandom realm with some Douglas Adams trivia.

You'll also hear an on-stage conversation with Jennifer Goodall, CEO at MindAffect, a brain-computer interface (BCI) startup that develops hearing and vision diagnostics systems for hard-to-test patients. The topic of the conversation read "How Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Technology is Revolutionising Healthcare," and the on-stage interview was conducted by this week's co-host Ioanna Lykiardopoulou.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• EU AI Act enters into force, sets global standard for AI governance
• First UK child has surgery in robot device trial
• Versius Surgical Robotic System | Transforming Surgery. For Good.
• Perseid meteor shower 2024: when, where and how to see it
• Towel Day

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry.

In today’s special episode, we're happy to present an interview with Anita Schjøll Abildgaard, co-founder and CEO at Iris.ai. The startup has been around for almost a decade and saw several significant pivots, while Anita and the team have been through all the highs and lows imaginable, including balancing on the brink of bankruptcy. Anita and Andrii talked about it all, as well as the future of academic publishing, the prospects of generative AI, the inconvenience of chat interfaces, and much more.

Here are the links for this episode:

• What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)?
• Scientific publishing is rigged — at our expense, by Anita Schjøll Abildgaard

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].