Slammed with crisis after crisis, executives are tasked with building resilient organizations and sustainable business models. As part of the World Economic Forum 2022, we invited European digital disruption leaders to talk about uncertainty and share their key insights into managing the unmanageable. — Words by Emily Phillips Shanghai under lockdown. More than 100 days of war in Ukraine. Continued inflation, signaling a worldwide economic slowdown. And don’t forget the disappearing bugs. What a time to be alive! And what a time to be a CEO: with supply chain disruptions, inflation on the up…

Fairo helps you manage all your financial transactions in one place. Send and personalize invoices, track payments and run tax reports, all in one app. How does gamification of accounting work? — Česká verze zde Words by: Jan Strmiska On 27 May, the most important awards in the PR industry were presented at a gala dinner at The Ham Yard Hotel in London. The finalists were selected by a panel of top industry professionals. Agencies and companies are represented and more than…

Social media VR may be the next big thing, but few companies know how to approach it. Here’s our guide to getting your business started in the metaverse. — Author: Jan Strmiska

Unusual ways of storing energy in the grid. Is it time for flow-through batteries or do we need to wait? Česká verze zde Words by: Jan Strmiska Sustainable energy sources are prone to large and unpredictable power fluctuations, which poses a huge challenge to the grid. Fluctuations aren’t usually resolved…

Mountaineer and founder of Patagonia or owner of an island energy system at a chalet in the Alps. Extreme users who are one step ahead of the rest of the market. Get inspired. — Words by: Fabian Meier, Spark Works In light of the energy transition ahead of us, we had conversations with private citizens who generate their own green electricity to learn about their motivations and challenges. For the owner of the Lötschenpass-hut generating green energy is not just a nice side project…

At our Creative Talks show, where we were thinking about the future of the metaverse concept and W3 technologies, the economist Tomas Sedlacek said ‘it would be interesting to put this whole show into NFT and look at it in 30 years’. So we listened to him. But how to tokenise such a large file? A step-by-step guide for dummies from dummies. — Česká verze zde Words by: Jan Strmiska Today’s challenge:

“We are the gods of AI,” said economist Tomáš Sedláček in our talk show. But is the artificial intelligence going to make our lives truly divine in the near future? Watch the recording to find out what Swiss innovator Linda Armbruster, business foresight expert Tobias Heger, mathematician Karel Janeček, and…

A look into the different concepts, criticism, hope, and despair. Will today’s dreams turn into reality? And are we talking sweet dreams or rather a huge nightmare? — In czech here Words by: Jan Strmiska First, a bit of self-promo. On February 17, a conference on business opportunities in the metaverse will take place in Prague as part of the Creative Talks. Five guests from different fields (from AI to mathematics and economics) will try to get to…

“Let’s emphasize that no one can predict the future. Our job is to anticipate alternative futures, enabling our clients to drive the desirable ones and build robust strategies against unfavorable ones,” says René Rohrbeck. — Czech version here. Words by: Michal Schindler; Illustration: Jan Strmiska It’s commonly said the more experience, the better the business. But sometimes, deep experience can become more of a liability if you can’t abstract from it. Sometimes, all you need is to look into the future with an open mind…