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The Bits vs Bytes archive — 89 conversations on technology, leadership and business, published between 2018 and 2020.
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#090Lars Speekenbrink is the Country Manager for The Netherlands for Bolt. Bolt provides ride-hailing and scooter sharing services all over Europe and Africa.
#089Ingrid van Rossum is innovator at Fuenta, Co-Founder of the I AM College and Co-Founder for Great Places to Grow.
#088Marilijn Boumeester is a brand strategist, coach and author of the book “Wennen aan Wenden”, which translates to “Getting used to changes”. In this podcast we discuss everything about branding, but also how people can…
#087Evelyn van Kelle is a Strategic Software Delivery Consultant at Xebia. In this podcast we will discuss all about Socio-Technical systems like Domain-Driven Design and we’ll also go into interesting topics like hiring…
#086Damir Becirovic is a Principal at Index Ventures. In this podcast we talk all about investing, how to spot a great startup but also the future of investing.
#085Amir Salihefendic is the Founder and CEO for Doist, the company behind popular tools like Todoist and Twist. In this podcast we will talk about their beginnings, their remote-first culture and asynchronous work.
#084Leila Prnjavorac is a presenter and public speaker. In this podcast we talk about how she got to be a presenter and public speaker but also about topics like equality and freedom.
#083Marjolijn de Boer is the Founder of The Human Factor. With The Human Factor she helps organisations in terms of their company culture, leadership and finding the people with the right talents for the right positions.
#082Noah Labhart is the Co-Founder and CTO for Veryable. With Veryable they provide a marketplace for on-demand labor for manufacturing.
#081Rutger Teunissen is the CEO of 24sessions. With 24sessions clients can leverage videocalling for calling their clients. In these times of quarantaine, that is of course something that is extra highlighted and important…
#080Steve Helvie is the VP of Channel for the Open Compute Project (OCP). In this role he helps to educate organisations on the benefits of open hardware designs and the value of “community-driven” engineering for the data…
#079Ynzo van Zanten is the Choco Evangelist for Tony’s Chocolonely. Tony’s mission is to create a world of 100% slave free chocolate. We talk all about the challenges of doing this, by not just creating chocolate, but also…
#078Giel Kirkels is Captain of Innovation and Knowledge Development at the KNVB. In this podcast we will discuss the future of the most popular sport in the world: football.
#077Job van der Voort is the Co-Founder for Remote.com. With Remote.com, companies can hire people in different parts of the world, without having their own company based in that specific country. All of this is done…
#076Caroline Williams is the Founder for the Do Good Only Company. With her company, they provide tech courses for underrepresented groups like women and immigrants. Their courses focus on things like Data Science and…
#075Guy Kawasaki is the Chief Evangelist for Canva, Mercedes-Benz Brand Ambassador and author of many books, including his new book Wise Guy.
#074Venkatesha Prasad is Associate Professor at TU Delft (Technical University of Delft). He has been involved in something they call Internet of Touch, which wants to bring more tactile applications through the Internet.
#073Ruben Nieuwenhuis is Director at TechGrounds. With TechGrounds they are bringing education in Technology, for example courses in AWS to sensitive communities in The Netherlands.
#072Edward Buchi is the Co-Founder for Bitcoin Bay. Bitcoin Bay is a Toronto-based company that specialises in creating solutions built upon blockchain.
#071Ferry Hoes and Jonathan Flores are the founders for Brand Humanizing. With Brand Humanizing they do research for other companies in fields like Artificial Intelligence. This research revolves mostly around the human…
#070Zach Moreno is the Co-Founder for SquadCast, a very interesting application that makes it easy for podcasters to conduct interviews remotely in high-quality.
#069Marcel Molenaar is the Country Manager Benelux at LinkedIN. In this podcast we discuss how you can use the tools provided by LinkedIN to not only network with other but also learn and improve yourself.
2019
#068Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders in business innovation. As a digital analyst, anthropologist, and futurist, he studies disruptive technology and its impact on business and…
#067Hermen Heinen is the Founder and Owner of Enrise. Enrise provides professional development services and does so by a pretty unique model within their company.
#066Mark Landman is the Co-Founder of DotControl, a large digital agency in The Netherlands with more than 90 digital creatives, developers and growth hackers.
#065Rik Farenhorst is the CIO at Transavia. Transavia is a big Dutch airliner that focuses on the customer and does so with digital innovations.
#064Phill Robinson is the CEO of Exact. Exact is a large software company operating in multiple companies, providing software for accounting and bookkeeping.
#063Olmo van Beurden is the Co-Founder of SurfaWhile. SurfaWhile provides unique surf experiences through their website. We talk about how they got started, and how big of a role content marketing was in building out their…
#062Tim van de Rijdt is Chief Business Officer at Mosa Meat. Having worked for over ten years at Google, Tim found a new mission, cultured meat. Mosa Meat produced the first cultured meat burger back in 2013 costing 250.000…
#061David Henzel is the former founder of MaxCDN and currently has a stake in multiple companies, one of which is TaskDrive. In this podcast we talk about all kinds of things. From how important vision and mission is for…
#060David Allen is the author of Getting Things Done, a book and methodology for people to have a clear head and be more productive. In this podcast we discuss how GTD can help people focus, but also about what the effect…
#059Simone van Neerven is the Head of Innovation at Vueling, an airline company originally from Spain. In this podcast, Simone talks about what innovating in this regulated industry means, but also how to drive innovation.
#058Faris & Resad Zacina are the founders of Ministry of Programming. Originally from Bosnia & Herzegovina, they rapidly expanded their business of being technical partners to their clients. Startups usually struggle with…
#057Juha-Matti (Jussi) Liokkonen is the Director for Space and New Technologies at Reaktor. Reaktor started in Finland in the agency business but has expanded rapidly to multiple countries.
#056Jeroen van der Heijden is the Head of Customer Experience for the PostNL Innovation Studio. PostNL is the biggest parcel delivery service in The Netherlands and we discuss how they innovate with a small team and…
#055Christina Chaplin is the Head of Data and Innovation at Talmundo. Talmundo is a SaaS created for streamlining on-boarding processes for new employees. We talk about what makes a great onboarding experience, but also HR…
#054Ralph de Groot is one of the Founders for Restoranto. Restoranto is a mobile app that seeks to fight food waste by offering discounts in times that restaurants are less busy.
#053Sanne Menning is a Data Scientist for Albert Heijn. In this podcast we discuss about what a Data Scientist does, but also interestingly enough a bit of neuroscience as well. Another topic is AI and if it’s a hype or not.
#052Rune Theill is the CEO and Co-Founder for Rockstart, a startup accelerator in The Netherlands. We talk about their beginnings, what a accelerator does for startups in their program but also what makes a successful…
#051Carmit Glik is the CEO and Managing Director for Cogoport in Europe. In this podcast we discuss the challenges the shipping sector faces. There are enormous digital challenges to be solved and Cogoport, started in India…
#050In this special 50th episode I asked some of the listeners to send in questions they wanted my opinion on, so the roles are reversed. Some of the topics that come to pass are Blockchain, Neuralink, leadership and many…
#049Niels Vanden Buverie is the Strategic Partnerships Manager Belgium at Teamleader. In this podcast we discuss their vision on integrating with other packages, but also how they build their product.
#048Niels van Buren is one of the owners of Swink, a very special agency specialized in providing marketing and data services. His agency is special because they employ people with autism, because of their unique abilities…
#047Quinten Smit is the Co-Founder for The Next School, a company specialised in data services for schools. In this podcast we discuss about how this data can be used, but also the future of education.
#046Charlotte Melkert is the Co-Founder of Equalture, a platform that provides predictive hiring based on data that is gathered from multiple sources.
#045Ado Kukic is Developer Evangelist Lead at Auth0. Auth0 is an identity provider that integrates within your application, so you don’t need to create that yourself. We talk about the advantages of using an identity…
#044Roeland Kuipers is the CTO at Schuberg Philis. Traditionally a hosting company supplying dedicated hosting for their clients, they have since transitioned into creating more than just hosting solutions.
#043Jeroen Broekema is the Founder of Funding Circle The Netherlands. He grew the Dutch branch of Funding Circle (originally founded in the UK) from himself to at the time of recording 65 people.
#042Damir Perkic is Co-Founder at BE O Bottle, they create waterbottles made of out of bioplastic. This bioplastic is made from residu from sugarcane and fully recyclable.
#041Pablo Santos is the Founder of Codicé Software, creators of Plastic SCM. Plastic tries to provide a different take on version control software like GIT or SVN.
#040Eelco van Collenburg is Art Director at Macaw. Together we go into the future of design agencies, but also what makes an Art Director an Art Director. We also talk about why design and tech shouldn’t be seen separately…
#039Quintin Schevernels is the CEO at Funda. Funda.nl is the biggest real estate platform in The Netherlands. We talk about the housing market and how his entry as CEO into the company was, but also the technological…
#038Peet Sneekes is Creative Consultant at Mirabeau. He has a really unique view of how technology will evolve in the future and loves to talk about it. In this podcast we discuss all things technological. Subjects are…
#037Kees Veldhuizen is Owner and CEO of Kroodle. Kroodle creates products like a connected car insurance and connected health insurance app which can provide valuable data to insurers about for example someone’s driving…
#036Edhem “Eddie” Custovic is the Co-Founder for the BH Futures Foundation. With his foundation he strives to create a better future for the youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
#035Joris Leker is the Co-Founder of Valsplat, an agency that focusses on researching how users use applications for numerous companies. This qualitative research is mostly a manual process that is measured by interviewing…
#034Daniël van der Schoor is Project Director at TWNKLS. TWNKLS is a full-service augmented reality agency. They create Augmented Reality solutions for clients, and most notably they created the IKEA Place app.
#033Bart van Raalte is Technology Principal at Merapar, which focusses on creating software solutions and architectures for their clients. Merapar is based in The Netherlands, Poland, France and the UK.
#032Sytse Sijbrandij is the CEO at Gitlab, software that aims to make it easier for developers and engineers to build and deploy software. They have integrated Continuous Integration and Deployment into their already…
#031Koen The is CEO at Lendahand, a crowdinvesting platform geared towards investing in companies in emerging markets. The platform provides a fast and easy way for entrepeneurs in these markets to set a goal they want to…
#030Daniëlle Koeken is the founder of qlinker, the first fully digital housing company in The Netherlands. Started as a startup by housing company Mitros in Utrecht it aims to provide social housing completely through…
#029Bob van Luijt is the founder at SeMI, and together with his team he is creating a decentralised knowledge graph called Weaviate. They are trying to be an open alternative to existing knowledge graphs made by Google and…
#028Ali Niknam is the founder of Bunq, the first fully digital bank of the Netherlands. In this podcast we discussed all the challenges that were faced by Ali and his team in creating and starting a tech company in one of…
#027Jochem Verheul is the CEO and co-founder of VMC, an innovative platform based on blockchain technology used in multiple projects. Their goal is to create a platform where mobility providers can connect to and use, for…
#026Arnoud Martens is the Managing Director of Valtech Netherlands, which in turn is part of Valtech, a large digital agency with more than 2500+ people employed in 16 countries. Valtech Netherlands was created by the…
#025Tim Zuidgeest is the co-founder of ST&T Research. They specialize in a new form of measuring the impact of marketing called neuromarketing. They use multiple techniques like eye-tracking but also EEG…
#024Ohad Gilad is the co-founder at Keadyn, an investment company that invests in numerous technological startups. He is also one of the founders of WeTechRotterdam, a startup hub that tries to bring together startups from…
#023Paul Manuel is one of the founders of Dept, a large full-service digital agency. They have grown a lot over the last few years, buying companies with different focusses and bringing them al together in Dept. Some of…
#022Ron Kersic is Enterprise Architect at ING. His role primarily revolves around helping creating a company culture that is rooted in platform thinking. He is also co-author of the ING platform architecture curriculum.
#021Stefan Leijnen has been CTO for ‘Can’t Wait to Learn’, a programme developed by War Child Holland and its partners, since August 2017. Can’t Wait to Learn aims to provide quality education to children affected by…
#020Lara Ankersmit is Head of Digital at NOS, a public broadcaster in The Netherlands. For the last few years they have made a switch to a more digital platform with a website that delivers the news and features a lot of…
#019Michiel Fokke is CTO at Quby, a company that has created Toon, a display placed in the spot you normally have your thermostat. A lot of people in The Netherlands know Toon as a smart thermostat, but it’s a lot more than…
2018
#018Troels Støvring is the CEO and Co-Founder of Twill, a Maersk innovation that focuses on making shipping containers all over the world, easy and clear.
#017Paul de Raaij is Technology Lead at Coolblue. Coolblue is one of the biggest e-commerce websites in The Netherlands and Belgium. We talk about everything from how they organize their teams to what they use to run their…
#016Ergin Borova is the Co-Founder of Peddy, a new and innovative way to reach your personal goals within your company and get rid of the old way of working with evaluations. We talked about leadership, how this creates new…
#015Renate Sportel is Innovation Manager at Albert Heijn Online. The Albert Heijn Labs team thinks about, conceptualises, builds and tests new innovations in their online store. One of their innovations is Appie Fly.
#014Niels Kaspers is Product Manager at Nu.nl, the biggest news website in The Netherlands with over 2 million unique users a day. They are part of Sanoma which has multiple publications and in this podcast we discussed how…
#013Menno Vis is IT Director Retail at bol.com. Bol.com is one of the largest e-commerce websites of The Netherlands and part of Ahold Delhaize which also includes supermarket chain Albert Heijn. In this podcast we talked…
#012Daniel Gebler is CTO at Picnic, an online grocery store. They are trying to crack the formula to get groceries to your door, swift and fresh. To do this they employ a mobile app to do all your groceries and multiple…
#011Amir Sabirovic is COO at TM7 Innovations and they built a platform for Natural Language Processing. This platform makes it easy for companies to process large amounts of documents and scan for things like personal data…
#010Heini Withagen is CTO and Co-Founder of Mirabeau, one of the biggest digital agencies in The Netherlands. They were acquired in December of 2016 by Cognizant. In this podcast we discussed about what this acquisition…
#009Olaf Molenveld is the CTO and Co-Founder of Vamp. Their mission is to make it easier for companies to do things like canary releases and AB-testing. They couple Vamp with already existing platforms like Kubernetes and…
#008Nick Kiran is Marketing Lead at TWTG an innovative company that creates IoT hardware and firmware. There is a lot of buzz around IoT and in this podcast we talk about what they do and how they actually use IoT, what he…
#006Roger Tan is Associate Director at UNStudio. Roger is leading UNSense an arch tech company founded at the beginning of this year by Ben van Berkel (Founder UNStudio/ Principal Architect). UNSense designs and integrates…
#005Marjolein van der Aar is Project Manager Innovation at RTL Nieuws (Dutch RTL). She has worked on some interesting projects like personalising news and using voice assistents to provide a new content channel.
#004Niels Zeilemaker is the CTO at GoDataDriven, a company that creates and implements Big Data solutions for clients like Heineken and Royal Flora Holland. In this podcast we’ll be talking about what he thinks of Big Data…
#003BeterDichtbij is a chat app within healthcare that is connecting patients to their doctor or nurse in the hospital, they aim to make communicating with your hospital an easier experience for both doctors, nurses and…
#002In this Bits vs Bytes podcast I talk with Murat Özmerd, CXO (Customer Experience Officer) & Co-Founder for Flow.ai, their software empowers users to create conversational interfaces and makes it easy to publish them on…
#001It’s finally here, the first ever Bits vs Bytes podcast. For this podcast I’ve asked my colleague at Tevreden.nl, Marnix Korterink, to talk about his path to becoming a COO, what his vision is on being a COO and the…