DigiKoo is a platform that is revolutionizing the way we look at data and its potential to combat climate change. The CEO of DigiKoo, Martin Möller, is a passionate advocate for using data to promote sustainability and mitigate the effects of climate change. In this podcast episode, we will discuss how data platforms like DigiKoo can help ensure a successful climate transition.

DigiKoo is a subsidiary of Westenergie AG, the largest regional energy service and infrastructure provider in Germany, providing information for municipal utilities, local authorities, grid operators and energy supply companies to answer critical questions for a faster climate transition throughout Germany. Critical questions like:
Where and how many charging stations for EVs need to be built?
How is the need to renovate buildings for efficient heating developing?

DigiKoo GmbH provides such insights to its customers with its in-house developed software, DigiPAD. Users can use it to process data to create reliable reports detailing the current state and forecasts in such areas as electricity, transport and heating.

The operation of DigiKoo can be divided into three main steps:

Data Collection: DigiKoo collects data from a variety of sources, including energy bills, transportation logs, and manufacturing processes. The platform uses sensors and other IoT devices to capture real-time data, which is then stored securely in the cloud.

Data Analysis: Once the data has been collected, DigiKoo uses advanced analytics tools to identify patterns and trends in the data. The platform provides businesses with real-time insights into their environmental impact, enabling them to identify opportunities for improvement and track their progress over time.

Reporting and Communication: DigiKoo provides businesses with customizable reports and dashboards that enable them to communicate their sustainability efforts to stakeholders and customers. The platform can also be integrated with existing reporting frameworks to streamline the reporting process.

Data-Platforms like DigiKoo have the potential to play a critical role in ensuring a successful climate transition. By providing businesses with the tools and insights they need to reduce their carbon footprint.

The podcast with Martin Möller will be a great opportunity to learn more about how data platforms can promote sustainability and mitigate the effects of climate change.

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Meero has grown into a successful global platform that connects professional photographers and videographers with clients looking for high quality visual content. The platform was founded in 2016 and has quickly grown to become the largest on-demand photography service provider in the world, with over 100,000 photographers and videographers in over 100 countries. Part of the success story is the investment into own AI driven image improvement capabilities and services.

Today, Meero's ambitions go beyond being a service marketplace. The company's goal is to become an AI-powered platform that revolutionizes the visual content industry.

So, how does a service marketplace like Meero transition into an AI platform? In our conversation with CEO Gaétan Rougevin-Baville he revealed some key steps:

Building a Massive Database of images as the source for the AI training
Developing AI-Powered Features based on the training database
Integrating into your own platform but also build services to allow other platforms and networks to leverage the capabilities
Strong commitment and investment in Research and Development

Meero's long-term goal is to use AI to automate the entire visual content creation process, from shooting and editing to delivery and distribution. This would enable the platform to offer a more streamlined and efficient service, and ultimately revolutionize the way visual content is created and consumed.

Meero's transition from a service marketplace to an AI platform is a first major pivot to the company's ambition and vision. By leveraging its massive database, developing AI-powered features, integrating with other platforms, and investing in research and development, Meero is positioning itself as a leader in the visual content industry.

We can't wait to see what the future holds for this innovative platform. Listen to the Podcast and get the latest insight.

Data safety and privacy is a crucial topic around the world. We need to have sovereign options on the market that will allow us as consumers and as citizens to make self determined and well informed decisions on who can do what with my data, for how long and to what avail, to what purpose.

Usually data protection is governed by nations and their legal bodies. But in digital ecosystems the boundaries are blurring more and more and therefore we need flexible technical solutions to go hand-in-hand with the legal frameworks.

This problem has shaped the idea of GaiaX. It started to materialize through an interoperable, interconnected and scalable data infrastructure where you have cloud hosting and cloud computing and edge computing, which is all interoperable. So you can select whichever service suits you most amongst a variety of service offerings on the market. And you pick that because it makes you flexible and interoperable with other services in the market so that you can come up with a very modular and customized service that will fulfill exactly your needs and requirements.

How is GaiaX bringing different data sovereignty policies together and building a united solution?

Our guest Peter Kraemer, Head of GaiaX, is explaining in our new Podcast Episode. Jump in and get the latest insight about your personal data security.

Nowadays, it is very crucial to address the challenges around impact on the planet and society. But how to implement it and engage everyone inside of your organization?

The answer: Network Effects.

In our latest episode of the PIK podcast we talked to Eric Mangin, CEO, and
Paul Thiroloix, CFO, from French platform NooS about that topic.

The platform NooS helps organizations to activate and engage with their employees in three ways
- raise the awareness
- provide education
- and create caring culture, for example through donations or fundraising.

How?

Typically, most of the companies that make donations to support social activities in their neighborhood, but they don't track the impact that has been generated by the donation. Here Noos comes into the game.

Tune in to learn more and understand how you can leverage network effects to increase awareness and engagement within your organization.

The story of DPP started 3 years ago. They went through a selection of partners, formed an alliance, listened to customers and onboarded a lot of plants.

Transformation of a classical production company into a data driven platform is not an easy journey and therefore we have invited Marc Geckler, the Tech Lead and Dirk Voigt, the business lead from VolksWagen to share their success story.

Data is always the most valuable asset and sharing it can be complex even among different plants of the same company. DPP has initiated a three platform approach to create a powerful cloud and build the applications on top. This approach will help to remove the borders between plants and allow exchange of innovative ideas.

How did DPP go around network effects? “It all started like popcorn”.

Do you want to hear more about building a cloud platform in the production industry? Listen to the episode on your favorite broadcast platform:

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With dropfriends, everyone of us can become an independent parcel shop and make the delivery service much more comfortable and sustainable. How?

Our guest, Martin Peters, the CEO of Dropfriends is going to explain to us in the latest episode of the “Platform 4 Future” podcast. Tune in to learn more about the multi-sided benefits for stakeholders and our planet. E.g. how you can become a paid parcel shop in seconds via mobile app to boost your household budget or how retailers can welcome more customers to their stores. Dropfriends and it’s leadership team are taking sustainability really seriously.

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How can we make the Mittelstand and the SMEs competitive in the industry of platforms?
Our new guests are coming from the largest research organization in Europe - Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering.
The main task of the Fraunhofer organization is to keep the German and European industry competitive or make them competitive.
Common thinking is that platform and ecosystem economy is for digital giants or startups, but our guests Marcus Trapp and Matthias Naab together with us disagree with this statement. SMEs have a lot of assets to leverage and therefore platform and ecosystem economy should be a “sweet spot” in their development path.

The main problem lies within current thinking that building a platform requires a full transformation of the business model. But this is not true. A better way is a portfolio perspective where multiple business models should co-exists and a large portion is dedicated to transactional revenues.

Marcus and Matthias have given a very broad overview of the industry, its struggles and opportunities. Their advice to SMEs is the following: “In order to achieve great things in the area you are currently working in, sometimes you need to look around and maybe have a look at the completely different business domain with the skill set that your company and your employees already have.”

We are sure that you will be very interested to hear more valuable advices from our guests!
Tune in and enjoy our thrilling Podcast about the latest possibilities in the platform economy.

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Web 3, Blockchain, Crypto, Decentralized Finance are currently the most discussed topics in the business world. To get some more understanding we have invited as guest of this Episode a specialist in this field - Tilmar Wilhelm Goos, Swiss based international tax and business specialist, speaker at conferences and universities an author of the book “Banking Bitcoins Taxation — The handbook of international money management and digital assets”.

Nowadays, in Web 2, everything is client oriented, banking does the job for you. With a shift to Web 3 and decentralized finances, means a transfer of responsibility to the individual or company itself. Decentralized Finance provides the infrastructure to participate and act on your own. But there is still a big gap between generations that has to be filled in.

Tilmar has shared with us his leadership advice: “Get involved. Play around within the technology, get a feeling of how this all works. Don’t trust, verify.”

Do you want to hear more about the future of the financial sector and its transformation?

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How to create interest from your target customers about your #marketplace?

In this #podcast episode of #PlatformsForFuture, @Nathalie Dumas and @Matthias Walter interviewed @Friedrich Fries-Henrich, founder of @Circulania, a B2B platform for secondary raw materials, enabling companies to sell their industrial waste material as new products.
When they started, Friedrich and his associate thought it would be easy to replicate an eBay for steel materials but they underestimated that the B2B market is a very different market. Now Circulania helps companies to have a place where they can trust the information and where they can match the quality, price and availability of the products they are looking for.

In this episode we talk about :

- Companies’ expressed and unexpressed needs
- Creating a virtual value chain
- Matching quality, price and availability

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There are a lot of corporates exploring Blockchain and DLT technologies to enable new collaborative business models - but only a few are successful.

In our conversation with Prof. Philipp Sandner from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, he reveals the latest trends of development of Blockchain in the B2B sector. Philipp is one of the leading heads in Germany when it comes to Blockchain, recognized speaker and advisor.

As we see the rise of demand for NFT, Metaverse etc. it is important to understand the trends and learnings from the last 10years of Blockchain adoption and where the market is heading too.

Tune in and enjoy our thrilling Podcast about the latest World trends.

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