Für die einen ist Bitcoin und Blockchain ein Heilsversprechen; für die anderen eine spekulative Klimakatastrophe. Eine konstruktive Einordnung der bedeutenden Innovation wird mit Sicherheit irgendwo dazwischen liegen.

Viel wird über Bitcoin & Co. geschrieben. Doch oft nicht mit der ausreichenden Differenzierung oder Offenheit, um sich der Technologie gut anzunähern und deren gesellschaftlichen Relevanz zu erfassen.

Für ein solch differenziertes, offenes und fundiertes Gespräch über Bitcoin und Blockchain - befreit von Hype oder Polemik - kann ich mir keinen besseren Gast vorstellen als Prof. Fabian Schär.

Fabian Schär führt das Center for Innovative Finance an der Universität Basel, ist ein ausgewiesener und vielzitierter Experte auf dem Gebiet und ist einer der gefragtesten Ratgeber für Regierungen, Banken oder Leitmedien wie „The Economist“. Zudem ist er Co-Author des Bestsellers und Standardwerkes „Bitcoin, Blockchain und Kryptoassets: eine umfassende Einführung“.

Ich freue mich ausserodentlich, dass sich Fabian für den Sparkr Podcast Zeit genommen hat. Wir haben versucht, eine reichhaltige Einführung und differenzierte Auseinandersetzung mit der Innovation, den oft gehörten Irrtümern und der gesellschaftlichen Relevanz von Bitcoin und Blockchain in einen einzigen Podcast zu packen. Ein Unterfangen, wofür man normalerweise gerne auch eine ganze Vorlesung von Fabian besuchen könnte.

Wir reden über die grundsätzlichen Prinzipien der dezentralen Blockchain, welche wichtige Rolle diese als Basisinfrastruktur für unsere zunehmend digitale Gesellschaft spielen kann, wir vergleichen Proof of Work mit Proof of Stake, tangieren DeFi, Smart Contracts, NFTs oder CBDCs und beleuchten häufige Mainstream-Themen rund um Bitcoin wie z.B. den potenziell klimaschädlichen Energieverbrauch, ob Bitcoin nur etwas ist für Kriminelle und vieles mehr.

Zu keinem Zeitpunkt im Gespräch geben wir irgend eine Art von Anlageberatung oder ähnlichem ab.

Mit diesem Disclaimer aus dem Weg geräumt, wünsche ich ein spannendes Gespräch zu Bitcoin und Co. mit  niemand geringerem als Prof. Fabian Schär.

(Das Gespräch wurde Anfang Mai 2022 aufgezeichnet)

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Die öffentlich zugänglichen, kostenlosen Vorlesungen von Prof. Fabian Schär sind hier auffindbar: https://cryptolectures.teachable.com

Das Buch „Bitcoin, Blockchain und Kryptoassets: eine umfassende Einführung“ ist sowohl auf Deutsch und Englisch im Handel erhältlich.

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Der Sparkr Podcast wird moderiert und herausgegeben von Christian Lundsgaard-Hansen, dem Gründer von Sparkr - eine Agentur für Change Maker. Lundsgaard-Hansen ist als unabhängiger, strategischer Sparring Partner, Netzwerker und Moderator tätig und hat u.a. Plattformen wie die Swiss FinTech Awards geschaffen. Mehr auf www.sparkr.ch.

Auf dem Sparkr Blog finden Sie verschiedene Inhalte zu Strategie, Innovation, Technologie oder Leadership. Wie zum Beispiel das „Strategie Handbuch“ mit nützlichen Grundlagen, Methoden und Leitfragen für die Strategieentwicklung: https://sparkr.ch/strategie-handbuch/

Wenn Sie Christian Lundsgaard-Hansen als Moderator oder Impulsgeber für Ihren Business Event engagieren möchten, finden Sie weitere Informationen auf www.sparkr.ch/moderation.

Bitcoin und Blockchain: Innovation, Irrtümer und Relevanz mit Professor Fabian Schär

Marcel Jörg übernimmt 2008 das Familienunternehmen und tritt in die Fussstapfen seines Vaters. Doch die Firmenübernahme ist alles andere als einfach. Wie der Generationenwechsel trotzdem gelungen ist, welche Learnings wir von seiner Geschichte lernen können und vieles mehr, erfährst du in dieser Podcast-Folge.

#12 So geht Generationenwechsel

Sometimes small decisions are life changing. Urs Hölzle, a Swiss computer scientist, made such a decision without knowing when he became the 8th employee of Google back in the late 1990s.

For the past two decades, he was responsible for building what might be the most impressive infrastructure ever created.

You all know the services that run on the infrastructure Urs developed: Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Cloud and many others. 

What makes Google's infrastructure impressive is the scale, complexity, and efficiency with which it operates. Google's data centers span multiple continents and are largely powered by renewable energy sources. The company uses advanced techniques, such as machine learning and AI, to optimize its data centers, reduce energy consumption and improve reliability.

In this conversation, I talked to Urs about the early days of Google when it was not more than just a few people and computers in a garage in Silicon Valley. Also we discussed the hiring strategy as well as the learning and innovation culture that were crucial for Google’s success.

We also touched on Cloud computing, the reason why Europe is behind the US regarding digital innovation and what drives him as a human being.

Please enjoy this special episode of the Sparkr Podcast with none other than Urs Hölzle from Google.

Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a positive rating if you enjoy this conversation.

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Sparkr is an angency for change makers and supports them with strategy, innovation and project management competencies. Sparkr offers customized studies, workshops or sparring sessions - always with the goal that you can use the future shaped by digitalization, technological and social change to your advantage. Learn more on www.sparkr.ch/en.

If you want to get in touch with Sparkr to contribute to your next business event as facilitator, speaker or moderator, please visit www.sparkr.ch/moderation-en

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Building Google, Hiring Talent and Innovation Culture with Employee No. 8 Urs Hölzle

Ganze Städte aus Holz bauen - das ist die Vision von Stefan Zöllig. Er verrät uns, wie wir von unserer Betonsucht loskommen und welche Führungskompetenzen ihm dabei helfen.

#13: Ganze Städte aus Holz bauen

Adam is a professor for Marketing at the Stern School of Business at New York University and author of multiple insightful books such as „Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked“ or his latest work „Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most“. 

On September 7th he’ll be one of the keynote speakers at the International Retail Summit by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute in Zurich. Check them out if you are interested in visionary trends, important management insights and connecting with thought leaders in retail: https://gdi.ch/en/events/conferences/73-internationale-handelstagung/

In this conversation, Adam and myself discuss how we can create breakthroughs in our personal and professional life. But first, we explore why we get stuck every once in a while in our life and what the best tactics are to get unstuck again and prepare ourselves for breakthroughs.

Adam has done extensive research about this topic and has uncovered valuable insights to get unstuck and be successful in the transformations we want to make.

- We elaborated on the state of being stuck, what it origins can be and how to proactively avoid it.

- We discussed concrete tactics and mindsets to get ahead, create breakthroughs and get unstuck.

- And also we talked about how we as leaders in business, as parents or otherwise caring human beings can be helpful for others who are stuck.

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Sparkr is an angency for change makers and supports them with strategy, innovation and project management competencies. Sparkr offers customized studies, workshops or sparring sessions - always with the goal that you can use the future shaped by digitalization, technological and social change to your advantage. Learn more on www.sparkr.ch/en.

If you want to get in touch with Sparkr to contribute to your next business event as facilitator, speaker or moderator, please visit www.sparkr.ch/moderation-en

Creating Breakthroughs - How to Transform, Grow & Innovate with Bestselling Author Adam Alter

Der Tourismus ist ortsabhängig, lebt vom Erlebnis und ist ein People-Business. “Digitalisierung schafft mehr Menschlichkeit”, sagt Monika Bandi Tanner, Leiterin der Forschungsstelle Tourismus (CRED-T) an der Universität Bern.

#14: Dank Digitalisierung zu mehr Menschlichkeit

In this episode I had the privilege to talk to the leader who enabled hyper complex projects and teams with thousands of people to succeed and literally reach for the stars.

I‘m talking of none other than astrophysicist Prof. Thomas Zurbuchen. Till the end of 2022 he was the Chief Scientist at NASA and with that arguably the most powerful scientist on the planet with responsibility over thousands of people and a 8 billion dollar + budget. 

Under his leadership, NASA successfully launched the historic James Webb Telescope and landed robots on Mars - among dozens of other impressive missions.

In addition, Thomas promotes entrepreneurs, inovators and leaders to become the best versions of themselves whereever and whenever he can.

Over his impressive carreer, Thomas learnt a lot about high perfoming teams by building and leading them. In this conversation, Thomas shares his leadership lessons, decision making process, how you create an organization that learns faster than it fails and much much more.

So please enjoy this episode of the Sparkr Podcast which was recorded in front of a live audience im summer 2023 with the extraordinary human being Thomas Zurbuchen.

And don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a positive rating if you enjoy this conversation.

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Learn more about Thomas Zurbuchen on https://www.thomaszurbuchen.com

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Sparkr Podcast is published by Sparkr. Sparkr is an angency for change makers and supports them with strategy, innovation and project management competencies. Sparkr offers customized studies, workshops or sparring sessions - always with the goal that you can use the future shaped by digitalization, technological and social change to your advantage. Learn more on www.sparkr.ch/en.

If you want to get in touch with Sparkr to contribute to your next business event or strategy workshop as facilitator, speaker or moderator, please visit www.sparkr.ch/moderation-en

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High-Performance Teams at NASA and Leadership Lessons with Thomas Zurbuchen

Die Google-Suchanfrage “Leadership Tips” ergibt knapp 1 Milliarde Resultate. Zum Glück ist auch Christa Furter's Rucksack voll mit Führungserfahrungen und praktischen Tipps für Führungskräfte.

#15: Die Kunst guter Führung

This episode is an insightful deep dive into the fascinating world of quantum computing - a technology platform with the potential to revolutionize how we tackle climate change, the discovery of new medicine or new materials and many more applications throughout the business world and society.

My guest is Damir Bogdan, the CEO of QuantumBasel. QuantumBasel’s mission is collaboration and seamless access to the world’s best quantum computers, thus enabling breakthroughs across industries and democratizing quantum computing.

QuantumBasel offers companies, start-ups and leading research institutes access to quantum computing and high-performance computing, and with that laying the foundation for tackling future challenges in the Life Sciences, Industrial Manufacturing, Logistics and more.

In addition to his role at QuantumBasel, Damir is also CEO of Actvide, a consulting company specialized on transformation within the digital age - active in Switzerland and Silicon Valley.

In this conversation we‘ll touch on several topics - ranging from a glimpse into the basics of quantum mechanics all the way to concrete examples of how quantum computing can lead to game changing efficiency gains in logistics and many other areas.

So please enjoy this - sometimes mind bending - episode of the Sparkr Podcast with Damir which was recorded in the inspiring surroundings of QuantumBasel.

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Learn more about QuantumBasel on https://quantumbasel.com

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The Sparkr Podcast is published by Sparkr. Sparkr is an angency for strategic transformations and supports leaders, change makers and innovators with strategy development, innovation and project management, workshop facilitation and more. 

Learn more on www.sparkr.ch/en.

If you want to get in touch with Sparkr to contribute to your next business event or strategy workshop as facilitator, speaker or moderator, please visit www.sparkr.ch/moderation-en

You can follow the host Christian Lundsgaard on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-lundsgaard-hansen/

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How Quantum Computing Can Shape Our Future With Damir Bogdan Of QuantumBasel

Globalization, automation, the rise of the gig economy... The way we work and what “work” itself means will change significantly in the years to come and remarkable transformations are up ahead.

One person who’s been thinking about and studying the future of work for decades is Prof. Pamela Hinds, Co-Director of the Center on Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University in Silicon Valley. Pamela studies the effect of technology on teams and collaboration. Most recently, Pamela has been looking at the changing nature of work in the face of emerging technologies, including the nature of coordination in open innovation.

The Sparkr Podcast now presents a conversation with Pamela which dates back to 2017. Even though three years have passed since the conversation, Pamela’s insights and thoughts still hold value today. We talked about what “work” means today and how it’s changing in the future, why a strong sense of purpose is increasingly important, why she doesn’t like the concept of “best practices” or why it is crucial for executives and decision makers of all kinds to become more data literate.

For more exciting conversations with leading minds in leadership, technology and innovation, please subscribe to the Sparkr Podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify or wherever you get your favorite shows.

You can find the blog post about this conversation (and many more interesting conversations) here: http://sparkr.ch/sparkr-podcast-14-future-of-work-open-innovation-pamela-hinds-stanford/

The Future of Work & Open Innovation with Prof. Pamela Hinds from Stanford

In his interviews for the Sparkr Podcast, Christian Lundsgaard-Hansen unveils the mindsets, principles and world views of remarkable and inspiring people or organizations. 

Learn what great leadership means, how to build high-performance creative teams, how to navigate the world of business in todays rapidly changing environment or how to spot the trends that matter.

Sparkr is an agency for change makers and is all about seeing, making sense of and creating change. The Sparkr Podcast series features those who see, those who understand and those who create the future. Thank you for subscribing and sharing those episodes that bring value to someone you know.

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Thanks to all the guests of the Sparkr Podcast who make this series so engaging and fascinating.

The Future of Work & Open Innovation with Prof. Pamela Hinds from Stanford

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