Podcast
Welcome to The Optimist!
Enjoy real talk with the leaders shaping Europe’s future, exploring the innovations that drive progress across the continent.
The Optimist is presented and produced by ‘TECH by Handelsblatt‘ and hosted by Felix Zeltner, award-winning journalist and founder of Remote Daily.
The Optimist builds a year-round community leading up to the Technology Experience Convention Heilbronn (TECH). With TECH, Handelsblatt Media Group, Handelsblatt and Schwarz Digits are creating a strategic platform to strengthen the European tech ecosystem. TECH‘s mission is to establish a „cluster of optimism“, connecting Europe’s most influential leaders across technology, industry, politics, and academia. More at tech-europe.org
Part 1
Rolf Schumann, why do you want digital sovereignity?
The inaugural episode of The Optimists welcomes a digital optimist and coder at heart: the Co-CEO of Schwarz Digits & CDO at Schwarz Group, Rolf Schumann.
He discusses why he hosts the very first TECH by Handelsblatt Conference at the IPAI in Heilbronn and explains his optimistic views on digital sovereignty and Germany‘s and Europe‘s tech potential: “I’m convinced we will become a leader in cyber security, artificial intelligence and quantum computing.“
Part 2
Andrej Levin, how do we benefit from AI?
The second episode of The Optimists welcomes an AI optimist: the Global Lead AI at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Dr. Andrej Levin.
Andrej is also Managing Director and Partner at BCG’s Hamburg office, and he shares how his team builds an internal AI lab, trains so-called “Black Belts” in AI and works on turning AI into a revenue stream for its clients. Andrej shares how he automates some of his own workflows, and why he is optimistic about AI taking over the “ugliest four hours of the day” for many knowledge workers. It’s not too late for Europe, he concludes, to become an AI superpower.
