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Biofriendly began in 1999 as the passion project of the Carroll Brothers, three Australian inventors and businessmen, who sealed their place as environmentalists when they invented the Vortoil Oil/Water Separator, which helped to protect countless marine species affected by contamination from offshore oil platforms.

Nestled between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Kazakhstan holds many interesting opportunities for airlines, none more so than its flag carrier Air Astana. As CEO Peter Foster explains, the airline is in rude health and has bold plans for the future, including branching out into low-cost carrier operations, reinforcing the business strategy, and standing up in the battle against climate change.

Experienced pilots are already scarce and the projected growth rate of the industry shows no signs that the situation might change anytime soon. Espen Høiby, the CEO of OSM Aviation, shares his approach on how to fight ‒ and succeed ‒ in the “war for talents”.

Forter is the leading provider in e-commerce fraud prevention, protecting $130B in digital transactions annually.

Dangerous climate change is with us now and we only have a short time window to get the planet back on a sustainable basis.

Customers have limited time and they don’t want to wade through hundreds of unwanted products before finding what they want.

He owns Swagelok Southeast Texas, a distributorship for Swagelok products. How did he do it? There are many options Jones doesn’t have. As a distributor, he has an exclusive relationship with Swagelok so he can’t add additional products or brands; he is locked into his territory boundaries and the customers who reside there; and price is discretionary but governed by market positioning of the brand.

As the organisation’s CEO, Willem leads EIT Digital with the goal to unleash Europe’s potential as a strong player in the global technology space. While talking about the current initiatives of EIT Digital, he also shared his thoughts on what Europe has on offer for founders, the main challenges he sees in accelerating innovation throughout Europe and his ambition of bringing entrepreneurship education to curriculums.

We sat with 3D Hubs’ founder Bram to find out more about the Amsterdam tech scene, his thoughts on the future for 3D printing and advice for other founders about taking risks.

Together with Pat Shreckengast (Co-founder), we began the journey of shaping AceUp into the scalable and measurable coaching platform it is today.