Summary: In this final episode of Project Kazimierz, Richard reflects on the people he talks to, thanks to his co-founder Sam, producer Adam, and the listeners, explains his motivations for working on the podcast and gives details of the migration to the Entrepreneurship and Leadership channel on the New Books Network. A recent media roundup: … Con…

Summary: Adam Davidson is the CEO of the newly listed Trident Royalties. In this interview he explains the history of the company, and the business case for invcsting in royalty based mininig businesses. Trident Royalties PLC is a United Kingdom-based diversified mining royalty and streaming company. The Company focuses on base and precious metals,…

Summary: Mike Southon is a serially successful entrepreneur, best-selling business author and one of the world’s top business keynote speakers on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and sales. He specialises in teaching entrepreneurship to University students. Mike is co-author with Chris West of The Beermat Entrepreneur, The Boardroom Entrepreneur …

Summary: Family-man and serial entrepreneur, Peter Harrington has a deep interest in education. Following graduation in York in 1989, he created his first business and over 15 years started and grew companies in the fields of research, marketing, design, print and consultancy. Since 2005, Peter has been at the heart of Venture Simulations Ltd, a … …

Summary: Alex Schey is the CEO and co-founder of Vantage Power, which was founded in 2011 and sold to Allison Transmission in 2019, where he is the Chief Commercial Officer for Electrification. The company pioneered the concept of converting double decker buses to a hybrid deisel electric solution to greatly reduce pollution and increase efficiency…

Summary: The New Books Network has over 800,000 downloads a month. NBN enables authors to talk about their books with a specialist host. Founded in 2007 by Marshall Poe – formerly a Russian history Professor from the US, it has grown to be probably the most downloaded podcast of its type in the world. https://newbooksnetwork.com … Continue reading …

Summary: Mel Rosenberg is a microbiologist best known for his research on the diagnosis and treatment of bad breath (halitosis). His research led to several successful commercial products addressing the problem. He is also the creator of a wildly popular TED-ED video on the topic. and is an active part of the TED-ED community. Mel … Continue readin…

Summary: Mark McKergow spoke at TEDxKazimierz in 2018 on the topic of host leadership. Dr Mark McKergow brings new ideas into the world of business and management, with an inimitable combination of scientific rigour and performance pizzazz. Mark is best known for his work on introduction the ideas of Solutions Focus (2002) and Host Leadership … Con…

Summary: Michael Sliwinski is a productivity guy – he’s the founder and CEO of Nozbe – a project management and collaboration tool for busy professionals and their teams. Nozbe is a web-based tool with apps for all the major platforms. Michael is also a speaker, author of best-selling books, a podcaster and a blogger. He … Continue reading Michael …

Summary: John Murn is a marketing strategist based in Taipei, Taiwan. After starting his career in 4A agencies, he now plies his trade in the adtech world, where he’s spent time working on e-commerce, streaming, mobile video advertising, and programmatic advertising optimization. In addition to his day job, John is a serial networker, which led … C…

Summary: Marek Jankowski is the host of Mała Wielka Firma – one of the most popular business podcasts in Poland launched in 2009. He wrote two books for entrepreneurs: Mała wielka firma (Little Big Company) and Pułapki small biznesu (Small Business Pitfalls). Marek is also a former radio journalist, who in 2004 started his own … Continue reading Ma…

Summary: David Troy is a serial entrepreneur and community activist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently CEO and product architect at 410 Labs, maker of the popular e-mail management tools Mailstrom.co and Chuck. He has been acknowledged by the founding team at Twitter as the first developer to utilize the Twitter API, with his project … Continu…

Summary: Alex Hoskyns – Founded the Chatty Cafe Scheme. Cafes that take part have a ‘Chatter & Natter’ table which creates a space for people to talk; whether it is for five minutes while you drink a tea or coffee, or for an hour of good conversation. We’re not trying to build friendships – just … Continue reading Alex Hoskyns – Founder of the Chat…

Summary: Fred Schmidt (nee Fernando Klemens Jan Borys Czochralski-Schmidt) MBE is Director of International Affairs at Capital Factory, a top U.S. incubator – accelerator – investment fund nurturing over 700 tech startups in downtown Austin Texas. There he oversees Touchdown Austin, a soft landing program for foreign companies seeking to expand int…

Summary: Jon Powell is Chair of Enterprise Educators UK – a membership organisation for Universities, Colleges and private sector organisations to support enterprise educators. Head of Enterprise and Innovation Services and resident expert on enterprise education and business Growth Hubs at Lancaster University. Jon Powell has experience in support…

Summary: Chris Bomgaars – worked with his father to build up to a $100 million dollar revenue pig farming business from 2003-14 managing pigs on 350 farms. Based on his experience of what was needed to improve the way pig farms worked, he decided to create Everypig – a simple yet powerful pig health and … Continue reading Chris Bomgaars – CEO and F…

Summary: Kai Parsons is a young South African entrepreneur who believes that entrepreneurship is the key to solving some of societies biggest problems. He is the Co-Founder of Air Alert (a social enterprise that is creating an awareness of harmful gasses released by fossil fuels in informal settlements). He also Co-founded Silicon Development, a we…

Summary: Paul Kulon is Head of Operations at the Foundation Supporting #OMGKRK which works to build a world-class innovation ecosystem in Krakow. A recent media roundup: OMGKRK website omgkrk facebook group Paul’s Linkedin Don’t miss an episodes of Project Kazimierz – Sign up on i Tunes here The post Paul Kulon – Head of Operations at the Foundatio…

Summary: Aleksandra Pedraszewska is a Co-Founder and Head of Commercial at VividQ – a UK-based start-up offering revolutionary software platform for next generation holographic display. Aleksandra co-founded VividQ when completing her MPhil degree in Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School. Today, she heads up VividQ’s sales, marketing…

Summary: Alex Mcleod has a background in infrastructure and educational social entrepreneurship, having helped found Bak USA, a social enterprise company based in Buffalo, NY that now hires 100+ employees from underserved communities and refugee populations. Prior to Bak USA, she developed the business plan and helped obtain a $250,000 USAID grant …

Summary: Alex van Someren is Managing Partner of the Early Stage Funds at Amadeus and sits on the boards of several Amadeus portfolio companies. Amadeus is one of the highest profile VC funds in the UK with offices in Bangalore, Cambridge, Cape Town, London and San Francisco, Amadeus has invested in over 130 companies, and … Continue reading A chat…

Summary: This is an interview that Richard Lucas had a long time ago with the University of Cambridge Careers. About Richard Lucas: My non-profit activities are primarily to do with entrepreneurship, the promotion of entrepreneurship, TED.com and TEDx, alumni activation, event hosting, public speaking and leadership. I teach entrepreneurship and ru…

Summary: In this podcast Richard talks to Rudradeb about his new book. Creating Value With Artificial Intelligence: Lessons Learned from 10 yrs of Building AI Products and Overcoming Data, Adoption, and Engineering Challenges. It’s a good entry level introduction to the topic, and a great place to start if you know that AI is important … Continue r…

Summary: Alessandro Lombardi is CEO and Business development manager at ITSELECTA where, together with his team, supports companies by finding best talents, moreover, he helps some Polish and Ukrainian IT companies increase customers and sales volume. Italian by birth, but currently living and in love with Poland, Alessandro likes “connecting the d…

Summary: Agata Dutkowska’s academic background is in fine arts and social studies. For the last seven years she has been working with women, helping them to create sustainable businesses as the CEO of the Flying School. Before that she was an international facilitator working for several leadership programs in Eastern Europe helping changemakers cr…

Summary: Gill has been s a volunteer librarian at Claremont Primary School in Cape Town South Africa since 2010. Through her initiative she has been able to give several hundred children aged 6-14 from largely disadvantaged backgrounds access to books and advice about reading. She believes that this has been life changing for a significant … Contin…

Summary: Florian Faes is Co-Founder of Slator – linguist, business developer, and mountain runner. Based in the beautiful lakeside city of Zurich, Switzerland. Florian had a senior job in translation company and realized he couldn’t find the news and analysis he was looking for. about the industry he worked in. So – with a partner … Continue readin…

Summary: Patrick Ney is a British-born filmmaker and writer living in Poland. His films focus on Polish society and history. They have had more than 23 million views in the last 12 months. He works as a digital marketer specialising in story-based digital sales funnels at James Cook Media. His specialisation is in producing short-form … Continue re…

Summary: Harriet Noble is a radio journalist working for the BBC in London. She started her career on Radio 4’s flagship Today programme, where over the course of 7 years she graduated from work experience girl to Duty Editor. At the beginning of 2017 she moved to World Hacks on the BBC World Service, where … Continue reading Harriet Noble, BBC Wor…

Summary: Jethro Binns was rated 84th in the world squash rankings. A terrible accident on court cutt his career short, later he founded Squashskills, which is now the world’s leading online squash training resource. A recent media roundup: Jethro’s Twitter Jethro’s squash ranking More about Jethro Binns on his business webiste Just Jack Just Jack ……

Summary: Kevin Rabinovich is a student involved in the intersections of ideas, youth, technology, design, and education. Most notably, he is the founder and curator of TEDxYouth@Columbia, South Carolina’s by-youth, for-youth organization that unites high school students around the power of ideas. He has also worked with organizations ranging from t…

Summary: An interview with Peter Cowley for the launch of CAMentrepreneurs in New York, recorded in April 2017. CAMentrepreneurs was founded in December 2016 to promote entrepreneurship among the alumni of Cambridge University, current Students and others. Working in a similar way to the relationship between TED.com amd TEDx-es, we launch in cities…

Summary: This is part 2 of the talk given by Krysia Griffith-Jones about her life story during the WWII. Talks given by a Polish Second World War survivor about being a refugee in 1939, arrest and imprisonment by the Soviets. Her trek to join the Anders Army and other wartime experiences. Why have this talk … Continue reading Krysia Griffith-Jones …

Summary: Talks given by a Polish Second World War survivor about being a refugee in 1939, arrest and imprisonment by the Soviets. Her trek to join the Anders Army and other wartime experiences. Why have this talk as part of the Project Kazimierz podcast ? Krysia Griffith-Jones says in her talk that one of the … Continue reading Invasion, Flight, Ar…

Summary: Ralph Talmont is the Curator of TEDxWarsaw, a consultant on creativity and innovation, a photographer, has a position in Warsaw’s University of Social Sciences and Humanities and is a friend. A recent media roundup: Ralph’s Linkedin Ralph’s Twitter “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities Guy Kawasa…

Summary: Russell Hicks is a successful professoinal standup comedian, based in London, but originally from the United States, This is the not the first Project Kazimierz podcast with someone other than a classic entrepreneur, but it is the first with the special new “Showbiz” intro.. enjoy.. Richard has written up is reflections on the interivew … …

Summary: Asaf Navot is the founder of Home Made in London, a fast growing residential property service which is both cheaper and better than existing services. Prior to founding his startup Asaf did an MBA at Insead, was a consultant with Bain Private Equity Group and Wilson Perumal, and served in the Israeli Armed Services. … Continue reading Asaf…

Summary: Dawid Ostrowski is startups and technology enthusiast, who loves to work in areas where humans and machines meet to create amazing new products and services. He is experienced program manager with strong technical background, who knows how to create and maintain relations with people, establish priorities for complex projects and execute a…

Summary: Augustin Kennady is a Media Relations Director for ShipMonk, Columbia alum, eCommerce enthusiast. He talks about content writing on Quora and other forums, guest posting, finding leads on social media, and the general future of the intersection between machine learning, automation, and technology with eCommerce. A recent media roundup: Aug…

Summary: John Lucas was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied first mathematics, then Greats (Greek, Latin, Philosophy and Ancient History), obtaining first class honours, and taking the Oxford MA in 1954. He spent the 1957–58 academic year at Princeton University, studying mathematics and logic. For 36 years,…

Summary: Katie Underwood graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2009 and spent 7 years as an actress, working extensively in theatre across the UK with the likes of Peter Hall, Howard Davies and Jonathan Miller. Increasingly disgruntled with the nature of roles available to women in their thirties, she returned to her … Continue readin…

Summary: After 10 years in IT in various roles (Developer, Scrum Master, Manager, Head of QA, Trainer) Piotr Nabielec founded Produktywni.pl, where he is a trainer and consultant and also created two online training courses. – Piotr helps people, teams and companies to be more productive, to build positive habits, to achieve their dreams and … Cont…

Summary: A special event live recording during the Project Kazimierz event in Food&People by Pastrami with Sam Cook. The Krakow Fringe Festival is a new arts and culture festival that will take place between June 15th-18th 2017. During this event, Sam has officially hand overed the project to Richard Lucas. As a farewell to the … Continue reading L…

Summary: An interview with the leader of the Krakow Fringe Festival and co-founder of Krakow StandUp Comedy – Ashley Deppeler. The Krakow Fringe Festival is a new arts and culture festival that will take place between June 15th-18th 2017. Krakow Fringe Festival works specifically to promote spoken word arts and culture and offers attendees a … Cont…

Summary: An interview with the authors of “The Happiest Kids in the World”. Rina Mae Acostais a writer from California currently living in the Netherlands with her Dutch husband and two young sons. She founded the successful parenting blogFinding Dutchland. Michele Hutchison worked in publishing in Britain before moving to Amsterdam in 2004. She is…

Summary: Paweł Tkaczyk is a writer, public speaker and an expert in branding and gamification. He wrote two bestsellers – „Zakamarki marki” and „Grywalizacja” that focus on branding (zakamarki marki) and gamification (grywalizacja) operations. He is also a lecturer at many Polish universities such us Akademia im. Leona Koźmińskiego w Warszawie, Aka…

Summary: Richard Millington is the founder of FeverBee. FeverBee uses proven social science to develop successful online and offline communities for B2B organisations around the world. Over the past 13 years, Richard has helped to develop over 250+ successful communities, including those for Facebook, Google, The World Bank, Oracle, Amazon, Autodes…

Summary: Brooke Allen is a father, son, husband, and brother. He has training in mathematics, computer science, and finance. He has worked as a programmer and analyst for American Airlines, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, CS First Boston, as well as a few smaller start-ups and financial firms. He has founded two consulting firms, one technology … Co…

Summary: When his 4-year old daughter saw a plastic tub of cat litter in the woods, little did Jeff Kirschner realize that it would be the spark for creating Litterati – a global movement that’s “crowdsource-cleaning” the planet one piece of litter at a time. Featured in National Geographic, Time Magazine, Fast Company, and USA … Continue reading J…