It’s exciting to witness the growth of the Romanian investment ecosystem with key players like the European Investment Fund (EIF) and TechAngels Romania.The 100 million euros Innovation Romania Holding Fund will address an important gap in the Romanian market: early-stage financing opportunities.Thank you, Camelia & Dragoș, for making this possible, and to the incredible people who drive...

It was great to hear OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann talk about the critical role trustworthy artificial intelligence and genomic medicine is playing in today’s healthcare environment at the “Future of People-Centred Health Innovation” high-level policy forum in Paris this week. He also talked about the fragility of supply chains, population aging, and health systems’ ability...

I recently had the honor of speaking with Heather Conley, President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, for the second time at the high-level Aspen – GMF Bucharest Forum reception last week. Our first meeting was at the GMF Forum in Brussels in the summer of 2022, where I was impressed by her insightful perspectives and clear vision on critical issues, particularly the war...

Cyber diplomacy plays a very important role in the current geopolitical landscape, especially today, when technology finds a way to reshape the fabric of our society. I am happy to attend today the second International Conference on Cyber Diplomacy in...

We hear more and more about ChatGPT, but do you know what the GPT stands for? It’s „Generative Pre-trained Transformer”. The OpenAI chatbot leverages generative pre-training & the Transformer architecture (ironically, invented by Google in 2017) for NLP tasks like Q&A and text...

I think a major reason for the slow blockchain adoption is the ongoing tug-of-war between centralization and decentralization. Systems like Bitcoin challenge conventional thinking, enabling control, trust, and autonomy. Legacy systems on the other hand offer comfort in trading sovergnity for protection. Is there a common path that leverages the strengths of both approaches and leads to...

I applaud the efforts to increase the digital transformation actions at the Government level in Romania. I am happy to be a part of this conversation both as a private sector representative and as an Aspen Institute Romania member at the round table organized today by the Aspen Technology & Society Program and the Romanian National Administration Institute (Institutul Național de...

It was a grim Eastern European winter back in 1992 when I found myself holding a big bag full of cables and equipment in my uncle’s flat at the winter holidays family gathering. In the bag, there was a dismantled ZX Spectrum clone called HC-90. I just wrote a new game in BASIC and I was eager to show my family what I have achieved. It was a simple piece of software that was emulating a...

What a week start We’re at Banking 4.0 happening RIGHT NOW Yesterday, our fellow co-founder, @Ōvidiu Ghiman, was part of the jury at the gala where the teams pitched their ideas. @Alexandru Mincu and his project Farmxyz won a voucher worth €5 000 that can be used to increase their investment readiness level and raise financing on weronin.com. Farmxyz is a multi-chain staking...

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