This Week @ LogTrade

On Episode 2 of Season 3 of This Week @ LogTrade, our CEO, Sara Ali and our Founder, Fredrik Svedberg dive into the topic of creating circular business models. What are the challenges to shift to a circular business and how do taxes impact the purchase of used goods? Fredrik poses a question to Sara: Do you know what are the two most used recycled resources in the world? They also touch upon one the main pillars of circular business, which is traceability. Enjoy listening!

Welcome to the first episode of 2022! On Season 3, our CEO Sara Ali & Fredrik Svedberg, our Founder, discuss the "Power of Infrastructure & Predictiveness." Speaking from the highest resort in Europe, Val Thorens in France, Fredrik drove from South of Sweden for 20 hours in his Tesla and elobrates how on his journey indicates how Tesla is on another level of integrating third party services with infrastructure. For example, how can a Tesla predict the personal needs of the driver and combine it the position of the car at that specific point of the journey? Also, would you think Tesla’s competitor could be Apple? Enjoy listening!

How do you plan ahead, one year or five years, when the future is foggy? What are your thoughts now that United States Covid-19 death toll crosses 800,000, a year into vaccine drive? Tune into episode 10, the season finale where our CEO, Sara Ali & Founder, Fredrik Svedberg reflect and share their personal thoughts about 2021. Thank you and we appreciate everyone who has made the time to tune into our podcasts. Here’s to a healthy and happy 2022!

Tune into episode 9 of This Week @ LogTrade, with our guest, Dr Waqas Khalid, a research scientist scholar and a lecturer based in University of California, Berkeley. An expert and a trailblazer in leveraging existing resources and energy storage, he explains how how nanotechnology can integrated in our everyday life and how you can commercialize this technology platform. There are more discussions with our CEO, Sara Ali & our Founder, Fredrik Svedberg, surrounding democratising the education system, the future of academia and beyond.

We have casual discussions lined up on Episode 7, starting with the impacts of overconsumption perpetuated by e-Commerce “sales” like Black Friday, Cyber Monday etc. Sara our CEO, then talks about a forward-thinking advert of Volvo Group’s first vehicle made of fossil-free steel from SSAB and why it struck a chord with her. While, Fredrik our Founder, talks about NASA’s latest mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid and also Sweden’s new space regulations. Did you hear of the latest confusion Switzerland & Sweden? Enjoy the talks :)

On episode 6 of This Week @ LogTrade, we have a guest speaker, Frode Langmeon of IBM, who is dedicated to empowering and inspiring ecosystems of startups, scaleups, ISV's and partners at IBM. Fredrik, Sara and Frode discuss various topics from IBM Cloud to Open Source to the trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence and everything in between. They dive deep into "trustworthy AI" which drives business transformation and they touch upon the value of Quantum Computing. Fredrik poses a tough question to Frode about, what career advice would he give today to a 15 year old? 

This Week @ LogTrade, episode 5, is recorded outdoors at a beautiful park in Malmö, Sweden. Fredrik (Founder of LogTrade) & Sara (CEO of LogTrade) question the logic of holding the 2021 G20 Rome Summit last week, and then soon after, the same decision-makers fly over to the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, UK. Did anyone think of the aircraft fuel emissions? They also question, the food delivery industry business models like UberEats & Grubhub, are they really profitable? Finally, they discuss Oligopoly, which is an issue in all industries. For example, as mentioned in last week’s episode of how Google & Facebook dominate and control the digital ads industry. How do you change that? Is it deeply rooted in history and irreversible?

On This Week @ LogTrade, Sara Ali and Fredrik Svedberg share their point of view on a range of topics. Why do people choose to live in certain cities, for example, Amsterdam or Copenhagen or San Francisco? Could concepts of hyper-proximity, self-sufficiency and doughnut economics influence the decisions why people choose to live in these cities? And, in Big-Tech news, what can we learn about how Apple was able to deliver their new MacBooks when everyone is struggling with slow logistics and the shortages of semiconductors? Then they move to discuss, the role of people in organisations and the different strategies needed for employee retention. Finally they question, where does the investment money end up for start-ups? The stats will shock you.