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Making Expo 2020 Deeply Personal: How Accenture Helped Put the Visitor at the Heart of the World’s Greatest Show
When we first started working with Expo and Etisalat Digital over six years ago, they had bold and ambitious plans for what they wanted Dubai’s Expo to be. Now that it’s all over, we can say without argument that Expo2020
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Luke Haverhals: Tech Platforms Unlock the Superpowers of Plants to Combat the Plastic Menace
Plastic is affordable, widely available, durable and versatile — but its environmental costs have become too steep. Great masses of discarded plastic swirl around the ocean and break down; scientists have found microplastics even in remote and pristine places such
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Change, Challenge, Autonomy and Teamwork: Secrets of SENER Group’s Andrés Sendagorta
CFI.co gets to know Andrés Sendagorta, president of private engineering and technology specialist the SENER Group. It was founded in 1956 and is active in the fields of engineering, construction, energy, environment, and aerospace. CFI.co: What are your hopes for
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The Great Dictator Becomes More and More Isolated
Russian fat cats are, of course, no longer welcome in Europe. But now, their four-pawed relations have been declared ‘non grata’ as well. The executive board of the Luxemburg-based Fédération Internationale Féline (Charmingly abbreviated to FIFe) ruled that any cat
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This Season’s Collection is Second-Hand — and Purchased Online…
High street fashion giant H&M has posted higher-than-expected earnings, and is optimistic that the fashion industry — valued at $1.9tn in 2019 — could reach $3tn by 2030. The sector has been growing year-on-year for two decades, revolutionised by fast
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Trust is a Vital Part of ‘Success Recipe’ for Pharma Companies
German pharmaceutical company BioNTech has debuted a modular medicinal production facility — just one of many recent innovations in the medical sector. A significant impact of the past two years has been raised awareness of healthcare as a priority. A
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Casting Russia Adrift: The Decline of Western Power May Have Been Exaggerated
The Austrian subsidiary of Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has collapsed after its parent company was unable to provide the liquidity required to keep the bank afloat. Sberbank’s other European subsidiaries are being wound down or offloaded in fire sales to
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Florian Reuter, Volocopter: ‘Pragmatic Excellence’, Transparency, and the World of Urban Air Mobility
Florian Reuter has been at the helm of urban air mobility pioneer Volocopter almost since its inception, steering the company from strength to strength. Volocopter was born in 2010 when the founders met in an online forum for tech enthusiasts.
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Fortress Russia on Shaky Ground: EU Finds Its Footing and Unleashes Its Economic Might
The rouble took a pounding of note, losing almost a third of its value as soon as forex markets opened Monday morning. Equity trading was suspended whilst Russian financial authorities pondered the extent of the sanctions imposed over the weekend.
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Markets in Turmoil: President Putin’s ‘Technical Operations’ Upset the Apple Cart
In the early morning of Thursday, Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian military installations as markets in the far East opened for business and promptly took a beating in a rolling barrage that soon swept Europe and beyond. Stocks went
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