The Wolfcast

EP 31 - Nikolaus Sühr - CEO & Co-Founder at KASKO - If Your Technology Is Great but It Does Not Enable Growth, What’s the Point?

The Wolfcast spent some high-quality talking with Nikolaus Sühr [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolaussuehr/], the CEO & Co-Founder at KASKO [https://www.kasko.io/].  KASKO offers an API-powered agile insurance product and distribution platform that operates between digital customer touchpoints and legacy IT systems. Some of the topics Nikolaus discussed: * Remote working and distributed teams * Enabling different channels of communication depending on the urgency * The focus on providing growth to one's stakeholders * The beauty of insurance and how it does not necessarily need to be disrupted * The difference between input and output-oriented * The three mental notes hidden in the word Enkelfähig [https://enkelfaehig.de/en/whats-enkelfaehig/] Some other titles we considered for this episode: 1. I’m Trying but I’m Also Preaching Water and Drinking Wine 2. If You Don’t Use It, You Lose It 3. A Gate to Move Things Along 4. Enabling More People to Be More Efficient 5. Value Creation and Long-Term Thinking This podcast is supported by Riskwolf [https://www.riskwolf.com/].

EP 30 - Dan Draper - CEO and Founder of CipherStash - Simple Protections Don’t Do the Job Anymore

The Wolfcast learned a lot from its discussion with Dan Draper [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ddraper/], the Founder and CEO of CipherStash [https://cipherstash.com/].  CipherStash uses a searchable encryption scheme that enables data to be searchable even while it remains encrypted.  This gives data high-level protection without compromising usability. Some of the topics that Dan covered: * What he learned while working for the Australian government * Learning how to code on a BBC Micro [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro] * Working for a startup in New York * The increased scope of security attacks * The necessity to improve cybersecurity awareness * IBM’s report on The Cost of a Data Breach [https://www.ibm.com/security/data-breach] * An analogy to F1 racing * Separating access to the infrastructure from access to the data Other titles we considered for this episode: 1. The Good Guys Are Doing That to Simulate What the Bad Guys are Doing 2. Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting 3. If Only It Was That Simple 4. Now Our Interests Are Actually Aligned 5. The Most Vulnerable Part of the System Is the Human Some other interesting links: * The Effect of Google Search on Software Security [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3460120.3484763] * The Impact of Information Sources on Code Security [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~doowon/paper/so_oakland16.pdf] This podcast is supported by Riskwolf [https://www.riskwolf.com/].

EP 29 - Özgür Arslan-Ayaydin - Clinical Professor of Finance at University of Illinois at Chicago - Alternative Banking Systems

The Wolfcast was interested to speak with Özgür Arslan-Ayaydin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/%C3%B6zg%C3%BCr-arslan-ayaydin-1826182/], Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago [https://www.uic.edu/]. Some of the topics that Özgür covered: * Growing up in Turkey and studying Economics and Finance * Relating economic theories to real life and looking for non-obvious contradictions * Islamic Finance and how Islamic banks make money * Risk sharing and trying to eliminate moral hazards * The passion for teaching undergraduate students Finance * The importance and difficulty of curating the overwhelming amount of information we receive * Gold, cryptocurrency, and regulations Other titles we considered for this episode: 1. Teaching Finance Is Very Rewarding, It’s So Dynamic and Applicable 2. If I Get a Gain, I Should Provide a Gain as Well 3. This Generation Is So Open to Alternatives 4. Their Lives Are Changing in a Very Fast Pace 5. Two Sides Have to Be Fair

EP 28 - Struan Todd - co-Founder Pandamatics - Every Business Is Bound to Have a Cyber Attack

Another episode, another panda...The Wolfcast was joined by Struan Todd [https://www.linkedin.com/in/struan-todd-a49b171b/], a co-Founder of Pandamatics [https://www.pandamatics.com/].  Pandamatics is Asia's first and only pure cyber insurance coverholder. Some of the topics that Struan discussed: * Getting into the risk insurance market and learning from Lloyds in London * Exploring the world and getting a wider world-view because of his career in insurance * Becoming an accidental entrepreneur * How hybrid working improves the working environment * The challenges of building algorithmic risk assessment * The extent to which COVID raised the demand and awareness for cybersecurity and its insurance Other titles we considered for this episode: 1. Attacking From Completely Covert Situations 2. Driving the Overall Standard 3. The Cyber Risk Is There 4. Why Not Take the Risk? 5. Expecting Someone to Come and Pick Up the Bill This episode was produced by Isabelle Goh [https://bit.ly/35JO8hL].

EP 27 - Frederic Stallaert - co-Founder at Paperbox.ai - Disruption Leads to Interruption

The Wolfcast was joined by Frederic Stallaert [https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederic-stallaert/], a co-Founder of Paperbox.ai [https://www.paperbox.ai/en/]. Paperbox [https://www.paperbox.ai/en/company/people] employs artificial intelligence to automate the processing of emails and documents from physical and digital mailboxes. Some of the topics that Frederic covered: * His passion for AI * Writing a Master’s thesis on Machine Learning * Risk taking in general * Building Paperbox.ai * The importance of partnerships * Making technology accessible and affordable to create more impact * Branding and marketing saliency * Paperbox’s vision for the future Some of the other titles we considered for this episode: 1. The Unicorn Capital of Belgium 2. How Software Does Cognitive Learning 3. If That Is What Working Looks Like, That Is What I Want to Do 4. Values and Passion 5. We Are Technologists by Nature 6. Accessibility Leads to Impact