Denis McDonogh, former Chief of Staff to President Obama & now in Pres. Biden Cabinet

Stockholm, Sweden @ Brilliant Minds. Mobilium Global chief executive Ralph Simon & (former Chief of Staff to President Obama) the much respected Denis McDonogh, having a chat about the state of the world & the wonder of Brilliant Minds. Denis was President Obama’s Chief of Staff from January 2013 until the end of Obama’s presidential term. A brilliant thinker & organiser, Denis is also a great person to hang out with.

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Ministerial Summit, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona with USA FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

 

Barcelona. Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, catches up with Mobilium Global chief executive, Ralph Simon, at the MWC Ministerial Summit - a key part of the Mobile World Congress '19. This year’s Ministerial Programme hosted delegations & international organisations from 181 countries, including 71 cabinet Ministers & 85 Regulatory Authority heads to discuss key developments & policy trends in the mobile sector including the evolution to 5G, the increasing need for spectrum; privacy & cross-border data flows; sustainability & mobile for social good & mobile in education & healthcare. Chairman Pai will serve as the FCC Chairman in DC until September 2022.

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Keynote interview at Money 2020 Europe with Dr Hermann Hauser

Keynote interview at Money 2020 Europe with leading innovator & Europe VC leader, Dr. Hermann Hauser of Amadeus Capital Partners. Europe’s most important conference for the financial, investment & banking industries.

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World’s leading Artificial Intelligence expert Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

Munich, DLD 2019, Germany. World’s leading Artificial Intelligence expert & visionary (+ Chinese venture capitalist, tech executive, writer), Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, with Mobilium Global chief executive Ralph Simon. Dr. Lee’s ground-breaking book “AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley & The New World Order”, described how China is rapidly moving forward to become the global AI leader, & may well surpass the USA because of China’s demographics & it’s huge datasets. He emphasised though, that AI with all its capabilities will never be capable of creativity or empathy.
Dr. Lee developed the world’s first-ever speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system & served as President of Google China (2005-2009) - one of a number of very senior positions in a glittering career. He has over 50,000,000 followers on Sina Weibo & his VC Fund, Sinovation Ventures, has some $2bn under management & invested in 300+ start-up portfolios/companies in China.

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Senior Disney Executives at Musexpo 2019

Sat Bisla, organiser of the long-running Musexpo music & radio convention had the pleasure of sharing the stage with the amazing team from The Walt Disney Company recently at our A&R Worldwide's MUSEXPO Creative Summit in Burbank, California including (l-r) executives from ABC Television (Scott Igoe), Disney Radio Worldwide (Phil Guerini), Walt Disney Pictures (Kaylin Frank) our insightful moderator Ralph Simon chief executive of Mobilium Global along with Disney Music Group & Disney Music Publishing (Mike Daly).

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Unreasonable meet-up in Santa Cruz, California with Dr. Esther Wojcicki & Unreasonable founder, Daniel Epstein

At the unique gathering of the Unreasonable Group are,  l to r: Mobilium Global chief executive, Ralph Simon; the distinguished educator & head of the Global Moonshot for Education, Esther Wojcicki, & the founder of the Unreasonable Group, Daniel Epstein, who brings together people & companies to think of solutions that create the greatest impact possible on the world’s toughest challenges. Esther & Ralph are developing the Global Moonshot for Education world-wide initiative in 2019/2020.
“The reasonable man & woman adapts to the world; the unreasonable ones persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man & woman.” - George Bernard Shaw,  1856-1950

 

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Portuguese Minister of Science & Technology Manuel Heitor

Cascais, Portugal. Portuguese Minister of Science & Technology, H.E. Manuel Heitor meets with Mobilium Global Chief Executive Ralph Simon at the World Summit Awards 2019 presentation & event in Portugal. The WSA is the United Nations'-linked competition to find the best apps & platforms that reinforce the UN's SDG's. Simon is on the Executive Board of the WSA.

 

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Yossi Vardi, Israel´s leading innovator, at Kinnernord in Vihula, Estonia

Flanking the chairman of Kinnernet & Kinnernord, Yossi Vardi, is,  Mobilium Global chief executive Ralph Simon, & Kinnernord board member & organiser Riina Raudne. A select group of influential visioneers, innovators & good trouble-makers gathered in a forest in mid-Estonia very recently, in the great tradition of Kinnernet – hacking & innovating in quadruple measure, & having an amazing time ideating.

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European Union Commissioner for Digital Economy & Society, Ms Mariya Gabriel

European Union Commissioner for Digital Economy & Society (previously Digital Agenda), Ms Mariya Gabriel, (responsible for the EU’s media, information issues, telecoms, IT, digital development) reconnecting with Mobilium Global chief executive Ralph Simon backstage at the MWC 2019 - ahead of their respective keynote sessions.
Mariya said: "Today only 44% of Europeans have basic digital skills, 90% of jobs after 2020 would require basic digital skills & there's a huge need to focus on digital skills acquisition by young people, by today’s active population & by vulnerable groups". "The European Commission can facilitate the sharing of good practices & supports the development of creative industries & of a successful European media and content industry". But she warned, Europe is not at the centre of a technological revolution, & is still lagging behind in investments & in defining the model it will follow in digitisation beyond 2020.

 

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