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Switzerland has taken an important step in advancing technology with the inauguration of its first commercially available #quantum computer. The launch took place at the Uptown Basel competence center in Arlesheim. This quantum-powered breakthrough will empower businesses, startups, and academic institutions to explore new frontiers in simulation, optimization, and machine learning. The project is a result of an initiative by QuantumBasel, in collaboration with IonQ, a leading specialist in quantum #technology. The Forte system from IonQ, now operational at the center, is capable of processing over 34 billion possibilities simultaneously, paving the way for groundbreaking applications. The quantum computer is accessible both physically and via the cloud, providing secure and flexible opportunities for customers and partners to innovate and shape the future of technology. Founded two years ago, Quantum Basel has established itself as Switzerland's first competence center for quantum computing and artificial intelligence, marking a significant milestone for the country’s #tech ecosystem. #quantumcomputer #quantumcomputing #deeptech https://lnkd.in/d8DMpSWC

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We are living in a world that embodies our Industrial Transformation & Supply Chain Technology investment thesis at REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund: Escalating Geopolitical Tensions & Great Power Competition; The Climate Crisis & Severe Weather; Consumer Behavior & Demographics. Join us. #IndustrialTransformation #SupplyChain #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital 

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A great listen from Daniele Petecchi, Pirelli’s head of AI and Data Management, sharing how digital twins and #GenAI can maximize efficiency of product development and manufacturing of millions of tires each year. Another example of how AI-driven optimizations can unlock growth and resilience for a 150-year-old company in today’s global competitive landscape.

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🌟 Excited to share my latest collaboration with Professor Ralf Seifert and IMD —ranked Europe’s best MBA for 2024! Together, we’ve explored the future of Operational Excellence and Value Creation in Manufacturing.   ✨ Key highlights? A real-world success story!   CASE STUDY: A consumer goods manufacturer that managed to unlock more than  35% of their plant conversion cost into value-creation opportunities through a game-changing, enterprise-wide transformation.   By uniting manufacturing, IT, OT, and finance around shared value creation targets, they turned challenges into measurable ROI from selected CapEx and OpEx investments.   🛠️ Why it matters: Many manufacturers are stuck in the cycle of adopting new technologies without seeing tangible results.   Our framework tackles these frustrations head-on with a holistic, recurring process that drives scalable improvements, fast.   🔑 Takeaways: 1️⃣ Break down silos and focus on a unified, enterprise –wide & sustainable value creation process. 2️⃣ Use data-driven roadmaps and robust governance to align strategies and business cases with easy simulation capabilities. 3️⃣ Scale successful strategies across plants, and stay ahead with continuous updates powered by real-time insights on strategy executions and iterations.   This is a call to action for all Operational Excellence Stakeholders!   Read more to see how this framework is reshaping manufacturing's future! 🚀 https://lnkd.in/ePBzmPqa Are you a senior leader in Operational Excellence? Let’s get on a call and exchange insights. Schedule call: https://lnkd.in/e6fezfYd Let’s shape the future of manufacturing together! SmarterChains #OperationalExcellence #ManufacturingTransformation #Industry40 #ValueCreation #DigitalTransformation

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How can companies truly unlock AI’s potential? On September 19th, from 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM, my colleagues at BCG, along with IBM's Ann Funai and Salesforce's Ashleigh McCord, will host a LinkedIn Live session from Dreamforce. They’ll discuss strategies for CIOs, focusing on closing the gap between AI investments and real business results, improving AI readiness, and driving long-term value. It promises to be a thoughtful and insightful conversation. For now, a question for everyone—where do you see the biggest challenges in AI adoption? #AI #Dreamforce

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Many thanks to Johannes Tiefenthaler and the team at neustark, a rapidly growing Swiss company with a fascinating idea for creating localized circular systems for capturing and storing carbon. The company has grown from just a clever idea before COVID to now boasting 40 sequestration sites either operational or under construction in Europe. Read my latest article on Forbes to learn more about this wonderful venture. Many thanks too to Virginia Mugo, who assisted with the research and reporting for this article. #CDR #carboncapture #circulareconomy #climatechange #investing #venturecapital https://lnkd.in/gbNmeh7K

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Navigate the exciting yet risky landscape of #GenAI with BCG X's ARTKIT, a new open-source toolkit for responsible GenAI testing and evaluation. ARTKIT combines advanced computing with your team’s expertise to: 🏅 Gain a competitive edge 📜 Comply with industry standards 📉 Minimize risk Rapidly deploy and scale GenAI while evaluating whether your applications are proficient, safe, secure, and compliant. Discover more and star ARTKIT on GitHub: https://lnkd.in/eMH4WMJ9 #ARTKIT #ResponsibleAI #GenAI

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Congratulations to Mercedes-Benz AG! 🚗🌐   Their MO360 Data Platform has won the overall Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award 2024 by Microsoft and Roland Berger 🎉   This cutting-edge platform, an evolution of the digital production ecosystem MO360, swiftly identifies supply chain bottlenecks and dynamically prioritizes production resources for electric and top-end vehicles. 🚀 Powered by Microsoft Azure, it enables global deployment of AI and data analytics while maintaining regional cybersecurity and compliance standards. 🌐🔒   What makes it stand out? Unlike other industrial data platforms, it achieves rapid digitalization success across all user groups in the complex automotive industry, democratizing data and driving enthusiasm at every level. 🙌 #MIMA2024

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We are living in a world that embodies our Industrial Transformation & Supply Chain Technology investment thesis at REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund: Escalating Geopolitical Tensions & Great Power Competition; The Climate Crisis & Severe Weather; Consumer Behavior & Demographics. Join us. #IndustrialTransformation #SupplyChain #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital

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Empirical evidence for our Industrial Transformation & Supply Chain Technology investment thesis at REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund increases daily: Escalating Geopolitical Tensions & Great Power Competition; The Climate Crisis & Severe Weather; Consumer Behavior & Demographics. Join us. #IndustrialTransformation #SupplyChain #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital

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I couldn’t be more proud to share Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Consulting Services 2024 Vendor Assessment report. As a part of BCG X, it’s been awesome getting to work together with BCG and our clients to build solutions that are making a real impact on today, and tomorrow. Read more about our recognition here: https://on.bcg.com/3yoD6g6 #BCGX #BuildTomorrow

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2023 marked a pivotal shift in #sustainability—from ambition to action. Bain's latest report highlights how technology, consumer behavior, and policy will fuel the next wave of opportunities across industries. Stay ahead of the curve. https://bit.ly/47m9htv

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Want to turn strategy into multiple choice rather than an essay question? Read my next posts on the key findings from Hamilton Helmer’s book about building enduring business value  -  7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy https://7powers.com/ I’d recommend every CEO reads it if they want to take strategy seriously. Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix, said: “It will change how you think about business and pull into focus your critical strategy challenges, not to mention their solutions.” 🤔 Many leaders don’t spend enough quality time and effort on strategy 🤔And when they do they don’t really know what strategy is or how to go about building one 🤔 Many leaders just want to get on with the doing or the execution. Operational excellence is essential and hard but it does not assure long-term success and differential returns. Ask yourself the right strategic questions so you can make the right strategic calls. Then all the sweat you put into your operational efficiencies will be worth it. Whether you are running or buying a business, Helmer’s 7 Powers strategy framework will guide you on how to capture enduring business value. Learn from my next posts how Nvidia, Netflix and Pixar have understood the powers of sustainable value capture.👇 - - - - - 📑 Read the article in full below. 👀 Keep your eyes peeled for more info on this topic! https://lnkd.in/d2Wu4jkh #privateequity #venturecapital #PE #VC #RaisingCapital #strategy #strategicthinking #valuecreation

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"The last 18 months have been brutal. Many startups that received high valuations during the 2021 boom are now struggling to survive." says Gina Domanig, Managing Partner at Emerald Technology Ventures in this Forbes Austria article. Yes, 2024 has been a tough year for many fledgling companies. But I am encouraged by some of the startups scaling disruptive technology and business models in service of accelerating the energy transition in India and across the Asia Pacific and Middle East. They will survive and thrive - with the support of a growing investor community who have come to appreciate that the global south possess truly innovative solutions. One of the highlights for me this year was the first Asia Climate Tech Venture Fair, held in Singapore in October. The brainchild of Gina and her team, it brought together a critical set of VCs, CVCs and PE firms to share insights and leads on startups in the region. Looking forward to more conversations in 2025. Read now: https://lnkd.in/dhEtFTbV #Cleantech #Venturecapital #Innovation #Startups #energytransition #Corporates #Climatetech #Entrepreneurship #Sustainability #Futureoftech #Cleantechventures #Startupgrowth #Corporatecollaboration #Techinvestment

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Giuseppe Scalamogna I think this book covers a methodology for Agent Engineering that goes even farther. The methdology it describes does not limit the engineering design to LLM-centric agents. https://lnkd.in/gBVhd7m6

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At 53 Stations, we’re inspired by the incredible ways AI is driving innovation in healthcare and life sciences—and Labviva is a standout example of that potential. Labviva's procurement platform is transforming life sciences R&D by automating procurement, providing supply chain transparency, and revolutionizing how laboratories manage purchasing, tracking, and inventory replenishment. It's been a pleasure to watch their progress and see how they're accelerating the pace of science. I'm very excited to share that 53 Stations led Labviva's $25M Series B, alongside an exceptional group of existing investors. We're looking forward to partner more closely with Siamak Baharloo, Nicholas Rioux, and the talented Labviva team as they continue to drive meaningful change in the industry. Read more about our investment here: https://lnkd.in/gbVGTSvs cc: Jason Pritzker

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#Microsoft Microsoft announced a new agreement for the removal of up to 350,000 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere over ten years with marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) provider Ebb Carbon. Founded in 2021 by former Tesla, SolarCity, and Google X executives, Ebb Carbon provides a solution aimed at enhancing the natural ability of the ocean to store CO2, while improving ocean health by reducing ocean acidification. The company’s utilizes an Electrochemical Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) approach to ocean-based carbon removal that accelerates the natural ocean alkalinization process, by separating seawater into acidic and alkaline streams, with the alkaline stream returned to the ocean, where it mimics natural alkalization, converting CO2 in seawater into bicarbonate ions and enabling the ocean to absorb additional CO2 from the atmosphere. By countering rising ocean acidification resulting from climate change, the solution can also help to addresses threat to marine life and coastal ecosystems. https://lnkd.in/dUV6TEXt

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