Nordurskautid Kiddi & Jökull

In the fourth episode of the podcast, Kiddi and Jökull interview Ólafur Nielsen, CEO of Kolibri.

They discuss what Ólafur calls the digital business revolution, how incumbent companies are realising and reacting to the rapid technological changes in society.

Kolibri is an innovation partner that works with companies on creating innovative, digital products.

Ólafur's journey to become an innovation partner, the digital business revolution and one of Kolibri's most recent project: a marketplace platform for real-time sales of the oversupply electricity produced by Iceland's geothermal or hydro power plants.

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In this edition, Jökull and Kiddi discuss the role of the government in building a startup ecosystem. The spark: several announcements from Gov't institutions for actions and changes in policy aimed at making the startup ecosystem in Iceland better.

The Ministry for Industry and Innovation published a draft for an action plan, and asked the community for comments. Jökull and Kiddi give an overview of the ideas and discuss.

Kiddi and Jökull discuss the huge news for VR development in Iceland when CCP and Sólfar got funding, the new accelerator Startup Tourism and the launch of Takumi

This weeks podcast covers new drone regulations in Iceland, the unveiling of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list in Iceland, and a new Slack community for entrepreneurs and others in the Icelandic startup scene

Í þætti dagsins fjalla Kiddi og Jökull um kjarakerfi sprotastarfsfólks (e. compensation scheme). Þeir fara yfir hvernig þau er almennt og hafa verið hingað til, umræðu þess efnis að það sé tímabært að breyta kerfunum og af hverju það staðar. Einnig fara þeir yfir hugmyndir um hvernig þessar nýju útfærslur á kjarakerfunum gætu litið út.

Kiddi og Jökull ræða um fjármögnun sprotafyrirtækja, umferðir, hvað það þær þýða og hvaða hlutverkum þær gegna. Hverjir fjárfesta hvenær? Einnig fara þeir stuttlega yfir umræðu sem hefur átt sér stað undanfarnar vikur og mánuði um að bóla sé komin í fjárfestingar í kísildal.