Episodes

  • Creating Circular Business Models

    Creating Circular Business Models
    Feb 15 2022

    On Episode 2 of Season 3 of This Week @ LogTrade, our CEO, Sara Ali and our Founder, Fredrik Svedberg dive into the topic of creating circular business models. What are the challenges to shift to a circular business and how do taxes impact the purchase of used goods? Fredrik poses a question to Sara: Do you know what are the two most used recycled resources in the world? They also touch upon one the main pillars of circular business, which is traceability. Enjoy listening!


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    20 mins
  • The Power of Infrastructure & Predictiveness

    The Power of Infrastructure & Predictiveness
    Jan 27 2022
    Welcome to the first episode of 2022! On Season 3, our CEO Sara Ali & Fredrik Svedberg, our Founder, discuss the "Power of Infrastructure & Predictiveness." Speaking from the highest resort in Europe, Val Thorens in France, Fredrik drove from South of Sweden for 20 hours in his Tesla and elobrates how on his journey indicates how Tesla is on another level of integrating third party services with infrastructure. For example, how can a Tesla predict the personal needs of the driver and combine it the position of the car at that specific point of the journey? Also, would you think Tesla’s competitor could be Apple? Enjoy listening!

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    15 mins
  • Season Finale: Planning Ahead, Thoughts & Reflections

    Season Finale: Planning Ahead, Thoughts & Reflections
    Dec 16 2021
    How do you plan ahead, one year or five years, when the future is foggy? What are your thoughts now that United States Covid-19 death toll crosses 800,000, a year into vaccine drive? Tune into episode 10, the season finale where our CEO, Sara Ali & Founder, Fredrik Svedberg reflect and share their personal thoughts about 2021. Thank you and we appreciate everyone who has made the time to tune into our podcasts. Here’s to a healthy and happy 2022!

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    21 mins
  • Energy Storage, Nanotechnology, Academia

    Energy Storage, Nanotechnology, Academia
    Dec 9 2021
    Tune into episode 9 of This Week @ LogTrade, with our guest, Dr Waqas Khalid, a research scientist scholar and a lecturer based in University of California, Berkeley. An expert and a trailblazer in leveraging existing resources and energy storage, he explains how how nanotechnology can integrated in our everyday life and how you can commercialize this technology platform. There are more discussions with our CEO, Sara Ali & our Founder, Fredrik Svedberg, surrounding democratising the education system, the future of academia and beyond.

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    36 mins
  • India & Sweden Trade, Textile Industry, Indian CEOs in BigTech

    India & Sweden Trade, Textile Industry, Indian CEOs in BigTech
    Dec 3 2021
    On episode 8 of This Week @ LogTrade, we bring you our special guest, Atika Chona, an entrepreneur from India who is a champion of sustainability, innovation and circularity, especially, in the textile industry. Along with our Founder, Fredrik Svedberg and our CEO, Sara Ali, they discuss various topics about the different business cultures between India and Sweden. They discuss an interesting talking point about how, “India is not one India. India is many India” and how the textile industry has through changes during the pandemic with genuine demand for sustainability. Also, they discuss how Indian-origin CEOs are leading tech giants in the US.

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    29 mins
  • Black Friday, Fossil-Free Steel from SSAB & Volvo, NASA

    Black Friday, Fossil-Free Steel from SSAB & Volvo, NASA
    Nov 25 2021
    We have casual discussions lined up on Episode 7, starting with the impacts of overconsumption perpetuated by e-Commerce “sales” like Black Friday, Cyber Monday etc. Sara our CEO, then talks about a forward-thinking advert of Volvo Group’s first vehicle made of fossil-free steel from SSAB and why it struck a chord with her. While, Fredrik our Founder, talks about NASA’s latest mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid and also Sweden’s new space regulations. Did you hear of the latest confusion Switzerland & Sweden? Enjoy the talks :)

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    24 mins
  • IBM, Cloud Computing, Trustworthy AI,

    IBM, Cloud Computing, Trustworthy AI,
    Nov 11 2021
    On episode 6 of This Week @ LogTrade, we have a guest speaker, Frode Langmeon of IBM, who is dedicated to empowering and inspiring ecosystems of startups, scaleups, ISV's and partners at IBM. Fredrik, Sara and Frode discuss various topics from IBM Cloud to Open Source to the trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence and everything in between. They dive deep into "trustworthy AI" which drives business transformation and they touch upon the value of Quantum Computing. Fredrik poses a tough question to Frode about, what career advice would he give today to a 15 year old?

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    31 mins
  • COP26, Food Delivery, Oligopoly

    COP26, Food Delivery, Oligopoly
    Nov 4 2021
    This Week @ LogTrade, episode 5, is recorded outdoors at a beautiful park in Malmö, Sweden. Fredrik (Founder of LogTrade) & Sara (CEO of LogTrade) question the logic of holding the 2021 G20 Rome Summit last week, and then soon after, the same decision-makers fly over to the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, UK. Did anyone think of the aircraft fuel emissions? They also question, the food delivery industry business models like UberEats & Grubhub, are they really profitable? Finally, they discuss Oligopoly, which is an issue in all industries. For example, as mentioned in last week’s episode of how Google & Facebook dominate and control the digital ads industry. How do you change that? Is it deeply rooted in history and irreversible?

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    23 mins