Only 36 days until 🇰🇪⚡️ Latitude59 Kenya Edition 2024, and our team is hard at work putting together a one-day program featuring 35+ speakers. Last chance to grab you EARLY BIRD TICKET: https://t.co/gEWE1vJFoo ‼️ Prices go up in two days, on October 24! #Latitude59xKenya
✈️Hello, Asia!👋 "In Singapore, we see ourselves acting as a bridge between 🇪🇪#Estonia’s highly digitized & successful startup environment and 🇸🇬#Singapore’s rapidly growing tech & innovation sectors” - @LiisiOrg#Latitude59xSingapore@SwitchSingapore
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📈 Estonia aims to have 500 deep tech startups by 2030. Singapore - the size of Hiiumaa, a small island in Estonia - already boasts 1,200 deep techs.
#Latitude59's panel “It’s About Time to Deep Tech! Vision: Nordic Tech Valley” explored solutions.
https://t.co/PY56nZ7f4A
🌍 Take a look into the future with us. This might be the aftermovie, but our eyes are set on the horizon.
Ready, set, go - you’ve got 350 days to build the world you want, and tell us all about it at Latitude59 2025! 💥😎 #bebold#buildtheworldyouwant#Latitude59
"Once we can imagine a better future, we have the responsibility to create it!" - Liisi Org, CEO of #Latitude59
Let's create a better future for #Ukraine, we're collecting funds to support our friends at the frontline. Every little bit helps: https://t.co/B89Y3oyFf6
🚀Another record-breaking edition of #Latitude59 is done, and we couldn't be more grateful for all our ambitious partners who are as bold as we are!
Thank you so much for being on board and sharing your impactful ideas at L59! 🌎Until next time! 💙
#latitudeattitude#bebold
Accelerate Estonia, in collaboration with ÄIO and Gelatex, is pleased to announce one of Europe's first public novel food tastings, which will take place on May 23rd during @Latitude59.
Learn more:
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💜 And there it is - #Latitude59 2024 is officially SOLD OUT! Fully booked! Packed! No more tickets left!
💥It will be a full house of 3500 bold people with #latitudeattitude! See you tomorrow, on May 22, as the DAY 0 kicks off with the side events!
>>>https://t.co/DJP2zUUMUo
🇪🇪We are on a mission to place #Estonia at the heart of the #globalvillage, shares @LiisiOrg, the CEO of #Latitude59 in our latest blog post!
🌎Read about our global vision, making Estonia bigger, and the delegations visiting Latitude59 2024 in Tallinn: https://t.co/rZhJxZaklR
💙💛 We are all connected. That's why our team has decided to raise money for #Ukraine during #Latitude59 2024 - join in and help us make a difference on the frontline!
🇺🇦Read more & join in: https://t.co/B89Y3oyFf6
🎧 PODCAST ALERT 🎧 - Getting ready for #Latitude59 2024: FAQ with the organizing team.
In this pre-conference episode Liisi Org (CEO), Kai Isand (Program) & Kaspar Kitsing (Partnerships) discuss what's new at Latitude59 2024 & FAQ. Enjoy!💙
https://t.co/Tfxk74EP0v
Feng Yujun, one of the China's leading Russianists and a professor at Peking University: Russia is sure to lose in Ukraine – The Economist
Four reasons why Russian Federation will lose to Ukraine, according to Feng Yujun:
🔹 The first is the level of resistance and national unity shown by Ukrainians, which has until now been extraordinary.
🔹 The second is international support for Ukraine, which, though recently falling short of the country’s expectations, remains broad.
🔹 The third factor is the nature of modern warfare, a contest that turns on a combination of industrial might and command, control, communications and intelligence systems. One reason Russia has struggled in this war is that it is yet to recover from the dramatic deindustrialisation it suffered after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
🔹 The final factor is information. When it comes to decision-making, Vladimir Putin is trapped in an information cocoon, thanks to his having been in power so long. The Russian president and his national-security team lack access to accurate intelligence. The system they operate lacks an efficient mechanism for correcting errors. Their Ukrainian counterparts are more flexible and effective.
His conclusion is as follows:
🔸 Russia will be forced to withdraw from all occupied Ukrainian territories, including Crimea.
🔸 Russia's nuclear capability is no guarantee of success. Feng Yujun gives the example of the United States, which left Vietnam, Korea, and Afghanistan with no less nuclear potential than the Russian Federation has today.
🔸 Kyiv has proven that Moscow is not invincible, so a ceasefire under the "Korean" scenario is ruled out.
🔸 The war is a turning-point for Russia. It has consigned Putin’s regime to broad international isolation. He has also had to deal with difficult domestic political undercurrents, from the rebellion by the mercenaries of the Wagner Group and other pockets of the military — for instance in Belgorod — to ethnic tensions in several Russian regions and the recent terrorist attack in Moscow. These show that political risk in Russia is very high. Mr Putin may recently have been re-elected, but he faces all kinds of possible black-swan events.
🔸 After the war, Ukraine will have the chance join both the EU and NATO, while Russia will lose its former Soviet republics because they see Putin's aggression there as a threat to their sovereignty and territorial integrity.
According to Feng Yujun, the war, meanwhile, has made Europe wake up to the enormous threat that Russia’s military aggression poses to the continent’s security and the international order, bringing post-cold-war EU-Russia detente to an end. Many European countries have given up their illusions about Mr Putin’s Russia.
Source: https://t.co/hod0Ch4wmZ
Today - as the world celebrates Women's Day and the success of strong female role models - Latitud59's CEO Liisi Org discusses how technology could help overcome inequality, not increase it.
#womensday#diversity#technology#WomenInTech
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Watch: St Patrick’s Day 2024 🇮🇪
Celebrating the 70 million people around the 🌍 who call #Ireland ‘home’
“Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine”
We live in each other’s shelter
Happy #StPatricksDay ☘️
Lá Fhéile Pádraig 🙌
This is #GlobalIreland
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How to foster innovation panel discussion.
Üllar Jaakso - Digital Transformation Advisor, Digital Nation.
Kenneth Muhangi - partner, KTA Addvocates
Doctor Julius Butime - Dean, Strathmore University
Nikola Pavesic - Director of Devex & Startups, infobip
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