Welcome to The European Perspective
Jens Heitland, Stephen Brooks and Stewart Guenther examine the developments that matter to executives leading and building companies across Europe. Technology, AI, capital, corporate transformation, industry, entrepreneurship, success and failure are all on the table.
The discussion is candid, practical and grounded in business news, with an American outside view that challenges European assumptions.
This is a business podcast rather than a political commentary show. Policy enters when it changes the decisions leaders need to make.
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EP02: Why Culture Decides Europe’s Future With AI
In Episode two of The European Perspective, Jens Heitland, Stephen Brooks and Stewart Guenther discuss what recent deals reveal about Europe’s growing reliance on US technology, starting with the AstraZeneca and Oracle partnership and Amazon’s 16 billion investment in Germany, and moving into compute shortages, energy constraints and the opportunity for European engineering in smaller, more efficient AI infrastructure. The panel looks at why Volkswagen and the wider automotive industry are struggling to adapt in markets such as China, how organizational culture determines whether companies can implement AI successfully, what Jensen Huang’s communication style shows about leadership, and why recent cyberattacks on legacy systems are bringing decades of technology debt into focus for large organizations.
EP01: The Human Side of AI Readiness in Europe
In this episode of The European Perspective, Jens Heitland, Stephen Brooks, and Stewart Guenther discuss how organizations in Europe are using AI today, why the human side of change is holding many of them back, what recent communication missteps at the large AI labs reveal about leadership under pressure, and how the layoffs moving through European industries could open space for innovation and new businesses.