Viisi Talk #29: Melanie Rieback | Post Growth Entrepreneurship | 30 september 2020

Let op: Viisi Talk in het Engels.

In the Information Age, new technologies and data-gathering power growth and change. Companies are addicted to exponential growth. But is this good for our planet and our society? In recent years social entrepreneurship claims to offer an alternative - but something still doesn't feel right. As the founder of the world's first not-for-profit computer security consultancy company, Melanie Rieback’s talk will combine her practical experience building "nonprofit businesses" with the macroeconomic theory of "post-growth" economists like Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth. This talk will question everything that you know about entrepreneurship, provide practical tools to build something different, and then offer you a blue pill and a red pill. Can you go back to "business as usual" again?

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Dr. Melanie Rieback is CEO/co-founder van Radically Open Security, het eerste non-profit adviesbureau voor computerbeveiliging. Voorheen was ze tevens universitair docent Computer Science aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) en was ze werkzaam in onderzoeks- en managementrollen bij o.a. Citrix en ING.

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