In the eleventh episode of our podcast, AWS Business Unit Manager Tanja Spennlingwimmer once again welcomed two powerhouse women from the Austrian innovation sector to the studio. She speaks with Natascha Fürst, CEO of Female Founders—an organization dedicated to promoting greater diversity and female leadership in the startup and investment sectors—and Christiane Tusek, Vice Rector of Johannes Kepler University Linz, who is deeply committed to academic innovation and new models of engagement.

In the eleventh episode of our podcast, AWS Business Unit Manager Tanja Spennlingwimmer once again welcomed two powerhouse women from the Austrian innovation sector to the studio. She speaks with Natascha Fürst, CEO of Female Founders—an organization dedicated to promoting greater diversity and female leadership in the startup and investment sectors—and Christiane Tusek, Vice Rector of Johannes Kepler University Linz, who is deeply committed to academic innovation and new models of engagement.

In our tenth podcast episode, two podcasts come together: “IP FREQUENZ” from the Austrian Patent Office and “Women4Innovation” from NCP-IP. Birgit Mitter, a scientist, inventor, and co-founder of Ensemo GmbH, speaks with Raphaela Tiefenbacher-Bath from the Austrian Patent Office and Tanja Spennlingwimmer from aws – Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH about her groundbreaking invention, intellectual property (IP), and the journey from research to starting a company. In short: female innovation at its best! Listen now!

The ninth episode of the Women4Innovation podcast is being released in a new format. Starting with this episode, we will increasingly be interviewing two women from the Austrian R&D&I community on a variety of topics. In this episode, we’re placing a special focus on the topic of academic spin-offs, which is currently gaining significant momentum in Austria—including through the aws Spin-off Initiative and the NCP-IP Spin-off Checklist—and we’ve taken this as an opportunity to bring two experts into the studio who, from very different perspectives, deal in great depth with the topics of academic spin-offs and intellectual property.

For the eighth episode of the Women4Innovation podcast, we once again have a powerhouse from the Austrian innovation scene in the studio. Eva Czernohorszky is the Head of Technology Services at the Vienna Business Agency and a veteran of the Austrian tech scene, and we’re thrilled that she took the time to visit us in the studio. She shares stories from her eventful career in Vienna’s tech scene and discusses all the impact she’s been able to make in recent years in her role at the Vienna Business Agency.

For the seventh episode of our podcast, we dive into the topic of social impact investing and have a very special guest: Simone Pies. Simone Pies is the founder and CEO of RPunkt GmbH. She aims in particular to encourage women to act in an economically sustainable way and to successfully implement meaningful ideas. Simone has also been an active business angel and mentor for early-stage startups since 2016. In this role, she focuses on raising the visibility of female founders as well as the personal and professional development of the founding team. Simone would like to highlight a special project close to her heart and a female founder. Rebecca Wiederstein is the founder and CEO of House of Commonground. House of Commonground supports companies in developing and implementing socially sustainable measures that actively incorporate the knowledge, experience, and ideas of employees. House of Commonground pursues the goal that motivates me to invest in young companies: to create a world in which economic success goes hand in hand with social well-being.

For the sixth episode of the Women4Innovation podcast, we invited a woman to the studio who helps create the necessary conditions when it comes to the topic of women and innovation. Beate El Chichakli answers questions on the topics of knowledge valorisation

For our fifth episode, we welcomed another truly inspiring woman from Austria’s innovation and IP community to the studio. We spoke with Romana Schwab once again about current topics in the field of innovation and learned more about her personal story. We also discussed knowledge commercialization and the importance of networks for women in the innovation sector.

In the fourth episode of our Women4Innovation podcast series, we’re once again pleased to introduce another fascinating woman from the Austrian startup and IP communities. Carina Zehetmaier, a serial entrepreneur in the AI sector and president of Women in AI, shares in this episode what makes the AI field so exciting—especially for women—and how she came to found several companies in the field of Trustworthy AI as a lawyer.

In the first episode of our Women4Innovation podcast, we speak with patent attorney Petra Gufler about the important issues that matter to women in the world of intellectual property. AWS Managing Director Edeltraud Stiftinger and AWS Business Unit Manager Tanja Spennlingwimmer discuss with the partner at the patent law firm Matschnig & Forsthuber the reasons why women file fewer patents than men, learn more about the challenges women face in the IP industry, and also gain insight into Petra Gufler’s personal career path.

For the second episode of the Women4Innovation podcast, aws Managing Director Edeltraud Stiftinger and aws Business Unit Manager Tanja Spennlingwimmer invited founder Isabella Hinterleitner to join them. The three powerhouse women in innovation discuss women’s experiences in starting a business.

In another episode of the NCP-IP podcast, the aws Women in Tech team spoke with Xista Venture Partner Ingrid Kelly Spillmann. Ingrid shared a lot about her career path, which has taken her through a wide variety of fields—from research to a patent law firm and a technology transfer office (TTO)—all the way to Xista. She provided fascinating insights into the world of investors. Give it a listen.