How does Ola Källenius want to refocus Mercedes-Benz AG strategically? How does he intend to reconcile luxury, electrification and digitization with swabian cost efficency? And what was it actually like for him to switch to the role of CEO? Tha

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Jun 22nd, 2020 29m 32s

The infotainment-system MBUX wants to be on equal terms with other voice assistants like Siri, Google or Alexa. Which skills can we therefore expect from MBUX in the near future? Georges Massing, Vice President Digital Vehicle & Mobility tells

#02.01 | Hey Mercedes I: What differentiates MBUX from other Infotainment-Systems, Georges Massing?

Jun 8th, 2020 32m 10s

MBUX can check the stock market, order a chauffeur to drive your car back home or tell you whether your favorite team won or lost that important match today. Admittedly: What MBUX can do for you, still depends on the country the system is used.

HeadLights Special: Tim Höttges and Ola Källenius talk about the future of software, culture and the planet

Feb 12th, 2020 46m 57s

Future of software, future of culture, future of the planet: When the CEOs of two of the biggest German companies meet up and chat for almost an hour, you can be sure that they will speak about all the topics the world of business is currently

#01.05 | Engineering with passion: What is so special about building school buses, Leslie Kilgore?

Jun 3rd, 2019 31m 31s

Leslie Kilgore is Vice President of Engineering at Thomas Built Buses in High Point, North Carolina. She is responsible for product development of the school buses: The design, the testing, the analysis. Innovations and technologies as well as

#01.04 | What3Words: How can a navigation app change the world, Clare Jones?

May 20th, 2019 50m 28s

Clare Jones is CCO of the Daimler venture What3Words, a navigation program that displays the world in a grid of 3x3 meters. Each of these squares is labelled with a combination of three words. This means that it is even possible to find places

#01.03 | Mercedes-Benz Tech Hub: What is working in the start-up city Tel Aviv like, Adi Ofek?

May 6th, 2019 1h 1m

Adi Ofek is the CEO of our Mercedes-Benz Tech Hub in Tel Aviv. In April 2000 she joined Daimler as the first female employee of Daimler Financial Services in Israel. In 2007 Adi then went to Singapore for six years, where she was Regional Credi

#01.02 | Personnel Strategy: What kind of people do you search for our incubator LAB1886, David Hailey?

Apr 22nd, 2019 32m 58s

David Hailey is Head of Personnel Strategy at the Daimler venture Lab 1886. Born in America, he completed his Bachelor of Law at Kingston University in London in 2008 and has lived in Berlin since 2013. This is where he has been responsible for

#01.01 | Daimler CEO: What were your best and haredest times at Daimler, Dieter Zetsche?

Apr 8th, 2019 34m 14s

Dr. Dieter Zetsche had been a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG since 1998 and Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG from 2006 until May 2019. He was also Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars Division. He was born in Istanbul, T

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Mar 21st, 2019 2m 25s

Why Daimler now also needs a podcast? Many of you are already on the road with us as a mobility service provider every day anyway - but above all with our products. In the Actros on the way to the next forwarding agent, in the yellow school bus

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