Podcast #129: Food Quality as a Service | IIoT | Momenta

Axino AI - Food Quality as a Service

In this week’s podcast, Ken Forster interviews Ihab Hourani, CTO and Founder, Axino. Axino AI is Momenta’s newest portfolio company. Headquartered in Switzerland, it is providing Food Quality as a Service.

Ihab is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur in the wireless and IoT sectors, with a 20-year career spanning from executive management to design engineering, marketing, business development, and start-up founder. With a start developing sophisticated verification systems for nuclear weapon tests, he has since been at the forefront of remote sensing and monitoring. Among the other companies he has worked for are Oracle, T-Systems and Ascom, before founding Axino. Ihab holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Vienna.

Some of the discussion points during this interview:

• How did your early work at CTBTO inspire your leading role in IoT?
• What were some of the key projects during your time at Ascom?
• What is Axino’s value proposition?
• What exactly is core temperature measurement and how is it traditionally measured?
• What are the key drivers and opportunities for Food Quality services in the next 5 years?
• We recently invested in Axino, tell us about the progress and plans from your perspective.

• "Good strategy bad strategy" by Richard Rumelthow - The book focuses on interviews with CEOs from all over and challenges their strategy. Ihab uses this specific strategy at Axino and it is also used by IKEA. 

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