Interview

June 5, 2020

Meet the JEDI fighting Covid...and for Europe’s tech future

Could this be Europe's equivalent to the US Defence department's DARPA?


Andre Loesekrug-Pietri is a JEDI. 

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Portrait of JEDI chairman Andre Loesekrug-Pietri
JEDI chairman Andre Loesekrug-Pietri.
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