LuminaTalks Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Kevin De Pauw
Podcast Overview
<p>LuminaTalks – Your Shot of Tech Dopamine: Candid Talks on Data, AI & the Minds Behind It.</p><p>🎙️ LuminaTalks brings you unfiltered, insightful conversations with the people shaping the future of Data & AI. From governance, cybersecurity, and data platforms to GenAI and intelligent agents, we explore how deep tech connects to real business decisions.</p><p>Hosted by Kevin De Pauw and Leonardo Minatti, this is where specialists and strategists meet. Let’s talk tech. Let’s talk business. Let’s talk LuminaTalks.</p>
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2/13/2026
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Recent Episodes
March 27, 2026
How an AI contract can cost your business a $2M deal | Corporate Lawyer Ruben Schoenmaekers explains
<p>What happens when founders start using AI to manage legal decisions and something goes wrong? In Episode 9 of LuminaTalks, I sat down with startup lawyer Ruben Schoonmakers. We discussed how founders are actually using AI right now, what's working, and where things quietly go sideways. From early-stage founders copy-pasting contracts and patching them with AI tools, to scaleups trying to close million-dollar deals without the right legal infrastructure in place. Ruben's take? AI can flag the risk. It can't own it. If you're building a company, investing in one, or just trying to understand how AI is reshaping business decisions, this one's worth your full attention. Ruben shares his honest predictions on AI, legal careers, and the future of startup strategy. 🔔 Subscribe to LuminaTalks for real conversations on AI, startups, business strategy, and the future. Get in touch: LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/depauw/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/depauw/</a> Instagram: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/luminatalks/">https://www.instagram.com/luminatalks/</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Summ.link">Summ.link</a>: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://summ.link/">https://summ.link/</a></p>
March 13, 2026
War is the Best Driver for Technological Advancements | Raf Lefever
<p>Is AGI the new Manhattan Project? The nuclear race was won with secrecy and science. But the AI race is going to be won with chips, energy, water, and cables. Everyone talks about AI like it's a software problem. Build a better model, win the race. But the people actually shaping the future know the real battle is happening in a completely different place, in the physical infrastructure that powers intelligence. Who controls the compute? Who controls the electricity? Who controls the data centres? That's what we get into this week. Raf and I cover a lot of ground on the global AI arms race, why Europe might actually have a shot at doing this differently, and a genuinely radical idea: what if your home could one day generate digital value the same way solar panels generate energy? We also tackle something that doesn't get nearly enough attention, fragility. A handful of damaged cables or a targeted attack on centralised infrastructure could take down entire economies. Is that a risk we should just accept? Or is there a smarter, more resilient way to build? If you're into AI, geopolitics, digital sovereignty, decentralisation, cloud infrastructure, or just where the global economy is actually heading — this one's worth your full attention. Listen now and let us know: Should infrastructure be centralised or distributed? Drop your take in the comments. Get in touch: LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/depauw/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/depauw/</a> Instagram: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/luminatalks/">https://www.instagram.com/luminatalks/</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Summ.link">Summ.link</a>: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://summ.link/">https://summ.link/</a></p>
February 27, 2026
Trump does not want a NUCLEAR BOMB to wipe Europe, He needs Azure & AWS | Raf Lefever Explains WHY
<p>"We have to become independent from the United States. We are at war." In this very special episode I sat down with Raf Lefever and honestly, some of the stuff we talked about here kept me up at night thinking about it. So basically, we're diving into this whole mess about how Europe needs to break free from American tech companies, and Raf drops this bomb about how we're literally living under tech feudalism right now. Like, he compared cloud providers to drug dealers - which sounds crazy until you actually think about it and realize he's probably right. We're at war. Not with bullets, but with data, compute, and dependency. Right now a small group of tech CEOs in the United States effectively control the infrastructure the entire world runs on. Try pulling your data out of a major cloud provider sometime. You'll quickly realize you were never really a customer, you were a serf. That's not a metaphor I'm throwing around lightly. Raf breaks down exactly why what we're living through today maps frighteningly well onto medieval feudalism, where a handful of lords controlled the land and everyone else just worked it. The land today is compute. And most of Europe is farming someone else's. Trump, AI, cloud lock-in, digital sovereignty, we get into all of it. And yes, we talk about what Europe actually needs to do to stop sleepwalking into permanent dependency. This is the teaser. The full conversation is coming very soon and trust me, you don't want to miss it. Hit subscribe so you're the first to know when it drops and let me know in the comments whether you think Europe still has a real shot at this. #LuminaTalks #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeTech #TechnoFeudalism</p>
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<p>LuminaTalks – Your Shot of Tech Dopamine: Candid Talks on Data, AI & the Minds Behind It.</p><p>🎙️ LuminaTalks brings you unfiltered, insightful conversations with the people shaping the future of Data & AI. From governance, cybersecurity, and data platforms to GenAI and intelligent agents, we explore how deep tech connects to real business decisions.</p><p>Hosted by Kevin De Pauw and Leonardo Minatti, this is where specialists and strategists meet. Let’s talk tech. Let’s talk business. Let’s talk LuminaTalks.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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