Best Ralph Cochrane Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 8 - Matthijs Machielse - BigBrother 33:58

44m ago33:58

33:58

Ralph Cochrane interviews Matthijs Machielse from BigBrother in the Netherlands, a leading security technology provider for the forecourt and convenience retail markets. We talk about data, some of the trends that BigBrother has discovered and how to prevent crime on the forecourt using AI and other technologies. Podcast host: Ralph Cochrane Produc…

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Measuring the net impact of ICT on climate change 36:05

2d ago36:05

36:05

Ralph Cochrane interviews Ilias Iakovidis who is a special adviser within the European Commission (DG Connect) working on the nexus of digital and green transitions. We discuss: The Digital Product Passport The Real Net Impact of Digitalisation The Circular Economy Why the environment is as important as the economy Host: Ralph Cochrane Produced by:…

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Episode 7 - Jörg Heilingbrunner & Ralph Mahnke - Scheidt & Bachmann 35:09

3d ago35:09

35:09

Ralph Cochrane interviews Jörg Heilingbrunner (CEO) and Ralph Mahnke (Director e-Mobility & AI) from Scheidt & Bachmann about the changing landscape on the forecourt as well as their focus on innovation and the customer experience. Podcast host: Ralph Cochrane Produced by event.videoBy Ralph Cochrane

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Where next for the EU Green Deal? 25:22

1M ago25:22

25:22

Istvan Ujhelyi was an MEP From 2014-2024 and a leading figure within the European Parliament working within the Environment, Transport and Tourism committees. Twice voted special representative of the year he has recently created a think tank focused on helping business work with the EU institutions. Ralph Cochrane (host) interviews Istvan about wh…

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Episode 6 - Farzaneh Heidari, a2i Systems 35:20

3M ago35:20

35:20

AI and Dynamic Pricing with Farzaneh Heidari from A2i Systems | ForecourtTech Podcast In this episode of the ForecourtTech podcast, Ralph Cochrane is joined by Farzaneh Heidari from A2i Systems to delve into the world of AI, dynamic pricing, and data science. Farzaneh provides an overview of A2i Systems, from its origins with two PhD students to it…

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Episode 5 - Frederick Beckmann, CEO of Q1 Energie AG 31:00

3M ago31:00

31:00

Ralph Cochrane talks to Frederick Beckmann, CEO of Q1 about their autonomous store in Germany, why he thinks we're only at the beginning of the AI revolution and his work with start-ups and innovation at SmartCityHouse including an announcement about their collaboration with forecourttech for our event in October. Podcast host: Ralph Cochrane Produ…

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Episode 4 - Jan Harmen Akkerman, CEO of TanQyou 28:13

4M ago28:13

28:13

Ralph Cochrane talks to Jan Harmen Akkerman, CEO of TanQyou in the Netherlands about his journey creating mobility as a service and using cloud technology to take their software and make it available to dozens of other fuel operators across Europe under the brand MoveYou. Podcast host: Ralph Cochrane Produced by event.video…

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Episode 3 - Mark Wohltmann (Director, NACS Global) 35:14

4M ago35:14

35:14

Mark Wohltmann travels the world looking at convenience retail for NACS Global (National Association of Convenience Stores). Ralph Cochrane talks to Mark about the trends we're seeing in the industry and what's exciting him for the future. Podcast host: Ralph Cochrane Produced by event.videoBy Ralph Cochrane

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Episode 2 - François Mezzina (President, International Forecourt Standards Forum) 33:21

5M ago33:21

33:21

François Mezzina is the President of the International Forecourt Standards Forum. He's also a payment specialist with TotalEnergies, based in Paris, France. In this episode we discuss the importance of standards, how they're used and what trends François is seeing around the world. To watch the video of this podcast or subscribe to news from foreco…

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Episode 1 - What happened at UNITI Expo with Christian Warning from The Retail Marketeers 28:32

5M ago28:32

28:32

In our very first episode, take a look at the changing world of forecourts and the key technology and convenience topics at UNITI expo with our special guest, Christian Warning from The Retail Marketeers. Many listeners will know Christian, who is based in Germany, as the conference chair at forecourttech which takes place in Spain in October each …

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Deadly River - Ralph Frerichs 56:16

8+ y ago56:16

56:16

When cholera arrived unexpectedly in Haiti in October 2010, a great mystery unfolded as disease and death decimated the population. Deadly River (Cornell University Press/ILR Press, 2016), and this supplement tell the story of cholera in Haiti, of French epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux’s determined to find its origins so he could help eliminate its …

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National Geographic Celebrates 100 Years - Ford Cochran 28:57

8+ y ago28:57

28:57

Travel with National Geographic photographers as they explore the most fascinating travel adventures in the United States. Take a peak the some of the most interesting "stops" along the way. Explore the world of wonderment as you travel across the U.S. with your kids! Take them to places you would never venture out to...…

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Matthew Palmer - The Wolf of Sarajevo 15:32

8+ y ago15:32

15:32

A riveting novel of international suspense from acclaimed author and veteran diplomat Matthew Palmer.Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian is back in Sarajevo at the American embassy, and the specter of war once again hangs over the Balkans. The Bosnian Serb leader, who had for …

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Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best 25:22

8+ y ago25:22

25:22

Integration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America’s xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities. In Utah, we meet educators who connect newly arrived Spanish-speaking st…

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Patrick O'Donnell - Washington's Immortals 28:31

8+ y ago28:31

28:31

In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Britain, the revolution was on the verge of a sudden and disastrous end. General George Washington found his troops outmanned and outmaneuvered at the Battle of Brooklyn, and it looked like there was no escape. But thanks to a series of desper…

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Clint Emerson - 100 Deadly Skills, The SEAL's Operative Guide.mp2 36:12

8+ y ago36:12

36:12

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Hal Niedzviecki - Trees on Mars 36:59

8+ y ago36:59

36:59

The future is big right now—for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now. In Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, cultural critic and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki asks how and when we started believing we could and should “create the future.” What is…

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Roberto Gonzales - Lives in Limbo 26:17

8+ y ago26:17

26:17

Over two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, who had good grades and a strong network of community sup…

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John Jacobs - Life is Good - Casual Interview 18:59

8+ y ago18:59

18:59

Life is not perfect. Life is not easy. Life is good.We see it when we believe it. Each one of us has a choice: to focus our energy on obstacles or opportunities. To fixate on our problems, or focus on solutions. We can harp on what’s wrong with the world (see most news media), or we can cultivate what’s right with the world. What we focus on grows.…

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Stephen Alvarez - Rarely Seen, Photographs of the Extraordinary 15:15

8+ y ago15:15

15:15

In this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. Shot by some of the world's finest photographers, New York Times bestseller Rarely Seen features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It's all here: 30,00…

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Simon Singer - America's Safest City 41:22

9y ago41:22

41:22

Winner of the American Society of Criminology 2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology Since the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. Yet, like many of America’s seemingly idyllic suburbs,…

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Tess Gerritsen - Playing with Fire 19:26

9y ago19:26

19:26

“When you look at her, what do you see?” “She’s my daughter. Of course I think she’s perfect in every way. But…” “But?”My throat chokes to a whisper. “I’m afraid of her now.”Imagine if you were home alone and your three-year-old daughter violently attacked you.Julia doesn’t understand what is happening to her daughter, but she thinks she knows what…

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Robert Crais - The Promise 18:49

9y ago18:49

18:49

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in the new heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais. Loyalty, commitment, and the fight for justice have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it coul…

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Tavis Smiley - The Covenant with Black America; Ten Years Later 15:40

9y ago15:40

15:40

In 2006, Tavis Smiley teamed up with other leaders in the Black community to create a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans. The Covenant with Black America, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, ran the gamut from health care to criminal justice, affordable housing to education, voting right…

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Joseph Finder - Suspicion 29:35

9y ago29:35

29:35

Single father Danny Goodman would do anything — anything — to protect his teenaged daughter, Abby, from more unhappiness after her mother’s death. Struggling to keep her at the private school she loves, he accepts a favor from an unexpected benefactor: Thomas Galvin, father of Abby’s best friend and one of the wealthiest men in Boston. Galvin offer…

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Cecelia Tichi - Jack London: A Writer's Fight for a Better America 36:53

9y ago36:53

36:53

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to…

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Sally Loughridge - Daniel and His Starry Night Blanket: A Story of Illness and Sibling Love 30:40

9y ago30:40

30:40

This is the tale of a young boy whose older sister gets cancer and, from his perspective, too much of their family's attention. Written and illustrated by Sally Loughridge, the book focuses on the emotional impact of his sister's illness and treatment on him. The author's unique background as a professional artist, cancer survivor, and retired clin…

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David Strange - A Conservative and Compassionate Approach to Immigration Reform 28:10

9y ago28:10

28:10

Although the United States is a nation founded by immigrants, Alberto Gonzales and David Strange believe that national immigration policy and enforcement over the past thirty years has been inadequate. This failure by federal leaders has resulted in a widespread introduction of state immigration laws across the country. Gonzales and Strange assert …

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Bert & John Jacobs - Life is Good 17:09

9y ago17:09

17:09

From Life is Good founders and brothers Bert and John Jacobs, this inspiring book of wisdom celebrates the power of optimism: the driving force behind their beloved, socially conscious clothing and lifestyle brand, now worth more than $100 million.Following the chronology of their personal and professional journeys, Bert and John share their unique…

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Nick Bunker - An Empire on the Edge, How Britain Came to Fight America 27:40

9y ago27:40

27:40

Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryWritten from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. “A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most…

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David Baldacci - The Keeper 10:44

9y ago10:44

10:44

Vega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death. And she believed it - until the night she stumbled across a secret that proved that everything she knew was a lie.Now just one thing stands between Vega Jane and freedom - the Quag. In or…

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Sandra Brown—Operation Thriller 22:49

9y ago22:49

22:49

In this episode Brown discusses her book Operation Thriller. Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-two New York Times bestsellers, including LOW PRESSURE (2012), LETHAL(2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006),CHILL FACTOR (2005), and WHITE HOT (2004).Brown began her writing career in 198…

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Laurie King & Les Klinger—A Study in Sherlock 30:40

9y ago30:40

30:40

In this episode King and Klinger discuss the story collection they edited entitled a Study in Sherlock. Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one-of-a-kind book. These modern masters place the sleuth i…

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David Laskin—The Children's Blizzard 29:15

9y ago29:15

29:15

An award-winning classic of creative non-fiction, The Children’s Blizzard is the true story of an epic winter storm that hit the Upper Midwest on January 12, 1888. Laskin unfolds this blizzard of unprecedented suddenness and ferocity by focusing on half a dozen pioneer families – most of them immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia. Hailed by the W…

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Alex Grecian—The Devil's Workshop 26:20

9y ago26:20

26:20

They thought he was gone, but they were wrong. Jack the Ripper is loose in London once more.Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad faces the most shocking case of its existence, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestsellers The Yard and The Black Country.London, 1890. A small group of the city’s elite, fed…

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Sandra Brown - Friction 24:52

9y ago24:52

24:52

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes a gripping story of family ties and forbidden attraction.Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the cust…

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Mike Bond—House of Jaguar 30:11

9y ago30:11

30:11

Chopper pilot and Vietnam war hero Joe Murphy finds himself in the middle of the brutal Guatemalan revolution when he witnesses an attack on a Mayan village by the Guatemalan Army and its CIA “advisors”. Badly injured, he escapes on a nightmare trek through the jungle, hunted by the Army, the CIA, and death squads.Healed by guerrilla doctor Dona Vi…

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Raymond Khoury—Rasputin's Shadow 32:45

9y ago32:45

32:45

It all starts on a cold, bleak day in 1916, a mining pit in Siberia turns into a bloodbath when its miners attack each other, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men – a mysterious, horrified man of few words, and Grigory Rasputin, trusted confidant of the tsar – hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage.I…

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Robert Cunningham - Afghanistan on the Bounce 27:44

9y ago27:44

27:44

What was it like to serve in Afghanistan? That is the question civilians often ask returning servicemembers of the armed forces. Afghanistan: On the Bounce brilliantly conveys the full range of the troops’ experiences—on patrol, in combat, in the chow line, and in religious services—through photographs, stories, diagrams, and removable ephemera.As …

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Eve Spangler - Understanding Israel/Palistine, Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict 31:25

9y ago31:25

31:25

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the longest, ongoing hot-and-cold war of the 20th and 21st centuries. It has produced more refugees than any current conflict, generating fully one quarter of all refugees worldwide. Everyone knows that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is important itself, and is also fueling tensions throughout the Middle East. …

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Jeff Deaver - Solitude Creek 14:10

9y ago14:10

14:10

Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (Daily Telegraph, UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller.A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for t…

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Peter Leonard - Eyes Closed Tight 30:18

9y ago30:18

30:18

O'Clair is a former Detroit homicide investigator who now owns a motel in Pompano Beach, Florida in his retirement. He runs the place with his much younger girlfriend, Virginia, who's a knockout and can fix anything. One morning, he’s cleaning up after the previous night’s partiers when he sees a lovely young woman stretched out asleep on a lounge …

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Tess Gerritsen - What's Next? 5:49

9y ago5:49

5:49

Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was p…

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David Baldacci - Memory Man 5:32

9y ago5:32

5:32

Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice.The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an impr…

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Andrew Gerow Hodges, Jr.- Behind Nazi Lines 24:28

9y ago24:28

24:28

In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one-man had the courage to fight the odds . . . An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish New Yorker injured in a Nazi ambush. An eighteen-year-old G…

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Joseph Finder - The Fixer 28:55

9y ago28:55

28:55

New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers his next breakneck stand-alone thriller about the secrets families can keep, and the danger of their discoveryWhen former investigative reporter Rick Hoffman loses his job, fiancée, and apartment, his only option is to move back into — and renovate — the home of his miserable youth, now empty…

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Stephanie Sacks - What the Fork Are You Eating? 16:41

9y ago16:41

16:41

It's labeled "natural," "grass-fed," or "free-roaming;" yet it might be anything but. It's time to find out what you're actually eating...When your groceries are labeled “low-fat,” “sugar-free,” and even “natural” and "antibiotic-free," it’s easy to assume that you’re making healthy choices. Yet even some of those seemingly wholesome offerings cont…

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Jay Richards - Silhouette of Virtue 39:15

9y ago39:15

39:15

It is 1973. A small college town in Southern Illinois is terrorized by a spree of sadistic assaults. The rapist tells the victims—all Asian women—that he is making them pay for America’s betrayal in Vietnam. When the only other Black faculty member is accused of the crimes, African American philosophy professor Nathan “Ribs” Rivers struggles to sus…

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Mick Ebeling-Not Impossible 37:10

9+ y ago37:10

37:10

Mick Ebeling—a film and TV producer by trade, an optimist by nature—set out on a simple act of kindness that quickly turned into a lifelong mission. In the process he discovered that he could, indeed, change the world. And, as he recounts his own adventures in this fast-paced, fascinating new book, he shows you how you can, too.Then the question be…

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Brad Taylor-No Fortunate Son 27:16

9+ y ago27:16

27:16

In the latest thriller in the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series, a hostage situation places America’s most powerful political elite at the mercy of their worst enemies.When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter from Blaisdell Consulting—the umbrella cover company for their real employer, a top-secret co…

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