About Ivo Luijendijk

Job title Global Blockchain Director, Member of the Atos Scientific Community, FS&I, Atos and member of the Scientific Community

Ivo is a business technologist with over 20 years of experience in bringing technology driven innovation into the business of his clients. His natural drive to understand and demystify complex topics is a constant in his career, where he helped clients make the changes they needed with the help of technological innovations as they emerge. After 15 years’ experience as a banking consulting, Ivo now drives business reinvention for the Atos global financial services clients. Ivo is a coauthor of the recently published Atos circular economy white paper found here.

Articles posted by Ivo Luijendijk

A brief introduction to innovation ecosystems

In recent years, innovation has moved out of closed, corporate labs and started to expand into the wider ecosystem of partners and collaborators. Arguably, this could be seen as a direct result of the evolution of digital that we see in society. For one, digital is increasingly becoming the core of modern society with governments, companies and other organizations adopting digital-first…

The unexpected benefits of cryptocurrency regulation

Sir Winston Churchill is credited with saying "never let a good crisis go to waste,” indicating that even in times of duress, a silver lining exists. One could then argue that the recent cryptocurrency crash, which caused so many retail investors to lose substantial parts of their digital asset portfolios, resulted in a silver lining indeed – the regulation of the…

We’ll bounce back from COVID-19, but let’s agree not to bounce back from digitalization

As I write this, the entire world is building their respective societies back up to pre-COVID-19. Vaccination programs, led by the pharmaceuticals and orchestrated by governments and NGOs, are finally giving us confidence that the global pandemic will be controlled. It may require a single global vaccination…