Timucin (Tim) Ibu

Surround yourself with positivity and distance yourself from toxic people and environments. Your mental well-being deserves a healthy space. 🌿 #PositiveVibes #SelfCare #toxic #lifecoach

The generation that said no to cookies is now giving AI full access to their laptops. Everything is open and nobody seems to care. Crazy out here #AI #Privacy #Tech

Feeling nostalgic today🫶🏼✈️💓

AI assistants describe your organization before anyone reaches your site. If your position isn't written publicly, the summary gets built from someone else's framing. SMEs and large institutions, same risk. Vendor guide, read critically: tinyurl.com/TimLI-AI-B2B #AISearch #B2B #AI

Most of the European Democracy Shield is about rules, platforms, and detection. The part I find most important is the third pillar: societal resilience. Rules can slow disinformation down. They cannot make people resilient to it. That is a #communication job. Over the last three years I worked on several EU-funded projects on #disinformation. Three lessons stayed with me. 1. Reach people before the false story does. In our experience, preparing people in advance worked better than chasing false claims after they had spread. 2. The messenger matters as much as the message. Young people and seniors listened to voices they already trusted: civil society organisations, media professionals, local influencers. Not always to institutions. 3. Count effect, not only reach. The project reports more than 300,000 people reached. The harder and more useful question is what changed in how they recognise manipulation. The Shield puts media literacy and citizen engagement next to regulation. That is the right balance. But it will only work if EU communication is planned for effect from day one, not measured for reach at the end. The Commission's overview of the measures: commission.europa.eu/topics/… #EUcommunication #Disinformation #DemocracyShield

B2B buyers are building shortlists inside #ChatGPT, #Claude, #Gemini, #Copilot, and #Perplexity before they ever hit your site. LinkedIn just published a useful guide on how to show up in those answers. The headline finding: LinkedIn is the #1 most-cited domain for professional queries in AI search. Articles drive about 60% of those citations. Posts drive the other 40%, often as the path into the longer piece. What actually gets cited is less about volume and more about extractability: •A clear question in the title or first line •A short answer up top, then the proof •Lists, numbers, and a point of view only you could write •The same themes repeated by the company page, executives, and employees Rankings and click-through rate no longer tell the full story. Citations, share of voice, and sentiment do. Worth a read if you’re rethinking content for AI discovery: tinyurl.com/wdd3rrx4

I spent most of this year advising SMEs and research teams on their European Defence Fund applications. The 2026 round closed on 29 September. Some of what I saw is worth passing on. Five things come up again and again. The call document is not background reading. It is the specification. Eligible activity types, page limits, consortium composition, mandatory annexes, award criteria and their weights are all in there. Most of the trouble I saw started with somebody reading it once in February and never going back. Check your tasks against the activity table. Research actions usually stop at design. Prototyping and testing are not eligible. Design covers partial tests for risk reduction, and that wording matters. I saw work packages labelled as design that contained full system demonstrations. That is not a lost point, it is a scope problem. Budget should follow the work, not the headcount. An equal split across partners feels fair and reads badly. And if your budget was written for you without being discussed with you, raise it early. Once the proposal is built around that number, nobody wants to reopen it. One document, many authors. Partners named in the narrative with no task in the work plan. Work package leads who differ between the text and the table. Old titles in the budget file. Editor notes left in the text. None of this is about writing quality, it is about version control. Ask the hard questions in week one. Establishment and ownership control. Whether the minimum consortium composition really holds. Signed member state support where the call requires it. What the funding form obliges each partner to carry. These end proposals, and they are all knowable at the start. One more thing for the SMEs. A consortium that does not reach submission is not wasted time. Several teams I worked with learned more from stopping than they would have from submitting something that could not pass. They will be back in the next round in much better shape. Results are expected in March 2027. Happy to talk to anyone preparing for the next one. #EuropeanDefenceFund #EDF #SME #DefenceInnovation

In the #AI era, creating content is easy. What truly sets brands apart is trust. #Algorithms scale. Authentic human voice remains rare. The most valuable asset is no longer your ad budget, it’s the #reputation you build over time.

Starting today, new rules apply in the #EU for AI-generated content: Images, videos, audios, and texts manipulated with #AI must be labeled as such. This applies primarily to commercial offerings. Private individuals are generally not affected. #AIethics #privacy digital-strategy.ec.europa.e…

The EU has opened its tender for up to seven AI Gigafactories, aiming to unlock more than €30bn in combined public and private investment to expand Europe’s AI computing capacity. The framing matters here: compute access is now described as a strategic necessity, not an industrial policy extra. That’s a real shift in how Brussels talks about the technology stack Worth watching: roughly two thirds of that €30bn depends on private capital materializing, and the underlying chips still come from Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm. Sovereignty over the physical layer doesn’t yet extend to the silicon layer. Applications close 12 November, with facilities targeted to be operational by mid 2028, that timeline will be the real test. ec.europa.eu/commission/pres…

Tech companies are building AI devices that can see listen and record your world. Meta glasses Amazon wristband and Plaud pin do this every day. They want to replace phones with these tools. But people can get recorded without saying yes. Are we ready for this? #AIdevices #PrivacyRisks #FutureTech More details here edition.cnn.com/2026/07/26/t…

#Spain is the first country ever to hold both the men’s and women’s #WorldCup trophies.

Stop Planning, Start Producing: Turn Your AI Strategy into Real Business Results Most AI plans stay on paper. The gap between a great idea and actual production is where many organizations get stuck. Microsoft Frontier Transformation Week is designed specifically to close that gap and help you drive tangible business outcomes. Here is what you can expect: -Role-Specific Sessions: Insights tailored precisely to your professional focus. -Practical Demos & Live Q&As: Real-world applications, not just theoretical concepts. -Proven Customer Examples: Global vision combined with local insights and actionable next steps. Don't let your AI strategy sit on the sidelines. Gain the clarity and tools you need to act now. 📅 Learn more and register for free here: events.microsoft.com/flow/mi… #AI #DigitalTransformation #Leadership

Europe needs strong tech made at home. Tech sovereignty is now a big priority. The DIGITAL SME Summit (@EUdigitalsme) on 16 November 2026 in Brussels will bring together leaders to help European digital solutions win. Nobel winner Philippe Aghion (@Ph_Aghion) is the keynote speaker. Join the conversation and discover more here: summit.digitalsme.eu #TechSovereignty #EuropeanSMEs #DigitalEurope

Only 36% of organisations mostly or always finish projects on time. That is from the Wellingtone State of Project Management 2026 report. Which means almost two thirds of organisations are regularly missing the deadlines they committed to at the start. The report says the answer is not more pressure on the timeline. It is better discipline at the front end. Clear scope before work starts. Dependencies mapped early. Risks tracked before they turn into problems. This matches what I have seen managing IT projects and multi-partner technology programmes across Europe. The projects that delivered on time were not the ones with the tightest deadlines. They were the ones where everyone knew what was agreed, what was at risk, and what the plan was if something went wrong. Most delivery problems are governance problems in disguise. Source: Wellingtone State of Project Management 2026 kissflow.com/workflow/projec… #ITProjectManagement #ProjectGovernance #DigitalTransformation #TechLeadership

Only 16% of EU businesses required to comply with NIS2 feel fully compliant. Deadline passed in October 2024. The problem is not motivation. It is execution. Budget, guidance, internal expertise. Sound familiar? cybersmart.co.uk/nis2-resear… #NIS2 #Cybersecurity #ITGovernance

The 5 Whys is a strong technique for solving problems at work. When you face an issue just keep asking why until you reach the real root cause. It started in Toyota and helps teams improve processes. Simple questions but big results in daily operations. More info: lean.org/lexicon-terms/5-why… #ProblemSolving #LeanManagement #RootCauseAnalysis

Something shifted in 2026 in how organisations talk about AI at work. The biggest barrier to AI adoption used to be resistance to change. This year it became something different: lack of understanding. 32% of project professionals say they simply do not know how to make it work. People stopped saying no. Now they are saying they do not know where to start. I find this more interesting than the usual "AI will transform everything" narrative. Because it points to something very practical. The teams getting real value from AI tools are not the ones who adopted fastest. They are the ones who sorted out their workflows, their data, and their governance first. The AI came after. Tools do not fix unclear processes. They speed them up, in both directions. Source: State of Project Management 2026, Proteus / Xergy Group xergy.com/proteus-blog/the-s… #ProjectManagement #DigitalTransformation #AI #TechLeadership

The US government has lifted restrictions on foreign access to Anthropic’s most powerful AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the company has announced.

Strengthening #EUDefence industrial capacity goes beyond volume — it’s about speed, adaptability, and resilience.