The Wavemakers Podcast

Stories of the people shaping the change to green shipping, at the intersection of maritime, tech and decarbonisation.

Maritime industry is undergoing rapid change, new fuels and technologies often take the limelight, but we believe the key to success of every innovation are people. The Wavemakers Podcast aims to shine the light to those at the frontline - the chamions, innovators, 'status quo challengers', innovation and community catalysts, or simply being the first impacted by the change.

How does it feel to drive and pioneer change? What are the puzzle pieces of their story that drive their leadership? These are the questions that the podcast aims to answer as we get to know the maritime leaders over a coffee chat and beyond their professional titles.

Join us on this voyage!

The Podcast is hosted by Gordana Ilic, a co-founder of BetterSea and a former Head of Decarbonisation Portfolio Management at A.P. Moller - Maersk.

Contributors

Host

Gordana Ilic

Gordana is a co-founder of BetterSea. For the past 15 years and over 7 countries, she have been catalysing innovation in sustainability as a researcher, entrepreneur, corporate catalyst.

Some of her past professional hats include Head of Decarbonisation Innovation Portfolio Management for A.P. Moller-Maersk, creator of Microsoft for Sustainability programs in SEA, and Microsoft for Startups GrowthX Accelerator in MENA, where she worked closely with Microsoft's startups and their corporate innovation ecosystem. Gordana is a serial entrepreneur, and holds a PhD in Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

These experiences thought her that the key to innovation are not technologies, it is the people. Their beliefs and experiences, that light the internal power to challenge the status quo, drive and catalyse the change. The roles we hold are temporary, and everything else is what enables us to lead.