Venturi's Voice: Technology | Leadership | Staffing | Career | Innovation

Ahmad is Engineering Manager @ Indeed Flex (formerly Syft) Indeed Flex is a market-leading flexible staffing platform. They unite job seekers and employers in the hospitality, industrial, retail, care, and facilities management sectors, to smooth the recruitment process of part-time and temporary employees. They currently support more than 6,000 employers and 50,000 jobseekers. In this episode, Ben and Ahmad chat about Mental and the cultural differences between corporate and start-ups. Tolerance and adaptation in a start-up environment and how this is very important when scaling upwards aggressively and successfully. Technology: 'Log the world', how being data-driven is essential in terms of company strategy, but not to forget that being data-driven is not there to replace the human element and input.

Netta is Director & Head of Diversity & Inclusion at IAC Applications. Her mission is to create inclusive, collaborative and forward-thinking workplaces by focusing on people, products, and programs. Netta’s number-one mission is to break barriers and bias through educating and empowering businesses. Her mission is to create inclusive, collaborative and forward-thinking workplaces by focusing on people, products, and programs. Under Netta's leadership, Google said: “IAC Apps is a star example of a partner pushing towards gender equality as well as overall cultural equality”. Netta is the most sought-after speaker for topics around diversity and inclusion with over 40 events under her belt 2018- year to date. She is a regular speaker and panelist at diversity and HR conferences and She has also participated as a thought leader alongside executives from Google and Foursquare in a Crowded Tech Jobs panel. Show Notes: 00.35 Netta’s background and career progression. 07.04 Transitioning from a business owner to working in corporate America. 13.56 Diversity can increase the bottom line of your business. 20.51 Conscious bias training. 25.04 What keeps you motivated. 28.52 The uplift in roles around AI, data, inclusion & diversity. 30.07 Passionate about increasing diversity. 32.08 What advice would you give to others looking for a career in HR?

Drew is CEO @ Upp Technologies Upp is the only Connected Retail Performance platform in the market that automates your Google Shopping and Performance Max management through a data-led approach powered by cutting-edge AI and Machine Learning technology. Our customers include brands and retailers such as Charles Tyrwhitt, Nordgreen, Poundshop.com, Equus, Bombinate, Ridgemont and Nkuku. In this episode, Ben and Drew chat about how Upp Technologies uses a data-led approach with market-leading AI and Machine Learning technology to truly disrupt the space, and the most important things to consider as an E-Commerce brand in the market today.

Chris is Head of Development @ River Island. With over 60 years of fashion retailing experience, River Island is one of the most well-known and loved brands on the High Street.  Chris is an influential leader that seeks to address root causes while focusing on strategic vision and the needs of the business to enable development of effective plans and operations that deliver organisational goals while empowering and motivating teams to achieve their full potential. During this episode, Ben sits down with Chris to discuss what he has learned through past experiences and life and how that's applied in his life today.

Fabian is CTO at 7Mind GmbH. With more than 2,3 million mindful users across all of Europe, 7Mind is Europe's most popular mindfulness app. The 7Mind App is based on the idea to help easily integrate the practice of meditation and mindfulness into daily life. Ben sits down with Fabian to discuss Agile coaching, the challenges of scaling a business, and what a CTO position looks like.

Ella is Product Manager at Solana Foundation. Solana Foundation is a technology company working to help advance the Solana ecosystem. The Solana blockchain is a new architecture for a high-performance blockchain. Up to 710,000 transactions per second on a 1-gigabit network without data partitioning. Solana is the fastest blockchain in the world and the fastest growing ecosystem in crypto, with thousands of projects spanning DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and more. During this episode, Ben sits down with Ella to discuss what Solana Labs does differently to other businesses in this space, crypto, and the incredible Hacker Houses that Solana hosts. Articles and further reading from things mentioned on the recording: Solana whitepaper: https://solana.com/solana-whitepaper.pdf Proof of History: https://medium.com/solana-labs/proof-of-history-a-clock-for-blockchain-cf47a61a9274 and https://medium.com/solana-labs/proof-of-history-explained-by-a-water-clock-e682183417b8#:~:text=A%20Proof%20of%20History%20(PoH,thousands%20of%20transactions%20per%20second Energy report: https://solana.com/news/solana-energy-usage-report-november-2021 Solana Pay: https://solana.com/news/solana-pay-transaction-requests-bring-on-chain-interactivity-to-the-off-chain-world Hacker houses: https://solana.com/events Ecosystem jobs: https://jobs.solana.com/jobs Bitcoin whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Buildspace: https://buildspace.so/learn-solana Cookbook: https://solanacookbook.com/#contributing Ella's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kuzekuze3

Tom is Ceo at Geckoboard Geckoboard's software makes it quick and easy to build live TV dashboards, which focus teams on the metrics that matter to a business. During this episode, Ben sits down with Tom to hear about his interesting career path to CEO, his motivations and influences as a leader, and how this affects the culture in the business.

Marcio is Chief Architect @ Nuri During this episode, Ben sits down with Marcio to discuss how companies can pragmatically manage their technical debt and non-functional requirements in general and achieve sustainability. Nuri is a financial services business, and is the app to manage, save and invest your money. An easy gateway to the world of investing: Get started with cryptocurrencies or investments in the stock market – directly from a German bank account. Here's the relevant links to topics mentioned in the chat: 1) How to perform architecture control of a TypeScript codebase: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/javascripttypescript-code-does-have-mess-marcio-marchini/ . This is what they are using at Nuri - Structure10.com for TypeScript.   2) Erich Gamma’s interview where he talks about the need for proper layering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLPtXeCC82k  3) How they did proper architecture control for other languages, with a maturity model program, also controlling at the “micro” level: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/polyglot-architecture-control-its-gotchas-marcio-marchini/  4) n8n for low code integration of parts: https://n8n.io  5) Mobile Platform Teams: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/mobile-platform-teams/   6) MiniApps - a way to modularize React Native Mobile Apps: https://native.electrode.io/introduction/what-is-ern/what-is-a-miniapp 

Maurin is Director of Engineering @ Alteryx The Alteryx Analytics Automation Platform delivers end-to-end automation of analytics, machine learning, and data science processes that accelerate digital transformation. During this episode, Ben sits down with Maurin to discuss the future of data transformation/BI, how to enable more business users (data citizens) to have access to the data. They also spoke about ELT architecture.

Adarsh is Artificial Intelligence Lead at Credera UK Credera is a consulting firm focused on strategy, transformation, data, cloud, and engineering.  During this episode, Ben sits down with Adarsh to discuss how he has navigated his career to become AI Lead @ Credera, what his role entails day to day, and the emergence of AI/Machine learning and it's exciting potential.