That Tech Pod

Today Kevin and Laura talk with Atlas Reality President and CTO Beau Button about virtual real estate. Beau Button has been actively involved with software development since he was 11 years old. He got his start learning about computers around age 9, digging into the hardware side of things first, and eventually picked up software development at age 11.Having spent the majority of his career as a serial entrepreneur working in the government space Beau has now transitioned into the mobile gaming space through his company Atlas Reality, Inc.Beau has become a technology & automation enthusiast, even in his personal life. He spends a majority of his time outside of work building through 3d printing, and is very passionate about hunger/food scarcity, education and veganism.

Today Laura and Kevin speak with Nick Emmons to determine if all NFTs are a scam.Nick Emmons is co-founder and CEO at Upshot, the premier platform for NFT Financialization. Upshot aims to make NFT financial markets more accessible with accurate, real-time appraisals powered by machine learning and new types of DeFi x NFT primitives. Nick has years of experience as a full-stack developer and blockchain engineer. He has positioned Upshot to be at the forefront of NFTs, DeFi, and Web3.

Today Laura and Kevin are live at Legal Week 2023!Join Kevin and Laura as they take you on an exciting tour of Legal Week 2023 on this special bonus episode of That Tech Pod! From new and emerging trends to the latest developments in legal tech, they'll give you an inside look at everything that's happening on the conference floor.Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes peek at the companies, the people, and the swag that make Legal Week such an exciting event. And don't miss their live interviews with some of the most innovative minds in the legal tech world including Shane Zelm of Quikdata, Jennifer Joyce of EY, and Sebastian Sutherland from IPRO!With insightful analysis and a fun, engaging approach, Kevin and Laura will make you feel like you're right there with them, experiencing all the excitement and energy of Legal Week 2023. Don't miss out on this must-listen episode of That Tech Pod!

Today Laura and Kevin are in NYC for LegalWeek 2023. They spoke with EY's Todd Marlin about winning a Leaders in Tech Law Award, the LegalWeek conference and the importance of being true to your brand. Todd is a Principal in the EY Forensic & Integrity Services practice and is the Global Forensic Technology and Innovation Leader. His main focus areas are forensic data analytics, cybersecurity, computer forensics, fraud detection, and electronic discovery. About LegalWeek: Legalweek is one week where thousands of legal professionals gather to network with their peers, dive deeper into their professional development, explore topics and strategies tailored specifically to their role, and gain the tools to get legal business done.Developed with input from ALM’s legal editorial advisors and an advisory board of fifteen industry experts, this year’s program will feature new session formats designed to provide a more engaging experience.Legalweek is the only place where you will gain the insights to tackle the changing legal landscape and learn actionable insights that will help legal leaders restructure, rebuild and reinvigorate today’s law firms and legal departments.

with Ben Grimes, Todd Marlin, and Alan Gibson On today’s episode Laura and Kevin speak with Ben, Todd, and Alan around all things LegalWeek 2023.About today’s guests:Ben Grimes is Vice President for US Enterprise Commercial, Northeast Region. Ben is responsible for leading a sales professional community to help Microsoft’s clients drive digital transformation & cloud adoption strategies through leveraging Microsoft's cloud portfolio.Todd Marlin is a Principal in the EY Forensic & Integrity Services practice and is the Global Forensic Technology and Innovation Leader. His main focus areas are forensic data analytics, cybersecurity, computer forensics, fraud detection, and electronic discovery.Alan Gibson is a business development executive in Forensic & Integrity Services. He helps organizations use data analytics and technology to manage legal, regulatory and reputational risks and make more effective compliance, legal and business decisions.About LegalWeek: Legalweek is one week where thousands of legal professionals gather to network with their peers, dive deeper into their professional development, explore topics and strategies tailored specifically to their role, and gain the tools to get legal business done.Developed with input from ALM’s legal editorial advisors and an advisory board of fifteen industry experts, this year’s program will feature new session formats designed to provide a more engaging experience.Legalweek is the only place where you will gain the insights to tackle the changing legal landscape and learn actionable insights that will help legal leaders restructure, rebuild and reinvigorate today’s law firms and legal departments.Click here to learn more about Legal Week 2023

Laura and Kevin are joined by fellow podcaster Shelby Busch.Shelby is a podcast technical guru. She is Super passionate about all things podcasting, and have been listening to podcasts since before they were cool (since the dawn of TIME). Shelby has been recording and working in the podcast realm for over 3 years. She currently works behind the scenes as a Technical Account Manager for Podcasts at SiriusXM, making sure that the podcasts you hear, are appeasing to your ear(s)

Laura and Kevin jump on an emergency pod to explain what is going on with Silicon Valley Bank. 

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Kevin speak with Hue Rhodes. Hue Rhodes is an expert on data privacy and ownership. Hue has first-hand experienced how 24/7 surveillance and zero privacy can shape and mold people. After finding his way to Princeton, Stanford, and then NYU film school (he directed a feature film with Steve Buscemi and Sarah Silverman), he worked at Experian and LifeLock for more than a decade and saw first-hand how the data industry operates.Today, Hue is the founder and CEO of FRIDAY, a free and easy-to-use app that extracts your Mobile Ad ID for you, and notifies the companies that sell your location history to stop. Then they report back to you with the responses. 

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Huxley Barbee. Huxley Barbee is the organizer of the BSides NYC Security Conference and a Security Evangelist at runZero (formerly Rumble Network Discovery), a company founded by Metasploit creator HD Moore that helps companies discover unmanaged devices for asset inventory.Huxley previously worked for Cisco, Sparkpost, and most recently, Datadog – where he formulated the Datadog Cloud Security Platform. During his time there, he established a new security market presence & enabled the global sales force to grow sales by 482%.Huxley spent over 20 years as a software engineer and security consultant. He attended his first DEF CON in 1999 and holds both CISSP and CISM certifications. On top of that, he’s also an organizer of BSidesNYC. He has a passion for bringing value to those around him and understanding what drives individuals and groups.In 2016, he founded a consulting practice at Cisco providing security automation and orchestration to Fortune 500 customers.Four years later, he brought Datadog’s Cloud Security Platform to market. Now at runZero, he’s helping organizations build comprehensive asset inventory.He resides in New York where he spends time trying to keep up with his children.Today's sponsor:All too often, it’s only a matter of time before a business will suffer a cyber-attack. The potential impact of cybercrime requires that cybersecurity be viewed as a business risk, rather than a simple IT issue. Fundamentally, an organization’s reputation is on the line as a cyber-attack may impact business operations, financial integrity, and legal exposure to its customers and partners. In order to adequately address the risks from large and complex cybercrimes, it is critical that organizations develop a strong crisis management strategy.   From incident response, to forensic investigation, to litigation and regulatory response, EY Privacy and Cyber Response professionals from the EY Forensics team are available to assist organizations against the most challenging cyber-attacks. Learn how the EY Forensics team can help you mitigate risks and improve your cyber response at www.ey.com/forensics.

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura, Kevin, and Gabi speak with singer-songwriter Katie Boeck and producer Dustin Ransom live in Nashville, Tennessee about making music with technology in the age of A.I.Check out Katie's NEW music OUT NOW here: https://www.katieboeckmusic.comKatie Boeck’s voice is earthy and cosmic. Her muses, modern and ancient. Her power, higher and worldly. Boeck doesn’t just revel in these contradictions—she weaves them together on her forthcoming album, Calico due April 28, 2023. Calico captures the arc of maturing relationships—from naïveté and illusion to self-love and sovereignty. It’s an album about modern love and the longing that still tugs beneath the promise of our hyper-connected culture. On the title track Boeck sings, “I’m in every direction / too many modes of connection.” And on the album's opener, Over Again, she ponders time and the gift of owning your history. “Would you do it over again/ lose ourselves along the path of good intentions”. These are songs about life taking unexpected courses and stories of love just out-of-reach.Boeck summons a pantheon of guides—wise women both mythic and real. Like Eve, Boeck likes to reimagine herself returning to Eden, whole. And Like Eurydice, Boeck followed one her musical guides, Joni Mitchell, out of the underworld. Recently divorced, newly single-parenting, Boeck was struggling to find her voice. So she looked to Joni’s oracular songs to help renew her own creative spark. She learned Joni’s watershed record Blue in its entirety and toured the show for a year. Living inside Joni’s cadences and signature melismas led Boeck back to her own sonic soil. She used songwriting’s ancient alchemy to find wisdom in her heartache and spiritual injuries. She also found kinship with co-producer Dustin Ransom (also recently divorced) who wound up co-writing and co-producing the album. Boeck’s career has been wildly varied. After graduating UCLA's Theater program, she spent her early twenties playing every Westside LA dive bar and coffeehouse, living on Lookout Mountain and soaking in that Laurel Canyon sound. She landed a spot in an all-women Bollywood band that took her on a surreal six-month “Eat, Pray, Love-esque” tour of India, playing everything from farm weddings to theIndian Navy’s annual gala. Afterwards, Boeck found herself back in LA with reverse culture shock, her '91 Chevy Caprice Classic and a heartbreak from a recent Spanish expat romance. She wove these experiences into the songs that appear on her debut EP, Speaking of You.Boeck then moved to New York to star in Duncan Sheik’s musical, Spring Awakening, where she shared the lead role of Wendla with deaf actress Sandra Mae Frank. The play’s success occasioned appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and a 2016 Tony nomination for Best Revival of a Musical. Boeck’s rendition of “Ave Maria” was featured on HBO’s critically-acclaimed television series “The Newsroom” and her cover of Ace of Base’s “The Sign” was recently featured on Netflix’s “Love Island”. She has played Electric Forest Festival, Mile of Music, the Cutting Room, City Winery and Carnegie Hall. Boeck now lives in Nashville with her five-year-old son. “Boeck sings with a plaintive passion.” – NEW YORK TIMES