Asia Tech Podcast

In this episode of the Asia Tech Podcast, we speak with Derek Feebrey, co-founder of Trendspek, a tech company revolutionizing the way built structures are inspected. With roots in aviation and drone services, Trendspek uses drone technology to capture high-resolution images and generate detailed 3D interactive reports of structures like bridges, vastly outpacing traditional methods. Some of the topics Derek covered: How Trendspek uses drone technology to inspect built structures The production of extremely granular data sets and interactive reports How Precision Reality Twins improves asset value and early detection of defects The potential for artificial intelligence to fill in some data gaps for older buildings The crucial role Trendspek can play in the insurance industry Some other titles we considered for this episode: They Dub It 'The Cradle to Grave' The Ancestry.com for that Particular Asset We Can’t Keep Going On the Way We Are Doing It What’s the Best Roof Slope?

The Asia Tech Podcast had an awesome conversation with Carl Heaton, the Head of UX/UI at True Digital. Carl tells incredible stories, has had some amazing experiences and shares some great insights on entrepreneurship, Thailand and how to build and keep a high-performing team engaged. Some of the topics Carl covered in detail include: Some of the mythology around entrepreneurship The entrepreneurial spirit of the Thai people Thailand's watershed co-working moment How Thailand's tech scene has changed since his arrival more than 15 years ago Some of the challenges and benefits of transitioning from entrepreneurship to corporate life Some other titles we considered for this episode: The Process Was Hilarious Covid Killed My School I Want to Teach Somebody I See Tomorrow I’ve Got Things to Fix It’s ‘Buy One Get One Kinda Free’

Asia Tech Podcast reached out to Elitza Stoilova, the CEO of Umni because her background was so fascinating, we just had to find out more. We were not disappointed. Some of the topics that Elly covered: Her career started in Tunisia and Morocco (This is NOT your standard story!) Her first roles were in Journalism and PR Moving to Saipan and staying for almost two decades Not having enough shared memories with her family and moving back to Bulgaria Participating in Founder Institute Giving SMEs tools to compete with the big guys Some other titles we considered for this episode: I Don’t Know Where Saipan Is, But Why Not Try I Fell In Love With Tourism If You Want to Discover the World, You Have to Cross the Water There Are No Ex-journalists It Is Really Important to Keep Your Mind Young Failure Is Imaginary AI Is Here to Save and Extend Our Lives Feel free to reach out to Eliza at sales@umni.bg or on Instagram.

The Asia Tech Podcast had an informative conversation with Young Yang, the CEO, Southeast Asia Markets at ZA Tech. Some of the topics that Young covered: ZA Tech's decision to expand to international markets outside of China post-IPO The importance of productizing Zhong An's technology The power of the partnership with Softbank's Vision Fund Two-year productization cycles and ZA Tech's company culture Social media marketing for the insurance industry Being prudent and cautious in the application of LLMs Some other titles we considered for this episode, but ultimately rejected: We Create Technology In a Different Way What If Money Is Not a Problem? Every Technology Should Fulfill a Specific Business Purpose Mindset Is the Most Difficult Thing to Change You Need to Make Fun Out of Challenges This episode is sponsored.

The Asia Tech Podcast reached out to Paul Meinshausen again after seeing an interesting post he made on LinkedIn. Paul is one of the most thoughtful people I know. Please read the article referenced above and then listen to this episode... The title of the Michael Lewis book I could not remember is "Liar's Poker". Paul references this blog post by Andrej Karpathy...read this as well. It would not hurt to know a bit more about logistic regression. I agree with Paul's assessment that we are moving from a deterministic world to a probabilistic world. Some other titles we considered for this episode: The Pace Is Extremely Fast The Explore-Exploit Tradeoff The World Is Dynamic and Chaotic God Does Not Play Dice We All Have the Right Degree of Change That We Can Absorb at a Given Time Everything Is New for a Three-Year-Old

The Asia Tech Podcast had an enlightening conversation with Aram Mughalyan, a co-Founder of Solidate. Solidate is a community-owned, decentralized platform for freelancers to find the best web3 jobs. Some of the topics that Aram discussed: The importance of small gains and rigid discipline Having a great corporate job but feeling like something was missing Why he came to Southeast Asia and settled in Singapore Quadratic voting Building an on-chain reputation Some other titles we considered for this episode: All the Limits We Have Are the Ones We Set Ourself Just Like My Parents Wanted Me to Do We Need an Alternative System There Is Always Going to Be Uncertainty If No-one Wants Me, I’ll Start My Own Company During this episode, Aram mentioned a book by David Goggins entitled "Can't Hurt Me".

The Asia Tech Podcast was fortunate to have the opportunity to talk to an incredible entrepreneur from South Africa, Thandwefika Radebe, a Co-Founder at Qwili. Qwili is a digital marketplace used by merchants to sell value-added services to consumers who are often not able to access these services themselves. Some of the topics that Thandwe covered: Why he studied developmental finance His discomfort caused by the obvious economic disparity on the continent His family's reaction to him leaving a stable corporate job Changing the perception of investing in Africa with data The importance of familiarity and certainty when it comes to tech startup investing Some other titles we considered for this episode: I Felt a Bit Distant from My Mission The Only Difference Is a State of Mind You Just Need to Convert One Person Infighting Is the Fastest Way to Look Disorganized Bringing Prosperity to My People

The Asia Tech Podcast was joined by Gavril (Gary) Gavrilov, the CCO at Humans in the Loop. Humans in the Loop was founded in 2017 with the vision to connect conflict-affected communities to digital work. Some of the topics that Gary covered: Artificial Intelligence and its philosophical implications Ethical AI as a core concept of Humans in the Loop Artificial Intelligence and embedded biases The risks involved in doing this work in conflict-affected regions The positive impact that Humans in the Loop has on its beneficiaries Some other titles we considered for this episode: Large Language Models Have Been In Development Since the 1960s It Brought It to Our Living Rooms AI Is the New Electricity It Comes up in the Most Unexpected Places The Challenge Is the Human Verification Watch the short video snippet here.

The Asia Tech Podcast was joined by Travis Erridge, a co-Founder and CEO at TMX Global for a deeply insightful discussion at TMX's Metaverse event at TDPK in Bangkok. Some of the topics Travis covered: The genesis of TMX and how it morphed into a technology company How businesses can leverage technology to drastically improve supply chain efficiency How technology helps TMX collaborate with its partners Some of the challenges for implementing the metaverse across the supply chain Managing through growth and maintaining core company values and culture Other titles we considered for this episode: We Know We're Growing, but We're Never Satisfied Building a Tech-Driven Future We Have Reached a Technological Tipping Point Employing the Metaverse to Simplify Complexity Creating the Supply Chain's Future Watch the video produced by Lexicon here.

Synthetic Biology is fun. Yes, I said it. Speaking to Dr. Jason Whitfield, Program Manager of SynBio 10x at UNSW Founders, about Synthetic Biology was even more fun. Some of the topics Jason discussed: Working every day, but not feeling like it's work Doing a Ph.D. and making things glow SynBio 10x and the importance of institutionalizing this type of innovation Partnering with Main Sequence Ventures (Phil Morle and Gabrielle Munzer) Design, Build, Test, and Learn Some other titles we considered for this episode: Tired Is…Just a Given I Don’t Do Well With Boredom I'm a Recovering Academic It’s Drinking From the Firehose That’s Great.  That’s Speed. This Isn’t a Garage Band Project