Leadership, Brand Strategy & Transformation - Minter Dialogue

Gang Lu is the founder and CEO of TechNode, the leading bilingual tech media in China, covering startups and large listed companions, the entrepreneurial community and angel/VC investment activities. TechNode is also the official partner of TechCrunch China. Gang is also the co-founder of OpenWeb.Asia a network of premium blogs that focus on the Asian web industry. In this conversation, we talk about running a business in China, how Gang manages the four different versions of TechNode, the transformation of China, we talk about the competitive environment between the big tech companies in China, insights into some especially Chinese startups and companies, and much more about the exciting evolution of the Chinese market.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #345Daniel Snell, Director and cofounder of Arrival Education, an award-winning talent and development business, offering total diversity solutions to forward-thinking businesses. Daniel has overseen 10,000 hours of classroom delivery, which has given him unique insights and knowledge about education. In this conversation, we dig in to his work on diversity and inclusion, how to tap into the potential of your team and unlock the diversity dividend, how to make education more effective and how to make change -- including attitudes -- at work. You'll find all the show notes on minterdial.com. Now for the interview.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #344Uday Akkaraju, CEO and founder of Bond.AI is on a mission to bring empathy to the finance world. Bond.ai is a human-centred AI Platform for financial institutions, powered by the world's first empathy engine for finance. Uday is a bona fide innovator, technologist and designer. In this conversation with Uday we talk about his entrepreneurial journey on why he started, how he's creating an empathic AI, his increasingly sophisticated work with personas, the challenges and power of creating the right voice and much more.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #343Frequently featured for her research and inventions in The Financial Times, The Atlantic and the New York Times, Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, serial entrepreneur, and author of two books and many research papers. Vivienne has had a truly fascinating life journey as you'll discover. She co-founded Socos Labs, her fifth company, an independent think tank exploring the future of human potential. In her free time, Vivienne has invented AI systems to help treat her diabetic son, predict manic episodes in bipolar sufferers weeks in advance, and reunited orphan refugees with extended family members. In this far-reaching chat, we discuss Vivienne's work on AI, belief-based utility, understanding the messiness of life and of our systems, dealing with homelessness and diabetes, hacking Google Glasses and a whole lot more.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #341Nora Gherbi is the founder of WHO CARES!? Chronicles, a New York-based international caring initiative aiming to promote and provide insight into everything related to CSR. WHO CARES!? Chronicles focuses on great leadership and best practices for the socially conscious business. Nora is also on the advisory board of several non for profit, tech and fashion companies. In this discussion with Nora, we discuss how companies should be or could be creating high value impacts, the potential for an Impact Index, the role of empathy and vulnerability in business, the production of content and finding ways to intelligently promote corporate social responsibility.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #342Shaun Moore is the founder and CEO of TrueFace AI, providing facial recognition for real world applications. Shaun's at the cutting edge of object and facial recognition, a hot and sometimes controversial topic. In this conversation with Shaun, we look at the state of the art of facial recognition, some of the key ethical and privacy issues, the regulatory environment, and how TrueFace is working with government and Fortune 500 customers -- including age verification solutions for gambling, tobacco and alcohol.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #340Sam Charrington is an industry analyst, specialized in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He's also the host of the very successful podcast, TWiMLAI aka This Week in Machine Learning and AI. In this conversation with Sam, we plunge into how and why businesses are using ML and AI, the biggest learnings Sam has had after doing nearly 300 episodes, who was his favorite guest, as well as the outlook for AI/ML in 2020.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #339Rana Gujral is an entrepreneur, speaker, investor and the CEO of Behavioral Signals, an enterprise software company that delivers a robust and fast-evolving emotion AI engine that introduces emotional intelligence into speech recognition technology. Rana has been awarded the ‘Entrepreneur of the Month’ by CIO Magazine, the ‘US China Pioneer’ Award by IEIE. He was also recently listed in Inc. Magazine as an “AI Entrepreneur to Watch”. In this stimulating conversation with Rana, we look at how he and his team at Behavioral Signals break down emotions via voice, what are the next avenues of development in voice and speech detection, and how so much can be revealed via voice.If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Minter Dialogue Episode #338Ashley Galina Dudarenok is a China marketing expert, founder of two companies, Alarice a social media agency and ChoZan, for training, keynotes and masterclasses on marketing in China. Based in HK, Ashley is also an influencer and best-selling author who has just published her third book, New Retail Born in China Going Global: How Chinese Tech Giants Are Changing Global Commerce. In this conversation, we talk about some of the important things to get right when marketing in China, some insights to Ashley's life as an influencer and the truly revolutionary world of retail in China that has been termed as "New Retail."Please send me your questions as an audio file or text to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Sophie Devonshire is CEO of The Caffeine Partnership, an award-winning strategic consultancy, specialised in brand-led business growth. Sophie is also a keynote speaker and author, having published Superfast, Lead at Speed, How pace can drive performance, by John Murray Learning. Superfast was shortlisted for Best Leadership Book at the Business Book Awards 2019. Sophie has also been founder of Babes with Babies, was Board Director at Quintessentially, a leading Luxury Lifestyle group. In this conversation, we talk about how branding has changed, the role and essence of purpose in business and how to be superfast, successful and purposeful.Please send me your questions as an audio file or text to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)