Today we're chatting to Lickd CTO Alex Brims. The creator economy is vital to the 400,000 making a living posting videos to YouTube, but they can't add licenced music. Or can they? Alex explains how they can, and how licencing laws are being explored where the metaverse is concerned.

I'm on holiday this week, but that means the perfect opportunity to share part two of our Collision Conference interviews. Check Point's President Rupal Shah Hollenbeck gave us some time at the event and spoke about the need to re-evaluate leadership in the wake of an industry reset. Then we have a chat with Pendo CEO and founder Todd Olson to share. Can he predict the future? Did you go to the conference? What was your lasting impression?

The first of two shows (the second will drop on Tuesday) featuring the views of speakers and leaders at Collision Conference in Toronto. Today we're meeting VoxNeuro's James Connolly, who is creating an objective system for measuring the health of your brain. Then as we tackle an increasingly complex world we meet Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb.io, who talks to us about the virtues of observability. Whilst there was a huge amount of Gen AI chatter at the show, and a focus on the challenges we face, it was clear that talking and sharing ideas can only help. We need to work together.

On today's podcast we're exploring the American-Midwest with Rackspace's CTO Srini Koushik. Srini is advocating for the 'Silicon Heartland' of the USA, a region on the rise with more than half-an-eye on it's less affluent neighbours. As technology impacts work and society, we ask what steps we need to take to make sure jobs, security and futures are well looked after. Do technology companies have a duty of care?

Today we're talking to Core10's leadership team, Jeff Galloway (VP Product and Implementations) and Joel Legg (VP of Technology), as we talk about the impact of digital transformation on the banking sector, large and small-scale, across North America. To give us a little extra on the ground insight, David is joined by Nash Squared's Tanner Winters, based in Nashville, TN.

David Ly is the Chairman and CEO of Iveda, an IOT business operating in the cloud, use data and machine learning to answer questions we face as we live in modern urban environments. Ultimately, do you trust the machine or humans, and why?

Making friends in a big city isn't easy. It never has been. Whilst technology has revolutionised dating, it's not really done the same for those people seeking platonic relationships, and like-minded people. Step forward Jack Peagam and Linkup. Disappointed with the failure of social media to create social circles, Jack and his team are trying to help people find those meaningful connections.

Today's show is a recording of a conversation held for our own internal Pride ERG (Employee Resource Group) focused on safe spaces online. Sarah Massey, co-founder of freeQ is our guest on the episode. Is the internet safe? Is AI and it's impact on the queer community being fully understood? How can you help employees be their full 'self' at work?

On today’s show we’re joined by Bev White, technologist and CEO of Nash Squared. Having been an IT Director and board member across a number of businesses, Bev added her considerable experience and voice to the stage at this years’ London Tech Week. We’re exploring that session (‘thriving whilst scaling’), questioning London’s role as a global tech hub, and asking what we need to work on as a community moving forward.

Deel are helping workers in emerging markets gain employment with companies that previously may not have been able to present an opportunity. We met Dan in Rio (at Web Summit), and Latin America is one region with huge talent demands being placed on it. Why? We explore the reasons before David is joined by Angelica Mari (Forbes, BBC) from Sao Paulo to add local expertise and knowledge to the conversation.