Tech Talks
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Tech Talks (The Podcast about Technology Leaders and Leadership) - A podcast that probes the minds of technology leaders.
Join us as we delve deep into the startup stories, financing, growth, innovation, and cultural transformations that drive the tech industry with host, David Savage.
Tech Talks is powered by Nash Squared, the leading global provider of technology and talent solutions. Find out more about our solutions at www.nashsquared.com
Join us as we delve deep into the startup stories, financing, growth, innovation, and cultural transformations that drive the tech industry with host, David Savage.
Tech Talks is powered by Nash Squared, the leading global provider of technology and talent solutions. Find out more about our solutions at www.nashsquared.com
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Aug 3, 2021 • 38min
Jamie True is here to help you hack your learning with Uptime
Jamie True is an entrepreneur who is constantly looking to apply tech and new ways of working to improve existing products and services. Uptime is his latest idea, an app offering educational hacks! Increasingly fitting learning into life is getting easier.. provided someone you trust can curate the content you want for you!
Jul 30, 2021 • 40min
If AI is teaching itself, how can you be sure it's selecting clean, unbiased data?
Joe Baguley is VMWare's go to person to answer the question, "what's next?". Given the acceleration of adoption of AI to manage processes, and the ever increasing deluge of data, Joe is occupied with questions such as explainability, intellectual property and sustainability. Fundamentally are we thinking about the impact of what we're building?
Jul 27, 2021 • 38min
How do you succeed in the graveyard of British startups?
Daniel Glazer, founding partner of Wilson Sonisi's London office, explains why British startups fail in the USA, and how they might achieve growth. We challenge our relationship with the technology sector, and gain great insight along the way from a virtual Silicon Valley.
Jul 23, 2021 • 32min
What is Pegasus, and should you care?
Project Pegasus has blown apart the notion that our phones are secure, so we decided to find out as much as we could about the subject and ask how worried we should be!
Rebecca Rumbul has returned to the show to offer expert insight: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-rumbul-96a5441a/
David is on leave this week, so our usual mics weren't available - but we hope this interview is informative and offers a valuable perspective!
Jul 20, 2021 • 37min
What does music say about (and for) you?
Andy Blacker is CEO of Songclip, the plumbing making it possible for apps to use music to help uses express themselves! Only 4 apps currently licence music, yet it is fundamental to the way we express ourselves, and musical choices tell others about us. So Songclip is bringing this uniquely human experience to more products.
Jul 16, 2021 • 39min
Crystel talks to us about the value of 'surf time'!
Crystel Robbins Rynne is CMO of HR Locker, a business on the West Coast of Ireland providing HR solutions to businesses. Unsurprisingly as the world of work has shifted gear, and new priorities have risen in importance, they've been a little busy! So what benefits matter to us now, and what is good culture anyway?
Jul 13, 2021 • 42min
Bea Fertility is democratising access to fertility treatment
On today's show we well Tess Cosad, co-founder and CEO of fertility medtech product and service Bea Fertility. Their approach embraces the past, and uses technology to offer women an affordable option to fertility. But who is their audience? Do investors feel comfortable talking about the subject? What can men do to help?
Jul 9, 2021 • 40min
Speakers for Schools give digital-first work experience opportunities to children in state schools.
Racheal is Education and Policy Director for Speakers for Schools, a charity establish by Robert Peston to give opportunities to young people in state-school education. We all know how imbalanced society has become, but through campaigns like Predict, this charity are trying to change things. Through their work 11,000 young people in state schools and colleges across the UK are undertaking work experience with leading employers.
Jul 6, 2021 • 36min
Less than 3% of VC funding goes to female-led businesses. Clearly they're not being led by data...!
Traditionally money has been given to businesses based on gut-feeling and 'intuition'; well Clearco thinks data is how to judge that investment. Their Chief Growth Office Ruma Bose explains how they actually do that, why it matters so much to her, and what the results are in terms of where that money goes!
Jul 2, 2021 • 41min
Let machines make the decisions, so you can focus on strategy.
Tom New, Head of Product Marketing at Peak, tells us why AI is making a huge impact in organisations by applying 'explainable AI'. AI is often fear, but this is an interview that paints a wholly positive view of how machine learning can help leaders focus their attention to make a bigger impact, and provide for a better future through driving sustainable efficiencies.
