
Tech Inspired
What does it take to start a career in tech? Listen to the TechFace podcast and get to know inspiring women in tech and their careers. Find out what they have experienced, get to know their stories and hear all about their advice to build your best career in tech.
This podcast goes to all women in tech and their successful careers!
Latest episodes

Oct 21, 2019 • 20min
Tech Inspired with Noemi Rom
Meet Noemi, a digital consultant at Zuehlke, who studied engineering at ETH, after changing her mind 2 weeks before her law study started. Today she knows that a deep understanding of technology is necessary to build bridges to the people using it. She is always looking to be part of something bigger and meaningful, therefore she reached out to a person she admired and didn't even know. What to know what happened? Listen to her story on this podcast episode and find out, which chose her daughter as her favorite role model.

Sep 23, 2019 • 21min
Tech Inspired with Adriana Collini
How is it to work as Venture Capitalist and support young tech entrepreneurs? Meet Adriana Collini, working as part of the investment team at Seedstars finding startups in the tech space and supporting their founder. Although she does not call herself a techie, the tech world fascinates her and she takes every opportunity to learn about. She shares lots of information about what inspires her to work with startups and shares her tips and recommendation. Want to know what her mother adviced her? Don't miss out on this episode!
From the podcast:
Aileen Lee - Cowboy Ventures and All Raise, ex Kleiner Perkins
Lolita Taub - Catalyte, ex Backstage Capital
Anisha Singh - She Capital, Mydala
Nichapat Ark - Openspace ventures
Mary Meeker Internet Trends Yearly Report: https://www.bondcap.com/report/itr19/
https://elpha.com/

Aug 26, 2019 • 17min
Tech Inspired with Damla Simsek
Have you ever wondered what DevOps is about? Then you came to the right place; meet Damla Simsek who is currently working at Accenture as DevOps Specialist. Listen to her story how she started in DevOps, why she sees herself in Tech in the future and why she thinks that it is never to too late to start a career in Tech. Would you have guessed who is her favorite role model? Listen to this podcast episode to find out.

Jul 22, 2019 • 16min
Tech Inspired with Chanel Greco
Did you ever think, you can't get into tech because you didn't study any related topic? Then don't miss this podcast with Chanel Greco! She is an educated office clerk, always driven by her curiosity with computers which lead her to the job she loves so passionately today. Want to hear her story and why the Indian Jones jump and run game played a vital role? Listen to her story now!

Jun 25, 2019 • 15min
Tech Inspired with Olga Skurativska
Meet Olga Skurativska, a software engineer at Homegate. She gets inspired by building solutions, which help others to make their life better, faster, prettier or just easier. Therefore she chose a career in tech, where she is able to apply her most important skill. Curious to know what it is and how she applies what she learned in yoga to her work life? Find out with this podcast!

May 20, 2019 • 16min
Tech Inspired with Andreea Hossmann
Meet Andreea, a Product Manager for Data Analytics and AI at Swisscom and working for Swisscom ventures to assess AI startups worldwide. She studies in many countries, such as Romania, France, the US and Switzerland. Listen to this episode of our podcast to find out how learning many languages helped her to find a passion for AI.

Mar 19, 2019 • 15min
Tech Inspired with Anita Schmid
Meet Anita in this podcast episode. Anita works as a Data Scientist for a Swiss retailer and shares her insights about the tasks and skills required. Anita has started her career in academia but the theoretical world wasn't her passion, she needed more hands-on experience. Find out about her way into tech and why she believes that you don't need to be afraid of failing and try over and over again.
Links:
Women in Machine Learning and Data Science:
https://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Women-in-Machine-Learning-and-Data-Science/
Bootcamp in Zürich:
https://website.propulsion-home.ch/programs/data-science-immersive

Feb 19, 2019 • 16min
Tech Inspired with Karina Battaglia
Meet Karina in this podcast episode. Karina works as a Customer Success Manager at Microsoft. In her career, she was always looking for opportunities to learn and grow. This is why she moved from logistics into tech. Listen to her story and recommendations to look out for these three factors when looking for a job.

Jan 22, 2019 • 17min
Tech Inspired with Bibiana Bucher
Meet Bibiana in this podcast episode. Bibiana works as a Server Sales Specialist/Solutions Account Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. But she wasn't always working in the tech industry. Listen to our interview with her and find out, how she transitions into tech and what advice she has in store for you!