That Tech Pod

Today on That Tech Pod Laura and Gabi chat with Ryan Buick. Ryan is the Co-Founder of Canvas, a Sequoia-backed startup that is reimagining the traditional office suite for a data-driven world.  Before Canvas, Ryan was one of the first Product Managers at Flexport. At Flexport, Ryan met his co-founders and saw how difficult it was for business teams to get the data they needed without knowing SQL o...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Anne Bradley. Anne is a lawyer, technologist, and business leader championing the responsible and ethical use of data in platforms and  intelligent systems.  Specializing in cross-disciplinary collaboration across legal, data, and technical teams, Anne’s recent work explores  scalable technical controls to apply policy restrictions to machine  lear...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Horacio Zambrano.  Horacio is the CMO and Cyber Strategist for Secret Double Octopus. He has been a leading evangelist in the industry for passwordless authentication and was also CMO/CSO of TruU. He has contributed his deep expertise in PMM and B2B marketing at several early-stage cyber startups including Virsec, Valtix, Mocana and OPSWAT; and ran...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Douwe Maan. Douwe is the Founder and CEO of Meltano, an open source platform for the entire DataOps life cycle. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Douwe has been around computers his whole life and began programming when he was nine. He joined GitLab as employee number 10 while in college and later became Engineering Manager. In 2021, Douwe led th...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with AI experts, PAI's Rebecca Finlay and Ernst & Young's Todd Marlin. Rebecca Finlay is the CEO at Partnership on AI overseeing the organization’s mission and strategy. In this role, Rebecca ensures that the PAI Team and our global community of Partners work together so that developments in AI advance positive outcomes for people and soci...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk to Cyber Siblings Anu and Sumeet Kukar.  Anu is the 2022 Global Power 100 Women in Cyber and 2021 winner Australia’s IT Security Champion. She is passionate about paving a way to support professionals from diverse skills background to contribute in cyber. To achieve this, she is driving a global campaign Switch2CyberTM. Anu is known as the Cyber Untangle...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Josh Miller.  Josh Miller works as an investor at Blu Ventures, a Washington, DC based venture capital firm that invests mostly in early-stage (seed to Series A) SaaS enterprise companies, with a focus on cyber security. He's led investments in a variety of cyber and non-cyber companies including IoT cyber security, cyber threat intelligence,...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Beni Gradwohl, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cognovi Labs.  Beni Gradwohl is Co-Founder and CEO of Cognovi Labs, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) company that focuses on measuring the emotional drivers behind human decision-making. Cognovi’s award-winning psychology-driven AI helps clients in the commercial, health and public sectors...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Dominic Rayner. Dominic was featured in the Netflix’s ‘Worst  Roommate Ever: Marathon Man’, an episode that profiles the life and crimes of Youssef Khater . As a survivor, Dominic discusses the tech that was used in the case and how it differs from today.  www.thattechpod.com

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Alenna Merrihew.  Alenna is a leadership and mental fitness coach, empowering ambitious, accomplished women to reclaim their lives by rediscovering what inspires them, shedding self-sabotaging beliefs, and acting with confident, laser-focused clarity.  She brings to her coaching work the unique perspective of over 20 years experience in corporate s...

Today, Laura and Gabi speak with Dr. Avi Loeb, theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology and the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Dr. Loeb is author of Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth which can be purchased here and recently wrote about the congressional hearings regarding UAPs which you can read here . Laura and G...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with George Tziahanas. George is a Managing Director at  Breakwater Solutions, where he works within their information governance practice. An attorney by background and education, his expertise includes data governance, risk and compliance, and legal technology. Prior to Breakwater, Mr. Tziahanas held executive positions at Arbor Ridge Partners, Morae L...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with Melissa Haughey. Melissa is CEO of Proxi, a data-mapping company that makes mapping and crowdsourcing geographic data accessible to everyone.  Proxi's maps power custom, location-based experiences. Melinda Haughey is a former U.S. intelligence professional and UX researcher who has done stints at both Facebook and Dell. She uses her expertise i...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with Ben Brook. Ben is the co-founder and CEO of Transcend, the privacy platform that makes it easy to encode privacy across your tech stack. Transcend’s technology moves companies into the future of data privacy, with freed up resources, enhanced regulatory stances for the laws of today and tomorrow, and stronger relationships with their customers throu...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with  Colin Gounden . Colin is the CEO of VIA , a global provider of blockchain for data privacy, integration, and analysis. By bringing AI to data 100 times faster than alternatives and with the highest level of cybersecurity, VIA’s platform is the driving force to make communities of all kinds cleaner, safer, and more equitable.  Today's EY sponso...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Jeffrey Solomon. Jeffrey is a professional services leader focused on customer success, artificial intelligence, innovation and law department consulting and digital transformation. At Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, he is responsible for leading a team that drives innovation and strategy, as well as go-to market for new products and services. Follow...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Pierce Larick. Pierce is the CEO and founder of New Revolution Media, a creative media agency in San Francisco, California. He side hustled as a videographer and photographer for over a decade before officially founding NRM in 2016. As an avid traveler, he wanted to start a company where he could take off whenever, as the official 2 weeks a year va...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with Katherine Thompson.  As Head of Ecosystems for Cyber Future Foundation (CFF), Katherine is responsible for generating consensus and cross-sector support for CFF's North American and Global initiatives. Recognized as an accomplished leader and connector, Katherine shares a passion for the cyber security industry and the role it plays in securing...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Vanessa Quaciari. Vanessa's practice focuses on navigating through complex global eDiscovery issues, information governance, and developing defensible budget-conscious litigation discovery strategies. She advises clients on best practices for internal electronic data processes including preservation, collection, use of data analytics, privacy...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with Dr. Bright Gameli Mawudor. Dr. Mawudor is the CTO at XETOVA, a Data Science as a service organization and also the founder of the Cyber Security collective Africahackon, the first ever Live demonstration Cyber Security Conference in East and Central Africa. He acquired a PhD in IT Convergence and Application Engineering with concentration in Informa...

Today on a special bonus of That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi debut the show's tech and crime segment. Our first case? Britain’s most wanted woman caught after nearly a decade on the run . Kevin Albert, Civil Division Director at PAE, helps break down the technology used to solve the crime. www.thattechpod.com

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Jeff Kline. Jeff Kline is the author of “ Strategic IT Accessibility: Enabling the Organization ” and is a recognized subject matter expert in keys areas of IT accessibility that include policy, rulemaking, process integration, procurement, and risk mitigation. He served as Program Director of Statewide Electronic and Information Resources (EIR) Ac...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Peter Barbosa. Peter is a leader and expert in the data privacy space. Currently he serves as the CEO of Opsware, where he helps growth companies build trust with their customers by demonstrating compliance and assurances for modern privacy laws around the globe. Follow That Tech Pod: Twitter-@thattechpodLinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/thattechpod website:...

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Brian Potts. Brian is a business attorney, litigator, entrepreneur, and writer Brian Potts has advised a range of Fortune 100, 500, and smaller clients. Brian and his team have appeared in more than 50 administrative proceedings and dozens of federal and state court cases. In his free time, Brian likes to help startup companies get off the ground....

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Kerry Tomlinson. Kerry is a cyber news reporter who works to help people stay smarter and safer online. She spent three decades as a TV news reporter, often going undercover to investigate crimes, winning multiple Emmys and other local, regional and national journalism awards. Now she travels the world looking for creative and compelling ways to sh...