Tech Can't Save Us

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, Paul welcomes Sanchit Thakur, the founder and CEO of Illuminz, a creative consultancy based in Mohali, India.  Sanchit is no stranger to the podcasting world, as he also hosts the Bright Talks podcast, where he chats with industry leaders about creative strategies and the latest tech trends. In their conversation, Sanchit shares what makes Illuminz stand out in a c...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , Paul is joined by Dr. Chang Liu, CEO of Extend Robotics. Chang’s company uses VR technology to help people control robots remotely, making operations safer, more intuitive, and accessible. From manufacturing to agriculture, Extend Robotics is transforming automation in industries that need human oversight in hazardous environments. Chang shares the story behind th...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by James Townsend, co-founder and CEO of Mobilise, an online platform providing expert support and tailored advice to its community of 90,000 unpaid carers across the UK. James shares his personal experience of caregiving, and why it inspired him to create an online community for other unpaid carers. The discuss...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Manjul Rathee, co-founder and CEO at BFB Labs. BFB Labs provides digital therapy for children through an app based video game called Lumi Nova which has been funded and commissioned by the NHS. The conversation delves into the challenges of mental health support for young people, the importance of user engage...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Kat James, Director of New Projects at Consultant Connect.   They discuss how Consultant Connect helps reduce waiting times and improve patient outcomes by connecting community-based clinicians with specialists for immediate advice.  The conversation centres around how Consultant Connect has helped over 400,0...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Paul David speak to Nana Parry, co-founder of Cluso, a voice survey and engagement platform aimed at increasing public participation in local government. Nana was inspired to start Cluso when he saw the decline in response rates to traditional surveys: household surveys had a 48% response rate a decade ago; in 2023 it was at 14%. If...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Paul David are joined by Jo-Jo Hubbard, co-founder and CEO at Electron. Currently, the energy system is diverse and decentralised. Amidst this, flexible market platforms, like Electron’s, are emerging as the solution to help energy network operators to launch and coordinate multiple markets at scale.  On this podcast, Jo-Jo discusses...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Savena Surana are joined by Andrew O Neill, Headteacher at All Saints Catholic College and CEO at Lighthouse Data. All Saints is a school like no other; it has trialled a mobile phone ban, an 11-hour school day, and flexible working for teachers. On the podcast, Andrew discusses his reasons for these innovative approaches to educatio...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Savena Surana are joined by Erika Anderson, co-founder and CCO at Storytell.ai and author of Building Humane Tech substack.  They discuss what humane technology means for Storytell.ai and how the team implements responsible design principles in the technology that they develop.  The episode also touches on the need for storytelling i...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Odun Eweniyi, co-founder and COO at PiggyVest. By providing easy-to-use tools for digital saving and micro-investing, PiggyVest has helped 5 million people grow their savings. Odun shares her journey from tech journalism into fintech and the insights from the PiggyVest Savings Report 2024. Recognising social...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Savena Surana speak to Ariana Alexander-Sefre, founder and co-CEO at Spoke, a music-based mental wellness app.  SPOKE hires artists, who are trained by psychologists, therapists and neuroscientists, to produce music that supports mental wellbeing. Through this, SPOKE provides an aggregated platform for people who can connect with you...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Tyler Denk,  co-founder and CEO of beehiiv, a newsletter platform that helps creators monetise and grow their audiences. beehiiv currently sends out over 2 billion emails per month - up from 500 million per month in August 2023. Tyler is no stranger to a fast-growing media organisation. In the episode, he sha...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Sara Berkai, founder and CEO of Ambessa Play. Ambessa Play is a social enterprise that designs educational toy kits and tools for children, with a focus on supporting displaced and refugee children.  The conversation centres around the importance of co-designing products with users - specifically, the importa...

If you’re a content marketer who doesn’t believe the increasingly common wisdom that “AI will automate the boring parts of your job”, listen to this episode. This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Victor Ijidola, co-founder and CEO of Leaps. Victor explains why Google is deranking your content. In short, people want insights from SMEs, not from co...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Yaseen Rostom, Founder and CEO of Incredible.  Yaseen shares insights about the challenges of debt management, the importance of cash flow for small businesses, and how communities can be built within the fintech space.  The conversation underlines why digital infrastructure will reduce the stress that comes with managing f...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Gaurab Bansal, Executive Director of Responsible Innovation Labs. Gaurab shares insights on the practice gap in responsible innovation and attributes it, largely, to the complex regulations US startups face, and the ever-changing political landscape–both impeding startups from scaling sustainably...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Rushab Shah, CEO of OneHive. Rushab speaks about the intersection between education, mindfulness and community engagement, exploring how technology can help educators understand better, and respond to, individuals’ psychosocial needs. Rushab also touches on the cultural expectations placed on stu...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Finn Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of Flock Health. He discusses how Flok Health is reshaping physiotherapy within the NHS through automation and community healthcare. He highlights the challenges faced in delivering timely care for musculoskeletal conditions and the importance of integrating tec...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Sunghee Park, Founder and CEO of SYNKii Online teaching surged during Covid-19. But with music lessons requiring students and teachers to play in synchronicity, lags in connections that were commonplace on video calling platforms like Zoom, made it nearly impossible for music students to learn re...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Cien Solon, co-founder and CEO of LaunchLemonade and Director of Scale That Thing!. AI advocate Cien Solon is fighting to make AI a tool at everyone’s disposal - an “AI for All” as Cien so pithily calls it. To help individuals and organisations harness the power of AI, Cien has founded Scale That...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Steve Endacott, Chairman of Neural Voice and Neural River.  Neural Voice is a spin-off from incubator Neural River, a genAI platform enabling businesses to develop customer-assistance voicebots. Tune into this episode now to hear Steve how Steve leveraged Neural Voice’s technology to make a bid f...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Mickey Pardo, research fellow at Cornell University and former Postdoctoral Associate at Colorado State University. Mickey studied the rumbles of savannah elephants in partnership with Save the Elephants, discovering that elephants’ naming system is very similar to the way in which human names wo...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Will Saunter, Co-Founder and Biosecurity Lead at BlueDot Impact. The social enterprise offers 12-week, part-time courses in AI Alignment, AI Governance and Biosecurity. Alumni have gone on to pursue high impact ventures in AI and biosecurity, such as leading safety teams at top labs, becoming sen...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Ben Dodson, co-founder and CEO of Doowii.  Helping teachers harness AI to better understand and address their students’ needs, Doowoi helps non-technical users access data they previously couldn't, improving workflows and decision-making. Tune into this episode now to hear Ben discuss the problem...

In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Kevin Flyangolts, Founder & CEO of Aclid.  With biotechnology becoming increasingly digital and automated, biosecurity guidelines are constantly changing. Aclid enables end-to-end compliance for gene synthesis providers by automating biosecurity screenings, promoting education in the life sci...