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Send us Fan Mail Do you ever think to yourself, "You know, I should write an app," and then remember, you don't code? Well why let that stop you! Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the world of Low Code/No Code. Today we are talking with Eoin Hinchy, CEO and founder of Tines, a No Code/Low Code platform that is designed to be the glue that holds all of your disparate...

Send us Fan Mail With an unprecedented number of cyber threats out there, protecting data is top of mind for all businesses. Today we are going to be talking about a way to encrypt data at the source, in transit and at rest. We are going to be talking about confidential computing. Today we are talking with Fortanix CEO and founder Ambuj Kumar. Fortanix is the industry leader in confidential comput...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to be talking about one of the most dangerous and divisive threats we are facing today, disinformation. We are are going to be talking with the DisInfoGal. Hey everybody, this is Chris Brandt, welcome to another FUTRtech video podcast. We have all been inundated with bizarre theories, angry memes, obviously wrong facts and friends and family members who seem to...

Send us Fan Mail Arthur C. Clarke once said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," and I think many of just accept the magic of the world we live in, not thinking how it all works behind the scenes. We are going to be talking to one of those companies that make that magic happen. Today we are talking to Phenix which provides an advanced real-time streami...

Send us Fan Mail For Martin Luther King day, I am recommending a great read on the history of the Civil Rights movement. The book is March by Congressman John Lewis with Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell. March Book 1: https://amzn.to/34MPBCQ March Book 2: https://amzn.to/3rqf0Ko March Book 3: https://amzn.to/3tyYn1O FUTRtech focuses on startups, innovation, culture and the business of emerging tech wi...

Send us Fan Mail On Today's episode, Chris Brandt and Sandesh Patel sit down to talk about what 2022 is going to look like. We would love to hear your thoughts on what will be important this year. Let us know what you think in the comments! Click Here to Subscribe :  FUTR.tv focuses on startups, innovation, culture and the business of emerging tech with weekly podcasts talking with Industry l...

Send us Fan Mail Give your security guys a hug, a socially distanced one, because we are in the middle of a pandemic and we aren't savages. They had a very bad holiday trying to deal with the Log4J exploit that hit in December. If you are confused as to what this is all about, stay tuned. Hey everybody, this is Chris Brandt, welcome to another FUTRtech video podcast. On December 9th, a remote...

Send us Fan Mail What a year it has been, hard to tell it apart form the previous year. We have been through so much with the pandemic upending our lives.  I know I have struggled to find inspiration and creativity through this, and I know a lot of you have felt the same way. Now that we are faced with yet another major outbreak and what that may bring, it all seems overwhelming. So I wanted to sh...

Send us Fan Mail We are just a couple of dads talking to cool people about cool stuff. On today's episode, we look back on the year and talk about some of our favorite moments from the podcasts. #45: The Challenge of Being Trans, with Celia Daniels: https://youtu.be/Cn_qpgK6DTc The New Go To Market with Clumio's Brian O'Shea - #53: https://youtu.be/Gmu5C3dN20U #51: Building Your Per...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to be talking about security, scaling and leadership with one of the industry’s most successful leaders. When Sandesh and I are talking with startups, they typically lack a critical piece in their path to success, someone to drive company culture and vision and to communicate that with both employees and customers. This is usually when you hear the phrase, “You...

Send us Fan Mail Hey everybody, this is Chris Brandt, welcome back to another FUTRtech video.  I get asked about my gear all the time, so I thought as the year winds down, this would be a good time to give an update on what I am using. The list of stuff is long, but I wanted to highlight some of the things that really help me produce this channel. I will put a more comprehensive list in the notes...

Send us Fan Mail One of the great things about being a lean, agile startup is the ability to move and change quickly as the market shifts Most of the time, it is how the company adapts to shifting market conditions that determines its success. Today, we are talking with a company that Went through a major effort to refocus the company on solving the problems their customers were struggling with. T...

Send us Fan Mail I have found some amazing content on TikTok, and in particular, I love the science and tech content that I have come across. This is where I found today’s guest. She focuses on AI and the ethics of AI and her TikTok channel is blowing up. I first saw Paige Lord’s awesome TikTok videos in my feed, and I was impressed with her content around Artificial Intelligence and her passion f...

Send us Fan Mail I have been a fan of disaggregation and composable infrastructure for some time now. It is a great way to get better utilization out of your infrastructure, and improve flexibility and the programmability of your resources. Even companies like HPE have validated the market with their Synergy platform, but, adoption has been slow. Today we are going to be talking with a company tha...

Send us Fan Mail What the heck is the Metaverse? Everybody is talking about it. It is supposed to usher in a grand new world, but what s it really, and who is building it. Hang tight, because we are about to talk to someone doing just that. Welcome, today we have back Adam Voss from Surreal, and they are one of the leaders in the space. They are working with Unreal engine and Epic Games to build o...

Send us Fan Mail Meta Verse Not meta in the sense of self reference, and not a verse in the sense of epic, lyrical poetry. Rather Meta in the sense of greater or transcendent and verse as in universe. However, since the metaverse exists within the known universe it logically can not be greater than that which contains it. Which is an apt description because, in the end, it is merely the illusion o...

Send us Fan Mail We have all been inundated with security breech after security breech, with no end in sight. With the highly distributed nature of infrastructure and applications these days, the amount of data that needs to be analyzed to identify threats and compromises is sometimes the biggest hurdle that security teams face. Today, we are going to be talking with a company that promises to str...

Send us Fan Mail We love startups, and today we are going to talk with an early stage company with an idea that could one day solve a big problem in the industry. We have talked about the massive shift to subscription and consumption based models before, but with that comes enormous challenges in managing all of those subscriptions. Today we are going to talk with a company that is building a plat...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are going to be talking about Database as a Service and about some of the big announcements that just came from Pure Storage. Today we are going to be talking with Michael Ferranti who is VP of Product and Corporate Marketing for Portworx, which is now a part of Pure Storage. He is here to tell us about all Portworx and their new Database as a service offering as well as...

Send us Fan Mail It seems like every day we see headlines about some public company behaving badly. Whether it is environmental disasters, abuse of workers, or just plain theft, companies often don’t have an overarching mission to do good. This shouldn’t be a surprise, because the main job description for the CEO of a public company is to maximize shareholder profits. But there is a different way,...

Send us Fan Mail Ask any successful person, and they will tell you how important their network is to them. Your network can be your single greatest asset in life, yet so many people don’t work on building their networks. Today we are going to talk with a master networker, so get ready to up your game. Today, we are going to be talking with someone I have known for a long time. I know her, because...

Send us Fan Mail There has been huge growth in both cloud and SaaS, and with this has come the emergence of new business models and ways of selling. Today we are going to look at these new go to market strategies, and find out what the future of technology sales looks like. Hey everybody, welcome back to another FUTRtech video podcast. On the venture capital front, we are seeing a big preference f...

Send us Fan Mail The South Asian Diaspora is significant, with over 18 million people living outside their countries of origin. In America, South Asians make up 12 percent of the workforce and South Asian women are an important part of that. Today we are going to be talking with one of the founders of the largest professional organizations advocating for South Asian women, so stay tuned Today we a...

Send us Fan Mail There is a lot in the news about SpaceX’s Starlink internet service, and their ability to bring high speed connectivity to remote locations around the world. While the promise of satellite broadband connections sounds great, they have typically fallen short of what you can get from a wired connection. One of the big challenges with Satellite broadband is latency. Latency is often...

Send us Fan Mail People think it can’t happen to them, but I am here to tell you it can happen to anyone. What am I going on about? I’m talking about phishing. Phishing is one of the major attack vectors for everything from Internet scams to major Nation state ransomware attacks.  Now there are Phishing attacks that are more like carpet bombing your targets. They are email crafted to deceive, with...