Future Ear Radio

Guest: Kane Simms - Founder of VUX World Topic: The State of Conversational AI Heading into 2022 For the last podcast of 2021, Kane Simms joins Dave to provide the listeners with an update on everything that's currently transpiring within the conversational AI space and where Kane believes the technology is moving toward in 2022.  As Dave mentions at the beginning of the conversation, the rea...

Guest: Jill Davis, AuD - Doctor of Audiology and Owner of Victory Hearing & Balance Topic: Successfully Implementing Cognivue into a Private Practice Jill joins Dave on the podcast this week to share the backstory of why she decided to implement Cognivue's computerized cognitive screener in her Audiology clinic, and some of the major takeaways from the process of doing so.  She describes...

Guest: Paul Harkness  - CEO of Lantos Technologies Topic: The 30 Year Hearing Industry Veteran Paul joins Dave on the podcast this week to share his backstory of working in the hearing health industry for the past 30 years. Paul details his journey in the industry, citing all the various companies and roles he's served, and what industry-related moments stand out the most in his mind along hi...

Guest: Dawn Heiman, AuD - Owner of Advanced Audiology Consultants, CEO of EntreAudiology, Podcast Host of The Hearing Wellness Journey, President-Elect of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) Topic: Differentiating via an Expansion of Audiological Services Dawn joins Dave on the podcast this week to share her backstory of becoming an Audiologist, private practice owner, podcaster and now, the...

Guest: Jon Suen, AuD - PhD Candidate at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; Predcotoral Trainee at Johns Hopkins Cochlear Center for Hearing & Public Health Topic: Building a Bridge Between Audiology, Gerontology, Nursing and Public Health Jon joins the podcast this week to discuss his personal story of how he wound up at Johns Hopkins. Jon's story is a fascinating one, as it involves a winding p...

Guest: Laurel Christensen, PhD - Chief Audiology Officer at GN Group Topic: Charting the Past 30 Years in Hearing Aid Innovation  Laurel sits down with Dave on the podcast this week to share her journey of going from working in her Dad's ENT practice as a teen to earning her PhD and ultimately joining GN Group, where she now serves as the company's Chief Audiology Officer.  Along with sh...

Guests: Dr. Elaine Saunders, Co-Founder of Blamey & Saunders (acquired by Sonova); Kat Penno - Director of Hearing Health at Nuheara Topic: 10 Years of Pioneering Telehealth & Remote Audiology Dr. Elaine Saunders and Kat Penno join the podcast this week to look back at the past, present and future of Telehealth in the Audiology space. The three discuss Elaine's pioneering work at Blamey &a...

Guest: Nick Morgan-Jones - Butterfly Audio Topic: Sound Enhancing Wearables that Inspire People Nick sits down with Dave on the podcast this week to discuss his passion project, Butterfly Audio, which is an attempt at totally reimagining "hearing aids." Nick, who was diagnosed with high-frequency hearing loss at 10 years old (now 28 years old), describes his own personal journey with hearing aids,...

Guest: Carl Robinson, CEO of Rumble Studio and Host of the Voice Tech Podcast Topic: Rumble Studio: Creating Better Audio Production Tools Carl joins Dave on the podcast this week to discuss what he and his team are building at Rumble Studio and have a broad-based conversation about the innovation occurring in the audio production space. As the two discuss, audio is in its infancy as a medium and...

Guest: Brad Stewart, AuD - Owner of ClearLife Hearing Care; Co-Founder of AuDflow Topic: Leveling Up the Hearing Care Experience  Brad joins Dave this week to share his experience of working in private practice audiology for the last 10 years and how he views the evolution underway in the hearing health industry. They discuss Brad's hearing care consulting company, AuDflow, which is desi...

Guest: Angela Alexander, AuD - Owner of Auditory Processing Network and APDsupport.com Topic: The Journey to Presenting about Auditory Processing Disorder at TEDx Angela joins Dave on the podcast this week to share her journey of preparing for and ultimately presenting at TedX around Auditory Processing Disorder (APD). Angela describes how she landed the opportunity, the ups and downs that went al...

Guest: Andy Bellavia - Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: A New Era in Hearing Loss Solutions Andy joins Dave on the podcast this week to discuss the continually evolving hearables and hearing health landscape. The two discuss the recent presidential executive order that urges the FDA to accelerate its timeline with issuing its over-the-counter hearing aid guidelines, and discus...

Guest: Brian Taylor, AuD - Director of Clinical Content Development at Signia Topic: The Upside of the Increasing Amount of Hearing Solution Optionality Brian joins Dave this week on the podcast to continue the recent string of conversations based around the evolving hearing health landscape. The two discuss where devices like Signia's Active hearing aids fit into the market, which look like earbu...

Guests: Dr. Kim Cavitt, Owner of Audiology Resources; Geoff Cooling, Co-Founder and Editor of Hearing Aid Know Topic: How Hearing Professionals Can Thrive in an Expanding Hearing Health Market Kim and Geoff join Dave on the podcast this week to continue the discussions had on the podcast recently about the accelerating pace of change occurring in the hearing health market. The three discuss all th...

Guest: Carolina Milanesi - President & Principal Analyst at Creative Strategies; Founder of Heart of Tech Topic: Google + Samsung + Fitbit = A True Apple Watch Competitor? Carolina joins Dave this week on the podcast to discuss the news coming out of Google's I/O developer conference that Samsung and Google will be merging their smartwatch platforms (Samsung's Tizen and Google's Wear OS) into...

Guests: Abram Bailey, AuD - CEO of Hearing Tracker; Steve Taddei, AuD - Professor at Rock Valley College, Audiologist at Center for Sight & Hearing, and Host of the Hearing Tracker Podcast Topic: The Hearing Health Market Heats Up: Sonova + Sennheiser & Bose Hearing Aids Abram and Steve make their debut on the podcast to help break down the recent news of Sonova buying Sennheiser's consume...

Guests: Natalie Nelson, AuD - Clinical Trainer at Phonak; Ashley Hughes, AuD - Audiologist at Interacoustics  Topic: Navigating Student Loans & Negotiating Effectively: A Guide for Young Hearing Pros Natalie and Ashley join Dave on the podcast to share their hard-earned wisdom around navigating student debt and utilizing collaborative negotiation in the work-world. For students and young...

Guest: Collin Borns, Head of Business Development (US) at Speechly Topic: Speechly: Enabling Voice User Interfaces Everywhere This week on the podcast, Dave is joined by his old friend Collin Borns to discuss his new venture as Head of Business Development at Speechly. The two chat about the unique capabilities of Speechly, honing in on its ability to process natural language and speech recognitio...

Guests: Kat Penno - Audiologist & Founder of the Hearing Collective; Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: The Hearing Collective & Pushing the Boundaries of Hearing Health Kat and Andy return to the podcast this week to continue their discussion from 6 months ago during episode 48. This time, the three discuss Blamey & Saunders, an Australian based compa...

Guests: Nancy Tye-Murray, PhD - Founder & CEO of Amptify; Chris Cardinal - President & COO of Amptify; Amyn Amlani, PhD - Owner of Otolithic Consulting; Bob Traynor, AuD - Longtime Audiologist & Private Practice Owner at Audiology Associates Topic: Future of Hearing Health Panel Discussion - Business Model Innovation This week's episode features the second panel discussion that Dave mo...

Guests: Annette Mazevski, PhD - Manager of Technology Assessment at Oticon; Kevin Setiz-Paquette, AuD - Director of Phonak Audiology Research Center; Brent Edwards, PhD - Director at National Acoustic Labs; Ryan Kraudel - VP Marketing at Valencell Topic: Future of Hearing Health Panel Discussion - Hearing Device Innovation This week features a panel discussion that was recorded in March 2021 for t...

Guest: Lena Kyman, AuD, Clinical Trainer at Phonak Topic: Life as a Clinical Trainer Lena joins Dave on the podcast this week to share her journey of becoming an audiologist, working inside a private practice for six years, and now working as a clinical trainer who spends her time training fellow audiologists on Phonak's technology.  Lena provides a unique perspective derived from her time wo...

Guests: Giles Tongue, CEO at Chatable Apps; Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: The Quest for Near-Zero Latency in Hearables Giles and Andy join Dave this week on the podcast to discuss one of the opportunities that AI-based hearing solutions present, solving speech-in-noise, as well as the biggest challenge that these solutions face, which is latency.  For a...

Dave is joined this week by Bradley Metrock , CEO of Project Voice . In January, Bradley kicked off a tour of 35 cities across the US, Project Voice Coast-to-Coast, where he has been stopping at each destination to meet with members of the voice community. At the point of recording, Bradley had just hit his 25th city, St. Louis, where he sat down with me to share what this experience has been like...

Guests: David Eagleman, Neuroscientist at Stanford and Co-founder/CEO of Neosensory; Jacque Scholl, clinical Audiologist; Kevin Liebe, clinical Audiologist and President/CEO at HearingHealthMatters.org  Topic: Neosensory's Buzz and The Next Generation of Hearing Science Dave is joined this week by David Eagleman, neuroscientist and NYT best-selling author, and two audiologists, Jacque Scholl...