Future Ear Radio

Guests: Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp; Carl Thomas, Founder of Audiowings & Hearables Expert Topic: "Hearables Aren't the Thing... They're What Give You Access to THE Thing" This episode stems from a 2019 twitter thread from Carl, in which he posited that hearables are a portal to something much larger (riffing off an iconic scene from the AMC TV show, Halt &amp...

Guests: Giles Tongue, CEO of ChatableApps; Geoff Cooling, hearing professional and co-founder of Hearing Aid Know Topic: ChatableApps Giles joins Dave and Geoff for this episode to walk them through everything ChatableApps - from how it works and can empower folks with hearing loss, to the science that goes into the app and ultimately how it fits into the audiologists' suite of services.  htt...

Guests: Kat Penno - Audiologist & Founder of the Hearing Collective; Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: AirPods' Role in Tackling Hearing Loss Dave is joined by Kat and Andy to discuss the new accessibility features coming to AirPods Pro with the new iOS14 update. Included in the features, is the ability to amplify and adjust sounds and frequencies for digital...

Guests: Gyl Kasewurm (Professional Hearing Centers - MI), Meagan Lewis (Wake Forest Baptist Health -NC), Ronnie Boling (Brentwood Hearing Center - TN),  Sheryl Figliano (Centers for Hearing Care - OH), Judy Huch (Oro Valley Audiology - AZ), and Jason Aird (Iowa Audiology & Hearing Centers - IA) Topic: Life for Private Practice Owners and Audiologists from March-June 2020 Dave interviews s...

Guests: Shari Eberts - Hearing Health Advocate, HLAA Board Member, & Founder of LivingWithHearingLoss.com; Matt Hay - Hearing Health Advocate & Director of Audiology Sales at Redux  Topic: Life with Hearing Loss during a Pandemic  Shari and Matt join Dave to walk through their individual journeys from when they first discovered they had hearing loss to becoming advocates and cham...

Guests: Andy Bellavia (Knowles Corp), Chris Economos (PhysIQ), Ryan Kraudel (Valencell) Topic: Building Early Detection Systems with our Wearable Devices to Combat Public Health Crises Dave hosts a panel comprising of Andy, Chris and Ryan to explore the idea of how wearable & biosensor technology can be used to help combat public health crises by serving as early detection systems for irregula...

Guest: Kyle Acker, SVP at RiseENT Topic: The Appreciating Value of Today's Hearings Aids  Kyle joins Dave to share his professional journey that led him to RiseENT after spending ten years at Starkey Hearing Technologies. From there, the two discuss how the industry can adapt to the various disruptive forces that it's facing. Finally, the two dive into today's hearing aid technology, and spea...

Guests: Jeff Adams, CEO & Founder of Cobalt Speech and Language  Topic: Building Alexa and What Comes Next for Conversational AI Jeff Adams joins Dave for this episode of the podcast, walking Dave through the major hurdles that Jeff's team at Amazon had to solve when they were tasked with bringing Alexa to life. Jeff founded the Alexa Speech Group and led a team of speech & language s...

Guests: Imrich Valach, Co-founder & CEO of Sentien  Topic: Sentien Audio: All Day Bone-Conduction Hearable  Dave sits down with Imrich Valach to discuss the novel and creative approach his team is taking to the whole premise of a hearable, with its all-day, bone-conduction audio device. During this interview, Imrich and Dave chat about the inspiration behind starting the company, why...

Guests: Nikolaj Hviid, CEO of Bragi, and Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development at Knowles Corp Topic: BragiOS: The Intelligent Hub Connecting a World Full of Sensors Andy and Dave sit down with Nikolaj Hviid, the CEO of Bragi, to learn the full story of Bragi - how it started, the "proof of concept" hardware phase, and the current phase with BragiOS. Last year, Bragi sold off its hardware...

Guests: D'Anne Rudden, Owner of Longmont Hearing & Tinnitus, and Brian Urban, President and Co-Founder of CounselEAR Topic: TeleHealth in the Audiology Setting Audiologists D'Anne Rudden and Brian Urban join Dave to talk about how TeleHealth is being implemented and adopted within the audiology setting. As a private practice owner, D'Anne shares her own experience of adopting TeleHealth in her...

Guest: Ian Freed, CEO of Bamboo Learning Topic: 5 Reasons Why Bamboo Learning Fascinates Me Hello and welcome back to Future Ear. The next episode of podcast features Ian Freed, CEO of Bamboo Learning. Throughout this conversation, Dave highlights five reasons why he believes Bamboo Learning is one of the "must watch" companies within the voice industry. Through a combination of deep domain knowle...

Guest: Keri Roberts, Brand and Content Strategist and Host of the Inside VOICE podcast Topic: Takeaways from 100+ Voice Technology Podcast Interviews Keri joins Dave to discuss some of her biggest takeaways from the first 100 episodes of the podcast she hosts, Inside VOICE. The two go rapid-fire through a number of her guests, highlighting the main theme of the episode and what resonated most with...

Guest: Paul Michaelenko, CEO & Founder of the Listen App Topic: The Listen App & Social Podcasting Paul sits down with Dave to share the vision of the Listen App, a new type of podcast player with an emphasis on social sharing. As the two discuss, podcasting is in need for a social layer that's built natively for the audio medium. Just as we saw Facebook's first attempt at a mobile app fai...

Guest: Kevin Liebe, Audiologists and President/CEO of Hearing Health & Technology Matters Topic: Innovations in Hearing Care and (Hearing Aid) Data is the New Oil  Kevin Liebe joins Dave to discuss the new column he's launched at HHTM around innovations occurring in the hearing healthcare industry. The two discuss the three interviews that Kevin has conducted so far, going one-by-one to t...

Guest: Priti Moudgill, CEO & Founder of Peripherii Topic: Fashionable Hearables Priti sits down with Dave to share the story behind what led her to start her hearables startup, Peripherii. The two discuss why hearables designed as earrings that are tailored for women is both intriguing and feasible, the rise of "situational" hearables, and the type of universal features that will likely be ava...

Guest: Liz Fuemmeler, Audiologist and Vestibular Specialist at Hearing and Balance KC Topic: Life as a Recent Audiology Graduate Liz joins Dave to share her journey of becoming an Audiologist and landing her first job as an AuD as a Vestibular Specialist at Hearing and Balance KC. During their conversation, Liz shares what life has been like transitioning from grad school into the working world, h...

Guest: Andreas Stegmann, Product Manager at Chrono24 and Author of the post, "Spotify at the Crossroads" Topic: Spotify at the Crossroads Andy joins Dave to walk through his fantastic Medium post, " Spotify at the Crossroads ," where he lays out some of the pitfalls Spotify is facing and how the company might best navigate those challenges. One of the keys, Andy believes, will be for the company t...

Guest: Mark Truong, Audiology Student and Host of the Hear Me Out Podcast Topic: Hearing Aid Genius Bars Mark joins Dave to share some of his key learnings from the first year of starting his podcast. Mark is a first year student of audiology in Melbourne, Australia, and has taken the initiative to start his own podcast, where he interviews all types of hearing care leaders and experts about a wid...

Guest: Andy Bellavia (Business Development at Knowles Corp) & Bradley Metrock (CEO of Score Publishing and host of Project Voice) Topic: The Emergence of Voice Panel from Project Voice This episode of the podcast is a recording of the, "Emergence of Hearables" panel from Project Voice. Dave and Andy comprise the panel, which was moderated by Bradley. The three discuss a wide range of hearables...

Guest: Bob Stolzberg, CEO & Founder of VoiceXP Topic: Wise Words from a Voice Pioneer Bob Stolzberg joins Dave to share some of the key things he's learned across the first three years that Bob has been building voice experiences. Bob's company, VoiceXP, provides a do-it-yourself platform that allows anyone to easily create voice experiences for Alexa or Google Assistant on their own - as Bob...

Guest: Carl Thomas, Founder of Audiowings & Longtime Hearables Enthusiast  Topic: Hearables-as-a-Platform  Carl joins Dave to discuss a wide range of hearables-specific topics. The two begin with some of the key learnings that Carl has had from his time knowing Nick Hunn, the wireless analyst who coined the term, "hearables." Chief among those learnings was the idea of hearables-as-a...

Guest: Brielle Nickoloff, Product Marketing Lead, Witlingo Topic: Toolsets for Voice Creators Brielle joins Dave to talk about Witlingo and the toolsets that they're building off to arm voice creators and help them make content production and distribution easier. For example, Witlingo's platform allows for non-technical people, such as Dave, to quickly publish and disseminate his flash briefing to...

Guest: Brett Bivens, Venture Capitalist at TechNexus  Topic: Spotify's Pursuit of the Growing "Audio Day" Opportunity Dave and Brett explore Spotify's pursuit to be more than just a music streaming company, with podcasting  being the first step toward all kinds of new, more profitable ambient media services. The conversation largely revolves around Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's question of whe...

Guest: Dave Copithorne - Director of Content at Hearing Tracker Topic: Recapping Starkey's 2020 Expo Dave C walks Dave K through the four day Starkey Expo held in Las Vegas this past week, highlighting some of the key themes, product developments and general takeaways from the expo held by the American hearing aid manufacturer. The two begin by discussing Starkey's flagship hearing aid, LivioAI, a...