Sam Talks Technology

Sam talked with Nicole about her new book, Rough Diamonds - Turning Disruption Into Advantage in Business and Life. We talk about her early life, her career influences and how she setup the Ogilvy Lab. Nicole was formerly the Director of Ogilvy Innovation Labs

Sam talked with Jane about the changing world of e-commerce and the rapidly growing role of Experiential Marketing - what it means for retailers, how it challenges traditional CRM and loyalty marketing practices both online & offline? Experiential marketing is a growing trend which involves marketing a product or a service through experiences that engage the customers and create an emotional a...

Sam talked with Lopa about white privilege, the tech engineer bros culture and how these engineers are developing algorithms to be biased towards their views on sexism & racism which is why diversity really matters across companies and in the boardroom both gender and ethnicity. We discussed how the non-western world is culturally different and is adopting the web differently to how we in the...

The first Google employee hired outside of the US.  She went on to be Google's UK MD before running AOL, Bebo, DailyMotion and BuzzFeed in Europe.  Today she is a VC partner at Hambro Perks.   We talked about her early days selling online classified adverts at The Sun and blinking banner ads for AltaVista.  How Google changed online advertising forever and became the cash cow behemoth it is today....

Sam talked with Katz about her early days as a Punk Singer, theatre designer and digital innovator through to her epiphany at Burning Man that led to her work in digital transformation for large corporations.

Sam talked with Matt Hodges-Long about the numerous 'Privacy & Data' breaches in 2018 that compromised the personal information of millions of people around the world. Some of the biggest victims in 2018 include T-Mobile, Quora, Google, and Orbitz. Facebook dealt with a slew of major breaches and incidents that affected more than 100 million users of the popular social network. Matt helped us...

Sam talked with Sarah  about the recent announcements from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, namely foldable phones from Samsung, Huawei and numerous phones launching/claiming to support 5G already!  We also talked about the recent trend in companies helping us take back ownership and control of our data such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Solid and Sarah's company Digi.me Will Web 4.0 be all about un...

Sam talked with Benjamin about Governments v GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon). Will governments take back control or will they lose all control? From the potential new EU tax link & copyright filtering laws, fake news removal, through to the new proposed social media taxes, the GAFA's are under attack for more EU regulation. The UK parliament even issued a damning verdict today on Facebo...

Sam talked with Charlie and Thomas about what is a blockchain and why you might need it? We also talked about what apps sit on the blockchain, such as cryptocurrencies, tokens and smart documents. We talked about what is an ICO and is it a better way for startups to raise money using tokens instead of equity shares? We also talked about the newly announced bank backed STO's. And finally, when will...

Sam talked with Raj about Machine Learning (AI). We took a deep dive focus on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the future of home/work. We discussed the differences between narrow, general and super AI. We also discussed the 'big nine' corporations--Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--who are the new gods of AI and how they are short-changing our...

Sam talked with Lucy about the changing role of HR, employee activism, speak up culture, social responsibility of companies and corporate ethics and much more about the future of work!

Sam talked with Thomas and Penny about how they were days away from floating on AIM and making the Powers multi-millionaires, to the low of losing their home when it all came to an end after the dot-com market crashed. The subsequent rollercoaster ride is an amazing story in itself which they tell in this podcast. They talked about how the lows were low but the subsequent recent highs have been gr...

Steve Karmeinsky is an angel investor and entreprenuer. We talked about the technology hits and misses from 2018 and then Steve gives his predictions for 2019. We discussed wearables, voice assistants, IOT, the future of social media and mobile phones as well as we discussed the future of work now that machine learning is automating work tasks and replacing peoples jobs. Will a 3 day weekend becom...

Sam talks with Katie about the new Cannabis ' Green Rush ’. Katie also talked about the launch of her new medicinal cannabis newsletter called ‘ The Telegrass ’. We talked about the market opportunity for CBD oil and discussed the hotspots in the world with the UK surprisingly being one of them. Ninety five tonnes of marijuana were produced in the UK in 2016 for medicinal and scientific use, accou...

Suzie and I talked about how she came up with the initial idea. How she set about producing her first initial samples, which went down a storm, with 21,000 snack bars sold on pre-order via her fledgling website. With a lounge full of boxes and packaging material Suzie realised she was on to something. Suzie talks about how she found her co-founder, her first investors, the ups & downs of raisi...