Tech Talks

Gary is the Managing Director of Xero, a high-growth accountancy solution built to help small and medium sized enterprises. Here we get to know Gary better. Elon Musk, watch out...

Kresimir joins the podcast to talk to us about the tech-driven electric bicycle company Greyp. The bicycle is tech first, with telematics build into the bike allow for gamification and a new, innovative way to drive the motor! This show was recorded at Web Summit in November. If you're in London on Thursday 23rd January, why don't you join Dave for a chat about building tech responsibly? https://e...

Tomorrow's pod was recorded during Web Summit in Lisbon, and features a Croatian company designing high-end electronic bikes with a bunch more tech onboard. Kresimir is the COO. Here is a taste of what's to come...

Legl are bringing a modern tech-driven approach to the legal sector, an area where a huge amount of friction exists between the customer and industry. Jonathan describes Legl's approach, the challenges face, which sectors they're learning from, and where the 'product mindset' might be nurtured!

Jonathan is the Head of Product at Legl, the people who brought the award winning Crowd Justice to market. Tomorrow we're chatting all about product, and some of the usual routes into tech. Today it's the relative merits of Christmas and being in charge of a Christmas shop...

Anisa is the Senior HR Business Partner at 11:FS, and spends her days building and nurturing purposeful teams by engaging, supporting, retaining and developing the best talent. Which sounds great... but how do you do that successfully when a business of 80 people needs to hire 300?

Anisa is building the HR function at 11FS. Tomorrow we're diving into the culture and methods behind that operation. Right now she's claiming her husband is a dad dancer...

CoStartup & Go helps get startups off the ground; helping edit ideas, streamline operations and work with a founding team. Sian opens up about this learning and the patterns she sees in early-stage businesses. How many people really understand all aspects involved in running a company, or how to divide your time, anyway?? From the whole team behind Tech Talks, Happy New Year!

On tomorrow's show (the first of 2020) we're chatting to CoStartup & Go founder/director Sian. We're talking about leadership within the tech sector. But before that we chat about the ability to hold your breath. I mean, why wouldn't we?

Alex is our New Year's Eve guest as we talk about education. Tony Blair was emphasising education in the mid-90s, and now on the brink of the 20s it feels like we're on the edge of real change. It's only taken 25 years for tech to unlock new opportunities! Have a listen and find out how they're helping 8-12 year olds with Atom, an AI-powered platform.

Caroline is the president and founder of Women in Governance, a Canadian based not-for-profit aiming to help improve the numbers of women in the boardroom? Why; because pale and stale boards are bad of competition, the economy and wider society. Caroline's is a fantastic story, and one I'm happy we can share on Christmas Eve!

YouMakr are an invention platform bringing together creatives and giving them access to resources to get inventive ideas off the ground. Abbas and Rami share their start up story and the path that's led them to this exciting launch, via London, New York, Sweden and China!

Giving you a sneak peak ahead of tomorrow's podcast with Abbas and Rami the Co-Founders of YouMakr. The Business building a marketplace for homemade inventions.

Bruce is building a platform that taps into compute power across the globe to bring a gaming platform like no other. But Polystream doesn't stop there; medicine, military, transport all provide examples of how this platform could bring new insights to existing platforms.

Tomorrow's guest is Bruce Grove, CEO and co-founder of Polystream. Before we get into what Polystream is; Bruce tells us who he looks up to, and the kind of businesses he likes to lead, in the little taster of what's to come!

With teenage suicide rising by 67% between 2010 and 2017, our need to understand and prevent mental health issues from a young age is critical. Step forward Ketka, runners up in the GESAwards UK semi-final and all round innovative use of emerging tech! Farhana and Isabelle talk through the voice-led approach to mental health and their journey as tech entrepreneurs. Also on the show we round test G...

Tomorrow we're exploring how stories can help measure the mental well-being of children, and help healthcare provide better mental health services. So it's a trip into the world of voice, emerging tech and a startup story! But first, here are three questions to help you get to know them!

Calvin and his friends watched 'The Social Network' whilst studying and decided a start-up was for them... then they learnt some lessons. From product misfires, pivots and eventual success, Calvin charts the journey he's had with Segment; a journey that led to him being in Lisbon as a speaker at Web Summit.

Calvin is the co-founder of Segment, a San Fran based 7-year old tech business who collect, unify and connect their client's first party data. I was lucky enough to catch-up with him early on Tuesday morning during Web Summit!

Danny is the Music Marketing Manager for Logitech, and specifically ran a very successful campaign for the Ultimate Ears brand. Have you noticed the ‘millennial pink’ trend on Instagram? Then his campaign might have worked on you! We talk about content creation, creators finding their own voice, and how a brand can grow it’s profile and image in collaboration with that community.

Danny Clayton is the Music Marketing Manager for Logitech. He's a creative guru behind influencer campaigns that have catapulted brands like the Wonderboom speaker into the minds of consumers. Here he chats about FIFA and Vans. The serious stuff is in the podcast tomorrow!

Bonnie talks about her struggles convincing the investment community that dance is a business, how she nearly lost herself when changing to be what she thought the market wanted her to be, and how instagram came to the rescue (thanks to an incredible female community). Today’s episode is a great listen for any would-be founder with a passion, coming into tech for the first time, who is struggling...

On tomorrow's show we're chatting to Bonnie, the CEO of School of SOS, the Netflix of Dance. She's talking about the female founder journey - but before the serious stuff here is a short clip to tee-up the pod!

Nisarg joins the podcast to discuss GlobalSign’s approach to the next generation of security solutions and discuss the challenges posed to business and supply chain by IoT. We explore the needs to identify every device on a network, how their customers don’t understand cyber, and how the industry needs to be less reactive through embracing data and emerging tech. Also on the show, Lego’s Cybertruc...

Our next guest is Nisarg, Director of Project Management at GlobalSign! He's joining us from the USA, so let's say Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends!