The Trust in SODA Podcast

We’re back with a brand new episode of Women in Data! We’re joined by the incredible Jennifer McGhee, a seasoned data leader with over 20 years of experience in enterprise data management, strategy, and governance.  Tune in to hear Jennifer’s expert insights on what data governance looks like inside US banking today, including data ownership, accountability, literacy, and the urgency of operationa...

Debugging the Patriarchy is live! Part three kicks off with the incredible Chelsey Krull, Head of Product Marketing at Pindrop. When she's not bridging the gap between technical complexity and consumer trust, orchestrating multi-million dollar product launches, or developing market entry strategies, she's advocating for women in tech. A natural storyteller, Chelsey is passionate about ce...

How human-like is AI? Can we use the latest tech to challenge gender norms in leadership? Am I a robot? Welcome to the latest episode of Debugging the Patriarchy! We're joined by the incredible Dr Luke Treglown, Director of AI and Head of Innovation Labs at Thomas. Tune in to hear Luke's insights into the intersection of AI, humanity, and leadership. Dr Luke Treglown is passionate about...

'Data equals friendly, right?' The latest episode of the Women in Data podcast is live! Trust in SODA had the great pleasure of catching up with seasoned data extraordinaire, Elena Solodow, who shared her unique insights on analytics, storytelling, psychology, AI, and more. Elena Solodow has worked in data and strategy for over ten years across diverse industries such as insurance, real...

🇺🇸 The first US episode of the Women in Data podcast series is live! A huge thank you to the wonderful Mahfam Wagner for joining us – tune in to learn about Mahfam's one-of-a-kind journey through data, including the importance of psychology in understanding data and human behaviour, the evolution of data roles, and the challenges faced by today's tech leaders. Mahfam is a data and strate...

🚀 We're live! Our brand new miniseries 'Debugging the Patriarchy' (hosted by our very own Mae Hunter) kicks off with self-proclaimed Titan of Tweed, Nik Walker, Head of Data Engineering and Data Platforms at Co-op. Tune in to hear Nik's insights into all things neurodiversity in the workplace, including flexible business models, authenticity, time management, inclusive environ...

We got the chance to welcome the incredible Ekaterina Khrushch (Katya) to the Women in Data podcast, where she shared her journey from a junior BI analyst to a leadership role in data analytics.  Katya is an Analytics Delivery Lead at Contentful, the industry-leading composable content platform that powers digital experiences for over 30% of the Fortune 500. She works to transform how organisation...

Trust in SODA is joined by statistician-turned-data-science-extraordinaire, Diana Ackermann, in the latest episode of the Women in Data podcast! From pharmacoepidemiology to business intelligence, tune in to hear Diana's unique insights and journey through a world of numbers.  Diana Ackermann is a passionate statistician and self-proclaimed data nerd with over 17 years of experience across va...

In this episode of the Women in Data podcast, the Trust in SODA team caught up with data extraordinaire and Interim Head of Engineering at Babbel, Kimberly Schmitt. From building a data-driven platform to combat homelessness to developing innovative products at Babbel, tune in to hear Kimberly's one-of-a-kind journey through tech.  Kimberly Schmitt places emphasis on strong team and product d...

Episode four! We had the privilege of catching up with the wonderful Dr. Tereza Iofciu, seasoned data expert and passionate team leader. Tune in to hear her insights on productisation, the evolution of data science, public speaking, coaching, leadership, and much more.  Tereza is a data leadership coach, a data practitioner and educator. She has over 15 years of experience in Data Science, Data En...

In this episode of the Women in Data Podcast series, Trust in SODA's Francis Alexander caught up with seasoned data expert and self-professed troublemaker-turned-CTO, Dr. Humera Noor, to hear her expert insights into the data space.  Tune in for the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities inside the evolving world of data, including innovation as a service, iterative approaches, ethics i...

Welcome to the second episode of the Women in Data series from Trust in SODA. We caught up with Rosaria Silipo, principal data scientist at KNIME, to hear her expert advice on building data science labs, the fast-changing talent market, and what the future has in store for data science.  Rosaria Silipo, PhD, has spent 25+ years in applied AI, predictive analytics and machine learning at Siemens, V...

Welcome to the debut episode of Trust in SODA's brand-new podcast series, Women in Data, where we share stories and insights from the incredible women shaping the world of data. A huge thank you to Elif Schaefer for joining Francis Alexander for our opening episode! Elif Schaefer is a seasoned engineering leader with a diverse background in data management, technical consultancy, and educatio...

Episode 33! SODA’s Managing Director, Oliver Perry, caught up with the insightful Andrew Holmes, author, management consultant, business partner, humourist, the list goes on. Tune in to hear all about unintended consequences in the corporate world.  Andrew Holmes is a non-executive director at Birmingham Bank and All Africa Capital Limited. His decades-long career spans a multitude of sectors, and...

In this episode of the SODA Social podcast, we sat down with the wonderful Tim Morris, veteran of the live music industry-turned software developer.  Tim shared his thoughts on transferrable skills, changing expectations, bootcamps, and the power of problem-solving (involving gaffa tape and drummer's head).  Happy listening! Tim is a Backend Software Developer working at Tillo, a global Finte...

In this episode, we caught up with The Cloud Therapist himself, Richard Simon, to discuss what it takes to level up in tech. From building a personal brand to the difference between a job and a career, listen in to hear the latest insights. Richard is a Cloud Native, Open Source and AI advocate with over 34 years of IT industry experience.  For the past 14 years, he's worked in various roles...

In this episode, we sat down with the insightful Mirela Mus to talk about what it means to be a people-first business in the world of Product recruitment.  Mirela is the Founder & CPO of Product People, the premier destination for Product Management in Europe. Mirela worked with companies like Zalando, Omio, DeepL, and The World Health Organization. Her background is in Computer Science plus a...

In this episode, we sat down to pick the brains of the incredible Marlon Opigo.   With an academic background in finance and economics, Marlon kicked off his career as a junior broker in the financial services sector before becoming a program consultant at GUS, helping international students study abroad.  He is passionate about all things diversity and inclusion as well as global food systems - a...

Check out our recent SODA Social podcast with Dagmar M. Schuller.  Dagmar is the CEO and co-founder of audEERING, the innovation leader in AI-based audio analysis.  Among others, audEERING was awarded the Innovation Price Bavaria in 2018, was named European Top 5 Deep Tech company for Digital Wellbeing by EIT Digital and won the VDE Bayern Award as well as the Vision Award in 2019.  Since May 2021...

In this episode, Luchele Mendes was joined by Martin Rückert, Chief AI Officer at Diamant Software GmbH.  Martin is Chief AI Officer at Diamant Software, a leading software company for accounting and controlling software. He manages the AI strategy of Diamant Software and leads a team of experienced data scientists and machine learning operation engineers with the goal to build the most intelligen...

Luchele sits down with Julia Kruslin, co-founder of beatvest, to discuss the conversation around the 'Feedback Revolution.'  Julia is the co-founder of beatvest, an investment app that helps beginners learn how to invest easily and playfully. The company has raised 1.3 million EUR from prestigious angels and VCs. Before founding beatvest, Julia worked for the strategy consulting firm Str...

In the latest episode of SODA Social, Luchele had the pleasure of interviewing Diya Roychowdhury, COO at Taplasolutions. Diya brings over 14 years of experience in enabling teams and organizations to perform efficiently and with integrity. Despite starting her career as a tester in tech, Diya quickly rose through the ranks and became a C-level executive in a data product tech startup in just 1.5 y...

Listen to our latest SODA Social conversation, hosted by Harry Murray. In this episode, we explored Product and Ageism in technology with Kavya Kaushik.  Kav is The Joy Club's Head of Product. She brings experience across startups, scale-ups, and FTSE 100 companies in education, publishing, and hospitality to the role, having most recently worked at FANZO to bring sports fans together to crea...

In this episode, Luchele Mendes chats with Stefanos Christoforou about AI Excellency.  Stefanos is co-founder and CTO of skillfill.ai , a Berlin-based company which transforms the way recruitment is done by bringing accuracy, speed and efficiency to the applicants’ screening process powered by AI. He’s been passionately programming since he was 12, and has been working professionally with web &amp...

In this episode, Luchele and Dr. Mulang' Orando discuss the rise of the tech landscape in Africa, and the opportunities this can provide for data and AI specialists.   Dr. Mulang’ is also passionate about Artificial Intelligence and its application as a solution to human challenges such as Health, Natural language Understanding, and accelerating development goals; mentorship of future leaders...