Tech Talks

This playlist is a collection of four interviews to celebrate International Podcast Day, all recorded in Leeds to celebrate Leeds Digital Festival 2021. You'll find insight here from Tred's CEO Will Smith, The Ahead Partnership (Suzie Bell), The Coder's Guild (Crispin Read) and Jonny Ross, content guru from Fleek Marketing. Also - you'll here us mention The Coder's Guild LGBTQ+ Hack. Take part! ht...

This playlist is a collection of four interviews to celebrate International Podcast Day, all recorded in Leeds to celebrate Leeds Digital Festival 2021. You'll find insight here from Tred's CEO Will Smith, The Ahead Partnership (Suzie Bell), The Coder's Guild (Crispin Read) and Jonny Ross, content guru from Fleek Marketing. Also - you'll here us mention The Coder's Guild LGBTQ+ Hack. Take part! ht...

This playlist is a collection of four interviews to celebrate International Podcast Day, all recorded in Leeds to celebrate Leeds Digital Festival 2021. You'll find insight here from Tred's CEO Will Smith, The Ahead Partnership (Suzie Bell), The Coder's Guild (Crispin Read) and Jonny Ross, content guru from Fleek Marketing. Also - you'll here us mention The Coder's Guild LGBTQ+ Hack. Take part! ht...

This playlist is a collection of four interviews to celebrate International Podcast Day, all recorded in Leeds to celebrate Leeds Digital Festival 2021. You'll find insight here from Tred's CEO Will Smith, The Ahead Partnership (Suzie Bell), The Coder's Guild (Crispin Read) and Jonny Ross, content guru from Fleek Marketing. Also - you'll here us mention The Coder's Guild LGBTQ+ Hack. Take part! ht...

Stuart is festival director of Leeds Digital Festival, now in it's 6th year. Up until the pandemic the festival was purely physical, but virtual environments have given the festival a new dimension. Stuart tells us why Leeds is gaining such attention. If you're interested in the chat mentioned by David (between him and Facebook), more details can be found here: https://www.techexevent.com/techex-n...

As James correctly states, we all have mental health. James Routledge is founder of Sanctus, and author of "Mental Health at Work", a book that will be released next week, on the 30th September. Here we get a very honest insight into James' journey from would-be tech entrepreneur to author - with bumps along the way.

Lightful are working with non-profits to bring their impactful stories to life. In a congested market they've helped organisations raise more money during the pandemic, a time when you'd assume people have less to give. We found out why and how when meeting co-founders Vinay and Carlos. If you want to hear more from Lightful, they have a podcast too: https://soundcloud.com/reclaimsocialpodcast

In the second part of our interview with Andy Smith, CIO at UCL, we explore how he's given the technology team purpose and made sure they're empowered within the institution. We're diving into the mechanics of team building on today's show. If UCL is a place you'd like to work, check out their current vacancies: https://microsites.harveynash.co.uk/ucl/home

Andy Smith started his role as CIO at UCL prior to the start of the academic year in 2020, in the middle of lockdowns and the pandemic. How the role of the CIO has evolved and what challenges working in Higher Education presented are discussed in detail in the first part of our two-episodes with Andy. If UCL is a place you'd like to work, check out their current vacancies: https://microsites.harve...

On today's show we chat to Residently UK General Manager Shareq. He's brought experience from Uber Eats to the business, helping add the tap of a button customer delight we're getting used to in other services. Property doesn't have to be painful!

With climate change and the future of energy so important we're talking to Neptune Energy. Kaveh Pourteymour, CIO, discussed the role technology is playing in building sustainable energy with David, as well as the influence a CIO has on the future shape of a business.

Annika Monari is CEO and co-founder of Artos, a B2B financing and discoverability tech company using blockchain. Founded in 2018, Annika has seen her tech solution lead to her being named in Forbes' 2021 '30 under 30'. How are consumer habits changing? Do you care about the food and brands you choose?

Graham Hussey has opened the doors to 'The Dream Factory', a place where founders and high-growth businesses can fuel their growth with great content. He sees it as the epicentre for the start-up scene in a post-lockdown world, and he's certainly generating buzz in town once again. Step inside the factory in today's show.

Sonya Barlow is the author of 'Unprepared to Entrepreneur', the host of the BBC's The Everyday Hustle, and founder of Like Minded Females. Today we're talking to her about being an entrepreneur; what it really means and the lessons she's learnt from others. The 21st was World Entrepreneur Day, so both episodes this week focus on entrepreneurship.

Applied believe we need to ‘re-architect a hiring process that perpetuates bias’; they exist to fix the intertwined issue that the way we hire today is inefficient, and it’s unethical. Khyati Sundaram, CEO, is here to tell us what that new process could, and should, look like.

Gil Laser, CEO of GoTo Global, is joining the podcast to talk about mobility and confidence. With many European cities rejecting cars, and many customers more environmentally conscious, GoTo are offering a multi-modal transport platform that will work for a community, rejecting broader appeal to meet the demands of people for every day usage.

Sean O'Brien is a cyber expert and visiting fellow at Yale Law School, but he's joining Tech Talks to talk about Panquake, a short messaging service that doesn't sell user data. It's built, and supported, by a community who are trying to rekindle the initial promise of the internet; what's not to love about that?

Paul Berney, CMO of Anthropos, is here to chat about connected care. By collecting data from a kettle, and other household goods, they're able to build up a picture of an older persons day - and alert you to changes in routine. Given children are often a long way from parents the reassurance this can give everyone concerned is priceless. Also on the show we've got Anna Flockett, editor of Startups...

Lee is General Manager of Europe at Playvox, a company helping to optimize the performance of staff in call centres. We're discussing cloud, omnichannel etc... but how do you use the tech in a way that actually motivates people? That's the big question to ask today.

Jamie True is an entrepreneur who is constantly looking to apply tech and new ways of working to improve existing products and services. Uptime is his latest idea, an app offering educational hacks! Increasingly fitting learning into life is getting easier.. provided someone you trust can curate the content you want for you!

Joe Baguley is VMWare's go to person to answer the question, "what's next?". Given the acceleration of adoption of AI to manage processes, and the ever increasing deluge of data, Joe is occupied with questions such as explainability, intellectual property and sustainability. Fundamentally are we thinking about the impact of what we're building?

Daniel Glazer, founding partner of Wilson Sonisi's London office, explains why British startups fail in the USA, and how they might achieve growth. We challenge our relationship with the technology sector, and gain great insight along the way from a virtual Silicon Valley.

Project Pegasus has blown apart the notion that our phones are secure, so we decided to find out as much as we could about the subject and ask how worried we should be! Rebecca Rumbul has returned to the show to offer expert insight: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-rumbul-96a5441a/ David is on leave this week, so our usual mics weren't available - but we hope this interview is informative and...

Andy Blacker is CEO of Songclip, the plumbing making it possible for apps to use music to help uses express themselves! Only 4 apps currently licence music, yet it is fundamental to the way we express ourselves, and musical choices tell others about us. So Songclip is bringing this uniquely human experience to more products.

Crystel Robbins Rynne is CMO of HR Locker, a business on the West Coast of Ireland providing HR solutions to businesses. Unsurprisingly as the world of work has shifted gear, and new priorities have risen in importance, they've been a little busy! So what benefits matter to us now, and what is good culture anyway?