Tech Talks

On today's show we're talking to Marko, Executive Producer at Bucketsquad and a senior member of the team behind Jesser, the YouTube creator with almost 16 million subscribers. We ask how you create for that audience, how you keep them engaged, and what enterprise business can learn from that experience.

Miquel Ballester Salvà, Head of Product Management at Fairphone, leads a social enterprise making sustainable, modular smartphones. He discusses Fairphone’s mission and theory of change. Topics include supply-chain projects like the Fair Cobalt Alliance, material choices, e-waste take-back and recycling, balancing sustainability with business, and how modularity and longevity drive impact.

SigmaOS is a whole new browser experience, making it easier for you to be fast and better at what you do on the Internet. Or that's the claim by founder and CEO Mahyad Ghassemibouyaghchi. Picked byY Combinator as 'Product of the Month' are you convinced? Also, 'Amazon for Kids' launches a conversation Gen-AI aimed at children. Excited, concerned? It's fair to say David and Amber need convincing.

Energy storage is the backbone of clean energy systems. But battery storage is complex. STABL Energy are on a mission to make access to battery storage easy for anyone, unlocking mass adoption of clean energy. Today we're exploring how with Dr Nam Troung, co-CEO and c-founder. Also on the podcast our discussion about the new engulfing Web Summit. Here are the articles we base our discussion on, and our thinking on the wider impact of events like these: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/business/web-summit-paddy-cosgrave-israel.html https://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-digital-nomads-bubble-gentrification/

From digital disruptors to Fortune 500 companies, over 18,000 businesses rely on PagerDuty to help them continually improve their digital operations. We ask the CEO Jenn exactly how that works, and what lessons she's picked up along the way. David and Akeesh chat EV chargers. Here is the actual article with the actual news... https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/19/23922649/gravity-dc-fast-charger-new-york-500kw

Former guest Molly rejoins the show, and since she last sat down with us she's been busy. Her brand is growing rapidly, as is her team (and their dogs) without compromising the values of Flexa or their clients. We simply ask how!

Brian Comiskey's job is to look to the future and tell the CTA membership what's hot, and what's bubbling to the surface! How that all stitches together is not an easy picture to paint; so much of what we talk about feels critical. So where should we be focusing our attention?

Industry leader Gary Shapiro drops into the show today to talk about the future of the technology industry, whether that's addressing the need for a technology emphasis in 'human security'. developing a strategy for dealing with China, or looking to countries like France for inspiration. Last week we also released our film on the under-funding of female business. Watch here: www.nashsquared.com/techflix

Today we're talking to reformed physicist Dr Chris Ballance, CEO of Oxford Ionics. They're aiming to be the ARM of Quantum Computing. But what is Quantum Computing, and what is the relevance to those of us in the enterprise tech sector? Also Tech Flix is now live, talking about funding female business: https://www.nashsquared.com/techflix If you want to read the article we discuss it's here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/04/female-founded-ai-startups-win-just-2-of-funding-deals-in-uk

I recently sat down with Erika Brodnock MBE to film an interview for our film series 'Tech Flix'. Erika is the co-founder of Extend Ventures and Kinhub, and one of 5 multicultural founders to watch in 2023 (according to Sifted). Here she shares her views on VC funding for black women, the Fearless Fund, and why it's time to focus on the doers, not done to. To watch our film on Thursday follow this link: https://www.linkedin.com/events/howcanwereversethechroniclackof7105403876391968768/theater/