Guest Wade Roush has been covering technology and science for almost 25 years. BostInno readers may recognize Roush from his time serving as staff editor at Xconomy (2007-2014). He’s also written a lot for print magazines, notably Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, and Science. In 2014-15, Roush was acting director of MIT's Knight Science Journalism fellowship program and the producer of the ScienceWriters2015 conference. He recently edited Twelve Tomorrows, a science fiction anthology ...
Jul 08, 2019•1 hr 32 min
Guest Clement Cazalot is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, now Managing Director of Techstars Boston, which is the #1 Global Tech Accelerator with $80 Billion in value created. His latest company, docTrackr, recognized as one of the most innovative cybersecurity players, was acquired by Intralinks (NYSE:IL), and deployed to 99% of the Fortune 1000 within a couple of years, securing some of the world’s most sensitive data. A Boston resident, Cazalot is originally from the south of France....
Jun 18, 2019•44 min
Guest Chris Ilsley is the chief executive at life science and technology incubator North Shore InnoVentures (NSIV) in Beverly, MA. He’s also a board member of both the North Shore Chamber of Commerce and North Shore Technology Council. Ilsley stands out for his role fostering an innovation community outside of Boston. He serves as NSIV’s representative to a variety of local, regional, state, and industry organizations. Ilsley has spent a career driving innovation and entrepreneurship in areas ra...
Jun 10, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Guest Markus Sebastiano is an artist-entrepreneur like no other. He made waves at SXSW 2019 for his “PowHERful” piece for SAP promoting gender equality. And while he’s the epitome of a modern-day thriving creative -- working with major brands like Coca-Cola -- don’t let his success fool you, because he’s fought for his achievements. The now highly coveted mixed media artist has popular installations across the country, and he curates art locally at popular destinations such as the W Hotel in Bos...
Jun 03, 2019•1 hr 24 min
Guest Kim Driscoll has been the mayor of Salem, Massachusetts since 2006. She’s responsible for several economic initiatives that have transformed Salem into a popular Greater Boston destination. As a result of Driscoll’s leadership, Salem became one of 110 cities and towns in the state of Massachusetts designated as Commonwealth “Green Communities.” Driscoll is also spearheading innonorth, a free membership-based program offering a unique blend of events, services, and perks with the singular g...
May 13, 2019•43 min
Guest Galen Moore is an entrepreneur, consultant and independent analyst with experience in media, research and customer development. BostInno readers will recognize Galen from his days serving as Editor-in-Chief of American Inno, and before that writing about VC and startups at Mass High Tech and Boston Business Journal. In 2017, Galen founded Token Report, a financial data infrastructure for an emerging crypto asset class, which was acquired in 2018. Galen has continued his focus on crypto ass...
Apr 21, 2019•1 hr 13 min
Guest Timi Dayo-Kayode is an ambitious student-entrepreneur currently attending Tufts University whose startup Worksense recently won first place at Student Startup Madness at SXSW. Timi is passionate about driving equality in the workplace, and he believes better messaging data mining is critical to enabling better workplace outcomes. He’s developing Worksense into a messaging monitoring software that helps organizations understand how their employees are feeling at the workplace. Timi brings a...
Apr 15, 2019•55 min
Today's guest Srividya Kalyanaraman has enjoyed an accomplishment-filled journey from India to the United States. Currently serving as BostInno's editor, "Sri" (as she prefers) is no stranger to digital media innovation and startups. She was the first reporter to cover social media and the internet for India's oldest financial daily, The Economic Times. She was an enthusiastic second member of freshly-minted two-person business desk at Firstpost.com, India's first digital-only newsroom. And in 2...
Apr 01, 2019•50 min
Today's guest Brendan Ryan was the communications orchestrator behind Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s original run to office in 2006 and re-election in 2010, eventually serving as the Chief of Staff to Governor Patrick. Brendan stepped away from politics in 2014 and cofounded HUBweek, Boston’s wildly successful version of SXSW that’s set to have its five-year anniversary this Fall 2019. He’s helped grow HUBweek to a nationally-recognized festival drawing more than 50,000 attendees and bri...
Mar 25, 2019•50 min
Today's guest Lauren Landry has been a familiar face in the Boston innovation community for the better part of the past decade. She cut her teeth reporting at BostInno covering the Boston startup scene and education beat. She's also been a contributing writer to Boston Magazine and Boston.com, in addition to having her work cited in Wall Street Journal, Businessweek and more. Lauren's most recent career move really caught our eye as she's shifted to a marketing and communications role at Harvard...
Mar 08, 2019•57 min
*guest host Dan Rowinski* Today's guest Dana Jay Bein (DJB) is a Cambridge-based stand up comedian and teacher. He has taught stand up comedy at ImprovBoston for fourteen years, helping to introduce a new generation of comedians to the Boston area. Dana is known for his relentless optimism, fierce protection of people against bullies and bigots, and free hugs. He has been officially recognized by the City of Cambridge for his work in the community and was recently the Comic-in-Residence at the n...
Feb 18, 2019•33 min
Today's guest Michael Bernier works hard to live his best life. Michael is a musician, master of ceremonies (100+ events a year), a performer, a motivational speaker, an entrepreneur, a humanitarian and all around positive force. He possesses unflappable optimism and is a rare breed of individual who lifts the spirits of all whom he comes into contact with. He is a singer songwriter and frontman for the band Freevolt, a pop-reggae group from Boston’s North Shore. Additionally, he’s a talented pr...
Feb 09, 2019•59 min
Today's guest Mardi Fuller has enjoyed an interesting journey into a critical role communicating Boston’s most innovative education initiatives. Now the director of external relations at Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE), Boston Teacher Residency (BTR) and Dearborn STEM Academy in Roxbury, Mardi is responsible for communicating the progress of organizations with the purest of intentions: drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. Mardi is instrumen...
Jan 27, 2019•48 min
Today's guest is J.P. Servideo an internationally recognized teen motivator. A highly successful individual who did not attend college, J.P. is the best-selling author of "The High Schooler’s Guide To Money," which he cowrote with Than Merrill, the star of A&E’s Flip This House. Additionally, J.P. created the Future Fortune Builders Teen Development Camp to teach high school students valuable life skills not featured in standard curriculum. J.P. is known for giving authentic and motivating s...
Jan 09, 2019•55 min
Today's guest is Tripp Clemens a partner at Windy Films, an ascending media company headquartered in the East Boston Shipyard. Tripp is from Rhode Island and went to school locally graduating from Emerson College in Boston. He brings an emotionally rich documentary style to video storytelling. He and his partners Will Humphrey and Harvey Burrell are relentlessly motivated to craft stories for companies who invest in positive social impact. We were grateful to talk to Tripp about how he’s built W...
Dec 21, 2018•40 min
BSU guest Lucy Maffei is a technology reporter at BostInno (Boston Business Journal). Born and raised in Tuscany, Lucy moved to America to attend Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She spent time at TechCrunch (Chicago) and NPR (D.C) prior to moving to Boston and assuming her current role at BostInno. This podcast is filled with beautiful stories from Lucy about her love for Boston -- for example: she affirms Boston's tech community mentors are unrivaled; and she shares a sto...
Nov 22, 2018•57 min
Boston Speaks Up documents inspiring figures in Boston. Today's guest is Dan Rowinski a writer living in Somerville. He’s a reporter who has covered the national tech scene and sports in Boston and D.C. In his latest iteration as a writer, he’s shifting his focus to authoring books. Since completing his first book The Starving Bachelor, Dan has moved on to penning a book about Artificial Intelligence, currently dubbed Muse AI, with a novel spin to have the Greek Muses serve as guides to consciou...
Nov 02, 2018•49 min
