Channel 4's creative innovation director Landy Slattery on creativity meets AI Landy Slattery is the Creative Innovation Director at Channel 4, having spent over two decades in TV, most recently at the in-house agency within Channel 4. From graduating Central St Martins during its most radical era, to implementing the first ever menopause policy at Channel 4, Landy has always enjoyed challenging the status quo. She is now relishing the opportunity to pursue new technologies in her role even whil...
Nov 08, 2024•37 min
Are you feeling a bit low on motivation during a slow summer? Got AI overwhelm and want to get back in your groove? In a solo episode from our founder Lauren Ingram, we’ll take you through what to do if you need a bit of a boost! LINKS: Follow Lauren Ingram on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingramlauren/ Follow Next Big Thing on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextbigthingstudios EVENTS: Follow Next Big Thing for the latest emerging tech news, events, job posts, and learning re...
Aug 20, 2024•9 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Only 0.7% of AI funding went to female founders. Yep you read that right...! We need more women at the forefront of AI, whether that's building AI startups, getting funding, joining AI taskforces within their companies, or simply dabbling with ChatGPT to get the best out of it. In a special bonus episode, Next Big Thing founder Lauren Ingram shares why this is now an urgent need - this year is when the critical conversations are happening about AI, and women need their voices heard in it. LINKS:...
Jul 16, 2024•13 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Mike Russell has pivoted his voiceovers business to embed AI into the offering at Music Radio Creative. And alongside his 338,000 followers on his main YouTube channel, Mike has started a spinoff called Creator Magic all about AI tools for content creation. Lauren talks to Mike about the future of the internet, the impact of AI, and possibly even the end of the world... LINKS: Mike Russell on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imikerussell/ Mike’s YouTube channel (338k subscribers) https://ww...
Jul 02, 2024•34 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Denzil Eden engineered an amazing conversational AI tool way before ChatGPT hit the news. Her product Smarty can organise your calendar with just a few words, and plays the role of your personal assistant. Denzil has degrees in computer science & AI from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard, but found that the market wasn’t ready for her advanced product for a long time - and that pitching her startup now is a very different process now that people understand slick chatbots. We talk about why AI lit...
Jun 25, 2024•34 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Kate Ross has pivoted her digital agency of the last 15 years, called eight&four, to offer its own suite of AI tools because she was frustrated by the limitations of just using ChatGPT. She shares the agency’s successes and the misses in building bespoke AI solutions, such as a tone of voice tool that a large travel brand now lets every employee use. Kate also gives us some good old fashioned British cynicism (or realism!) about the hype and bluster (and even white lies) about some of the AI...
Jun 18, 2024•36 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Samantha G. Wolfe is one of the leading voices in the metaverse space - she is an adjunct professor at NYU's Steinhardt School teaching courses including ‘The Business of the Metaverse, and 'Avatars and Virtual Humans’, and she’s authored two books including ‘Metaversed: See Beyond The Hype’. We cover AI-generated influencers, using tech for good or evil, and - in her position as a leading expert in emerging tech - what she sees as the next big thing. LINKS: Samantha G. Wolfe on LinkedIn: https:...
Jun 11, 2024•25 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Lea Turner grew her LinkedIn following phenomenally fast in late 2019 - so when covid hit in 2020, she pivoted her business and started offering LinkedIn training. Now with 168k followers on LinkedIn and a sold-out membership community for small businesses, Lea is the perfect person to tell us how to stand out in the AI era when there’s a ton of noise out there. We cover: Why now is the right time to build a personal brand - and how to get started What to write on LinkedIn if you find it cringey...
Jun 04, 2024•34 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Leanne Elliott Young knows how to capture the zeitgeist, whether at Nike in their highly secretive Rm72 team and collaborating with Virgil Abloh, or now at the helm of the Institute of Digital Fashion (IoDF), as a cofounding team of self-professed “architects of a new digital culture”. Leanne talks through her career, having been approached to join Nike not long after graduating, and spent nearly a decade there before rejecting fashion norms and throwing herself into digital fashion and pioneeri...
May 28, 2024•31 min•Season 5Ep. 2
You don’t need 50 new AI tools, you just need a few that you know how to use really well. So if the constant tech changes are leaving you with FOMO, we’ve got you covered. Host Lauren Ingram, former women's lead for Meta, interviews leaders about the latest tech and why it matters. Next Big Thing is here to help you not just survive, but thrive in the next internet. Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextbigthingstudios/ Instagram @nextbigthingstudios...
May 21, 2024•1 min
The interview that changed everything! Daniel Priestley is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and the author of multiple bestselling books including Key Person of Influence, and Oversubscribed. In this episode Daniel gives step-by-step advice to host Lauren Ingram on how to grow her Women of Web3 business and community - advice that we have now implemented, by launching Next Big Thing. Daniel started his first company at 21 and made over $10 million in just 3 years, so he has a great pedigree...
May 21, 2024•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 1
Ashley Gross created her AI-focused business in just 10 days and has a ton of learnings to share with us - in her last role, she rolled out AI tools to over 100 marketers and has taken that experience to grow her own business instead: The Prompt Community. A former community manager for MyBFF, Ashley lives and breathes AI, Web3 and emerging tech and puts inclusion at the centre of what she’s building - as well as adding a more human touch to the usual AI content shared online, with 1970s graphic...
Apr 23, 2024•36 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Join us for a special episode where we answer some of your most asked questions to Web3 and blockchain expert Helen Disney, Founder of Unblocked, a hub for blockchain events, education and information. We’ll cover: What is blockchain? What is Web3? What is bitcoin and how does it work? Where can I learn more about Web3? What are the most useful strategies for learning about blockchain and Web3? We also dive into Helen’s career and how she went from journalism to running her own think tank before...
Apr 16, 2024•36 min•Season 4Ep. 7
If you’re wondering ‘Will AI take my job?’ then today’s special episode is what you need - in a solo episode from our founder Lauren Ingram, we're diving into: What to do if you've been laid off What jobs exist in AI and Web3 Tips to get a job in this space We also cover Lauren’s back story, from a leading marketer in digital agencies and at Meta, through to losing her job and then founding Women of Web3 - which is now a global, thriving community. This episode is proudly brought to you by Black...
Apr 09, 2024•17 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Lindsey McInerney counts Hollywood actress Mila Kunis as her cofounder, and she’s seen the highs and lows of the Web3 hype cycle over the last few years. Lindsey started her career working in social media back in 2009, working her way up to Global Head of Technology & Innovation at beer company AB InBev where she led an NFT project for Stella Artois generating a million dollars in sales in a week - and she was subsequently named in the 30 Most Influential People in the Metaverse. She has now...
Apr 02, 2024•36 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Jamilia Grier has grown her business and has raised 4 kids in 4 different countries while building an international legal career. Having spent years honing her craft as an expert tech lawyer, she now uses a subscription model for her business ByteBao so that Web3 founders can access legal help as and when they need it. Jamilia is also the host of the podcast Barely Legal In Web3, where she interviews tech founders and senior leaders. Join us as we hear about Jamilia’s jetsetting career and the s...
Mar 26, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Claire Barnett is the former Executive Director of UN Women UK and now the CEO of YourHaven, a wellness platform that offers AI generated therapy sessions based on the voices and work of real therapists, delivered by headsets like the Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro. Having run a wellness studio in her spare time alongside her demanding roles, Claire is one of the very few leaders at the intersection of mental health, systemic change, and VR - and so she was delighted when asked to join YourHave...
Mar 19, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Bianca Lopes is a multifaceted entrepreneur, visionary and investor deeply engaged in the intersections of technology, identity, and finance. As cofounder of Authentify and founder of Rooh Ventures, she shares her journey, emphasising a philosophy rooted in presence and curiosity, which has been instrumental in her success. We also dive into the transformative power of blockchain to share the broken identity system. Bianca has advised 40 financial organisations, and she sits on UNESCO’s Business...
Mar 12, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Welcome back for Season 4! Noticed our rebrand? What is Web3? If you’re new here, Web3 is the next major iteration of the internet, and includes technologies like blockchain, NFTs, and even AI and the metaverse. Today we talk to Lisa Mayer, Founder of Boss Beauties and former founder of Social Canvas, and her ongoing mission to inspire women and girls to be whatever they want to be - first through mentoring events, and later in Web3 by founding Boss Beauties as an NFT project and now a media and...
Mar 05, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 1
We have a *very* special guest for our season finale, and that is Martha Lane Fox, cofounder of lastminute.com. Martha, nicknamed the ‘dotcom dinosaur’ by the press thanks to her lengthy career in tech, sits on the board of Chanel, WeTransfer, the British Chambers of Commerce and previously sat on the board of X (Twitter). She is also cofounder of karaoke bar chain Lucky Voice, and chancellor of the Open University. We talk about her experiences leading at some of the world’s biggest companies, ...
Jan 23, 2024•28 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Tarja Stephens is on a mission to upskill 1 million women - and she and her cofounder Janna Salokangas are putting AI and leadership skills at the heart of what they’re building at Mia - Mission Impact Academy, where they have recently completed the first cohort of their AI accelerator program. Originally from Finland and now based in Miami, we dive into Tarja’s journey from her early days in shipbuilding to pivoting during the pandemic. LINKS: Tarja Stephens on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.co...
Jan 22, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Maghan McDowell is Senior Innovation Editor at Vogue Business, where she’s known as a leading voice covering all things metaverse, digital fashion, and how luxury brands translate their brand for the world of Web3. Within her role Maghan oversees the weekly Technology Edit newsletter, and she knows the tech and luxury markets inside out. We dive into Maghan's forecasts for the tech landscape in 2024, looking at everything from the impact of generative AI in 2023 through to upcoming VR headset la...
Jan 09, 2024•26 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Elke Karskens is an exec at leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, where she’s recently been promoted to Country Director for Benelux and the Nordics. Always with a strong desire to follow innovation, she has an impressive career spanning stints at TomTom, Skype in its early days, and then a decade at Meta (formerly Facebook). Elke now plays a pivotal role at Coinbase, having initially led their marketing before being promoted to a leadership position. We dive into her dizzying career traject...
Dec 12, 2023•31 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Cynthia Huang is a digital nomad, and the cofounder and CEO of Dtravel, a decentralised travel ecosystem. A longtime host herself, Cynthia created the largest community of Airbnb hosts in the world, before taking them on with a decentralised alternative. We discuss why she made the decision to shut down her previous startup Altcoin Fantasy and she shares what makes Lisbon - her current home - a really special hub for Web3. LINKS: Cynthia Huang on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiajhua...
Dec 05, 2023•39 min•Season 3Ep. 7
The skills needed to thrive in Web3, digital fashion or AI today will undergo a radical transformation in the next five years. Join a trio of the creative tech scene’s heavy hitters for a very special live recording of the Women of Web3 Podcast with host Lauren Ingram, where we dive into the top skills of the future - and how you can tap up the talent needed for what comes next. This was recorded at New Codes, a festival of fashion and digital innovation in London. LINKS: Holly Wood, HollyWoodLa...
Nov 28, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Prepare to have your mind blown as we welcome the extraordinary Cindy Gallop. She reached the pinnacle of the advertising world as the chair of international ad agency BBH and now she’s a board advisor to multiple companies and a powerhouse entrepreneur as the founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn. She’s also a world-renowned public speaker with an enormous following. Our conversation with Cindy is meaty and unapologetic as we dive into the intersection of women, tech, Web3, and slightly unconventi...
Nov 21, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Join Anastasiia Mala, DRESSX Marketing Lead, and an elite panel featuring Lauren Ingram, Founder of Women of Web3, Renee Francis, Founder & Director of Take3, Niamh Linehan, CMO at Defactor Labs, and Camilla Purkis-White, beauty brand & marketing director & Founder of Glitch Glam, as they unveil the alchemy of long-term brand building - your ultimate arsenal to not just survive but thrive amid the fiercest bear markets. LINKS: Panellists: Lauren Ingram on LinkedIn: https://www.linked...
Nov 14, 2023•31 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Tobi Ajala is a tech genius, entrepreneur, and angel investor, and former developer at Apple, and she’s the driving force behind TECHTEE as its visionary CEO and founder. TECHTEE is a globally acclaimed software house, excelling in gold standard software research, design, and development - and it’s the world’s first Black-owned, female-founded and women-led digital agency. Join us for a discussion with Tobi about her entrepreneurial journey, starting at university on a night out and ending up ru...
Nov 07, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Camilla McFarland has been in the wild world of crypto and Web3 since 2017 when she joined Consensys (creators of MetaMask), and is the queen of useful analogies that make blockchain make sense. Camilla has been VP at Mojito, a platform for brands to build their own NFT storefronts, used by global brands like Sotheby's, CAA, and Prada. She's also a founding member of Web3 marketing and product studio Serotonin, and she’s now advisor to both Mojito and Serotonin. LINKS: Camilla McFarland on Linke...
Oct 31, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In our Season 3 kickoff, we're thrilled to welcome Ashley McDonnell, Global Client Activation Director at luxury powerhouse PUIG, home to iconic brands like Carolina Herrera and Jean Paul Gaultier, where she has led Web3 and emerging tech projects. Ashley is not only a leader in the luxury industry, with stints at Dior, LVMH, Google, and board positions, but she’s also the host of the hugely popular Tech Powered Luxury podcast. Join us to discover the strategic choices that propelled Ashley to l...
Oct 24, 2023•43 min•Season 3Ep. 1
