In this week's episode, we welcome Danielle Clarke, Brand Designer & Marketing Consultant at Danielle Clarke Creative, where she shares her love of using design for good as well as helping businesses build stellar brands. In this episode, we switch it up and welcome our Creative Director Anabelle Pang and Senior Designer Oliva Messer to get a well-rounded perspective on the future of design. We start the episode by exploring a piece from Forbes on the wild new world of text-to-image AI where...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 25
In this week's episode, we welcome Imriel Morgan, CEO and founder of Content is Queen, who shares her passionate perspective on the up-and-coming podcast scene. We start the episode by delving into a piece by Wired on how tech industry layoffs will potentially undo workforce diversity gains, where Imriel describes how "the diversity element of the workforce tends to come much later for a lot of big organisations and companies; it's an afterthought." As an expert in the podcast industry, Imriel g...
Nov 03, 2022•58 min•Season 2Ep. 24
In this week's episode, we're joined by Trenton Moss, founder and lead coach of Team Sterka and the author of the bestselling book Human Powered , where he shares his focus on supercharging digital product teams with emotional intelligence. Trenton describes how embedding emotional intelligence into your teams will "increase everyone's well-being, it will improve individual performance, it will improve team performance, and it will improve business outcomes." His work at Team Sterka helps transf...
Oct 27, 2022•45 min•Season 2Ep. 23
In this week's episode, we welcome Arjay Ruggles, CEO of HomeRoom, who lets us in on their strong belief in community as a driver for growth and its crucial role in the future of business. We start off with a deep dive into one of HubSpot's pieces on community-led growth, where Arjay mentions how companies are quick to make the mistake of dismissing community in B2B SaaS. In reality, "people want to understand the product, they want to use it right, and they want to do it in the right ways." Wit...
Oct 20, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 22
On this week's episode, Richard Packman, Managing Director at GoodPAYE, shares his perspective on adapting and changing the way technology is used so that it's an enabler and a force for good. "I think to really create significant change, you've got to change behaviour," he explains, as we discuss how to bring about change using tech for good, "and to change behaviour, you've got to adjust the way marketing is done traditionally." GoodPAYE is a 100% charity-owned tech-for-good business working t...
Oct 13, 2022•45 min•Season 2Ep. 21
In this week's episode, we welcome Daniel Bakh, Co-Founder & CEO at Fullview, and learn about his passion to help humanizse SaaS companies so they can deliver amazing customer experiences. Daniel understands how frustrating it is to wrap one’s head around customer issues. So he built Fullview, a platform that supercharges the process of recognizing customers' problems, boosting productivity and enabling a smooth experience for the end user. At Fullview, Daniel’s mission is to ensure every mo...
Oct 06, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 20
In this week's episode, Yasmin Georgiou, Strategy Lead at William Joseph, discusses her passionate outlook on a people-centred approach to strategy development, bringing different perspectives together on a journey to create effective, long-term change. "I'm really driven by social purpose," she emphasizes, "that's, I suppose, the continuous thread through my career today. That's what I really believe—that people should be able to bring their whole selves to work, and I try to do that." As someo...
Sep 29, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 19
In this week's episode, we welcome Ellie Hale, Producer at Catalyst, and discuss the potential of tech in re-inventing lives, systems, and perspectives. Catalyst is a collective of digital agencies, funders, and charities who believe in the strength of good design and data to transform civil society, driving a systemic and societal change. "Historically, tech platforms haven't been driven by social principles," Ellie explains. "They've been driven by profit, and that can often lead to very extra...
Sep 22, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 18
In this week's episode, we talk to Jack Mardack, Co-Founder of Oyster, about the most exciting new chapter in the world of work and the crucial role he plays in building bridges between companies and the world's top talent. There has been "a legacy of imbalance of power as a basic construct of employment for a very long time," Jack explains. "That tone needs to be ripped out and replaced by something that is infinitely more human, infinitely more transparent." Oyster is an HR platform for global...
Sep 15, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 17
In this week's episode, we're joined by Co-Founder and President of MapLight , Daniel Newman, who lets us in on his innovative use of tech to foster a just society, economy, and environment for everyone. "Believing in your importance doesn't mean you have to be special in some way or different from other people," Daniel expresses. "If you care about the world and want to improve it, then you will make a difference." As a national expert on finance and politics, Daniel believes everyone deserves ...
Sep 08, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 16
In this week's episode, we talk to Ana Heloísa Moreno, Founder of Altruistic Capital, about her empathetic and human-centred approach to venture capital. "Social justice is something that we're all born with the capacity to understand," she explains, supporting the presence of social justice in human nature. We all have the ability "to recognize a situation that isn't fair or just.” Ana Heloísa's work at Altruistic Capital focuses on the potential of impact-driven social businesses to address so...
Sep 01, 2022•54 min•Season 2Ep. 15
In this week's episode, we speak with Zoe Philpott—Co-Founder of 2zero3zero and creator of Ada.Ada.Ada—who speaks on storytelling, creative innovation, and gender equality in tech. Zoe is an award-winning experiential storyteller who breathes never-been-done-before ideas into existence. Her penchant for turning complex thoughts into moving experiences has made robots dance for Ford Motor Cars, illuminated 56 interactive Christmas trees outside the White House with Google, and re-imagined the sto...
Aug 25, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 14
In this week's episode, Olivia DeRamus, award-winning founder and CEO of Communia , shares her mission of re-imagining tech in its best possible form to connect, inform, and uplift women and marginalised genders. Olivia describes her goal as an attempt to "revolutionise and rethink how women connect with others and themselves" and talks about how tech can "improve women's lives in a way that has never been done before." Olivia has faced the challenges women face online and in real life first-han...
Aug 18, 2022•45 min•Season 2Ep. 13
In this week's episode, we speak to Jonny Burch, Founder of Progression , about his goal to help teams around the world define the skills needed for their staff to grow. "If you're passionate about something, you'll be better at it," Jonny explains. "If you're not fundamentally excited by your day-to-day work, then it's going to be a miserable 8 hours." He describes the relationship between passion and career using Japanese concept ikigai, meaning your "reason for being", and more practically, "...
Aug 11, 2022•47 min•Season 2Ep. 12
In this week's episode, Paul Finnis, CEO of the Learning Foundation and Digital Poverty Alliance, lets us in on his inspiring work, helping children achieve their full potential through the effective use of technology, with an ultimate goal to end digital poverty by 2030. "We kept finding enormous numbers of young people who were not connected at home at all or have limited connectivity," he explains. "Digital should fit into people's lives, particularly the most disadvantaged, and not be an add...
Aug 04, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 11
In this week's episode, we talk to Aerica Shimizu Banks, Founder of Shisho, about her journey in building an intersectional equity approach in tech and policy. Aerica employs a holistic and data-driven approach to her work with Shisho, shaped by her own experiences with environmental justice, policy, and tech. Her triple bottom line is "people, planet, profit." "Racism, civil rights and the environment and the issues we face in the environment are inextricably linked," the intersectional equity ...
Jul 28, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 10
"Founders are facing problems that are not just hurdles — but ‘stop all work in progress,’" explains Charlotte Clark, co-founder at Base Ventures. “What is a deal breaker in your startup journey, versus something you just have to figure out how to manoeuvre around?" That question is at the heart of what Base Ventures offers the startup world. Having experienced what it’s like to be lost in the startup ecosystem, Charlotte empathises with founders who face challenges around defining their profess...
Jul 21, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 9
In this week's episode, Catherine Lethbridge, Head of Strategy and Marketing at Workfacta, lets us in on her innovative work at Workfacta and the product's ability to create "management zen." "Anyone running a business or a team is constantly fire-fighting," she mentions, "and anyone who says otherwise is lying." As someone who has managed across industries, Catherine has created the prized "star feature" in Workfacta — a system that alleviates the last-minute havoc of zoom meetings and google m...
Jul 14, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In this episode, Phil McParlane, founder and CEO of 4dayworkweek.io , shares his insightful take on the four-day work week and why it’s a far more valuable practice than people give it credit for. “If you worked five hours in a row, the fifth hour would definitely be less productive than the first,” he explains. “It’s the same logic with the traditional work week; stuff just doesn’t get done on Fridays.” As a pioneer of the four-day work week movement, Phil has changed the lives of thousands of ...
Jul 07, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 7
How do we use virtual reality (VR) to train the workforce of the future? Professor Adam Ganz is doing the work to answer that important question. As one of the leaders of StoryFutures Academy at Royal Holloway University of London, Ganz is placing innovative storytelling at the heart of next-generation immersive technologies like augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual reality. Professor Ganz also brings up their new immersive experience called Storytrails (coming soon!), where p...
Jun 30, 2022•48 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Human resources (HR) often gets a bad rap. Whether it’s forcing people back into the office after a pandemic or mismanagement of legitimate employee grievances around issues related to identity (race and gender, for example), it seems like someone always has a bone to pick with HR. Joseph Ifiegbu is out to change that. Leveraging next-gen HR analytics, Joseph and his team at Eqtble are helping companies understand and address challenges around attrition, DEI, employee engagement, and a whole hos...
May 10, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 5
“Two things that were clear from how people spent their time during the pandemic – they were doing a lot of drinking and wanking." Heather Morrison doesn’t mince words. As the Co-Founder and CEO of Bump’n, Morrison and her team have pioneered the world’s first accessible sex toy. The Bump’n Joystick is a flexible bed buddy with gender fluid design that users can hug and attach their favorite sex toy components such as dildos, vibrators, wands, and sleeves. We first heard about Bump’n during our ...
Apr 20, 2022•54 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Charlotte Cramer gets healthtech. She and her team at Plastic Studio leverage their backgrounds in applied neuroscience and behavioural psychology to bring a human-centered and trauma-informed approach to user research and design in healthcare. That’s why we brought her on the pod to discuss identity-focused healthtech startups (like Him & Hers and Folx), her work with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and how she filmed a show for plant-based eating that garnered over 1 million views. We sta...
Apr 10, 2022•47 min•Season 2Ep. 3
This week on Tech Can't Save Us, we welcomed Dr. Giulia Barbareschi, disability innovation researcher, who holds a PhD from University College London and previously worked for the World Health Organization providing assistive technology to the Global South. Dr. Barbareschi is currently a Research Fellow at the Keio School of Media Design in Yokohama, Japan where she leads a project called “Artistic Technologies: Developing Novel Interactions for Inclusive Artistic Expressions” which seeks to fin...
Feb 28, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 2 of Tech Can't Save Us! In this episode, we welcome Chris Sisserian, Head of Intelligence @ Sifted. His team is responsible for putting out weekly briefings that cover the early-stage tech ecosystem in Europe. Their most recent briefings have covered hot topics like femtech, last mile delivery, and online groceries. We kick off the episode discussing tech for good headlines such as Meta/Facebook's latest shenanigans, big moves in the gaming space (Microsoft's purchase of Activ...
Feb 08, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Have you ever thought about the environmental impact of the websites you visit daily? How about the carbon output of your Netflix queue? Tom Greenwood sure has. He's even written a book on issues like digital pollution, website efficiency, and sustainable web design. We talked to Tom about his agency's efforts to make web design and development a bit greener, as well as how he's helping to raise awareness about how our digital activities are connected to climate change. Tom introduced us to Jevo...
Sep 27, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 17
How do tech for good funders decide where to invest? Where do they place their bets and why? We dug into that big fat question with Paul Miller, Managing Partner and CEO at Bethnal Green Ventures, one of Europe's leading tech for good funders. During our chat we discussed the contours of the tech for good landscape, its explosive growth, and how funders like Bethnal Green Ventures are staying nimble. Our discussion covered BGV's recent acquisition by a leading pension fund which includes importa...
Jul 20, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Shiti watched her grandmother struggle with symptoms of diabetes and dementia. Some of those symptoms included declining mobility and mental health. Naturally, her next move was to build Breathe Happy, an AI platform for posture correction. Breathe Happy includes multiple different products, one of which is a longevity platform that helps older adults move, breathe, and connect. In partnership with the UK's National Innovation Centre on Ageing, it's been proven to lower stress, improve balance, ...
Jul 12, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 15
The digitisation of fashion is upon us. Being locked down with all their possessions for the past year, people have begun to reconsider their relationship with their wardrobes. At the same time, there's a huge push for the fashion industry to behave more sustainably. Enter Little Black Door. A social wardrobe app that helps people see what they own while sharing and styling their wardrobes with friends. This naturally helps people be more sustainable in their fashion choices (i.e. buy differentl...
Jul 05, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 14
What are "digital rights" and how do we secure them in our modern era? Arda Awais and Savena Surana are at the forefront of answering this critical question through their organization Identity 2.0, a creative studio working at the intersection of digital rights, technology, and identity. In this episode, we discuss their efforts to use provocative and progressive art exhibits to push forward conversations about data privacy and digital human rights. Identity 2.0 poses and seeks to answer difficu...
Jun 22, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 13
