Why do almost half of women in tech drop out by age 35? Does diversity in tech matter? Can government-led initiatives really make the tech sector more diverse — and if not, what are the alternative solutions? Rocío Medina van Nierop — co-founder and CEO of Latinas in Tech — joins us to answer these questions and more. To learn more about the incredible work Latinas In Tech is doing visit www.latinasintech.org
Jul 13, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 5
In a world driven by rapid technological advancements, the future holds both excitement and uncertainty. Join us as we explore the intersection of technology, society, and our shared future. We delve into the coolest tech breakthroughs across various industries, discussing whether technology can save us from our most pressing challenges, such as the threat of climate change and poverty. From traditional business verticals to new technologies like the Metaverse, and Web 3, we question the boundar...
Jul 06, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 4
This week, Will and Rebecca discuss the Oceangate Titan submersible disaster that killed five people — including the company’s founder, Stockton Rush — and what we can learn from it about the need for regulation in tech. Despite numerous warnings from industry experts and a lack of regulation, Rush pushed ahead with the fatal expedition, reflecting a prevailing attitude among super-rich entrepreneurs that they know better than anyone else. Will and Rebecca discuss the barriers to regulation, whi...
Jun 29, 2023•24 min•Season 3Ep. 3
In this episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, we’re joined by Dami Hastrup, the Co-Founder and CEO of Moonhub, a virtual reality (VR) training platform that helps teams gain and retain knowledge through interactive VR scenarios. Before welcoming our guest, we take a moment to celebrate London Tech Week, exploring the dynamic landscape of the UK's VR and AR market, plus what lies ahead in this rapidly growing and ever-evolving space. We also delve into the UK’s strategy to lead the future of web technol...
Jun 22, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Tech Can't Save Us returns for its highly anticipated third season! Joining our resident wizards Paul and Will is our new co-host, Rebecca Headman. With her extensive experience as a podcast producer and expertise in social media and PR, Rebecca has successfully elevated numerous brands and businesses in her career. Together, the trio kick off the third season of the podcast by examining the London tech scene three years after Brexit. Our conversation begins with a look at the gradual decline of...
Jun 08, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Ai-jen also holds the titles of next-generation labor leader, author, and leading voice in the women's movement. Plus, she’s an award-winning organizer who has spent over two decades organizing with women who work in the care economy doing childcare, aging and disability care, and cleaning. We start our conversation by looking at a piece on domestic worker health and safety protection, which revealed that in one study, 51% of all survey respondents had been pressured by their employer to work in...
May 18, 2023•53 min•Season 2Ep. 50
This week, Nina Mohanty, CEO and co-founder of Bloom Money, joins Paul in the studio. Paul and Will first saw Nina on a panel at the SIFTED Summit in 2022 and have been fangirling ever since, so we had to get her on the show. Nina is the American-born daughter of an Indian father and Taiwanese mother who grew up in Silicon Valley and is now a fintech founder. Paul and Nina bond over their experiences working for Obama (as senator and president, respectively) before jumping into the first article...
May 11, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Tong, who is a computer scientist by training, was once an investment banker, and she also founded a machine learning company, which she grew to 40 people before exiting. First, we look at a Bloomberg article that shows that roughly 56% of North American-based investors expect to allocate capital to fund managers who invest significantly or exclusively in women-founded businesses. Tong agrees that the number of initiatives to invest in women has increased, but the reality is not so encouraging. ...
May 04, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 48
We start off by diving into a piece on a report from LADBible that states only 35% of Brits support cannabis legalization. Stephen believes that the public is still neglecting cannabis because they are unfamiliar with the plant and it is seen as a negative influence on society. Through Prohibition Partners, he clarifies, “we have a chance to really catch up on this wonderful plant and really get to understand the benefits cannabis can do for us in society as a medicine, food, ingredient, and mat...
Apr 24, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 47
The conversation kicks off with an article by USA Today that highlights how Gen Z makes up a large proportion of the LGBTQ+ community. Billie explains that this generational shift towards many more people identifying as LGBTQ+ is great for tearing down societal structures and spurring innovation in the finance space; it’s essentially giving Daylight an ever-expanding audience to serve. “What it really indicates is more and more people in the younger generations are thinking about societal struct...
Apr 19, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 46
Free From Market is on a mission to assist consumers with affordable, inclusive access to healthy food, as well as critical data and resources to further drive positive health outcomes. We kick off the conversation by delving into a piece that says many UK households are now skipping meals due to the rising cost of living. Emily acknowledges that food insecurity has always been a challenge, but that “it is at a critical point right now with inflation, particularly with food prices continuing to ...
Apr 13, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 45
We start off by diving into a piece from The Guardian about AI replicating inequity at scale . Jessica states that Playbook is directly impacted by AI and it is a rising concern, especially for artists like herself. She says, “You can see [AI-generated art] as somewhat threatening to some of our jobs and livelihood.” Jessica adds, "Technology is definitely very scary, but in a way, it is somewhat inevitable.” So how does Playbook overcome this obstacle? In response, we dive into a discussion on ...
Apr 06, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Sue’s journey began with an obsession with technology, humanity, and sociology, ultimately taking her to her formation of WeAre8. We first dive into a piece from the BBC about AI swamping social media with fake accounts and mimicking human behavior on social media. Here, Sue underlines that WeAre8 ensures that everyone is validated and verified, so no one can be anonymous. “We are a powerful force taking tiny actions every day, and we have to use AI in the way we want. What worries me at the mom...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Marie is a self-confessed “super nerd supreme” who started coding at just nine years old. She began her career as an engineer at AOL, then worked at Universal Studios and several tech firms before co-founding Data360 eight years ago. The first article we discuss is from Forbes. It tackles the intersection between AI and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and asks whether ChatGPT will make DEI communications from leaders inauthentic. “It’s a matter of fairly sourcing data,” Marie tells us. Sh...
Mar 23, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 42
We start by diving into how DeNora founded DoSomething.org after cultivating an interest in societal issues, civic life, inclusivity, and other important topics. This interest directly informed the specific campaigns her company has completed, such as “Make STEM 100%,” which mainly focuses on providing for high school students, especially from underrepresented communities. “What we know is that only 20 % of high school graduates are prepared for college-level coursework STEM,” DeNora says. “If t...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Our conversation starts with Kiehl’s background at Riot company and Google before leading into how he decided to launch his own company. Josiash discusses the importance of achieving and standing out amongst the various companies in the gaming industry, underlining the idea that anyone can now create their own unique product. “I think this is a trend we’ve seen recently,” he observes. “As tools get better and better, it lowers the barrier to entry of creating anything.” Kiehl further adds that t...
Mar 09, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 40
The conversation kicks off with an article about ChatGPT and whether it poses a cybersecurity risk. “It is exciting to see how fast this has taken off and how people are adopting an AI tool,” Tiffany says. “But it’s also being adopted by bad actors and cybercriminals. They’re using it to make their emails look real and personalize them at scale,” she tells us. “Others have learned to exploit ChatGPT to create malware, which is code that tries to gain access to data that it shouldn’t have.” Tiffa...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Winvesta is a cross-border neobank that provides a wide variety of products to developing markets, including global banking accounts, investment portfolios, and payment collections. The company was born out of Swastik’s desire to develop a product suite that would give investors in developing markets access to financial services in developed markets. India is the largest user base for some of the tech companies in the world, including Facebook . However, people were not able to invest in these c...
Feb 23, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Kieron is a jack of all trades with his interests in marketing and love of poetry so he built a creative consultancy on the power of words. His obsession with language and etymology drives him to inspire clients to build bridges with words. As a Performance Poet, Kieron shares his perspective on a piece questioning AIs ability to write Authentic Poetry and how “what it lacks is human experience to pick up the nuances” and “lacks the creative flair and creative soul.“ We discuss a piece on ChatGP...
Feb 16, 2023•53 min•Season 2Ep. 37
This week, we welcome Amy Carter-James and Ben Keene, Co-founders of Raaise, who share their mission to empower climate startups to create a better future for our planet. Raaise is a SaaS platform powering bold, game-changing climate startups to prepare for and execute a funding round with as little friction as possible so they can create climate solutions for a better, greener future. We start the episode with a piece from Verge on COP27. "It brings the world together around this conversation o...
Feb 09, 2023•53 min•Season 2Ep. 36
This week, we welcome Christian Hendriksen, Co-Founder and CEO at Rensair, who walks us through his pursuit to protect and enhance lives through proven clean air technology. Christian is passionate about clean air as a human right. He creates new technologies with Rensair that help people around the world reduce their exposure to air pollution and tackle airborne diseases. "There is a direct correlation, undoubtedly, between particulate matter levels in the air and your ability to concentrate," ...
Feb 02, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 35
In this week's episode, we welcome Reva McPollom, Founder & CEO of Lessonbee who shares her mission to transform K-12 health education and social emotional learning. Reva’s innovation at Lessonbee provides culturally relevant health education that promotes mental and emotional well-being that serves as a catalyst to a healthier world for everyone. "One of the issues historically with the SEL curriculum is that it doesn't include or represent the multi-dimensionality of diverse learners," Rev...
Jan 26, 2023•50 min•Season 2Ep. 34
What better month to talk about the future? This week, we welcome Rohit Talwar, Founder and CEO of Fast Future, to discuss his passion: harnessing new ideas and driving innovation to future-proof society. Rohit's work at Fast Future specialises in the fields of future and foresight, delivering critical insights to help clients navigate disruption and understand the emerging landscape, so they can shape a better tomorrow. "We're seeing in all sorts of fields of science that AI is far outstripping...
Jan 19, 2023•39 min•Season 2Ep. 33
In this week's episode, we're joined by Cynthia Fortlage, Founder of CAF Services, who lets us in on her insight into creating safe spaces where all marginalised people experience a sense of belonging. We start off by diving into a piece on emphasising and empowering the T in LGBTQ for transgender people in tech. Cynthia points out, "when we talk about trans, it's imperative to understand for organisations that those are three very different identities." What are those three identities? We discu...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 32
This week, we welcome Robin Eriksson, CEO, and Co-founder of Cogo, who shares his passion for using technology and innovation to create sustainable change. With his strong belief that creating sustainable cities is one of the most important issues we need to address, Robin co-founded Cogo, a platform that gathers shared rides for frictionless mobility and a better tomorrow. We start the episode with Robin's perspective on a piece by Bloomberg on how it's time to treat e-bikes like vehicles , whe...
Jan 05, 2023•39 min•Season 2Ep. 31
This week, we’re joined by Piotr Pisarz, Founder and CEO at Uncapped, who lets us in on his mission to empower founders who are changing the world. As the economic downturn looms over us, we dive into one of Sifted pieces on what the recession means for European VC and how the trouble they might be facing is "mainly driven by a significant reduction in runway". "If you're a founder,” Piotr says, “you should really prepare to have a runway at least for the next 12 months." We dive into the next p...
Dec 15, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 30
In Today’s episode, we welcome Alan Grau, VP of Sales & Business Development at PQShield who shares his expertise on post quantum cryptography. We start the episode with a deep dive into ‘ What Is the Future of Quantum-Proof Encryption? ’. “Somewhere around the end of this decade,” Alan predicts, “quantum computers will be able to break RSA and ECC encryption.” We then introduce a piece on the road to quantum-enabled cybersecurity and what it looks like. Alan points out that quantum cryptogr...
Dec 08, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 29
This week, Kat Hamilton, Director of Partnerships and Programmes at Force of Nature, talks about their powerful mission of empowering young people to create real change and its vital part in the future of our climate. We start by delving into an insightful piece on ' young people and eco-anxiety ’. Kat points out that "eco-anxiety is an amassing of feelings across people of all generations, and we focus on young people because that's where our lived experience is." They go on to share their pers...
Dec 01, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 28
In this week's episode, we're joined by Alexandre Crépault, Sales & Operations Lead at Climate X, who lets us in on how he's helping to build a better future for our planet. We start the episode off with a piece on ' How Clean and Climate Tech Became a Good Investment ,' where he describes how the current global challenges are impacting the markets, changing the priorities of investors and banks broadly. Alexandre points out how "the structure of climate tech differs a lot from traditional t...
Nov 24, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 27
This week, we welcome Mandana Ahmadi, Co-Founder and CEO at Alena, to discuss her forward-thinking approach with mental health, using Tech to help people be their best selves. "Personalisation is key. At the end of the day, what matters is what's happening to me, my body, my brain, my life; therefore, it has to be specific to me," Mandana explains as we discuss a piece on Tech in mental health and its future. We move on to another piece by Wired that examines the problem with mental health bots ...
Nov 17, 2022•54 min•Season 2Ep. 26
