In 1999, Michael Beckley, Matt Calkins, and two other friends were in a basement. Twenty-three years later, Appian is publicly traded with more than 2,000 employees - and was the most successful software IPO of 2017. Today he joins me in a discussion on growth in tech and shares tips to push through the looming recession. He shares how they grew Appian to be a company with a market cap of more than $3B, giving giants like Salesforce and ServiceNow a run for their money. Appian became a unified p...
Jan 02, 2023•28 min•Ep. 2224
In today's episode, Neil shares his new year message and explores the opportunity to learn more about leveraging technology to make lasting connections. Then, Sarah Elkins, the founder of the No Longer Virtual (NLV) Conference, shares her insights on how to use technology to create meaningful connections. Through her inspiring stories and lessons learned, Sarah provides tips on how to benefit from stories to shape personal growth and development. She also discusses the importance of pushing ones...
Jan 01, 2023•39 min•Ep. 2223
In today's Tech Talks Daily episode, I explore technology's role in demystifying music licensing and its complexities. More Specifically: how Tracklib has automated sample licensing to the benefit of both music creators (artists, producers, and songwriters – superstars and budding talent) and rightsholders (labels and publishers). Today's guest is Pär Almqvist: who caught my attention when he said, "There's a big, positive implication from knowing you can sample something and not be afraid of be...
Dec 31, 2022•37 min•Ep. 2222
Otovo is Europe's leading online residential solar marketplace and has assessed over 4 million homes across Europe. They're currently active in 13 markets, serving 90% of Europe's population. Andreas Thorsheim, its founder and CEO, joins me on today's episode of Tech Talks Daily. I learn more about how Otovo uses proprietary technology to connect customers to local, vetted installers, making the process of adopting solar at home as smooth and seamless as possible. We discuss how the online marke...
Dec 30, 2022•29 min•Ep. 2221
Pete Sena is a design-led entrepreneur who loves to partner with forward-obsessed founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders to unlock new possibilities and growth. For nearly 20 years, Pete has built and led cross-functional teams that have delivered many successful multi-channel programs and activations, ranging in scale from venture-backed startups to Fortune 50 companies. Pete joins me in a conversation that covers everything from marketing, branding, entrepreneurship, design thinking, te...
Dec 29, 2022•45 min•Ep. 2220
2219: EdgeQ - RISC-V: The Linux of 5G EdgeQ is a 5G chipmaker leveraging the RISC-V architecture to open its tech. RISC-V is not only shaping the evolution of 5G, it's also redefining the broader mobile landscape. The mobile/telco industry has historically been dominated by proprietary, closed technologies and vendors. However, with RISC-V's growing popularity, the mobile industry is adopting openness at a massive scale for the first time. Just as Linux drove enterprises to embrace open-source s...
Dec 28, 2022•25 min•Ep. 2219
Neil McGregor, COO at REPL Group, Part of Accenture, has amassed over 15 years of consulting experience – mainly focused on global retail systems integration. Neil has been at REPL for over six years, taking on the role of COO back in 2020, where he leads all people, projects, and operations across the consulting team globally. Before that, he was Consulting Operations Director, where he lead and motivated the delivery team; and Consulting Director, where he was responsible for leading complex c...
Dec 27, 2022•21 min•Ep. 2218
Cyber crime is everywhere, it's on your phone, laptop, it's even seeping into warfare, shutting down entire countries. How many times have you received a notification saying your password has been compromised on a retail website you've spent far too much time on? Usually you change the password as soon as possible, the risk to bank details and other personal information is too great. Yet, the same attention and diligence is not given to cybersecurity for businesses, despite reports of fraud and ...
Dec 26, 2022•28 min
Ryan Lasmaili is the Co-Founder & CEO of Vaultree, the world's fastest searchable encryption technology for databases. Ryan has been fascinated by technology breakthroughs from space travel to EnviroTech since childhood, and in the last 12 years he has been involved with technology startups developing solutions to major problems. Ryan's background is in financial mathematics with a passion for astrophysics and economics, having also worked in corporate environments in roles ranging from proj...
Dec 25, 2022•24 min•Ep. 2216
Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America's "War on Terror," and now playing out in alarming ways on China's remote Central Asian frontier. As a minority separatist movement strains against Party control, China's leaders have built a dystopian police sta...
Dec 24, 2022•37 min•Ep. 2215
The machines we interact with every day make our lives easier. As they become more intelligent and able to help us in new ways, we need to take a step back and consider whether how third parties govern them is fit for purpose, particularly as we move towards a world with autonomous vehicles. Many machines, devices, and vehicles we use daily are centrally controlled, limiting what the machines can or can't do regarding the provision and rendering of goods and services. Machines built for Web2 exi...
Dec 23, 2022•36 min•Ep. 2214
Push Protocol is a web3 communication network, enabling cross-chain notifications and messaging for dapps, wallets, and services. It powers communication for over 100 of the world's leading dapps and service providers across DeFi, NFTs, gaming, dev tools, and more. Until Push, no solution existed to enable native communication between wallets in response to on- and off-chain data. The result was a fractured dapp ecosystem, held together by antiquated and centralized communication platforms. Push...
Dec 22, 2022•42 min•Ep. 2213
Sean Farrington, EVP EMEA at Pluralsight – the workforce development platform, joins me on today's episode of Tech Talks Daily to talk about the ongoing challenges around hiring and the role of internal skill development in plugging gaps. We discuss the scramble for talent and how tech companies must still take on high revenue projects, bring new products to market and keep customers happy. This means talent remains critical, but businesses will need to turn to expanding the skillsets of existin...
Dec 21, 2022•33 min•Ep. 2212
Steven Furnell, IEEE senior member and professor of cybersecurity at the University of Nottingham, joins me on today's episode of The Tech Talks Daily podcast. Steven discusses the findings of his recently published paper titled 'Assessing website password practices –Unchanged after fifteen years?', which explores how leading websites guide and support users in making appropriate password choices. The paper presents the fifth in a series of studies that have been conducted every few years since ...
Dec 20, 2022•29 min•Ep. 2211
A recent report has revealed that Google harvests 39 types of private data on its users, which includes users' specific location, their browser history and the emails on their Gmail accounts. Google is constantly invading our personal space thanks to the many formats at its disposal, including: Search, Chrome, Gmail, Youtube, Maps, Workspace, and Android. As Google's oppressive dominance continues to grow, more and more email users are ready to embrace new decentralization tools that are providi...
Dec 19, 2022•22 min•Ep. 2210
When every business is talking about the power of digital experiences, I want to learn more about what that means and look beyond the buzzwords and toward the business value it offers. Contentsquare, the global leader in digital experience analytics, was recently named a winner of the 2022 Aragon Research Innovation Award for Digital Experience Analytics. So today's guest is Dave Anderson from Contentsquare, which helps brands deliver the power to make the digital world more human. Dave shares h...
Dec 18, 2022•44 min•Ep. 2209
Draft.dev helps businesses achieve their technical content goals through a team of writers who are also professional software developers and subject matter experts. As a result, they create content that resonates with technical audiences and performs well on search engines. After spending eight years as a CTO, building software engineering teams in venture-funded startups, Karl Hughes started Draft.dev to help companies create authentic technical content that resonates with software developers. ...
Dec 17, 2022•28 min•Ep. 2208
Jeffrey Partyka, Principal Data Science Engineer at Xactly, joins me on Tech Talks Daily in a discussion about the rise of data scientists and their value for companies. Jeffrey shares how forecasting models work, the importance of statistical analysis, and how wider teams can utilize data to create better business products. He discusses how this role has evolved and is better institutionalized in recent years. We also explore Xactly's survey report - Insights on The Sales Talent Crisis of more ...
Dec 16, 2022•28 min•Ep. 2207
Continuous digital transformation has created a data explosion that's overwhelming many organisations. Every tap, click, or swipe from a user, new code deployment or architecture change, and attempted cyberattack generates more data that can be captured and analysed. However, there is too much data to store and use cost-effectively. Organizations are therefore forced to discard most data or lock it away in cheaper storage layers where it can't be analyzed. This has led to a tipping point, where ...
Dec 15, 2022•30 min•Ep. 2206
The transportation industry is going through a massive digital transformation right now. The changing value proposition of cars is moving software to the center of a legacy business. So it's a great time to get in on an early software trend that will soon redefine driver expectations. In today's episode, I want to learn more about how the advanced technology team at General Motors is doing inspiring work driving the future of transportation, from EVs and AVs to connected cars. Padma Sundaram, di...
Dec 14, 2022•24 min•Ep. 2205
Did you know that Biodiversity loss represents a risk to more than half the world's GDP - about $44 trillion? Today, I want to explore what Biodiversity is and technology's role in improving it. Dr Mike Musgrave joins me in a conversation about all this and more. We discuss his work with the School of Wildlife Conservation at the African Leadership University is working with Dalberg Catalyst and Financial Services Deepening Africa to develop a Biodiversity Investment Ratings Agency (BIRA). Dr Mi...
Dec 13, 2022•27 min•Ep. 2204
Visibility and detection tools such as Orca, AWS Security Hub, Wiz, Lacework, and others revolutionized cloud security assessment and analysis, inching the world of SecOps towards remediation. The transformation they introduced to risk prioritization and assessment in the cloud brought to the surface valuable indications and alerts that required the attention of security teams. SecOps teams are now swamped with a growing number of security findings but no comprehensive tools or streamlined proce...
Dec 13, 2022•23 min•Ep. 2203
At IDEO, they believe a more sustainable, equitable future is for all of us to design. And there is an urgency to that collective effort, as today's challenges are increasingly global and interconnected. For decades, They have helped individuals, leaders, and organizations navigate such complexity, designing the products, services, and experiences of the future. But what is the role of technology in these efforts? Wes Eugene, CIO IDEO on the podcast, joins me on Tech Talks Daily to share his sto...
Dec 12, 2022•25 min•Ep. 2202
Cipher Skin CEO Phillip Bogdanovich shares the story behind the biometric and motion smart sleeve used for physical rehabilitation. He is a former US Marine Corps Amphibious Recon Medic and was Tactical Medical Chief Diplomatic Protection for the US Dept of State. I learn more about how he launched Cipher Skin after his own physical rehabilitation recovery from combat injuries and success with previous startups. We also discuss how the patented technology has numerous applications, including ath...
Dec 11, 2022•31 min•Ep. 2002
Stephen Semmelroth was in the Army for 6+ years, and he served in Afghanistan and the Army's Cyber Corps, where he led a red team and a threat intelligence team defending US assets across an entire continent. Unfortunately, he broke his back while on a mission which left him paralyzed, and he had to relearn how to walk. After retiring from the Army, he founded Rainier Cyber, a cybersecurity recruiter that matches Cyber Vets with tech jobs across the county, which was acquired by StrataCore in 20...
Dec 10, 2022•41 min•Ep. 2200
Larry Williams is the President and CEO of The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), one of the largest tech associations in North America with 30,000+ members. His role is to help strengthen the innovation ecosystem of Georgia, a state particularly well-known for its booming technology industry. Through TAG-Ed, Larry also works tirelessly to promote STEAM education and support workforce development for tech professionals. Larry shares with me his insights about supporting the technology ecos...
Dec 09, 2022•43 min•Ep. 2199
Issuu is the world's largest SaaS content publishing and marketing platform. The Issuu Story Cloud empowers content creators to transform creative designs from static files into web-optimized assets for every marketing channel, including web, mobile, social, email, and more. Joe Hyrkin, CEO of Issuu, the Omni-channel content tools and publishing platform, joins me on today's episode of Tech Talks Daily. We discuss how the Issuu Story Cloud enables millions of global marketers, brands, creators, ...
Dec 08, 2022•35 min•Ep. 2198
Linden Tibbets, Founder and CEO of IFTTT (If This Then That), shares the story behind the platform that allows users to integrate different apps, devices, and services to create automated responses and routines. I learned more about his vision to empower everyone to automate and integrate their favorite apps and smart devices to work together by launching IFTTT in 2010. Before that, he worked as a communications designer at IDEO, a renowned product design firm. Did you know there are over 700+ a...
Dec 07, 2022•42 min•Ep. 2197
On Dec. 3, 1992, a 22-year-old Papworth texted "Merry Christmas" to Richard Jarvis, a director at Vodafone who was at a company Christmas party. It was the first time a cellphone user had ever received words instead of a voice call on their device. Papworth was a developer and test engineer for Sema Group, which was rolling out the world's first short message service (SMS) center for Vodafone U.K. This noteworthy event later led to Papworth being featured in a Best Buy Super Bowl commercial, a J...
Dec 06, 2022•43 min•Ep. 2196
Arun Kumar is a regional director at ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation. With almost two decades of global experience in enterprise IT, Arun has a deep knowledge and peer network in the IT management industry. He has been working with ManageEngine since 2003. In his current role, he leads all channel and partner-related initiatives for the company in the United Kingdom (UK) and Asia Pacific (APAC) markets. Arun joins me on Tech Talks Daily to share insights f...
Dec 05, 2022•24 min•Ep. 2195
