The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

Jason Wu is an experienced digital currency entrepreneur solving real-world problems with blockchain technology. With a Masters in B.A and Supply Chain Management, the founder and CEO of DeFiner, a true peer-to-peer fintech network for digital savings, loans, and payments, shares his unique insights. DeFiner was recently accepted onto the TechStars Accelerator program. I learn how DeFiner is working to make lending and borrowing smoother, faster, cheaper, and above all, more secure.

Paul Dix, creator of InfluxDB (open-source time-series database) and the founder and CTO of InfluxData joins me on Tech Talks Daily. With over two decades of experience helping companies like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command build software, Paul has unique insights to share on how and why time-series data is going to be the biggest hurdle and opportunity for tech organization in the future.

Kevin Mar-Molinero, director of experience technology at Kin + Carta Connect, joins me on Tech Talks Daily. He’s got a deep interest in accessibility and inclusive design, with a personal passion and story behind it. He explains the potential that the ‘purple pound,’ which is worth over £249bn, presents. He shares why he is passionate about designing with empathy when it comes to digital transformation and what needs to happen - to engage with a part of the community that’s often overlooked.

Patientco is a payment technology company headquartered in Atlanta, GA founded specifically to re-think the healthcare payment experience. The company believe that patients and health systems deserve better than the status quo. So they built easy-to-use technology that ensures health systems maximize patient payments. Patientco CEO and Co-founder Bird Blitch shares how technology can be used to combat these problems and much more.

Billions, maybe trillions of times a day, people around the world touch something made better by Qualcomm. It could be the smartphone in your pocket, the tablet on your table, that wireless modem in your briefcase. It could even be that navigation system in your car. Will 5G will move from a buzzword to reality as 5G-enabled smartphones hit the market and carriers began offering 5G service? I invited John Smee VP Engineering, Qualcomm 5G Wireless R&D Lead onto the podcast to find out more.

Daniel Scrivner has an inspirational tech startup story to share. His journey took him from college dropout to Head of Design at Square to CEO of Flow. The simple project management software is used by teams at Apple, Shopify, TED, and Harvard to manage projects and tasks, collaborate and stay productive. Daniel's path to success has been anything but typical. He's now considered a leader in his field. I learn more about the tool that gets more powerful the less you need to use it.

Tien Nguyen (Fujitsu RunMyProcess.com), Bryan Janes (Citrix), and Manjunatha Gali (Citrix) join me in a conversation about the employee experience transformation journey. We discuss how employees want a simple, intelligent, and reliable experience that enables them to work when, where, and how they want and be their most productive by combining Citrix Workspace with Fujitsu RunMyProcess, companies can quickly and efficiently deliver it across all types of SaaS, on-prem & legacy environments.

Toby Olshanetsky, co-founder and CEO of prooV, reveals while organizations recognize the importance of stringent cyber defense evaluation procedures such as red team and penetration testing, many cut corners due to resource constraints. Traditional proof-of-concept methods can no longer keep pace with the global threat of cyberattacks. Toby points to AI advancements that can now simulate sensitive enterprise data to hasten how companies identify, evaluate, and deploy cybersecurity solutions.

James Whyte, General Manager of Varnish Software has spent the last five years working to help customers deliver optimized content via streaming, web-delivery We discuss why the industry needs to build instead of renting CDN and the importance of providing streaming viewers a fast experience in an oversaturated market. We explore how companies can benefit from a web & API acceleration is faster and scalable. We also look at what life will look like on the other side of the global pandemic

Anodot co-founder Ira Cohen joins me on the podcast to discuss how businesses can leverage machine learning to tap into human perception and identify critical business incidents. I learn how much glitches cost companies across industries and how to prevent them. We explore how the Data Scientist role has evolved over the past decade, as well as where it is going. We also discuss the current trends in data analytics and how those trends will impact companies looking into the future.

OpenWater is a fast-growing Inc. 5000 company based in Washington, D.C., that provides a cloud-based application and review software platform for data organization and collaboration. In 2020 they also launched their Virtual Conference product based on the needs of an association conference with 1000s of concurrent sessions that needed to go virtual. The response to our product within our client base has been overwhelming. Kunal Johar CTO & Co-Founder at OpenWater shared their startup story

James King Baskin is the founder of Outsource Kings and shares his mission to leverage technology to help businesses get their time back. On average, his team is making 3,000-5,000 phone calls a week. But I wanted to learn more about the story behind Outsource Kings. I learn how he came to live in Colombia and manage a team in the Philippines. We also talk about how they focused on one niche in the beginning and grew inside that niche but then expanded to other niches and are still growing.

Joseph Notaro shares how they are using technology to help engineers solve their unique design challenges in automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, medical, and military/aerospace applications. I learn how ON Semiconductor is reducing road traffic accidents and saving nine lives per hour with its ADAS systems and sensors. We also discuss the latest developments in ON Semiconductors automotive safety systems and energy-efficient semiconductor-based innovations

Today's guest is Max Sklar, Machine Learning Enthusiast, Foursquare Engineer, Host of The Local Maximum. The bulk of his work as a machine learning engineer was at Foursquare, where he built Foursquare City Guide's critically acclaimed 10-point venue rating system and the Marsbot app. More recently, he led the development of a causality model for Foursquare's Ad Attribution product and now works at Foursquare's innovation lab. He's also the host of The Local Maximum Podcast.

Ollie Horn tours the world performing stand-up comedy and is a mainstay at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. But he also helps growth-stage startups with their messaging, storytelling, and growth strategy. Ollie reveals the skills he has learned as a stand-up comedian to help startup founders raise money, hire people, and make sales. and why he believes that storytelling is one of the most powerful tools that any tech entrepreneur can use to connect their big ideas with the real world.