The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

The Zappos Family of Companies, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is a leader in online apparel and footwear sales. How have they grown so quickly? They have aligned the entire organization around one mission: to provide the best customer service possible. Zappos Lead Data Scientist Ameen Kazerouni joins me on my daily tech podcast to discuss how machine learning impacts e-commerce and customer experience, and how AI and machine learning are helping companies become even more customer-centric.

Deloitte Digital helps clients see what’s possible, identify what’s valuable, and deliver on it. They focus on bringing together creativity, strategy, insight, and technology to build brilliant digital experiences for the world’s leading brands. Across the globe, their work makes lives a little more fun, a little bit easier, and a little more connected, every day. I catch up with Pradeep Kamat, lead engagement principal and Deloitte Digital Life sciences leader at the 2019 Adobe Summit.

David Wachsman, CEO of Wachsman joins me on my daily tech podcast. Wachsman is a high-tech communications agency with specialization in blockchain, AI, IoT, gaming, cybersecurity, and fintech. David and his team have represented and acted as communications advisors to many of the most indispensible organizations in blockchain, including Dash, Crypto Valley Association, Bitcoin Suisse AG, CoinDesk, IOHK, Lisk, Steemit, tZERO, Jaxx, and Coinsource.

Mario has 25 years of experience as a Global Sales Trader for 4 major banks. As a successful professional in the corporate world for 25 years, he had his passion stripped away by automation and technology. After years of sacrifice and soul searching coupled with endless research, he discovered his true passion for awakening individuals who are unaware of how quickly technology can replace them if they do not embrace it.

David Feinman is the CEO of a fast-growing video production company called Viral Ideas and an on-demand video editing service called Flixation, based in Philadelphia, PA. I invited David onto the show to share his startup story which began when he started his first company at 16 in high school and started The Zombie Run generating 1.4M in 9 months using Facebook advertising and growing viral ideas to 200 clients in 3 Years. David also shares his insights learned on his startup journey.

On this daily tech podcast, I explore how technology affects areas that you wouldn't normally associate with tech. I wanted to look into a solution that helps people who are caught in the middle of disasters, attacks, business disruptions & cyber attacks Everbridge is the global leader in critical event management and enterprise safety applications that automate and accelerate an organization’s operational response to critical events in order to keep people safe and businesses running faster

For 125 years, Quarles & Brady LLP has provided quality legal services to a wide range of industries on a national stage. Quarles & Brady have built a reputation on providing sophisticated legal services to clients across the world. But they were also tackling some of the stereotypes around the legal industry being slow to adopt change, innovation, and tech. Brad Vynalek joins me to discuss legal tech and much more.

Current Health (formerly snap40) is the most accurate, all-in-one wireless wearable currently approved in the U.S. and EU. The company’s proprietary algorithms continuously analyze data, along with relevant contextual patient information, to offer actionable and proactive insights into the wearer’s health. Current’s FDA-cleared wearable monitors the human body with ICU-level accuracy across more vital signs than any other all-in-one device on the market.

Ritam Gandhi, is the Founder and Director of Studio Graphene – a London-based company that specialises in the development of blank canvas tech products including apps, websites, AR, IoT and more. The company has completed over 50 projects since first being started in 2014, working with both new entrepreneurs and product development teams within larger companies. Essentially, the team at Studio Graphene plan, design and build bleeding edge digital solutions and IoT products.

I answer questions from the listeners of my daily tech podcast. We talk about which countries are currently listening and where the audience to the show is growing. On today's solo, show, I also share what areas of the tech industry concern me and reveal the tech gripes that drive me crazy. On a serious note, I advise a listener that is thinking of hiring me to launch her podcast that she should build a podcast around her business rather than the other way around.

Lean-Case gives Incubators, Accelerators, and their portfolio companies the ability to quickly model and simulate different business models – accurately – and present the metrics in an investor-friendly format. This will dramatically increase the close rate on getting portfolio companies funded. , I invited Eckhard Ortwein, Entrepreneur, business model expert and founder of Lean CASE onto my daily tech podcast to find out more.

Founded in 2012, Mya Systems brings deep AI and NLP expertise together with recruiting domain pedigree to disrupt the recruiting operational model as we know it. Mya Systems has established itself as a leading conversational AI solution provider serving hundreds of the top enterprises and agencies including 40 of the Fortune 500 and 5 of the 8 largest global staffing firms. The company has raised $32.4M across 3 venture rounds led by top-tier investors such as Emergence Capital.

AppNeta is the only network performance monitoring solution that delivers deep, actionable, end-to-end network performance data from the end-user perspective. The company was also recently named a visionary in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for network performance monitoring and diagnostics. After also learning how AppNeta is trusted by some of the biggest Fortune 1000 companies, I invited CEO Matt Stevens onto my tech podcast to learn more.

Regular listeners will remember my interview with Joseph Goldberg from Tobii Pro where we discussed how their eye tracking technology makes it possible to know exactly where someone is looking which is an incredibly powerful tool for gaining unique and objective insight into human behavior. This time, I invited Mike Bartels, Senior Research Director at Tobii Pro Insight onto my podcast to find out more about how their Eye Tracking Tech is Evaluating TV Commercials on Different Screens.

Catalog is a platform that helps digitally native businesses produce branded content at scale to supercharge their online presence. They provide businesses with all the content they need by modernizing the production process with new technology, while aligning with the brand’s creative input, and at a fraction of the time. Patrick Ip is a digital pioneer, entrepreneur, and Co-Founder of Catalog. But he also has an inspiring backstory.