The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

A company called PayJoy is working with Samsung to bring phones to the global community and those who can’t afford or don’t have credit. Essentially PayJoy brings smartphone technology to customers who otherwise could not afford it. PayJoy was founded in 2015 at Stanford University in Silicon Valley, secured over $20M of funding from top venture capital firms, and is now selling to customers across the US and Mexico, with ambitions to reach the 3 billion underbanked consumers worldwide.

Varsity Tutors is a Live Learning Platform that seamlessly connects experts and learners in any subject, anywhere, at any time. To date, students have accessed nearly four million hours of live instruction on the platform. Kevin Gaugush from Varsity Tutors returns to my daily tech podcast. The last time we spoke, we learned about their mission to help people learn and their vision to seamlessly connect experts and learners in any subject, anywhere, anytime.

SparkFund powers organizations by providing access to the latest energy technology in a new and better way - through a simple monthly subscription model backed by a no-risk guarantee. After hearing how they were helping organizations by providing access to the latest energy technology in a new and better way—through a simple monthly subscription model, I felt compelled to learn more. On today' daily tech podcast, I speak with Pier LaFarge Co-Founder and CEO of SparkFund.

Nouriel Roubini, Bill Clinton’s former senior economist, recently said that the decline in the value of Ethereum was expected due to its lack of active decentralized applications (dApps) claiming that ‘75% of dApps are crypto-kitties, scammy Ponzi pyramid schemes, and casino games’. I invited Daniel Peled, Co-Founder of Orbs, "The Hybrid Blockchain. Extreme Scale With NextGen Security" onto the podcast to talk about the future of Ethereum, and the mainstream adoption of dApps.

Mark Kilpatrick was raised in Stevenson, Washington, a community of approximately 1,500 residents. As a ‘small town kid,’ Mark fondly remembers opening his first checking account at Riverview Community Bank. Urban FT’s company mission hits close to home for Mark. By continuing to drive the brand’s objective forward, Mark hopes to give back by servicing Riverview Community Bank - actively empowering them to compete with the industry titans in the same way Urban FT has done with many others

As a medical student, Christopher McCann, witnessed patients live with a long-term disability or die as a result of late recognition of their deteriorating health. This is where technology can make a difference. It’s a moral imperative to use all of our knowledge in science and technology to improve healthcare. I invited him onto the show to learn more about how snap40 are using AI to recognize illness earlier and enable earlier treatment that can save lives.

Facebook has tried to fix the event discovery landscape but largely failed. Despite advances in technology, the event landscape is extremely fragmented with event information scattered in multiple places as virtual press releases get lost in the white noise. Richard Green, is the Founder and CEO, of Evvnt. The London-based tech startup which has developed a unique event marketing automation software that is transforming the event industry through its event tech.

I chat with John Ristuccia, Vice President, Professional Services at sales ops firm Optymyze, on my daily tech podcast. I want to find out more about how John and his team at Optymyze are revolutionizing sales operations with Sales Performance Management (SPM). But also how it combines data science, process automation, enterprise planning, and advanced analytics to enable clients to execute new sales strategies and effectively drive sales performance and sales force productivity.

iQor is a managed services provider of customer engagement and technology-enabled BPO solutions. With 45,000 employees in 18 countries. It is also the only global managed services provider embedded in the flow between product, people, and services, from point of customer acquisition to sustainable recycling. They partner with many of the world's best-known brands such as Apple and Microsoft to deliver aftermarket product and customer support solutions that span the consumer value chain.

Universal Reward Protocol (URP) is a unique ecosystem for all retailers and brands to reward consumers for any type of shopping behavior both online and offline. By accepting to share their shopping data with the network, a shopper earns reward tokens, while the data is used by retailers to build redemption offers that best suit each customer’s needs. Shoppers can redeem their tokens through these exclusive and personalized offers. Louis Millon, CTO & Co-founder join me on the show

At this years Magento Live, the theme of the event was how traditional brands were using technology to drive experience-driven commerce. After watching Damien Hars share a stage with the Adobe and Magento CEO I caught up with him to talk about Rossignol. On today's daily tech podcast, I chat with Damien Hars, head of digital, marketing & E-commerce at Rossignol who talks about how digital is changing the sports business and enabling Rossignol to become a global all year brand.

On this daily tech podcast, I am passionate about exploring how industries you would not associate with technology are evolving and leveraging technology. Printed media has experienced more challenges. DC Thomson - one of the leading media organizations in the UK, publishing newspapers and magazines. While here at MagentoLive Europe, I invited Kirsten Morrison & Alan Melrose onto the show from DC Thomson to find out more about how both the worlds of print media and advertising are evolving

Magento an Adobe company, is a leading provider of cloud commerce innovation to merchants and brands across B2C and B2B industries. Adobe today unveiled its vision and strategy to make every experience shoppable by integrating Magento Commerce Cloud into Adobe Experience Cloud, enabling enterprise companies to create highly engaging, personalized shopping experiences. I chat with Mark Lavelle. We talk about the future vision of Magento and what clients and the community can expect.

Ultra is building a first-class PC game publishing platform and marketplace that puts an end to the current distribution monopoly. Created by industry heavyweights and former Xbox, Atari, Dell, Uber, and Time Warner executives, Ultra plans to disrupt the distribution monopoly in the gaming industry by being fairer to developers, introducing new revenue streams, providing effective marketing tools, and establishing a rich token-based economy.

Currently, there’s only one application performance management (APM) solution for big data that correlates full-stack performance metrics while providing automated insights and recommendations. It’s done by Unravel Data. I learn how these automated insights are helping businesses analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of big data apps. The company has just been named a 2018 Cool Vendor by Gartner in the “Cool Vendors in Performance Analysis; Analytics and Containers,” report.