The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

Andres Angelani, CEO of Softvision, a digital services company that creates customized experiences that connect consumers to brands. He has a unique perspective on the digital economy and what it takes to win, particularly at the global level. On today's tech podcast we chat with Andres about his vision, experience and how the secret to Softvision tremendous growth & expanding its digital capabilities. Today the company has delivery centers in U.S., Romania, Canada, Argentina, India, & Brazil.

The innovative augmented reality app recently added industry-leading visual search to Ikea Place and much more. GrokStyle is a provider of vision-based AI solutions for retail that recently announced that it has been selected by IKEA to power visual search for the globally recognized retailer’s IKEA Place augmented reality app. With this integration, the AR experience has been enhanced so that users can now easily take a picture to search for a product and visualize it in their home.

It would be tempting to put Zinc - founded by two former Yammer employees - into the same bucket with Slack, Atlassian, Microsoft Teams and the myriad other “team collaboration” tools. But Zinc is a mobile messaging app aimed at a completely different audience. In fact, most of Zinc’s users don’t have desks. This is a massive number of users – in fact, according to Google, “deskless workers” account for between 72 and 80 percent of the global workforce.

Henri Pihkala is the CEO and Co-founder of Streamr, the online marketplace for decentralized, real-time data. Having recently partnered with both Nokia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Streamr is essentially creating the app store for data streams that categorizes and showcases publicly available data streams on the Streamr Network. Streamr is empowering consumers to take on the multi-billion dollar personal data market, take back data ownership, and profit from assets that are theirs.

Audio has a major impact on one's ability to connect to and learn from its content. In fact, the retention rate of auditory learning is 2x higher than reading and 4x higher than lecturing.  Faced with an evolving digital landscape, the Beaver Country Day School, recently installed a podcast studio and have seen for themselves how students use this medium to better hone their communication and presentation skills, as well as achieve a deeper understanding of a subject matter.

Campaign Monitor merges with Emma and Delivra to launch new Campaign Monitor Brand. Could this be the most comprehensive email marketing solution suite of three SaaS products in the industry? Campaign Monitor’s suite of email marketing solutions appears to bring together best-of-breed email marketing solutions and services to better support the email needs for businesses. I speak with Cody Bender, Chief Product Officer to learn what this merger will mean for marketers.

Are you a songwriter in need of an AI songwriting assistant? Meet Amadeus Code, an artificial intelligence powered songwriting assistant that enhances the creative process by enabling songwriters to collaborate with an AI for endless creation and inspiration. Once you hear something you like, you can save the entire song or pop out a section, asking the app to regenerate a new song based on that piece.

On today's tech podcast, Aurimas Adomavicius shares his inspirational tech startup story about bootstrapping the Devbridge Group to a 40-million-dollar technology powerhouse with over 350 employees across five global offices. Aurimas also recently picked up the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and Devbridge has been named 13th on the 'Fast 50’ list of fastest-growing companies in Chicago.

SessionM is a customer data and engagement platform that handles complex, large-scale personal data sets for some of the largest organizations around the globe – including enterprise brands like Nike, L’Oreal, Kimberly Clark, Coca Cola, TGI Fridays and others. Patrick Reynolds is CMO of SessionM and dives into the state of customer data platforms (CDPs), how the rise of AI doesn’t mean the fall of marketing jobs as well as what these platforms what they mean for brands and for consumers. 

Cinamaker recently revealed the first highly accessible pro-quality live streaming and video production platform. The intuitive interface can link up cameras of all kinds, from smartphones to DSLR cameras, and create live streams and “live-edits” by simply tapping a tablet. The approach has led to a new relationship with Panasonic. I learn how Cinamaker can enable professionals as well as new video creators with professional grade video tools that are affordable, powerful and easy to use.

GPEC is attracting quality tech companies to Phoenix. I wanted to find out more about the region’s approach to connectivity, how it extends beyond the fabric of their community and how as a region, they are on a relentless pursuit of innovation and technology companies here are committed to changing the game. Chris Camacho reveals all and also how driverless vehicles, cybersecurity, blockchain, wearables, and Industry 4.0 make up the four pillars of ‘The Connected Place.’

Medications can’t help you if you don’t take them, meet MyTherapy, your personal pill reminder and medication tracker app. The latest app making waves is often a gimmicky, fun trend which we delete within six months of downloading it; but theMyTherapy app is one worth keeping. With technology modernizing and finding new ways of approaching daily life, MyTherapy is doing the same for medication. As we head towards a more proactive approach to healthcare than reactive talk to Sebastian Gaede

Workboard is an innovative startup with the ambitious goal of creating a new category called Active Strategy Management to help the C-suite at fast-growth startups and business leaders at enterprise companies to accelerate their growth strategies. CEO and Co-Founder at Workboard, Deidre Paknad has decades of experience leading large enterprise and emerging startup teams focused on strategic pursuits and is passionate about helping other leaders engage their teams in great achievements.

Kirk Deis is a writer on Forbes, entrepreneur, and Founder/CEO of the digital marketing agency Treehouse 51. He has built two companies from the ground up and is excited to share his experiences in business and marketing with listeners of this tech podcast. Kirk is about to launch The Bug Squasher. It’s a powerful new project management tool that streamlines communications between developers/writers/designers, project leads, and clients.

Machines are biased. Why? Because humans are biased and humans teach machines. With artificial intelligence being integrated into HR departments in an effort to take the bias out of hiring, we need to take a step back and ensure we’re taking the bias out of AI. HiringSolved, a startup that created the first “Siri-like” AI-powered assistant to help recruiters identify talent and build a diverse workforce, is working on just that with an update to their tool Recruiting Artificial Intelligence.