The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

Have you accumulated too much stuff over the years and wish you could manage your life like dropbox? This story about accessing things rather than owning everything has it all and an inspiring tech startup journey. From a fantastic idea, Stefan Thomas at Ripple, the Fintech startup behind the XRP token, backing Omni through a $25 million round, to turning to Amazon exec, Brandon Rowan to scale the business. Omni enables everyone to reclaim their space AND keep their stuff and live lighter.

The tech startup story behind MindTickle raising $27 million in Series B funding to accelerate product innovation. Over the last 15 years, 52% of Fortune 500 companies have disappeared; the ones who survive recognize the importance of shifting the conversation from product to relationships – essentially, reinventing their sales behavior. Today, MindTickle makes learning fun through on-demand online training, bite-sized mobile content, gamification, coaching and role-play and tech.

Nozomi Networks is leading Industrial Control System (ICS) cybersecurity with the most comprehensive platform to deliver real-time cybersecurity and operational visibility. Since 2013 the company has innovated the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to secure critical infrastructure operations. Deployed across five continents, in hundreds of the world’s largest industrial installations, customers benefit from advanced cybersecurity, and improved operational reliability.

Even in the era of “there’s an app for that,” our largely tech-first culture is reclaiming timeless analog elements. Today the Paper & Packaging – How Life Unfolds® campaign unveils a new limited-edition print publication, Pod Papers Magazine, bringing podcasts to life in a way that has never been done before – in print. Podcast listeners can now enjoy the beloved content of their favorite podcasts in a unique, visual form, providing the best of both worlds.

Jeff Allen from Adobe Analytics helps navigate around buzzwords, algorithms, and models so you can get to the essence of how data science can move the needle for your organization and can even highlight that via the medium of the NBA Hoops arcade game. Jeff talks about the challenges retailers are facing with not knowing their customer or their behavior, likes and disliked across all channels and the problems that can cause.

The big trend this year is experiences over products. When I found that Dirk Erat from Airbus was at the Adobe Summit this week, I jumped at the chance to grab a quick chat with him for today's show. Dirk is the Head of Communications for Airbus Defence and Space, so I want to find out more about how Airbus is using cutting-edge technologies to make their products safer, smarter and more connected.

Ori Eisen is the leader of the no passwords revolution. But the founder/CEO spent the past 20 years building technology to fight online crime and create a safer Internet. He sold his first company called 41st Parameter to Experian for $324 million. Frank Abagnale, the real-life Catch Me If You Can con-artist turned four-decade FBI vet, has signed on as an active advisor of his new project Trusona. Why are passwords the only tech from the 60's that hasn't changed that we still use today?

The Allianz Group is one of the leading integrated financial services providers worldwide, serving approximately 85 million customers in more than 70 countries. Allianz wants to migrate their complex online world to the Adobe Experience Manager and add the Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions. This includes more than 15 customer portals with more than 50 application lines and over 20 applications; 10,000 websites for agents, brokers. All within in the next 15 months! How can you help?

Mirriad is a video technology company delivering in-video advertising by naturally blending brand advertising into popular entertainment content. Mirriad creates advertising opportunities within existing video content across multiple shows. Advertisers can reach target audiences in a contextually relevant way without interrupting the viewing experience. The new ad format can be used alone or combined with other media and is aligned with existing media trading.

Keeping the lead over the competition doesn’t mean having the best products, or lowest prices. Instead, successful companies are closely tied to an organization’s ability to recognize shifts in the market landscape and its capacity to respond by adapting quickly. The customer experience is the new battleground for differentiation. Businesses must make digital interactions personal and contextually relevant with every interaction to thrive and meet today’s consumer’s expectations.

At Wattpad, they believe that good old-fashioned written stories are one way that brands can set themselves apart. Wattpad users are spending 30 minutes every day reading content on their desktops and smartphones and engaging with brands. Chat stories are stories told through back-and-forth chat messages. It’s like eavesdropping on someone’s text conversations. This new storytelling format is taking the internet by storm because chat stories reveal dialogue one tap at a time.

It all started in New York City when Elevacao CEO and founder Marisa Warren met Karen Jacobsen, the Australian voice of Siri in your iPhone & GPS devices, in an elevator… What followed was an inspirational story and friendship that resulted in them both focusing on empowering more women tech founded businesses to get funded. Did you know that only 3% of tech companies are founded by women, yet when funded they deliver 35% higher ROI than male-led firms! Do you want to change this?

Transcription Outsourcing, LLC provides transcription services. They work with government agencies, single practice attorneys, and physicians, as well as entire university systems to provide fast, accurate, and reliable transcription services. However, I wanted to find out more about Ben's journey and his vast experience in the freelancer economy. We discuss the changes he has seen and how bootstrapping freelancers have evolved from DIY mindset to a DIFM (Do It For Me) movement.

Steve Day started his company ideaMachine Studio in the back of a New York church in 2010, within the first year, he considered cutting his losses and most of his team quit. Today ideaMachine Studio is a leader in the animation industry and pursued by many businesses for creative, technology-based marketing. Steve has directed for Verizon, the United Nations, Sesame Street, the ESPN ESPY awards, Bud Light Superbowl ads, and the Elmo Xbox game. Steve Day shares his tech startup story.

HR Tech - Clément Buyse, co-founder and President of PeopleDoc reveals more about the French company that is growing rapidly in the US with clients that include Nestle, GoDaddy, and Starbucks. At PeopleDoc they encourage businesses to "Join the global movement to be better by being digital."  I wanted to find out more about how they are helping over 800 clients from all over the world prepare for the arrival of GDPR and how Aasonn partnered with PeopleDoc to further SAP SuccessFactors