The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

Polyup is the world's first “casual modding” digital platform. Designed for math teachers, in particular, the visual, self-paced environment allows for players to freely experiment with numbers through gamified computational challenges that must be correctly modified before the players can advance. I wanted to find out more about this free and open computational thinking playground and how it enables users to modify expressions, functions, and algorithms to discover the beauty of math.

SensibleVision is a global leader in multi-factor biometric-driven authentication technologies leveraging facial recognition. For more than a decade, their patented face authentication and continuous security technology have helped banks, technology companies, and other organizations reduce fraud. Their flagship solutions offer quick and continuous authentication for computers, tablets, smartphones and mobile apps. I invited George Brostoff of SensibleVision on to the show to find out more.

Today, I want to talk about The booming Internet in China and reveal more about Baidu, the company behind the 4th largest search engine in the world. Josh Fenn talks about products such as DU Caller, DU Recorder, DU Ad Platform, Facemoji and a little more about the company. Josh and I discuss how Baidu is increasing its online influence with exciting products beyond the Baidu search engine that its famous for.

CloudMounter is a cloud manager that works with your cloud accounts and web servers in macOS Finder as if they were local drives. You can mount your OpenStack, OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon S3 and Dropbox storages and FTP, SFTP, FTPS and WebDAV servers. After hearing how it also allows users to manage these storages without having to sync or copy your online files to your hard drive. I invited Victor Chinedum-Ezor, Sales Manager from Eltima Software onto the show today to find out more.

CorkGuru is a digital wine platform designed to help restaurants enhance their wine program and create better guest experiences. Restaurants can better manage their wine inventory which drives sales for the beverage program and guests have the chance to receive a great experience with accessibility to the platform. The wine inventory system puts wine intelligence at your fingertips through dynamic digital wine lists, inventory management, guest inclusion features, and wine discovery.

Zaius is a B2C CRM that delivers real-time, cross-channel marketing automation and attribution built on a single customer view, for customers including online retailers Polyvore and Moda Operandi. I invited Mark Gally, CEO of Zaius on to the show to talk about some of the biggest pitfalls in marketing technology and what marketers experience when it comes to customer relationship management. 

Soundfly exists to help curious musicians anywhere achieve their musical goals. Their learning model pairs high-quality online content (courses & articles) with highly personalized 1:1 musical coaching via trained expert musicians called Soundfly Mentors. Soundfly was founded a couple years ago to fill a gap in credible, accessible music education online. They now serve hundreds of thousands of musicians a month, with daily articles, more than 40 online courses and experienced mentors.

While here in Nashville I bumped into Kathleen Guzman from Liberty Tax. We got talking about how they are attempting to put fun into taxes. As the US prepares to file their taxes ahead of the deadline in a few weeks, we discuss how crypto profits will indeed be taxed. However, it is the importance of technology, content, and storytelling that is proving to be a major part of their success at Liberty Tax. Kathleen tells me why they have partnered with EMMA Marketing at the Marketing United event.

Marketing United is currently uniting the smartest minds in the industry to share new ideas on the future of Marketing in Nashville, Tennessee. Rather than promoting services, the event is facilitating a discussion around all the key talking points not only in marketing but MARTech too and how technology is transforming the industry. In this episode, I talk to SVP Marketing, Colby Cavanaugh about Marketing United by Emma and the key themes at this year's conference.

Clayton Weiss is the director of cloud services for KeyInfo and discusses what trends he is seeing from his clients that are encouraging them to consider object storage, why it’s a popular choice over file or block storage, how it can address rapid data growth that can come with things like police bodycams, healthcare files, etc. as well as best practices when implementing an object storage strategy.

Mark Cummins is the co-founder of Pointy, a startup that helps local retailers get their products online. Retailers just plug in a Pointy device, and the complete contents of their store is displayed online automatically. Previously Mark co-founded Plink, a visual search engine company that was the first UK-based company acquired by Google in 2010. Mark spent several years at Google post-acquisition, working on the Visual Search team. Mark shares his tech startup story in this tech podcast.

Marty Puranik is the CEO of Atlantic.Net, a leading cloud hosting solutions provider. In the mid-1990s at the University of Florida, internet service was scarce. Out of frustration due to the lack of internet access around campus, Marty set out to become his own ISP. In order to pay for the internet service, Marty ran a computer repair shop out of his dorm room at the University of Florida. He wasn’t out to change the world; he just wanted internet access.

Hotwire is a global PR and communications agency dedicated to helping ambitious companies change their game, build their reputation, and stand out from the crowd. The award-winning company also named 2015 Tech Agency of Year. However, when I heard about their North American President Heather Kernahan's backstory, I invited her on the show to share her story. Heather reveals how she was working to be a CMO shortly after getting her MBA & her interest early on in learning how to run an agency.

Audrey Salerno is a quality-driven web analyst at Cars.com who enjoys looking at data in new ways to find actionable insights and new insights into visitor engagement. However, Audrey appeared on my radar when she was awarded the prestige of becoming an Adobe Analytics Rock Star. The winners of the nation-wide Analytics Rock Star Tour share their smoking hot tips, tricks, and power strategies. I invited Audrey onto the show to discuss her achievements and what to expect at the Summit.

Meredith Cooper is part of the Creative Cloud Enterprise team for Adobe and doing some great things with Equinox which is a global fitness club that has a reputation for being a provocative brand. The company sees design as being a key part of the experience itself. Equinox's director of digital design, Cecilia Farooqi joins Meredith top discuss to become experience makers and influence perceptions through creativity, they also have the ability to create members for life.