The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

File handling is a major source of frustration for developers, since most of the tools available are outdated, and they constantly have to re-invent the way their file systems work. Uploadcare is seamlessly integrated to allow uploading, editing and posting images to a blog, website or app straight from a computer, a mobile device, Facebook or Instagram account, or a popular cloud solution - like Dropbox or Google Drive. I speak to CEO, co-founder of Uploadcare Igor Debatur in Saint Petersburg

One of the biggest challenges faced by most large organizations is tackling disruption which is brought about by new innovative start-ups. Qmarkets is a leading provider of innovation management and idea management. They've already developed solutions for leading companies such as Nestle, Ford, Unicredit, PMI, Lufthansa, and the NHS. I talk to the CEO to learn how you can benefit from your employees' best ideas and we also discuss the thriving tech startup scene in Israel.

William Shatner is a Canadian and an Emmy Award-winning actor who became most famous for portraying Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the starship Enterprise. But there is much more today's guest than the Star Trek franchise. I chat to William Shatner about his iconic career, technology, LottoGopher and another project around twitter called Ubuntu. Much like Netflix disrupted the movie rental business and Uber hailing a cab, LottoGopher is disrupting the lottery industry for Americans.

Inky is a cybersecurity company, Its flagship product, Inky Phish Fence, prevents forgery of both internal employee email and external branded email. Inky Phish Fence also protects Microsoft Office 365 Outlook users against phishing and other email-based attacks. Prior to Inky, Baggett was a co-founder of ITA Software, an airfare search company that sold to Google in 2010 for $730 million. I invited David onto the show to learn more about his startup story. https://inky.com/techblogwriter/

Back in 2010, Steve Martocci wanted an easy way to send messages between him and his friends, not a simple prospect at the time. He created GroupMe, a group messaging platform that was acquired in 2011 by Skype a mere 370 days after its launch for $85 million. Here in 2017, Steve Martocci now leads product vision as the CEO and co-founder of Splice. The platform is the creative hub for the modern musician. Splice is improving the modern musician and the way they approach making music.

On today's show, Chris Richter from Level 3 provides an overview of why even secure fiber optic networks can be at risk and the dangers/threats that are facing organizations every day. I ask Chris, how a typical enterprise can hope to stay ahead of the continuously evolving threat landscape? And how he is helping global businesses address increasing security threats, without sacrificing network performance. What should enterprises be investing in? Is it encryption? Threat intelligence?

Behind Notion's home awareness sensors is an incredible startup story that includes graduating from TechStars, Kickstarter campaigns and raising $10M in funding. The startup is using this money to partner with insurance companies to lower costs for policyholders. I chat to Brett Jurgens Co-Founder & CEO at Notion to learn more about his inspirational startup story and the complete home awareness solution all-in-one IoT smart home sensor that recently secured $10 million in Series A funding.

Fleetsmith is a cloud-based Mac management product automates management of apps and settings securely over the internet. It enables anyone in charge of company Macs to manage them with ease, flexibility, and peace of mind. Founded by former IT and security leaders from Dropbox and Wikia, Fleetsmith combines world-class product and security engineering with a powerful, intuitive interface that makes advanced Mac management available for everyone. I chat with Fleetsmith, CEO Zack Blum.

Storyblocks is your one-stop-shop for high quality stock media at a fraction of the cost. With unique video, image, and audio Member Libraries—plus Marketplace content for both footage and photos—all the building blocks for amazing stories are available on the platform. TJ Leonard talks about their transformative adventure where Storyblocks has evolved from a small, upstart content service, into a sophisticated platform with over 100 million downloads by creators worldwide.

Return Path claims to be the expert in deliverability, helping marketers drive revenue through email. They reveal the steps needed to ensure email marketing programs are as successful as possible, and the pitfalls to avoid if you don’t want to be sent to the spam folder. Daniel Incandela from Return Path talks about how mobile technology has transformed email marketing. We also discuss how emerging technologies and personalization is changing the world of email marketing.

Users that take online privacy seriously have been moving away from file sharing solution services such as Dropbox and towards end-to-end encrypted cloud storage solutions such as Tresorit. Earlier this year Apple announced its CareKit development framework, designed to create apps that let healthcare professionals continue follow-up care with patients, is now integrated with Tresorit's ZeroKit too. I invited Cryptographer & Tresorit CEO Istvan Lam to talk about the importance of encryption.

By combining new technology, new data, and human advisers, Tech Startup, United Income offers holistic financial planning and investment management aimed at extending the life and potential of money. United Income, which raised $5.8 million in seed funding in 2016, is Matt Fellowes’ second financial technology startup. He founded HelloWallet in 2009 before selling it to investment research firm Morningstar in 2014 for $52.5 million and becoming Morningstar’s Chief Innovation Officer.

Umbel is a first-party data management platform that empowers companies to better engage and understand audiences. The company’s client roster includes a variety of organizations including the Indiana Pacers, New York Islanders, San Antonio Spurs and more to help increase ticket sales and sponsorship ROI. We talk about why first-party data is the future and the importance of identifying unique segments from demographics, behaviors and brand affinities.

Gurbaksh Chaha is the founder of ClickAgents, BlueLithium and RadiumOne. But the serial entrepreneur has also founded Gravity4, the world's first A.I. big data marketing cloud. The leading big data marketing cloud also introduces, LydianCoin. Lydian has licensed and has forked the G4 Marketing Cloud to provide pre-paid digital advertising services for the blockchain community, accessible by the Lydian cryptocurrency token.

Hackbright Academy is a coding bootcamp for women to become software engineers. Erin Geiger has developed a new team of professionals and is scaling operations for continuous growth to advance the movement of "Diversity & Inclusion in Tech." It's a pleasure to welcome a champion of diversity who is advancing Hackbright Academy's mission to change the ratio of women in tech.