The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

Godard Abel, founder and executive chairman of G2 Crowd, a fast-growing tech startup in Chicago, has been building businesses for more than a decade. His first startup, BigMachines, was sold to Oracle for more than $400 million in 2013. His next startup, Steelbrick, raised more than $50 million in less than four years and was acquired by Salesforce for $360M. his current venture, G2 Crowd is on the fast track to becoming a household name with LinkedIn investing Godard reveals his secret sauce

Blip Systems is a sensor-agnostic company, meaning that they use multiple data sources, including WiFi and Bluetooth sensors, 3D cameras, people counters and other third-party data sources, to monitor movement, capacity and wait time. With data, from multiple sources, airports, municipalities and other high-traffic facilities can to quickly and efficiently manage queue and flow, to help reduce overhead, maximise revenue and provide optimum service. A great tech startup story from Denmark.

Tricentis is a software testing startup with dual headquarters in Vienna and Silicon Valley. The continuous testing platform accelerates testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps. The testing platform is recognized as the Continuous Testing leader in both the Forrester Wave and the Gartner Magic Quadrant. CEO Sandeep Johri talks about the opportunities and challenges around Continuous Testing and Software Test Automation for large enterprises.

How HYPR is Revolutionizing Influencer Marketing With In-Depth Audience Demographics of Social Influencers and why they have teamed up with Socially Mined. Socially Mined is a digital advocacy firm that drives awareness for issues by leveraging innovative outreach technology solutions to micro-target key influencers. Matthew David Anthes (SociallyMined.com) and Gil Eyal, CEO of influencer marketing platform Hypr join me in a conversation about the power of online micro influencers.

Fillr delivers a highly intelligent highly personalized, accurate and fully automated form-filling. One-click easy, fast and secure ordering is our expectation level thanks to Amazon. Fillr is attempting to level the playing field and give smaller businesses a way of competing against the likes of Amazon by seamlessly integrating its autofill as a service into your app, enabling your customers to transact faster, boosting your conversions.

Have you explored publishing your own book only to give up by the never ending options and over crowded marketplace? Have you asked these questions... What format do publishers expect the work to be presented in? Does it need to double spaced format? And What about cover art and design of the book? Who completes the ePub and .mobi conversions? How do I get it my book on Amazon or Kindle Direct? Steven Spatz. president of BookBaby answers these and many more questions around self-publishing.

How Cloudinary is aiming to free companies from the headaches of building complicated, expensive and time to consume in-house image management solutions. With Cloudinary companies can focus on developing their business logic while enjoying the most feature-rich online image management solution available.

Jason Hart is an award-winning, globally recognized expert and visionary in the World of Cyber Security. I invited him onto the show to learn more about safety online and information security. The former ethical hacker is now an advisor to the worlds media including BBC, ITV, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, Sky News and BBC World News. Jason talks about hacking IoT connected devices, the dangers of auto connecting to wifi and a sensible approach to cyber security on the tech blog writer podcast.

The Motorsport Network is the world’s biggest motorsport and automotive media network – featuring major titles including Motorsport.com, Autosport.com, and Motor1.com. I chat to Colin Smith, CEO of Motorsport Network about how the digital transformation is revolutionizing the world of motorsport and why F1 racing is going digital. How F1, INDYCAR, NASCAR, MOTOGP, ENDURANCE, TOURING, RALLY and many more are all going digital

Tech Podcast: The Ring Video Doorbell lets you answer the door from anywhere with your smartphone. Connects to your Wi-Fi network and works with iOS and Android to secure your smart home. Ring is a home automation company that makes the Ring Video Doorbell a smart doorbell. created by entrepreneur James Siminoff. I chat to Jamie about how to create a Ring of security around your home with a Ring Video Doorbell and their full suite of Wi-Fi connected security products and his startup story.

PullString, Inc. is an entertainment and technology company that combines art and science to enable computer conversation with characters. I chat with PullString CEO and CoFounder, Oren Jacob about chatbots and the moment that Steve Jobs and Ed Catmull had personally chosen Oren to lead Pixar’s internal tech team as CTO, where he worked on Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug’s Life, and Finding Nemo. Can a conversational bot be smart enough to amuse and captivate human?

Webcollage is the leading cloud-based platform for the publishing of rich product content and syndication across retailer sites globally. Worldwide more than 1,000 manufacturers use the Webcollage platform to syndicate rich product content to a network of global retailer partners that includes more than 600 e-commerce websites. I chat to Webcollage CEO, John Federman about how they are delivering content at scale through pipes to manufacturers and retailers .

Emma's powerful digital marketing platform makes it easy for teams of all sizes to create beautifully designed email campaigns that drive results. I chat to Colby Cavanaugh about how Emma is helping businesses evolve their email marketing and how the digital marketing platform that is thinking outside the inbox. When 98% of all site traffic leaves without ever converting, how do we get better at capturing visitors?

Plynk, Europe’s first money messenger, was co-founded as a response to the need for an easy-to-use consumer application that enables instant, effortless and transparent transfer of money among friends. Linked to users’ Facebook accounts, Plynk users can send money as a message to a single contact or in group chats instantly and with no fees. Once a Plynk account is created, users receive a dedicated IBAN and virtual Mastercard for online payments. Plynk is fun, fast and will always be free to users.

Loudr builds products and services that help content creators, aggregators, and music services identify rights holders, secure mechanical licenses, and pay royalties to music publishers. Example, If Spotify were to use Loudr's API, they could easily find, manage, and link musical compositions to their owners, and even calculate royalties based on their specific parameters, automatically.