The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

Payman Taei is the founder of Visme. Over 3.5 million users use the leading Visual Communication tools from over 100 countries. It used by leading Non-profits and Fortune 500 companies that include IBM, WorldBank, Capital One, and General Dynamics. However, many people don't know the story behind the success of the company, which began bootstrapped on a 10K budget. This wasn't an overnight success story. It took him 18 years and plenty of painful mistakes to turn this into a success.

Dentons is the world’s largest law firm and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its innovations in client service. But, they are also pioneering the intersection of technology innovation and the legal industry and also exploring legislation and regulation around emerging technologies Ausra Deluard talks about how she is helps clients in the nascent cannabis industry achieve their business objectives by advising them on the sector’s rapidly evolving laws and regulations

Robert Niemiec created Twisthink as an experiment to test the belief in the value of twisting together the skills of design & technology for the purpose of innovation. For nearly 2 decades, Robert has been leading his team to serve Fortune 500 clients as well as entrepreneurial start-ups We also talk about why the digital edge is the most intriguing place for product innovation to occur and explore the power of a cross-functional team that contains both left-brain and right-brain thinkers

The experience is now more important than the product, and the last best experience that anyone has anywhere has become the minimum expectation for the experience they want everywhere. How can businesses not only keep up but raise the bar too? Joel Montaniel is the CEO & Co-Founder of SevenRooms, a data-driven hospitality platform that combines operations, marketing, and guest engagement tools, where he leads business strategy and sales.

Sonny Patel is the 25-year-old CEO and founder of Insurmi, a conversational-AI powered customer engagement platform for insurance carriers. But it's the human story behind the company that both resonated and inspired me. Sonny shares his journey and what he believes it takes to disrupt a legacy industry. We also discuss the challenges he's faced as a 25-year-old in a relatively "grown-up" sector. Finally, we talk about why he believes AI is the future of insurance.

Art+Logic is a software development firm that designs, develops, and delivers high-level tech solutions for their clients. The company specializes in mobile apps, web software, desktop software, IoT, and has recently branched into product development. Since 1991, Art+Logic has built a strong reputation solving tough technical problems that other firms couldn't. Today talk about the relationship between software and hardware, issues of accessibility on the internet, and all things IoT.

n Datto's Global State of the Channel Ransomware Report, it revealed that SMEs may be continuing to take the ransomware bait, but MSPs are now enabling two-factor authentication to double down on ransomware preparation against their list of future ransomware attack targets: IoT devices (64%) and social media accounts (63%). Ryan Weeks, CISO, Datto join me on this daily tech podcast to talk about the findings in the report and explore the Ransomware threat landscape.

I wanted to learn more about how the recent Strikedeck and Medallia partnership is designed to round out B2B and B2C offerings in CS and CX. But also what it means for businesses. Shreesha Ramdas is an entrepreneurial executive with a track record of launching and growing products in competitive markets. In today's episode, Shreesha shares his story, the future of CS and CX, and his predictions for 2020.

Coveo uses AI and intelligent search and recommendation technologies to personalize millions of digital experiences for customers, partners, dealers, and employees. However, Coveo for Commerce is transforming the way businesses sell online and its AI-powered solution is helping to deliver relevant buying experiences that is driving business growth. But I wanted to find out more about this experience intelligence platform. Mark Floisand, CMO at Coveo talks about all this and more.

Following CES 2020 online involved the usual bizarre mix of weird and wonderful tech. But I wanted to explore the more positive tech trends from the CES show floor. Barry Reicherter is a senior partner at Finn Partners and has a passion for Digital Insights and Ideas. The Digital transformation and innovation leader joins me on Tech Talks Daily to discuss what he saw at CES. We also discuss the conversations he was monitoring online and those he heard on the show floor.

Ed Kuzemchak is an expert on the Internet of Things and the founder of Software Design Solutions. As an embedded software thought leader, I invited Ed back onto this tech podcast to shares his experience around the challenges and pitfalls of designing intelligence into objects While CES focuses on the shiny new tech solutions and buzzwords, I wanted to look under the hood of these emerging technologies. Ed explores the real challenges and opportunities that surround the internet of things.

The challenge plaguing the live music industry is a lack of robust data. But live music data company Viberate is going to change all that. On the Viberate platform, entities are organized by event, festival, artist, venue, genre, subgenre, city, and country. Entities are crowdsourced with the help of over 20,000 contributors, every entry is curated by a team of 70 full-time database curators. Vasja Veber explains how he and his team are doing for music what IMDb does for the movies.

Ada, the market leader for Automated Customer Experience (ACX), is disrupting the customer service sector with a fundamentally new approach that brings an automation first strategy to drive cost savings and improved CSAT. I invited Ruth Zive, Ada's head of Marketing, on to this daily tech podcast to learn more about how Ada is transforming how people work and how businesses design their customer service organizations.

Learn how AR tech is fixing issues for entertainment studios that utilize a Hollywood staple: the green screen. ARwall is an AR tech company that has created the first AR display that requires no headset, no goggles, or smart device. Its spatial imaging technology is four times faster than anything equivalent on the market. The green screen replacement has already been used for projects by studios like Netflix, Syfy, and HBO, and made an appearance on the HBO series Watchmen red carpet.

Learn How Trintech is Making Accounting Faster, More Efficient and Human. Derick Schaefer, the Chief Technology Officer of Trintech joins me to talk about Trintech's mission to take the drudgery out of accounting, making it faster, more efficient and more human. We also talk about why the best kind of innovation comes from customers. I learn more about his passion for causes outside of tech, including local theater and water conservation. He breeds cattle at his ranch in Texas too.