The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

Individuals who must "be present" every day to do their jobs make up the majority of the global workforce. However, they are not as frequently considered in discussions about work-life balance, career growth, employee experience, and creative benefits. A new book is daring to challenge yesterday's mindset. The Workforce Institute at Kronos Introduces “Being Present: A Practical Guide for Transforming the Employee Experience of Your Frontline Workforce” Joyce Maroney reveals more.

Jason Davis, CEO of Simon Data talks about CDP trends that are taking shape in 2020. After the recent Acquia / AgileOne acquisition news. Jason shares his perspective on what this means for the industry and why we can expect to see more M&As in 2020. I also learn how Simon Data his helping brands across industries achieve a unified customer view. On the subject of customer data privacy, we also discuss if CDPs will get to a place where we're not just okay for data to be shared.

Since 2005, the mobile-enabled workforce has grown 11 times faster than the total workforce, with more than 92 million mobile-enabled workers now in the U.S. alone and a growing number of companies allowing use of personal devices to make balancing the demands of work and personal life easier Motus recently announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind solution that makes it possible for companies to easily and accurately reimburse employees for the business use of their personal mobile devices

Every website has 15 seconds to keep the attention of its audience. Our attention span is now less than that of goldfish at 8 seconds and your visitors will form an opinion about your site in 5 seconds. Finally, if your website fails to load within 3 secs they won't return Jeremy Tillman from Ghostery talks about their Retail Tracker Tax Report. Ghostery revealed insights to analyze the specific tracker stack of 12 retailers’ websites to expose the hidden cost of certain trackers.

Health Payment Systems (HPS) is a Milwaukee-based company that has plans for a major expansion in 2020. The company enhances the healthcare billing experience for consumers, employers, and providers. Terry Rowinski joins me today to talk about emerging healthcare technology. He provides insights on how emerging healthcare technology trends can enhance the patient experience through improved payment processes. t I also use the time t learn more about the tech startup scene in Milwaukee.

The first generation of social media apps encouraged us all to take our friends, put them online, and communicate with them online. What would happen if we used technology to do the opposite and bring people together? When I learned that anew social networking platform called Pod wanted to help users make connections the old-fashioned way by leaving our homes and meeting in person for a face to face conversation. Dr. Jo Webber, founder, and CEO of Pod reveals all on this tech podcast.

Quantum Metric Founder Mario Ciabarra reveals how the platform's intelligent analysis enables enterprises to deliver exceptional online experiences. I learn more about how customer data can tell the story of digital consumer experience for companies. Mario shares his passion for understanding what's causing customers the most amount of frustration that has the most significant impact on a business and getting executives to feeling their customer's pain and matching that to business impact.

Conversations around data and privacy are already dominating conversations in 2020. We have already discussed the impacts of the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA and GGDPR on yesterday's episode. I chat with Roger Hales, who has become the CISO-in Residence at YL Ventures. The former Chief Information Security Officer of Informatica - a $1+ billion annual revenue software development company talks about the role of the CISO and how he has seen the role evolve.

As we continue to redefine the entire landscape of how online user data is to be handled, I explore the impacts of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) With Vanessa Wu, Rippling's General Counsel. The Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) caused significant confusion and forced companies to clean up their act online when it was introduced in Europe last year. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), is about to go live in 2020 and is giving businesses something else to worry about

Vivek Patni, CEO, and Co-Founder of Lavanya Plus, talks about the recent launch of WeMa Care. The new CareTech solution is aimed at helping businesses provide advice, support, and referrals so informal carers can arrange care services on behalf of their loved ones. For context, there are 8 million informal carers in the UK, with 18% of full-time workers also providing some form of unpaid care for someone close to them; of them, 88% say their employer provides no support.

Try to imagine a decentralized financial future where banks are irrelevant and the people hold the power. Today's guest is on a mission to fight the status quo is turning this vision into a reality. Richard Dennis is the founder and CEO of TemTum (TemTum.com), the efficient, quantum-secure, ultra-fast, and environmentally friendly cryptocurrency He is a globally recognized cybersecurity, cryptography expert and one of the world's leading lecturers on secure networks, blockchain, and encryption. 

Unqork is the industry pioneer no-code enterprise application platform that helps large companies build, deploy, and manage complex applications without writing a single line of code. Unqork first appeared on my radar when it recently closed an $80 Million Series B Funding Round Led by CapitalG. I wanted to find out more about the story behind the company and how this latest funding round is driving the no-code enterprise revolution. Unqork CEO Gary Hoberman reveals all.

The ways we interact as humans are continually evolving. However, Email, the most dominant form of contact in today's world, has not adapted to the fast-paced communication of the 21st century. We have Outlook for work emails, a Gmail for personal emails, a Slack for team collaboration, and a Skype for client meetings. Consistently flipping through apps is time-consuming and annoying. I learn how Spike combines emails, chats, calls, team collaboration, and tasks – all in one place.

Can tech actually change the world for the better? Meet a global CleanTech 100 company making it easy and profitable for building owners to help stop climate change. Carbon Lighthouse is on a mission to stop climate change by making it easy and profitable for building owners to eliminate carbon emissions caused by wasted energy. Carbon Lighthouse CEO and Co-Founder, Brenden Millstein, explains why it is more profitable than ever before to reduce your carbon emissions

One of the traditions in the UK is to watch the Queens Christmas Speech on Christmas Day. I thought I would offer an alternative for tech fans where I look at where we are now and what the following year in tech will look like. I also answer a few questions from listeners to this daily tech podcast.