Ru Roberts, UK Country Manager of Waze, on getting Santa to be your co-pilot!
Ru Roberts, Country Manager of Waze in the UK, talks about the co-piloting innovations that are engaging drivers, and giving them vital information to keep safe. What are the trends we're likely to see in 2021 and what new features could see a reduction of traffic on the roads? From the whole team at Tech Talks, stay safe and have a Merry Christmas!
22 Des 202033min
Susie Hargreaves, OBE, talks about the need to inform in the face of rising online child abuse.
During the pandemic there has been a devastating rise in the amount of self-generated images of child abuse. Susie Hargreaves, OBE, CEO of the IWF talks about the need to inform, without scaring parents, and describes how technology professionals can help the industries efforts to tackle this issue. If you are keen to listen to more of the IWF story then head over to their website and explore the podcast 'Pixels from a Crime Scene': https://www.iwf.org.uk/what-we-do/why-we-exist/podcast
18 Des 202037min
Oren Goldshtein, CEO of Vectorious, is implanting tech in hearts to save lives.
Vectorious Medical Technologies have developed the V-LAP, the world's first in-heart microcomputer, which enables treatment for heart disease patients, increasing their quality of life and life expectancy. Here CEO Oren describes how he has build the business and the benefits are being based in Israel!
15 Des 202038min
Brett & Edd, cofounders at Tiney.co, share their efforts to disrupt the early-years education space.
Brett and Edd talk to us about their platform, build to disrupt and enhance early years education and childcare. We chat about the effects of Covid, and how it's actually created a model and may be simpler to scale. As mentioned Tiney.co are hiring: https://www.tiney.co/careers
11 Des 202028min
Michael Doughty, Cofounder of Hylo Athletics, is helping athletes put the planet first.
Hylo Athletics are no a mission to create a trainer that's sustainable and goes beyond zero carbon, giving real choice to planet first conscious athletes. Here we find out why Hylo has released a product that's not perfect, but is authentic and can build a loyal fan-base.
8 Des 202036min
Michel Spruijt, VP at Brain Corp, explains how CoBots are the future of human/machine collaboration!
On today's show we talk to Michel, VP at Brain Corp. Who are Brain Corp? They're a business powering autonomous robots, and empowering their builders through human/robot collaboration! Also on the show I chat to Matt Watts, Chief Technology Evangelist at NetApp, who unpackages the Salesforce acquisition of Slack for us and shares his insight on what it means for the market.
4 Des 202037min
Kerry Moulton, UK IT Capability Lead, takes a virtual commute!
Kerry talks about why she wanted both to be an active mother, and a career, and how she achieved that ambition. We also chat about the future of work, flexibility and innovation to care for people's mental health. As mention Kerry spoke at the Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey launch event, for more on the survey: https://www.hnkpmgciosurvey.com/
1 Des 202036min
Tessa Clarke, cofounder of OLIO, explains how you can help tackle food poverty.
Tessa Clarke is a returning guest! OLIO first appeared on Tech Talks a number of years ago and now have millions of users. However around 8.4 million people are living in food poverty. So what can you do to help tackle this issue and ensure food does not go to waste? Also in the show we talk to Dr Benjamin Viaris de Lesegno about a need lab to help suffers of chronic health. If you want to see if the lab can help you visit https://www.levaclinic.com/
27 Nov 202033min
