Best Presto Community Podcasts (2025)

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S2E3 - The Future of Investing: Why Money Alone Won’t Cut It with Chris Petkas (Contrarian Capital), Bogdan Savonea (Blindspot) and Matei Psatta (Blindspot) 33:30

8d ago33:30

33:30

Episode Notes In this episode, we sit down with Chris Petkas, General Partner at Contrarian Capital, to dive deep into why "boring businesses" are the real backbone of the economy—and why they're ripe for innovation. We explore how Contrarian Capital is funding the digitization of small businesses, building audience-driven flywheels, and helping po…

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S2E2 - Beyond the Billboard: How AI is Disrupting OOH Marketing with Lina Maggi and Matei Psatta 25:28

15d ago25:28

25:28

Episode Notes Welcome to "Beyond the Billboard," a talk during Lumos House to how AI is reshaping the future of Out-of-Home (OOH) marketing. Join Lina Maggi, SVP of Partnership at BCN Visuals, and Matei Psatta, CMO and co-founder of Blindspot, as they talk about groundbreaking innovations in Out-Of-Home advertising technology. Curated specifically …

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6.1. Regina Ohiama Udalor: Nigeria.Norway 1:06:00

16d ago1:06:00

1:06:00

Discover how youth-led filmmaking is reshaping cultural narratives in Norway and beyond. In this episode, Regina Ohiama Udalor director at Peridot Films and founder of the Bragi Film Festival—shares her journey of building a sense of home in Norway while staying rooted in her African identity. Through the Bragi Film Festival, she empowers young peo…

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S2E1 - The AI Playbook with Chris Petkas (Contrarian Capital) , Alex Seutin (Drillbit) & Alex Jekowsky (Cents) 58:34

23d ago58:34

58:34

Episode Notes Learn how the top operators are leveraging AI to build and scale successfully. This session goes beyond theory, diving into real-world strategies for integrating AI into businesses, optimizing workflows, and unlocking new efficiencies. Don’t miss this deep dive into value creation in overlooked sectors and the next wave of AI adoption…

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71: Fake it real good 1:18:42

2M ago1:18:42

1:18:42

Jan Waś teaches us about the new Faker connector and how you can use it to emulate data that does not exist on any storage, how you can shape it as you need, and how you can then learn real SQL, build real reports, and make some real charts - all with fake data. Details at https://trino.io/episodes/71…

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70: Previewing a new UI 58:34

3M ago58:34

58:34

Manfred Moser is joined by Peter Kosztolanyi to talk about the origins, current status, and future of the new Preview Web UI for Trino, before we play around with it in a demo. More info at https://trino.io/episodes/70

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5.5. Thomas Presto: Norway. Trinidad. USA 1:04:46

3M ago1:04:46

1:04:46

In this episode, founder and creative director at Tabanka Dance Ensemble, Thomas Isak Michael Talawa Presto shares his journey of embracing his diverse heritage and the role of Africana aesthetics in his work. He discusses how his supportive family challenged societal stereotypes, shaping his artistic vision. We explore the significance of naming t…

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5.4. Angelica Castillo Balanta: Colombia. Norway 1:07:07

3M ago1:07:07

1:07:07

Angelica Maria Castillo Balanta, founder of Miss Balanta Turbans & Headwear, takes us through her life across continents, shedding light on the challenges and triumphs of adapting to new cultures. From the lively salsa capital of Cali in Colombia, Panama, Barcelona, and finally to Norway, her journey highlights the essence of community ties that tr…

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5.3. Peter Fongod: Cameroon. Norway 48:58

3M ago48:58

48:58

In an engaging conversation with Peter Fongod, we trace his journey from the oil and gas industry to the world of real estate investment. We talk about the emotional rollercoaster of career shifts from oil and gas to real estate; and the hurdles of starting anew which led to the birth of FolksEiendom. He also sheds light on the broader themes of ec…

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5.2. Dilú Matola: Mozambique. Portugal. Norway 34:03

3M ago34:03

34:03

Dilú Matola shares her inspiring journey from Mozambique to Norway, highlighting her passion for African culture and how it informs her work with AfroCraft; a social enterprise that merges cultural pride with innovation, bringing the beauty of African aesthetics to Norway through fashion. This episode explores Dilu’s commitment to representation, i…

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5.1. Don Lawrence: Jamaica. New York. Norway 1:12:35

3M ago1:12:35

1:12:35

Don Lawrence shares his transformative journey as an architect, connecting his roots in Jamaica to his experiences in New York and Norway. His family influences and diverse geopolitical experiences shape not only his design approach but also embody the importance of cultural heritage and community in creating meaningful and sustainable spaces. Our …

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69: Client protocol improvements 1:36:17

3M ago1:36:17

1:36:17

Show notes and more details at https://trino.io/episodes/69

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68: Year of the Snake - Python UDFs 57:20

4M ago57:20

57:20

Show notes with more details at https://trino.io/episodes/68

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S1E9 - What It Takes to Succeed in Deep Tech with Julia Prakapovich 36:58

4M ago36:58

36:58

We’re Blindspot and, to put it humbly, we’re the best digital out-of-home advertising company in the world. We started out as just a couple of scrappy immigrants looking to shake up a bloated industry and now we’ve helped 20,000 advertisers get their message out there.We love meeting other scrappy people who are also trying to turn shine a flashlig…

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S1E8 - Building and Scaling: Rajat Suri on Founding Lyft, Presto, and Lima 57:02

5M ago57:02

57:02

Episode Notes We’re Blindspot and, to put it humbly, we’re the best digital out-of-home advertising company in the world. We started out as just a couple of scrappy immigrants looking to shake up a bloated industry and now we’ve helped 20,000 advertisers get their message out there.We love meeting other scrappy people who are also trying to turn sh…

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S1E7 - Talent, Tools, and Space Tech with Suffiyan Malik 58:58

5M ago58:58

58:58

Episode Notes We’re Blindspot, and we created a platform that so far has helped 20,000 advertisers step out into the spotlight and advertise on any digital billboard in the world. To take this even one step further, we created Lumos House, a series of events where people meet and discuss openly to learn from each other and share authentic experienc…

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S1E6 - Why Academia Fails Entrepreneurs with Suffiyan Malik 24:39

5M ago24:39

24:39

Episode Notes We’re Blindspot and, to put it humbly, we’re the best digital out-of-home advertising company in the world. We started out as just a couple of scrappy immigrants looking to shake up a bloated industry and now we’ve helped 20,000 advertisers get their message out there. We love meeting other scrappy people who are also trying to turn s…

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S1E5 - How Umesh Khanna & Kayla Kavanaugh cracked investing in startups 38:20

5M ago38:20

38:20

Episode Notes In this episode of the Lumos House Podcast, co-founder Bogdan Savonea sits down with Kayla Kavanaugh, a pre-seed investor at A4 Capital, and Umesh Khanna, a product lead at Dropbox AI and venture scout at Andreessen Horowitz, to explore the exhilarating and unpredictable early stages of building startups. The conversation dives into w…

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S1E4 - Seb Webber’s Untold Stories 46:42

6M ago46:42

46:42

Episode Notes Welcome to another illuminating episode of Lumos Talks at the Lumos House! In this raw and candid discussion, hosts Bogdan & Razvan sit down with industry powerhouse and creative maverick, Seb Webber. From his early days spinning records in underground London clubs to managing iconic artists at XL Recordings, Seb’s journey has been an…

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S1E3 - With Bailey Pumfleet (Cal.com) & Iqram Magdon-Ismail (Venmo & Jelly) 50:06

6M ago50:06

50:06

Episode Notes Welcome to our special event at Lumos House during New York Tech Week 2024! Join us as we bring together extraordinary founders, entrepreneurs, and creatives to share their inspiring stories and invaluable insights. In this video, you'll hear from Andrew Yeung, one of the visionaries behind Lumos House, and learn about his journey fro…

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S1E2 - Jesse Middleton of Flybridge & Ihar Mahaniok of Geek Ventures 39:07

6M ago39:07

39:07

Episode Notes Join us for an exciting look inside Lumos House, where founders, investors, and innovators come together to create meaningful connections and conversations. In this video, we explore the evolution of Lumos House from its beginnings in Austin to its latest event in New York City. Hear from Jesse Middleton of Flybridge and Ihar Mahaniok…

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S1E1 - Jesse Middleton from Flybridge

6M ago

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Episode Notes Join us for an exciting look inside Lumos House, where founders, investors, and innovators come together to create meaningful connections and conversations. In this video, we explore the evolution of Lumos House from its beginnings in Austin to its latest event in New York City. Hear from Jesse Middleton of Flybridge and Bogdan Savone…

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67: Extra query speed with Exasol and Trino 49:43

6M ago49:43

49:43

More details at https://trino.io/episodes/67

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66: Chat with Trino and Wren AI 1:04:16

7M ago1:04:16

1:04:16

Manfred is joined by Wren AI team members and contributors to talk about the new AI-powered, text to SQL tool and its great support for Trino. More details at https://trino.io/episodes/66

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65: Performance boosts 50:52

8M ago50:52

50:52

Manfred and Cole talk about recent releases in various features enhancing performance. Details in https://trino.io/episodes/65

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64: Control with Open Policy Agent 1:12:14

9M ago1:12:14

1:12:14

Sebastian Bernauer and Sönke Liebau from Stackable join us to talk about their experience with using Open Policy Agent for access control with Trino. More details at https://trino.io/episodes/64

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63: Querying Trino with JavaScript 1:04:23

9M ago1:04:23

1:04:23

Emily Sunaryo, DevRel intern at Starburst, joins us to talk about her experience learning Trino and starting to write a web application with JavaScript to query data in Trino. More details at https://trino.io/episodes/63

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62: A lakehouse that simply works at Prezi 51:26

10M ago51:26

51:26

More details at https://trino.io/episodes/62

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61: Trino powers business intelligence 1:03:35

11M ago1:03:35

1:03:35

Cole and Manfred talk with our guest Patrick Pichler from CreativeData about PowerBI and his open source Trino connector. More details in https://trino.io/episodes/61

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60: Trino AI functions 1:02:06

12M ago1:02:06

1:02:06

We chat with Isa Inalcik from BestSecret about his proof of concepts for Trino functions calling AI/LLM systems. More details at https://trino.io/episodes/60

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59: Querying Trino with Java and jOOQ 1:04:28

1y ago1:04:28

1:04:28

More details at https://trino.io/episodes/59

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58: Understanding your users with Trino and Mitzu 58:27

1y ago58:27

58:27

Interview with István Mészáros about Mitzu. More details at https://trino.io/episodes/58

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57: Seeing clearly with OpenTelemetry 57:05

1y ago57:05

57:05

Interview with David Phillips and Matt Stepenson about OpenTelemetry integration in Trino and usage with Starburst Galaxy. More details at https://trino.io/episodes/57

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56: The vast possibilities of Trino and VAST 50:44

1y ago50:44

50:44

Interview with Colleen Tartow and Roman Zeyde from VAST about the database and platform and how it works with Trino. More details at https://trino.io/episodes/56

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55: Commander Bun Bun peeks at Peaka 57:46

1y ago57:46

57:46

Timestamps: - 0:00 Intro - 1:36 Releases 437-438 - 4:12 Introducing Peaka - 8:07 An overview of Peaka - 16:02 The engineering of Peaka - 20:04 Connectors - 26:51 Peaka demo - 41:34 Managing catalogs and security - 51:06 Peaka wrap-up - 53:14 PR of the episode: Filesystem caching with Alluxio - 56:16 Outro…

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54: Trino 2023 wrapped 48:19

1+ y ago48:19

48:19

Martin, Manfred and Cole look back at the year 2023 for the Trino project and the Trino community.

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4.5. Solomon W. Jagwe: Uganda. USA 1:19:29

1+ y ago1:19:29

1:19:29

When creativity blooms from the rich soil of heritage, stories that both enchant and educate take flight. Solomon W Jagwe, a remarkable visual artist, joins us to weave a tapestry of his life, colored by the landscapes of Uganda and the pursuit of his passion in the USA. The echoes of his childhood, marked by the inventiveness of toy-making and the…

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4.4. Cliff A. Moustache: Seychelles. Norway 57:44

1+ y ago57:44

57:44

Cliff A. Moustache founded Nordic Black Theater in Oslo Norway together with Jarl Solberg in 1992. He is a Seycellois-Norwegian film director, actor, and playwright. In this episode, we reflect on his lifetime contributions to Norwegian society and his relentless dedication to promoting diverse perspectives in Norwegian theatre. As he navigates thr…

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4.3. Paul Matovu: Uganda 1:11:42

1+ y ago1:11:42

1:11:42

Paul Matovu’s work with Vertical and Micro Gardening (VMG) in Uganda has been nothing short of transformative; his rural upbringing being the catalyst for his passion to improve food accessibility especially in urban contexts. In this episode, we dive into the world of vertical farming, the role of policymakers in this vital and innovative sector, …

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53: Understanding your data with Coginiti and Trino 1:01:49

1+ y ago1:01:49

1:01:49

We chat with Matthew Mullins and Roman Nesterov about Coginiti, a enterprise SQL workbench and collaboration tool with Trino support. More information at https://trino.io/episodes/53

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4.2. Jomo Tariku: Ethiopia. USA 1:18:00

1+ y ago1:18:00

1:18:00

Jomo Tariku is an Ethiopian American Industrial designer, artist and data scientist. He was born in Kenya, raised in Ethiopia and currently lives and has his design practice in the USA. Jomo's work and research has been covered by many publications such as Architectural Digest, de zeen, Vogue, The Design Edit etc. His work is currently in the colle…

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4.1. Otie Pokua Yankyera: Ghana 1:00:02

1+ y ago1:00:02

1:00:02

Otie Pokua Yankyera is a young architect and researcher born and raised in Ghana. Research & Development , Traditional Architecture , Sustainability and Local Materials are at the core of her research and practice. In a design space where most young designers aspire towards western architecture, design aesthetics and practices, Otie's passion lies …

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52: Commander Bun Bun takes a bite out of Yugabyte 1:01:43

1+ y ago1:01:43

1:01:43

Timestamps: - 0:00 Intro - 1:48 Releases 428-430 - 6:30 Introducing Denis Magda from @YugabyteDB - 7:56 JDBC, Trino's JDBC driver, and the Postgres connector - 14:08 Introducing YugabyteDB - 21:33 Demo time! Trino with PostgreSQL - 29:56 Demoing Trino with YugabyteDB - 44:57 Failover and resiliency - 56:05 Upcoming events and Trino Summit soon!…

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51: Trino cools off with PopSQL 57:53

1+ y ago57:53

57:53

When you're running a world-class, highly-performant query engine like Trino and investing time and resources into maintaining it, wouldn't it be great to treat your queries as a first-class, collaborative, versioned system, too?Enter PopSQL, a SQL client that makes it easier than ever to work together on Trino queries, collaborate with teammates, …

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50: A milestone for the Trino Community Broadcast and a look back 56:58

2y ago56:58

56:58

50 episodes is a big number! With the episodes coming once a month, this has been years in the making, so we're inviting back Trino co-founder Dain Sundstrom and Trino/Iceberg Developer Advocate Brian Olsen to catch up, share some stories, and talk about what it takes to maintain an open source project for so long.…

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49: Trino, Ibis, and wrangling Python in the SQL ecosystem 1:03:20

2y ago1:03:20

1:03:20

We heard from Phillip Cloud at Voltron Data during Trino Fest, but in this episode, we take a deeper dive into what Ibis is, how you can use it with Trino, and why you'd want to do that.

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48: What is Trino? 1:13:31

2y ago1:13:31

1:13:31

We’ve put out nearly 50 Trino Community Broadcast episodes, but we haven’t yet done the simplest, most obvious topic of them all - an exploration of what Trino is, how Trino works, and how you can run it. This week, we’re taking a step back and doing a broader overview of those things, because the world needs to know… what is Trino?…

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47: Meet the new Trino maintainers 44:44

2y ago44:44

44:44

Just a few weeks ago, Trino added two new maintainers to help govern its open source codebase: James Petty from AWS, and Manfred Moser from Starburst Data. It's not every day that new maintainers are added to an open source project, so let's take some time to get to know them, their history with Trino, and how they ended up here!…

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46: Trino heats up with Ignite 58:03

2y ago58:03

58:03

- Intro Music: 0:00 - Intro: 0:31 - Trino releases 408-410: 2:02 - Introducing the Ignite connector to Trino: 5:30 - What is Ignite?: 7:30 - Contributing the Ignite connector: 10:10 - PR of the episode: 52:20

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45: Trino swimming with the DolphinScheduler 1:54:46

2y ago1:54:46

1:54:46

DolphinScheduler is a popular Apache data workflow orchestrator that enables running complex data pipelines. They recently added a Trino integration and will be demonstrating how to use DolphinScheduler to enable a series of transformations on the data lakehouse with Trino. - Intro Music: 0:00 - Intro: 0:31 - Trino release 407: 13:22 - What is work…

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