A weekly podcast on technical topics related to cloud computing including: MLOPs, LLMs, AWS, Azure, GCP, Multi-Cloud and Kubernetes.
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Tristan Handy has been curating the Analytics Engineering Roundup newsletter since 2015, pulling together the internet’s best data science & analytics articles. Tristan and co-host Julia Schottenstein now bring the Roundup to real life, hosting biweekly conversations with data practitioners inventing the future of analytics engineering. You can view full episode summaries and read back issues of the Roundup newsletter at https://roundup.getdbt.com. The podcast is sponsored by dbt labs, maker ...
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Tech Talks (The Podcast about Technology Leaders and Leadership) - A podcast that probes the minds of technology leaders. Join us as we delve deep into the startup stories, financing, growth, innovation, and cultural transformations that drive the tech industry with host, David Savage. Tech Talks is powered by Nash Squared, the leading global provider of technology and talent solutions. Find out more about our solutions at www.nashsquared.com
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The Innovation Lab Built to Challenge LG: Sokwoo Rhee on Reinventing a Tech Giant
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“LG Nova does not do hardware. This is new.” Sokwoo Rhee, EVP at LG Electronics EVP Sokwoo Rhee pulls back the curtain on LG Nova—the team building software, AI, and platform businesses in healthcare and clean tech, far beyond TVs and appliances. We dig into how a global brand bets on new ventures, tackles problems like chronic conditions and menta…
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Beyond the Warehouse: Glovo’s Sacha Michaud on Rewriting Retail for Europe
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“80% of what we buy is already in our city, we just don’t have visibility.” Sacha Michaud, Co-founder of Glovo. David Savage sits down with Sacha to explore how Glovo is building hyper-local, multi-category marketplaces across 23 countries, challenging warehouse-centric e-commerce. We dig into the human decisions behind European scale, operating sp…
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Key Argument Thesis: Using ELO for AI agent evaluation = measuring noise Problem: Wrong evaluators, wrong metrics, wrong assumptions Solution: Quantitative assessment frameworks The Comparison (00:00-02:00) Chess ELO FIDE arbiters: 120hr training Binary outcome: win/loss Test-retest: r=0.95 Cohen's κ=0.92 AI Agent ELO Random users: Google engineer?…
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The 2X Ceiling: Why 100 AI Agents Can't Outcode Amdahl's Law"
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AI coding agents face the same fundamental limitation as parallel computing: Amdahl's Law. Just as 10 cooks can't make soup 10x faster, 10 AI agents can't code 10x faster due to inherent sequential bottlenecks. 📚 Key Concepts The Soup Analogy Multiple cooks can divide tasks (prep, boiling water, etc.) But certain steps MUST be sequential (can't sti…
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The Truth About Voice AI: Wispr Flow’s Tanay Kothari on Habit Formation and Building His Own 'Jarvis
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“Part of the reason I push so hard is imposter syndrome. If it went away, I might chill out, and I don’t want that.” Tanay Kothari, CEO & Co-founder of Wispr Flow What if speaking to your computer felt as natural as chatting with a friend? That’s the vision behind Wispr Flow, the voice AI rewriting 20 years of clunky dictation tools. In this episod…
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Building Climate-Resilient Farming with Robotics: Eric Adamson of Oishii and Tortuga
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Eric Adamson, Robotics Executive at Oishii and co-founder of Tortuga AgTech, joins Climate Rising to share how automation and AI are transforming fruit farming. Eric explains how his team designed a strawberry-harvesting robot capable of operating in outdoor tunnels and vertical farms, bringing operational efficiency, labor savings, and climate res…
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When AI Drafts Your Contracts: Ryan Lisk on Trust, Risk & the Future of Law
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“If you’re working to a cookie-cutter legal template, AI deserves to take your job.” Ryan Lisk, Founder of Hybrid Legal Ryan started Hybrid Legal at just 21 to make legal services plain-speaking, affordable, and human-centred for SMEs. Now, he’s confronting the sector’s biggest disruption: AI-drafted contracts. In this episode, David Savage and Rya…
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The AI Reality Check: Why Digital Foundations Still Matter
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Are businesses really ready for AI, or just feeling the pressure to keep up? In this episode, Nixon Hire CIO John Whitlow delivers a clear-eyed reality check. He explains why many organisations, especially SMEs, are still stuck in the foothills of digital transformation, struggling with basics like poor data quality (where up to 80% of data is usel…
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From 'Tuna Can Period' Scarcity to Hypergrowth: Bloq.It's Miha Jagodic on Building Green Logistics with Pragmatic Strategy
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Today's guest Miha Jagodic, co-founder and CEO of Bloq.It, recounts the journey of transforming his startup from its challenging "tuna can period" (a time characterized by extremely limited resources and relentless early development efforts) into one of Europe's hottest and fastest-growing companies. Bloq.It provides an end-to-end parcel locker sol…
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Microsoft ’s Climate Strategy and Its Carbon Removal Deal with Chestnut Carbon
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Microsoft’s Brian Marrs, Senior Director of Energy and Carbon Removal, and Chestnut Carbon CFO Greg Adams share their perspectives as a major buyer and developer of carbon removal credits. Their 2025 deal is one of the largest carbon removal deals in the U.S. and seeks to deliver 7 million tons of nature-based carbon credits over 25 years. Brian ex…
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Revolutionizing Indie Film: Christopher Lombardi's Vision for Generative AI in "Princess Halle and the Jester"
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In this episode, host David Savage chats with Christopher Lombardi, a filmmaker and practicing doctor, about his groundbreaking work on "Princess Halle and the Jester (director's cut)." This film is described as the first fully generative AI-enhanced indie feature film. Lombardi explains how generative AI was leveraged not to create entire narrativ…
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Agentic coding in analytics engineering (w/ Mikkel Dengsøe)
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Tristan talks with Mikkel Dengsøe, co-founder at SYNQ, to break down what agentic coding looks like in analytics engineering. Mikkel walks through a hands-on project using Cursor, the dbt MCP server, Omni’s AI assistant, and Snowflake. They cover where agents shine (staging, unit tests, lineage-aware checks), where they’re risky (BI chat for non-ex…
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Britain's £44 Billion AI Future: Is Everyone Included?
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Secretary of State Peter Kyle MP discusses Britain's record £44 billion AI investment, detailing a strategic vision to ensure the technology revolution empowers all parts of the country through infrastructure, widespread skills training, and a balanced approach to regulation, aiming for an inclusive 'Goldilocks moment' where creativity is the only …
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This Tech Founder Followed the Buddhist Path to Bring Mindfulness to Children
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What does it take to teach mindfulness to children in a world full of digital distractions? This week, David Savage speaks with Yvonne Knap, founder of StarKid, a company dedicated to making meditation accessible for kids through engaging, puppet-based cartoons. Yvonne shares the profound inspiration from her studies with Buddhist monks in Thailand…
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The CapCut for Music: Overtune's Blueprint for Creative Control
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Host David Savage sits down with Overtune founder Sigi Arnason and investor Nick Gatfield to explore the democratization of music creation. Discover how Overtune aims to be the "CapCut for Music," empowering aspiring artists and content creators to produce and release high-quality music in minutes, even without technical expertise. The discussion u…
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I Used to Change My Accent: Why Emotional Intelligence is Tech's New Power Skill
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The tech industry often celebrates speed and disruption. But what happens when that pace overlooks the human element? Christina Lewis, a leader who navigated from higher education to scaling giants like Deliveroo and Bolt, shares a deeply personal truth: her initial instinct to change her Midlands accent to "fit in" to the London tech scene. This m…
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AI's Real Challenge: Why Friction Points Trump 'Transformation' Strategy
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Organizations are under immense pressure to adopt AI, yet many are missing the mark. In this episode, Daemon's Chief Growth Officer Kyle Hauptfleisch cuts through the buzzwords, revealing why the relentless evolution of AI demands a shift from nebulous "AI strategies" to a laser focus on business friction points. He explains how boards are underest…
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Reducing Household Emissions with Dishwashing Innovation: A Conversation with P&G ’ s Ashley Fill
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Ashley Fill, Global Director of Sustainability at P&G Home Care joins Climate Rising to discuss how consumer behavior and innovative technologies can reduce household carbon and water footprints. Ashley shares how life cycle assessments reveal that 87% of the emissions in P&G’s Home Care portfolio come from product use, particularly dishwashing. Sh…
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Sustainable Digital Advertising: Reducing Waste and Carbon
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Brian O’Kelley, founder of Scope3, joins Tech Talks to reveal the hidden environmental and financial cost of digital advertising and AI. He explains how wasteful ads drive billions in losses and millions of tonnes of CO2, why data centers are such an energy drain, and how cutting digital waste can be both good for business and the planet. To watch …
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Under the hood of Apache Iceberg (w/ Christian Thiel)
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Tristan digs deep into the world of Apache Iceberg. There’s a lot happening beneath the surface: multiple catalog interfaces, evolving REST specs, and competing implementations across open source, proprietary, and academic contexts. Christian Thiel, co-founder of Lakekeeper, one of the most widely used Iceberg catalogs, joins to walk through the st…
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Beyond ChatGPT: The AI That Doesn't Argue (Why Deep Research Fuels True Innovation)
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Join host David Savage as he speaks with serial tech entrepreneur Mel Morris, founder and CEO of Deep Research Engine, corpora.ai. In this insightful conversation, Mel unpacks the critical limitations of current AI models like ChatGPT, especially their tendency to 'hallucinate' and double down on misinformation, even arguing with users. Discover ho…
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Beyond the Arena: Unlocking Digital Fandom with Trace CEO Tareq Nazlawy
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In a world where fewer Gen-Z fans attend live events and most sports engagement happens on a device, how do rights holders truly understand their global fanbase? This week, David Savage speaks with Tareq Nazlawy, Co-founder and CEO of Trace, a groundbreaking fan engagement and identity platform. Tareq reveals how Trace is solving the massive missed…
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The Great Search Rewire: What AI & Video Mean for SEO's Future
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SEO is having its most fundamental shift in 25 years. Georgie Kemp, SEO Lead at VEED, unpacks how AI search and the rise of video are rewriting the rules of discoverability. Forget the 'blue links'—we're diving into 'search everywhere optimization' and what still matters for cutting through the noise in a rapidly evolving digital world. Is SEO dead…
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“Last Women Standing": The Fight to Keep Women in Tech on the Map Amidst Funding Cuts
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The tech sector is facing a critical challenge: women are increasingly leaving the industry. But as Dr. Vanessa Vallely OBE, founder of We Are Tech Women, reveals, the answer isn't just about attracting new talent, but passionately fostering a vibrant, nationwide community for those already here. Inspired by Ada Lovelace Day, Women in Tech Week is …
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The AI Monetization Playbook: Lessons from a Data Leader
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Turning AI projects into profit. David Savage talks to Nitish Mathew, a data leader with 25 years’ experience in data monetization. Together they explore how organisations can use data to increase revenue, cut costs, and make AI deliver real ROI. Nitish shares why so many AI projects stall at the pilot stage, the gap between personal AI use and ent…
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AI for Climate Resilient Food Systems with ClimateAi’s Himanshu Gupta
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ClimateAi co-founder and CEO Himanshu Gupta explains how hiscompany uses machine learning to forecast extreme weather and help businesses adapt to climate volatility. Himanshu shares his journey from rural India to co-founding ClimateAi while he was an MBA student. He describes how ClimateAi's "biophysics-driven AI" combines limited weather and cro…
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Beyond the Hype: Scaling Agentic AI in European Workflows
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In this interview, Sanj Bhayro, Asana's Head of International SMB, discusses the current landscape of AI adoption in businesses, Asana's role as a leading AI collaborative work management platform, and the practicalities of implementing agentic AI workflows. To find out more about Asana's work head over to: www.asana.com/work-innovation-lab We want…
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The AI Governance Void: Why Standards Are Filling the Regulatory Gap
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"In a world accelerating through an 'AI gold rush' where less than 20% of organizations have clear AI governance in place, we face a critical question: who will set the rules for responsible AI development? While global governments grapple with wildly different regulatory philosophies (from the US's reluctance to China's robust legislation) a surpr…
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Why Vertical Integration Could Define the Future of EVs – Will Graylin on Smart Wheels, Fleets & System Thinking
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Electrifying transport isn’t as simple as swapping engines for batteries. It’s about vehicles, charging, service, and the economics to make it work. In this episode, I sit down with Will Graylin, CEO of IndiGO Technologies, to talk about how his company is taking on this challenge with vertically integrated EV solutions built for ride-hail, deliver…
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