Richard joins the show to chat about the products and services opening up new markets in finance. Fintech is not just about London and personal banking! We're talking about small business loans, travel money and why outsourcing works for startups!

Richard heads up tech and product for Google Ventures' 2nd European investment, and has also worked at the University of Cambridge, Google and Citrix amongst other leading brands.

The podcast marks a year of GDPR with an episode exploring data, privacy and how organisations are dealing with new regulation. Richard is the Managing Director of 55, a french consultancy business helping firms audit their data, and ensure their marketing strategies are compliant. So, how has GDPR been interpreted, and how are companies responding?

Riham Satti returns to Tech Talks to discuss how bias affects talent acquisition, with 60% happening in shortlisting alone. We chat about the use of automation and how we might be able to look at data to predict the trends of future work needs. Finally, have a wonderful VE Day!

Today we welcome Riham Satti to the podcast. She is exploring how Augmented Intelligence is making an impact on talent acquisition and HR, taking bias out of the hiring process with her business, MeVitae. Why also question why people seem embarrassed to use the term AI!

Rioch’s son was stabbed whilst at school. This event led her to question why she’d stopped in listening to him, and ask what was the motivation of his attacker. The outcome was So You Wanna Be In TV? Using her professional experience she turned this potentially devastating moment into a positive force for change. This podcast demonstrates how to really motivate and inspiring the next generation of technologists and leaders. Rioch was also recently named as one of the most influential 50 women in tech in the UK.

Rob talks to us on the podcast about the need to find purpose in your role, staying ahead of automation, and how the world is adapting to challenge and opportunity presented by AI. Rob talks about the responsibilities at the door of industry and the state, and how crucial it is to welcome a diverse range of skills.

Rob has over ten years in the consultancy sector and has worked for a number of FTSE 100 organisations. Now at Basware, he has insight into the changing dynamics of the relationship between external consultants and their clients across the technology sector. In the podcast we discuss the challenges presented by delivering both on-premise and cloud services and how consultancies can work to provide the best service to their customers.

Robert is the Group Human Resources Director at Reward Gateway, an employee engagement platform. The business have over 1,700 clients using products to attract, engage and retain the best employees. We talk about why purpose and mission are so important, how to implement values and why they matter, and how reward and recognition is evolving.

Robert is CTO at Senseye (as well as being a co-founder). We’re talking smart factories and industry 4.0. The podcast offers great insight into the startup story; how Robert and his team found their initial clients and have grown the business. Senseye is a cloud-based platform providing predictive maintenance.

Roei, CEO and founder of Connectd, talks to us about his efforts to help the startup founder community make contact with the financial investment needed, and explains what backers are looking for. Also, if the government short sighted in its current economic policies concerning entrepreneurs?

Ross McCaw built his business to ensure that companies could get key information to their employees, no matter how fragmented and varied the working environment. With the explosion of social media and messaging platforms, cutting through that noise with key information can be a challenge. We find out how OurPeople is fixing this issue, and the steps which led to the business pivoting and achieving growth.

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!

Rupert talks to us about using the echo chamber to your advantage, not wanting to waste people's time, and embracing being what you are. His business Perspective Pictures make video, but they're not box ticking exercises.

Russ is the Founder of Tech London Advocates (TLA) and Global Tech Advocates, private sector led groups of leaders promoting tech ecosystems and addressing the issues on the horizon. The groups are not-for-profit communities of individuals with aspirations to build and promote tech hubs globally. TLA recently set goals for the tech sector in London with a 5 year period to achieve them, in this interview we discuss what they are.

Ruth leads recruitment activity for Shazam, connecting 500 million people across over 200 countries. Finding brilliant people is a job and a passion for Ruth and she has to find the best possible people to fuel Shazam's continued growth. Here she talks about the challenges faced in an incredibly competitive market.

Today’s show features Ryan Bryers as our guest. Ryan is focused on Digital Transformation, Agile Enablement and Cloud Adoption, whilst also leading the continual evolution of operational speed solutions. He enjoys the position of leadership, ideas, and uses a people focus and pragmatism in his role. In 2018 he has been recognized as one of the top 100 CIOs in the UK.

Today we are talking to Ryan the CEO of Audoo. A new tech startup that operate in the music, data and audio space. In his early life Ryan had a top ten hit single! After hearing it being played inside a big department store on Oxford Street, this led him to do some light research where he realised he didn't get paid for the royalties. This sparked the birth of the Audoo the next big thing in MusicTech!

Sacha explains why GenZ needed, and wanted, something new and designed for their needs. So why are 13-25 year olds flocking to Yubo, what does it signify in our society, and is it safe?

Santosh Sahu is building a tech platform to help independent pharmacies reach their customers, and compete with much big chains; and explore how he hopes to grow the platform (even in these challenging times). We also discuss the knowledge gap between how small and medium sized business view 'digital', versus what embracing tech might mean for them.

LastMileLink Technologies, the technology innovator accelerator for CitySprint Group, is disrupting the delivery space. Backed by one of the world's largest same day courier companies this podcast explores how technology is disrupting logistics, and the challenges companies in the sector are facing.

Scott joined Lingvist in August 2015 to help evolve their product and attract market share in the language learning space. He has 10 years' experience at a C-level in companies such as GameSys, and is now in the exciting world of machine learning.

Sebastian is CEO of Parcelly, an app that puts you in charge of your parcels. You get the option of getting parcels delivered to an address that's convenient to you. The company display innovation and green credentials. Find out more in this week's podcast.

Is Agile a framework or a philosophy? Is DevOps simply a product of an imperfect world? These are the kind of questions we’re tackling on the podcast today when we meet Sergio, CTO of Zaizi. In a world where customer service is everything we look at how data can drive better government services for you and me, and the cultural hurdles that need to be overcome!

Scaling successfully is a challenge many organisations struggle to manage. Curve isn’t one of them, and today’s podcast revisits 2017’s guest Shachar. We’re talking fintech, products, building a leadership team and how he sees the sector moving forward.

Shachar Bialick is Founder and CEO of Curve, a business aiming to simplify how we spend our money. Shacher has over a decade of working in startup business, developing ideas into concrete businesses. Here he shares that experience, commenting on how the wider economic environment might affect the sector, and how he plans to influence fintech.

Shahad is co-founder of OpenBrix, a blockchain platform trying to reduce costs associated to the property sector. He talks about the ability of a disturbed ledger to share influence across the sector and ensure no one party has too much control.

Sharon is the CDO at the British Medical Journal, the print publishing arm of the British Medical Association. Previously she held the title of CTO, but she doesn't have a software/engineering background. We chat about her challenge to digitise the organisation, and how DevOps is making the BMJ safer!

Sharon is the Head of UK Marketing for the mobile division, and is talking about the S21, Samsung's latest flagship device. However, what about the other services? How are they being incorporated into lockdown life, and how is the company showing it's green credentials?

Sheree is an inclusion leader with a technology background. A data scientist turned D,I&E leader she believes the role is rooted in data and should report into technology, not the people function.