CoStartup & Go helps get startups off the ground; helping edit ideas, streamline operations and work with a founding team. Sian opens up about this learning and the patterns she sees in early-stage businesses. How many people really understand all aspects involved in running a company, or how to divide your time, anyway??

Simon set-up Curated 3 years ago to focus on client goals rather than individual digital marketing channels working in silo. However technology is forcing him to consider how he builds his business. Find out why on his episode of the podcast.

Simon is CTO of Nominet UK, the domain name registrar. With responsibility for delivering the innovation pipeline, research and development through to commercialisation, Simon describes his role in helping avoid a 'Kodak moment'. During the chat we also talk about the role of education in helping shape the tech sector of the future.

Siobhan joins the show to discuss the effects of lockdown on a global business and it's culture. We also dive into the payments industry, discuss alternatives to cash and why tech-enabled business is bouncing back.

Today on the podcast we chat to Geeks CEO Somayeh. We chat about failure, why patience is a virtue, and how to make tech the broadest church possible. Her story is 16 years in the making, and tests the theory that a startup is harder than marriage!

Sonya joins me to reflect on Omniwomen + Allies 2020, an event held on Tuesday 10th of March where we both spoke about the need for leaders to be kind, and vulnerable, as well as the importance of communities and support networks.

Sonya talks to the podcast about the challenges women face negotiating the workplace. No one teaches you how to be you, at work, whilst you’re a student. She discussed community building, becoming aware of her own biases, creating the right content that has a positive effect on mental health, and listening!

Sophia is on the path to being a CTO, and at the age of 30 she's an award winning engineer and Lead Engineer. She's also set up a project to help people into work (The Donny Job Shop) and started her career as an apprentice Dental Nurse following an unexpected pregnancy. She's a wonderful example that there is no set path to success!

We operate in a world of extreme speed, and business is struggling to keep up. Due to the challenges her friends and peers faced Sophie got writing. Putting together her experiences from being CEO of The Caffeine Partnership, she’s written an Amazon bestseller; Superfast: Lead at Speed. In this podcast we talk through some of the key learnings of the book!

Sophie is part of 11:FS, a global challenger consultancy and delivery company established to support and address the challenges financial services organisations have today. Need a digital bank building? This is the company that could help. Sophie talks to us about the skills crisis, and how important it is for a startup to have a People function from day one.

He has managed Google in Italy, held senior posts in Microsoft and is now leading GoDaddy.com into the digital age ensuring small-business owners are placed to from the connected world.

Stephen, And Digital's Chief for Consulting, talks to the show about the trends in the market, and challenges facing businesses, as they adopt digital. We have talked 'transformation' to death, but it doesn't mean everyone gets it right, and how do you attract the people to make it a success?

Stephen is a founding member of DevOpsGuys, their motto is "Web Management, Simplified". That takes the form of end-to-end application-centric managed web operations and application delivery services. With 25 years on government and private sector tech project Stephen is ideally placed to discuss DevOps.

Difrent Group strive for digital perfection through the deployment of top quality industry professionals and implementation of digital solutions and services. They're outcome based, and given the digital leadership crisis they're approach is very relevant. The pod also explores a very unlikely, but well-matched, leadership team.

Fantastec allows for fans to collect digital assets in the form of NFTs. Steve Madincea, the Managing Partner of the business, puts forward that they can usher in a more inclusive and practical means of fan engagement with empty stadia and global audiences.

Today's show we're talking to Stu Bannerman, who gives his take on why companies struggled to meet demand during the height of the pandemic, and why disaster recovery was left in the long grass (and hopefully won't be again) by too many!

Stuart joined Huddle in 2013 as a Product Director and has been in his current role his April 2014. As CTO at Huddle he has been part of their rapid growth as a provider of secure cloud collaboration services for government and enterprise.

Sunny joins the podcast today to discuss how RingCentral are coping with the understandable surge in interest in their services, what their insight is on working from home, and how Covid-19 is showing users new ways of using their tech!

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.

Tamara Lohan, MBE, is an entrepreneur and technology strategist. She started Mr & Mrs Smith as a travel publishing organisation in 2002 with her husband James. As CTO she’s led the transformation into a technology organisation at the forefront of the travel sector. In this podcast she describes that journey and where she thinks tech will take us next!

Tara discuss the surge in online learning since the pandemic, with millions of new students learning practical skills. What affect will it have on education more broadly, teacher and student relations, and how feedback via technology can be improved in a strong loop. Will the changes we're seeing be short-lived?

Merry Christmas from Tech Talks! Jack and Dave discuss their most memorable moments from over this year's episodes. See you in 2019!

On the 19th June we attended the CIO Watercooler LIVE at the Merchant Taylors' Hall as the event podcast partner. We spent the day roaming around the venue getting the thoughts of guests and speakers, covering skills, training, AI, culture and the direction of travel of the whole sector. Thanks to everyone who took time out of the day to talk to us, and thanks to the CIO Watercooler!

We attended the CIOWatercoolerLIVE in Leeds this autumn, capturing five interviews with speakers, and conference delegates. It was an amazing opportunity to hear the views of technology leaders beyond the London bubble. Key to the day was collaborating, making sure that the north has a voice. Thanks to everyone who spoke to us on the day!

Unbound celebrates innovation, and we were lucky enough to be at this year's London conference. This episode of the podcast is a mashup of interviews with attendees, speakers and exhibitors from the first day of the event!

Unbound celebrates innovation, and we were lucky enough to be at this year's London conference. This episode of the podcast is a mashup of interviews with attendees, speakers and exhibitors from the second day of the event!

I am at Web Summit, talking to leaders, speakers, founders, attendees… finding out why 70,000 people have made the trip to Lisbon, what they’re interested in, and what trends are emerging from the biggest tech gathering of the year.

On the 21st of September MarketMinds MD Sebastian de Zulueta kindly invited Tech Talks to Insurance3.0; a gathering of some of the leading technology businesses involved in the insurtech market. Today we’re sharing the 5 recorded conversations covering crypto, chatbots, AI, funding and some of the insight coming out of the day. Companies featured on the show are; Systemic, Spixii, Luno, the Bank of England and Concirrus.

This week we are celebrating Level39. I'm bringing you 3 mash-ups and our regular weekly podcast all with businesses from the Canary Wharf incubator. As L39 turns five years old I find out what tech is coming out of One Canada Square and why it is such a successful environment. In our final episode we here from Credit-Vision, Authlete, Inadash, PolicyCastle and unifi.id.

This week we are celebrating Level39. I'm bringing you 3 mash-ups and our regular weekly podcast all with businesses from the Canary Wharf incubator. As L39 turns five years old I find out what tech is coming out of One Canada Square and why it is such a successful environment. In this 2nd episode I chat to XnTree, ClauseMatch, YourParkingSpace, Integer.ai and CampaignUP.