Kelly is Founder and CEO of 101Ways, a product development consultancy in London. They aim to help clients with delivery, their leadership structure and a range of advisory roles and in the podcast we discuss how that differs from client to client. I also explore how they position using external agencies when we are seeing a trend for in-house development.

When Dave the Dad is away… the kids will play! On the latest podcast Jack hosts and our expert-stand-in Josie joins him, fear not, we didn’t act too silly. Dave is still with us (in spirit) chatting to returning guest Kelly Walters, CEO of 101 Way’s. The product-focused technology consultancy. He talks to Dave about growing a business of just himself to over 100 people in under 2 years and what it takes to expand a team out to Europe.

Ken and Jesse talk about the need to decarbonise industry, principally finance, and why now it simple makes good business sense to accelerate the reliance on clean energy.

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.

Kevin has spent his entire career in Recruitment and Talent Acquisition. He has extensive Global experience, building and re-building teams and process to drive effective delivery across many regions and organisational structures. In his current role he is responsible for in the region of 8,000 hire per annum covering multiple functions, lines of business and over 100 countries.

Kevin is an actuary with over 20 years consulting experience. However, he's concerned with the growing gap in understanding of how to ensure your pension and finances work for you since the Pension Freedoms Act. That's led him to build Guiide, a platform with close ties to the new tech pension offerings.

Kevin Potts is CMO of DocuWare, a cloud business offering document management software. Their cloud and on-premises products are a recognized solution for companies seeking to digitize, automate and transform key processes. On the show Kevin talks about the return to an office, hiring remotely, and why Europe needs to adapt...

How do you answer the question of where, and what to study? Kimeshan is CTO of Unibuddy, the company on a mission to help 10 million students make better decisions regarding their choice of where to study. This is how they're building a platform to empower decisions.

Kresimir joins the podcast to talk to us about the tech-driven electric bicycle company Greyp. The bicycle is tech first, with telematics build into the bike allow for gamification and a new, innovative way to drive the motor! This show was recorded at Web Summit in November.

Leanne is CEO and Founder of Everledger, a business providing an immutable ledger for diamond identification and transaction verification for various stakeholders, from insurance companies to claimants and law enforcement agencies. She shares her insight in building a startup, funding and the role of Blockchain moving forward.

Liam has gone from someone barely able to use his iPhone to a tech entrepreneur. With his company TrainMyAthlete he's empowering elite athletes to own, and make sense, of their data; helping smarter training regimes and ensuring their mental health is protected in the process. Find out his story, and what's next.

Lina founded Adia Health to change to conversation around female reproductive health. Having struggled to start her own family, she took time to create a platform to help women become pregnant. Currently all education is aimed at preventing pregnancy, not giving women and families and support; Aida is a vital piece of femtech to improve education and understanding. Adia Health provide easy at-home fertility tests, a science based plan and access to leading experts.

Linda describes the Suitcase Group's journey from high-end print publication to traveltech platform. In a face-paced digital world long form written content is still something we seek out, and the success of Suitcase is witness to that!

Linda has had a career unlike most in technology. She started treading the boards before shifting to a role in the BBC in her early-30s. Now she's got a great deal of experience that can help businesses achieve their goals in an unpredictable market.

Today we’re talking to TRIBE’s UK General Manager Lisa Targett. If you’re not familiar with TRIBE they are a global influencer marketing platform. Think influencer marketing is a fad that’ll come and go? Think again. This chat explores how co-creation and reduced costs of entry are allowing creative new advertising campaigns across traditional and social channels, as well as giving fans a chance to create ads for the products they buy!

Lloyd is an entrepreneur with over 20 years building digital businesses. He is the co-founder of Zesty. Zesty was formed in 2012 and provides software to NHS trusts and hospitals. They have been nominated as "Tech Business of the Year" by PWC.

Louise works at Experian, helping the business to innovate and explore alternative data to help build credit scores that reflect the modern world. She didn't have the easiest path to her role, finding several other posts didn't quite fit and finding bias along the way. We discuss her journey and how companies should innovate, all without the help of a hoodie!

Luis talks to us about the difficulty in finding a cure for Alzheimer's, and why with an aging population it is key to try and find treatments and cures for individuals with increasingly complex medical profiles. A data-driven tech platform might be a way to fix a broken system of failed clinical trials...

Lydia is Co-Founder of healthtech start-up Forward Health, and building a platform to connect healthcare professionals. Forward Health have been hailed as one of the UK’s hottest healthcare startups. Lydia is also a clinician, and the crux of this interview focuses on why build a technology business, and why try and fix the NHS when all the advice said “don’t!”.

What do founders look for in their co-founders? What are the tools a startup needs to succeed? Where is the most interesting innovation happening, and the latest hotbed of tech growth? We get a big picture view of emerging tech with Antler CEO and co-founder Magnus Grimeland today, with some especially interesting point made about emerging markets.

Today we meet Manon DeFelice, CEO and founder of Inkwell. Manon started Inkwell from her kitchen and has grown a business that places executives into flexible working arrangements; both part time and full time. This episode of the podcast queries how the employer/employee relationship is evolving.

Marc has been at the forefront of telco, M2M and IoT for a number of years. With companies such as EE, First Data, De La Rue and now Cisco Jasper he has worked in a sector that's at the forefront of driverless cars and smart devices.

Marc Teerlink joins the show to talk about data, AI and how the workplace *might* evolve. The conversation is framed by the prediction that 65% of children will enter job categories that don’t even exist today, creating huge challenges to private organisations… who frankly are already falling behind!

Marcus is the Global CTO for National Geographic Partners in Washington, DC. Prior to this role he was at Marks and Spencer. However in between the two roles he's written a book Future.Digital and this forms the basis of this podcast. Primarily how can we ease the tension between the CEO and technology, which is demanding greater resource each year.

Marcus currently leads digital transformation at M&S and has previously been a tech leader within Apple. At Comic Relief he held the title of CDO and CIO. He has a wealth of experience within tech and digital and is passionate about transforming business and Agile.

Technology within universities have not followed the same road to digitisation, moving slowly in how it has reorganised. Whilst reliable and stable the transformation piece doesn’t mirror the fast-moving tech sector. So if you’re a CIO in a university, how do you break that trend and drive the evolution of tech services in higher education? Mark Ferrar, CIO at Newcastle University, talks about his journey to bring their services up to date.

Mark joins the show to discuss what an organisation needs to consider when deploying technology at scale, why organisations are risking ‘open heart surgery’, and why skills matter more than culture. It’s a fascinating chat detailing the views captured through the work performed by IBM Services. So, do you think your people have the ability to learn, or is it simply not in some people’s DNA?

Mark is Head of Information Security and Governance at Peabody. In this podcast we chat about his personal journey into the role he holds today, how security is viewed by organisations, and why we need to be more security aware in the workplace.

Matt Hodges-Long joins the podcast to discuss how a hard market (caused by the pandemic) is causing data to play an even bigger role in the insurance market, and how there is a threat from big tech to legacy institutions.

On the show today Lucy and Matthew talk about a financial services offering that helps first time buyers. By bringing communities of savers together, working together, Stepladder are able to help large numbers of people save and get a leg up onto the property ladder.