Ep 194 Rob Carpenter on Conversational AI, Ethics, and Empowering Humans with Technology

Rob Carpenter is the CEO and Founder of Valyant AI, the first Artificially Intelligent “Digital Employee” to work directly alongside employees in customer facing roles. Valyant’s AI “Holly” works in fast food restaurants to greet customers at the drive-thru post, answer questions and take food orders. The revolutionary nature of this technology is that it…

Ep 193 Ted Harrington on Being Hackable, Preventing the Personal Hack, and Good Security Practices

Ted Harrington is a best-selling auther of a book called HACKABLE: How to Do Application Security Right, and an Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE). ISE is a company of ethical hackers most commonly known for our work hacking cars, medical devices, web applications, and password managers and they’ve helped hundreds of companies fix tens of thousands…

Ep 192 Justin Esgar on Growth, Bootstrapping, and Building Your Biz from the App Up

Justin grew up reading computer magazines and built PCs for a living in college. His obsessive curiosity for leveraging technology to advance businesses led him to create the first digital PDF signature tool ‘SignMyPad’ before Adobe and DocuSign came to market. He launched a tech consulting company Virtua Consulting Group which has grown double-digit percentages…

Ep 190 Kirk Marple of Unstruk Data on the Unstructured Data Challenge and Lessons of a Technical Founder

Kirk Marple is the CEO and Founder of Unstruk Data, a new company that is Building the industry’s leading Unstructured Data Warehouse for automating data preparation via metadata enrichment, integrated compute, and graph-based search. We discuss the approach to customer-led product development, being a tehcnical founder, pragmatic product management, and the role of being a founder…

Ep 184 Chris Hull of Otus on Empowering the Educational System with Technology and Effective Product Management

Chris Hull is the Co-Founder and CPO at Otus. Otus is the first edtech platform to centralize learning management, assessment, and data for educators, students, and families. Chris was also named a “20 To Watch” Educational Technology Leader by the National School Boards Association. Our conversation spreads across both the challenges of education, remote teaching, empowering…

Ep 182 Joseph Fung of Uvaro on Changing Lives with Training and Enablement

Joseph Fung is the CEO of Uvaro, a tech sales career accelerator. A graduate of the University of Waterloo’s Computer Engineering program, Joseph’s a five-time technology Founder & CEO, and with multiple successful exits, and speaks frequently on the topics of sales leadership, diversity,and corporate social responsibility. We discuss so many important topics around enabling…

Ep 179 Shlomi Levin Perception Point on Prevention-as-a-Service and First Principles Approaches for Startup Founders

Shlomi Levin is the CTO and co-founder of Perception Point and also skilled in Security Research, Python, Penetration Testing, Cryptography, and Application Security. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) focused in Computer Science from Bar-Ilan University. We discuss the challenge that Shlomi and the Perception Point team are solving, how he used…

Ep 174 Slater Victoroff of Indico on the Real Potential of AI, AGI, and Machine Learning

Slater Victoroff is the Founder and CTO of Indico, an enterprise AI solution for unstructured content that emphasizes document understanding. He’s been building machine learning solutions for startups, governments, and Fortune 100 companies for the past seven years and is a frequent speaker at AI conferences. What is very interesting is that Indico’s framework requires 1000x…

Ep 169 Rahul Sidhu of SPIDR Tech on Digital Experience for Public Safety and Creating a Positive Policing Experience

Rahul Sidhu is the CEO and Co-Founder of SPIDR Tech, which created the world’s first automated customer service platform for public safety agencies. SPIDR Tech has served over 500,000 911-callers and 150,000 crime victims in North America and is a three-time GovTech 100 Company. We explore the ways in which using digital platforms can fundamentally…