Ahead In Tech

- 00:00 Start

- 01:03 The term XR

- 02:17 Writing the book Reality Check

- 04:11 Motivation for authoring Reality Check

- 05:22 Business opportunities in VR/AR/XR

- 10:27 Applications of business value

- 11:51 A brief history of Virtual Reality

- 18:04 Historical concepts of VR

- 18:57 Opportunities to disrupt and break out

- 21:46 Why Developers should be excited about XR

- 22:43 Skillsets to pick up

- 25:52 Software to use

- 26:47 ImmerseUK.org

- 28:26 Diversity and Social Mobility in XR

- 31:15 Having fun in XR playing games

- 32:31 Art and creativity in XR

- 34:06 Joke of the Show!

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With 25 years in the region, Ashish Panjabi tells us about how Dubai and the UAE continue to evolve to support investment, innovation, opportunities, and the Tech scene.

The things I was really interested in were his involvement in hardware and robotics, a notoriously difficult area to work in compared to software, and his work with TiE Dubai and the Techstars Network to mentor and help bootstrap diverse and inclusive people founding their own businesses in the area.

- 00:00 Start

- 00:57 Continuing evolution of Dubai and UAE

- 04:47 Establishing a Robotics business

- 11:55 Enabling Software Development in robotics

- 14:38 3D Printing

- 17:18 Business longevity

- 18:03 TIE Dubai

- 24:14 Entrepreneurs saving the World during COVID

- 25:43 Diversity and innovation in Dubai

- 28:22 Techstars Founders Network

- 30:56 Leaving a legacy to the Technology World

- 34:17 Joke of the Show!

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Fantastic chat with Dilip Tanna from Experian about his journey through virtually every Tech-team management role barring Tech Lead.  We find out what motivates him and why he loves what he's doing now as a Software Engineering Manager. We cover mental wellbeing, which he's very passionate about.  We also talk about the pandemic and the effect that's having on teams and individuals, and all the way he maintains an awesome culture.

- 00:00 Start.

- 00:55 Motivation to manage and lead Tech teams.

- 02:23 Difference between Project/Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters and Engineering Managers.

- 03:43 Are qualifications needed to get into the industry?

- 05:14 Moving into Management roles.

- 06:11 Impact of lack of technical/coding skills.

- 07:57 Telling potential employers about your skills.

- 08:43 Remote culture in 2020/2021.

- 11:15 How to care for your team.

- 12:28 Mental wellbeing.

- 15:03 Disruption vs an easy life.

- 16:14 Approaching team promotions.

- 17:38 The importance of mistakes.

- 19:39 Taking advantage of your support networks.

- 20:37 Joke of the Show!

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- 00:00 Start

- 00:52 Moving from Agency Recruiter to Internal Recruiter at YLD

- 01:24 The work at PaymentSense

- 02:28 Optimising the stages of recruitment

- 04:23 Handling recruiting for hypergrowth

- 07:59 The true value good Recruiters can bring you

- 09:54 Ideal tech tests/take-home-challenge

- 10:56 A better approach to diversity and inclusion hiring

- 17:02 Advice for your first developer/engineer role

- 18:36 Constructing your CV/resume for your audience

- 22:04 A better approach to the first screening call

- 25:10 Joke of the Show!

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- 00:00 Start

- 01:11 About DeadHappy

- 03:49 Lighthearted approach to death

- 05:38 Removing hurdles writing wills, preparing for death

- 07:54 Using large company experience to build startups

- 11:14 Lean, AGILE processes

- 13:04 Experience scaling

- 14:37 Importance of building teams

- 16:59 Diversity and Inclusion planning

- 22:04 Inclusivity of all personality types

- 25:24 NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming

- 28:45 Hypnosis, hypnotherapy

- 30:59 Analysis of Imposter Syndrome

- 35:40 Dealing with your Imposter Syndrome

- 37:27 Joke of the Show!

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- 00:00 Start

- 01:09 Established role vs startups

- 01:51 Career progression into SEO specialization

- 03:58 Importance of SEO to developers

- 06:05 Seeing the bigger picture, solving business needs

- 07:02 Diminishing need of individual Technical skills

- 09:16 Leading Tech teams

- 14:11 Changing face of Tech over 25 years

- 17:00 Microaggressions

- 18:05 Journey improving web performance

- 23:13 Selling performance optimization to Business

- 28:48 Future of performance

- 30:40 Joke of the Show!

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- 00:00 Start

- 00:55 Makers Academy - The first software bootcamp in Europe

- 01:18 Inspiration for the bootcamp

- 02:57 Ingredients of a successful bootcamp

- 05:37 Optimising for what employers want

- 06:59 Advice for bootcamp grads getting jobs

- 08:45 Mid-pandemic lack of Junior hiring

- 10:09 The business side of bootcamps

- 11:55 Staff culture influencing student culture

- 12:54 Diversity and Inclusion DNI

- 15:25 Setting your own salary

- 18:24 Scaling successfully

- 19:58 Exit strategy for Makers Academy

- 21:05 Listening to more experienced people as an exec

- 23:10 Changing assumptions about people

- 25:50 Being an Executive Coach for CEOs and Founders

- 31:02 What's next?

- 32:05 The Joke of the Show!

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- 00:00 Start

- 00:57 Passion for books and publishing

- 02:14 Getting into software development

- 08:16 Embracing digital in the Publishing Industry

- 11:41 First steps in Tech

- 18:04 Working in Publishing Tech

- 19:18 Developer careers in Publishing now

- 23:01 Change in Publishing Tech

- 28:16 Imposter Syndrome

- 37:07 Sara's Mentors

- 42:54 Joke of the Show!

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- 00:00 Start

- 01:06 Moving to work in China

- 02:50 Building up Microsoft in China

- 06:30 Insider view on changing market and consumer opinions on Microsoft

- 08:24 Not giving too much away to the competition when recruiting

- 10:35 Diversity and Inclusion at Microsoft

- 12:50 Moving on from Microsoft

- 14:25 Bounds of Technical growth

- 15:29 What https://www.smartrecruiters.com/ does

- 17:44 AI and filtering of CVs/resumes

- 19:35 AI and CV Match Scores

- 20:30 Removal of recruitment/hiring bias with Tech

- 23:24 Next frontier for Recruitment Tech

- 25:10 Joke of the Show!

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- 00:00 Start

- 00:20 Backstory

- 01:00 When things start to go wrong in Bootcamp

- 04:04 Being OK with imperfection

- 05:00 Pairing strategies

- 07:09 The first job hunt

- 09:45 Spotting bad jobs

- 13:39 Examples of good practices

- 15:29 Levelling up technically, early days

- 17:34 What you gain from bad jobs

- 19:50 Confidence when getting a job

- 21:00 What to say to employers if you have short gigs

- 22:25 Passion for Software Development

- 24:44 Staying positive when it's bad

- 25:43 Advice for new Bootcamp students

- 26:52 Next steps

- 29:07 The Joke of the Show!

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