California Tech Council Podcasts

Pallav Sharda goes Inside the Founder's Studio to talk about his book, "Before Disrupting Healthcare: What Innovators Need to Know." We spend a few minutes exploring the book with Pallav, including a deep dive into entrepreneurial experiences and opportunities for disruption in the complex health technology space.

Aging includes cognitive decline in one form or another for everyone. While major studies continue to track long-term assessment, companies are identifying new approaches to brain health that may change everything, from earlier identification of decline to better and more targeted treatment. In this episode of Inside the Founder's Studio, CTC talks to Seth Rodgers, founder of NeuroSave, and Caitlyn Krebs, COO of Neurotrack, about their companies' unique solutions to the complex issues around brain health.

While the FCC contemplates new rules on privacy for Internet Service Providers, we spoke with Peter Swire of the Institute for Information Security and Privacy at Georgia Tech on this episode of the Innovation Agenda about what's at stake.

In this dual episode of Inside the Founder's Studio, CTC visits with Marcel LeBrun, co-founder of Radian6. He talks through the founder process in Atlantic Canada and what it meant to be removed from Silicon Valley. We also talk with Paul Grand of RCT about medtech investing and RCT's Medtech Innovator challenge. Paul tells us about the challenge process and connecting medtech entrepreneurs with industry leaders.

On this episode of the Innovation Agenda, we get into the second part of our interview with Matthew LeMerle. We talk through privacy, millennials, and emerging markets, all related to the survey his firm, Fifth Era, conducted among investors worldwide regarding their attitudes toward Internet regulation.

In this episode of the Innovation Agenda, we hear part one of our conversation with Matthew LeMerle. Matthew dives deep into the results of his firm's annual survey of investor attitudes toward internet regulation.

California has a new Technology and Innovation Caucus in the State Assembly and Senate. Assemblymember Evan Low of San Jose, co-chair of the new Caucus, visits with CTC on this episode of the Innovation Agenda to discuss its origins, priorities, and hopes for improving the climate for technology growth.

The gap between the number of job openings in cybersecurity and the number of people available to fill those jobs is stirring a conversation in technology, academia and government around the world. Michael Kaiser of the National Cyber Security Alliance visits with CTC on this episode of the Innovation Agenda to discuss their survey (with Raytheon) of millennials and opportunities to explore cybersecurity careers.

Chris Finan, co-founder and CEO of Manifold Technology, goes Inside the Founder's Studio to discuss fintech, acceleration, the cybersecurity talent shortage, and the launch of CalCISO, the California Cybersecurity Information Sharing Organization.

Anand Sanwal of CB Insights goes Inside the Founder's Studio with CTC to discuss their 2016 Tech IPO Pipeline report, its predictions for venture-backed companies rising to the top, the investors that propelled them, sectors that surprised, and much more.