Disruption Talks by Netguru

What is the key to business growth as a tech entrepreneur? Is it the tools and resources you have at your fingertips? Partly, but it’s also about the community you surround yourself with.

Traditional business networking hasn’t exactly gone out of style, but it has changed. Although it’s been tougher during the pandemic, the remote working world now has an opportunity to connect more easily with people around the world.

Level39 is a tech hub that connects entrepreneurs worldwide to support them and help them grow. Amy French, Head at Level39, joined this episode of Disruption Talks to share more about it.

Amy leads ecosystem and portfolio development for Level39 and is responsible for the delivery of end-to-end commercial and community strategies centered on supporting early-stage, middle-stage and scaleup technology companies.

Hosted by Filip Sobiecki.

In some ways, the insurance industry is in the business of trying to predict the future. Insurance firms don’t have a crystal ball, but there are different ways to predict risk to determine your premiums.

As technology develops, insurance companies are finding new and inventive ways to predict behavior to calculate premiums. Already, insurance companies do this with car insurance. You can install a device that tracks how safely you drive, but some firms take this even further.

In this episode of Disruption Talks, Sergi Baños Lara, CTO at wefox, joins to discuss the growing insurtech landscape and how innovative insurance technology has become.

Hosted by Filip Sobiecki.

In today’s world, many of us will use countless mobile apps every day. We tap an app for banking, social media, games, or messaging tools without a second thought.

With Super Apps rising in popularity, does this mean we will start to see the need for dozens of different apps reduce?

Join us as we speak with Fardad Zand, Head of Platform Strategy and Careem Incubator, about the rise of Super Apps. We speak about what Super Apps are, where they seem to be most popular, and what the future looks like for the average smartphone app.

We also discuss Careem, the popular ride-hailing turned internet platform in the Middle East, which Uber acquired in 2020. Fardad explains what this partnership has meant for the region and how Careem is expanding into new markets.

Hosted by Filip Sobiecki.

What are predicted changes in the entertainment industry for the next 10 years?
Join us to listen to the talk with Thierry Bezier-Membrey, Co-Founder of EveryOne.

Hosted by Filip Sobiecki.

How to shift the retail landscape? Join our next Disruption Talks with Nick Patrick, Co-Founder and CEO at Radar.

Hosted by Filip Sobiecki.

Expense Accounts - Trust, but Verify?

Join our next Disruption Talks to listen to the interview with Sara Brooks, VP of Sales at Pleo.

Modern banking has come a long way in many areas, but one way it falls behind is racial discrimination.

In this Disruption Talks live stream, we speak with Asya Bradley, Founder & COO of First Boulevard, a neobank built for Black America. Asya has seen how prevalent the barriers to entry can be for simple financial services in the Black community.

Seeing that discrimination, she’s been on a mission to launch a bank that takes those barriers away and levels the playing field for Black Americans. In this interview, Asya talks about banking, diversity, racism, and creating equal opportunities.

Where do the lines blur between art and technology?

Technology has allowed for much broader access to art. It’s also given a platform for many artists to share their work. Historically, it would have been much more difficult to distribute your art, but in the age of YouTube and social media, we have more access to art than ever.

In this Disruption Talks episode, we speak with someone who understands this concept better than most, Harry Yeff, Artist in Residence E.A.T at Nokia Bell Labs. Harry discusses the role of art in society and how technology is key to understanding ourselves.

He describes his fascinating work with voice gems – a visual representation of voice, and how his installations have helped people understand the power of their own voices.

Hosted by Filip Sobiecki.

What does it take to fight financial crimes like fraud and money laundering?

In many cases, these are crimes that are not reported to the police. They often go by unnoticed. This makes them harder to detect in the first place and even harder to investigate.

However, companies like ComplyAdvantage are here to save the day. ComplyAdvantage is a team of people dedicated to fighting financial crimes with modern technology.

Arshi Singh, Head of US Product at ComplyAdvantage, joined Disruption Talks to discuss her role and ComplyAdvantage’s role in fighting financial crime.

Hosted by Filip Sobiecki.

In the era of fintech giants, neobanks, and modern payment processors, the buy now pay later (BNPL) model has picked up speed in recent years.

While it has been around for some time now, new startups are joining the industry, aiming to offer the next big thing for customers.

Zilch is one such company that helps customers to buy products online with the option to pay later. However, Zilch wants to offer something different to other names in the industry.

In this Disruption Talks interview, we speak with Philip Belamant, CEO and Founder of Zilch, to learn more about why this solution is different. Philip takes us through some of the ways Zilch challenges the buy now pay later model and what the future holds for this space.

Hosted by Filip Sobiecki.