TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by fellow martini lover Helen Kontozopoulos, Co-Founder& CGO of ODAIA.ai. Artificial Intelligence is on everyone's minds lately - how can it help society as a whole? How can it help my company sell better, understand our clientele better? Helen breaks it down for us. ODAIA.ai helps companies understand their customers through the power and seemingly "magic" intelligence of the newly emerging AI world. From being a Computer Science prof at the University of Toronto to co-founding the idea of truly grasping and knowing the customer journey, Helen chats her story and those privacy issues that keep coming up, contact tracing, partnerships, and how the business of AI has only just begun to take the world by storm!

Senior Product Designer Eman Faiz is joined by Bevinash Mohabeer, Product Design Manager at TribalScale Dubai for this episode of First Name Basis! These two worked with one of the biggest shipping/cargo enterprises in the UAE for four months, and they share their learnings, challenges, and overall takeaways from a Design Transformation journey in Dubai. From Marrying scrum with design work, internal processes, design thinking workshops, strategy, and the magic of post it notes and sharpies, in four months these two learned more about Design Strategy and processes than they could have imagined. With changing client requirements week by week, working with Engineers, testing, and facing doubts that turned into successful outcomes, we hear how a project that was not originally one became a transformation journey.

TribalScale Design Manager Ailsa Blair is joined by Executive Creative Director of Grassriots Inc., and author of brand new book The Conscious Creative, Kelly Small! Beginning from their job in advertising and marketing for big box stores, Small noticed that ethically, there was a massive divide between what they knew was morally correct and what said companies they worked alongside were participating in. In this episode, they tell that story full of personal challenges, successes, and breakthroughs which led them to where they are now. This story also raises the discussion on ethical design, the responsibility of creatives putting stuff out into the world, and what they should be doing to support communities and movements like Black Lives Matter, especially in 2020. An episode full of questions on inclusive design, the world "inclusive" itself, mental health, politics, morality, personal triumph, and of course, the book that outlines it all, it's one you simply cannot miss.

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Senior Advisor to FinTech firms and Financial Institutions and personal friend, Peggy Van de Plassche! She climbed that difficult ladder to the top and has pages of indispensable advice for anyone hoping to push change in their business, hire the right candidates, and be more diverse and inclusive in their hiring process. Her expansive portfolio advising multiple big companies has accumulated into great stories, and great takeaways for CEOs & CIOs of Financial Institutions. Transformation? Change? How do you make it happen? It's all right here on this episode of First Name Basis.

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Scotiabank's VP of Digital Product Management Katie Sokalsky and CEO of Dream Payments Brent HoYoung. With two FI industry experts, Sheetal gets to the bottom of a big Canadian bank's response to COVID-19, and how they dealt with distributing government relief funds in one week. Additionally, we learn the challenges of digital banking and connecting people to relief finances in the United States compared to Canada, and what Dream Payments is doing to solve those problems. Identity & data stewardship, relationship between banks and customers, a human-centric approach, digital transformation, and digital banking - hear their take on all of it and more. Oh, and if you're in FI on a digital journey, what are the key takeaways, regardless of the size of your organization? Find out in this week's episode of First Name Basis.

On this episode of First Name Basis we get absolutely schooled by teenagers. In his first podcast with the "kids" of The Knowledge Society (TKS) and Founder Navid Nathoo, TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly learns what students Faith Inello & Jack Bodell are working on, and how they are undoubtably two minds to change the world.

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by fellow TribalScale Co-Founder Mitch Seguin. Now the Co-Founder and CPO/CTO of his startup company ChefsList in Berlin, Mitch has an incredible wealth of knowledge when it comes to launching and running a successful startup. He shares key pointers to the mindset one needs to have, how to communicate with clients, and why design sprints are a must-know in today's tech world. Plus, a complete breakdown of the COVID-19 response in Germany, and why they were able to not overrun their hospitals even with one of the highest case counts in the world. How TS started, key takeaways for working within product, and what tools to use mentally and physically in startup life - this is an episode you can't miss!

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Radar's CEO & Co-Founder, Nick Patrick for an in-depth conversation about location services and technology, ethical implications, how Radar's location gathering products have aided companies so far, and how they will improve business and safety in the future. Post COVID-19 contact tracing, data selling and protection, and how Radar is helping pave the way for a location-based tech future in our society are just a few topics on this week's episode of First Name Basis!

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Matt McGowan, Director and General Manager at Snap Inc. They chat all things SnapChat, busting myths about Gen Z, how we use Snapchat to communicate and why it's one of the most successful communicator apps right now. From earlier days at Google and Adestra to meeting Sheetal in Barcelona (are you noticing a trend of where Sheetal meets a lot of our podcast guests?) Matt has a rich history of experience in the mobile world.

TribalScale's CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Dr. Daniel Pepe, Family Physician, London Lambeth Medical Clinic & Dr. Puneet Seth, President of InputHealth, for this influential and momentous episode. We're given the full lowdown on InputHealth's technology and mission to connect patient's to their healthcare system. Learn about the 12,000 and counting people who have used InputHealth's online assessment tool, how they handle data privacy, and what really gives both doctors hope at a time like this.