Hitechies - Podcast

Excellence is about self-mastery.

Stephan K Thieringer is a Business Thinker, Innovation Strategist, and Executive Coach.  His recent company, The Human Innovation Garage, is a leading coaching and advisory firm, working at the critical intersection of talent and business.  Stephan has been recognized by the WHRC and WCC as a 2020 World’s 101 Top Coaching Leader and received various other global and national accolades.

Stephan is passionate about inspiring people and transforming organizations and the culture of organizations. As a serial entrepreneur with many disappointments and failures and some successes he is passionate about reminding people of the human factor and create a space for high performance but being, living.

Stephan has keynoted events around the world, engaged deeply in education technology and education impact, and equal access. He serves on several company boards, is an angel investor in over a dozen companies, and recently became a shareholder in a foosball club [soccer].

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Stephan is originally from Stuttgart, Germany, and resides currently in Boston MA.  

In the conversation with Pramod Dhakal in Hitechies Podcast, Stephan discusses some very interesting topics.  

Some of them are as below : 

Who is an entrepreneur
What is motivation
What separates an entrepreneur from the rest? 
Why people don't stay in a company for long? 
What is authenticity? 
What is excellence?
Transformation 

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Accessibility in tourism destinations - accessibility matters

In this episode of the Hitechies Podcast, we have invited Dale Reardon.
There are about 1 Billion travelers worldwide who have special accessibility needs. Dale Reardon is one of them. Luckily for Dale, he has his faithful seeing-eye dog, Charlie. He founded Travel For All, solving the problems around accessible and inclusive travel. In a very warm and open conversation, Dale raises his concern on how a big portion of the population cannot travel or are limited to traveling because of their unique accessibility needs.
He is building platform travel for all that he thinks can challenge platforms like Trip Advisor for the accessible & inclusive travel market.

Dale loves everything about France - its wine, food, and culture - particularly its true Champagne wine.

Dale and Jo (Wife) have traveled extensively both domestically and internationally and hope to undertake more international travel as soon as the Covid19 situation permits it safely.

Further into this conversation

Dale talks about his interest in artificial intelligence and not being concerned about AI taking over human intelligence.

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In this episode of Hitechies Podcast, we have invited David & Dan who are the co-founders at Slingshot Venture.

In this very interesting discussion, we go through several topics some of them are as below
What VCs(Venture Capitalist) look for in startups

• Company Culture
• Motivation & Commitment Of Entrepreneur
• Evolution Of Tech sector
• Challenges with Covid-19
• Artificial Intelligence, 5G network, bitcoin, crypto, and several other topics.

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Ferruccio Bottoni is Co-Founder and CEO of USound GmbH and Fauna Audio GmbH, a strong-growing Austrian high-tech company revolutionizing the personal audio field with their MEMS speakers-based products. Bottoni started at STMicroelectronics in 1995 working on developing flash memory. Subsequently, he joined Robert Bosch GmbH in 1999 where he contributed to the ramp-up of MEMS in the automotive market. He finally joined Sensordynamics in 2009 as VP of operations until 2013. During his career, Ferruccio has covered several positions including Quality and Reliability Engineer, Process Manufacturing Manager, Technical Purchasing Manager, and VP Operations. In 2014, he founded USound together with Andrea Rusconi and Jörg Schönbacher and, with a team of exceptional engineers, developed the first MEMS speaker in the market. In 2019, USound launched its first product to the market, audio glasses, under the brand Fauna Audio GmbH.

USound GmbH is a fabless company offering high-performance silicon speakers and high-
quality sound solutions based on MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology.

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Adam Bertram is a 20+ year veteran of IT and an experienced online business professional. He is an entrepreneur, IT influencer, Microsoft MVP, blogger, trainer, author, and content marketing writer for multiple technology companies.

He is passionate about solving technical problems through automation and sharing his knowledge with the world. This passion has led him to become a founder of the tech startup TechSnips, a Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Pluralsight course author, and technology writer for both print and online tech publications.
He is mostly focused on content and training in the tech sector for his one-man business. He also built and sold a small technology-training company called TechSnips.
He has been preaching about lifestyle businesses, side hustles, and more for many years now and he is very passionate about this topic. 

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Francisco Webber is co-founder and CEO of Cortical.io and inventor of the company’s proprietary Retina technology. This technology applies the principles of cerebral processing to machine learning and natural language understanding (NLU) to solve real-world use cases related to big text data. Cortical.io solutions are based on the actual meaning of the text, rather than on statistical occurrences.

Francisco’s interest in information technology developed during his medical studies, when he was involved in the medical data processing. Over the course of two decades, he explored search engine technologies and documentation systems in various contexts but became increasingly frustrated with the limitations of state-of-the-art statistical methods.

In this episode of Hitechies Podcast Francisco discusses

1) Journey as an entrepreneur
2) Challenges as a tech entrepreneur
3) AI and the implementation
4) Future of Artificial Intelligence
5) Bitcoin cryptocurrencies and the DEFI space.

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Janneke is co-founder of CapitalT, a VC fund that invests in technology companies using proprietary technology to evaluate entrepreneurial teams. In the past, she has started and exited 2 international tech companies. She is co-initiator of InspiringFifty, an initiative that aims to increase diversity in tech by making female role models more visible.  As part of the InspiringFifty initiative, Janneke has published The New Girl Code, a novel for young girls. The goal of the project is to encourage young girls, inspiring them to pursue a career in technology and invest in an educational foundation focusing on math and computer science. Janneke was named Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year in 2019, most prominent angel investors in 2018, Most Innovative Leader in 2016, and 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year, a few of many in a long list of honors for Janneke.

In this episode we discuss various topics : 

• Tech entrepreneur as women
• Journey as entrepreneur
• Challenges with COVID19
• Bias in artificial intelligence
• Culture of Diversity & innovation

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Sean Byrnes is CEO and co-founder of Outlier. He is the leading authority on automated business analysis solutions and outlier data identification. Before creating Outlier, Sean founded Flurry, a highly successful mobile-analytics and advertising platform acquired by Yahoo in 2014. Sean is a regular contributor to Forbes, Medium, and other business outlets. He’s a regular guest on entrepreneurial podcasts, helping other start-up CEOs manage through the stages of growth. He is also an advisor for, and investor in, early-stage technology companies.

Sean holds a B.A. in Engineering from Dartmouth College and an M.Eng. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Outlier, based in Oakland, California, helps global consumer, retail, hospitality, financial services and other organizations identify unexpected changes within critical business data. The Outlier automated business analysis platform uncovers unexpected patterns and relationships using advanced AI and machine learning algorithms. Organizations can integrate Outlier with existing sources of data within minutes, allowing leaders to gather business insights quickly, identify potential opportunities, and address the unexpected.

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Chris Michaud, VP, EPAM Continuum, Head of Innovation & Design Consulting

Chris Michaud leads EPAM Continuum’s Innovation & Design Practice. With more than 20 years of experience driving revenue growth for our clients by finding better ways to serve consumers. Chris has worked across a spectrum of industries, helping leading companies bridge the gap between business strategy and market results. Chris also has the practical experience of having built a company from the ground up, served on the boards of several start-ups, and understands the challenges of driving innovation within a large organization, having worked at GE early in his career.

During his career, Chris has been part of award-winning teams that created the world’s first wearable infusion pump (omnipod.com ), designed the Centurion Product Experience for American Express, defined LL Bean’s core design principles for the next 100 years, and worked with Fisher-Price to define its future offering in a digital world. Looking ahead, Chris and the Innovation & Design Practice are working with our clients to create new connected experiences in health and medical, transportation, financial services, and the retail and restaurant industry. 

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In this Hitechies Podcast, we have Florian Bohn. co-founder and CEO at GuRu Wireless.

Florian has always felt compelled to understand the way the world works. His curiosity moved him to study Electrical Engineering at Caltech (B.S. Cum Laude), to receive an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech. At GuRu, Florian is thrilled to be building wireless power technology that will enrich people’s lives on a global scale. He is also proud to be building a community of passionate and like-minded engineers at the organization.

As a co-founder and CEO at GuRu, Florian brings years of technology experience. At Axiom Microdevices, he helped define and implement high-frequency RF integrated circuits which have shipped more than 400 million units. At Agilent Laboratories (formerly HP Labs) he worked on clock and data recovery circuits as well as novel test and measurement systems. As a Caltech Lead Scientific Researcher, Florian guided engineering and operational aspects of implementing the microwave system at Caltech’s Space Solar Power Initiative.


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About GuRu Wireless

GuRu Wireless, Inc. enables safe, effective, and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary millimeter-wave (mmWave) integrated circuits and modules and proprietary Smart RF Lensing technology, delivering power at an unprecedented distance by a miniature size power transfer system. GuRu’s solution can be used as a charging hub or a power source in many settings where access to an energy source is needed. It is easy to install, safe and intelligent, automatically finding and adjusting for various power levels to sync with any devices’ needs. Continuously charging devices even during use, it employs power rerouting safety measures, as necessary. GuRu was founded in 2017 by a team of scientists and engineers from Caltech to ensure access to power is as ubiquitous as WiFi.

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