Hitechies - Podcast

Bilal Soylu of XcooBee (https://www.xcoobee.com) talks to Pramod in Hitechies Podcast where he explains how their technology is set to change the in-store purchase experience through no contact purchasing straight from your phone for a safer retail experience.

 His team pivoted from privacy tools to creating a whole new shopping experience as part of COVID response.


 
Imagine

Walking into a store and, instead of waiting in line for self-checkout while attempting to maintain social distancing, you checkout from your phone.
For small business owners, they can easily authorize a real-world purchase of any item by their employees, instead of giving them an expense account or credit card.
A nephew visiting the store on behalf of his immune compromised grandmother at any time and shopping on her behalf without worries of exposing her or himself further.
A better insight into your college-age child's spending without a need for them to access to your credit card but still supporting them when they need to get something at Target that they need
 

Meanwhile stores can reduce the cost of self-checkout stations, keep their employees safe by reducing their interaction with customers and also capture additional impulse purchases and shopper data. With XcooBee Retail System Stores can process more sales with the same number of employees and deploy less hardware while having better store security. All this can be coupled with AI at checkout points to validate purchases faster and more accuracy (think Costco), and much more.

Furthermore into the conversation Bilal Talks about privacy and importance of privacy as well as how we could monetize our own privacy using XcooBee as a solution.




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Pramod Dhakal  In a very open conversation with Dexter Caffey, Founder and CEO of Smart Eye Technology  where Dexter presents  some interesting insights about being an entrepreneur as well as leading a company through the most difficult time.


Smart Eye Technology launched the world’s only screen privacy and document security technology platform for businesses and consumers, available now via the Apple App Store and Google Play.


The only person signing their digital document electronically is actually the intended signatory, thanks to a facial recognition and ID verification process

• Their documents and screens are protected with up to 5 levels of biometric authentication required to send, receive and access personal and professional documents and data
• Only the person they want to share a digital document with can access it, with the ability to set limitations on how long it is viewable and whether it can be shared and with whom
• COVID19 Challenges and adaptation. 
• Innovation 

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Episode Trailer of Hitechies 

Welcome to Hitechies PODCAST

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Thor Bloomfield is a real estate development professional who launched Bloomfield Technology in the pandemic, introducing effective fever detection units to create safe environments for businesses, specifically in education, healthcare and retail.

Thor is a double lung transplant survivor and really interesting business leader, who talks through the ways in which the building and tech sectors are shifting post-pandemic.

He was born with Cystic fibrosis. It’s a progressive, genetic disease that causes persistent lung infections and limits the ability to breathe over time.

Like most kids growing up along the coast he enjoyed surfing and skating and then as a young adult, with his love of the outdoors, He started rock climbing, snowboarding and skiing.

In this extremely inspiring conversation Thor Bloomfield explains all the challenges he faced as Entrepreneur as well as his personal challenges. 

Thor has great vision about how the future workspace should be built that offers both inspiration and fun. 

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In a very interesting conversation Fred Schebesta  spoke to pramod dhakal  and shared his journey as entrepreneur, challenges with COVID19 and some great tips for other entrepreneurs.

So who is Fred ?

Fred is an Australian entrepreneur, fintech expert and the founder of Finder, which is one of the leading personal finance comparison sites in the world, and he heads up our startup arm (Finder Ventures), where he has built a team to launch and incubate new business ideas.

Finder is now live in 83 countries and sees over 10 million visitors each month – all with no funding! Finder has seen significant modifications for operating in the social distancing economy and he can talk about how we closed our offices to become fully remote and pivoted our business and why crew happiness and well being are so critical. Finder saw such great success in its ability to pivot quickly that it made its debut in the Best Places to work top 50 for Australia.

Fred also launched a startup initiative on LinkedIn called The Disruptors’ Club, which is a community to connect hustlers and learn from each other.

Fred’s passion is startups and leading Finder Ventures has been his ultimate achievement. He launched a cryptocurrency brokerage HiveEx.com in 2018, which traded over $100 million in its first year. And since then he’s pivoted the entire business into a fintech by launching the Finder app, which is the most innovative money app in Australia.

Despite launching in the pandemic, the Finder app has almost 60,000 downloads and it’s found over $34 million in potential savings for its users.

It’s the first money app to combine such a breadth of money management tools with a comprehensive comparison engine, giving users intuitive alerts about their products to help them save money. It’s live in Australia and will roll out to the US and UK soon.

Another project launched by Fred during COVID-19 is Finder Verified, which identifies and vetts sellers before they can list products on Finder.

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Andre Eikmeier previously founded VINOMOFO a wine brand that is now worth over $100 million. He left VINOMOFO just over 1 year ago and founded a new startup called Good Empire.

Good Empire had to make some huge pivots and changes due to COVID19 and has finally settled on two amazing programs created to help people to do good.

The first program is called Year of the Planet and helps individuals reduce their impact on the planet through a 12-month program, making 1 small change each month. In its first few months over 8000 people globally signed up to this movement and then COVID hit! Another pivot was needed. We've now relaunched the program!

The second program was created off the back of COVID19 and is called One Million Butterflies. It's a 12-week program helping people through times of crisis.

Andre is a passionate and inspiring leader with a vision to change the world and make it a better place. 

In this conversation : 

• Andre explains his motivation as an entrepreneur. 
• His vision and purpose of starting Good Empire
• His journey as an entrepreneur ( Success and failure) 
• Impact of COVID19 in his startup. 

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Michelle Dickinson MNZM, also known as Nanogirl, is a nanotechnologist and science educator based in New Zealand.

Michelle said that she used to be painfully shy and afraid of public speaking. On the advice of a speaking coach, she invented the alter-ego "Nanogirl" as a way to overcome her nerves. Initially Dickinson used the name "Nanogirl" to write a science blog, then as it became more popular she started a YouTube channel and began to speak at schools and events.


Nano Girl :See yourselves as superheroes

In this conversation:

• Start of Nanogirl & the motivations beneath the start.
• Keeping your kids during the lock down is important and how can parents can help kids to be engaged 
• Concept of super heroes inventing super powers 
• Future of education and digital humans 
• Introvert Vs Extrovert in workspace
• Mindset of young women as creators and engineers

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The Covid-19 pandemic has jolted organizations into re-calibrating their business models around technologies to operate in an unforeseen social distancing economy. Digital
transformation holds the key to override this crisis by earning customer trust with mechanisms that ensure transparency,  efficiency, and quality.

In the same context Pramod Dhakal at Hitechies had a chance to talk to Claire Humphreys

And learn more about her startup Wethos.

About Claire:
Claire has been a co-founder and COO at Wethos for over 4 years. She is based in New York and has raised $4.6M in venture capital to date. While starting in the advertising industry working with brands like Toyota and Hershey, she left to not only start her own agency, but empower thousands of others through building technology to enable entrepreneurs to become studio owners more easily. She's been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch & Business Insider for her work at Wethos, and the NYTimes for speaking out against sexual harassment in the venture capital space.


In this conversation:

1) Challenges as female tech Entrepreneur 
2) Challenges during the COVID19 crisis 
3) Diversity at workspace
4) How wethos can help Independent creatives to earn more

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The Covid-19 pandemic has jolted organizations into re calibrating their business models around technologies to operate in an unforeseen social distancing economy. Digital transformation holds the key to override this crisis by earning customer trust with mechanisms that ensure transparency, efficiency, and quality.
The sectors that COVID-19 has impacted the most on a global scale include technology, aviation, automotive together with fashion sector.

In the context around digital transformation Sharon Lim from Browzwear talks to Pramod Dhakal at hitechies.


In this conversation:

• Digital transformation Always should start with why ? 
• Motivation Factors of Change.
• Challenge with organizational culture and mindset

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In this podcast, we had an amazing time talking to Dr. Min Wanli
 Dr. Min is a global leading expert on responsible AI developments for social and economic matters, the digital transformation of traditional industries, he shares his perspectives on how the intelligence revolution drives industrial updates behind industry 4.0,  how digital transformation has aided businesses, and what challenges lie ahead to moving through the crisis by AI and analytics to the future of the traditional industry.

Furthermore in this conversation :

• Dr. Min Wanli shares his own experience with Alibaba, google among many other companies. 
• His advice on how to approach the digital transformation. 
• Mindset, Organizational readiness, etc

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