How AI Built This

Leanne is the Head of Data at Hello Soda in Manchester but last year made the move to Austin, Texas.

In this episode we chat about Leanne's career, what she has learned managing remotely and how that set her up for Covid-19!

Delighted to be able to get Leanne on and I hope you enjoy!

As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates.

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Tom is the Owner of Manchester based Data Science Consultancy Ortom - helping companies across the UK to understand data science and set them up for success.

Having worked at a variety of large organisations and setting up the Data Science team at Peak in Manchester, Tom knows his stuff.

A thoroughly good guy and very easy to talk to.

As always, we're brought to you by the wonderful people at Cathcart Associates.

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Andrew is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hark, a Leeds based IoT company who help their customers increase efficiency whilst reducing waste.

Andrew's journey is really interesting and I really enjoyed speaking with him.

As always, we're sponsored and supported by Cathcart Associates, technology recruitment experts.

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Alastair is the Co-Founder of Airts, an Edinburgh based software company using the power of AI to help professional service organisations with their scheduling.

In this episode we talk through Alastair's academic background, the enjoyment of doing his PhD and the journey to setting up Airts.

A great dive into the mind of a successful entrepreneur and some great tips for running a tech business.

As always, we're sponsored and supported by Cathcart Associates, technology recruitment experts.

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Sorcha is the Founder & CEO of Trace, a SaaS start-up HQ'd in Edinburgh with the aim to simplify data compliance, GDPR and data governance.

A really interesting background, including a "hippy upbringing", life in digital agencies, working for a huge corporate to starting on her own.

As always, we're sponsored and supported by Cathcart Associates, technology recruitment experts.

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Craig Mackay is the CEO & Co-Founder of Sharktower.

Headquartered in Edinburgh, Craig and the team have developed a product which helps organisations spot problems in their project deliveries before they even happen, using data in various clever ways.

A thoroughly good guy who has been involved in some pretty major projects in his career and has developed something awesome at Sharktower HQ.

As always, sponsored by Cathcart Associates - Tech Recruitment specialists.

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Luke Grimes is the Head of Digital Services at ANS Group in Manchester.

He is responsible for working with customers across the UK to help them understand what is possible with AI and technology in general.

A great guy and a thoroughly enjoyable chat.

As always, sponsored by Cathcart Associates - Tech Recruitment specialists.

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Jennifer Stark is the Lead Data Engineer at LADbible group in Manchester and a pillar of the North West Data Community.

Outside of her day job, Jennifer organises PyDataMCR with a great team of people and is a regular speaker at Her+Data and MancML.

Super easy to chat to and an absolute legend - please enjoy How AI Built This with Jennifer Stark.

As always, this episode was brought to you by Cathcart Associates, tech recruitment specialists headquartered in Edinburgh.

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Euan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Anomalous Technologies, an AI start-up based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Euan and his Co-Founder Matt have developed a product which can literally stop planes falling out of the sky using AI.

This was a super fun talk and is exactly the reason I started the podcast to give people like Euan & Matt a platform to tell their amazing story.

We had a great chat about his education, career, lessons learned starting Anomalous and indeed his hybrid Scottish accent!

I hope you enjoy and as always, thank you to Cathcart Associates for sponsoring the podcast.

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Samantha Rhynas is the Head of Data at Edinburgh based data start-up Effini (Jo Watts, founder of Effini was on episode 4).

As well as working at a busy start-up, Sam is an absolute legend of the Scotland meet-up scene, running and organising GirlGeek Scotland for many years and she runs the Edinburgh chapter of PyData.

We had a great chat about her career path and involvement in the community.

I hope you enjoy!

As always, this episode was sponsored by Cathcart Associates, tech recruitment extraordinaires.

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