Machine Unlearning

In the last episode of season 1, we talk to Jazmin Morris, Creative Computing Artist, Lead Digital Tutor at Central Saint Martins and Lecturer at the Creative Computing Institute, University of The Arts London.

Jazmin talks about the ways she’s fusing art and technology in her practice, as well as teaching, engaging with the local community and pushing for much-needed change in both the tech and art space.

We think you’ll find this episode hugely inspiring. We did!

We cover:

Jazmin finishes with some great advice on moving into the creative technology space and forging roles that work for you.

In our latest episode we talk to Nick Kelly, CEO and Founder of Axela Innovation, whose innovative work in care systems, technology and machine learning has revolutionary implications for how we think about healthcare data. We discuss what it really means to own your own data, how diversity should not be a buzzword but a call to action, and the joy there is to be found in coding.

Also in this episode:

- How pineapple juice can be surprisingly dangerous

- What health tech can learn from banking

- How to move past what Hollywood thinks a software engineer looks like

- Perceptions vs reality when it comes to representation in the boardroom

- What you need to know vs what you need to understand when working in technology

As always, Nick finishes with some advice for anyone interested in getting into health tech or data technology.

In this episode we have a fascinating conversation with Lisa Karlin Curtis, API Engineer at GoCardless. Lisa shares her extraordinary journey from management consultancy to her current role, explaining how she accidentally became an engineer when a new job took an unexpected turn. Lisa shares her insights on life as an engineer, work structures and diversity issues in her sector. Plus, she explains the interesting concept of ‘glue work’.

We also cover:

Lisa wraps up by giving advice to those who may (or may not) be considering a role in engineering.

Further information:

You can find Lisa’s blog at https://paprikati.github.io

Lisa is speaking at the Euruko conference, which is running on 28 and 29th May 2021: https://euruko2021.org/

You can read more about Tanya Reilly’s concept of Glue Work here https://www.slideshare.net/TanyaReilly/being-glue and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClAPipnKqw

Learning to code:

This is the platform Lisa used: https://www.codecademy.com

Find information on coding mentors here: https://exercism.io

The coding bootcamp that Lisa mentioned is: https://makers.tech (there are many more)

Lisa also gave us this introduction to distributed systems if you’d like to read more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing#:~:text=A%20distributed%20system%20is%20a,to%20achieve%20a%20common%20goal.

Join us as we chat with Jess Suamarez, co-founder of Hedira, an app that offers smart notifications to help you care for your indoor plants. Over £800m worth of houseplants are thrown away in the UK each year and Hedira was created to help save them. In this episode, Jess shares her journey from the world of big corporates to working in tech start-ups, and offers some brilliant insights and advice on raising investment as well as juggling a start-up alongside a full time job.

In this episode we also cover:

Jess finishes up by offering advice to those who are thinking about building a tech startup.

You can download Hedira on the appstore and playstore now.

Join us for a journey into the future with Morgane Constanty, Global Lead in UX, Marketing and Brand Strategy for Alexa-Text-to-Speech. Morgane shares her journey from consumer insights to working with cutting-edge technology – and offers up personal insights on where voice technology could and should be heading.

In this episode we also cover:

- Why living in South Korea is like living in the future

- What it means to be a 'recovering perfectionist'

- Why Hannah's dad once thought Alexa was blackmailing him

- Why the tech industry needs to stop hunting for unicorns

- Why you should always be polite to your voice assistant

- Why your voice assistant is smarter than your GPS

Morgane finishes the episode with advice for those thinking about getting into either voice tech or UX research, or both.

The show we recommend is 'Humans' and can be found on Netflix (in the UK).

*the real Samuel L. Jackson was neither harmed by, nor aware of, the making of this podcast.

Join us for a journey into the future with Morgane Constanty, Global Lead in UX, Marketing and Brand Strategy for Alexa-Text-to-Speech. Morgane shares her journey from consumer insights to working with cutting-edge technology – and offers up personal insights on where voice technology could and should be heading.

In this episode we also cover:

- Why living in South Korea is like living in the future

- What it means to be a 'recovering perfectionist'

- Why Hannah's dad once thought Alexa was blackmailing him

- Why the tech industry needs to stop hunting for unicorns

- Why you should always be polite to your voice assistant

- Why your voice assistant is smarter than your GPS

Morgane finishes the episode with advice for those thinking about getting into either voice tech or UX research, or both.

The show we recommend is 'Humans' and can be found on Netflix (in the UK).

*the real Samuel L. Jackson was neither harmed by, nor aware of, the making of this podcast.

Join us for a fascinating and timely conversation with Helene Guillaume. Helene is the founder and CEO of Wild.ai, an app designed to help women personalise training, nutrition and sport's recovery around their bodies and menstrual cycles. 

We discuss the challenges, biases and myths in the world of sport's tech and tech-tech, open the pandora's box of women's sex lives, and reveal how being a CEO means identifying the bits of the job you don't want to do and just delegating them away.

In this episode we also cover:

-Why some days you can go for a run and feel like an athlete, and on others you can barely drag yourself down the road

- Whether it's possible to hack period related bowel problems

- Why people are still calling 50% of the population 'a niche'

- How many men have actually bought tampons

- Vulva cupcakes

- Why pregnant women could be athletes

- And Hannah recommends her favourite sex education book for the first, but likely not the last time: Come As you Are by Emily Nagoski

Helene finishes with some advice for female founders - and people who want to use her app.

Join us (and Hannah’s cat) for a colourful conversation with Rukmini Prasad, IoT Partnerships & Product Manager at Digital Catapult. Rukmini talks about her journey from studying philosophy, through marketing and into the area of Internet of Things. We uncover the real world applications of this technology and the benefits it can bring to society and business.

In this episode we also cover:

Rukmini finishes the episode with some advice on entering the IoT industry.

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Catherine Allen, founder of Limina Immersive. Catherine talks in detail about VR technology, her journey into the industry, the bodily impact of technology and why VR is like a seance and a rollercoaster. 

In the episode we also cover:

- Why the film Gladiator has ruined society

- Whether women really get more motion sick using VR - and if we can really blame that on eye shape

- How Hannah nearly broke every piece of VR technology she's used

- Why Catherine thought she'd invented VR

- Why the Victorians worried that trains would make women's wombs would fall out

- Moore's Law - why technology growth might be exponential – and does that mean culture is too?

Catherine finishes the episode by offering up some advice on entering the VR industry.

In this episode, Kerry and Hannah introduce themselves and outline what the Machine Unlearning podcast is all about.