Get in the mood for Node:Holm with this House & Tech mix by Joakim Klasman, CTO & Co-Founder of Centi!

See Joakim & Per Thoresson B2B - spinning tunes into the night at Node:Holm at Skyddsrummet on the 19th September! 🪩

Loved this podcast with Joel! It really emphasises what Node:Holm is all about. He is easily one of the furthest travellers coming down from Örnsköldsvik, Northern Sweden!

It was great to get an insight into Joels background talk about gaming, start up journeys, getting active and some nostalgia talking about Goldeneye on the N64!

There was a huge emphasis on getting kids active which is what Fuzed do. Joel’s experience in startups is second to none and has a start up mastery course you can follow.

We also had four community questions which we were delighted to hear!

3:22 Joel’s thoughts on Node:Holm

6:05 Journey in start ups

9:00 FUZED - getting kids active through tech

15:10 Arena gaming concept

21:10 Fuzed - A nationwide concept 

25:57 Motivating adults vs kids

28:08 Building this tech in startups

29:43 Defining engineering identity

31:46 Lessons from shutting down projects

Community Questions from Monica

35:30 Monica Oberg on Mental & general health

39:53 Admire Khulmo on Merging the tech

41:48 Sebastian Nilsson on Tech Leadership

47:21 Victor Axelsson on Notification

Looking forward to seeing you all at Node:Holm.

Immerse yourself into the splendour of Node:Holm, get an insight into the event & listen to a really nice opener with Ilija Vankov, Domain Architect at Volvo.

Building Products in the age of Generative AI

1:30 - Intros

2:30 - Michael speaks about Node:Holm the event

5:39 - Creating value

09:40 - What's really exciting you?

16:10 - AI hallucinations

20:08 - How is AI different from traditional engineering

30:30 - Forward thinking with AI

34:43 - Ilija's table at Node:Holm transition to party

35:40 - Using AI inside a large organisation

43:20 - Community Q from Mihael Lenic

44:20 - How are Volvo using AI

46:30 - Vibe coding

48:38 - Make sure you use your coding assistants

If you are looking to make the next step up in your career this could really help you in your journey🎙️

It was fascinating to speak to Victor Axelsson CTO of Kliently last week to discuss "Making the Leap to CTO" 🏃‍♂️

There are plenty of great tips for aspiring CTO's as we unpack what's happened in Victor's career. The community questions were a great addition to this podcast so hope you can have a listen to this one!

Time ⌚

5:03 The role of a CTO vs Engineering Roles

9:12 Essential skills to make the leap

15:30 Finding opportunities as a Junior

21:26 Challenges in growing companies

23:08 Future landscape

25:25 Community questions Renato Kalman

27:19 Christopher Klint

33:45 Valeria Viana Gusmao

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Really looking forward to hearing your feedback on this one!

It was great to be joined by Bjorn Helgeson, VP of Engineering of Mindler last week. Mindler have an amazing business with a noble cause close to my heart with family that work in mental healthcare.

Very interesting to hear about Bjorn's journey in Healthtech and the cool things they are building at Mindler.

In a startup and scale-up, how do you balance the need for moving fast, whilst not compromising on security or patient safety?

With community questions from Ander Ivarsson CTO of Voi and Denis Golubovic, CTO at Zendr. This made for a highly interesting podcast in this space.

Was a pleasure to speak with Marvin Benno from Kognity on the topic "The Junior Engineer Problem" We discussed the lack of Junior opportunities which is a highly important issue for Engineering teams across the continent 🌍

This podcast has some great tips for Junior Engineers looking for a new role including some first class interview and job-seeking advice 🥇

At the same time we talk about the potential impacts of team formation in the future and the impact this could have on the industry. With community questions from some of the most respected leaders in the space this podcast makes for a great listen! 🎙

Time ⌚

02:00 - The Scarcity of Junior Engineering Positions

06:49 - Macroeconomic factors and the impact of the market

09:20 - The importance of Junior Engineers in teams

11:50 - Level of competence required for Elite teams

14:05 - Advice for Junior Engineers

20:00 - Community question on resources from Janette Hagerlund

24:00 - Prepare graduates Admire Khulumo

31:14 - Expectations for Junior Engineers Jonas Martinsson

Absolutely superb podcast with Four expert Co-Founder CTO's based in Stockholm. This podcast was a pleasure to record and there is plenty of advice if you are looking to start up a tech company.

The Line up:

🎙 Georgios Drivas - CTO & Co-Founder at Subscriby

🎙 Love Marcus - Co-Founder at Evira

🎙 Turan Kutlay Künbi Co-Founder & CTO at Rently

🎙 Stas Shakirov - Co-Founder @ CTO at Humy.ai

Time ⌚

3:05 Intros

8:19: Balancing productivity & planning

22:40 Challenges in hiring high performing talent

25:23 Different approaches to recruitment

36:03 Lessons learnt as team expanded

55:34 Funding advice

1:00:01 How AI has impacted start ups

The Bitcoin Halving event is in less than two days away and it was amazing to have Adem Bilican, CTO on the ScandiScript Podcast! 🙌

This was an amazing opportunity to learn more about this exciting technology, why there will only be 21 million coins and how it can't be invented again! If you are curious about Bitcoin and would like to learn more our expert guest goes into detail on the fundamentals in this podcast 🎙

Relai 🇨🇭 is Europe's largest Bitcoin only exchange and we talk about growing Relai from the ground up with an idea from Julian Liniger and how it has come to life in their rollercoaster journey. We talk about their recent lightning network integration and how they are looking to enhance the user journey as a focus on the product this year.

Time ⌚

3:52 Understanding the fundamentals

7:00 What the is the significance of the Halving

10:21 Bitcoin as solution to a broken system

16:30 Challenges of building Relai

26:22 Core Development

29:42 What is the The Lightning Network

36:47 Regulatory environment

42:09 Enhancing the user journey

44:24 Dave Schwab's question

46:23 Expansion plans

47:13 Predictions

Amazing conversation with Janette Hagerlund, COO at Refined. Was interesting to hear Janettes progression from Developer to COO and how she has used many of her engineering principles in creating a hiring strategy at the company.

Time ⌚

1:30 Journey at Refined

6:30 Current challenges

8:18 Developing the hiring strategy

10:30 Employer Branding

12:50 Interview bias

18:10 Engineering approach to recruitment

23:58 Adapting to market demands

28:08 Scorecard method in practice

35:05 Success stories

I really enjoyed speaking with Fredrik Stockman who gives us in-depth insight into ProductOps and his AI solution with Version Lens 🎙

In this podcast we talk about AI and it's implications for businesses, what could happen in the future and I was really interested to hear how he pivoted one part of his product and how it's had a positive impact for his business.

As an expert in ProductOps this is a superb listen for product specialist and the wider tech community.

Time ⌚

2:00 intros

4:23 ProductOps & version lens

6:30 Typical problems and how AI can solve this

9:00 The correct context for LLM

12:15 AI as a Junior PM

16:49 Limitation for AI in Product

19:27 Key Learnings

21:40 Pivot in strategy

24:46 Tips using AI in a product setting

27:32 What Excites you in AI

Community Questions

31:29 Georgy Korev - Product discovery / Market fit

34:30 Johan Schager - Organisation structure