Sam Talks Technology

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Sam Talks Technology episodes

  • Sam talks with Tiffany St James about digital transformation and her consultancy club
    Tiffany St James is the Founder of Transmute, a consultancy embedding better digital capability.   Transmute Clients Include: Cabinet Office, Google, Market Research Society, National Trust, Parliament, Prudential, UAE Government and Viacom.       Tiffany is the former Head of Public Participation (Social Media) for the UK Government and was the strategic lead in Cabinet Office for Social Media.   She ran the world's largest web-rationalisation programme, was the first Director of Communications for Directgov and the first Head of Digital Policy Communications for the UK Government.   She launched Data.gov.uk with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Together, they continue to work towards making the UK Government the most transparent in the world.   Tiffany is one of the inaugural Tech City100 and a TED Speaker. She sits on the Central Council of the British Interactive Media Association as Group Chair of Universities helping graduate employability and is regularly listed as 1 of the Top 100 Influencers in UK Digital Marketing including the Drum's Digerati and Girl Guides.   Tiffany's Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanystjames http://wetransmute.com for digital consultancy https://www.facebook.com/groups/ConsultancyClub/ http://tiffanystjames.com for speaking http:// www.transmuteacademy.com for courses

     

    1 hr 21 min
  • Sam talks with James Poulter about creating alexa skills, voice SEO and voice commerce

    James Poulter is the CEO & Co-founder of Vixen Labs, a Voice first consultancy and Founder of the UK's leading Voice & Conversational Ai Community - Voice2.io

    We discussed:
    • All things voice and smart assistants in the house, car and office
    • 23M smart speaker sales expected in Europe - 58% growth
    • Market Share  - 45% Google, 41% Alexa, 13% Other
    • The future of voice SEO, voice advertising and voice commerce
    • How to build and monetise skills
    • 60k skills now available in the US & 30k in the UK
    • Alexa now speaks Hindi
    • Baidu's Xiaodu Smart Speaker available on 400m devices.
    • Audio Analytic "The Shazam of Sound" raises $12m
    • Nike & Google partner on 'Ask Nike' for voice commerce.
    James is also flying out to NY next week to the Voice Summit - https://www.voicesummit.ai/ - in Newark, NY where 5000 attendees will hear from 350 speakers.   The keynote speaker is Dave Isbitski the Alexa, Chief Evangelist who was on the show a few weeks ago. https://samtalks.tech/dave-isbitski-alexa-chief-evangelist   Background: James has spearheaded a number of international conversational products including the first Alexa Skills and Google Actions, as well as the award winning chat bots programmes at The LEGO Group in his previous role as Head of The LEGO Group's Emerging Platforms & Partnerships.   James has a decade of experience in audio production and podcasting within agencies, independent projects and commercial ventures and has a passion for the power of the spoken word and the audio medium to create empathy, drive brand awareness and create immersive experiences.   Prior to joining LEGO, James worked for a number of the world's leading marketing, advertising and public relations firms including Edelman and Ogilvy leading digital marketing, mobile and social campaigns both in EMEA and globally as well as new business efforts for clients such as Diageo, Unilever, Bose, PayPal, HP and Adobe.   Outside of work James is an advisor to the Church of England's digital board as well as well as a number of other charities, entrepreneurs and startups. James is also the host of the show "Signal" for Christians In Media which explores on a monthly basis the intersection between faith, media and technology.   James can be found on all good social media as @jamespoulter.
    1 hr 24 min
  • Sam talks with Katie King about the ethics, transparency and privacy of AI.

    Katie King is a Board Advisor, published Author and Keynote Speaker on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital transformation.

    Katie is a member of the UK Government All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) task force for the enterprise adoption of AI.

    Katie is the author of Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: How to Harness AI and Maintain the Competitive Edge, published February 2019: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Using-Artificial-Intelligence-Marketing-Competitive/dp/0749483393

    1 hr 21 min
  • Sam talks with Sam Liang about real time voice transcription services

    Sam Liang is the CEO/Founder of AISense Inc, based in Los Altos, California. It's core product is Otter.AI 

    Otter.AI is funded by some amazing VC's and Angel Investors.  They include Horizons Ventures (DeepMind, Waze, Zoom, Facebook), Tim Draper, David Cheriton (Stanford Professor Billionaire, the very first investor in Google), Slow Ventures, etc.

    With its core team coming from Google Speech team, AISense is building Ambient Voice Intelligence™ technologies with deep learning that understand human-to-human conversations and provide highly innovative services. It will digitize all meetings, phone calls, and make everything searchable, as well as providing speech analytics on all the conversations, either on mobile or over teleconferences.

    Previously, Sam was the CEO and Co-Founder of Alohar Mobile Inc in Palo Alto, California, which created world's first mobile location context platform, enabling a new category of context-aware mobile apps, such as intelligent mobile social, mobile shopping, mobile ads, smart personal assistants, etc. Alohar was successfully acquired by Alibaba in 2013.

    Before that, Sam was the platform architect and lead of Google Map Location Service for four years. Sam also designed Google's mobile location API and early Google Latitude.

    50 min
  • Sam talks with David Terrar about Digital Transformation and Web 3.0

    David Terrar is the co-founder of a boutique consultancy called Agile Elephant that specialises in Digital Transformation. 

     

    David has been in the IT industry for 40 years. His first job offer from IBM was delivered by an old-fashioned telegram! Yes there was no email in 1978.   We talked about the many changes he has seen from his early days at IBM with mainframes and learning programming languages such as Fortran through to today's newer technologies such as blockchain.   Dave talked about why he believes 2007 was a significant milestone year for technology with the combined introduction/adoption of cloud computing, social media and mobile phones.   We ended up talking about how 2020 will be the next critical key technology year with the introduction/adoption of 5G, AI, Blockchain, IPFS & Smart Contracts aka it's the dawn of the Web 3.0 era.
    1 hr 22 min
  • Sam talks with Hermione Way - author of 'the startup mum'.
    Hermione Way is a new media journalist, Reality TV personality, mumrepreneur and now the author of her new book 'the startup mum'.    She co-founded Vibease the world's first smart vibrator "bringing fantasies to life with an immersive pleasure experience."   She was until recently the Head of Communications at Tinder She has worked for CNBC, The Next Web and Techcrunch as well as running several of her own media companies. - Startup World, Newspepper, TechFluff, Hollywood meets Silicon Valley, TechDrive and she even had her own TV Series in America on Bravo TV.   She famously kite surf's with Richard Branson and was infamously photographed in a hot tub with Harry Styles after his breakup from Taylor Swift.   It seems Hermione knows everyone, she is one of those verified people that have 5,000 friends on Facebook and could easily have 5,000 more if allowed.   Her personal friends are the who's who of the Web 2.0 London & Silicon Valley tech scenes. Alex Tew, Michael Acton Smith (Calm), Oli Barrett, Stewart Townsend, Paul Walsh, Steve Karmeinsky Andy McLoughlin (ex-Huddle) Randi Zuckerberg (Facebook) Chris Saad, Michael Birch (Bebo), Mike Butcher (Europas), Robert Scoble and the list goes on and on.   Today she is married to Serhan Perincek and has two beautiful children.   But that has not slowed her down and still causes headline news, having recently breastfed her baby on stage at The Europas tech conference while simultaneously moderating a panel.
    44 min
  • Sam talks with Andy Evans about the future of online publishing, advertising and podcasting

    Andy Evans is a serial entrepreneur and my good friend. He is now semi-retired or as he says on LinkedIn "Investigating my next era".

    Andy talked about starting his entrepreneurial career at 15 and then the challenges of building two online publishing and advertising companies which he successfully sold.      We also talked about the future of print publishing, advertising and especially podcasting as Andy started UK's first Podcast production company in 2005.   --- Background: In 1985, Andy starting his first business aged 15, selling concert tickets and trips. In 1999, he founded one of the UK's first digital publishing businesses & first vertical ad-network in the UK, Net Communities, and in 2015 sold it to Future plc.   He also founded the UK's first Podcast production company in 2005 which is very topical today.   Frustrated with ad quality, transparency and brand safety online, he co-founded award-winning viewability technology provider OnScroll in 2013, which after tremendous growth, he sold to Sovrn Holdings, Inc. in April 2016, where he worked until May 2019.   A technology and gadget enthusiast at heart, his first computer was a Sinclair ZX-81 in 1981, today he loves studying, learning about and working with new technologies.   He's worked on all sides of the media industry from print/digital publishing, ad agency and most recently, in ad tech and have worked with many of the world's leading global brands.   "I now use the knowledge I've gained to advise, mentor and invest in all kinds of digital businesses." - Andy Evans
    1 hr 21 min
  • Sam talks with Dave Isbitski, Chief Evangelist for Amazon Alexa
    Dave Isbitski, Chief Evangelist for Amazon Alexa Despite a few technical gremlins at the start of the live show connecting Zoom to the studio, Dave was very patient while I fixed the issue and equally generous both with his time thereafter and his honest open answers.   Dave's quote below pretty much sums up my thinking about voicefirst for the next generation of the web. I feel like voice is the new HTML - Dave Isbitski Listen and subscribe to the podcast and please leave any feedback in the comments below. https://samtalks.tech/podcasts We talked about:
    • Our first experiences with Alexa
    • Using, discovering and creating skills with Amazon blueprint .i.e #VoiceFirst development
    • Monetising skills with ISP (in-skill purchasing)
    • Alexa conversations which is available soon. i.e skill to skill handoff of tasks to complete a scenario https://samtalks.tech/alexa-conversations
    • When will Amazon start charging developers, like Apple, for their skills revenue and placement?
    • What's the "killer skill" we're all waiting for?
    • Why don't Alexa features rollout universally.
    • What are the key challenges of localisation of Alexa into new countries?
    • New Alexa voices both male and female
    • Kids using Alexa and what behaviour is this generating. Politeness???
    • The NEW Amazon Echo 5
    • Why Alexa Guard is late in the UK
    • Ring Integration
    • Amazon Airpods and Amazon Phone???
    • Alexa for Hospitality and Alexa for Business
    • Alexa Auto
    • V-commerce and Privacy
      If you have any new feature requests then visit: https://alexa.uservoice.com
    1 hr 6 min
  • Sam talks with Marcus Cauchi about increasing sales by 96% just by saying no.

    Marcus Cauchi has been a Sandler Trainer for 16 years coaching salespeople to reduce the sales process as he puts it 'he is a fitness trainer for sale people'. 

    We talked about how he has a 96% closure rate by simply learning to say no. 

    He also has a new book 'MAKING CHANNEL SALES WORK': Ten Tools to Create a World-Class Third-Party Selling Program.

     

     

     

     

    1 hr 27 min

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