Sam Talks Technology

Glenn Shoosmith is the Founder & Chief Architect at JRNI (formerly BookingBug).

JRNI is a UK company now based in Boston after it raised $20m funding in the US. Something I have advocated for over a decade.

Datasift, Huddle and Skimlinks were all UK companies that followed the same path in getting funded in the US.

After graduating in 1997 with a degree in computer science Glenn spent 10 years working in a wide variety of industries, as a developer, consultant, team and project manager, including the pharmaceutical, television and financial industries.

Eventually he decided to step out and create his own company, and in 2008 started to work on BookingBug

Glenn founded BookingBug with the not-so-simple objective of building a platform through which time could be treated as if it were a stock innovatory item.

BookingBug is on it's way to achieving that goal, and although they started with small business clients, they quickly grew to supply technology to global retail brands.

Hugh MacLeod has been drawing about life and business for over twenty years. At the heart of Hugh’s work is one core belief: art has the power to transform business.

Art expresses ideas, vision, beliefs, culture and purpose faster, better and more deeply than any other method of business communication. - Hugh MacLeod

Hugh started work as an advertising copywriter for more than a decade while developing his skills as a cartoonist and pundit. He is the author of the blog Gaping Void and creator of the Hugh Cards series [“cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" 1997-2019].

Hugh is a highly-regarded author, writing on the themes of innovation, creativity and motivation. His new book “Ignore Everybody” began life on his popular marketing blog as an e-book.

It has been downloaded over 5 million times since being posted and enjoyed by readers all over the world. Re-imagined in print form, the book “Ignore Everybody” made the Wall Street Journal’s best sellers list.

Gaping Void Clients include AT&T, Intel, HP, Microsoft, Zappos, US Bank, Rocketspace, VM Ware, Rackspace, Ditech, University of Miami, Havas, Techcrunch, The City of Miami Beach etc etc.

Noury Bernard-Hasan is Head of Corporate Analyst Relations, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at AWS.

Tara Hunt is the founder and CEO of Truly.  We briefly chatted last week about her amazingly insightful video series on LinkedIn and YouTube. 

We also previewed Tara's forthcoming interview on my radio show - Play It Again Sam - Live 5th July.

James Poulter is the founder and CEO of Vixen Labs.  We met briefly at his Voice London meetup. We briefly chatted about the events he helps coordinate and his new voice first agency called Vixen Labs. 

James will be a guest on my radio show - Sam Talks Technology - 17th July.

Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft

Today Robert Scoble is the Chief Strategy Officer at Infinite Retina.

The Spatial Computing Age is coming and businesses need to adapt. Infinite Retina is a full-service agency that exists to help companies enter and succeed in Spatial Computing.

Definition:- Spatial Computing is computing you move around in, such as AR or VR, and associated topics like computer vision, artificial intelligence, smart cities, autonomous cars, etc.

Dan Scarfe is the co-founder & CTO of NewSignature (formerly Dot Net Solutions), a cloud-first, full-service Microsoft Gold partner for Azure, Dynamics and Office 365.

New Signature were named Microsoft UK Partner of the Year (2014) and again last year (2019).

Dan has been deeply engaged with Microsoft's Cloud since its inception in 2008, writing a book and presenting around the world. Dan is a renowned Microsoft Cloud evangelist, he was recently on stage presenting with Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella.

He works very closely with the Microsoft account teams, serves as a mentor for Microsoft Ventures and is one of only three Brits currently sitting on the global Microsoft Azure Partner Advisory Council and Partner Engagement Board.

Dan is also president of IAMCP UK and the co-author of the book ‘Delivering Solutions on the Windows Azure Platform? Ask the Smart Questions’.

Paul Walsh is the founder & CEO of MetaCert, a security product that tells you which links are safe, and which websites you can trust.

A Chrome plugin provides real-time protection against phishing attacks in email clients, chatbots, web browsers and all your social media accounts.

Paul Ayres is the COO of Connected Kerb, a start upbringing digitally enabled, environmentally friendly and low cost charging infrastructure to the residential, workplace and long-stay parking.

Josh Russell is the co-founder of Tech For UK and Techfugees.

Moved by the plight of refugees in Europe, a number of technology industry people have formed a voluntary team to create the series of non-profit "Techfugees" conferences, hackathons, and work with a global network of collaborators.

He has also been involved with the Parliament User Group, CityMeetsTech, Seedcamp and Comic Relief: Red Nose Day.