Sam Talks Technology

Charlie Cox is the CEO of Blockchain Inc an established and experienced specialist consultancy for Blockchain implementation, advice and development.

My co-host Thomas Power was recently ranked in the Top 10 most influential people in the global blockchain community and has a new book out called Tokenomics.

Raj Anand is the co-founder and director of Goodman Lantern, a digital marketing and research agency established in July 2012 with 4,000+ clients across the globe.

Raj oversees Goodman Lantern’s strategy, product development, and marketing. Raj is also the founder of GoPinLeads, Local Lead Finder, a tool that helps companies find leads and physical businesses with ease.

Raj built Kwiqq (a social networking platform for corporations and entrepreneurs) at the age of 23, with funding from several angel investors.

Raj graduated from Cranfield University with an MBA in 2006, MRes (Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Sussex in 2005, BEng in Computer System Engineering from the University of Sussex in 2004. Raj attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, graduating in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2000.

Raj is the winner of several awards including BusinessWeek’s Europe’s Young Entrepreneur (2007), 50 Most Influential People in Digital – Revolution Magazine (2009), Courvoisier Future 500 (2008) and Sussex Entrepreneur of the Year (2008).

Lucy Adams is the CEO of Disruptive HR and the ex-HR Director at the BBC.

Lucy created Disruptive HR having held senior level HR roles in a variety of sectors, most recently at the BBC. She grew frustrated with the lack of innovation and fresh thinking in the profession and wanted to find new ways of tackling old problems. She now runs her own agency to help HR Directors and business leaders to do things differently.

Lucy is also the author of the best seller 'HR:Disrupted' and is a popular keynote speaker on the themes of leading people in a disrupted world.

Thomas & Penny Power are best known for building Ecademy, the first social network for business people. Created in 1998, it became a global online and offline home for over 650,000 business owners before LinkedIn was launched.

Along with my husband, Thomas, we loved this community until we could no longer compete with the giants of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter and we lost the business in 2012, after 14 years of extreme work; resulting in huge financial loss. - Penny Power

David Webster is a home AV/automation specialist with over 20 years of experience. Today he is an admin on the UK's largest Alexa Facebook Group - 27k members. 

We talked about the good and bad of CES like the Alexa Toilet and Impossible Burger as well as the Echo Connect.  We also make our predictions for 2019 including the long overdue Amazon Phone.

CEO of LikeMinds. The 'Creative Entrepreneur' who produced the artwork for numerous record covers including Pink Floyd, Genesis and Duran Duran and famously the original slogan t-shirts for Wham and Katharine Hamnett. - Remember 'Choose Life'

Drew now runs the Like Minds breakfast briefings in London as well as a multi-day speaker event in Exeter every September.

We talked about Drew's career as well as talked about this weeks business and tech news from CES.

Steve Karmeinsky is an angel investor and entrepreneur. We talked about the technology hits and misses from 2018 and then Steve gives his predictions for 2019.

We discussed wearables, voice assistants, IOT, the future of social media and mobile phones as well as we discussed the future of work now that machine learning is automating work tasks and replacing peoples jobs. Will a 3 day weekend become the new norm?

Andrew is the CEO of D-Marketing. He helps businesses grow, develop and build their presence in the UK and EMEA markets; including from Finland, Israel, Sweden, N.America, Italy and France.

Andrew is an ex-Microsoft product manager. Today he is an investor in Israeli and Finnish startups.

Katie Bell is the CEO of Telegrass and a Canna-biz Consultant. She was formerly the Commercial Director at Stardoll TV.

Katie recently launched her cannabis company called ‘The Telegrass’ which is a consumer-facing newsletter, working to elevate and centralise the conversation around the emerging plant-based medicine industry.

We are collaborating with the industries most knowledgeable to educate consumers, brands, entrepreneurs and investors, bringing together like minds to educate and inform its members.

CEO of Portman Collier. Deborah is a strategic leader focusing on business and digital marketing.