Talk Tech to Me

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME IN NASHVILLE?

Join Craig as he once again welcomes another amazing guest in this latest episode of Talk Tech To Me. Introducing Elise Cambournac, President and CEO of Greater Nashville Technology Council, and a tech enthusiast. Elise will be sharing her background and some amazing insights about the current tech scene in Greater Nashville, and what awaits the future.

TALK TECH HIGHLIGHTS

• Introducing Elise Cambournac
• Getting into the tech scene
• Don’t be afraid to fail and fail fast
• Nashville’s influence on her healthcare career
• Nashville staying relevant as a tech hub
• The importance of starting young to foster a community
• Challenges that the NTC will face in the future
• What’s next for Greater Nashville

TALK TECH MOMENTS

Elise: Make the decision to fail, and fail fast

“The other advice I would say is, that is super helpful, and it was helpful to me, to my career, is helping my teams at the time, but you can be in the team, make a decision to fail, and fail fast, and being decisive about this.”

Elise: Expect to fail, and give it a shot again

“Not expecting to fail is a little too cocky. Like, ‘ ‘Yeah, I'm going to be alright. I'm going to have it right the first time.’ ’ But it's setting it into the culture that is acceptable, and that is that the recognition of the failure is almost as important as the failure itself, it's the key now, you can beat your head against the wall so many times, and not really realize it hurts you, you should feel it the first time and give it a second shot, but don't give it 10 shots…”

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Elise Cambournac | Greater Nashville Technology Council | TechnologyCouncil.com

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In the last episode, we talked about the merging of art and tech with Soula Parassidis, this time, Christos Makridis, Chief Technology Officer, Head of Research, & Soula’s Co-founder at Living Opera will be discussing a more complex formula: Art + Tech + Economics. Tune in as Christos discusses how digital assets come into play in the market today.

TALK TECH HIGHLIGHTS

• Introducing Christos Makridis
• Getting started in the tech industry
• The creative aspect of research and the peer review process
• The creativity of tech with people of diverse backgrounds
• Blockchain, NFTs, Cryptocurrency
• Working systems to innovate and make things better
• Understanding DAOs and their benefits

TALK TECH MOMENTS

Christos: What digital assets are composed of

“The emergence of these assets that are not tied to the hegemony of a country and I think of hegemony broadly. I mean, it can include culture, but it also includes military might.”

Christos: Digital assets and decentralization

“One of the interesting things about digital assets is that there actually is more collateral, oftentimes underlying the project because of the decentralization because of the consensus mechanism.”

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• About Christos
• About Living Opera
• ChristosMakridis.com

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Welcome to another episode of Talk Tech To Me. Today’s episode is quite unique as we will be exploring the merged worlds of arts and technology with Soula Parassidis.

Soula, an International Opera Star turned Tech CEO and Founder of Living Opera will be sharing her story of where she embarked on a journey from being a full-time performer to building her own tech empire.

TALK TECH HIGHLIGHTS

• Starting and quitting the arts
• The birth of Living Opera
• How performances apply in doing business
• Achieving personal excellence can't be done alone
• Engaging in blockchains and NFT
• What is Living Opera
• Similarities in arts and technology

TALK TECH MOMENTS

Craig - The power of a good presentation:

“Going back to the concept about anxiety - performance anxiety. That is a real thing for artists, but I feel like it's a real thing for entrepreneurs in general. The difference between securing a seed funding and not, truly is a good presentation.”

Soula - Excellence is not achieved alone:

“When you really want to excel on something, the first thing is you never do it alone. I didn't become the singer that I am on my own. Yes, I was born with the gift. I didn't cultivate the gift on my own, I had to take 1000s of hours of lessons.”

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• About Soula
• About Living Opera
• LivingOpera.org

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Do what you are good at, innovation follows.

Craig welcomes Hartmut Schaper in this latest episode of Talk Tech To Me. Hartmut is currently the CEO of Azena, with experience spanning from software development  to executive management. He and Craig will be talking about the technology that Azena brings and many more exciting tech bits and pieces.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Introducing Hartmut Schaper
• The DARVIS-Azena relationship
• How Azena can change the game
• Challenges faced and how Azena overcame it
• Balancing work between development and management
• Healthcare becoming a hot topic in innovation
• Hartmut's final thoughts

QUOTES

Hartmut - Balancing roles in development and management:

“Personally, I think it's your most successful if you do what you enjoy most, and for a time, I really enjoyed developing software myself, and then I simply enjoyed being able to go to management. Yes, I lost some of the connections to the technology, but it's so I could do many more things, I could influence more I could do design and drive things forward.”

Hartmut - The importance of user experience:

“I think the user experience is becoming more and more important, not just on smartphones and everything, but everybody expects it. So I think this is becoming a bigger, bigger part of developing and designing great solutions.”

Hartmut - Final thoughts for the listeners:

“Individuals, focus on what you can do well, and where you're fun and try to build it and evolve it. So don't sit on it and wait. But go there where you're good.”

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• About Hartmut
• About Azena
• Azena.com

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MEDICINE AND TECH CAN NOT BE TOGETHER.

This is what most people know but as technology advances and many applications are being utilized in medicine, this belief may no longer be true. Let us learn about the growing connection between medicine and tech with none other than someone who came from the best of both worlds, Dr. Alexander T. El Gammal (MD, PhD), a Medical Doctor, Surgeon, Scientist, Entrepreneur, Digital Health Expert, Investor, Medtech and Biotech Enthusiast, only here in this latest episode of Talk Tech To Me.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Introducing Dr. Alexander T. El Gammal (MD, PhD)
• Getting into tech
• Getting back to medicine
• How healthcare is utilizing AI
• The data privacy issue
• Opinion on digital twinning
• What's the next step

QUOTES

Alexander - Why he decided to move to tech:

“I was also very interested in tech. So I decided to look into it for about three years. So I started working for Philips of systems, and as a senior clinical consultant they call it so I was performing consultancies for hospitals, and design designing long term strategic technical partnerships with hospital chains.”

Alexander - Why utilizing AI is vital for medicine:

“I think, it is absolutely necessary to implement AI in medicine because it enables us to really have individualized medicine, and this is the first time in medical history that this is really possible.”

Alexander - Start digitizing now:

“I think what's very important is just to digitize most of the processes that we have not yet digitized because this is the basis for us to really implement deep learning algorithms or anything on top of that.”

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• About Alexander

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Bryan Moyer: Constantly reinventing himself
• Adapting the continual learning mindset
• How to be a lifelong student
• Find a problem that needed to be solved
• You never start if you keep waiting for a go signal

QUOTES

Brian - Constant reinvention of one’s self:

“I think the first thing to understand is it was very non-traditional, or unconventional, with probably one of the overriding factors being a constant reinvention of myself.”

Brian - Always adapt to a learning mindset:

“Whenever I have an opportunity to speak to a group of students, one of the things that I tried to get across is that you have to adopt a continual learning mindset.”

Brian - Find a problem to solve:

“My success was in several different times, not just this one was finding a problem that needed to be solved and creating a solution for that problem.”

Brian - It’s the best time to start:

“It's a great time to start a business. There are always going to be challenges and stoplights. If you wait, and I remember learning this years and years and years ago, if you wait until every single light is green, you never get to start.”

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• About Brian
• About Vanderbilt University

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Beth Bergmann used to play basketball when she was in college and being the point guard gave her the experience of calling the shots. Today, she’s calling the shots in a different way, along the tech space, as the SVP for Solution Strategy and Brand Experience at Telaid Industries, Inc. Join Craig in welcoming Beth in this latest episode of Talk Tech To Me and learn how she blasted into the tech space and how she applies her experience in sports in her strategies.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Beth Bergmann and how she blasted off to the tech space
• The beauty of building from the ground up
• You should take risks and fail
• The joy of wearing different hats
• Moving on to solution strategy
• Experience in strategy through sports
• Looking toward the future

QUOTES

Beth on exploring the world of technology:

“I really decided technology is where I wanted to be. There are grand dreams of working on Nike campaigns or Adidas and the big agency. Now I kind of decided, I'm gonna take a different path here, I'm going to explore technology”

Beth says to take risks and experience failures:

“Out of the box thinking is super important is be okay with failure, be okay with taking risks, I always say to my team, and when I look back at what worked, you have to fail fast, but it's okay to fail and know how to pivot.”

Beth wears different hats:

“I do enjoy wearing different hats. For me, it's all about learning, and learning inspires me.”

Beth’s experience in calling the shots:

“I was a point guard, which means, I was calling plays, I was calling the defense, I was making sure we're in the right formation, we're executing everything. So that is very much parallel to what the strategy looks like.”

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• About Beth
• About Telaid Industries
• Telaid Industries Website

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You find humility or it will find you, simple, short, yet so deep. This is one of the many lessons we will get from Andrew Kerr, CEO & Managing Partner of FortyAU, and the author of “The Humility Imperative”. Join Craig Cartwright as he welcomes Andrew, and they will talk about creativity in the technology process and why humility is imperative for leaders, only here, in the latest episode of Talk Tech To Me.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Introducing Andrew Kerr
• Technology is great when people are using it
• Applying sports coaching skills in managing people
• Being a differentiator
• The need to have a creative space
• What does FortyAU mean
• Creativity in the process
• Humility is imperative for a leader

QUOTES

Andrew: “Technology is great, but you have to get humans to use it. Right. So that's really where I started my career in tech was with the government, trying to get people to pick up and use this new technology.”

Andrew: “That's something that we really strive for, we think is a differentiator, because when you come to our company, and you say, Hey, I've got a technical problem. We don't really care what language it is, because we think we can help almost anyone that's out there.”

Andrew: “When I say humility is imperative for leaders, I absolutely mean it, every leader needs to look at whatever your relative level of humility or arrogance is, you need to look at that and walk in the direction or maybe sometimes run in the direction of humility.”

Andrew: “If you can't continue to learn and take in new information if you think you've got it all figured out, you're the one who's going to be disrupted.”

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• About Andrew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-kerr-9152974/
• About FortyAU: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortyau/
• FortyAU Website: https://fortyau.com/

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From being an Economics major who just really has a high interest in math, to a full-on data scientist, Kylie Taylor is really making her voice heard and building a name for herself. In this latest episode of Talk Tech To Me, Craig Cartwright welcomes Kylie, as she shares her journey as a woman in tech and how her interest in math has led her to her new career in data science.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Kylie's professional journey
• Moving into Nashville
• Benefits of remote work
• Being a woman in tech
• Benefits and dangers of groupthink
• Importance of having a community
• Getting into data science
• Game-changing tech

QUOTES

Kylie: “I think what makes techs creative is the fact that you have these really diverse talent pools that are contributing to it. And there's this amazing community in Tech where, you know, I've developed something, I want to share it with you, I want you to learn from what I learned, and take it make it your own.”

Kylie: “I've noticed with the pandemic and everyone moving to this virtual setting, even my team has benefited from having a completely remote team. So no longer are we limited to sourcing talent from the New York City area. Instead, we have the entire United States, we have all UK and Europe.”

Kylie: “I think groupthink can be sort of a dangerous thing to get into, especially in tech, because when you have teams of people working on a project and a data product together, the data product is the combination of all their minds together, right?”

Kylie: “My like advice to any data scientist is, to determine your code of ethics and work for a company that matches those. Yeah, yeah. And do your work that aligns with that.”

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• Kylie’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyliewtaylor/
• Mars’ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mars/
• Mars Website: https://www.mars.com/

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A sweet combination of health care and tech is set on the table as Craig Cartwright welcomes Dr. Chelsea Sumner in this latest episode of Talk Tech To Me. Dr. Chelsea is the Healthcare AI Startups Lead for NVIDIA, and she will be sharing her very diverse background from being Doctor of Pharmacy to working in a tech company. She will also share about the challenges she faced as a woman of color and where she gets her drive to always accomplish great things.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Chelsea's Professional Background
• Switching gears to tech
• What drives Chelsea in her career
• Chelsea on hating school
• Differences between kids then and now
• Difficulties faced by women of color
• How technology advances health care

QUOTES

Dr. Chelsea: “If excellence is possible, then good is not enough.”

Dr. Chelsea: “If I can achieve excellence, then why would I ever achieve anything less than that.”

Dr. Chelsea: “Breaking the rules teaches you something. lessons are learned through failure.”

Dr. Chelsea: “Being a black woman, I know that I have to work twice as hard to get half as much.”

Dr. Chelsea: “It's not just about being able to show up and meet the qualifications, but honestly, it's usually showing up and actually being able to exceed them.”

Dr. Chelsea: “Most people have to learn how to be uncomfortable, and to have difficult conversations while being uncomfortable. And also be willing to learn.”

Connect with Dr. Chelsea Sumner and find out what she’s been up to in the link below:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-sumner-pharmd-rph-34199757/

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