The conversation kicks off with an article about ChatGPT and whether it poses a cybersecurity risk. “It is exciting to see how fast this has taken off and how people are adopting an AI tool,” Tiffany says. “But it’s also being adopted by bad actors and cybercriminals. They’re using it to make their emails look real and personalize them at scale,” she tells us. “Others have learned to exploit ChatGPT to create malware, which is code that tries to gain access to data that it shouldn’t have.” 

Tiffany explains what polymorphic malware is and why we should be concerned about it — it’s malware that adapts, learns, and changes, making it harder to detect.

We discuss spear phishing — the process of sending hyper-personalized phishing emails that ChatGPT is facilitating — before moving on to the next article about the “zero trust” approach to cybersecurity. Tiffany explains that the real problem is not stopping phishing messages from coming in but stopping people from clicking on the links cybercriminals send. 

“We have to shift people away from always wanting to be helpful,” she says. “And the other thing we have to do is recognize that cybercriminals are going to try to exploit our needs. It’s all about not trusting the message or phone call that comes in.”

The final piece focuses on cybersecurity predictions for 2023. Tiffany explains that small and medium-sized businesses tend to be easier targets for cybercriminals as they usually have fewer security policies in place. We discuss tensions that this may cause between companies and their employees and the potential for state-sponsored cyber attacks.

Tiffany then tells us more about the inspiration that led her to found HacWare and the work they do before we move into the lightning round to discover what she thinks is the evillest Tech application and what her predictions are for the future of Tech.

• To learn more about HacWare: https://hacware.com

Winvesta is a cross-border neobank that provides a wide variety of products to developing markets, including global banking accounts, investment portfolios, and payment collections. The company was born out of Swastik’s desire to develop a product suite that would give investors in developing markets access to financial services in developed markets. 

India is the largest user base for some of the tech companies in the world, including Facebook. However, people were not able to invest in these companies; Swastik wanted to fix this.

We begin this episode by discussing this piece on the future of digital payments. “The promise of blockchain, which is a longer-term promise, remains, helping to drive trust and speed without necessarily being a currency itself,” Swastik points out. “Blockchain will continue aiding payments in various ways without necessarily aiding just the flow of crypto.” 

Throughout all this talk about bitcoin and payments, Swastik is particularly interested in how businesses will continue to foster trust in an industry such as fintech, where people will only use your products if they trust you.

Getting into the next piece on what’s hot and what’s not in the fintech space, Swastik continues to emphasize the need for trust, especially given that we’re in a recessionary period. He points out that people are becoming far more conservative with their money, and as this happens, they are becoming “less trusting of people they don’t know,” giving rise to the need for mitigating fraud and increasing trust in the system.

We delve into how the fintech ecosystem can benefit from transplanting use cases from emerging markets and how Winvesta has managed to increase speed, control, and transparency for both its retail and business customers. Our conversation also covers some predictions for the fintech space in 2023 and a new Tech product Swastik plans to build to automate task prioritization, complete with some self-adjustment capabilities.

Kieron is a jack of all trades with his interests in marketing and love of poetry so he built a creative consultancy on the power of words. His obsession with language and etymology drives him to inspire clients to build bridges with words. 

As a Performance Poet, Kieron shares his perspective on a piece questioning AIs ability to write Authentic Poetry and how “what it lacks is human experience to pick up the nuances” and “lacks the creative flair and creative soul.“

We discuss a piece on ChatGPT, the new AI tool marketers are going crazy about. where Kieron points out “it could help those that are neurodiverse or those who may struggle with language barriers and it could give them a better steer.”

Kieron thrills us with a live poetry performance with one of his own poems. Here’s a preview: “In blue flashing lights, I testify. I don't cry. I just write. Poetry provides comfort during troubling times.” 

No AI tool has brought us those goosebumps yet; take our word for it.

We continue to dive into the many inspiring projects Kieron has been part of as well as his current endeavour as Creative in Residence of the English National Opera. We also discover his dream Tech product, his least favourite use of Tech (hint: grocery stores), and finally, his big prediction for the Tech for Good space this year.

To follow Kieron's amazing work: https://www.kieronrennie.com

This week, we welcome Amy Carter-James and Ben Keene, Co-founders of Raaise, who share their mission to empower climate startups to create a better future for our planet. 

Raaise is a SaaS platform powering bold, game-changing climate startups to prepare for and execute a funding round with as little friction as possible so they can create climate solutions for a better, greener future. 

We start the episode with a piece from Verge on COP27. "It brings the world together around this conversation of how we solve the problem of climate change," Ben optimistically admits, "but from a marketplace perspective of scaling bold, bright ideas, it feels like we can't rely on COP and the Governments of the world."

Raaise was born from the devastation of one of the worst climate disasters to hit the southern hemisphere. It destroyed Ben and Amy's home, along with hundreds of others in Mozambique. They were forced to take action and started their journey by finding mission-driven founders with powerful ideas and helping them scale.

As we dive into our next piece by PR Week on ESG in businesses, Amy is quick to point out that "it's ridiculous that it's 2022, and ESG isn't hard coded into every corporation around the world It’s frustrating that people even consider cutting ESG when we are living in this climate era." 

Our conversation continues to explore how Ben and Amy showcase and support these amazing startups. We also find out what they think is the evilest application of Tech and big predictions about the Tech for Good space this year and beyond.

This week, we welcome Christian Hendriksen, Co-Founder and CEO at Rensair, who walks us through his pursuit to protect and enhance lives through proven clean air technology.

Christian is passionate about clean air as a human right. He creates new technologies with Rensair that help people around the world reduce their exposure to air pollution and tackle airborne diseases.

"There is a direct correlation, undoubtedly, between particulate matter levels in the air and your ability to concentrate," Christian explains, as we explore a piece on the importance of air purification.

We segue into the next piece by Vox that describes the concept of sick building syndrome and describes how the ventilation of our buildings causes illnesses. Christian emphasises that indoor ventilation "needs to be addressed, and we need to foster new building principles."

In the context of the Coronavirus pandemic, air purification has never been more important. Christian points out how "we focus on outdoor air quality so much but considering we spend the vast majority of our lives indoors, that's the area we need to focus on now." 
Our discussion continues to explore Christian's mission to provide clean air for every space: from hospitals and schools to restaurants and retail outlets. We also discovered his dream Tech product and big prediction for the Tech for Good space this year. 

In this week's episode, we welcome Reva McPollom, Founder & CEO of Lessonbee who shares her mission to transform K-12 health education and social emotional learning.

Reva’s innovation at Lessonbee provides culturally relevant health education that promotes mental and emotional well-being that serves as a catalyst to a healthier world for everyone.

"One of the issues historically with the SEL curriculum is that it doesn't include or represent the multi-dimensionality of diverse learners," Reva highlights as we explore a piece by Edweek on the difficulty to weave social emotional learning into academics.

We move on a piece by Edsurge that talks of demystifying social emotional learning. “SEL points to broader societal context and where we are as a society in our relationship with the truth,” Reva adds thoughtfully.

As someone who has navigated the US educational system in multiple ways, Reva describes it as a “system that has always just celebrated assimilation and performance, but hasn’t validated and affirmed my culture, my identity, my wants, my needs, and my struggles.”

Our conversation progresses into more insights into how Lessonbee is empowering and  activating the innate power of kids and teens. We also discover Reva’s dream Tech product and big prediction for the Tech for Good space this year. 

What better month to talk about the future? This week, we welcome Rohit Talwar, Founder and CEO of Fast Future, to discuss his passion: harnessing new ideas and driving innovation to future-proof society. 

Rohit's work at Fast Future specialises in the fields of future and foresight, delivering critical insights to help clients navigate disruption and understand the emerging landscape, so they can shape a better tomorrow.

"We're seeing in all sorts of fields of science that AI is far outstripping our ability to do anything with it,” Rohit observes, as we dive into a piece from Nature on how AI and robotics help us expand our predictive capacities.

We move on to a piece by Bloomberg on the lack of transparency in algorithms affecting AI, and Rohit points out that "we have to push back on all capitalist thinking at the moment if we want true transparency and true participation in society." 

Keen to gain his perspective on the constant and staggering advancement of Tech, we ask Rohit about a piece describing the opportunities this 'Exponential Age' has to create real change. Why haven’t we fully realized the potential of current Tech? "The reason has nothing to do with the Tech; it has to do with choices we've made as a society,” Rohit responds.

The conversation finally moves into a more human space, as we learn about Rohit's interest in creating a human future by putting people at the centre of his agenda. We also find out the evilest application of Tech he's seen and his big prediction for the Tech for Good space this year and beyond.

In this week's episode, we're joined by Cynthia Fortlage, Founder of CAF Services, who lets us in on her insight into creating safe spaces where all marginalised people experience a sense of belonging.

We start off by diving into a piece on emphasising and empowering the T in LGBTQ for transgender people in tech. Cynthia points out, "when we talk about trans, it's imperative to understand for organisations that those are three very different identities." What are those three identities? We discuss them in the episode.

The next piece by Rolling Stone lets us unpack the now-popular phrase 'women in Tech. Cynthia astutely remarks, "when we talk about women in Tech, why do we want to use language that is exclusion based rather than inclusion based?"

As an award-winning gender consultant, we get to learn Cynthia’s valuable insights into the ever-present disparity in the Tech workforce. Only "23% of the leadership are female-identifying within these Tech companies", she points out, as we dive into a piece on the 'mass exodus' of women at work during the pandemic. 

Cynthia's philosophy at CAF services is "acceptance without understanding." Through this unique view, she strives to help organisations at the intersection of human rights, sexuality, gender, and privilege to create intentional cultures where people feel they belong.  

As the episode continues to explore Cynthia's experience of gender, leadership, and corporate life, we also discover her dream tech product and big prediction for the Tech for Good space this year. 

To find out more about Cynthia and her work, check out her LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cfortlage, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cafservices/ and Website: Https://www.cynthiafortlage.com

This week, we welcome Robin Eriksson, CEO, and Co-founder of Cogo, who shares his passion for using technology and innovation to create sustainable change.

With his strong belief that creating sustainable cities is one of the most important issues we need to address, Robin co-founded Cogo, a platform that gathers shared rides for frictionless mobility and a better tomorrow.

We start the episode with Robin's perspective on a piece by Bloomberg on how it's time to treat e-bikes like vehicles, where he mentions how "If we look at on the environmental aspects, I think it's 1/5 of all emissions globally, every year comes from transport" so "biking is the most eco-friendly option out there."

"It's not top of mind yet; we've had cars for hundreds of years, and we've had buses and other vehicles for so long," he describes, "This is so new, and that takes time," Robin points out as we discuss a piece by The Atlantic about how e-bikes are still a scary unknown to the public. 

The Guardian's piece on moving things forward with building infrastructure for bikes introduced an interesting point from Robin on how "it all comes down to safety" and "if people on the bike feel safe, as it can be scary to be next to cars.”

While continuing to discover more about how Robin strives to achieve a more sustainable society, we also learn about his dream tech product and his big prediction about the tech for good space this year and beyond.

This week, we’re joined by Piotr Pisarz, Founder and CEO at Uncapped, who lets us in on his mission to empower founders who are changing the world.

As the economic downturn looms over us, we dive into one of Sifted pieces on what the recession means for European VC and how the trouble they might be facing is "mainly driven by a significant reduction in runway". "If you're a founder,” Piotr says, “you should really prepare to have a runway at least for the next 12 months."

We dive into the next piece on the common 'half-truths’ spoken in the startup ecosystem, such as exaggerating annual revenue. Piotr points out that "your job as a founder is to market your company and to position it in the best light possible, to appear bigger than you are and to scare off the competitors."

"I realised saying no is much more important than saying yes," Piotr admits as he shares his biggest takeaways as a founder/entrepreneur. “It's interesting because you want to help others, but it's very difficult to find time in a scalable way and you have to take care of yourself."

Piotr’s work at Uncapped is funding the next generation of entrepreneurs, driven by the resolve that they shouldn’t have to give away ownership of their company to support growth. Uncapped provide no-security and no-equity investments from £100k - £10 million.

The episode continues to explore Uncapped, a company born out of Piotr’s frustration with the less-than-ideal funding options currently available to entrepreneurs. We also find out his dream tech product and Uncapped’s big prediction for the Tech-for-good space this year. 

• To find out more Piotr’s work at Uncapped: http://bit.ly/3X9JTl6