Tech Reimagined

An entrepreneur's life is never dull and offers its specific benefits. Yet without proper support and a safe place to discuss challenges, it can quickly become a lonely and sometimes difficult space. In today's episode, Kelly Baynes, founder of the Nurture Network and the Lemon Quarters shares the story behind a community that impacts the lives of 700 women in business. Tune in to hear the full story.

With under 10% of women occupying top leadership positions across the globe, women's underrepresentation is STILL a pressing issue. In this #IWD episode Helena Nimmo, Endava's CIO, and Bradley Howard dive into some of the aspects that influence gender diversity in the workplace and offer valuable insights on how leadership groups can promote the advancement and equal opportunities for women in their organizations. They also shed light on mentorship projects and highlight the benefits of mentorship for both mentors and mentees. Tune in to learn more about what can be done to support and empower women in STEM.

In our 100th episode, Helen Pownall and Bradley Howard discuss the reasons behind the underrepresentation of women in tech, and they shed light on how organisations and individuals can improve gender diversity. They touch upon the importance of creating an inclusive workplace culture that values diversity and provides equal opportunities for everyone. Helen also shares some practical tips for companies to attract and retain more women in tech roles, such as providing mentorship and sponsorship programs.

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In this last episode of the Digital Next aviation special series, Roshina Nandra, PhD - Product Development Executive and Innovation Strategist and Justin Marcucci - Chief Digital Officer at Endava explore practical ways to modernize legacy systems without pressing pause on day-to-day operations. Discover how airlines can rise above difficulties, make the most of their underutilized data, and, ultimately, accelerate digital strategies.

As 'digital travellers' demand more control over their purchase journey and seamless transactions, this episode will explore the need for airlines to not only modernize its technology but make fundamental changes to transactional assumptions with digital models.

Scott Harkey, EVP Financial Services and Payments, Endava, will also discuss how airline payments processes can accelerate digital strategies and bridge the gaps to achieving frictionless experiences; from subscription models to loyalty programs, cashless transactions and more.

In the first part of Digital Next Aviation Podcast our colleagues Roshina Nandra, PhD - Product Development Executive and Brian Estep, Global Head of Mobility, Endava as they explore how aviation can learn from adjacent industries to realize the future of Mobility as a Service, including logistics, banking and capital markets, retail, insurance and more.

Tune in and delve into how airlines can both learn best practices from sectors that are more digitally mature, but also how they can partner with them to sell their services and generate new revenue possibilities.

In this week's podcast episode, we'll explore the entrepreneurial spirit and the challenges of starting your own business. Kelly Baynes, owner and co-founder of The Lemon Quarters and Nurture Network, discusses her favourite projects and shares her advice on how to succeed in starting your own business.

I think as people, as business professionals, we often let perfection be the enemy. I think nothing's really more important than getting your ideas out there in front of the people who will be your potential customers, people who don't know you, basically, people who aren't family and genetically predisposed to be kind to you.

I think there's a tech mantra, is it fail, fail quickly, fail better. It comes from a Samuel Beckett quote, but reality really is that best teacher. We learn so much more from our mistakes, or the things that we don't do well, or the things we can improve on much more than any success we might have. Really, how can you improve if you don't start? Tune in to find out more and join the conversation @Endava on LinkedIn!

Thomas Bedenk, Endava's VP of Extended Reality, has joined us again on the Tech Reimagined Podcast for what turned out to be a very insightful conversation on the metaverse and its opportunities for businesses in the years to come. He believes the public's growing appetite for virtual reality experiences that feed into the metaverse is mostly driven by the growth of the gaming industry and the increasing use of games as a social and exchange medium.

However, it's essential to distinguish the metaverse from the games industry and gaming as a whole. Virtual items in these games have a real economy, and virtual items can be as real as physical items to those who own and use them in the metaverse, which has the potential to transform business models and how companies interact with customers. How exactly? Find out in this episode and share your opinion @Endava on Linkedin.

Innovation is a strategic game with long-term results. To play it right, one must ask the right questions, and create the proper context and space to help people thrive. Join Bradley and Eoin Woods this week as they discuss a subject very important to him and Endava – innovation in technology. Delve a bit into how we foster innovation within our teams and what it means for everyone involved.

Bradley Howard: Eoin, today I really want to talk about how to incubate innovation. So what are the essential preconditions for novelty of cultures within organizations?

Eoin Woods: Thanks Bradley. It's a complicated question, isn't it? Because so many people talk about innovation and so many people say they've delivered innovation and yet sometimes it's quite hard to know what they mean. For me, innovation is, I think what you said in the introduction is real impactful change to the way the organizations either work or deliver the services or the products that they create. I think the most essential precondition for innovation within an organization is an acceptance of failure. I hear quite a lot of, we sometimes even get this with our clients who are, hear quite a lot of organizations talking about the need for innovation and how they want to innovate and then when they start talking to people about let's start doing some innovation they say, " How long will it take? How much will it cost, and what will I get?" And I always look at them slightly confused.

Well if it's innovation you won't know any of those things in the beginning. I'm afraid that's just development or business development or whatever it is. I think taking risks, I think being prepared to learn from failures and doing failures is a positive thing, which is much easier said than done especially when it's your money you're spending. I really do feel for senior managers who just feel that they're abandoning money to a black hole but they do have to let go and just see what happens. And I think the other precondition is the fact that innovation is actually done in the business.

The biggest anti pattern I see in innovation is a separate innovation center. You can always tell innovation centers because the people dress differently and they have totally non- standard IT hardware. If the organization is a window center, they will inevitably have max. If the main organization is a max center, they will inevitably have Linux machines and they go off and innovate in a bubble and then when they try and come back and apply that innovation, the organization kind of rejects the organism because it just doesn't fit with the way the organization works and its real needs.

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Join us and Endava's VP of Extended Reality, Thomas Bedenk, in this very first episode of 2023, where he highlights the recent advancements in virtual and extended reality, like AI-trained conversational models such as chatGPT. While chatbots have been around for decades, only recently have they become more prevalent with advancements in AI and language models. He believes that these advancements have the potential to revolutionize the way virtual worlds, user-generated content and large productions are created.

Thomas also raises ethical concerns, such as the potential for confusion between human and AI interactions in virtual reality, issues of identity, and copyright. He emphasizes that organizations must consider how they want to approach and adapt to this rapidly advancing technology. Have a listen and let us know your opinion @Endava on Linkedin.