Tech Society

Tech Society is introducing a limited series that looks into the challenge of leading people and organisations. Over the next three episodes of Tech Society, we will be speaking with three influencial practitioners whose experience demonstrates that they know what makes a good leader, and have practiced what they preach.

First in our series is Sam Walsh AO; businessman, public speaker, company director and former CEO of resource company Rio Tinto from 2013 to 2016. He now spends his time supporting his interests in the business and not-for-profit. In 2010, he was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia for his work in the mining industry and establishing employment programs for Indigenous Australians.

In this episode, hosts Alex and John ask Sam about his experience in leading a multinational company and the importance of delivering value to your employees, your stakeholders, and your shareholders… and the types of decisions a leader has to make that happen.

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In this episode of Tech Society, hosts Alex and John have a chat with Greg Barnes, company director and corporate consultant, specialising in building high performing leadership teams. Greg has lived many lives, from corporate boardrooms around the world to the deck of Australia II winning the America’s Cup in 1983.

He shares is views on strategic planning, leveraging cultural differences in adopting business best practice, and how to identify qualities that promotes a healthy team environment.

Greg is an author of the book “The Genie Within; Conversations with My Son Callum”, written to share the lessons learned from being involved with World Champion sporting and corporate teams.

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▸Greg Barnes:
https://au.linkedin.com/in/gbarnes2

▸Book: https://www.amazon.com/GENIE-WITHIN-Converstaion-Son-Callum/dp/B001DFAGM8

▸Tech Society 054 - Leading in WA: The Next Normal with Professor Gary Martin: https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/54-leading-in-wa-the-next-normal-with-gary-martin

▸Tech Society 026 - Leading Leaders - The Corporate Playbook with Rupen Kotecha: https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/leading-leaders-the-corporate-playbook

▸Tech Society 013 - The Role of Modern Leaders with Sarab Singh:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/the-role-of-modern-leaders

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Welcome to Holy War, Tech Society's new show where we talk about the latest and greatest in the tech world today. In our first Holy War, we talk about the good and bad about Bitcoin and crypto, with Neal Cross and Dr. Gov Van Ek.

In this episode of Tech Society, hosts Alex and John from Ninja Software are joined by our friends from digital marketing company Alyka (Bernard Chia and Zion Ong) to break down some more digital marketing barriers. This is an in-depth follow-up to our Marketing Buzzwords episode - our listenters can’t get enough!

With data driven insights being the backbone of digital marketing in 2021, we had to ask: What is it? What can we use data to improve our marketing? What insights can it give us? How do we do it? What are the latest trends? How does all these insights affect my sales funnel? Is the sales funnel dead?

I know that you are asking the same questions. Let’s learn together.

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▸Alyka:
https://www.alyka.com.au/

▸Tech Society 087 - Marketing Buzzwords with Bernard Chia and Zion Ong:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/87-buzzwords-3

▸Tech Society 055 - Building Businesses People Adore with Tim Duggan:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/55-building-businesses-people-adore

▸Tech Society 037 - Successful Ventures Think Like The Buyer with Greg Riebe:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/37-successful-ventures-think-like-the-buyer

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And we are back with one of our favourite series, demystifying more common buzzwords that fly around the business world.

As we emerge from the uncertain times of 2020 (and the first part of 2021), this is the perfect opportunity to review marketing strategies and take advantage of the new techniques and tools being used by those with the gift of the gab.

On this episode of Tech Society, Ninja Software’s Alex and John are joined by digital marketing gurus Bernard Chia and Zion Ong from Alyka to tackle some of the confusing language spoken by marketers.

Terms:
TOFU = top of funnel
MOFU = Middle of the funnel
Multi channel marketing
Attribution Modelling
Segmented Remarketing
Programmatic advertising
Affirmiral marketing
AMP = Accelerated mobile pages
Inbound Marketing
Alyka:
https://www.alyka.com.au/

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Tech Society Buzzwords Series:
▸#2 Business [068] - https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/68-buzzwords-2-business
▸#1 Tech [061] - https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/61-buzzwords-tech-1

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rom a young age, we Australians are taught the importance of sport in our lives; for health, for fitness and for lifestyle, the importance of sport for minds young and old is undisputed. But sport also teaches us other skills that are important in this modern economy: teamwork, collaboration, communication… and most important of all, persistence.

In this episode of Tech Society, Alex and John from Ninja Software speak with Nick Marvin, management consultant, public speaker and author, who specialises in organisational transformation through performing teams. For over a decade, Nick was involved at the highest echelons of Australian sport, with leadership positions with organisations undergoing changes at the advent of professional era of sports.

Nick speaks about personal development, the future of on-demand sports, human potential, the benefit of teams, and what it takes to be at the top of your game. To share this idea to the young (and young of heart), he has published a book imparting the lessons he has learned to the next generation.

Book excerpt: “Thomas did not have the talent or the athletic ability to make his high school basketball team. Instead he was relegated to being the water-boy. But that did not deter him from being the best at his job.
When training was done, and the players had long gone, Thomas stayed back and practised alone, trying to get better every day.
Read about his journey in this heart-warming tale of a young boy’s determination to beat the odds.”

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▸Nick Marvin:
https://au.linkedin.com/in/nickmarvin

▸Book: “Effort”:
https://marvin.in/effort/

▸AIM WA talk “Inspirational Leadership” breakfast series talk with Nick Marvin
https://soundcloud.com/user-881272748/breakfast-27062017-nick-marvin

▸Tech Society 055 - Building Businesses People Adore with Tim Duggan:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/55-building-businesses-people-adore

▸Tech Society 044 - Building a Business Legacy with Dinesh Aggarwal:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/44-building-a-business-legacy

▸Tech Society 012 - Gen Z: Purposeful or Entitled? with Elizabeth Knight:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/gen-z-purposeful-or-entitled

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Conventional wisdom says that you have to be close to the action to best leverage success, so when you are looking towards Silicon Valley for inspiration, venture capital and talent, should you pack your bags? On this episode of Tech Society, Alex and John from Ninja Software speak with David Cannington, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer for product company Nuheara - the developers and creators of multi-functional hearing devices.

In the episode, David talks about the Silicon Valley Mentality, the importance of building a great team, and what it is like to set up a company in the most isolated city in the world. He also describes how his product IQBuds is helping thousands of people with hearing difficulties.

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▸David Cannington:
https://au.linkedin.com/in/davidcannington

▸Nuheara:
https://www.nuheara.com/

▸Nuheara Review by Unbox Therapy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcnzA1WUI8Q

▸Tech Society 082 - Startup-Land with Glenn Butcher:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/82-startup-land

▸Tech Society 059 - Western Australia: Extreme Isolation, Extreme Innovation with Stephen Scourfield:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/59-western-australia-extreme-isolation-extreme-innovation

▸Tech Society 017 - Startups - Lessons Learnt! with Marcus Holmes:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/startups-lessons-learnt

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What is this? A mailbag episode? Why not? Alex and John from Ninja Software answer some basic questions about what they do best - make software. What to do, where to go, what to look out for, that sort of thing.

For more information about Ninja Software, visit https://njs.dev

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Tech Society Recap Episodes:
▸Ep 50 Halfway to a Hundred - https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/50-halfway-to-a-hundred

▸Ep 60 The Amazong Ten Episode Recap #3 - https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/60-the-amazing-ten-episode-recap

▸Ep 70 Tech News and Recep Episode #4 - https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/80-tech-news-and-recap-episode-4

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This episode of Tech Society has Alex and John speak with entrepreneur and investor Derek Gerrard who talks about his involvement with venture capital, especially through Better Labs Ventures - set up by local WA insurance provider RAC to invest in new ideas emerging from Western Australia.

Derek shares his views on work-life balance, entrepreneurial attitudes and the essential values he looks at when providing funding or capitals to startups. This episode is the ultimate crash course for those seeking venture capital for their business ideas.

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▸Derek Gerrard:
https://au.linkedin.com/in/derekgerrard

▸Purpose Ventures:
https://www.purpose.ventures/

▸Better Labs Ventures:
https://www.betterlabsventures.com.au/

▸Tech Society 057 - West Tech Fest, VC Deal Flow and Perth vs. Silicon Valley with Larry Lopez:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/57-west-tech-fest-vc-deal-flow-perth-vs-silicon-valley

▸Tech Society 035 - Entrepreneurial Accounting: Essential Funding Strategies for Startups with Jeremy Wolf:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/35-entrepreneurial-accounting-essential-funding-strategies-for-startups

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On this episode of Tech Society, hosts Alex and John speak with neuroscientist and education advocate Lyn Beazely. She speaks about her unique journey from medical reseacher and respected scientist to advising the Western Australian Government in all science matters as Chief Scientist from 2006 to 2013.

She also speaks about the challenges working with decision makers while maintaining impartiality, the benefits of exposing young people to science early, the importance of TAFE colleges and a slight obsession with cricket.

“It’s not how smart you are, it’s how you’re smart - and everyone is smart at something…”

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▸Prof. Lyn Beazley AO:
https://www.science.org.au/profile/ly...

▸Video: Lyn Beazley Profile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pERzr...

▸Dolphin Watch:
https://www.riverguardians.com/projec...

▸Curtin University’s Autism Academy:
https://research.curtin.edu.au/projec...

▸Tech Society 051: Rethinking Education for the Future of Work with Eqan McIntosh:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/5...

▸Tech Scoiety 043: University Research - a Pathway to Impact! with Paul Nicholls:
https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/4...

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