Tech Talk

The team from Digital News Asia talked about 'IDC’s Digital Transformation Awards recognises disruptors, innovators','Cradle’s CIP300 grant is more than free money', 'Gartner: Living in the age of AI','Weraku Games: From zero to hero' and 'MWC 2017: ZTE gets serious about IoT'. Furthermore, the team also discussed 'Magnus Games’ Re: Legend strives to be legendary', 'GTC 2017: Using VR to design buildings','Week in Review: A very human trait, our best defence against the machines',''Patient capital' investor, MTDC turns 25', 'Michael Widjaja wants to nourish talent pool to power Indonesia’s digital ambitions','#mydigitalmaker gathers momentum in efforts to create nation of digital producers' and 'Mampu drives software testing to raise public sector IT quality'.

0:38 - IDC’s Digital Transformation Awards Recognises Disruptors, Innovators

3:32 - Cradle’s CIP300 Grant Is More Than Free Money

5:27 - Week In Review: A Very Human Trait, Our Best Defence Against The Machines

13:25 - Gartner: Living In The Age Of AI

15:34 - Weraku Games: From Zero To Hero

18:38 - MWC 2017: ZTE Gets Serious About IoT

20:25 - 'Patient Capital' Investor, MTDC Turns 25

24:23 - Michael Widjaja Wants To Nourish Talent Pool To Power Indonesia’s Digital Ambitions

27:57 - GTC 2017: Using VR To Design Buildings

30:33 - Magnus Games’ Re: Legend Strives To Be Legendary

32:26 - Mampu Drives Software Testing To Raise Public Sector IT Quality

33:50 - #mydigitalmaker Gathers Momentum In Efforts To Create Nation Of Digital Producers

39:27 - Legal Tech At The Forefront

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In this episode, the Geeks go down memory lane to look back at the year of 2017. A year led by Trump and Fake News, although some are still wishing the former is part of the latter. We give out awards on today’s show ranging from suicidal robots to how apple has ripped us off with their over-hyped products.

1:11 - Most Important Story Of 2017 / Serious Of The Year

9:20 - Favourite Geek Movie / TV Show / Podcast / Book

19:00 - King Of The Crowd Of The Year

21:37 - Favourite Story Of 2017 / Weird Of The Year

26:47 - Down In The Dumps Of The Year

31:21 - Most Over-Hyped Story Of 2017 / Fail Of The Year

38:17 - Geek Of The Year!

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Funding is at top of most startup’s list of headaches and worries. Keeping the lights on while growing the business and getting customers can be a painful task. Giving up though is not an option to be a successful entrepreneur. While there are many government agencies that have been established to help startups but not all are awarded the options to provide financial aid to startups and entrepreneurs. The Malaysian Technology Development Corp or MTDC is a company wholly owned by Khazanah Nasional Berhad and is in the business of Fund Management, Incubation, Advisory and Nurturing Services. Seems like the core needs for many entrepreneurs out there. We speak to Haji Mohammad Hazani, MTDC Director Technology Ventures Division about how they’re empowering the next generation of technopreneurs in the country.

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Cathay Pacific, the international airline based in Hong Kong, planned to re-architect its website and booking engine infrastructure that would allow them to automate current infrastructure, application deployment and scale. Using AWS and DevOps, their software development process is now 67% faster. We speak to Lawrence Fong, General Manager IT Solutions for Cathay Pacific about their journey in the AWS Cloud infrastructure.

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We take a look back at some of the biggest announcements throughout the year and what made 2017 a year to remember. But of course, we also take a quick peek into the crystal ball and look forward to some of the exciting beginnings in 2018.

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At the recent AWS Re:Invent 2017, AI got its biggest push on the cloud. With services like AWS Translate, AWS Transcribe and AWS Comprehend, Artificial Intelligence has become a lot more accessible to developers around the world. We speak to Dr Matt Wood, the GM of Artificial Intelligence at AWS about how these services work and what does this mean to all of us.

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On this episode, the geeks talk about 'Oumuamua’ the mysterious space object, slowing down ageing batteries of older iPhones, Alibaba selling cars in gigantic vending machines, the discovery of self-healing glass, and Facebook’s new facial recognition features.

0:28 - Oumuamua Probably Isn't A Spaceship- But It Could Have Passengers

6:11 - Apple Admits Slowing Older IPhones Because Of Ageing Batteries

12:50 - Alibaba Will Soon Begin Selling Cars Using These Gigantic Vending Machines

15:59 - End Of The Smashed Phone Screen? Self-healing Glass Discovered By Accident

19:20 - Facebook Wants Your Face And You'll Probably Let Them Have It

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For part 1 of this podcast, click the following link:
https://www.bfm.my/ent-tt-mattsplained-things-ive-learned-in-2017-part-1-matt-armitage-kulturpop

Last week we heard about the things that made Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage sad in 2017. This week he’s promised we’ll all be happy. It’s part 2 of 2017, Mattsplained.

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It began with antiquity, myths and stories that artificial beings endowed with intelligence by master craftsmen, and was a theory of “an ancient wish to forge the gods”. Looking in today’s era, we see it emerging rapidly in different sectors of the business world and it brings the undeniable doubt of whether or not, we humans are going to be replaced? Traditional methods and the modern “AI” methods are being weighed, and we clearly see the weight being born on AI. Today we have Julian Quinn who is the RVP of Qlik who is going to talk to us about artificial intelligence and the emergence of it.

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One of the largest collections of archeology and palaeontology, which includes bone fossils and tools human ancestors used to prepare food and defend themselves, is being captured in 3D digital imagery by the National Museums of Kenya. Jeff Sandhu speaks to Frank Heitmann, the President of Digital Divide Data, on how this project came to life and how they are empowering the underprivileged people in places like Kenya through the power of AWS and Dr Fredrick Kyalo, Senior Research Scientist at National Museums of Kenya, on why this was an important step to preserve the past for our future.

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