Tech Talk

Everyone’s talking about AI, but few are talking about how to lead through it. We speak with Joe Atkinson, the newly appointed Global Chief AI Officer at PwC, about what it really takes for businesses to adopt AI responsibly and effectively.

Fresh off PwC’s AI Leadership Conference, Joe shares insights on the ground-level realities companies are facing, from FOMO in the boardroom to the infrastructure and trust gaps that can derail even the most ambitious AI strategies. We also explore PwC’s billion-dollar partnership with Microsoft and OpenAI, the risks of moving too fast, and why the future of work isn’t about replacing people, but empowering them.

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Every generation has its thing. Artisan toast. Screaming for the manager. Existential crises in the organic food aisle. For Gen X it’s simpler. The world is simply a place to skate through and be cool.

Despite this inherent cultural superiority, media reports suggest they’re also the most invisible and the most cursed of modern generations. Rich and Matt, card carrying members of the Gen X Greying Massive, tilt their baseball caps and peer over their indoor sunglasses to weigh the imponderable depth of their suffering, the soul-healing power of sliced bread and throw in some stuff about technology, too.

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Everyone’s racing to adopt AI, but what if your systems can’t keep up?

In this episode of Tech Talk, we speak with Tammy Tan, Country Manager at Red Hat Malaysia, about the infrastructure gap that’s holding many businesses back. They explore why cloud alone isn’t enough, how virtualization and hybrid cloud can help, and what companies need to get right before scaling AI.

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If you’ve ever wanted to create images of your cat in front of the seven wonders of the world, or create sonnets that would make Shakespeare blush, there has never been a better time to be alive. Cheap, accessible AI tools are changing our relationships with information, facts and content generation.

But today we look at a much more basic question. What if this earth shattering technology isn’t earth shattering at all? What if the AI we fear losing our jobs to is all a bit mid?

Today, Rich Bradbury and Matt Armitage pose the most explosive question of all and ask: AI, ya basic?

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A Microsoft employee recently tweeted a cheeky dig at Windows, and instead of getting fired, he got attention. Ten years ago, that would’ve been unthinkable. But in today’s tech world, self-deprecating humour, platform agnosticism, and even public criticism are no longer career-ending moves. They’re part of the culture.

In this episode of Tech Talk, Rich Bradbury speaks with Matt Armitage from Kulturpop about what this moment reveals about Microsoft’s evolution, and what it says about Big Tech more broadly. Have we moved past the age of tech evangelism? Are meme-literate CEOs and collaborative platforms the new normal? And how are companies navigating the thin line between transparency and chaos?

This is a conversation about brand reinvention, employee voice, and why the ability to laugh, even at yourself, might just be Big Tech’s new superpower.

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Could AI be the bottleneck that leads to the end of humanity? With more than 8 billion of us on the planet, even the world’s greatest doomsayers, Rich Bradbury and Matt Armitage have their doubts. If it loses interest before it finishes a book report, how is AI going to hunt us all down and murder us?

However, along the way they discover that 6.66 is the multiplier of the beast, at least when it comes to AI. And they try to solve an age old pickle: how many Bransons are there in a Grok?

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Richard Bradbury and Matt Armitage are shooting off to the stars to meet their new friend Mackenzie, aka exoplanet K2-18b. Does alien life exist somewhere within Mackenzie’s deep dark eyes – erm - oceans? Or is it hopeful hyperbole in an increasingly hopeless world?

They also take a tour of Revivification, a musical exhibition that blurs the lines between automation and creativity, which uses laboratory grown stem cells of deceased composer Alvin Lucier to create an ever-morphing soundtrack. And they round it off with a tirade from Richard concerning the ills and evils of the young.

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AI is changing how ads are planned, targeted, and measured — far beyond just creating content or automating tasks. In this episode, we explore how AI is helping brands connect with people in smarter, more privacy-conscious ways, especially as the industry moves away from third-party cookies. From contextual advertising to campaign optimisation, we cover what’s working, what’s often overlooked, and where AI is taking the industry next with insights from Niall Hogan, General Manager for Asia Pacific at GumGum.

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It’s a smorgasbord of sorcery in the latest Weird Science. Richard Bradbury and Matt Armitage strain to hear the sound of ultrasonic waves making private communications possible in public places.

Matt celebrates Tokyo’s attempts to make shared spaces less social. Or something. While Richard is trapped in a potentially demonic ASMR playlist, as Matt warps time with a treadmill.

This ball of confusion starts to make more sense once they get onto the subject of DNA to wonder if our source code is up for grabs to the highest bidder.

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In this episode of Tech Talk, Josh Gier, Chief Marketing Officer of Coliseum, a Kraken-backed competitive gaming platform, join us to explore the economic impact of grassroots gaming in Malaysia, the country's growing role as a high-growth esports hub, and how the RM20 million government investment is shaping the future of competitive gaming. We also discuss how the grassroots-to-pro pipeline is developing local talent as well as creating new job and business opportunities across the region.

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