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The tech industry is facing a paradox as we hear of a global tech skills shortage on the one hand and big tech layoffs on the other due to economic uncertainty. In this podcast, Andrew Hogan joins me on Tech Talks Daily to discuss the impact of these trends on design hiring and what the recent Design Hiring report by Figma has to say about it.

Andrew is a thought leader in the field of Design and UX with over 50 published Forrester reports and is recognized by leading publications such as Fast Company, WSJ, Forbes, and Business Insider. He also provides expertise in creating training modules for CX certification, including journey mapping and the integration of data/AI and Design.

So, how is the paradox of tech hiring impacting Design hiring in particular? The Design Hiring report provides valuable insights into the current state and future prospects of the design industry. From the report, we can see that despite the economic uncertainty, the demand for design talent is increasing. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity for designers and design teams looking for work or looking to hire.

I learn how the tech industry may be facing conflicting trends, but the design industry continues to thrive. With the help of innovative solutions like Figma, design teams can navigate the challenges and seize the opportunities presented by the current job market. Keep an eye out for the Design Hiring report for a more in-depth understanding of the design industry and its future prospects.

About Figma

Figma, a design platform for teams building products together, offers a solution to streamline the design process and make it more efficient, fun, and collaborative. Whether it's consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or working with teams across time zones, Figma ensures everyone is on the same page.

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Abnormal Security is revolutionizing cloud email security with its behavioral AI-based platform. Using machine learning, the platform detects and stops sophisticated inbound email attacks and dangerous email platform attacks that traditional solutions often miss. The anomaly detection engine analyzes the risk of every cloud email event, preventing inbound email attacks, detecting compromised accounts, and remediating emails in milliseconds, all while providing visibility into configuration drifts across your environment.

The company has recently launched Security Posture Management, a product that monitors each entity for potentially risky configuration changes. This includes changes like the escalation of administrator privileges or the integration of new unverified applications with read-write access to mailboxes. When changes occur, Security Posture Management alerts administrators so they can understand the impact and take appropriate downstream action to protect their cloud email platform from insider threats or attacker infiltration.

CISO at Abnormal Security, Mike Britton, shares the company's mission to redefine cloud email security and protect against email platform attacks. Mike shares why he belives that with Abnormal Security, organizations can have peace of mind knowing their cloud email platform is protected from sophisticated attacks.

Uniphore, a privately held startup company, recently achieved the coveted status of a "unicorn" by raising $400 million, giving it a valuation of $2.5 billion. The company, which made its name in conversational AI, is revolutionizing the way contact center agents have conversations by harnessing the power of machine learning.

Imagine this scenario: A customer calls to request internet installation at their new apartment. With the help of Uniphore's AI technology, the agent can automatically scan the system to find out what modem the customer currently has, what technology is already installed at the new property, and when an installation technician is available. This means the call is resolved quickly and efficiently without needing multiple back-and-forth exchanges.

The AI can also automatically log follow-up actions, freeing up the agent to move on to the next call. But Uniphore's innovation continues beyond there. The company has expanded its business into "emotion AI" - a subset of AI that can gauge human emotions during sales calls.

This allows for feedback to be provided to sellers and pitchers, highlighting the most engaging parts of the pitch and points of concern that need to be addressed to close the deal. Umesh Sachdev, CEO & Co-Founder of Uniphore, is the mastermind behind this revolutionary technology. In this podcast episode, he shares the story behind the company and its exciting journey into the world of AI.

In this episode, I sit down with Halit Develioglu, the CEO of OPLOG, Turkey's leading e-logistics company. OPLOG recently raised €11mn in a pre-series A funding round, which will fuel the company's expansion, most notably into the UK.

OPLOG was founded in 2012 and has grown exponentially over the years. The company has topped the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Turkey, having experienced 4564% growth and graduated from the Microsoft for Startups GrowthX Accelerator. OPLOG has also experienced 91% YoY growth in units fulfilled, in contrast to the wider e-commerce slowdown post-pandemic.

Ultimately, it enables brands to streamline and optimize their post-purchase fulfillment operations. The company's user-friendly management platform provides brands with an end-to-end fulfillment service that eliminates the operational costs and challenges needed to develop their shipping infrastructure.

The company's proprietary robotics technology is helping to solve global supply chain issues by streamlining fulfillment operations. OPLOG's CEO, Halit Develioglu, shares with me their mission to solve the supply chain crisis using technology. I learn more about the company's plan to open a new fulfillment warehouse in the UK in 2023, employing over 100 people within its first 18 months of operation.

Halit shares with me how the company's proprietary robotics technology is helping to streamline fulfillment operations globally. Join us as we delve into the importance of innovation in the face of the ongoing supply chain crisis and the challenges businesses face with shipping and fulfillment delays.

Sean Moss-Pultz is recognized as an open-source hardware pioneer, having founded and served as CEO of Openmoko, the world's first open-source phone and precursor to the iPhone and Android smartphones. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bitmark, a blockchain startup that aims to bring traditional property rights into the digital age by providing tools that enable anyone to affirm ownership and control digital assets they create and post online.

They've raised $10.3M in funding from investors, including Alibaba and Kevin Lin (Co-Founder of Twitch), and their clients included Pfizer, UC Berkeley, Health2Sync, and KKBOX. One of their products is Autonomy, the world's first and only digital art wallet that allows traders to showcase their NFT collection and view it on any screen, TV, or projector, anywhere.

Property rights were invented for land (real property) and then ideas (intellectual property), but none extend to the digital world. Because of this oversight, millions of us give away what we create online and our personal data for free to entities that profit from it every day, and we don't get a cut because we don't own it. Bitmark intends to change that.

Sean joins me on Tech Talks Daily to discuss defining property in the digital environment and how we can secure personal data in an age when it has become fully commoditized. We also discuss whether the new digital economy will stay or go bust, and Sean shares his thoughts on the current state of the NFT market and the future of NFTs.

Martin Ramsin, a tech prodigy from Stockholm, has always been passionate about computers. From a young age, he knew he wanted to make a difference in the tech industry. His first job as a programming intern took him to San Francisco during the height of the internet bubble, where he learned valuable lessons about the industry. After moving to Berlin, Martin honed his skills in product management and decided to return to his roots in web development, teaching himself the latest technologies like Ruby on Rails.

Together with Raffaela, Martin co-founded CareerFoundry, an online tech school that empowers individuals to reach their full potential through education and training. They recognized the increasing skills gap in the tech industry and wanted to make a difference.

On Tech Talks Daily, Martin shares the story behind CareerFoundry and how it's addressing the skills gap by preparing individuals for the future. He also delves into how remote working is leveling the playing field for talent in developing nations and how online tech academies can open up new job opportunities.

Martin also explains why online tech schools offer better career prospects at a more affordable price and how flexible learning is working towards closing diversity gaps. He also discusses the link between reskilling and recessions and how the 2008 recession gave rise to the first tech Bootcamp, as macroeconomic headwinds forced workers to adapt.

Lastly, Martin explains the difference between upskilling and reskilling, with 54% of CareerFoundry students having zero experience in the field of their course.

Ahmed Ismail, a seasoned investment banker and tech-driven entrepreneur with 18 years of experience at major financial institutions such as Bank of America, Credit Suisse, and Jefferies, is now the CEO and President of FLUID, a liquidity aggregator that uses AI quant-based models to tackle fragmented liquidity in virtual asset markets.

In today's episode of Tech Talks Daily, Ahmed discusses how AI can change the decentralized ledger and explains the benefits of using AI in the crypto market. We also talks about how liquidity aggregators could help manage market participants get through Black Swan events and the growing number of tech talent migrating to Web3.

About Fluid:

FLUID is the AI quant-based liquidity aggregator providing execution for CeFi and DeFi at high throughput, ultra-low costs, ultra-low latency, and zero counterparty risk. Many physical and digital assets will be tokenized in the future. FLUID intends to capitalize on the multi-trillion dollar tokenized market volume potential across spot, futures, derivatives, synthetics, STOs, tokenized assets and more.

FLUID is driven by a seasoned senior team with diversified experience in tier one financial institutions such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, Citibank, Visa, and founders of leading regulated digital asset OTC trading desks, quantitative firms, and popular blockchain companies.

Intel's Responsible AI work recently revealed FakeCatcher, a deepfake detection technology that can detect fake videos with 96% accuracy. The platform is the world's first real-time deepfake detector that returns results in milliseconds.

FakeCatcher uses Intel's hardware and software to assess "blood flow" signals in real videos to detect inauthenticity. The technology can run up to 72 different detection streams simultaneously on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Social media platforms can use this technology to prevent the spread of deepfakes, global news organizations to avoid amplifying manipulated videos, and non-profit organizations to democratize the detection of deepfakes for everyone.

Intel also recently announced its extended collaboration with Mila, an AI research institute in Montreal, to help advance AI techniques to tackle global challenges like climate change, identify drivers of diseases, and expedite drug discovery.

Accelerating the research and development of advanced AI to solve some of the world's most critical and challenging issues requires a responsible approach to AI and the ability to scale computing technology. As leaders in computing and AI, Intel and Mila will work together to tackle some of the challenges the world faces today and drive tangible results.

Lama Nachman, Intel Fellow and Director of Intelligent Systems Research Lab at Intel Labs, joins me on Tech talks Daily in a discussion about Responsible AI and the real-time deepfake detector.

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Are you tired of feeling trapped in the traditional 9-5 workday? Meet Peter Johnston, the founder of Polywork, the revolutionary professional network for multi-hyphenates. With $44.5M in funding from top investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Polywork is changing the game for those looking to pursue multiple passions and collaborate with like-minded individuals.

Join me as I speak with Peter about his own journey from product designer to CEO, the inspiration behind Polywork, and why traditional online communities like LinkedIn fall short for those looking to explore multiple career paths. Plus, Peter offers valuable advice for those ready to take the leap and start their side hustle or passion project. Don't miss out on this exciting episode of Tech Talks Daily.

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CISA recently announced critical guidance on threats against organizations using certain forms of multi-factor authentication. The agency urged all organizations to implement phishing-resistant MFA controls in order to prevent phishing and increasingly automated and sophisticated attacks on authentication processes.

With so many phishing attacks targeting credentials to be used in a later campaign, more organizations are getting the hint that they need to have MFA in place for at least those users with access to critical resources and/or valuable data, if not everyone. However, what happens when the threat actor has the credentials but doesn't have the additional forms of authentication?

I invited Sally Vincent, Threat Research Senior Engineer at LogRhythm to join me on Tech Talks Daily. Listen in as we discuss how organizations can identify unusual authentication activity and explore mitigation strategies to stay ahead of phishing attacks.

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