Tech Talks Daily

Tomer Afek is the CEO and Co-founder of Spacemesh, a fairly-mined programmable cryptocurrency platform powered by a novel proof-of-space-time (PoST) consensus protocol. Spacemesh is free open-source software that aims to become a core Internet protocol for blockchain computation.

Previously, Tomer has more than 20 years of experience across the tech, digital, and finance industries. Tomer also spent seven years as an Investor at Evergreen Venture Capital, one of Israel's oldest and largest VCs, where he led the company's Internet and New-Media investments.

Tomer shares the story behind Spacemesh and the social meaning at the heart of the company. I learn more about precisely what Spacemesh is, why they are building Spacemesh, the implications for future generations, and why it will be more decentralized than current currencies.

When Jonathan Baktari, M.D., was arguably at the peak of his medical career as a triple board-certified physician, he saw an opportunity to try something new. Taking everything he'd learned as a doctor, medical director, and educator, he launched two businesses—a vaccine clinic and a drug-testing enterprise—that are driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service. Now, as those businesses grow, he's continuing to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO.

Dr. Baktari's company e7 Health was named the best technology company in the healthcare space in 2019. e7 Health could best be described as "the Uber of preventive medicine" in that it is a systems company that has invested heavily in developing their own electronic cloud-based software to leverage technology for the benefit of their operation, patients, and clients.

In addition to vaccines, antibody testing, and many other medical services essential to employers around the country, e7 is now providing at home COVID-19 tests for individuals and companies all over the US. Dr. Baktari has always believed that helping others was the ultimate achievement in life. Now, as a business leader and sought-after speaker, he's excited to share his expertise in tech entrepreneurship, COVID-19, preventative health, and many other topics with your listeners.

Mark Cusack from Yellowbrick Data joins me on the podcast to talk about Real-time data warehousing and the future of faster, more flexible cloud data warehouses and why it's a must for data professionals and IT leaders from all industries.

We talk about how 2020 has challenged enterprises to find new ways to succeed and grow. I learn how data warehouses will become a critical capability for enabling real-time business decision-making and why the separation of data warehouse compute and storage will become standard.

About Yellowbrick

Yellowbrick is the world's fastest data warehouse for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Enterprises rely on Yellowbrick to power critical business outcomes and get answers to the hardest business questions for improved profitability, better customer loyalty, and faster innovation in near real time, and at a fraction of the cost of alternatives.

Yellowbrick offers superior price/performance for thousands of concurrent users on petabytes of data, along with the unique ability to run analytic workloads on-premises, in a private cloud, and/or in any public cloud and manage them in a simple, consistent way—all with predictable pricing via annual subscription.

About Mark Cusack

Before joining Yellowbrick, Mark was Vice President for Data and Analytics at Teradata, where he led a variety of product management and technology teams in data warehouse and advanced analytics groups. He was also Chief Architect of Teradata's IoT Analytics effort. Mark joined Teradata in 2014 when Teradata acquired the startup RainStor, where he was a co-founding developer and Chief Architect. Prior to RainStor, Mark was a lead scientist in the UK Ministry of Defence.

Karim Marucchi, CEO at Crowd Favorite, a global firm that specializes in digital strategy and web development for companies like Starz, Salal Credit Union, Lexus and National Geographic. Karim has more than 20 years of experience in specializing in enterprise-grade digital strategy and has taken many companies public, managed M&As

We discuss:

• Digital transformation trends that enterprises must be in front of in 2021;
• What the future holds for data collection, the benefits of WordPress, and the role of open-source software in 2021;
• The latest digital transformation experience platforms (DXPs) trends and happenings; and
• What tech leaders need to know about open-source software in 2021.

We discuss how Crowd Favorite has elevated enterprises' website experiences for each site visitor and helped accelerate enterprises' digital transformation. - Optimization for the new Google update and what this means for enterprises; and much more

About Crowd Favorite

Crowd Favorite's mission is to connect the digital experience to the human experience. Founded in 2007, Crowd Favorite was the original WordPress agency focused primarily on enterprise clients. Over a decade later, they evolved into a multi-discipline, digital consulting firm specializing in enterprise-grade digital strategy and elite Open Source development.

Crowd Favorite empowers organizations to achieve their full digital potential by focusing on the comprehensive landscape of their business and the unique challenges they face. Then, by connecting their financial and operational obstacles to world-class digital strategy, web development, and digital support services, the optimal technology solution is put in play.

Handprint a tech platform that is looking better to bridge the gap between business activity and sustainability initiatives. They do this by tapping into consumer action. Handprint strives to ensure that every sale is climate-positive and assures transparency in all financial transactions by leveraging blockchain.

To date, Handprint works with NGOs such as Worldview International Foundation (WIF) and Yayasan Gajah Sumatera (YAGASU), some of the world's leaders in reforestation and mangrove conservation and counts the likes of leading Swiss-born F&B firm SaladStop! as one of its earliest partners.

Mathias Boissonot, Co-founder and CEO at Handprint, shares his insights on how businesses can better integrate their sustainability investments into each consumer interaction. In the age of digital shareability, we also discuss how companies can leverage novel technologies to maximize the visibility of their sustainability initiatives to appeal to a social-media-savvy generation.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Toulouse and Tokyo, Airbus Ventures is a fast-moving, early-stage venture capital company that independently funds and supports startups impacting the aerospace industry. Airbus Ventures has helped aspiring innovators reach new dimensions of achievement since 2015.

From its founding, Airbus Ventures has embraced the heritage of its mothership Airbus in adaptive innovation, system, thinking, and international mindset,

'Building on this heritage, 'Airbus Ventures closely supports its portfolio of companies to better understand, team, and promote their founders' businesses – and now, with new Japanese investors alongside, they are confident that we can add to global scale and system play for all their entrepreneurs' growth worldwide,

I invited Lewis Pinault on to today's episode of Tech Talks Daily to learn more about their story and mission to accelerate humanity's ascent of the Z-axis, from the ground to deep space.

Dr. Lewis Pinault is an Airbus Ventures Partner based in Tokyo, managing Airbus Ventures' activities in the Asia Pacific region. Advising and supporting Airbus innovation projects for over a decade, Lewis also designed and led incubator and innovation centers for the UK Government's Digital Catapult, EDS, Shell, and others, building from his own mid-career experiences as a NASA researcher trying to link startups to large corporates.

His lifelong passion for exploring the oceans and space seeking the most advanced technologies available first brought him to Asia as an engineer and corporate planning analyst with Nihon Kokan.

Prequel is a photo and video editing app with unique effects and editing tools. The product regularly reaches the top 10 in its category. The app has 30m iOS downloads and on Android. Over 2M prequels are created every day, and the company has around 2.1M followers on Instagram and 1.7M on TikTok.

In Prequel, art and technology meet together to bring unique effects and editing tools to their users. They don't follow trends but invent them. To fulfill that goal, their team turns to various fields of expertise. They have created a technological laboratory where their experts, from graphic and product designers to software engineers and R&D specialists, work together to develop and grow the product.

Headquartered in New York City and with offices in Moscow and Kaliningrad, They believe in thinking outside the box and expanding the boundaries. Timur Khabirov Co-founder, CEO at Prequel, shares the story behind the company and how the technology that enables everyone to enhance their creativity.

Many brands are starting podcasts and are then disappointed by the number of downloads. One way to maximize your podcasting is by live-streaming the recordings to your existing social communities like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Other channels to consider include Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, and Amazon Live.

In his fourth book, "Going Live", Christoph Trappe covers how any brand can make live streaming part of their content strategy and integrate it into Create Once, Publish Everywhere. I invited Christoph on to the podcast to talks about his book and his authentic storytelling project.

We discuss why and how live streaming can give your brand a competitive advantage and how to show your brand's authenticity and humanness. We also talk about the technologies and strategies that will help you build your success.

The Esports industry has exploded in recent years and is not slowing down, but the industry remains extremely top-heavy and built around sponsorship and advertising revenue, rather than consumer revenue and participation. Challengermode is looking to turn the current industry model on its head - creating value for all esports stakeholders from the bottom up as well as the top down.

After major success in Europe, running millions of competitions for millions of players, Challengermode is currently gearing up to expand into North America this year, and is currently valued at over $40m. I invited: Robel Efrem from Challengermode onto the podcast to find out more.

Robel himself, has an incredibly impressive resume; he speaks four languages, has been nominated for the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award three times, and has founded two companies in the last 10 years - the first which resulted in a successful exit and the second which is Challengermode, which received a $12m investment from Alibaba, with other investors including Telia Ventures, GP Bullhound, Back in Black Capital and Swedish soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Next-gen air purifier CEO Christoph Burkhardt sees the current HEPA filters as outdated 70-year-old tech that move the air not clean the air. That is why he is creating more sustainable purifier products with OneLife, a company backed by German engineers to produce the world's most efficient air purifiers. They are launching revolutionary plasma filter technologies that will protect us unlike any other purifier on the market.

We discuss the outdated air purification technology being used in public spaces such as subways, elevators, offices, etc and why he is concerned about the air we are currently breathing."