Tech Talks

Last week the Tech Talks team joined 'Spinks on Site' in Barcelona for the EU Startups Summit. During two days of workshops, fireside chats and talks, we grabbed 14 leaders and founders to share their views on the sector, and tell us why they were there. Enjoy the selection from the conference floor!

To recognise Mental Health Awareness Month we're giving you insight into steps to make your working environment the best it can be for a range of individuals, as well as steps to look after your own wellbeing.

First we're chatting to Alex Craven, co-founder of The Data City, and then getting advice on good practice from Anne-Sophie Fluri from MindLabs.

Inflation is rising, energy prices are rising, petrol is rising, food costs more. Low income workers are feeling the pinch and it is only set to get worse. So what solutions are there which might help people? We meet Wagestream CEO Peter Briffett, 3 years on from his last Tech Talks appearance, to find out how their platform might help.

As Elon Musk buys Twitter we talk to two technology entrepreneurs we think are far better role models! We're often told women need more role models but we put it to you that they're already there and just need to be heard.

First we talk to the Joy Club's Hannah Thomson, before we spend time talking to WalkSafe's Emma Kay. Both have real insight into being a founder as well as leading innovative tech businesses.

To we are interviewing MacPaw CEO and founder Oleksandr Kosovan, who along with 30 or 40 of his team have remained in Kyiv. This is his experience.

If you wish to donate these funds might be worth considering:

MacPaw Development Foundation, their own fund to help with humanitarian aid: https://humanitarian-aid.macpaw.com/

KOLO, a foundation for rapid support for the Ukrainian military, organized by a group of top IT executives from Ukraine: https://www.koloua.com/en

Come Back Alive is an NGO fund that supports the Armed Forces of Ukraine: https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/

National Bank of Ukraine has also opened an account to support Ukraine's Armed Forces: https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi

Finally some of our own colleagues are raising funds via Unicef: http://www.justgiving.com/team/harveynashers?invite=true

Women's health has traditionally been paid far less attention to than men's health. Now data, and intelligence, is created personalised solutions which are sustainable and meet the challenge you face in that moment.

Stephanie Hare is a broadcaster and technologist, and author of 'Technology is Not Neutral', a book exploring the role of ethics in technology. How much consideration is given to the impact of the products and services we build and launch? Who are technology leaders accountable to? Find this conversation interesting... go buy the book.

https://www.harebrain.co/

April is Autism awareness month, and to mark that campaign we're focusing two interviews on neurodiversity and the advantages neurodiverse thinking offers. Firstly Melanie Curry, CEO of the Ron Davis Autism Foundation challenges host David Savage's well-meaning ignorance, and then we here from Freddie Moross, CEO of Aybe, a tech platform for neurodiverse families.

This week we mark 'Earth Hour' by focusing on investment into sustainable innovations and companies, as well as ideas to turn your home into a power station and using blockchain to save our oceans.

David is joined by Olivia Sibony (Seedtribe), Laurent Schmitt (Dcbel), Ann Sofie Gade (the ReSea Project) and Amber Harrison (Harvey Nash Group).

It's Tolkien Day on the 25th, so we're exploring your 'fellowship', or the team you build at work and creating an environment to thrive!

To help us do that we're joined by Hya co-founder Jason Waterman and Ploughshare CEO Hetti Barkworth-Nanton.

Getting your people right is so key; they are the change.