That Tech Pod

Laura and Kevin are joined by fellow podcaster Shelby Busch.

Shelby is a podcast technical guru. She is Super passionate about all things podcasting, and have been listening to podcasts since before they were cool (since the dawn of TIME). Shelby has been recording and working in the podcast realm for over 3 years. She currently works behind the scenes as a Technical Account Manager for Podcasts at SiriusXM, making sure that the podcasts you hear, are appeasing to your ear(s)

Laura and Kevin jump on an emergency pod to explain what is going on with Silicon Valley Bank. 

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Kevin speak with Hue Rhodes. 

Hue Rhodes is an expert on data privacy and ownership. Hue has first-hand experienced how 24/7 surveillance and zero privacy can shape and mold people. After finding his way to Princeton, Stanford, and then NYU film school (he directed a feature film with Steve Buscemi and Sarah Silverman), he worked at Experian and LifeLock for more than a decade and saw first-hand how the data industry operates.

Today, Hue is the founder and CEO of FRIDAY, a free and easy-to-use app that extracts your Mobile Ad ID for you, and notifies the companies that sell your location history to stop. Then they report back to you with the responses. 

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Huxley Barbee. Huxley Barbee is the organizer of the BSides NYC Security Conference and a Security Evangelist at runZero (formerly Rumble Network Discovery), a company founded by Metasploit creator HD Moore that helps companies discover unmanaged devices for asset inventory.

Huxley previously worked for Cisco, Sparkpost, and most recently, Datadog – where he formulated the Datadog Cloud Security Platform. During his time there, he established a new security market presence & enabled the global sales force to grow sales by 482%.

Huxley spent over 20 years as a software engineer and security consultant. He attended his first DEF CON in 1999 and holds both CISSP and CISM certifications. On top of that, he’s also an organizer of BSidesNYC. 

He has a passion for bringing value to those around him and understanding what drives individuals and groups.

In 2016, he founded a consulting practice at Cisco providing security automation and orchestration to Fortune 500 customers.

Four years later, he brought Datadog’s Cloud Security Platform to market. Now at runZero, he’s helping organizations build comprehensive asset inventory.

He resides in New York where he spends time trying to keep up with his children.

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Today on That Tech Pod, Laura, Kevin, and Gabi speak with singer-songwriter Katie Boeck and producer Dustin Ransom live in Nashville, Tennessee about making music with technology in the age of A.I.

Check out Katie's NEW music OUT NOW here: https://www.katieboeckmusic.com

Katie Boeck’s voice is earthy and cosmic. Her muses, modern and ancient. Her power, higher and worldly. Boeck doesn’t just revel in these contradictions—she weaves them together on her forthcoming album, Calico due April 28, 2023. Calico captures the arc of maturing relationships—from naïveté and illusion to self-love and sovereignty. It’s an album about modern love and the longing that still tugs beneath the promise of our hyper-connected culture. On the title track Boeck sings, “I’m in every direction / too many modes of connection.” And on the album's opener, Over Again, she ponders time and the gift of owning your history. “Would you do it over again/ lose ourselves along the path of good intentions”. These are songs about life taking unexpected courses and stories of love just out-
of-reach.

Boeck summons a pantheon of guides—wise women both mythic and real. Like Eve, Boeck likes to reimagine herself returning to Eden, whole. And Like Eurydice, Boeck followed one her musical guides, Joni Mitchell, out of the underworld. Recently divorced, newly single-parenting, Boeck was struggling to find her voice. So she looked to Joni’s oracular songs to help renew her own creative spark. She learned Joni’s watershed record Blue in its entirety and toured the show for a year. Living inside Joni’s cadences and signature melismas led Boeck back to her own sonic soil. She used songwriting’s ancient alchemy to find wisdom in her heartache and spiritual injuries. She also found kinship with co-producer Dustin Ransom (also recently divorced) who wound up co-writing and co-producing the album. 

Boeck’s career has been wildly varied. After graduating UCLA's Theater program, she spent her early twenties playing every Westside LA dive bar and coffeehouse, living on Lookout Mountain and soaking in that Laurel Canyon sound. She landed a spot in an all-women Bollywood band that took her on a surreal six-month “Eat, Pray, Love-esque” tour of India, playing everything from farm weddings to the
Indian Navy’s annual gala. Afterwards, Boeck found herself back in LA with reverse culture shock, her '91 Chevy Caprice Classic and a heartbreak from a recent Spanish expat romance. She wove these experiences into the songs that appear on her debut EP, Speaking of You.

Boeck then moved to New York to star in Duncan Sheik’s musical, Spring Awakening, where she shared the lead role of Wendla with deaf actress Sandra Mae Frank. The play’s success occasioned appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and a 2016 Tony nomination for Best Revival of a Musical. Boeck’s rendition of “Ave Maria” was featured on HBO’s critically-acclaimed television series “The Newsroom” and her cover of Ace of Base’s “The Sign” was recently featured on Netflix’s “Love Island”. She has played Electric Forest Festival, Mile of Music, the Cutting Room, City Winery and Carnegie Hall. Boeck now lives in Nashville with her five-year-old son. “Boeck sings with a plaintive passion.” – NEW YORK TIMES

BONUS EPISODE: Laura and Kevin Talk AFCEA West.

  AFCEA WEST connects the industry professionals who design and build the platforms, equipment and weapons with the designers of communications and technical systems.

The premier naval conference and exposition on the West Coast, WEST is now in its 33rd year of bringing military and industry leaders together. Co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute, WEST is the only event in which the makers of platforms and the designers of technologies can network, discuss and demonstrate their solutions in a single locale.

One recurring highlight of WEST is the chance to hear from the Sea Service Chiefs - the Chief of Naval Operations, the Marine Corps Commandant and the Coast Guard Commandant. In addition to the main program, WEST offers three Engagement Theaters: Marine, General, and Information Warfare. These smaller, more intimate venues allow military, government and industry professionals to drill deeper into specific topics and issues. More information about WEST speakers and panel presentations is available online.

Wasabi is fundamentally transforming cloud storage with the industry's simplest, fastest and most affordable storage solution. Unlike legacy cloud storage services with confusing storage tiers and complex pricing schemes, Wasabi storage is inherently easy to implement and incredibly cost-effective to scale. 

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Kevin speak with CCPA & CPRA Co-author Rich Arney and Boltive CEO Dan Frechtling.

Dan Frechtling is CEO of Boltive, providing publishers and ad exchanges the tools they need to monitor and audit their programmatic ads, and the added benefit to identify the source & block the bad ones—setting a new standard for accountability & protection that our industry desperately needs. Frechtling has led B2B SaaS businesses since 1999. Prior to Ad Lightning, he was President of G2 Web Services, acquired by Verisk, where he expanded G2’s cyber security solutions to detect brand damaging activity and transaction laundering. He was also GM/VP at Hibu, VP at Stamps.com and Sr. Associate for McKinsey. He has an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a BS with High Honors from Northwestern University. Follow Boltive on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Rick Arney is a board member of Californians for Consumer Privacy and a co-author of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Proposition 24 - the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the most comprehensive and groundbreaking consumer privacy laws in the United States. In addition to co-authoring both laws, Rick participated in all aspects of campaigning including signature gathering, media (both TV and Radio), finance and campaign strategy. He has an Economics BA with honors from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard and is a Fulbright Scholar.

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura, Gabi, and Kevin traveled to Nashville Tennessee to talk with Joel Beasley of Modern CTO podcast! We discuss what it takes to make meaningful content in 2023; the unprecedented impact that ChatGPT is having on creative endeavors; and why it might be time for you to start creating your own content today.

For more about the Modern CTO podcast, check out their website: https://moderncto.io

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Andrew Kelley. Andrew is a global technology executive with public company and startup experience. He is currently VP Corporate Development & Ventures at Five9. Prior to this role Andrew was Chief Commercial at an Internet of Things startup, BoxLock. As CEO of Bell Creek Partners he consulted for various private equity firms and early stage companies. Andrew is passionate about technology, customer scaling, and growth. Previously he was with Vista Equity-backed Omnitracs as President of Haulme and VP Corporate Development. He worked at Dell focusing on early stage investing in software and infrastructure startups including Nutanix which had a $2.5B market cap at IPO. He also worked at UBS Investment Bank in Technology, Media, & Telecom after working at IBM headquarters. He began his professional career co-founding Virtual Ink at MIT. Andrew has an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MSME from MIT, and a BSME from North Carolina State University.

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk with Erin Quick. Erin Quick is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PairTree. With  more than 20 years of global brand marketing experience, and more  importantly, as a two-time adoptive mother, Erin is a leader in the  movement to modernize adoption in the U.S. With an expert first-hand  understanding of the challenges of the domestic private adoption industry and a drive to increase access and opportunities for all involved in the  adoption process, Erin brings a wealth of knowledge and business  experience to helping families navigate their unique adoption journeys. 

As Chief Executive Officer at PairTree, Erin leads on areas of the business  including strategy, product development and marketing. Erin is responsible  for the businesses day-to-day decision making and implementing the  company’s short- and long-term plans.  

Previously, Erin co-founded Stoke Strategy, a Seattle-based brand  strategy firm, which she led for 12 years. While there, Erin led brand  initiatives for Bluetooth, Weyerhaeuser, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  and the University of Washington, to name a few. Erin began her marketing career at Addison in San Francisco and New York, where she  worked on global branding for Domino’s Pizza, Merrill Lynch and The  Make-a-Wish Foundation. 

Erin is a recipient of Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40-Under-40 award and most recently, PairTree, under Erin’s leadership, was selected to  participate in the 2021 TechStars Seattle Accelerator – a highly selective  and successful global startup accelerator program. Erin is currently a  Visionary Voices Member and Speaker with All Raise, a nonprofit on a  mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders. She is  a guest lecturer on Technology Entrepreneurship at Brown University and  the University of Washington. 

Erin lives on Bainbridge Island with her husband and two children.