That Tech Pod

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Horacio Zambrano.  Horacio is the CMO and Cyber Strategist for Secret Double Octopus. He has been a leading evangelist in the industry for passwordless authentication and was also CMO/CSO of TruU. He has contributed his deep expertise in PMM and B2B marketing at several early-stage cyber startups including Virsec, Valtix, Mocana and OPSWAT; and ran the VPN product lines at Juniper and Cisco in PM director roles. Lastly, he was also a top-ranked Wall Street research analyst covering Software sectors at Jefferies and Wedbush Morgan. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering and MBA from Stanford.

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Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Douwe Maan. Douwe is the Founder and CEO of Meltano, an open source platform for the entire DataOps life cycle. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Douwe has been around computers his whole life and began programming when he was nine. He joined GitLab as employee number 10 while in college and later became Engineering Manager. In 2021, Douwe led the internal Meltano project in spinning out of GitLab.



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Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with AI experts, PAI's Rebecca Finlay and Ernst & Young's Todd Marlin.

Rebecca Finlay is the CEO at Partnership on AI overseeing the organization’s mission and strategy. In this role, Rebecca ensures that the PAI Team and our global community of Partners work together so that developments in AI advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Most recently, Rebecca was Vice President, Engagement and Public Policy at CIFAR. In this role, Rebecca founded the Institute’s global knowledge mobilization practice, bringing together experts in industry, civil society, and government to accelerate the societal impact of CIFAR’s research programs. In 2017, she was responsible for the launch of CIFAR’s AI & Society program to support international working groups on the questions AI poses for all aspects of policy and society. In 2019, she launched CIFAR Solution Networks to support multi-year, international teams in the development of responsible approaches to real-world applications of AI. She led CIFAR’s partnerships with governments and public sector organizations, diversifying the organization’s funding sources internationally.

Prior to joining CIFAR, Rebecca held leadership roles in research and civil society organizations including as Group Director, Public Affairs and Cancer Control for the Canadian Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute of Canada. She began her career in the private sector building strategic partnerships, including as First Vice President, Financial Institution and Partnership Marketing for Bank One International. In 2019, Rebecca was honored as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2022, she was appointed to the Strategic Advisory Council of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and McGill University. She is an active volunteer and lives with her family in Toronto, Canada.

Todd Marlin is a principal in Ernst & Young LLP’s Forensic & Integrity Services practice and is the Global Forensic Technology and Innovation Leader. Mr. Marlin is a trusted advisor to the C-suite, board of directors and General Counsel on complex issues surrounding data, security and legal and compliance risks. His main focus areas are forensic data analytics,
cybersecurity, computer forensics, fraud detection, and electronic discovery. Adept in big data analytics and data science, his team helps clients develop custom models to identify, expose and demonstrate relationships, trends and patterns within complex and disparate data. Mr. Marlin applies his extensive experience in data analytics and computer forensics to help businesses monitor, investigate, mitigate and recover from cyber breaches, as well as
fraudulent and criminal activities by rogue employees. Mr. Marlin has led numerous global projects for Fortune 500 companies and worked with both inside and outside counsel to navigate data and security challenges in critical situations and to manage legal, regulatory and financial risks. His unique background in accounting and technology enables him to
effectively work with multi-disciplinary stakeholders in complex legal, security and compliance issues. He has appeared on behalf of clients in front of the NYSE and SEC. Mr. Marlin has also served as a Neutral Expert and an Expert and has been appointed in Federal Court as a Special Master relating to electronic discovery disputes.


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Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk to Cyber Siblings Anu and Sumeet Kukar. 

Anu is the 2022 Global Power 100 Women in Cyber and 2021 winner Australia’s IT Security Champion. She is passionate about paving a way to support professionals from diverse skills background to contribute in cyber. To achieve this, she is driving a global campaign Switch2CyberTM. Anu is known as the Cyber UntanglerTM who advises CxO and Boards with her 20+ years of experience in consulting and industry. She brings her cyber, data, emerging tech, risk, governance & regulatory expertise. She has delivered global keynotes, insights on panels, podcast guest and author of publications totalling 80+ across 9 countries. She shares practical insights through her unique storytelling whilst taking the audience on a virtual tour around the world.

Sumeet is a global speaker, panelist and podcast guest, covering topics on cyber security, education, hacking, risk and resiliency and was formerly awarded Australia’s Emerging Leader of the Year. He is the CEO and Founder of Arascina®, which enables non-techies to be work-ready in cyber and is also the Board Committee and Sector Lead for Education & Research in international trade. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Ethical Hacker, has built cyber and risk functions in financial services as an interim Chief Risk Officer and taught four disciplines of Science at the University. Learning often takes a long time and needs to be maintained just like your health. The speed of change in today’s tech world means we’ve got to learn faster. Sumeet’s purpose is to enable you to learn cyber. Lightning-fast. As a Learning NibblerTM, he finds bite-sized learning in everyday things and uses them to develop capabilities.

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Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Josh Miller.  Josh Miller works as an investor at Blu Ventures, a Washington, DC based venture capital firm that invests mostly in early-stage (seed to Series A) SaaS enterprise companies, with a focus on cyber security. He's led investments in a variety of cyber and non-cyber companies including IoT cyber security, cyber threat intelligence, cyber fraud mitigation, automated penetration testing technology, drone-based physical security, and speech recognition AI.

Today's episode is sponsored by EY:

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 Previously recognized “Entrepreneur of the Year” stories highlighted how two business innovators used technology to disrupt the insurance industry, or another story, where a visionary leader used technology to break down barriers to financial inclusion. At EY, we are helping entrepreneurs transform businesses through the power of people, technology and innovation. The Forensic Technology team at are helping their clients create their own innovative story. Having built a scalable management and monitoring analytics platform to help their clients’ gain better access to data, enhance their existing technology capabilities and keep their data secure.

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Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Beni Gradwohl, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cognovi Labs. 

Beni Gradwohl is Co-Founder and CEO of Cognovi Labs, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) company that focuses on measuring the emotional drivers behind human decision-making. Cognovi’s award-winning psychology-driven AI helps clients in the commercial, health and public sectors reveal how audiences are feeling in the moment, predict their action and intent, and then communicate with the emotions to maximize impact. 

Beni has been on a journey to understand how people act and find a systematic way to measure our decision-making for more than 20 years. He is recognized as an executive who combines a deep understanding of new advances in machine learning, alternative data and commercial opportunities to create new businesses and grow existing revenue sources. Throughout his career, from investment management and institutional securities to consumer banking and fintech innovation, he has delivered outsized returns for his clients and institutions. 

Beni previously held senior leadership positions at Citi, Morgan Stanley and various investment management firms. An astrophysicist by training, he spent the first decade of his professional career in academia and research, studying astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, and magnetic resonance. He has held research and teaching assignments at multiple leading academic institutions, including University of California, Columbia Business School, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, University of Chicago, Weizmann Institute of Science and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Featured in Inc., Forbes and the Financial Times, Beni is frequently invited to speak on topics at the intersection of AI and behavioral psychology, the role of emotions in human decision-making, and how to engage emotionally to drive a better outcome. Beni received his Ph.D. in Physics from The Hebrew University.

Today's episode is sponsored by EY:

By using AI machine learning, EY teams are helping businesses add value by delivering insights as decisions are made in real time. Across a wide range of industries, geographies and business issues, automation remains a key business driver for today and tomorrow.  EY is helping to tackle many business challenges and leading their clients to better outcomes with technology solutions that embed their domain known-how.

Through EY Virtual, clients are provided with an integrated, digital approach to managing legal and compliance risk for organizations. As a suite of issue driven apps and client workspaces, EY Virtual dynamically integrates, transforms and orchestrates data – providing AI insights.  It features visualization, mapping and modelling - so businesses can have firm-wide oversight and helps build on legal and compliance capabilities as business needs evolve.

Built on AI-driven technology, EY Virtual sits either on the cloud or on premises – which means data is kept together and is more secure. And by connecting partner environments within a single platform, businesses can manage their work and processes with a single point of entry.  

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Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Dominic Rayner. Dominic was featured in the Netflix’s ‘Worst  Roommate Ever: Marathon Man’, an episode that profiles the life and crimes of Youssef Khater. As a survivor, Dominic discusses the tech that was used in the case and how it differs from today. 

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Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Alenna Merrihew.  Alenna is a leadership and mental fitness coach, empowering ambitious, accomplished women to reclaim their lives by rediscovering what inspires them, shedding self-sabotaging beliefs, and acting with confident, laser-focused clarity.  She brings to her coaching work the unique perspective of over 20 years experience in corporate strategy and business operations, leading teams in both Fortune 500 and startups and mentoring and developing early to mid-stage career professionals. Before becoming a leadership coach, Alenna served as VP of Operations at New Relic and held multiple leadership roles in strategy and operations at Nike for over a decade. With a Harvard degree in East Asian Studies and MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, her professional journey also includes stints as a Japan analyst for the CIA and management consultant with Kearney, serving clients such as Levis, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, and Sprint.  Outside of work, Alenna is an adventure enthusiast and amateur “maker”, and can be found just as easily roaming the world on a motorcycle, as sipping coffee in a cozy chair with her latest knitting project.  Her dream for her coaching clients – “rewrite the stories you are telling yourself about what is possible and fearlessly go after what you want.”

Today, Laura and Gabi speak with Dr. Avi Loeb, theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology and the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Dr. Loeb is author of Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth which can be purchased here and recently wrote about the congressional hearings regarding UAPs which you can read here.

Laura and Gabi discuss all things UFOs, how the government is finally recognizing these unexplained sightings, and his research with the Galileo Project, an organization whose goal is to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological Civilizations (ETCs) from accidental or anecdotal observations and legends to the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research. This project is complementary to traditional SETI, in that it searches for physical objects, and not electromagnetic signals, associated with extraterrestrial technological equipment.

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Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with George Tziahanas. George is a Managing Director at  Breakwater Solutions, where he works within their information governance practice. An attorney by background and education, his expertise includes data governance, risk and compliance, and legal technology. Prior to Breakwater, Mr. Tziahanas held executive positions at Arbor Ridge Partners, Morae Legal, HP Software, Iron Mountain, and Intel. He earned his JD from DePaul University College of Law and an MS in Biological Sciences and Molecular Systematics, also from DePaul University. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.

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