In this episode, ARQ recaps the AWS Summit, held earlier this year and bringing together the cloud community from around Australia and New Zealand to hear keynotes from industry leaders, dive deep into educational sessions, engage in live demos, and chat one-to-one with AWS experts.

Welcome to the ARQ Tech Cast where we’ll lean on industry experts to help you navigate the broad ecosystem that is technology and provide actionable guidance. 

Throughout this podcast series, we will take you on a guided journey through world of tech, with subject matter experts and special guests, discussing global insights, impactful and innovative solutions applied locally.  

The New Normal. A term coined after the financial crisis in 2008 and now liberally used to describe what life is becoming as we emerge from the Covid19 pandemic. What does this actually mean for day to day work? I chat with Melissa Khim, Senior Business Analyst in our Brisbane office, about what the new normal means for her, how she now engages in her role with clients and what she misses about working life in the office.

As we all adjust to this globally new way of working, we pulled a few members of the team together to talk about their experiences operating within what is becoming the new normal. Join, Paul Motion, Mark Airs & James Litjens as they discuss some of the challenges they've experienced as well as some things they've learned about adjusting along the journey. There might even be a few tips and tricks on how to embrace the change and make it work for you. Oh, and they talk about staring at the top of people's heads......

What does Leadership mean to you? Join our host, Paul Motion, as he chats with the Arq Group CEO, Tristan Sternson, CMO, Annie Mackin and Shared Services Project Manger, Brittany Pedersen, about Leadership, the different flavours, our experiences and what our panel think makes a great leader as we move into the new decade.

Designing the customer experience (CX) and user experience (UX) requires a customer-centric mindset...but the challenge is experience is always subjective. Listen to the team discuss what is experience, why it is so important, how to measure, and how to improve your customer's interactions with your organisation.

Themed “Write code. Blow minds”, this year's WWDC did just that for our Software Developer Simon, who was on the ground in San Francisco for the announcements. Paul chatted with Simon, unpacking the latest updates and exploring the benefits for Developers but more importantly, the positive impacts for the end-user.

Freshly back from Google IO, Suhas is chatting with Paul, covering all the announcements you need to know and their potential impact. AI, ML, AR and computer vision were a big focus. Coupled with the imminent launch of 5G, developers will be bringing more accessible, responsive and seamless experiences to the user’s every day.

2019 has hit with a bang and the various trends in tech sites have started publishing their predictions for what’s in store for the coming year.

In this episode of the Arqcast we focus on Ethics in the technology sector and what this could mean for our industry. From the implementation of GDPR in 2018 to the focus on data mining and usage across the world.

Could the ethical development of software drive the shape of tech giants to come?

Join host Paul Motion with guests Flora Wang & Stuart Cruickshank as we dig into this and many more of the curly issues around ethics, what it means to be accountable, and how people and businesses will need to start taking responsibility for their actions.

Augmented Reality has really started to take off, with new AR apps capturing the attention of both users and brands wanting to explore this new experience. But it's still early days for AR, and without established design patterns and interaction styles, designing for AR feels a lot like guesswork. In this episode, Paul is joined by Ryan, Jack, and Maisy to talk about what we've learned from our experience designing in AR so far. What are the challenges with user testing? How can we onboard first-time users to the technology? And where do we see AR going in the future?