In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Igor Kostyuchenok who is the Head of Artificial Intelligence for the company - Mbanq. He is based out of Munich, Bavaria, Germany

a) Talks about the timeline of his journey in the IT industry

b) In-brief, talks about his conference visits and also shares his view FinTech and other tech related topics.

c) Gives an insight into the exciting use case for AI and, Agentic AI in FinTech and Banking and, also about the potential risks and problems that can come with it and whether the people are prepared for it.

d) Mentions about the general software development topics in a scaling startup than about core banking in particular.

e) Shares his experience of shaping the Open Banking initiative and working with the pioneers of FinTech and Crypto like Ripple back in the days.

f) Talks about the differences in serverless and monolithic architectures, the pros and, cons of both of them and having said that the pros and cons of running the infrastructure in a cloud.

g) Sheds some spotlight into him launching and running the Mbanq Labs - Accelerator in Singapore, whose experience gave you the foundational idea to come up with your book "Startup, please".

h) Gives an overview on the early stages of Mbanq company, where your product was still in its infancy and having said that how a bigger player got interested in your infrastructure that led you to get ahead of others very fast.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. John E. Ortega who is the Faculty Member - NLP Text Analytics at Columbia University, New York and, NLP Researcher and Instructor at New York University. He is based out of New York, USA

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry and academic space.

b) Provides an insight into his current tenure as the Faculty Member - NLP Text Analytics at Columbia University in New York.

c) His take on the prime focus of NLP and AI or GenAI in the enterprise and academic space.

d) Sheds some spotlight into worked as a director of AI and also talks about starting two businesses to the listeners around the world.

e) Gives an overview of being an Advisor for Reulay Inc for on the lines of AI in different facets and having said that mentions about applying the use case of AI for the Mental Health Care industry.

f) His view on combining the worlds of Big Data and NLP and mentions about the project where he has applied these two skills for.

g) Shares few of the interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.

h) His take on the importance of Low Resource Languages.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Rituu Mannuja who is the AVP Learning Head of Next-Gen Services of the reputed MNC company - Tech Mahindra. She is based out of Pune, Maharashtra, India

a) Walks us through the key milestones in her journey within the IT industry and the way it has shaped her career path.

b) As the AVP & Learning Head for Next-Gen Services—AI, Automation, Cybersecurity, and D&A at Tech Mahindra, mentions about how her core responsibilities look like today.

c) Having begun her career as a lecturer at institutes like MIT Pune, PCCOE Pune, and JEC Jaipur, talks about her inspiration to transition from academia into the IT industry.

d) Shares an example where AI or GenAI learning initiatives created a tangible impact—either in learner outcomes or in driving the business value.

e) Terms like “Next-Gen Services,” “GenAI,” and “Agentic AI” are often used but not always well understood, mentions about the ways to simplify these concepts for a non-technical audience

f) In her view, talks about how Learning & Development evolve to become a strategic partner to the business—especially in the era of GenAI and rapid digital transformation.

g) There is often a capability gap between business expectations and workforce readiness, mentions about how can targeted upskilling in AI and Agentic AI help bridge this gap and future-proof the organization.

h) For someone who is completely new to the concept, explains in simple, layman terms where Agentic AI is being used today—either in everyday life or in workplace scenarios.

i)Gives an advice to employees and, leaders who feel overwhelmed by AI and mentions about how they begin their AI learning journey with confidence and clarity.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Kari Kakkonen who is the Service Owner, Customer Expertise Development of Gofore company and the author of the reputed book "Dragons Out". he is based out of Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.

b) Talks about his roles and responsibilities of being the Service Owner, Customer Expertise Development of the Gofore company.

c) Gives an insight into his successful book "Dragons Out Oy" and shares an interesting backstory associated with it.

d) Talks about his inclination to combine the software testing with the fantasy stories of dragons, knights, and children.

e) Shares his experience of being The ICT Influencer of 2025 and mentions about the groundwork done by him since day one to achieve it.

f) Sheds some spotlight into being the treasurer at FiSTB, TMMi BoD and ISTQB to our listeners around the world.

g) Shares few of the interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Martin Michalitsch who is the Innovations Manager of WienIT GmbH company and he is based out of Vienna, Austria.

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space and the Green IT space.

b) Talks about his current tenure of being the Innovations Manager for the WienIT GmbH company.

c) Mentions about his transition into the space of Green IT having done a master's in data science in the first place.

d) His take on the importance and application of the Green IT space in the Austrian Market.

e) Explains about the different layers of Green IT.

f) His view on making the AI sustainably Green.

g) His take on the in-depth story of the Green Web.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Julio G. Martinez-Clark who is the Chief Executive Officer of Synapse Global Theranostics Inc. and the Podcast Host of bioaccess®. He is based out of Miami, Florida, USA.

a) Gives a timeline of his journey from building telecom infrastructure at Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent to leading cross-border clinical trial operations as CEO of bioaccess®, Synapse Global Theranostics, and amavita Heart and Vascular Health®.

b) Shares his experience of collaborating with over a hundred Medtech and Biopharma companies, streamlining regulatory paths and using machine learning to boost trial efficiency, radio pharma.

c) Talks about the key strategies taken by him in helping to bridge the global teams and cultures in challenging markets pertaining to the Clinical AI Space.

d) Mentions about his source of inspiration and drive to start his own podcast initiative "Global Trial Accelerators™" and, also talks about being a columnist at Med Device Online and having said that shares an interesting backstory associated with the two.

e) Emphasizes on highlighting the key differences that he has observed while specializing in accelerating the medical innovations and clinical trials through unconventional markets like Latin America, the Balkans, and Australia.

f) His take on how AI is disrupting the clinical research, regulatory strategies for tech in emerging economies, or building resilient, human trials during global disruptions.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Jaime Kaufman who is the Staff Data Engineer, Data Platform of the reputed EV Motor Vehicle Manufacturing company - Lucid Motors. He is based out of Mason, Ohio, USA

a) Gives a timeline of his journey before venturing into the IT industry.

b) Gives an overview into his tenure of being the Staff Data Engineer, Big Data for the reputed EV Motor Vehicle Manufacturing company - Lucid Motors.

c) Explains the key differences that he has observed with respect to Datalakes, Batch and Streaming Data pipelines implementation in a Motor Vehicle Manufacturing sector to that of the other sectors that he was part of.

d) Provides an insight into his expertise and proficiency pertaining to the likes of Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg.

e) His take on the importance of SQL in the Motor Vehicle Manufacturing industry and shares an interesting use case that he has come across with it.

f) Sheds some spotlight into his problem solving with respect to the issues encountered by the DataFrame in Apache Spark-based data pipeline.

g) Mentions about the ways he is able to balance the acts of being a reputed IT Professional as well as a Professional Musician.

h) Shares few interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has come across in his Lucid Motors company tenure.

To know more about the top featured posts by Jaime, follow him on LinkedIn:

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Here is the link for the post on Jaime's take on Apache Spark 101 : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaime-kaufman_apache-spark-101-apache-spark-is-an-open-source-activity-7407189878762905601-1rdx

Here is the link for the post on Jaime's take on Apache Iceberg 101 : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaime-kaufman_apache-iceberg-101-iceberg-is-an-open-source-activity-7420221935315476480-K-dw

In this 100th podcast episode (Gold episode) of The Tech'o'Space Podcast, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Dr. Hasan Avcu. MD who is the Managing Director of Tesu Health company. He is based out of Cambridge, United Kingdom

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the Healthcare-Tech industry.

b) Talks about his roles and responsibilities of being the Managing Director for his company "Tesu Health".

c) Gives an overview of what his company "Tesu Health" is all about to the listeners across the world and also shares an interesting backstory associated with the inception of his company.

d) Gives an insight into him having a proven track record in KOL engagement, compliance and medical strategy for successful product launches across multiple therapy areas.

e) Shares his experience of securing an R and D grant from the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council and also leading the first Turkish Ministry of Health-approved clinical trial for a DTx to the listeners across the world

f) Having worked in the Turkish Healthcare-Tech Industry, mentions about his inclination to migrate to the UK.

g) Being a Health-Tech Entrepreneur with respect to his company "Tesu Health", talks about the regions he is currently focused on.

h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his HealthCare - IT industry that he would like to share in this podcast session.

I) Predicts on the future of Digital Health.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Nelson Kulandairaj who is the Chief Digital Officer of CIEL HR company. He is based out of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

a) Talks about the timeline of his journey in the IT industry.

b) In-detail mentions about his current job role.

c) Talks about the unconventional choices made by him throughout his career.

d) His take on the importance of Work-Life Balance in the IT industry.

e) According to him, mentions about the need of having an AI stack more than the need of funding.

f) For the department who are non-technical coming from the likes of Head - HR and Head Operations, suggests the ways they should identify, bring in, lead and adapt AI or technology interventions in their work.

g) His take on the importance of AI Agentic Systems adapted for small, medium and large enterprises.

h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Ikum Kandola who is the Co-Founder of TheAX.ai company. He is based out of London, United Kingdom

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.

b) Talks about his roles and responsibilities of being the Co-Founder of TheAX.ai company.

c) Gives an insight into what his company TheAX.ai is all about to the listeners and, having said that shares an interesting back-story behind the inception of its creation.

d) Mentions about the key learnings that he has grabbed while working for an MNC like PwC in the past, that has totally shaped your career.

e) As a co-founder of TheAX.ai company, talks about the key industries/sectors and the regions/countries that he is currently focused on.

f) Mentions about the reasons on why he thinks AI is affecting business which sell time, e.g. "they are moving to outcome based pricing".

g) Sheds some spotlight into his company building the AI-Powered Platform for Productized Consulting and also talks about the types of AI it is currently focused on (Computer Vision or NLP or OCR or Speech Recognition or LLMs).

h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.