Luchele sits down with Julia Kruslin, co-founder of beatvest, to discuss the conversation around the 'Feedback Revolution.' 

Julia is the co-founder of beatvest, an investment app that helps beginners learn how to invest easily and playfully. The company has raised 1.3 million EUR from prestigious angels and VCs. Before founding beatvest, Julia worked for the strategy consulting firm Strategy&. Her passion is to work on the intersection between tech and business. She holds a Master's degree from WU Vienna and is trained as a full-stack web developer.

check out the link to Huberman, which Julia referred to: https://open.spotify.com/show/79CkJF3UJTHFV8Dse3Oy0P

In the latest episode of SODA Social, Luchele had the pleasure of interviewing Diya Roychowdhury, COO at Taplasolutions. Diya brings over 14 years of experience in enabling teams and organizations to perform efficiently and with integrity. Despite starting her career as a tester in tech, Diya quickly rose through the ranks and became a C-level executive in a data product tech startup in just 1.5 years. She is also well-versed in digital transformation and product development across various industries. 

Originally from Mumbai, Diya has lived and worked in Vienna, Belfast, and now Düsseldorf, where she has been exposed to a diverse range of people and cultures. Diya's personal mantra is DIY, which stands for "Do it yourself." She believes in being your authentic self, learning from failures, acquiring necessary skills, and going after what you desire. 

Diya's ultimate goal is to promote cognitive and emotional empathy in workplaces, as she believes it supercharges innovation and creativity. 

Listen to our latest SODA Social conversation, hosted by Harry Murray. In this episode, we explored Product and Ageism in technology with Kavya Kaushik. 

Kav is The Joy Club's Head of Product. She brings experience across startups, scale-ups, and FTSE 100 companies in education, publishing, and hospitality to the role, having most recently worked at FANZO to bring sports fans together to create memories. Creative, commercially minded and strategic, Kav enjoys working across our teams to build the best experiences for our Joy Clubbers. Before joining the world of tech, she worked across politics, journalism and as a dancer, facilitating Indian dance workshops with UK older people’s charities. Kav is motivated by using tech to solve socially impactful problems and is really excited to work on bringing joy to retirees.

In this episode, Luchele Mendes chats with Stefanos Christoforou about AI Excellency.  Stefanos is co-founder and CTO of skillfill.ai, a Berlin-based company which transforms the way recruitment is done by bringing accuracy, speed and efficiency to the applicants’ screening process powered by AI. He’s been passionately programming since he was 12, and has been working professionally with web & software technologies for over a decade, most recently with a focus on NLP products.
Stefanos is not only obsessed with technology, but also a true entrepreneur at heart. He’s always looking for new and exciting opportunities to turn his ideas into reality, driven by the thrill of taking a concept from zero to hero. 

When he’s not coding, you would probably find him running, chasing the limits of human endurance, with the most recent achievement of running 105 km in 12 hours.

In this episode, Luchele and Dr. Mulang' Orando discuss the rise of the tech landscape in Africa, and the opportunities this can provide for data and AI specialists.  

Dr. Mulang’ is also passionate about Artificial Intelligence and its application as a solution to human challenges such as Health, Natural language Understanding, and accelerating development goals; mentorship of future leaders and tech professionals; and reducing the inequality divide.  He currently works as a research scientist and challenge lead at IBM-Research Africa where he is involved in creating innovative AI methods for accelerated discovery in science, specifically in health care, and applying his experience on Foundation Models to build models of biomedical and clinical health solutions.

Our latest podcast features the fabulous Dr. Dmitrij Achelrod (PhD). Dmitrij is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of the Evolute Institute. His personal journey of transformation was catalyzed by an unexpected and life-changing entheogenic encounter in the Brazilian forest several years ago. Ever since, he committed to exploring the path of the heart and learning about science-backed and traditional modalities of personal healing and growth. Prior to starting Evolute, he has been combining his expertise in healthcare and data science to create AI-powered solutions for a rapidly growing US tech startup. In this role, he provided strategic consulting to top-level executives of multi-billion dollar corporations. He is an advisory board member of several digital therapeutics companies, an entrepreneur in the healthcare field, and a university guest lecturer. Dmitrij holds degrees in Business and Health Policy (London School of Economics). He obtained his PhD in Health Economics while researching at Hamburg and Oxford University and received numerous distinctions for his academic work. Dmitrij's vision is to be of service at the intersection of human and planetary well-being by helping people to deepen their connection with life and to actualize their potential through deep inner work.

At Evolute Institute, they create profound learning and development experiences using the power of altered states of consciousness. They welcome those entrepreneurs, change-makers & leadership pioneers to our programs who would like to deepen their practice of self-exploration and who are ready for re-orientation and personal renewal. 

Take a listen to our last SODA Social podcast. At SODA, our aim is to empower and bring together a diverse community that represents the digital world. We strive to innovate, educate and inspire future leaders of technology.  

In this episode, Alfie Rice, Marketing Executive here at SODA Social, is joined by the fabulous Lina Yassin. Lina is an entrepreneur, organisational designer, and data enthusiast. She has recently co-founded start-up Numo, and is on a mission to reduce organisational debt by empowering middle managers and tech scale-ups to own and monitor their career growth metrics and KPIs.  

Alf chats with Lina about her untraditional route into technology, and how data can empower people and workforces.  

Check out our latest SODA Social episode featuring the wonderful Camille van Hoffelen.  

Camille is the co-founder of Watergenics, where he builds a sustainable future for our Blue Planet. He graduated with an MSci in Physics from Imperial College London, specializing in nanotechnology. He then spent 6 years as a machine learning engineer developing state-of-the-art NLP systems for legal AI. Today, he leads the technological development of the water quality data platform at Watergenics, and its smart data products for automation systems in agriculture, aquaculture and mining. He is driven by the impact of cutting-edge AI technologies and strives to put these big ideas to use in the real world.  

In this podcast, Camille and SODA Squad member Luchele Mendes discuss all things machine learning, from data annotation to productionisation, as well as advice on how you can kickstart your career in ML. 

What will the future bring for women in data science? 

Take a listen to our latest SODA Social podcast episode featuring Selma Hadzic. Selma is a senior data science manager/tech lead with 10 years of experience and 4+ years of experience leading and scaling international teams. Additionally, she is a professional coach and diversity & inclusion consultant, guiding tech companies to close the gender gap. 

In this episode, we discussed Selma’s journey into technology, as well as her experiences acting as a manager and why more women should pursue a career in data science. 

Visit Selma's website at www.selmahadzic.com and connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/selma-hadzic-9630625b/

Take a listen to our latest SODA Social podcast episode featuring Sam Becht.

Sam is one of the founders of Deliqs, where he is setting up a digital ecosystem for psychedelic care and research. With their ecosystem Deliqs proposes a paradigm shift where we do not refer to psychedelics as medicine, but rather catalysts for change. That's why Deliqs' focus is on optimizing the therapeutic journey of psychedelic patients, both by giving them sovereignty over their own healing journey, and by easing the therapeutic relationship with their practitioner through an online infrastructure. Deliqs helps psychedelic users to track their journey, educate themselves and gain actionable mental health insights. For practitioners, Deliqs is creating a platform that allows them to manage patient journeys and get real-time access to client journey data for better health outcomes.