Venturi's Voice: Technology | Leadership | Staffing | Career | Innovation
689 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsVenturi’s Voice brings you conversation with leaders from various technology disciplines - data, cyber security, development, cloud, infrastructure, business intelligence and more… Each week you will be able to relate, take inspiration and action the business education from our compelling guests. Outside of technology we tend to cover; career progression, influences, best practices, leadership, talent, recruitment and the inspiration behind our guest successes in career and life!
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How to attain happiness at work - Uka Mikus
April 08, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBIn this episode, Andy Davis talks to Ula Mikus, head of talent and happiness at Tinybeans. On the show, they discuss the importance of happiness at work. Andy asks Ula about her management style. Talks also turn to the best practices of building a positive work culture. Ula is talented in driving organisational change and management projects. She has always tried to have a different approach to problems solving, discovering efficient ways of doing things. Apart from being a consultant...
How to use algorithms to control your personal data - Ben Falk
April 05, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBShariq is the Senior Program Delivery Manager at Gatwick Airport He is helping advance digital and data initiatives with better predictability, more throughput, shorter lead times, lower cost and higher quality. Shariq was responsible for recovering a 2 year long failed AWS Cloud-based Data Analytics and Data Governance initiative at Gatwick airport.
Moving Gatwick airport into the cloud - Shariq Wagener
April 05, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBShariq is the Senior Program Delivery Manager at Gatwick Airport He is helping advance digital and data initiatives with better predictability, more throughput, shorter lead times, lower cost and higher quality. Shariq was responsible for recovering a 2 year long failed AWS Cloud-based Data Analytics and Data Governance initiative at Gatwick airport.
Founding London Tech Ladies - Melanie Yencken
April 04, 2019 08:06 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBMelanie is UX Design Lead at Google + Founder of LondonTechLadies. Melanie is an award-winning multi-disciplinary design leader with over 12 years of experience in the design industry. She devotes her time to setting up processes and teams so that they can deliver products that solve real user problems
Teaching coders - James Wright
March 29, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MBJames is a software developer at YLD. James is a full stack, agile software developer with a passion for maintainable and efficient code, as well as accessible and responsive web experiences. In particular, he writes JavaScript and C# across Linux, OS X, and Windows. He is also a keen writer and speaker; his tutorials, articles, and screencasts have been published by the likes of SitePoint, and I have spoken at a variety of events.
Embracing emerging technologies, artificial intelligence - Ashraf Murtada
March 29, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBAshraf is the deputy IT Director - Data Engineering & Delivery at HM Revenue & Customs Ashraf is an entrepreneurial CIO/CTO, who can write code, put tech at the heart of the business, scale teams, reduce costs, and strike a commercial deal or two.
Leading HR transformation - Cheryl Allen
March 29, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBCheryl is HR Director of Transformations at Atos. Cheryl is a HR future thinker, with lots of energy, passion and opinions on HR and the future of work. She is experienced across the full spectrum of HR & across a variety of industries including IT, government, utilities and healthcare. Cheryl is currently directing the transformation of HR including digitization, automation & offshoring activities to improve user experience & to enable the function to focus on more value add.
Documenting Chess’s cultural journey - Kate Wood
March 29, 2019 11:00 - 32 minutes - 45 MBKate is Director of Culture at Chess Kate is passionate about supporting people to maximise their potential whatever their situation or experience. She sits on the IAMCP ( International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners) Board, the Women of the Channel advisory board and is also a member to be part of the steering groups for both Women in Technology North and Women in Technology UK.
Making financial advice an aspiration not an anxiety - Richard Wazacz
March 26, 2019 12:15 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBRichard is the CEO at Octopus Wealth. Octopus Wealth is a wealth management company that helps its customers ask more of their lives. They help clients tackle some of the big, personal questions in life, by putting a plan in place that maps towards their answers. Octopus Wealth believes that some questions are too big to tackle alone, and that financial advice can transform lives for the better. They also think that getting help should be a positive and uplifting experience: an aspira...
Finding the right motivation to move jobs - Tim Hoctor
March 21, 2019 12:44 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBTim is Vice President of Professional Services at Elsevier. Tim is a technology and life science management professional, with more than 20 years leading products and teams in industry-leading data and analysis products and services, in the life science and adjacent chemical and material science fields.
Empowering home buyers with technology - David Kavanagh
March 19, 2019 10:59 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBDavid has just left Purple Bricks, after over 6 years, and is starting building something secret and awesome for 2019! David is a senior hybrid IT professional with over 20 years’ experience of development technologies. He enjoys looking at and implementing IT strategies and architectures and has worked with small and medium-sized businesses, government departments, the EU and multinational corporations such as IBM, Tesco, BT, and AMEX.
Filling the tech sectors skill shortage - Richard Billington
March 15, 2019 09:52 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MBRichard is CTO at MatsSoft Throughout his career Richard has focused on web development and has over 16 years experience in this speciality. He thrives on working with new technologies, many self-taught, and has a proven ability to define strategy, manage significant programmes and lead teams. He currently heads up the development organisation for MATS where he is responsible for ensuring the solution maintains its recognised position as an industry-leading Low-code development plat...
Success in business comes from enjoying what you do - Josh Cole
March 14, 2019 10:37 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBJosh Cole is CEO & Founder of Voxis Engineering and Recombix. With not one but two tech startups under his belt, it is safe to say that Josh epitomises the entrepreneurial spirit. His main driver in business is to build automated DevOps platforms that reduce development and staffing costs for companies by freeing developers from non-creative tasks.
Where did the job title CDO come from? - Piers Stobbs
March 05, 2019 09:15 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBPiers is CTO at MoneySuperMarket.com What does the acronym CDO mean? Whilst we now know it to stands for ‘Chief Data Officer’ that wasn’t always the case. Piers and Andy latch on to this change and use it as a springboard to talk about the creation of the CDO’s role in the C-suite. Piers also tells Andy about his strategies for convincing board members of the power and usefulness of data. They also discuss how a CDO can transform a business into a data-driven organisation. MoneyS...
Thinking is a skill we need to make more time for - Paul Bergin
March 01, 2019 13:49 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBPaul is the CTO at Sopra Steria. We’re all so busy nowadays that it can be really difficult to think about your job creatively and innovate new solutions for your business. No matter how many ‘creative sessions’ you book in with your team sometimes the best way to get into a creative mindset is in your own time. Finding time for strategic, creative thinking is a key focus of this podcast. Paul and Andy talk about how automation could hold the key to relieving us from monotonous ...
Artificial intelligence at the Bank of England - William Lovell
February 27, 2019 09:32 - 29 minutes - 41 MBWilliam is Head of Future Technology at Bank of England William is responsible for looking at how new technologies are influencing the financial system and how they can be exploited to meet the Bank of England’s mission. This involves work on distributed ledger, artificial intelligence as well as conventional technologies with a particular focus on payment and settlement platforms. The Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom. Sometimes known as...
Working in security at a managed service provider - Nada Moussa
February 26, 2019 09:14 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBNada is Information Security Manager at Six Degrees Group. Nada is a highly organised Information Security Manager with over 10 years experience in the IT and telecommunications industry, delivering modern, cost-efficient customer focused processes whilst maintaining key stakeholder and customer requirements.
Removing inherent bias from the workplace - Tina Howell
February 18, 2019 09:25 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBTina is platform lead at AND Digital. In this episode, Tina and Andy talk everything diversity. Tina relays her experiences of being the pseudo-woman in her company and they discuss whether ‘diversity’ is going a bit OTT. Tina also talks about the perils of dating farmers and chats about her excitement when looking at quantum computing. AND Digital AND Digital accelerates the development of world-class digital capabilities, and we power the product development of ambitious compani...
Routes to CDO, there’s more than one path - Jason Foster
February 14, 2019 09:11 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBJason is Co-Founder & CEO at Cynozure Jason has spent the last 15 years defining, shaping and executing strategy for information management, BI, enterprise performance management, big data and analytics solutions to support organisational transformation. Jason also runs his own data podcast Hub & Spoken: https://cynozure.co.uk/hub-and-spoken-podcast/ Cynozure Cynozure’s mission is to help individuals and their organisations access, understand and leverage data by finding those nugget...
Scaling Culture During Significant Growth - Jillienne Reggiannini
February 12, 2019 10:18 - 29 minutes - 41 MBJillienne is VP of talent at PrecisionLender. Jill is a talent leader and certified coach with over 10 years of progressive experience across diverse industries. She is known for her solution-focused orientation and passion for cultivating strong organizational cultures built on coaching, feedback, accountability and encouraging others to leverage their natural strengths. Her background consists of establishing overarching talent strategies, driving positive employee experience and deve...
Replacing mundane tasks, that’s just the start for of AI - Craig Parfitt
February 08, 2019 08:35 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBCraig is the Head of Engineering, for the Atlantic Region, at GFT Group. Automation, artificial intelligence & machine learning are all set to revolutionise the world. Whilst it’s easy to worry what effect this could have on society, Craig uses the podcast to highlight the massive amount of good AI does for humanity on a daily basis and how it will continue to revolutionise and enrich our lives. Craig is responsible for the engineering capability of 230 people in the Atlantic region ...
Integrating data into your business - Torq Pagdin
February 07, 2019 11:03 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBTorq is Director of Engineering at Hotels.com Torq is an experienced technology professional with a passion for data and new technologies. He particularly enjoys people management and inspiring others to achieve their goals. Podcast On the show Torq tells Andy how a data team can convey its value to the C-Suite. They continue this discussion point and talks about how a business can determine the ROI from its data team. Torq also describes how he integrates data into a business and expl...
Bootstrapping your big idea - Rebecca Kelly
February 06, 2019 11:14 - 27 minutes - 37.6 MBRebecca is Co-Founder & CEO at VenueScanner.com. VenueScanner has grown rapidly in the past two years recently exceeding 19000 registered venues on the app. This journey hasn’t been easy and Rebecca came on the podcast to discuss bootstrapping this startup. Andy asks why Rebecca wanted to leave the security of a well-paid job to go it alone starting a business and how does she attract the best tech talent to her business. VenueScanner.com VenueScanner.com is the UK's #1 venue discover...
The motor industry need independent, transparent data - Tom Wood
February 05, 2019 09:11 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBTom is CEO at Cazana The motor industry needs independant, transparent data, that’s the opinion of Tom Wood. His company Cazana is providing that data to 3 million customers a month. Backed by VC money Cazana is now in a rapid growth phase. Company growth, creating culture and data in the automobile sector are discussed on this podcast. Andy asks Tom about his ‘one day working interview’ hiring process and how strategic hiring, based around culture, can reduce churn. Tom also detail ...
The value of culture - Matt McNeill
February 04, 2019 11:32 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBMatt is Customer Engineering Director, Google Cloud UK&IE. Throughout a varied career, Matt has had the privilege of working alongside some great innovators and inspiring leaders at major companies, such as Google, NHS, EADS, and the European Space Agency, through roles in the UK, Europe and the US. Google Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since its foundation in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From of...
GDPR, team building and the onion model - Klaas Ardinois
February 01, 2019 08:42 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBKlaas is CTO at Azoomee Klaas has years experience in delivering bespoke software projects for firms in various industries. During this time he has built up significant experience in coaching and supporting Agile development teams and building lean organisations across the globe. Klaas puts emphasis on open communication and building the right value at the right time. His main goal is to deliver value in a fact based, predictable approach. Azoomee Azoomee is a fun learning platform for...
User experiecne reearch - Jess Sherratt
January 31, 2019 09:32 - 30 minutes - 42 MBJess is Head of User Experience at Code Computerlove Jess is a User Experience Consultant; with over three years' experience working in user experience. During this time, she has worked with a range of high profile clients such as Asda, Swinton Insurance and AstraZeneca. Code Computerlove Code Computerlove is a digital product agency. They create world-class experiences to help their clients stay ahead. They know that perfect isn’t an end point. It’s a moment in time – then it’s gone. ...
Coaching, mentoring and sponsorships - their role in building a successful career - Alan Grogan
January 30, 2019 08:45 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBAlan is an Executive Partner and Service Line Leader for Advanced Analytics, Cognitive Solutions, Data Platforms, Internet of Things and Watson Healthcare, at IBM Global Business Services, UK & Ireland. Alan spends his time helping clients and colleagues embed Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and IoT into business decisions and processes in order to unlock the potential to combine all data – internal, external, structured, unstructured, voice and visual. In doing so, the servi...
Structuring your employee’s career progression - Aaron Randall
January 29, 2019 08:51 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBAaron is CTO at Songkick This episode focuses on career progression and creating a clear career structure for members of your company. Aaron has built and published a ‘growth framework’ for the staff at Songkick and he has shared it in a blog post so anyone serious about staff development can incorporate it into their business. Aaron chats about this on the show and Andy also ties this in with the sharing economy that has been adopted by many tech professionals. Songkick Songkick is a...
Building the world’s first motion tracking based interactive video solution - Steve Callanan
January 28, 2019 17:10 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBSteve is the CEO & Co-Founder at WIREWAX WIREWAX is the world's leading interactive video technology company. WIREWAX first developed it's award-winning interactive technology during the early days of YouTube and has grown exponentially since then. This growth is the focus of the show and Steve takes Andy through the product development of Wirewax, detailing its founding and where it is today. They also discuss the pros and cons of working for large corporates vs startups and how mill...
How to decide when to invest in new tech - Peter Donlon
January 25, 2019 09:25 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBPeter is CTO at Moonpig and a non-exec chairman at Mother Group Ltd. The podcast starts with Andy and Peter discussing the Northern Powerhouse. Peter tells Andy about the strategies he employs to determine the ROI of new technologies and Andy asks how he decides what new tech to invest in. They also chat about automation and how it is making our working day both more complex yet easy. Moonpig Moonpig has been on the scene since 2000 and has made over 100 million Moonpig moments for ...
Become your own financial advisor - Matt Dalton
January 24, 2019 09:24 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBMatt is VP of Engineering at Finimize.com Overseeing the build of our personal finance platform designed to empower millennials to become their own financial advisers. Finimize Finimize is on a mission to empower everyone to become their own financial advisor. They provide the information and tools you need to invest with confidence.
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace - Brian Ballantyne
January 23, 2019 09:40 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MB(All views expressed in this podcast are Brian’s and Brian’s alone. He does not reflect the views of Amazon) Brian is Senior Program Manager - Inclusion & Diversity at Amazon. Brian is a human-obsessed working father who is passionate about improving the employee experience for everyone. He likes to drive value through curiosity, insight analysis, stakeholder collaboration and intolerance of prejudice. Brian loves learning and has a postgraduate qualification in Marketing, Philosophy ...
Video game design: The ins and outs of an expanding industry - Fawzi Mesmar
January 15, 2019 10:20 - 25 minutes - 35.7 MBFawzi is Studio Game Design Director at King Fawzi is a passionate Creative Director, Game designer, Leader, author, public speaker and retired e-sports player that has been in the gaming industry for over 15 years. His career has spanned The Middle East, New Zealand, Japan and Europe. As an author, he wrote the first ever text book about game design in Arabic. He’s a columnist at Pocket Gamer Arabia, and blogs frequently about game design and the business of making games. King King i...
Automating website creation - Seb Lewis
January 10, 2019 09:24 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBSebastian is the founder & CEO at Mettrr. Sebastian studied IT before moving into financial markets. It wasn’t until his dad asked him to build him a website that the idea for Mettrr came to him. One of the first companies to gain financial backing from crowdsourcing Mettrr raised £100,000 in 11 days. Mettrr Mettrr is a DIFM (Do It For Me) website design, build and management service purpose-built for small businesses across the world. Podcast In this show Andy asks Sebastian about h...
Finding talent to build virtual worlds - Sean Fanning
January 07, 2019 11:35 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBSean is Talent Manager at Improbable Sean is currently on a mission to hire a new generation of leaders across all spaces and verticals at Improbable. Improbable Improbable is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help solve previously impossible problems and enable the creation of new realities. In gaming and entertainment, Improbable unlocks truly next-generation game play through virtual worlds of unprecedented scale, persistence and richness. In other industries, w...
‘Applied predictions’ Building better outcomes with predictive models - Steve King
January 03, 2019 09:46 - 31 minutes - 43 MBSteve is CEO of Black Swan Data. On the show Steve recites the story of how he came to found Black Swan Data. It involves the pub and a quick detour in to history. Andy also about Black Swan’s ‘Applied Predictions’ product and how they are helping revolutionise the data space. Black Swan Data Black Swan Data creates better outcomes through technology and the power of prediction. Their products transform the way brands create value from data, finding insights and solutions that crea...
What makes a good manager: Embracing people management - Ian Lees
December 12, 2018 09:21 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBIan is head of research and development at Quantexa. A background in physics has equipped Ian with an analytical mind. One he has used extensively in his consulting career and beyond into his role with Quantexa. A savvy problem solver with a mind for numbers Ian has been instrumental in the growth of Quantexa. Quantexa Quantexa empowers organisations to drive better decisions from their data. Using the latest advancements in big data and AI, Quantexa uncovers hidden customer connecti...
The key to delivering a successful hackathon - Sean Sadler
December 03, 2018 09:30 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBSean is Head of IT at CTIL. Sean is a highly motivated and commercially aware Information Technology Executive. He has a track record of delivering increased levels of productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction. Sean has over 20 years’ experience of leading & mentoring teams spanning the full range of global IT operations, infrastructure, business systems and, service management. CTIL Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited (CTIL) was founded in 2012 as a joint v...
Cloud migration: How Photobox moved Europe's Largest Consumer Photo Database onto the Cloud
November 29, 2018 09:38 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBChris Astall Twenty years of success in various technical roles has equipped Chris with a deep knowledge and passion for cutting edge tech. He is a gifted communicator who relishes the opportunity to convey the benefits of technology to stakeholders and business leaders alike. A strategic leader Chris has built, developed and motivated IT teams across a variety of companies ranging from large enterprise companies and innovative startups. Photobox Photobox Group is Europe’s leadin...
Developing apps for enterprise companies - Richard Eaton
November 27, 2018 10:02 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBRichard Eaton is founder and Managing Director of Appware. A stalwart of the software industry, Richard has over 25 years experience working as a developer. He produced and released his first piece of software when he was 14 years old and never looked back from there. Richard has the rare combination of both technical and commercial skills. He can design concepts and architect systems. Then successfully take these developments to market and monetise them. Appware Appware develop cros...
Business growth: Controlling scale as a CTO - Marta Jasinska
November 23, 2018 09:06 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBMarta Jasinska is Chief Technology Officer at Moo. Marta is a leader in both technology and engineering. She specialises in mid to large scale web platform development for e-commerce, gaming, apps and more. MOO MOO launched in 2006 and aims to disrupt the trillion dollar global print industry by combining the values of professional design with accessibility and reach of the web. With rapid annual growth, MOO has become one of the fastest growing print businesses in the world and has o...
Creating a diverse work environment at the Financial Times - John Kundert
November 21, 2018 11:16 - 33 minutes - 46 MBJohn is CTO at Financial Times John exemplifies the values of the FT. He values high-quality journalism which is becoming increasingly rare in this fake news era. John is a big advocate of diversity, inclusion, fairness and wants to belong to an empowered, data-driven, outcome-driven organisation. He loves working with technology to solve engineering challenges. Financial Times The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for...
Business advice, be careful who you listen to - Jamie Bolding
November 21, 2018 10:25 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MB“Business advice can be really dangerous. If people are taking advice as gospel it’s dangerous because you can receive advice off a mentor that applied to them 20, 30 years ago. There business problems are different to yours and the pressures they were facing can be miles away from the ones you face today. What advice is, most of the time, is what’s worked for someone else. So with advice, take it in but don’t use it, don’t look at it as advice. It’s just knowledge and experience. Make...
Disrupting the property market - Ranj Abass & Chiara Buzzi
November 20, 2018 09:51 - 1 minute - 2.58 MBDisrupting the property market - Ranj Abass & Chiara Buzzi by Venturi Group: CTO, Data, Development, Cyber Security, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure, Cloud
Creating technical solutions for real world problems - David Jensen
November 19, 2018 11:09 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBDavid is Director of engineering for eCommerce at Photobox. David joined Photobox to help them restructure their approach to engineering and deliver a new eCommerce experience and platform. His overall aim is to return the company to significant growth. David currently runs 9 teams of over 70 people spread across London, Paris, and Lviv. Photobox Photobox has grown to become the European market-leader in photo-based products serving millions of customers a year in over ten markets. Wh...
Using communities to dispel public fears around AI - Sherin Mathew
November 15, 2018 09:32 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBSherin is Founder at AI Tech UK & a Microsoft Analytics and AI Solution Architect at IBM. Sherin is an expert in helping businesses with Cloud adoption and AI-readiness by defining a Cloud Data Strategy, AI Strategy and ultimately architecting a fit-for-purpose Enterprise scale architecture. He builds solution that are scalable to meet the current BI and Analytics demand and also the future AI and Big Data requirements! He has over 12 year’s experience working in technical and analyt...
Fintech software Yulife - a bigger mission than making money - Josh Hart
November 14, 2018 09:40 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MB“Let's give the financial services market a bigger mission than money. I’m hoping to build something that people will care about and will love. Not because it has great user experience, even though it is, but because it genuinely cares about people becoming their best selves. We’re not in this business for the money but we’re in it to create a movement that helps people actualise their full potential” Josh on changing the world with fintech software Josh is Co-founder & CTO at Yul...
Property marketplaces: Disrupting estate agents - Alvin Chevolleaux
November 13, 2018 09:22 - 34 minutes - 46.7 MBAlvin is CTO at TheHouseShop.com He’s worked in technology for over a decade as a software engineer and a technical manager. Working across a wide range of industries including finance, publishing, property & mapping technologies Alvin is as comfortable writing code as he is managing teams. TheHouseShop.com TheHouseShop.com is the UK's No.1 Property Marketplace where agents, landlords, homeowners, and developers all advertise properties for sale and to rent in the UK. TheHouseShop.c...
Artificial intelligence audio software: The future of technology? - Robert Farrell
November 12, 2018 12:10 - 32 minutes - 45 MBRobert is Chief Squads and Service Officer at AND Digital. Rob is a technology leader with mixed consulting & industry background focusing on true stakeholder engagement in delivering change and technology. AND Digital AND Digital accelerates the development of world-class digital capabilities, and they power the product development of ambitious companies - from British Airways and Conde Nast, to The Telegraph, Gousto and more. They work with clients’ people to build impactful product...