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That Tech Show

Chris Addams & Samuel Gregory

The podcast that reveals the magicians behind magic that is everyday technology.

We've spoken to leaders and Inventors from Google, Amazon, BBC, Intel, NHS, NATO, various startup founders and public figures in the technology world, revealing the part they play in shaping the modern world.


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  • 20 episodes
  • Avg 1 hr 4 min
  • English
  • Dec 22, 2022 · 1 hr 6 min

    Episode 74 - Scaling Through Times of Turbulent Tech with Peter O’Driscoll

    Today we have Peter O Driscoll who has joined us from RingGo, the car parking app you might have used in and around London, or various cities across the country. This was a fantastic episode to end on as we get into the nuances of Ringo’s journey as they pivoted from train-station parking into city parking and their plans to provide digital parking across Europe, we also get down to the nitty gritty of why parking is so inconsistent as well as the different jurisdictions Ringo have to negotiate with Fiverr: https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=454260&brand=fiverrcpa Namecheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/3510278/386170/5618 Webflow Affiliate Link: https://webflow.grsm.io/vju2g2zhpv53 Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Dec 8, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min

    Episode 73 - Change Your Mindset with Jeff Perry

    Today we have Jeff Perry, who will be talking about mindset and coaching. Jeff started out in his career developing products and has switched to developing people which is clearly his passion. So if you’re ready to be inspired today, take a listen. Fiverr: https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=454260&brand=fiverrcpa Namecheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/3510278/386170/5618 Webflow Affiliate Link: https://webflow.grsm.io/vju2g2zhpv53 Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Nov 24, 2022 · 55 min

    Episode 72 - Out the Ebb with the eBike Revolution with Rhys Howell

    On today’s episode we welcome Rhys Howell who comes to us from Berlin and we have a good old fashioned chinwag about exercise, tech, gadgets, and of course ebikes and the new, age-old debate around the attitudes towards them. We also talk about city infrastructure around the huge increase of cycling, personal travel and e-mobility as a whole. Fiver: https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=454260&brand=fiverrcpa Namecheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/3510278/386170/5618 Webflow Affiliate Link: https://webflow.grsm.io/vju2g2zhpv53 Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Nov 11, 2022 · 59 min

    Episode 71 - Building a Tech Business that Scales with Patrice Archer

    Patrice talks to us about how he had built a successful career in finance only to quit when his first child was born. This spurred a left turn into running his own businesses and finding his way into technology. 10 years later, he’s built and sold a number of companies and is now helping new business get their start by working with non technical Founders to build successful tech business through Appy Ventures Fiver: https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=454260&brand=fiverrcpa Namecheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/3510278/386170/5618 Webflow Affiliate Link: https://webflow.grsm.io/vju2g2zhpv53 Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Oct 27, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min

    Episode 70 - East London Sales, Worklife and Jellysmack with Jason Brown

    This week on the show we have Jason Brown from Jelly Smack and we of course get into what Jelly Smack is but we also chat about branding and brand perception, the world of advertisement through the eyes of Jason, and we get into some real-talk about dealing with anxiety and depression. An important discussion that is often avoided between men. Namcheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/3510278/386170/5618 Webflow Affiliate Link: https://webflow.grsm.io/vju2g2zhpv53 Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Oct 13, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min

    Episode 69 - Personified Adtech in the Age of GDPR with Ossie Bayram

    Today on the show we caught up with Ossie Bayram from Ogury a personified advertising engine. We talk about what personified advertisement is, the trials and tribulations of online advertisement brought about GDPR and how Ogury’s early belief in personified advertisement works with GDPR and leaves others in the dust as the most effective form of user profile generation. Ossie also shares his colourful and varied path to become the managing director of Ogury in particular how his semi-professional football career allows him to drive team spirit and performance into his current role. Namcheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/3510278/386170/5618 Webflow Affiliate Link: https://webflow.grsm.io/vju2g2zhpv53 Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Aug 18, 2022 · 1 hr 9 min

    Episode 65 - AWS, Microsoft & The Road to Redis with Taimur Rashid

    Today on the show we have Taimur Rashid, Chief Business Development Officer of Redis and if you don’t know who Redis are well… shame on you! Only joking, they’re an open-source datastore used by pretty much anyone you can shake a stick at. In this episode Taimur gives us a whistle stop tour of coming from a computer science degree to AWS, Microsoft and eventually a C-suite member at Redis. We take a trip down memory lane as he saw the very beginnings of AWS and being in meetings with Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy through to his role at Microsoft and their desire to reshape their culture. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: https://amzn.to/3A2cL4b Hit Refresh: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hit-Refresh-Rediscover-Microsofts-Everyone-ebook/dp/B01HOT5SQA Namcheap Affiliate Link (discounts using the link): https://namecheap.pxf.io/c/3510278/386170/5618 Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Aug 4, 2022 · 1 hr 14 min

    Episode 64 - Arguing with People on the Internet with Uncle Bob

    Boy do we have a magician for you today as on today’s episode we have the one and only Uncle Bob Martin. Bob is a legend in the computing world best known for his role in establishing Test Driven Development, the SOLID principles, being one of the signatory’s of the Agile Manifesto and of course Clean Code. Bob has had his fair share of controversy over the years and we get into all that but what was important to us was his impact on the technology industry, and ultimately, the world. Video Podcast: https://youtu.be/d0tRBwhgKos Fiverr Affiliate Link: https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=454260&brand=fiverrcpa Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software - https://amzn.to/3JorquC The C Programming Language - Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie. - https://amzn.to/3PTi6S7 Uncle Bobs Books Clean Code - https://amzn.to/3zRA55O Designing Object Oriented C++ Applications using the Booch Method - https://amzn.to/3oQ2HGo Patterns Languages of Program Design 3 - https://amzn.to/3QaxbhS More C++ Gems - https://amzn.to/3vuP5nF Extreme Programming in Practice - https://amzn.to/3A0SQ77 Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices. - https://amzn.to/3Q0YLP6 UML for Java Programmers - https://amzn.to/3zS2h8C The Clean Coder - https://amzn.to/3OUYCLF Clean Architecture - https://amzn.to/3bkYVli Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Jul 21, 2022 · 1 hr 6 min

    Episode 63 - Construct 3, No Code Game Creation with Tom and Ashley

    Today on the show we have double trouble. Tom and Ashley, the creators of gaming platform Construct 3. Can you imagine building a multi-national computer game company with your brother?? I think most of us would just end up fighting. Tom and Ashley give us a wholesome, grass-roots insight into what it takes to grow a company from humble beginnings to be one of the most popular game development platforms on the internet, and how it came to be so popular in NASA, EA, Sega, Zynga and King! Video Podcast: https://youtu.be/aJgHnyrzFgM Webflow Affiliate Link: https://webflow.grsm.io/vju2g2zhpv53 Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Jun 23, 2022 · 1 hr

    Episode 60 - Laiye's Artificial Intelligence-Driven Intelligent Automation with Neil Parker

    This week we have Neil Parker from Laiye and he’s here to tell us all about their AI IA tool. That’s Intelligent Automation using Artificial Intelligence. we get into what the tool itself is, how chatbots and IA is being used to empower customer service and provide new jobs for those that would effectively get displaced by such a tool, we talk about the saturated market of chatbots and how automation will take over the world…. we also casually dip into how Neil took a startup from his garage to $10 million! Laiye: https://laiye.com/ Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Jun 16, 2022 · 1 hr 20 min

    Episode 59 - The Magic Behind Event-Driven Architecture with Jamil Ahmed

    Today we’re talking to Jamil Ahmed, Distinguished Engineer from Solace. This is a pretty deep conversation about event-driven architectures. We talked about his introduction into the event-driven world whilst he was working in the now-defunct Lehman Bros, the environment around the collapse and how event-driven architectures have evolved from the algorithmic trading world to become the default way of doing business for the modern real-time organisation that needs it’s information now whilst it’s relevant. Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Jun 9, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min

    Episode 58 - Material Design in a Virtual World with Daniela Paredes

    Daniela Parades is on the show this week and what a treat this episode is. Gravity Sketch is a design and collaboration tool set in Virtual reality. In this episode we get into product design, how Gravity Sketch came to be and how it drastically changed as virtual reality headsets evolved since the early days of VR, what those early days of VR looked like and of course, the infinite possibilities in Gravity Sketch and the future of the platform. Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ Twitter: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 26, 2022 · 1 hr 16 min

    Episode 56 - Navigating Your Career in Tech from an MIT Instructor with Mark Herschberg

    Mark Herschberg is on the show today to talk a bit about career growth bringing 20 years of experience at MIT into your ears. Buy the career toolkit: https://amzn.to/39zsBu3 Mark gives deep insight into what it takes to grow your career in tech whether that be startups or large organisations, we get into career planning, and what he wishes he knew knowing what he knows now (that’s a lot of ‘knows’), what it was like at MIT, we touch on imposter syndrome and how to overcome it and how his experience as a CTO affects his ability to teach others. Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 19, 2022 · 1 hr 13 min

    Episode 55 - Sidepreneurship and Launching a Product in a New Market Category with Nicole Smith

    We welcome Nicole Smith on the show this week as we talk about Flytographer, a company she founded after a trip to Paris that led to a breakthrough Idea. Nicole is the CEO and founder of Flytographer and this episode gives us an insight into what she calls herself, a ‘sidepreneur’ while making the switch from a successful career and making that jump into starting your own company whilst being a parent. There are some juicy bits in here about developing a startup efficiently in a brand new product market, hiring, Jim Carey’s birthplace, funding and investment and speaking to the founder of a travel photography service we, of course, speak about travel and the future of travel in a post-covid world... Support the show and Buy us a coffee! Edited by: Simon Hoerner Produced by: Samuel Gregory and Chris Addams Theme Music by: Chris Addams Sponsored by: Jupiter and the Giraffe Website: https://thattech.show YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4paazkqrlwtB_WW28w4Gsg Instagram: @thattechshow_ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thattechshow/ Get in touch: hello@thattech.show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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