Tech Talks

For about ten years, Adrienne Adhami said yes to everything, until she realised no single commitment was getting her best. She isn’t alone. At the MyFolio Playground launch, in a cold historic banqueting hall full of board members, founders and consultants, the verdict was blunt: the one-title career is over.
But AI isn’t reshaping work evenly. The research David cites suggests women and minority groups are more exposed to the disruption, and more likely to be filtered out by the tools doing the sorting. In this short audio documentary, David hears from founder June Angelides MBE, co-host Adrienne, Laura Fox and Vivi Koroma Kala on knowing your value, guarding your time and resisting the AI-polished profile. Press play if your career no longer fits one job title, or if you deploy AI that decides whose does.
To dive deeper into today’s show, follow these links. You can find out more about MyPholyo and the Playground event at The Old Palace, Hatfield House here: https://mypholyo.com/playground/. The International Labour Organisation and Poland’s National Research Institute found that the jobs most exposed to generative AI make up a far larger share of women’s employment than men’s: https://fastcompany.co.za/work-life/2025-05-21-the-impact-of-ai-on-womens-employment-a-growing-concern. Research from the Brookings Institution and the Centre for the Governance of AI found that 86% of the six million US workers least able to adapt if AI removes their job are women: https://www.techrepublic.com/de/article/news-ai-threat-jobs-women/. Stanford’s study of around four million applications found that AI hiring tools screened out Black and Asian applicants at higher rates: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiring-tools-can-yield-racial-bias-and-systemic-rejection.

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Recorded live at Pax8 Beyond EMEA 2026. David sits down with Libby McIlhany, Chief Product Officer at Pax8, the night before her innovation keynote. They cover the questions the industry has started asking out loud: who’s accountable when an AI agent goes rogue, how European businesses handle data sovereignty without their own compute, and whether token costs could become a long-term headache for small businesses that come to rely on agents.
Libby started out in tech as an engineer in San Francisco during the first dot-com boom, and she draws a direct line from “I need a website, but I don’t know why” to today’s AI rush. She also explains why she thinks fears about the “SaaSpocalypse” are overblown. And she makes a strong case to women in tech who hold back because they think everyone else is further ahead: “Don’t ever think that someone knows more than you.”

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Ask a company's youngest employee whether they use AI, and you might hear about ten free Gmail accounts, each fed contracts until the credits run out. That story, told by Nick Heddy, President and Chief Commerce Officer at Pax8, is where shadow AI stops being a slide and becomes a confidentiality breach. Recorded on the floor of Pax8's partner conference, this conversation takes on the stakes for small businesses: firms that will never hire a CTO, can't lay anyone off, and are about to be handed always-on agents with enterprise-grade governance. We unpack why agents will soon prompt humans rather than the other way round, who owns the evidence when a customer changes a policy, and why he thinks SaaS pricing logic doesn't apply. Then there's the blunt maths: 400 million small businesses, perhaps 10,000 providers able to help. Who fills the gap?

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A candidate clears every stage of a hiring process and reaches final screening. Then the liveness check flags them as AI-generated. The client's first instinct? Assume the software got it wrong. Callum Murray, CEO of Amiqus, explains why it hadn't. He also explains why hiring fraud has moved from conference talking point to something security services now warn employers about: deepfake applicants, remote hires quietly handing their jobs to someone else, and day-one imposters who aren't the person you vetted. The stakes go well beyond HR. Callum runs mission-critical software for regulated organisations, which is exactly why he's content to let others take the bleeding-edge AI risks first. We unpack fraud as a service, why basic controls still send opportunists elsewhere, and the honesty gap at AI breakfast events, where nobody admits what fell over. Still think your hiring process isn't an attack surface?

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The people who built your client relationships may no longer be equipped to have the conversation your customers now want. That is the dilemma Harald Nuij, EMEA CEO at Pax8, hears from service providers rebuilding themselves around AI: the pitch has shifted from technology to business outcomes, and the consultants who can lead it are scarce and expensive. Some firms are going further, deliberately firing customers and absorbing margin erosion to come back stronger.
We unpack why small businesses want to do the work of 50 with 25 rather than cut headcount, why five-person companies could soon turn over a billion, why “customer zero” should now run alongside “customer one”, and his candid admission that an industry governance alliance may never fully keep pace. Press play if your team is being asked to transform faster than it can retrain.

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