Tech Talks

Women are twice as likely to lose their jobs to AI as men. Heather Black, founder of Supermums, has spent ten years building the pathway for women into tech, and she's not interested in the stats alone. In this conversation, she and David get into:
➡️ Why AI is quietly widening the gender gap in tech hiring
➡️ The “digital belly flop”: what happens when a £2m AI project skips change management
➡️ The NLP Logical Levels framework Heather uses to diagnose failed tech rollouts
➡️ Why she stepped back from policy and refocused on one person at a time: starting with “Jo”

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Google had rules, but AI search is a black box.
Francisco Vigo, CEO of geoSurge, joins David Savage to unpack why large language models default to the brands they already know, and what that means if yours isn't one of them.
Francsico explains the bias built into how ChatGPT and Claude decide what to recommend, why marketers are more anxious about this shift than any before it, and the energy bottleneck nobody's pricing into the AI boom yet.

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How do you scale a platform built on getting people off their screens?
Cliq co-founder Nicola Gunby joins our host David Savage to unpack a closely-held funding round, early moves into Australia and Europe, and the tension of keeping community intimate while growing fast.
Nicola shares why her team shows up to the events they build for, why founder storytelling beats a polished pitch, and what's missing from the conversation about women in tech.

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Is your company already living in the AI 'tokenpocalypse'?
Anaconda CEO David DeSanto joins our host David Savage to unpack the hidden costs of scaling AI; from a developer burning $300,000 a month on tokens with nothing to show for it, to the compliance risks of data quietly crossing borders. They dig into why AI-native platforms are starting to redefine cloud computing, and why we're at a critical fork in the road between closed and open-source AI. It's a topic not enough are reckoning with...

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George Davis went from building a cash-flow forecasting startup in London at 18, to crypto cross-border payments, to founding Lorum; a correspondent bank for banks, chasing an OCC license in the US.
His argument? The correspondent banking system isn't broken, the incentives inside it are, and almost nobody outside the industry is talking about what happens when banks try to lend deposits that might not last the week.

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