Digital Matters

Welcome to Digital Matters, the gravity9 podcast where we dive deep into the latest trends, insights, and innovations surrounding the digital evolution of your organisation. Host and gravity9 founder Noel Ady is joined by gravity9 AI Lead, Loghman Zadeh and gravity9 Solutions Architect, Tom Maruszak as we learn more about Retrieval Augmented Generation or RAG. RAG, is an approach in natural language processing that combines the strengths of retrieval-based and generation-based models. I...

Welcome to episode two of the gravity9 series on Artificial Intelligence hosted by gravity9 founding Partner Noel Ady. gravity9 AI Lead, Loghman Zadeh joins the conversation as co-host. Loghman has over 20 years AI experience, working within a diverse range of industries creating machine learning models and using deep learning techniques to deliver insights and solve organizational challenges. Also joining the discussion is gravity9 Partner, Solutions Architect and all-round visionary...

In the first in the gravity9 series on Artificial Intelligence gravity9 AI Lead, Loghman Zadeh, joins host Noel Ady. With over 20 years AI experience, Loghman has worked within a diverse range of industries creating machine learning models and using deep learning techniques to deliver insights and solve organizational challenges. Also joining the discussion is gravity9 Partner, Solutions Architect and all-round visionary, Tom Maruszak. Tom is at the forefront of designing cutting...

In this episode of Digital Matters, the first of 2023, gravity9 partners Andy Ross and Noel Ady speak with experienced CIO and Nuclear Physicist Tim Hargest. Having worked within the Technology industry for a number of years and holding a number of CIO roles, Tim discusses the challenges CIO's are facing in todays world and how Digital consultancies can really meet their needs. In this podcast we discuss; The challenge for most CIO's is ensuring the foundations are right, the cost and that it...

In this episode of Digital Matters Andy Ross and Andy Newman talk with Digital Founder and Head Coach of Team Sterka as well as published author of Human Powered - Supercharge Your Digital Product Teams with Emotional Intelligence. Trenton is a great guest with lots of fantastic thoughts and examples of how emotional intelligence really can supercharge your business and its people. During the episode we discuss; - The natural cycle of organisations and how to break it - How organ...

In episode 18 of Digital Matters, Andy Newman talks with Jatin Ondhia, entrepreneur and Fintech founder of the investment company, Shojin Property Partners. In this episode, Andy discovers how, in a market that has been slow to digitise, Jatin has created a platform that makes investment accessible to everyone. In this episode Jatin discusses; Making the move from banking to property investment and how Jatin discovered the gap in the market.How investment can be made available to everyone t...

Digital Matters hosts Andy Ross and Andy Newman talk with Joshua Wohle. After successfully establishing his sixth business, digital entrepreneur, and founder of Mindstone, Joshua discusses his entrepreneurial journey, how he created and built successful digital products and the path to realising great digital products. The path to envisioning, designing and building digital businesses and the learnings along the wayEvolving roles from tech focus to people & product focus while building a ...

In episode 14 of gravity9’s Digital Matters podcast, we welcome Daragh Persse, Founder of The Brand Fans, the independent creative sponsorship and fan engagement consultancy. Now ten years old, The Brand Fans create emotional brand experiences through sponsorship delivering long term connections across sport, music, entertainment, arts and culture. Andy and Andy will be looking into the sponsorship market and what it looks like in an increasingly digital world. How you can digitise an ...

In episode twelve of gravity9’s Digital Matters podcast Andy Ross and Andy Newman talk with technology pioneer and entrepreneur Jim Duffy who has been transforming industries using the latest digital technology since the Internet began, Recently Jim held the role of CEO at Tracr™, an innovative, industry-focused blockchain traceability platform developed for the diamond industry by market leader De Beers. In this episode of Digital Matters Jim talks about Blockchain, and its evolution. ...

With NFT's, (non fungible token) such a hot topic at the moment they have been somewhat of a discussion topic amongst our digitally-minded team here at gravity9. So much so that Experience Practice Director, Andy Newman and Senior Consultant Majid Malik have come together to share their perspective on the NFT market and where it is going in our latest Digital Matters podcast. Download the latest episode of the Digital Matters Podcast via your preferred app or subscribe to ensure ...

As we reach episode ten of gravity9’s Digital Matters podcast Andy Ross and Andy Newman talk with Dr Catarine Carvalho, Data Scientist at Data Science and AI consultancy Deeper insights. Catarina joins us to discuss the hot topic of image processing and recognition and how these capabilities are being leveraged by industries such as Amazon in their Fresh Store, driverless cars and even NASA, the issues surrounding data protection how we can apply the technology in our businesses. How t...

In episode nine of gravity9’s Digital Matters podcast Andy Ross and Andy Newman talk with Ken Valledy, Partner and Co-Founder of Progressive, an organization bringing start-ups and big brands together to accelerate growth. Ken is also the host of the Catalyst podcast – a podcast focused on how corporates and startups can work together. During the podcast Ken discusses; Making the jump from Large brand FMCG Marketing into innovation and why it was the right decision at the right time.&nb...

In episode seven of gravity9’s Digital Matters podcast Partner Andy Ross talks with Cloudsoft’s VP of Engineering, Aled Sage and Principal Engineer Alasdair Hodge about migration to the Cloud and why it isn’t just an IT initiative. A breakdown of the main Cloud offerings, including; AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba, and what differentiates them from one another. The key benefits to Cloud migration outside of IT and why it is an enabler for innovation an...

In episode five of gravity9’s Digital Matters podcast Partner Andy Ross and Experience Director Andy Newman talk with John Buckley from the Public Policy Lab in New York. John has worked with organisations all around the world, helping them to understand the needs of their customers and re-design service, product and process solutions to meet those needs. In this episode, John discusses how public sector organisations can leverage service design and design thinking to improve the lives of cit...

In episode four of gravity9’s Digital Matters podcast Partner Andy Ross and Experience Director Andy Newman talk with Andy Caddy, previously CTO of Whitbread and CIO of Virgin Active, Andy is now Group Technology Director at The Collective, a London and New York based co-living organisation designed to connect members. Andy talks with us about the evolution of the CTO/CIO role and the skills of great businesses leaders. Why the role of the CTO/CIO is a privileged position. How the...