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Every week, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby sit down with founders, CEOs, and innovators at mission-driven tech companies to discuss how tech can help solve the most pressing issues of our time— and how to avoid losing sight of the humans it affects.
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This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Savena Surana are joined by Andrew O Neill, Headteacher at All Saints Catholic College and CEO at Lighthouse Data.
All Saints is a school like no other; it has trialled a mobile phone ban, an 11-hour school day, and flexible working for teachers. On the podcast, Andrew discusses his reasons for these innovative approaches to education – including the impact of social media on students' mental health and academic performance, the importance of fostering community connections, and the significance of investing in teachers' well-being – and how he has found the media attention that they have attracted.
He also explains how data-driven insights, offered for free by Lighthouse Data, can transform a school’s performance.
Find more about Lighthouse Data here: https://www.lighthousedata.org/
This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Savena Surana are joined by Erika Anderson, co-founder and CCO at Storytell.ai and author of Building Humane Tech substack.
They discuss what humane technology means for Storytell.ai and how the team implements responsible design principles in the technology that they develop.
The episode also touches on the need for storytelling in business, the four different stages of people’s relationship with AI, and the growing dangers of AI companion bots.
Find more about Storytell.ai here: https://storytell.ai/
Follow Erika here (X): https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikamanderson/
Reading Building Humane Tech here: https://humanetech.substack.com/
And some other recommendations from Erika:
Read Erika’s draft Humane Tech product principles: https://humanetech.substack.com/p/draft-humane-product-principles
Watch Storytell’s webinar on building AI with integrity: https://web.storytell.ai/webinars/storytell-webinar-building-ai-with-integrity
Complete Storytell’s company workshop on algorithmic bias: https://web.storytell.ai/webinars/from-theory-to-practice-how-to-address-algorithmic-bias
Check out the Clean Communication framework here: https://www.clean-communication.com/
And listen to Undivided Attention episodes on Character.ai: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ksKxpSW9fMPNgUqHFcTLG?si=W6h6V1DDRwOp9uybStz9iw&nd=1&dlsi=e8c90a9ff3034ba9
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ahOQ34R03iUuEacQ62Vve?si=dfG4FnZhTjOyNwK6CPXL5g&nd=1&dlsi=bca81a06b79c4cc4
This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Odun Eweniyi, co-founder and COO at PiggyVest. By providing easy-to-use tools for digital saving and micro-investing, PiggyVest has helped 5 million people grow their savings.
Odun shares her journey from tech journalism into fintech and the insights from the PiggyVest Savings Report 2024. Recognising social media as a tool to engage younger audiences and promote financial literacy, Odun explains the extent of her hands-on approach to PiggyVest’s accounts.
The episode also touches on other ways Odun is making inclusive platforms that empower individuals and communities - particularly women - in Nigeria. Odun co-founded The Feminist Coalition, which propelled the #EndSARS movement, and First Check Africa, a female-led angel fund that invests in women African tech at an early stage. More recently, she’s ventured into the world of podcasting with the Carousel Network, a podcast production company in Nigeria that amplifies female voices. Odun explains the obstacles feminists face in Nigeria, while reflecting on the progress the movement has made over the last decade.
Find more about Piggyvest here: https://www.piggyvest.com/
Follow Odun here (X): https://x.com/OdunEweniyi
And here (LI): https://www.linkedin.com/in/odunayoeweniyi
This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Maya Dharampal-Hornby and Savena Surana speak to Ariana Alexander-Sefre, founder and co-CEO at Spoke, a music-based mental wellness app.
SPOKE hires artists, who are trained by psychologists, therapists and neuroscientists, to produce music that supports mental wellbeing. Through this, SPOKE provides an aggregated platform for people who can connect with young men and other underrepresented young people - musicians, cultural leaders, influential voices - to use their voice in the most impactful way.
They discuss how artists and mental health practitioners collaborate for SPOKE, and the need for a restructured approach to artist compensation and community building within the music industry.
Ariana also shares challenges she has encountered in growing SPOKE, the connection that exists between mental health and activism, and the importance of speaking out against systems of oppression–even when investment gets pulled as a result.
Find more about SPOKE here: https://spoke.world/
Download SPOKE here (and use it!): https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/spoke-music-meditate-sleep
Follow Ariana here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arianasefre
This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Tyler Denk, co-founder and CEO of beehiiv, a newsletter platform that helps creators monetise and grow their audiences.
beehiiv currently sends out over 2 billion emails per month - up from 500 million per month in August 2023. Tyler is no stranger to a fast-growing media organisation. In the episode, he shares his experience growing Morning Brew from 100,000 subscribers to over 3,500,000.
The episode also touches on the significance of transparency and user-centric development in driving the company's success, why today’s media climate has journalists migrating to newsletter platforms, and what startup he would build if his hands weren’t so full with beehiiv.
Find more about beehiiv here: https://www.beehiiv.com
Follow Tyler here (X): https://x.com/denk_tweets
And here (LI): https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-denk/
And here: https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/
This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Sara Berkai, founder and CEO of Ambessa Play. Ambessa Play is a social enterprise that designs educational toy kits and tools for children, with a focus on supporting displaced and refugee children.
The conversation centres around the importance of co-designing products with users - specifically, the importance of understanding the context of displaced children in product design.
Sara also shares insights on Ambessa’s marketing strategy (which she hadn’t spent a dime on until recently!), the impact of her academic background, and the state of edtech.
Find more about Ambessa Play here: https://ambessaplay.com/
Follow Sara here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saraberkai/
If you’re a content marketer who doesn’t believe the increasingly common wisdom that “AI will automate the boring parts of your job”, listen to this episode.
This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Victor Ijidola, co-founder and CEO of Leaps.
Victor explains why Google is deranking your content. In short, people want insights from SMEs, not from content marketers who are, for the most part, abstracted from the issues they pen blogs about.
The conversation details the issues that PR and comms people and content marketers face when collaborating with subject matter experts - from the organisational faff to the trials of transcription - and how digital tools like Leaps can automate much of the process.
Find more about Leaps here: https://leapshq.com/
Follow Victor here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/content-strategist-victor/
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Yaseen Rostom, Founder and CEO of Incredible.
Yaseen shares insights about the challenges of debt management, the importance of cash flow for small businesses, and how communities can be built within the fintech space.
The conversation underlines why digital infrastructure will reduce the stress that comes with managing finance, all while addressing the emotional aspects of financial management.
Find more about Incredible here: https://www.getincredible.com/post/hello-world
Follow Yaseen here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yrstm/?originalSubdomain=uk
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Gaurab Bansal, Executive Director of Responsible Innovation Labs.
Gaurab shares insights on the practice gap in responsible innovation and attributes it, largely, to the complex regulations US startups face, and the ever-changing political landscape–both impeding startups from scaling sustainably and responsibly.
The conversation also touches on the influence of Effective Altruism on policymakers in the US, and the impact of misinformation (AI-facilitated or otherwise) on democratic processes.
Find more about Responsible Innovation Labs here: https://www.rilabs.org/
Follow Gaurab here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurab-bansal/
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Rushab Shah, CEO of OneHive.
Rushab speaks about the intersection between education, mindfulness and community engagement, exploring how technology can help educators understand better, and respond to, individuals’ psychosocial needs.
Rushab also touches on the cultural expectations placed on students, particularly within South Asian communities, the emerging hydrogen sector and its workforce demands, and why policymakers increasingly need to view education as a lifelong project.
Find more about OneHive here: https://onehive.ai/
Follow Rushab on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rushabmshah
Learn more about what we do at Literal Humans here: https://literalhumans.com/
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Finn Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of Flock Health.
He discusses how Flok Health is reshaping physiotherapy within the NHS through automation and community healthcare. He highlights the challenges faced in delivering timely care for musculoskeletal conditions and the importance of integrating technology to improve access to effective.
Finn also shares insights on the regulatory landscape, the importance of patient choice, and the potential for scaling AI healthcare solutions across various conditions.
Find more about Flok Health here: https://flok.health/
Follow Finn on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finn-stevenson?originalSubdomain=uk
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Sunghee Park, Founder and CEO of SYNKii
Online teaching surged during Covid-19. But with music lessons requiring students and teachers to play in synchronicity, lags in connections that were commonplace on video calling platforms like Zoom, made it nearly impossible for music students to learn remotely. As an experienced private tutor of piano herself, Sunghee faced these challenges first hand, and so she decided to build a solution: SYNKii.
Tune into this episode now to hear why platforms like Zoom are inadequate for music learners, how data-driven insights can be used by teachers to personalise their music lessons, and the opportunities for and limitations of AR technologies in music education.
Find out more about SYNKii here: https://www.synkii.com/
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Cien Solon, co-founder and CEO of LaunchLemonade and Director of Scale That Thing!.
AI advocate Cien Solon is fighting to make AI a tool at everyone’s disposal - an “AI for All” as Cien so pithily calls it. To help individuals and organisations harness the power of AI, Cien has founded Scale That Thing!, which offers more tailored services to help businesses scale with AI, and LaunchLemonade, a no-code platform for users to turn their ideas into an AI-powered business.
Tune into this episode now to hear how AI co-pilots can save you time, how LaunchLemonade is breaking barriers for women in AI, and the importance of diversifying investment.
Find out more about LaunchLemonade here: https://launchlemonade.app/
Find out more about Scale That Thing! here: https://www.scalethatthing.com/
Find out more about Cien’s work here: https://ciensolon.com/
Get in touch with Cien here: ai@ciensolon.com
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Steve Endacott, Chairman of Neural Voice and Neural River.
Neural Voice is a spin-off from incubator Neural River, a genAI platform enabling businesses to develop customer-assistance voicebots.
Tune into this episode now to hear Steve how Steve leveraged Neural Voice’s technology to make a bid for Parliament in the UK’s General Election, and how he believes AI will change the political landscape in the UK.
Find more about Neural River here: https://www.neuralriver.ai/
Find more about Neural Voice here: https://www.neural-voice.ai/
Find more about AI Steve here: https://www.ai-steve.co.uk/
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Mickey Pardo, research fellow at Cornell University and former Postdoctoral Associate at Colorado State University.
Mickey studied the rumbles of savannah elephants in partnership with Save the Elephants, discovering that elephants’ naming system is very similar to the way in which human names work - much more than dolphins and parrots who have been previously touted as having the most human-like naming system.
Tune into this episode now to hear Mickey discuss the research and how he hopes it might help conservation efforts for elephants.
Read the full paper authored by Mickey Pardo, Kurt Fristrup, David S. Lolchuragi, Joyce Poole, Petter Granli, Cynthia Moss (Elephant Trust), Lain Douglas-Hamilton and George Wittemyer, here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.25.554872v1.full
And check out the work of Mickey’s collaborating partners:
https://www.savetheelephants.org/
https://www.elephantvoices.org/
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Will Saunter, Co-Founder and Biosecurity Lead at BlueDot Impact.
The social enterprise offers 12-week, part-time courses in AI Alignment, AI Governance and Biosecurity. Alumni have gone on to pursue high impact ventures in AI and biosecurity, such as leading safety teams at top labs, becoming senior government policy makers and facilitating the courses themselves.
Tune into this episode now to hear how Will turned a university reading group into a learning offering that, to date, over 2500 people have completed from all over the world.
Find out more about BlueDot Impact here: https://bluedot.org/
Find out more about the Pandemics course here: https://biosecurityfundamentals.com/pandemics/
Apply to the Pandemics course before September 15 2024 here: https://forms.bluedot.org/aBTNsdSm31iVur7uf1Nz
Find out more about the AI Alignment & Governance courses here: https://aisafetyfundamentals.com/
Apply to the AI Alignment course before October 6 2024 here: https://forms.bluedot.org/NliceQmUvMTfPDkVIYJy
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Ben Dodson, co-founder and CEO of Doowii.
Helping teachers harness AI to better understand and address their students’ needs, Doowoi helps non-technical users access data they previously couldn't, improving workflows and decision-making.
Tune into this episode now to hear Ben discuss the problems with AI plagiarism detectors, how personalise data science improves student outcomes, and how what he learnt about work culture at Google and Snapchat.
Find more about Doowii here: https://www.doowii.io/
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Kevin Flyangolts, Founder & CEO of Aclid.
With biotechnology becoming increasingly digital and automated, biosecurity guidelines are constantly changing. Aclid enables end-to-end compliance for gene synthesis providers by automating biosecurity screenings, promoting education in the life science sector, and building trust between companies and customers.
Tune into this episode now to hear Kevin discuss how biosecurity concerns have evolved since covid-19, and explain why adaptive regulations, responsible practices, and automated screenings and verifications are the future of biosecurity.
Find more about Aclid here: https://www.aclid.bio/
Get in touch with Kevin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevfly/
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Brad Magnetta, co-founder of modlee.
With a growing demand for in-house AI and ML solutions, modlee automates, simplifies and pools insights about machine learning development.
Tune into this episode now to hear Brad discuss the distinction between knowledge loss and preservation, modlee’s plans to work with the developers of tomorrow, and why he’s excited about businesses building generative AI solutions.
Find out more about modlee here: https://www.modlee.ai/
In this week’s episode of Tech Can’t Save Us, hosts Paul David and Maya Dharampal-Hornby are joined by Sophie Rossi, founder and CEO of HedonX.
With the femtech and sextech industries seeing a surge in sales during the pandemic, HedonX’s soon-to-launch range of intimate wellness products will satisfy this demand all while promoting the use of ethical marketing and sourcing.
Tune into this episode now to hear Sophie discuss the importance of breaking stigma around senior sexuality, the challenges that femtech and sextech founders face when marketing on Meta, and the €15,000 pay-to-play ticket companies like HedonX encounter when looking to sell in luxury department stores.
Find out more about HedonX here: https://www.instagram.com/hedonxofficial/
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