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Welcome to Tech Talks (A Podcast about Technology Leaders and Leadership). We explore the stories behind the most recognisable names in industry and the startups you’re yet to hear from. The innovation, cultural transformation and investment stories driving technology with host David Savage. If you’re interested in the latest ideas on AI, data, cyber-security this is the show for you. Follow and join the conversation. Tech Talks is powered by Harvey Nash, the leading global provider of technology

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00:26:24

Language Still a Barrier? Not for Much Longer.

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2026/09/18

DeepL's Gonçalo Gaiolas is building the Babel Fish for real: voice translation that captures tone, emotion, even your own vocal fingerprint, live and at near-zero latency. He explains why DeepL isn't racing the frontier labs, shares a story about a silent colleague who finally spoke up once a language barrier disappeared, and makes an unusually candid case for talking more openly about what constant technological change is doing to our heads. As we mention in today's show, we'd love you to complete(

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00:27:16

What Do You Need to Sacrifice to Succeed?

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2026/09/17

Stuart Fenton, CEO of Ingentive, joins David to discuss why the AI cost conversation is broken. Everyone asks "how much will the tokens cost, Stuart says that's the wrong question; the right one is how much you'll save. He unpacks the real economics of AI transformation, the relentless discipline it takes to stay current, and the personal sacrifice behind every entrepreneurial bet. A blunt reframe of cost, risk, and what building something real actually demands.As we mention in

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00:29:46

Can Governance Actually Keep AI's Toddler Phase in...

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2026/09/16

General Mills' Sanchit Srivastava (Senior Manager Data Analytics) joins the podcast to talk about why unstructured data isn't the hard part of implementation, governance is. He compares AI to a toddler ("it'll get there, but a lot happens on the way"), unpacks why token costs are about to explode, and makes the case that AI should be sold as an amplifier, not a replacer. Today's episode is a sharp, practical look at where enterprise AI actually breaks-down.As we mention in today's show, we'd love

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00:23:18

The Borehole That Built a Rocket

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2026/09/15

Moletsane Mophethe grew up walking to boreholes for drinking water in Lesotho. Now he's founded Metal Morph, recovering critical minerals like aluminium and iron straight from wastewater instead of landfill, cutting reliance on a global supply chain split between mines in Africa, Australia and Russia, and manufacturing concentrated in China. From childhood scarcity to a £700k pre-seed raise and deals covering 56% of UK water, this is what happens when you've lived the problem you're solving.WhatsApp

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00:41:05

AI Broke the Career Ladder. Did It Build a Replacement?

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2026/09/14

AI is thinning out the bottom rungs of the corporate ladder. There are fewer entry-level roles, fewer easy starts inside big organizations. OpenAI's Global Head of Founder Experience, Laura Modiano, doesn't dispute that. But she thinks the conversation stops one step too early...On this episode, David pushes her on the trade-off directly: if AI is closing doors inside large companies, is "just start your own business" a genuine answer, or a convenient one? Laura argues young, digitally fluent

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00:25:27

Is the UK Crippling Talent with a Funding Crisis?

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2026/09/11

Patrick Smith, the founder and CEO of Zally, returns to Tech Talks with an update on building the world's first foundational model for human behaviour.Zally is a business that's grown from a Manchester ambition into a San Francisco-headquartered company with a research lab still rooted in the North of England. David and Patrick talk continuous authentication, the ethics of training AI on consented human behaviour, why the UK keeps losing founders to the US ecosystem (and what it could do

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00:34:50

Forget the Regulation: Why the EU AI Act is an...

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2026/09/10

Is the EU AI Act keeping you up at night? Box's Global Head of Public Policy, Leah Perry, argues that organizations are looking at AI governance all wrong. It’s not a legal hurdle; it’s an operational maturity test. In this episode, we unpack why regulated industries are ahead, the real threat of ignoring employee upskilling, and how to build a cross-functional framework that keeps your business agile.We are also discussing a press release sent to us on the 9th of September, it's a statement

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00:29:13

Managing the Hyper-Confident Machine: The Reality of...

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2026/09/09

AI agents write code faster than we can review it, shifting software developers from builders to managers of virtual colleagues. Chris Plowman, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Data and AI at Slalom, joins David to unpack this existential shift. Why are we returning to the age of the generalist? And why are CIOs discarding business fundamentals in a rush to implement AI?As we mention in today's show, we'd love you to complete our Digital Leadership Report. Just click here.WhatsApp us

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00:36:24

Is Your Period Data Already Being Sold?

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2026/09/08

Amber Vodegel built Pregnancy+ to 150 million users before selling to Philips. Now, she's back with 28x, a women’s health tracker tackling a massive risk: the monetization and exploitation of intimate health data. In this episode, Amber shares why she's ditching cloud servers and central databases entirely for an on-device architecture, the reality of 'return on mission' funding, and why AI-driven hiring platforms make data privacy a matter of survival.WhatsApp us your comments and questions on

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00:25:30

The "Silent Sabotage" of AI Adoption (And the...

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2026/09/07

AI adoption isn't a tech problem; it's a profound organisational shift. Wesley ter Haar, co-founder of Monks, joins David Savage to expose the uncomfortable realities of AI: the "silent sabotage" from teams on the fence, the paternalistic industry lies about job losses, and why most enterprises are set to fail the transition. It’s a raw, honest look at what it actually takes to rebuild an organization at the speed of Silicon Valley.WhatsApp us your comments and questions on

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00:29:16

Why Your AI Strategy Belongs in Business Ops (And the...

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2026/09/04

Everyone is pitching enterprise AI, but why is the CFO missing from the room? ShipStation Global’s Arjun Srinivasan joins David Savage to challenge the fluff. He explains why AI leadership belongs in Business Operations, not IT. From red-teaming AI at his dinner table to coaching pre-teens to build safely, Arjun shares how to move from framework to code and tackle the one metric everyone avoids: real, quantifiable business ROI.WhatsApp us your comments and questions on +447392087344Tech Talks is

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00:21:57

Six Hundred Million Decisions a Day. Zero Trust in...

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2026/09/03

Six hundred million automated decisions are made daily at Optimum, but what happens when the human agents go rogue? Today's episode features a conversation with Sundar Krishnan, who reveals why customer service agents override AI recommendations, the long-term cost of short-term customer "credits," and why enterprise AI is guaranteed to hallucinate without a critical, context-driven semantic layer. Todays show underscores why it is so important to bridge the human-AI trust gap.WhatsApp

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00:24:35

Is Your AI Strategy Actually Working Backwards?

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2026/09/02

Most companies chasing AI ROI are solving the maze from the outside in. Stephen Henn, Managing Director of AI Innovation at DLA Piper, joins David Savage to explain why "AI-ifying" a broken human process just gives you an automated, expensive mess. From the token economics of scaling AI to the compliance risk of shadow "vibe coding," Stephen shares what it actually takes to work backward from real impact and get to deterministic, fiduciary-grade results.WhatsApp us your comments

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00:26:24

The Price of Inaction: Why Novant Health's Chief AI...

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2026/09/01

We often hear about the latest, shiniest AI models, but what is the real cost of doing nothing? Vijay Sankararaman, Chief AI Officer at Novant Health, joins David Savage to explain why he rejects the "pilot graveyard" of tech for tech's sake. Discover how AI is being deployed inside a secure, agentic walled garden to break constraints, eliminate administrative inertia, and return the clinic to its most sacred interaction: the doctor-patient conversation.Read the article David and Sam

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00:19:48

The Death of the Enterprise: Why the Best AI Model...

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2026/08/31

If everyone has access to the same AI model, what's actually left to compete on? AES Chief Digital Strategy and AI Officer Erin Boyd argues it's not the model, it's the data, and knowing exactly where to reinsert human friction. She explains why she told a room of executives their companies would "wither" if they don't reimagine how they work, and why burning down institutional baggage isn't about cutting jobs. This is AI leadership, unfiltered.WhatsApp us your comments

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00:26:34

Is More AI Actually Making You Slower?

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2026/08/28

Fractional CTO and AI engineering lead Jess Madhavan joins David to unpack why so many leadership teams feel like they're falling behind on AI, and why the real risk often isn't too little AI adoption, but too much of it without governance.Jess and David dig into the shrinking junior talent pipeline, what actually helps early-career engineers stand out now, and why she credits her career less to skill than to who she chose to help along the way.WhatsApp us your comments and questions on

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00:27:29

Is Tech Leaving Women Behind Twice as Fast?

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2026/08/27

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

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00:26:08

Why AI Forgets Your Brand: The Nightmare Keeping CMOs...

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2026/08/26

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.WhatsApp us your comments and questions on

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00:18:38

A Founder's Guide to Personal Branding That Doesn't...

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2026/08/25

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.WhatsApp us your comments and questions on

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00:21:22

Is the Tokenpocalypse Coming for Your AI Budget?

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2026/08/24

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

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