(246) Net Positive

On this week’s show we are joined by Wyndham Plumptre, founder of Future Arc, to talk about the challenges of doing business sustainably.

(245) Ada (repubished)

On this week’s show we are joined by Suw Charman Anderson, the driving force behind Ada Lovelace Day. Slight gremlins got into the posting of this last night (by gremlins read: Matt). Hopefully this version will be correct! Image: Analytical engine constructed by the late Chas. Babbage, F.R.S., Science Museum Group Collection© The Board of […]

(244) Open Data Collaboration

On this week’s show we are joined by Chief Data Officer Paul Lomax to talk about the advantages of open collaboration with data, particularly when the data is wrong.

(243) Ask WB-40

On this week’s show we present another episode of listener questions as Chris & Matt contemplate some of the bigger tech issues of today. Yes, that bloke Musk and his rampant ego.

(242) Adventures in Visualisation

On this week’s show we are joined by data visualisation expert Neil Richards to talk about telling stories through data in pictures. You can find Neil’s blog here: https://questionsindataviz.com/ His book here: https://www.routledge.com/Questions-in-Dataviz-A-Design-Driven-Process-for-Data-Visualisation/Richards/p/book/9781032139449 And Viz for Social Good here: https://www.vizforsocialgood.com/

(241) Transportation Situation

On this week’s show we celebrate WB-40’s sixth birthday, and are joined by Max Claps from IDC to talk about the technology that is changing the world of trains.

(240) Open Sourcery

On this week’s bumper edition, Matt spends a day at the OpenUK Open Source Software thought leadership event. In the course of the show he speaks with Amanda Brock, Jim Zemlin, Val Del Vechhio, Sal Kimmich, Richard Dobson, Mahamed Ali and Nikita Koselev.

(239) The People Thing

On this week’s show we are joined by Perry Timms to explore what is on the mind of the HR world at this post-Covid, post-not budget budget world. You can find out more about Perry’s business at pthr.co.uk

(238) Privacy & Adtech

On this week’s show we talk with Professor David Carroll about the gaps between privacy law and the way in which machine learning techniques are able to target us, and how that’s panning out in courts in Europe.

(237) Leading with emotion

On this week’s show we are joined by Catherine Stagg-Macey to talk about the gaps that seem too common in many technology leaders, and what to do about them. You can find Catherine’s emotional intelligence quiz here: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/6011b3a9b2b16d001691e67d And her website here: https://www.conversationsattheedge.co.uk/