Episode 41 – Happy Birthday WB40!

In our most self-referential episode yet, Matt & Chris reflect on a year of this podcasting lark. You can find out more about TechMums at http://techmums.co/ If you have suggestions for venues, please drop us a line. Matt’s podcast recommendations were: http://www.radiolab.org/ https://hornetheaven.com/ https://99percentinvisible.org/ Whilst Chris suggests: BBC Brexitcast https://athleticomince.com/ TechTent Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

Episode 40: Walking the Gangplank

This week sees Chris reporting from the very last ship-bound IT Directors’ Forum.

Episode 39 – #sb2017

In this week’s show Matt collates a series of interviews and reflections from this year’s Silicon Beach conference in Bournemouth. Over the course of the show we speak with: Vanja Vulic Sally Henderson Andy Beaumont Matt Desmier Dave Birss You can find a list of all the speakers at http://siliconbeach.eu/speakers_sb2017/ and there will be videos of all […]

Episode 38 – Taxi!

This week Chris & Matt discuss the nature of work as a place versus work as an activity, and the current gig economy storm around Uber in London. You can find Matt’s article The Place of Work here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2017/09/21/the-place-of-work/ The excellent London Reconnections article unpicking the Uber story is here: https://www.londonreconnections.com/2017/understanding-uber-not-app/

Episode 37: Podcasting House

This week Chris & Matt travel to Broadcasting House to be joined by BBC technology reporter Zoe Kleinman to discuss Google, Gab, tech journalism and the likely tech news agenda over the next few months. And yes. That is Chris, sitting in John Humphry’s Chair.

Episode 36 – When to App

This week’s double subject includes an examination of when native Apps triumph over HTML, and also the results of Matt’s No Notepad experiments with the iPad Pro & Apple Pencil. You can read more about Matt’s no notepad experience here, and can find his 7 Reasons to App article here.

Episode 35: The 2017 CMO Meme

In this week’s episode Matt & Chris look back to the 2012 Gartner prediction that by this year CMOs would be spending more on IT than CIOs, how that prediction has turned out, and what it all says about the analyst industries.

WB40 Podcast: Episode 34 – GDPR Decrypted

This week Chris & Matt are joined by Kate Bevan who talks GDPR readiness (or lack thereof) and the ongoing saga of politicians and encryption back doors. Matt & Chris also think about the latest challenge for the Microsoft Surface. You should check out Kate’s security-focused news site, Naked Security at https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/

WB40 Podcast – Episode 33: Summer Miscellany

This week Chris & Matt get a bunch of things off their chests. This shockingly bad documentary about robots, for instance. This blog post by Matt. The wonderful new book from Tim Harford. This much better documentary about automaton. We talked about the Stoddart Review of workplace efficiency Next week: A mystery guest. Maybe.

WB40 Podcast: Episode 32 – Tribal

In this week’s episode Chris & Matt muse on a history of technology rivalries. If you haven’t seen the excellent Micro Men, you really should check it out…