(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/

(236) Unf*cking Work

On the first show of the Autumn, Chris and Matt are joined by Neil Usher to talk about his forthcoming book Unf*cking Work. WARNING: Given the title of his book, unsurprisingly we use the F word quite a few times this week.

(235) Ask WB-40

In this week’s show, Chris and Matt are once again bombarded by listener questions in another of their occasional homages to Gardener’s Question Time.

(234) Smartish Buildings

On this week’s show Mike Brooman from Vanti joins us to talk about the trials and tribulations of making buildings smarter.

(233) Buying things

On this week’s show, Chris & Matt spend some time thinking about what’s going on on either side of the curtain when organisations go through structured processes to buy technology services and products.

(232) Autonomous Vehicles

On this week’s show Chris and guest host Dom Mason are joined by Jack Stilgoe to talk about the technology and policy surrounding self-driving cars.

(231) Starting Jobs

As Chris and Matt have both started new jobs in the last few weeks, on this weeks show they reflect on some of the factors that they are keeping in mind as they find their way in their new roles.