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Tech³PodcastShorts 1 - Team Topologies at Scale with Matthew SkeltonOn episode 14 of the Tech3Pod we have the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Skelton, the co-author of Team Topologies and Head of Consulting at Conflux. A specialist in Continuous Delivery, operability and organisation dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.On this podcast moment, we look at Matthew's views on Scaled Agile SAFe and what it means for organisations. Its very important as agilist and organisation we can pick up any framework we think might work but sometimes we don't take the time to really understand what will...
2022-04-1806 min
Tech³PodcastEp 27 - Skipton Building Society Recording with Becky Allsop and Craig GooldIn a world where every business is striving to be customer-focused, what does it mean to truly put the customer first?We invited Craig Goold and Rebecca Allsop from Skipton Building Society to the Tech3 Podcast to discuss how Skipton Building Society put their people first, the merit of a quantitative and qualitative approach to data and what steps are being taken to leave Skipton Building Society in a better place for customers and employees who come next.Not only did Craig and Becky share some incredibly inspirational use cases, they demonstrated the value of...
2022-04-1153 min
Tech³PodcastEp 26 - Tech4Pets with Roger Zorlu and Sami AlsindiTech4Pets is a not-for-profit company that works with charities to improve animal welfare using technology solutions and big data. The Data Science team here at GlobalLogic* saw an immense opportunity to get hands-on with an interesting dataset, whilst helping a heart-warming cause. On this episode, we talk with Sami Alsindi, Principal Technical Consultant (Data Science) at GlobalLogic and Roger Zorlu, Data Science Consultant at GlobalLogic about how this project came about, why they thought it was a good idea, the type of information they gathered while undertaking this project and how Tech4Pets is helping the pet community...
2022-04-0452 min
Tech³PodcastEp 25 - The Great Skill Shortage with Ashley Strachan (Part 3)Hello wonderful Tech Cubers we are here with another episode of the Tech³Podcast. This is episode 3 of the Skills shortage series we are doing. On episode 1 we spoken to Mark Capaldi looking at the shortage from an organisational stand point. On episode 2 we spoke to Martyn Scott where we looked at the shortage from a talent and people perspective and on episode 3 we stay with the people theme and speak to Ashley Strachan, a Senior HR and Immigration Advisor at ECS. Ely and Ben discuss with Ashley about the effects on employee experience if talent is not developed a...
2022-03-2323 minTech³PodcastEp 24 - The Great Skill Shortage with Martyn Scott (Part 2)Hello and welcome to another episode of the Tech³Podcast. As we discussed on our last episode we are doing a three part series where we dive into the skills shortage from different aspects. On the last episode we spoke to Mark Capaldi, Head of Design and Engineering where we look at the skill shortage from a company stance. On this episode we speak to Martyn Scott, Head of Talent and Development at ECS and we delve into the more people aspect on the skills shortage paying particular the type of requests he receives for current employees when it c...
2022-03-2228 minTech³PodcastEp. 23 - The Great Skills Shortage with Mark Capaldi (Part 1)This is a 3 part series looking at the skills shortage in the UK which has been highlighted by big organisations such as Amazon who have recently put out a mass of free online learning for cloud tools. With this in mind, we wanted to see if this is true from the people on the ground. We first spoke to Mark Capaldi head of design and engineering at ECS a Global Logic Company. We shed some light on whats actually going on including his thoughts on how companies can attract and retain talent with in the industry. How companies can...
2022-03-2125 minTech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 108It’s Friday Tech Round Up time! In episode 108, we explore the UK government’s new ties with Japan, UK energy tech startups struggling to scale – quoting Luke Smith at Forward Partners, #IWD brings a closer look at equality in the tech industry – UK Tech News, Crunchbase explains why FinTech funding is faltering and safer, more powerful batteries for electric cars.*******ECS is a customer-facing platform and product engineering consultancy – it’s all we do! As a GlobalLogic company and with the full support and scale of GlobalLogic’s team, we help businesses become ‘digital-first’ organisations, so th...
2022-03-1803 minTech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 107We’re back with another Friday Tech Round Up In episode 107, AWS releases a new carbon footprint tool, huge investments into smart greenhouses, Telefonica Tech’s move to become an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, Toyota experiences a cyber attack and a breakthrough for dry-climate regions. Also, we have a brand-new Tech³ Podcast episode out, where Flavilla Fongang, Founder of TLA Black Women in Tech, joins us to speak about the barriers black women in tech face today, and also the motives of writing The Voices in the Shadow book. And we remind you to save the date for our panel d...
2022-03-1803 minTech³PodcastEp. 22 - Software Testability with Ash Winter and Rob MeaneyOn Episode 21 of the Tech³Podcast we sit down and speak to Ash Winter and Rob Meaney about everything software testability, their start in the industry, their thoughts around how to get started in testing plus much more. This is an amazing conversation and we would like to thank Rob and Ash for taking the time to go through all of their amazing thoughts with us.Please be sure to like, share and subscribe to the podcast and tell your friends, to tell and friend. We appreciate the love.Host Information:Ben Shonubi
2022-03-0751 minTech³PodcastEp. 21 - TLA Black Women In Tech with Flavilla FongangFlavilla Fongang is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of 3 Colours Rule — an award winning creative branding and marketing agency. Notable in her industry, Flavilla won the 'She's Mercedes' businesswomen award, placed within the top two most influential tech women in the UK in 2021 and is the chosen brand ambassador for the BBC.Determined to create a movement that would benefit generations to come, Flavilla founded TLA — Black Women in Tech, hosts a podcast 'Tech Brains Talk' and worked alongside 51 black women to curate 'Voices in the shadow' — a inspirational look into the journeys these women have been o...
2022-03-0253 minTech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up, Round Up - February 2022Welcome back to the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up! If you’ve not joined us before, your hosts – Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee – use the next 45mins to discuss tech news that made the headlines over the month of February. We cover the development of offshore wind projects in India, holographic calls and Minecraft libraries. All before ending on two feel good stories.If you’re interested in attending the International Women’s Day Panel Discussion on March 8th, 12pm, set a reminder for the live stream here – https://youtu.be/PkCR2NqZ_koBelow are all...
2022-02-2842 minTech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 106Are you ready for another Friday Tech Round Up? In episode 106, the energy sector suffers the most cyber-attacks, Wired reveals how Big Tech wants in of the success of digital banks like Monzo and Revolut, RWE and Tata Power announce a collaboration, major FinTechs like Starling and Monzo come together to encourage an overhaul of regulation and The Guardian discusses the five ways AI is saving wildlife. Also, we remind you to save the date for our panel discussion on Tuesday 8th March at 12noon, discussing making change happen in the 21st-century business landscape. Five incredibly talented wo...
2022-02-2503 minTech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 105What can you expect in this week’s Friday Tech Round Up? In episode 105, New Relic puts the last pieces of their project in place, Vodafone adopts new tech to ramp up their 5G offerings – Oracle, TechCrunch explores what fintech investors are looking for in 2022, solar power that can convert carbon dioxide into fuel and National Grid ESO & Octopus Energy launch a winter flexibility trial. Also, we remind you to reserve your seats for our free Data Science Immersion Day on the 15th and 16th March!******* New Relic launches its new infrastructure monitoring experience Vodafone UK adopts...
2022-02-2102 minTech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 104Time for another Friday Tech Round Up! This week, we look into a sevenfold increase in fintech investment, a €43 billion euro chip supply investment, TechCrunch questions whether journalistic news media missing a huge opportunity, Cloud ME technology – Alibaba Cloud and the Financial Times discusses revolutions in the energy grid. We also shoutout out our free Data Science Immersion Day on the 15th and 16th March, and End Youth Homelessness’ latest fundraiser – Gaming for Good. Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments! #TechNews #FridayThoughts #FridayFeatures...
2022-02-1403 minTech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 103Time for another Friday Tech Round Up! Today we discuss HSBC investing in green tech, a Minecraft library making censored journalism accessible worldwide, Nationwide Building Society embracing API tech, BP and HyCC committing to greener projects and AmazeVR forging the future of immersive concerts. We shoutout out the launch of e-Comply – a tech solution which helps companies review and automatically redact personable identifiable information when a consumer has a data subject access request.Thank you to Tilly Kenyon FinTech Magazine, Cian Maher The Verge, Karl Flinders Computer Weekly, Power Technology and Kate Park TechCrunch for their pieces this...
2022-02-0403 minTech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up, Round Up - January 2022Welcome back to the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up – your monthly deep dive into off all the tech news covered in January’s Friday Tech Round Ups (episodes 99-102 specifically)Rather than running through all the news week by week – you can do that in a much more efficient way by watching the FTRU on YouTube– Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee look at the trends that popped up over the month of January, drawing parallels between stories and exploring the knock-on effects of particular bits of news. From the benefits of big tech, to collusion and games of ch...
2022-01-311h 03
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 102It’s Friday Tech Round Up time! Today we discuss Starling Bank’s plan for mortgage lending – which would them ahead of rivals Monzo Bank and Revolut, Meta has unveiled their new supercomputer, Intel Corporation and Samsung Electronics are to invest in new chip-making plants, a bug endangering Linux distributions worldwide and the UK is to launch its first Government Cyber Security Strategy. We shoutout out End Youth Homelessness and their latest fundraiser, Gaming for Good – which will see our ECS gaming community battle it out head-to-head and do something they love for a great cause. Also, make sure...
2022-01-2804 minTech³PodcastEp. 20 - Wardley Mapping with Simon WardleyOn this episode of the Tech3Podcast Ben and Andy sit down and chat with thought lord Simon Wardley. In this conversation we dive deep into his history of being the CEO of Fotango and what that taught him, his thoughts and ideas around mapping plus much, much.As always if you liked this episode please let us know by sharing your thoughts on LinkedIn or twitter where you can find both Andy and Ben.Host Information:Ben ShonubiLinknedInTwitterAndy TebbLinkedIn
2022-01-2844 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 101Today we dive into a game of corporate chicken between Amazon and Visa, an Oracle article revealing the need for smart cities, a no-code and low-code update from TechCrunch, a report by Rolling Stone revealing the UK Government’s plan to tarnish end-to-end encryption’s reputation and a record-breaking Telsa vehicle. Also, we shoutout our latest inaugural ‘Cloud Cost Optimisation’ blog and our ‘how to stand up a contact centre in 15 minutes' blog,******* 🐔 UK Amazon users can continue using Visa credit cards after dispute is settled 📊 Smart cities, powered by startups ⛔ Softr’s Series A is a reminder that the n...
2022-01-2403 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 100Celebrating 100 episodes of the Friday Tech Round Up! 🥳 Today we dive into an AI-powered transcription platform called DeepScribe trying to unburden doctors from tedious data entry, Cloud giants are to face greater scrutiny from UK financial regulators, Meta losses an attempt to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit demanding it sells WhatsApp and Instagram, an open-source developer corrupts a pair of open-source libraries and the World Economic Forum warns that cyber security failure is one of the biggest risks facing countries and businesses. Also, we shoutout Fraser Brown for his latest blog on homomorphic encryption and our podcast with guest...
2022-01-1704 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 99Hello and welcome to the very first #FridayTechRoundUp of the new year!Today, we dive into Apple becoming the world's first $3 trillion company, Google is accused of paying Apple billions to keep it away from the internet search market, the FTC stating they will come after companies that fail to patch Log4j flaws, West Midlands £1.1m boost for digital skills training and Google buying Israeli security start-up Siemplify.Also, we shoutout John Deere's self-driving tractors, the Autonomous Flight looking for funding for flying taxis and two new Tech³ Podcasts with hosts Andrew Tebb, Ben Sh...
2022-01-0704 minTech³PodcastEp. 19 - International Men's Day Part 4 with Niall McDonaghNiall McDonagh is a programme manager at ECS and has been for just over 6 years. Throughout his journey is has faced different types of adversity but this has not stopped him from purusing his dream and following his career path. In this final episode for International Men's Day 2021 we take an extraordinary trip with Niall as he walks us through what it has been like being gay in a very male dominated industry.This wraps up our series of international men's day. We hope you enjoyed it!Host Information: Ben ShonubiL...
2022-01-031h 10Tech³PodcastEp. 18 - AWS Re:Invent Recap with Sunil Tailor and Neal MakhAWS Re:Invent is a week long event which is hosted by Amazon Web Services in Las Vegas. 2021 was the first time the event has been live in 2 years and it brought a whole host of great talking points. AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community. The in person event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to 1,500+ technical sessions, the Expo, after-hours events, and so much more. With a new CEO at the helm it was a great time to see everything new and updates to...
2021-12-271h 03
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 98Welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up, where Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee take a deep dive into the news from week commencing December 13th.In this episode they discuss the nearly-ubiquitous Java log4j vulnerability – otherwise known as the worst cyber security flaw ever discovered. They also look at extracting passwords and manipulating traffic on a WiFi chip, the NHS website crashing as thousands try to book their COVID vaccination and calls for an online safety bill overhaul.Take a listen and let us know what you think on...
2021-12-2039 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Ep 97This week, your hosts Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee explore AWS’s outage, CloudBees becoming a unicorn and HashiCorp’s IPO. They also drop hints about two upcoming podcasts and discuss Congress taking on cryptocurrency after calling for tougher regulation.All that and more!Have a listen and let us know what you think on ECS LinkedIn or Twitter pages.*********️ An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries A Message from Our CEO: Investing in CloudBees Customers and the Future Cryptocurrency executives to be questioned in Congress HashiC...
2021-12-1334 minTech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 96Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee are back with another Friday Tech Round Up Round Up!In this episode, they discuss the UK government's pledge to make algorithms more transparent, Richard Moore, MI6 chief, seeking help from tech firms and Parag Agrawal taking over as CEO of Twitter from Jack Dorsey. They also jump into the infamous AWS re:Invent, looking at the latest announcements from the cloud giant. Have a listen and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments!********* Government aims to make its 'black box' a...
2021-12-0641 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 95On episode 95 of the Friday Tech Round Up Round up Eloisa and Andy discuss a major cloud training announcement made by the new Chief Executive at AWS, Adam Selisky, Apple sues Israeli spyware firm for surveillance of users, the NCSC commits to new diversity measures, Atom Bank introduces a four-day work week and NASA launches it’s first ever asteroid deflection mission. Shoutout our third Tech3Podcast celebrating International Men’s Day – our CEO Mark Farrington talks about his journey and the decision he made to put family first during his career. Have a listen and let us know y...
2021-11-2931 minTech³PodcastEp. 17 - International Men's Day Part 3 with Mark FarringtonMark Farrington is the Chief Executive Officer at ECS, a GlobalLogic owned Company. Looking at him, at face value you might think he's got it all figured out, but talk to him about his story, his journey and you'll understand what he's had to go through, just to get to where he is. In episode 17, we chat with Mark about some of the decision's he had to make about his career, how he decided to but family first and how he still kept his mind and his focus on track.With the final episode in our International...
2021-11-2543 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 94We’re back with another Friday Tech Round Up Round Up!This week, Ely and Andy dive into the UK government pledging to make their tech sustainable, Snowflake rolling out native support for Python into its Snowpark engineering tool, and Starling Bank's CEO, Anne Boden, having their sights set on Barclays.We also give a little behind the scenes review of the last Tech3 Podcast International Men’s Day series and give you all the scoop on the next DevOps Playground – taking place Thursday 25th November.Have a listen and let us know your thoughts...
2021-11-2237 minTech³PodcastEp. 16 - International Men's Day Part 2 with Chris DunkleyEpisode 16 we invited Chris Dunkley who works in Delivery Assurance at ECS. As we navigate through International Men's Day, we aim to show the different aspects and themes that men are faced with. This can include mental health, the stigma around what a man should be and manhood. In this very personal episode, Chris shares his story of what its been like for him growing in the male dominated IT industry and his battle with testicular cancer. This is a touching story which we hope you take something away from.From everyone at the Tech³Podcast, we w...
2021-11-1945 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 93Welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round up.In this week’s episode, Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee dive into news from w/c Nov 8th, taking a look at new funding aimed at the digitisation of diagnostics, Gartner urging Heads of IT to consider how they take their role forward, the Bank of England taking steps in its digital money plan and so much more!Have a listen and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, on one our ECS social channels.#Te...
2021-11-1446 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 92Welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up!This week we dive into HSBC’s multi-year DevOps deal with CloudBees, Microsoft's new 3D avatars, the decline in bank branch visits making way for FinTech, DBS Bank tackling climate change following COP26 and a report by Invicti Security showing DevOps and security professionals under increased pressure.We also wish the ECS team all the best at this year’s European Software Testing Awards on November 9th and draw attention to Friday November 12th when ECS will be taking part in the End Youth Ho...
2021-11-1236 minTech³PodcastEp. 15 - International Men's Day Part 1 with Eloisa ToveeEpisode 15 we invited Eloisa Tovee on the show to kick off a series of episodes celebrating International Men's Day, a day to celebrate men and also take a closer look at some of the challenges men face in todays world.The aim of International Men's Day is to celebrate positive male role models and to raise awareness of men's issues. These include topics such as mental health, toxic masculinity and the prevalence of male suicide. This year’s theme: “Better relations between men and women.” Some issues we will be exploring during the series include Peopl...
2021-11-0822 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 91Welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up with hosts Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee!In this episode we look at the potential repercussions to the recently announced profit surcharge cut for banks, the future of drag and drop developers and IBM’s new publicly traded company, Kyndryl.Have a listen and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments! #TechNews #FridayThoughts #FridayFeatures #data #cloud #fintech****** 🏦 TechUK slams government gift to big banks that will disadvantage fintechs 📈UK to phase ou...
2021-11-0141 minTech³PodcastEp. 14 - Team Topologies with Matthew SkeltonEpisode 14 we invited Matthew Skelton, the co-author of Team Topologies and Head of Consulting at Conflux. A specialist in Continuous Delivery, operability and organisation dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.In this episode we speak to Matthew about a multitude of items including key themes in the Team Topologies book around the importance of communication within an organisation, how organisations should use their people to setup the org chart to maximise their teams, team cognitive load and how it can be measured plus his thoughts on team topologies...
2021-10-2548 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 90Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up with your hosts Eloisa Tovee and Andy Tebb!In this week’s episode we discuss the complexities around the issues The Linux Foundation are trying to solve with their new DevOps bootcamp, we look at a future with Metaverse in it and the suggestions for Facebook’s new name. We also dee pdive into the automated future of retail, new investments into UK farm tech and how Teams might be moving us closer to a 1984 paradox.Have a listen and let us...
2021-10-2550 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 89Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up where you can listen to Andy and Ely deep in conversation about this week’s latest and greatest tech news.We discuss FinTechs resistance to adopt open-source as part of their overall digital ecosystem, Google unintentionally putting a target on their own backs and the effectiveness of facial-recognition technology in the hands of the UK police force.Links for the stories features below:****** 👮Ban UK police use of facial-recognition, House of Lords told 👥 Ondat : Formerly Known as StorageOS, Adds Key Exec...
2021-10-1731 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 88Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up where Eloisa Tovee and Andy Tebb run through the latest tech news from the past week – and this week they are getting social!Not only do Andy and Ely address the three-headed dog in the room – namely the Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram outage, they discuss Twitch’s data breach, Facebook’s whistleblower giving evidence to a parliamentary committee and CloudBees’ latest global c-suite security survey.Links for the stories features below:****** 👎 Facebook outage: what went wrong and why did it take...
2021-10-1159 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 87We are back with another episode of the Friday Tech Round Up Round Up where we look at the unveiling of new fully integrated feature flag controls from CloudBees, Barclays’ new Women In Tech Start Up initiative and what Ireland can do to reduce its energy consumption when it comes to data centres. All that and more! Links for the stories features below:Have a listen and let us know your thoughts. ****** 🇮🇪 Data centres could use 70% of Ireland’s electricity by 2030, committee to hear ☁️ 🐝 CloudBees Unveils End-to-End Feature Flag Control within Software Delivery Platform 🏦 Scam ‘epidemic’: Big tec...
2021-10-0646 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 86Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp In this episode, we dive into New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton planning to run entirely on renewable energy, an Opinion Matters study that revealed employers worry about remote work productivity, major IT firms singing up to 'Race to Zero' – Adobe and Oracle, European Digital Rights says AI cannot be regulated by technical measures alone and 15 million users' details that have been exposed in an Epik breach. Also, we shoutout our latest blog written by Louise Fenn discussing the potential drawbacks and what’s next on the hori...
2021-09-2839 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 85Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp Round Up with Eloisa Tovee and Andy Tebb. In this episode, we dive into Snowflake's Financial Services Data Cloud, Michelle Bachelet Jeria – The United Nation’s High Commissioner on Human Rights calls for a moratorium on AI, The Metropolitan Police Commissioner – Cressida Dick – says tech giants are hindering efforts to stop terrorists, Doccla secures £2.4m to further develop technology and The Galleri test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer. Also, we shoutout our latest blog written by Sean Robertson discussing – A North Star fo...
2021-09-2049 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 84Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUpIn this episode, we dive into the Crown Commercial Service opening a £2billion chest for big data analytics, the top programming language for 2021 – Python, JavaScript NPM library exposing apps to hijacking, the Lords Communications and Digital Committee calling for evidence on digital regulation and Jeff Bezos funding an age-reversal company.Also, we shoutout TLA Black Women in Tech for their new book encouraging black women to pursue a career in tech, our ECS Academy that is still open for applications and announce our next...
2021-09-1341 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 83Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp Round Up In this episode, we take a look at the rising lobbying spend in Europe, explore the latest WNS study on digital transformation and empathise with the buyer who was tricked into buying a fake Bansky NFT. For the avid technologists out there looking to break into the world of DevOps and digital transformation, apply for the upcoming ECS Academy (last link below). We’ll also have our fingers crossed for the ECS Team who are up for three awards at the FSTe...
2021-09-0747 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 82Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp Round Up with Andy Tebb and Eloisa Tovee. In this episode, we dive into Microsoft Power Apps misconfigurations that expose millions of records, Linux’s 30th Birthday, conversational intelligence that Level AI is building, Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot and tech giants promising to bolster US cybersecurity – Google, Microsoft and Apple.Also, we shoutout our newest blog – taking a look under the hood of legacy system – and announce another round of recruitment for our ECS Digital Engineering Academy. ❌ Microsoft Power Apps misconfigurations 🥳 Linux’s 30th Birthday 💬 Conv...
2021-08-3038 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 81Good morning and welcome to this week’s #FridayTechRoundUp.In this episode, we explore the United Nations’s peacemaker digital transformation initiative, HashiCorp & Fortinet’s new integration that promises to automate and simplify cloud security and a major breakthrough in quantum computing. We also learn a little more about the hacker responsible for one of the world’s largest digital coin heists.Have a listen and let us know your thoughts on social media using the hashtag #FTRURoundUp 🧩 Scientists discover 'missing piece' in quantum computing breakthrough 🌱 UK government tells firms to use cloud to curb their carbon em...
2021-08-2342 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 80Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp. In episode 80, we dive into Forbes list of top private cloud companies – including Canva, HashiCorp and GitLab, Microsoft and AWS in other battle over a government cloud contract, finance firms using AI to combat money laundering, an increase in the number of students taking the Cloud computing A-Level and ransom demands and payments hitting new records - Unit 42. 🏆Forbes top cloud companies ☁️Microsoft and AWS at war 🤖AI combats money laundering 📈More students take Computing A-Level 💰Ransom demands and payments hit new recordsECS is a customer-facing platf...
2021-08-1628 min
Tech³PodcastEp. 13 - The Importance of Agile In Business Part 1On episode 13 we are joined by some very special guest, Martina Srdoc, Coach | Team Coach | Agile Coach | Mental Health 1st Aider | D&I champion at ECS Digital as well as co-host Andy Tebb, Head of Pre-Sales at ECS Digital. We talk about everything from Martina's amazing journey in becoming an agile coach, some key aspects of what makes a good coach, views on how the industry views female coaches and some brilliant tips for new coaches. Check out this episode of the Tech³Podcast Powered by ECS. Nonviolent Communication Active ListeningGuest informationMartina S...
2021-08-1359 minTech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 79Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp. In this episode, we dive into results of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Zoom is set to pay $85 million for lying about encryption and selling data to Facebook and Google, The Ministry of Defence pays ethical hackers to uncover IT flaws which Christine Maxwell describes as an “essential step”, Dropbox Data centres achieve their 100% renewable energy goal and Tech Crunch suggests we have even more phases in the evolution of enterprise AI. % Stack Overflow Developer Survey 🔐IT Zoom lies about encryption 💻MOD pays ethical hackers 🌎Dropbox Data centres go gre...
2021-08-0934 min
Tech³PodcastEp. 12 - Zero Trust with John Boero from HashiCorpOn episode 12 we are joined by some very special guests. Jeff Hemmen a DevOps & Continuous Delivery Consultant at ECS Digital and John Boero Channel Solution Engineer at HashiCorp and new co-host Andy Tebb, Head of Pre-Sales at ECS Digital. We talk about everything Zero Trustwho manage and how it is not something which has just burst onto the scene but is picking up traction. What should CIO, CISOs and cyber security engineers look out for? Is the new cycle in shifting security left the introduction of continuous identity? And what is HashiCorp Boundry? Check out this episode of the...
2021-08-061h 16
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 78Good morning and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp. In this episode, we dive into a costly new law designed to regulate AI in Europe, a new IT skills crisis that sees over 100,000 tech job vacancies per week, scientists voice their concern over space tourism whilst Jeff Bezos offers NASA billions of dollars to take part in space missions, Apple, Google and Microsoft report booming profits and amazing tech at this years’ Olympics. Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments! 💶New AI law 📈IT skills c...
2021-08-0245 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 77Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp Episode 77In this episode, we take a look at why The Bank of England is nervous about signing up to cloud services – Google, Amazon and Microsoft, Microsoft blames China for a cyber attack on their Microsoft Exchange servers, a new organisation created to fight climate change – Subak, Chris Nims discusses Capital One’s cloud-first approach and new Tech College and the UK Government announces plans to make fake online reviews illegal. Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in...
2021-07-2632 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 76Good morning and welcome to this weeks episode of the #FridayTechRoundUp In this episode, we take a look at the call to clamp down on keyboard warriors after online abuse following the England match, Revolut becoming Britain's biggest-ever fintech, Microsoft announces new Windows 365 and critical update for Windows 10, 87% of engineers reportedly suffer from burnout, Netflix bags Mike Verdu as vice president of game development, a quick shoutout to Richard Branson for his first tourist trip to space and to Manchester for being crowned the biggest tech hub outside of UK capital. Have a watch and let us kn...
2021-07-2006 minTech³PodcastEp. 11 - The DevOps PlaygroundOn episode 11 we are joined by some very special guests. Artur Kondas and Patryk Pilecki who manage and run the DevOps Playgrounds at ECS and Jillian Ellis, a DevOps consultant at ECS who has recently given a talk at the playground on AWS Lamdas. Jillian gives her experience on what it was like preparing and giving her presentation, while Artur and Patryk allow us behind the scenes of what it takes run the meetups.Guest informationArtur KondasLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arturkondas/Website: https://akondas.com...
2021-07-1955 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 75Good morning and welcome to the 75th episode of the #fridaytechroundup 🎉 In this episode, we take a look at why The Pentagon has cancelled a 10 billion dollar Jedi cloud computing contract – AWS and Microsoft, tech giants threatening to quit Hong Kong – Facebook, Twitter and Google, the UK Governments plan to drive digital innovation, a huge cyber attack on Kaseya, cyber insurance costs on the rise and the deep sea robots that Dr Robert Ballard says will help revolutionise the way we discover shipwrecks. Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed...
2021-07-1307 min
Tech³PodcastFriday Tech Round Up - Episode 74Good morning and welcome to this week’s #fridaytechroundup In this episode, we take a look at a study by Gartner revealing that public cloud IaaS has increased during the pandemic, Facebook reaching the $1 trillion valuation, flow of data between the EU and UK to continue, perhaps a brighter future for the honeybee and the Cabinet Office cyber spend increasing by almost 500%. Have a watch and let us know your thoughts, or any pieces of news we missed, in the comments! #technews #fridaythoughts #fridayfeatures******For all links mentioned in the FTRU, click on the links below
2021-07-0908 minTech³PodcastEp. 10 - The Changing Face of The CustomerOn our 10th episode of the Tech³ Podcast, we invite another special guest, Zaheer Gilani to talk everything about the changing face of the customer journey, the increase in human to machine and machine to machine interactions and what these changes mean for all of us. We also take a look at his path to becoming a Principal CX Consulting at ECS, and the jobs that prepared him for this role.Guest informationZaheer Gilani LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaheergilani/LiveCX 3D Game iOS – free download: https://apps.apple.com...
2021-06-1448 minTech³PodcastEp. 9 - ECS AcademyAre you frustrated by the 1-2 year experience hurdle you need to jump to get into the tech industry? Do you wish that an organisation would look beyond your experience and consider you for your potential?Nick Butler and Alastair Sumner join host Ben Shonubi to talk about their experiences on the ECS Digital Training Academy, their journey to finding the right environment to skill up in and how they found remote learning during a pandemic.Tune in to discover what it’s really like to become part of the ECS family through the academy an...
2021-03-311h 14Tech³PodcastEp. 8 - The Value in UX DesignNew host Chris Dunkley welcomes guests Bhavina Vadgama and Lucia Gore to talk about the value in UX design. This episode centres around getting a deeper understand of what UX design is and how a UX designer is valuable within a project and the wider industry. We get some great insight into how both Lucia and Bhavina became UX Designers, the paths they took and really good facts about good and bad points of doing the role. Other nuggets are books and blogs recommendations, as well as qualifications you can gain to become a UX designer yourself....
2021-03-0944 minTech³PodcastEp. 7 - UX Driven Productivity with Gene Kim Special Part 2Gene Kim and guest presenters Eloisa Tovee, Sarndeep Nijjar and Chris Dunkley are back, and this time they explore the rogue engineer, the war on talent and how you can find that one ‘ah ha’ project where business and technology can really collaborate and build not just the solution but change the way the organisation builds those solutions.As before, Gene Kim draws on examples from his fourth book The Unicorn Project as well as his extensive experience in the world of DevOps, leaving listeners with food for thought on all things digital transformation, including this gem: “No lon...
2020-11-1730 minTech³PodcastEp. 6 - Omni-Customer Crosses All ChannelsIn this episode we invite John Ing onto the Tech³ Podcast to look at changing customer behaviours and the emergence of the omni-customer and how businesses are beginning to consider their strategy to align to omni-customer. John is the CX Principal Product Lead at ECS and brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge around customer experience and Amazon connect. John explores the difference between omni-channel, that we’re all familiar with, and the rise of the omni-customer who is adept at engaging across all channels; voice, digital and social.Follow John on LinkedInLin...
2020-08-2832 minTech³PodcastEp. 5 - Testing, Not Just an Afterthought with Ali HillOn episode 5 we are joined by the rather wonderful guest, Ali Hill, a continuous delivery consultant and tester at ECS Digital. Ali has been in the industry for many years and comes with a whole host of experience on his testing journey. In episode 5 we discuss with Ali what type of tester he is and some of his inspirations within the industry. We take a deep dive into past projects he's working on and how, as a tester and leader within the team, he manages customer and team expectations around testing. We also have a look at some of the c...
2020-06-2537 minTech³PodcastEp. 4 - UX Driven Productivity with Gene Kim Special Part 1Joined by the rather wonderful guest, Gene Kim, this episode of the Tech³ Podcast takes a closer look at the themes running through Gene's fourth book The Unicorn Project. Written from the perspective of senior lead developer Maxine, The Unicorn Project introduces the concept of "DevOps" to the world by weaving five ideals through the narrative and illustrating common challenges within the fictional story of Parts Unlimited. Not only do we discuss the timing of this book and the relevance of its ideals in achieving effective digital disruption today, we talk about the role of UX in product design an...
2020-05-1544 minTech³PodcastEp. 3 - Being a Disruptor in a Disruptive Market Part 2In part 2 we will be continuing our discussion around traditional contact centres and touching on how the current environment may be effecting the workforce, potential news ways of working remotely and what are the advantages and disadvantages as we accelerate into the unknown period of change.Follow John on LinkedInLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ing-8b06991b/Host informationBen ShonubiTwitter: https://twitter.com/benshonubiLinkedI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benshonubi/Rosie BinfieldLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in...
2020-05-0722 minTech³PodcastEp. 3 - Being a Disruptor in a Disruptive Market Part 1In this two part episode we invite John Ing onto the Tech³ Podcast. John is the CX Principle Product Lead at ECS and brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge around customer experience and Amazon connect. This episode is fitting for the current client where we discuss John's journey to becoming a CX expert, why he chose ECS as a company and what is Amazon Connect before diving into its benefits.Join us for Part 2 of the exciting episode coming soon and don't forget to like and subscribe. Follow John on LinkedIn...
2020-04-3048 minTech³PodcastEp. 2 - A Conversation with Viktor FarcicOn Episode 2 of the Tech³ Podcast, Rosie and Ben welcome Viktor Farcic, a Principal Software Delivery Strategist and Developer Advocate at CloudBees, a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and the published author of The DevOps Toolkit Series, DevOps Paradox, and Test-Driven Java Development. We discuss his beginnings and what got him into technology, where he see's the industry now, his thoughts on TDD and development as a whole. Viktor also shares his thoughts on leadership and how far certain leaders can take you when companies move from small to medium to large or...
2020-03-2650 minTech³PodcastEp. 1 - Look Into The CloudsAn Episode with special guest Sunil Taylor a DevOps and Continuous Delivery Consultant at ECS Digital. Along with Ben Shonubi, they discuss everything from Serverless, to AWS Re:Invent along with much, much more.Host informationBen ShonubiTwitter: https://twitter.com/obiwunshinobeLinkedI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benshonubi/About ECSECS is a UK digital transformation consultancy business. Founded in 2008 with over 750 employees globally, ECS has been helping clients in all industries, to transform their business using IT. We enable our clients to change the...
2020-02-2828 minTech³PodcastTech³ Podcast PilotPilot episode introducing the Tech³ Podcast hosted by Rosie Binfield and Ben Shonubi, powered by ECS.Host informationBen ShonubiTwitter: https://twitter.com/obiwunshinobeLinkedI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benshonubi/Rosie BinfieldLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosie-binfield-748a8b110/About ECSECS is a UK digital transformation consultancy business. Founded in 2008 with over 750 employees globally, ECS has been helping clients in all industries, to transform their business using IT. We enable our clients to change the way they change, u...
2020-02-2401 min