Shows
Tech4Good South WestWeronika Stelmach - Building a sustainable and circular fashion futureIn this episode of the Tech4Good South West podcast, host Arielle Tye speaks with Weronika Stelma, co-founder and CEO of Weaving Change, a social enterprise focused on sustainable fashion.
They discuss the launch of their app, Swerve, which aims to help users digitise their wardrobes and make sustainable fashion choices. Weronica shares her journey from a chemistry background to creating a tech startup, the challenges of funding, and the ethical considerations of using AI in fashion. The conversation highlights the importance of using technology for social good and the future of digital fashion.
2024-12-1127 min
Tech4Good South WestTackling plastic pollution through purpose-driven leadershipIn this episode, we talk with Neil Morris, co-founder of Kelpi, about his journey from tech entrepreneur to impact leader with a mission to reduce plastic waste through innovative, seaweed-based packaging solutions. Neil discusses the challenges of scaling impact sustainably, including the tough decisions Kelpi has made to avoid partnerships that could compromise their mission. He shares insights into the role of purpose-driven leadership in building a business focused on people, planet, and profit, and why resilience and principled choices are key to driving change.
Join us as we explore how Kelpi is working to create a...
2024-10-3041 min
Tech4Good South WestPromoting STEM education with The Adventures of ScoutPromoting STEM education and environmental awareness among children through The Adventures of Scout. In this engaging conversation, co-founders Nick Parker and Matt Baron of The Adventures of Scout discuss their mission to inspire the next generation through children's literature focused on environmental awareness and STEM education. They share insights into their creative process, the impact of their books on children, and the importance of community engagement and partnerships. The discussion also highlights the role of technology in education and their vision for future growth and impact.
“Technology is at the forefront of everything."
The Adventures of...
2024-10-1536 min
Tech4Good South WestEmpowering Change with Emily Franklin from KaluzaIn this episode of the Tech4Good South West podcast, our host Alicia discuss the importance of technology in addressing societal challenges with Emily Franklin, Head of People at Kaluza. They explore Kaluza's mission to make net zero accessible to everyone, the significance of company culture and values in tech for good organisations, and effective hiring practices that align with these values. The conversation also delves into diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, employee development, and the future direction of Kaluza as it expands globally.
Sound Bites
"Our mission is to amplify the posi...
2024-09-2437 min
Tech4Good South WestSimon Allen - Using AI to Navigate Charity Governance and RegulationSimon Allen, CEO of Age UK in Bath and North East Somerset, discusses his journey as a CEO of a charity and how AI can enable organisations in the social sector. Simon developed the charity Navigator using OpenAI and chat GPT to support charities in navigating regulation and governance.
Simon highlights the complexity of regulation and governance in the charity sector and the need for accessible information and best practices. He explains how AI, specifically chat GPT, can be used as a learning tool and to generate insights and project plans. Simon also discusses the challenges and...
2024-09-1127 min
Tech4Good South WestBryan Charter - Making Homes More Energy Efficient with SuSy HouseBryan Charter is co-founder and CEO of Bristol based SuSy House.
In this episode Bryan discusses the mission - to make homes more energy-efficient and sustainable. Susy is a mobile app that helps homeowners assess the energy efficiency of their properties, connect with contractors, and access financing options for upgrades. The app uses data science and smart technology to provide personalised recommendations and estimate potential savings.
"Innovation is all about making things faster, easier, cheaper."
"Proper digital passports for homes would be a game-changer."
"Finding engaged angels is a good place...
2024-07-1029 min
Tech4Good South WestPaul Forster - Investing in minorities in tech for creating economic and social impactAlicia interviews Paul Forster, the Incubation Manager at SetSquared Bristol. They discuss the enterprise programs at SetSquared Bristol, investing in minorities in the tech industry, purpose-driven technology, and the importance of Tech for Good.
Paul shares his passion for amplifying marginalised voices and creating tangible change. He also highlights the need for government investment in Bristol's tech ecosystem. The conversation concludes with information on how to get involved with SetSquared Bristol.
"Everybody deserves the opportunity, but we need to understand what those barriers are to optioning that opportunity for everyone."
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2024-06-1928 min
Tech4Good South WestHenry Jones - Social mobility and addressing the pipeline of talent into techHenry Jones, consultant for the Southwest Social Mobility Commission discusses social mobility, the South West, diversity in tech and some ideas on how to close the ever growing digital skills gap in the UK.
Read Henry’s report Tech Frontier, Shaping the Future of the Southwest Peninsula
"Work experience is one of the big things I’m looking at, specifically year 10 work experience. My report lays out eight things that we really need to do to improve the pipeline of young talent, especially those with disadvantaged backgrounds going into tech, and number one is more year...
2024-06-0527 min
Tech4Good South WestJim Cranshaw - Grants AI transforming charity grants and fundingJim Cranshaw, founder of Grants AI, which helps charities research and write grants way faster discusses his passion for social change and the challenges faced by the nonprofit sector.
"It's not just AI, but there's a number of technological revolutions that we're kind of really in the middle of or at the start of. And I think that's going to transform a lot about society. And I do think the sector's underprepared for that in a major way.’’ Jim Cranshaw
Takeaways
Nonprofits face challenges such as limited funding, stre...
2024-05-2233 min
Tech4Good South WestSponsor Mini Series - Modular Digital with Emma MillingtonEpisode 6 of our Founding Sponsor Mini Series talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.
This episode is in conversation with Emma Millington, co-founder of Modular Digital.
"I see Tech for Good as bringing us all together so we can be a choir for change in the South West, be here to be strong and at the same time hopefully bring joy, improvement, impact to the people around who we influence."
2024-05-0107 min
Tech4Good South WestSponsor Mini Series - Naturally Social with Natalie LuckhamEpisode 5 of our Founding Sponsor Mini Series talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.
This episode is in conversation with Natalie Luckham, founder of Naturally Social, and Wiltshire Digital Drive.
"People and planet can work alongside profit. It doesn't have to be one or the other or sector by sector."
“I think tech for good is a huge. It's been gaining so much momentum recently, but yo...
2024-04-2309 min
Tech4Good South WestSponsor Mini Series - Torchbox with Ben HeasmanEpisode 4 of our Founding Sponsor mini series talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.
This episode is in conversation with Ben Heasman, Product Director and Trustee Director at Torchbox.
“We're just really excited about the prospect of bringing positive change to the world through technology, through wider representation in the industry, through focus on accessibility and sustainability of the products we build. Tech for good for us is really tied in cl...
2024-04-1707 min
Tech4Good South WestSponsor Mini Series - Future Talent Group with Josh SimpkinsThe third of 6 episodes talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.
This episode is in conversation with Josh Simpkins , co-founder of Future Talent Group and a bronze sponsor of Tech4Good South West.
"I think for us as recruiters, there's an opportunity, you know, one of our strengths probably is our network and the people that we work with, the businesses we work with. It feels like now is an amazing...
2024-04-0907 min
Tech4Good South WestSponsor Mini Series - Purplefish with Joanna RandallThe second of 6 episodes talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.
This episode is in conversation with Joanna Randall, Founding Director of Purplefish and a bronze sponsor of Tech4Good South West.
"I'm really excited about with Tech for Good Southwest is that we can come together from all aspects and all areas of life."
"Whilst growth, profit -making, investment, that's all good because it does benefit economies and...
2024-04-0310 min
Tech4Good South WestSponsor Mini Series - Digital Wonderlab with Nathan BaranowskiThe first of 6 episodes talking to the founding sponsors of the Tech4Good South West relaunch, to explore their interest in tech for good and their hopes and ambitions for the TechforGood South West network.
This episode is in conversation with Nathan Baranowski, Managing Director of Digital Wonderlab and our first silver sponsor of Tech4Good South West.
"The opportunity for Tech4Good South West is to bring and bridge community, be that charity or actual communities together with business and enterprise to help to deliver real impact."
"The lovely thing about tech...
2024-03-2707 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 13 - Exploring the tech for good start-up journey for WAVESIX mobile appIn this episode we are in conversation with Julia Marshall-Wessendorf, founder of the WaveSix holistic health tracker app.
The WaveSix health app tracks all aspects of your lifestyle, health and wellbeing to provide insights on what’s having a positive or negative impact on your health and happiness. The app has recently launched for both Apple and Android.
Julia shares her inspiration for WaveSix, and her own lived experience of managing the impact of long term illness and how she has taken her insights forward to filling a gap in the market for health trackers. ...
2024-01-0425 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 12 - Implementing a volunteer management system at St Werbughs City FarmTake a listen to this joint episode as both funder and grantee explore the important of digital funding to strengthen sustainability of community business.
Power to Change are funders of a Powering Up programme, a 12-month funding programme to support community businesses in England that need capacity strengthening.
In this episode we are joined by Sona Mahtani, Community Connector for Power to Change, and one of their programme grantees, St Werburghs City Farm. Nestled in the heart of Bristol, St Werburghs City Farm is an integral part of the local community, strengthening connections between land, an...
2023-09-1836 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 11 - Increasing access to Cyber Security Jobs for 3.5 millionChris Newton is VP of engineering at Immersive Labs, a cyber security company based in Beautiful Bristol. Immersive Labs are one of the South West’s biggest sucuess stories and to date they have raised $189 million, employing over 300 folk across the UK, US and EMEA. Their technology is already helping over 300 enterprises around the world and around 5,000 labs are completed every single day.
In this episode Chris talks about Immersive Labs inclusive approach to recruitment and their new initiative – Cyber Million. The cybersecurity industry currently faces an enormous talent shortage. An estimated 3.4 million security roles are currently vacant, and trad...
2023-08-1523 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 10 - Digital Sustainability and Green Tech South WestHannah Smith shares her journey to digital sustainability, representing the Green Web Foundation, and founding Green Tech South West - a community championing the application of tech in the South West of England to heal Climate Change.
2023-07-1935 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 9 - Bath Digital Festival and strengthening the tech communityLucy Paine talks to us about what to expect from this year's Bath Digital Festival. We discuss he digital divide, which is this year's Tech for Good theme at the festival and we talk more widely about her work with TechSpark to strengthen the tech community.
2023-06-2921 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 8 - Developing tech for good solutionsRichard Godfrey is CEO at Rocketmakers, investor, entrepreneur and technology innovator with a proven history of delivering major systems via Rocketmakers, Microsoft and Deloitte over the last 30+ years. Richard holds the Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation and Lifetime Achievement.
Based in Bath, Rocketmakers is a team of software developers that build innovative software, apps and websites for startups, scale-ups and large organisations who are working to have a positive impact in the world. Richard shares the Rocketmakers journey to tech for good, becoming B-Corp certified and hopes for the South-West as a centre for...
2023-06-2123 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 7 - Developing digital talent in young people with John BradfordJohn Bradford is the inspiration behind Digilocal charity initiative supporting coding sessions for young people from 8 years old + across Bristol. Digilocal also refurbish and redeploy laptops to those most in need.
In this episode John shares with us the inspiration for launching Digilocal in particular to tackle the diversity in tech agenda to provide access to learning spaces for those most excluded from access to technology. John explains how the Digilocal coding clubs run, the role of volunteer mentors and the impact for young people. https://digilocal.org.uk/
2023-05-2337 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 6 - Supporting digital in community businesses with Ed HowarthEd Howarth is Programme Delivery Lead for Power to Change supporting community businesses. In particular Ed has championed the need for strengthening community businesses through digital.
Ed was co-founder of Tech for Good Bristol which was subsequently merged to become and Tech for Good South West.
Follow Ed's Medium page for regular work notes and further discussion of the topics raised during our conversation.
2023-04-2732 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 5 - Digital development with charities with Emma MillingtonEmma Millington is owner of the agency Modular Digital, a UX design and build agency based in Bristol focused on charity websites and apps.
Emma discusses her focus on learning, relationships and building skills in charities as they build their digital products.
2023-03-2925 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 4 - Scaling carbon removal with Will FoulkesWill Foulkes is Co-Founder and CEO of Stabiliti. Stabiliti is a globally scaleable carbon removal solution. Full end-to-end transparency across carbon offset lifecycle, live transactional offsetting accurate to the gram.
''We're the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last to do anything about it.'' Will talks about climate, carbon offsetting and the immediate changes we ALL need to make. Also his journey from Lawyer to Tech Founder and his secret weapon...
2023-03-1625 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 3 - Driving digital in youth work with Arielle TyeArielle Tye is Head of Development at social enterprise and charity ProMo-Cymru, co-founder of Tech for Good Organisers UK and steering group member of Tech4Good South West.
Arielle talks about her tech for good work in Wales, her move to Bristol, and a passion to enhance youth work using digital.
2023-03-0221 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 2 - Recruiting in tech for good with Alicia TeagleAlicia Teagle is co-founder of Sr2 Socially Responsible Recruitment, founder of Women Rock, founder of Technology Volunteers, organiser of Codebar and investor.
Alicia shares her passion for recruitment, B-corps, tech for good, diversity and inclusion, and of course Bristol.
2023-02-1424 min
Tech4Good South WestEpisode 1 - Introducing Tech4Good SouthWest with Annie LeggeAnnie Legge is co-founder of the digital social enterprise Dot Project, Tech4Good South West and Tech for Good Organisers UK.
Annie has a deep passion for purpose-led and social impact work, and uses any opportunity to bring like minded people together to explore positive impact on the world. None less than through the Tech4Good South West network, a virtual community in Bath, Bristol and the South-West driving momentum for technology for good.
2023-02-0619 min
2023-02-0500 min
Vancouver Tech PodcastEpisode 59: Annee Ngo of Protohack
Episode 59: Annee Ngo of Protohack
Alex & Drew open the show talking about Alex's progress learning to code which she talks about further in her blog. They discuss meetups they attended the past week and then highlight a few upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene.
Our guest this week is Annee Ngo of Protohack and PressReader. Protohack activates and supports the start-up community by hosting global events that help people with amazing ideas get mentorship, training, and business requirement validation so they can turn their idea into a real-world business. Protohack...
2017-01-1655 min
Vancouver Tech PodcastEpisode 58: Holly Peck
Episode 58: Holly Peck
Drew opens the show talking about resolutions and spending more time on front end javascript development, in React during the upcoming Vancouver Tech Meetup with special guest Bryan Clark from Mozilla on January 23rd. Drew then talks about upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene.
Our guest this week is Holly Peck of Women Who Code Vancouver. You can reach Holly on twitter at @WWCodeVancouver
##Meetups for the week of January 9th
###Monday 9th
Vancouver Excel Power Users - Lunch & Learn: Intro to Excel...
2017-01-0942 min
Vancouver Tech PodcastEpisode 55: Brent Vatne
Episode 55: Brent Vatne
Alex and Drew open the show talking about highlights of the previous week's meetups and upcoming meetups in the Vancouver tech scene, including the upcoming web developer conference Confoo.
Our guest this week is Brent Vatne of Exponent!
##Meetups for the week of December 5th
###Special Event
Confoo.ca - Web Developer Conference (Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, 1088 Burrard St.) - Monday, December 5th - Wednesday, December 7th
###Monday 5th
Vancouver Excel Power Users
Lunch & Learn: Intro to Excel best practices ***FREE (YWCA Hotel, 733...
2016-12-051h 43
Vancouver Tech PodcastEpisode 52: Robert Reppel and Erik Reppel
Episode 52: Robert Reppel and Erik Reppel
Alex and Drew open the show talking about dog friendly workspaces, Haml, the upcoming inaugural Vancouver Tech Meetup, an open-contribution style company, and go over the upcoming week of Meetups Around Town.
Our guests this week are Robert Reppel and Erik Reppel. Robert Reppel is Director of Engineering at Adaptech Solutions and co-host of the DDD/CQRS/ES Meetup and the new Vancouver Tech Meetup. A true Polyglot, Robert has more than 25 years of practical, hands-on experience as a Software and Systems Architect, fixer, aligner, deliverer and...
2016-11-141h 16
Vancouver Tech PodcastEpisode 49: Launch Academy
Episode 49: Launch Academy
Drew and guest co-host Alexandra Moxin talk about what qualifies someone as a senior software developer vs. intermediate or junior and how that changes depending on company, product, project and type of skills required. They also touch on project management, event storming, learning to code, meetups around town, then interview Hussein from Launch Academy and the Vancouver Pixel Crafters Meetup group.
Our guest this week is Hussein Hallak of Launch Academy where he is the General Manager an active mentor, instructor, entrepreneur and community builder. Hussein currently facilitates the Vancouver...
2016-10-241h 04