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Tech Lounge podcast

Every two weeks, the tech lounge invites tech luminaries, entrepreneurs, and creatives from small scrappy startups and open source enthusiasts to those working in large global companies. If you're interested in deep and creative technology and conversations with some of its most interesting practitioners, this is the show for you. Come in and get yourself comfortable.

Love in the time of artificial intelligence

Love in the time of artificial intelligence

04/12/2017

In this episode Cate and Chris tackle the rise of cryptocurrencies, love (past and present) in the time of artificial intelligence, the prevalence of software bugs, net neutrality from a non-American perspective, and mor…

Augmented reality and IoT with Tanveer Saifee of Thingworx

Augmented reality and IoT with Tanveer Saifee of Thingworx

30/11/2017

Chris speaks with Tanveer Saifee of Thingworx about creating interactive AR tools that help workers in modern industry understand and analyse the machinery and processes around them. --- Send in a voice message: https:…

Johannes Schickling of Graphcool, The GraphQL Backend

Johannes Schickling of Graphcool, The GraphQL Backend

21/11/2017

Chris speaks with Johannes Schickling of Graphcool, The GraphQL Backend Framework. The interview covers their love of GraphQL, community and how they try to help developers understand and use the API framework. --- Sen…

Are Coders King?

Are Coders King?

16/11/2017

In this episode Cate and Chris tackle some difficult topics such as the backlash against tech, does the status quo even want to change, diversity, the naivety of engineers and much more. gregariousmammal.com/podcast [ht…

What can musicians and programmers learn from each other? A conversation with Ryan Blunden

What can musicians and programmers learn from each other? A conversation with Ryan Blunden

07/11/2017

Chris speaks with Ryan Blunden about what programmers and musicians can learn from each other, the affects of music on coding, what genres might be what programming language, computer generated music and much more. Show…

The Ukrainian Startup scene with Anastasia Sleptsova

The Ukrainian Startup scene with Anastasia Sleptsova

30/10/2017

As part of a forthcoming article on the Ukrainian tech/startup scene, I interview Anastasia Sleptsova Head of Ecosystem Partnerships at UNIT.City [http://unit.City]. gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gregariousmammal…

How to program a robot - Interview with Gestalt Robotocs

How to program a robot - Interview with Gestalt Robotocs

26/10/2017

Robots are appearing everywhere in our lives and workplaces, but how does a developer actually program one? Chris spoke with Jans Lembrecht of Gestalt Robotics about his experience programming industrial robots designed…

Managing Your Business Apps with Apperian, An Interview with Mark Lorion

Managing Your Business Apps with Apperian, An Interview with Mark Lorion

23/10/2017

To those of us addicted to our smartphones, the myriad of applications we can install and what we can achieve (or time waste) with them is astounding. But for those of us working in corporate or other industries that va…

The Ethics of Tech

The Ethics of Tech

10/10/2017

This week Cate and Chris discuss smarter ways to hire developers, ethics in tech and more. Show notes at - gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor…

Ubuntu Core and Snaps

Ubuntu Core and Snaps

02/10/2017

Chris spoke with Dustin Kirkland, VP of product development and Jamie Bennett, VP of Devices and IoT Engineering at Canonical to understand more the strategy behind Ubuntu Core and Snaps. Image from - https://medium.com…

Thierry Carrez, release manager for the OpenStack project

Thierry Carrez, release manager for the OpenStack project

28/09/2017

Chris interviews Thierry Carrez, release manager for the OpenStack project about how he coordinates a large amount of contributors to the project, balancing diverse commercial and cultural differences whilst still mainta…

Interviews from IFA 2017 and Startup Night Berlin

Interviews from IFA 2017 and Startup Night Berlin

27/09/2017

Chris and Cate interview numerous people from IFA and Startup Night Berlin 2017. https://www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public epi…

Dataiku Interview

Dataiku Interview

22/09/2017

Dataiku Interview by Gregarious Mammal --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus…

IFA, IoT night, Armenian startups and Startup night - The Berlin week that was

IFA, IoT night, Armenian startups and Startup night - The Berlin week that was

22/09/2017

Chris and Cate recount one crazy week in Berlin covering IFA, the France vs Germany IoT battle, Armenian startups and the long night of Startups. gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast] ---…

Mark Brocato of Sencha - Bringing cross platform components to React

Mark Brocato of Sencha - Bringing cross platform components to React

14/09/2017

Chris speaks with Mark Brocato of Sencha about their new cross platform data-driven components for the React framework, and how the company made JavaScript more advanced years before anyone else. --- Send in a voice me…

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