Tech Uncensored - An Altitude Accelerator Podcast

Jul 22 2024
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Tech Uncensored, Crucial Analysis in Tech, is a bi-weekly podcast brought to you by Altitude Accelerator. Hosted by Hessie Jones, we explore emerging news, and relevant topics that startups care about. We speak to subject matter experts, founders and advisors in Investment: Venture Capital, Equity Crowdfunding, and across Industry: Clean Tech, Biotech, Generative AI, Blockchain, Web3, Privacy, Security etc. who weigh in on the challenges that startup founders face today, as well as the profound opportunities that come with emerging tech and market adoption.

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Episode 58 Resilience is Pioneering a New Approach to Managing Cyber Risk

Jul 22 2024 17 mins  
This is one of the video interviews we conducted at Collision, Toronto June 17-20, 2024. Resilience is not your traditional insurance provider. Dr. Ann Irvine is the company's Chief Data & Analytics Officer, and has spent her career sitting at the intersection of data science and cybersecurity. We spoke to Dr. Irvine about managing cyber risk in the changing cybersecurity l

Episode 57 The Art and Science of Building Successful Teams

Jul 08 2024 39 mins  
A critical milestone in scaling a startup for growth involves building a high-performing and well-rounded team that can make or break a venture's success. The guiding hypothesis is that we tend to gravitate towards people with similar interests, and values. That is a foundation at the very early stages for moving the company the right direction. There is complexity in finding

Episode 56 Ryan Pannell - Lessons from a Successful Serial Entrepreneur

Jun 24 2024 56 mins  
Hessie Jones met Ryan Pannell over a decade ago when she first ventured into entrepreneurship. At that time, he was an executive producer and it was the film industry where he began his career, working his way up to be a writer, producer and director. He directed his first feature film, Dragon City, when he was 26 years old. In 2001 he moved into startup and pioneered cryptographic

Episode 55 Myths, Facts and the Future of LLMs with Amir Feizpour

Jun 05 2024 51 mins  
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as one of the most powerful and versatile artificial intelligence technologies of our time. By training massive neural networks on vast datasets of human-generated text, LLMs have developed an unprecedented ability to understand and generate human-like language with robust fluency and comprehension. This breakthrough has unlocked a wide ran

Episode 54 Cybersecurity Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models

May 31 2024 32 mins  
With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the speed of adoption, how we communicate, how we research, how we improve our productivity has greatly transformed society. While these powerful tools offer remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and generation of more accurate human-like language, they have also introduced new challenges and risks to the pr

Episode 53 The Intelligent City - Towards Progress and Sustainability

May 17 2024 36 mins  
By 2050, 70% of the world’s population is projected to live in cities. We will evolve into an increasingly urban economy. Urban centers will adapt and evolve to meet the needs of their growing populations. Urbanization can lead to 1) economic growth, 2) improved living standards, and 3) cultural diversity. Some key stats about the rise of the urban populations: The world’s urba

Episode 52 Steering Growth Stage Founders Towards Sustainable Businesses

May 03 2024 36 mins  
David Peterson, known as the Optimization Coach, assists growth-stage companies in 2X their revenue growth to achieve their 10X goal. He helps them become more appealing to investors or (if they choose) achieve their status as a successful founder-owned businesses. At this juncture, early-stage founders are already generating revenue and may aim to raise a successful Series A round

Episode 51 Make or Break: Establishing Product Market Fit is Crucial to Success

Apr 15 2024 44 mins  
Product Market Fit is a make-or-break factor for startups. Even the best products can fail without market demand, while an average product can succeed if the demand exists. What does success look like once companies reach this critical milestone? The product resonates with the market means that: Customer actively buys, uses and recommends the product to others in sufficient numbers

Episode 50 Traditional Demand Generation is Broken. There is a better way to Improve Win Rates

Apr 01 2024 39 mins  
Demand Generation is a broad marketing practice aimed at creating awareness and interest in a company’s products or services. It involves using various tactics across numerous channels, such as content marketing, social media ads, and more While the practice has been around for as long as brands have existed, it has undergone some significant changes and formalization over the pa

Episode 49 Evolving DEI within Venture Capital with Gayatri Sarkar of Advaita Capital

Mar 22 2024 58 mins  
Today we’re facing headwinds in this fast-paced tech economy. There is this global race to win in the advancement of Artificial Intelligence between the East and the West, however there are clear impediments that persist to drive change in current technologies that are hampering the speed to win. There is this realization of the how brittle our systems are because of the harms, t