The ITPro Podcast

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The ITPro Podcast is a weekly show for technology professionals and business leaders. Each week hosts Rory Bathgate and Jane McCallion are joined by an expert guest to take a deep dive into the most important issues for the IT community. New episodes premiere every Friday. Visit itpro.com/uk/the-it-pro-podcast for more information, or follow ITPro on LinkedIn for regular updates.

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Creating space for women in tech

Mar 07 2025 33 mins  
International Women’s Day is here, a time for all those who care about women’s equality to celebrate the achievements of women both contemporary and historical and to focus on gender equality in our society.The tech sector still has a sizable gender divide, with only around one quarter of all tech roles held by women. Tech leaders need to enter into open dialogue over how to ma

February rundown: Revenge quitting and Microsoft goes quantum

Feb 27 2025 17 mins  
February is the shortest month of the year – but that hasn’t stopped this month from being packed full of dramatic tech news.Microsoft has made waves with Majorana 1, a first of its kind quantum chip that the tech giant says could open the door to usable quantum computers in years, not decades as previously thought.Elsewhere this month, Sam Altman made a series of public rebuke

The new era of cyber threats

Feb 20 2025 42 mins  
The cybersecurity landscape gets more complicated every year, with emerging technologies such as AI and the shifting geopolitical landscape bringing extra chaos to any CISO’s desk.Though automated defense systems are a welcome feather in cap for any company, it’s not just the good guys who have access to the latest tools. Off-the-shelf frameworks to launch attacks are becoming

What is the EU's AI plan?

Feb 14 2025 33 mins  
Years after first identifying the potential risks of AI systems, world leaders are having to balance concerns with an acknowledgment of the gains achievable through certain AI systems and nowhere is this more true than the EU.The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris has seen a number of high-profile announcements made on EU AI investments, on both a continental and region

Who wins out from DeepSeek's success?

Feb 07 2025 20 mins  
As the dust settles on DeepSeek, we’ve had the chance to see who walked away from the impact it had on the stock market unscathed.Apple and Meta did not undergo the same rapid stock shocks as Nvidia, Microsoft, and others in the immediate aftermath of the DeepSeek R1 launch – the latter has actually seen a healthy surge in the past few weeks. Why is this? And who actually wins

SPECIAL EDITION: Keeping data safe and flexible with sovereign cloud

Jan 31 2025 37 mins  
Every business has a bright future in the cloud, which is scalable and flexible to suit the needs of the modern enterprise. But rapid cloud adoption and data protection regulations, as well as emerging new regulations tied to AI, have been set on a collision course in recent years, with enterprises held to stringent regional laws that oversee how sensitive data can cross borders.On

January rundown: DeepSeek flips the script

Jan 31 2025 31 mins  
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen, so the saying goes, and that is certainly true of the final week of January 2025 with the widespread impact of DeepSeek.To say the Chinese large language model has caused an upset in the market would be an understatement. Within days of its release, it wiped more than a trillion dollars off the US st

Classic episode: How cyber attacks damage mental health

Jan 23 2025 28 mins  
This episode was first published 12 July 2024.Every business will, at some point, be impacted by cyber attacks. Companies task security teams to prepare the first line of defense against cyber attacks, and most have plans in place for the damage they leave behind – be it data loss, encryption by ransomware operators, or large-scale service disruptions.But something that often goe

CES 2025: AI laptops and Nvidia’s tiny powerhouse

Jan 17 2025 28 mins  
The Consumer Electronics Show has blown through Las Vegas, bringing – as always – a flurry of futuristic tech launches, promises, and some prototypes that will never see the light of day. But among the giant TVs and robotaxis, there were also some big moments for business tech.From the dependable rollouts of AI PCs to novel – and more powerful – devices, a number of announc

Can better connectivity boost rural business?

Jan 10 2025 37 mins  
Anyone who works outside of a major city, or has ever tried to get work done while on a trip to a more rural location, knows that rural connectivity can be patchy. Despite the UK’s high population density and relative lack of difficult terrain, rural connectivity remains an uneven picture. Many rural businesses are still struggling to receive fiber optic cables, let alone leverag