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On this week’s show Chris & Matt are joined by marketing consultant and Founder of Adaptomy William Wright.

On this week’s show we are joined by Gavin Megnauth to reflect on what he’s learned by immersing himself in the California tech scene.

For the first show of the new year, Chris and Matt project into the year ahead and ask what subjects the CIO or CTO may be asked by their less technical C-Suite colleagues in the coming 12 months.

In the final show of 2022, Chris and Matt take a look back at a selection of the wonderful guests they’ve hosted in the past 12 months.

On this week’s show we are joined by Wyndham Plumptre, founder of Future Arc, to talk about the challenges of doing business sustainably.

On this week’s show we are joined by Suw Charman Anderson, the driving force behind Ada Lovelace Day. Slight gremlins got into the posting of this last night (by gremlins read: Matt). Hopefully this version will be correct! Image: Analytical engine constructed by the late Chas. Babbage, F.R.S., Science Museum Group Collection© The Board of […]

On this week’s show we are joined by Chief Data Officer Paul Lomax to talk about the advantages of open collaboration with data, particularly when the data is wrong.

On this week’s show we present another episode of listener questions as Chris & Matt contemplate some of the bigger tech issues of today. Yes, that bloke Musk and his rampant ego.

On this week’s show we are joined by data visualisation expert Neil Richards to talk about telling stories through data in pictures. You can find Neil’s blog here: https://questionsindataviz.com/ His book here: https://www.routledge.com/Questions-in-Dataviz-A-Design-Driven-Process-for-Data-Visualisation/Richards/p/book/9781032139449 And Viz for Social Good here: https://www.vizforsocialgood.com/

On this week’s show we celebrate WB-40’s sixth birthday, and are joined by Max Claps from IDC to talk about the technology that is changing the world of trains.

On this week’s bumper edition, Matt spends a day at the OpenUK Open Source Software thought leadership event. In the course of the show he speaks with Amanda Brock, Jim Zemlin, Val Del Vechhio, Sal Kimmich, Richard Dobson, Mahamed Ali and Nikita Koselev.

On this week’s show we are joined by Perry Timms to explore what is on the mind of the HR world at this post-Covid, post-not budget budget world. You can find out more about Perry’s business at pthr.co.uk

On this week’s show we talk with Professor David Carroll about the gaps between privacy law and the way in which machine learning techniques are able to target us, and how that’s panning out in courts in Europe.

On this week’s show we are joined by Catherine Stagg-Macey to talk about the gaps that seem too common in many technology leaders, and what to do about them. You can find Catherine’s emotional intelligence quiz here: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/6011b3a9b2b16d001691e67d And her website here: https://www.conversationsattheedge.co.uk/

On the first show of the Autumn, Chris and Matt are joined by Neil Usher to talk about his forthcoming book Unf*cking Work. WARNING: Given the title of his book, unsurprisingly we use the F word quite a few times this week.

In this week’s show, Chris and Matt are once again bombarded by listener questions in another of their occasional homages to Gardener’s Question Time.

On this week’s show Mike Brooman from Vanti joins us to talk about the trials and tribulations of making buildings smarter.

On this week’s show, Chris & Matt spend some time thinking about what’s going on on either side of the curtain when organisations go through structured processes to buy technology services and products.

On this week’s show Chris and guest host Dom Mason are joined by Jack Stilgoe to talk about the technology and policy surrounding self-driving cars.

As Chris and Matt have both started new jobs in the last few weeks, on this weeks show they reflect on some of the factors that they are keeping in mind as they find their way in their new roles.

On this week’s show we are joined again by futurist Tom Cheesewright, who mostly explains what he’s been doing under his car bonnet during lockdown, converting a petrol BMW to be an electric car.

On this week’s final episode in the On Purpose mini series, Matt and guest host Lisa Riemers are joined by startup founder Julia Macmillan to talk about her exploration of purpose with profit.

Continuing our season of shows about purpose-led organisations, this week we are joined by the CEO of the The Clink, Yvonne Thomas, to talk about their work creating a skilled workforce to leave prison with lower chances of reoffending.

On this week’s show we are joined by Kate Davies, the CEO of London Housing Association Notting Hill Genesis. In this second episode in the On Purpose mini series we explore the difference that being Not For Profit can make in delivering purposeful services.

On this first episode of our miniseries looking at purpose-led organisations, we are joined by Liminal’s Roland Harwood to start to explore the topic.

It’s another episode of Ask WB-40 as Chris and Matt answer questions from the listenership. If you too would like to learn Smalltalk, here’s the digital archive version of the edition of Byte that Matt mentioned… https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08

On this week’s show we are joined by security expert James Bore to talk about what’s different and what’s not about the current states we are in.

On this week’s show we tell the story of starting up, scaling, exiting and then starting all over again, with Cloudreach and Savvi founder Pontus Noren.

On this week’s show, Chris & Matt explore some of the ideas that they hope to dive into in the series of shows after Easter on the theme of purpose-driven organisations.

On this week’s show, we speak with Chris Chapman about his remarkable career, puppets, machines and the future of hybrid.

On this week’s show, we are joined by Soda’s Maarten Masschelein to talk about the quality of data. Matt wrote about the “Data isn’t the new oil, it’s the new nuclear waste” metaphor in an article in 2016 here. The elderly wolf meme that Chris mentioned that was doing the rounds some years ago was […]

On this week’s show, Chris & Matt answer a selection of questions raised by the members of the WB-40 Podcast Signal Group. If you would like to join the group drop us a line on Twitter.

On this week’s show we are joined by Matt Cockbill from Berwick Partners to talk about The Great Resignation, and changing tides in the world of technology leadership. This week we also have a special offer with 25% off tickets to Paul Armstrong’s TBD Conference at the end of March. Find out more here https://www.thetbdconference.com/ […]

On this week’s show, we are joined by Liz Moseley from Tortoise who talks about the origins of the Slow News idea, how it’s changed through the last three years, and where the Slow Newsroom is heading next.

On this week’s show we speak to Helen Philpot about the wonders of a diverse career path. Early in the show Matt mentioned Dan Olson’s brilliant talk on YouTube – The line goes up – the problem with NFTs. You can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

On this week’s show Chris & Matt take a look at a couple of aspects of current crypto technologies – the weird bubble that is the world of NFTs, and the strange way in which the government seems hell-bent on banning end-to-end encryption. There’s also news about the forthcoming WB-40 Podcast Leadership Retreat.

On this week’s show, Chris and Matt are joined by Dr Zara Nanu from Gapsquare to talk about the challenges and the solutions to the gender pay gap.

On the last show of the year, Chris & Matt review the year that has passed, with help from questions from our listeners. A big thanks to Lisa Riemers, Chris King, Si Cornwell and Tony Harper for the wonderful questions.

On this week’s show we are joined by Tenable’s David Cummins to talk about some of the contemporary challenges that surround the world of cyber security.

On this week’s show we once again Ask the Audience and quick-fire answers to questions from the WB-40 Signal group. Don’t forget you can join the Signal group by direct messaging us on Twitter.

On this week’s show we are joined by CybExer co-founder Lauri Almann to talk about the world of Cyber Security, and how storytelling allows people to experience near real-world simulations of major incidents.

On this week’s show we are joined by Lee Cox to talk about the challenges of changing career when you are right in the middle of it.

On this week’s show Chris talks to Amy Low and Teresa Loftus from Abilitynet, about the wide variety of disability related digital barriers that can be removed using technological tools, many of which are already provided in the software we use every day. Abilitynet have their accessibility conference https://abilitynet.org.uk/techsharepro-2021 – you can get 50% off as a […]

On this week’s show we have a fascinating conversation with author and journalist Tom Standage about the what we can learn from the history of technology. His latest book A Brief History of Motion is published by Bloomsbury.

On this week’s show, the fifth anniversary of our very first episode, Chris & Matt take the podcast on the road and record live with an audience at the 2021 IT Directors’ Forum at The Grove, a very pretty hotel on the outskirts of Watford. We reflect on five things that we have learned in […]

On this week’s show Chris & Matt explore the world of imposter syndrome prompted by Adam Grant’s new book Think Again. We also look ahead to next week’s live shows at the IT Director’s Forum, and we check out the latest planet burning in the world of crypto currency. .

On this week’s show we are joined by Ethical Intelligence’s founder Olivia Gambelin to talk about ethics, technology and decision making.

On this week’s show Chris & Matt talk to Chris Yapp about the importance of watercoolers, the challenges of multi-disciplinary teams and why the strongest held views about the future are probably the least right. We’ll post a link to his latest blog article about education here as soon as we can.

On this week’s show listeners pose a series of questions that matter to Matt and Chris (and there’s also one about cheese). During the conversation Matt mentioned the charity Beyond Equality who can be found here: https://www.beyondequality.org/

On this week’s show Chris & Matt discuss future guests, topics and themes as the show enters into its sixth year…