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Why Everybody Unpacks the Dishwasher: Ella Brennecke, People Operations Manager at Everlab

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The Engineer Who Hasn't Written Code in 9 Months: Jack Rudenko, 10x Labs

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Nobody Knows What to Pay Anymore: A Building Tech Teams Best-Of

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Why "The Number Is Never the Problem": Matt McFarlane, Founder of FNDN

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Why "Show Me Your Harness" Beats Any Coding Test: Adam Witanowski, AI Architect

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The Junior Engineer Isn't Needed Anymore: Cloë Stanbridge, Talent Lead at Airtree

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How to Build AI Capability Without Chasing Every New Model, with Patrick McQuaid

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Are Your People More Productive or Just Faster? Claudia Barriga-Larriviere, Startup Flamingo

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AI Can’t Replace Domain Expertise — Nathan Hill, Head of Telco at AWS

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Guardrails Are Just Suggestions: Securing AI Agents with Okta's Kevin Akermanis

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Why Your First Hire Isn't an Engineer Anymore — Michael Batko, ex-Startmate CEO

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Tech Exec // Oliver Shanahan, Group Head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure at BetMakers Technology Group

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Tech Exec // Matt Vitale: Executive Director at New Dialogue

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Tech Exec // Victoria Aspden: Executive General Manager - Digital & Transformation at Ampcontrol

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Tech Exec // Andrew Cresp: CIO At NGM Group

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Margareta Bogatir Studdert: Head of Digital Workplace & Service Management At NGM Group

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Adam Ingles: Fractional CFO / Director At Quick:Ratio

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Roger Crellin: Fractional Tech Exec

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Michael Graham: Partner at Cutcher & Neale

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Josh Jeffress: Principle at Design Anthology

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Adam Boyle: CEO of EngageRM

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Brett Thomas: Chief Operations Officer at The Melt

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Josh Weeks: Director of Alpha Echo

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Carolyn Breeze: CEO of Scalare Partners

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Sophie Benjamin: Content Designer at Canva

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Michelle Crawford: Founder at Being More Human

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Jalissa Lawson: Senior Product Designer at Zip Co

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NTP Podcast Live for Episode 100

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Ryan Whitmore: Senior Product Designer at ReadyTech

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Gloria Chan: Head of Design at Wisr

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Mikey Ford: Product & Creative Technology

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Jackson Clarke: Director & CTO at Tentacle

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Adriaan Steyn: Product Design Lead at Hide and Seek Digital

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Andre Pinkowski: Director, Advisor & Founder

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Ash Ivory: Head of Product at Askable

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Kavita Agarwal: QR Lead at Arq Group

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Amanda Chan: Lead Product Designer at Lyka

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Matt Gardan: Founder at Digital Native

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Amanda Maykot, Product Design Manager at REA Group

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Ben Tattersfield, Product Owner & Business Analyst at Codafication

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Rebecca Bolton: Brand Designer at Enigma

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Daniel Borg: Director/Designer at psyborg®

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Ria ODonnell: Managing Director at Custom Learning Design

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Sam Bricknell: Co-Founder/Director at TechVisa

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Mark Boswell & Alek Patsouris from Strategic Group

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Mitchell Bright: Lead Electronics Engineer at D+I Newcastle

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Luke Thompson: CTO at LEOPARD.Host

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Jacqueline Garrett: Founder and CEO at GGWP Academy

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Sandy Agafonoff: Squad Lead at Hello Fresh

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Mike McKiernan: Founder and CEO at Deckee

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Angela Cobb & Oliver Stewart: Co-Founders at Tortoise & Hare

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Vivek Jayachandran: Co-founder & Managing Director at Jaegersoft

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Phil Ireland: CEO & Co-Founder of Hone Carbon

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James Barr, Senior Product Designer at Digital Creators

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Cathy Lill: Head of Product Engineering at Hireup

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Martin Carr: Founder/Director of Applied Virtual Simulation

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Community Spotlight: Sarah & Mark Wallis, Co-Founders of Skript

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Jonathan Milgate: CTO at Camplify

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Daniel Van Heerden: Software Development Manager

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Ben May, Managing Director at the Code Company

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Cole Cornford: Director at Galah Cyber

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2021 Wrapped! Our Best Bits from This Year

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Mashup Episode: Advice for Starting a Career in Tech

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Ben Lamb: Principal at Cyber Industrial Networks

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Best of 2021

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David Lynch: CEO at OAS Technology

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Aaron & Witold: CTO/A.I. Project Manager at Cordel

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Daniel Pludek: CTO at Kip McGrath.

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Justin Bain: CEO at 3ME Technology

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Community Spotlight: Interview with Sarah Frazer

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Mitch Brindle: Cloud Operations Manager at nib

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RemoteTechPodcast Series: Jessica Baird, Co-Founder & CEO at Remote Social

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Nathan Hookway: General Manager at Zimple Digital

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RemoteTechPodcast: Brendan Yell, Director of Twilio Startups

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Glendin Franklin-Browne: Technology Consulting Manager at Diamond IT

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Jodi Stapleton: Head of Transformation at Newcastle Permanent Building Society

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Community Spotlight: Interview with Lachy Gray

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Pru Killick: Head of People and Culture at Pegasus

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Tom Howard: QA Lead & Lean Coach at the Greater Bank

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Justin Stafford: Co-Founder & CEO of Blueshift

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Community Spotlight: Interview with Brock & Steve

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Adam Amos: Director of Robotic Systems

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Arjun Ramachandran: Principal at elevenM

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EPISODE 50: Interview with James MacDonald

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Community Spotlight: Code Bullet

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Brendan Yell: Director of Twilio Startups and Startup Grind

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Jonathan & Chad: Nimbler Digital & StreamingHouse

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Alexandre Mendes: Program Convenor for Computer Science at the University of Newcastle

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Community Spotlight: Liam Manning

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Chris Thorpe: CEO & Founder of Leading Edge Data Centres

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Welcome Aboard: Linda Apostolidis

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Mitchell Barwick: Principal Designer at Greater Bank

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Community Spotlight: Anjali Wadhwa

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Community Spotlight: Hunter Data Analytics

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Back Again! Andrew Mears: CEO at SwitchDin

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Community Spotlight with Richard Berry: I2N Hub Coordinator

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Community Spotlight with Andrew Stace: Newcastle Cyber Security Group

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Dan Farthing: Program Manager - Digital Solutions at Bradken

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Andrew McCallum: CTO at Compeat Nutrition

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Best Bits From the First Ten Episodes