Jordan Spain, Head of Engineering at HealthTech X-Lab, joins our hosts for this episode. This episode covers a range of topics from OKR’s, product engineering, cross-functional teams and the future of HealthTech in the UK - they cover it all. They explore the importance of OKR’s, analyse the meaning of product engineering from a HealthTech stance, debate whether cross-functional teams work for every business, and discuss the exciting things happening in the industry. Tune in for a great listen!

Svetlana Tarnagurskaja and Tom Dibble-Burge founded exciting tech consultancy The Dot Collective. Ben and Am, as founders of their own technical consultancy, speak to Svet and Tom about entrepreneurship in the tech industry. This episode covers a lot of ground from believing in your vision, advice on business partners, how to make your mark against established competitors, and much more. An insightful episode full of great tips, advice, and stories of experience. 

This week we’re across the pond speaking to Kelly Looney, Senior VP at Tide. Ben and Am talk to Kelly about company culture, workforce efficiency, how they find great talent pools and use them as a growth catalyst. Giving you insight to the mechanisms that allow a FinTech to scale , all from the mouth of a seasoned tech leader. 

We’re kicking off season 2 with Sacha Zvetelman. Sacha is Head of Engineering at amazing food-tech startup Growth Kitchen having previously worked as Technology Manager at Just Eat for almost 4 years. We talk to Sacha about the hiring process within tech. From setting candidates up for success, best practices when interviewing, the role of communication and the challenges of technical — you’re going to want to listen. This episode has the kind of interviewing and hiring insight that is important to understand in the current competitive market for talent.

Our last guest of the season is Ana Jakimovska - Deputy CEO and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Culture Trip. Ana has had a long and impressive career in product management in some of the UK’s leading media organisations including: Channel 4, The BBC, Sky News and The Guardian. This episode celebrates females in technology - Ana and Amardeep talk about their journey and what they’ve learnt along the way. 

This episode we talk about all things Tech4Good, and who better to discuss this topic than Kevin Antao. He made the switch from BP to working as CIO at Amnesty International and hasn’t looked back. Now, he’s advocates using your tech skills for the greater good. In this episode, we talk about the many avenues that tech can impact positive change. From digital sustainability, ethics and tech, AI and machine learning, green/digital washing and much more. Kevin talks about causes and charities that he works closely with and how he made the jump from corporate to the NGO world. How will you pave way for good?

This week we’re joined by Sven Poppelmann, VP of Engineering at Automata. If you haven’t heard about Automata, you’ll want to - they’re doing amazing things. On this episode, we focus on failure culture in tech companies and within tech teams. Sven has a seasoned career in senior positions at what have been some incredibly successful startups. So, he gives us his take on what failing means to him and the culture he instils in the startups he comes into. Hard earned advice on failure and what it’s taught them.  Failure advice that’s applicable to not just tech but every facet of life. This is a great one.

On this week's OnPoint Ben & Am were joined by Scott Guymer, Principle Engineer at Phillips Healthcare. Am previously worked with Scott and rates him as the best Principal Engineer she has worked with (although we have heard her say this about others before!). In a pretty technical pod we discuss Sky's early adoption of CI/CD, health checks of your technical team and how you can look to change the engineering mindset in a global business with over 8000 Engineers.