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Tech Lounge
Every two weeks, the tech lounge invites tech luminaries, entrepreneurs, and creatives from small scrappy startups and open source enthusiasts to those working in large global companies. If you're interested in deep and creative technology and conversations with some of its most interesting practitioners, this is the show for you. Come in and get yourself comfortable. Ten years and still going strong. Hosted by Chris Chinchilla. Show notes can be found at - chrischinchilla.com/podcast Formerly…
Episodes
Tech LoungeKubeCon - IBM, Canonical and Rancher
In part 1 of interviews from KubeCon, I speak with the following people about developments in the world of Kubernetes: 1:27 - Jason McGee of IBM 25:26 -…
Tech LoungeMark Marron of Bosque, Microsoft's new programming language
I speak with Mark Marron of Microsoft about their new language that is simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines. I also cover…
Tech LoungeMatt Billman of Netlify, game playing AI, and Sim City hell
In this episode Chris speaks with Matt Billman of Netlify, creating general game playing AI, browser wars past and present, and more!…
Tech LoungeA Linux for Windows? Pengwin, Polymaths, Login and Coffee Pods
In this episode Chris speaks with Hayden Barnes about the Pengwin project, an optimised Linux for the Windows Linux Subsystem. Also features articles on Coffee…
Tech LoungeYour smart essential dungeon
In this episode Chris covers why the Essential phone isn't as bad you might have thought, how smart speakers are changing music, new programming languages, and…
Tech LoungeThe Caffeinated Cthulhu Desktop
In this episode I look at advice on writing weird fiction, the future of Linux, the latest version of Opera, wether Google cloud offers an open source friendly…
Tech LoungeRobocall hyphen king
In this episode Chris covers the trail of the robocall king, programmer's obsession with efficiency, prisoners training AI, all you wanted to know about…
Tech LoungeRanking full stop
In this episode I cover old technologies and how to preserve them, the death of Childhood musicians and a little more. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts ---…
Tech LoungeTendermint, Cosmos and developer-focused Blockchains
Chris speaks with Jae Kwon of Tendermint about their Byzantine-fault tolerant state machine replication. Or blockchain, for short. Also in this episode Chris…
Tech LoungeRevolutionising health data with Arkhn
In this episode Chris speaks with Alexis of Arkhn about their plans to standardise medical data. Also featured are stories on D&D, the connections between…
Tech LoungeBrian Platz of Fluree, the Feature Packed Blockchain-based Database
In this episode I speak with Brian Platz of Fluree, a database that packs Blockchain, GraphQL, change reversion and much more. I also cover my geeky squeaks…
Tech LoungeEthical Robot Love Hack
In this weekly geeky squeak I look at coworking, robot love, unhackability, CUPS, Docker, the male focussed world, article 13, and more…
Tech LoungeDecentralised Privacy with Loki Network
In this episode Chris covers links of the week including ancient relics, and toys old and new. Also features an interview with Simon Harman, the project lead…
Tech LoungeEmulate History
In this short episode I look at computing history, privacy vs usability and more. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeMonique Morrow, missing aliens, and the death of RSS
In this episode I speak with Monique Morrow about creating technology that people actually need. Also featured the death of RSS, is Bitcoin the new Oil, robots…
Tech Lounge15th January - Rachel Black of Lisk
In this first episode for 2019, Chris covers EU funding for open source, EU cyber security, accessibility, open source controversies and the apocalypse…
Tech LoungeBen Goertzel of SingularityNET and Hanson Robotics
Cate and Chris speak to the infamous Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET and Hanson Robotics at Web Summit about Sophia the robot, SingularityNET, AI on the…
Tech LoungeChaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus of Gremlin
Cate and Chris speak with Kolton Andrus of Gremlin, about Chaos Engineering, ensuring reliability at scale and the plans the company has over the next few…
Tech LoungeMonetising Health Data on the Blockchain with Embleema
Chris speaks with Robert Chu of Embleema, a company looking to help (US) patients monetise their health data. https://www.embleema.com…
Tech LoungeThe Future of 5G at 5GTechritory
Chris and Cate recently attended 5GTechritory in Riga, Latvia to discover what business and government leaders are doing with 5G and what it will mean to us…
Tech LoungeThe Google Walkout - Is Tech Culture to Blame?
Live from a Lisbon hotel, Cate and Chris discuss the recent sexual harassment stories from Google and dig into the story and what aspects of tech and startup…
Tech LoungeReal World Blockchain Use with Anatoliy Lytovchenko
Chris speaks with Anatoliy Lytovchenko of Eleks at the recent IT Arena in Ukraine about real world Blockchain use cases he worked on with his clients…
Tech LoungeThe Aeternity Blockchain with Emil Wagner
Chris speaks with Emil Wagner of æternity, who aim to make blockchains more usable for developers and end users. https://aeternity.com…
Tech LoungeIFA Interviews - eBlocker, Snips and Conrad Connect
Cate and Chris speak with eBlocker (IoT security), Snips (Voice Assistant software and hardware) and Conrad Connect (Smart Home platform) at this years IFA in…
Tech LoungeIFAlicious
Chris and Cate talk about the European consumer electronics fair IFA. Expect dancing robots. --- Send in a voice message…
Tech LoungeRebroadcast: Scott Heiferman - founder of meetup.com
There's a high chance that if you have attended an event in a city in recent years, it was arranged through meetup.com. The site now has over 32 million…
Tech LoungeEyeo, Adblock Plus and Flattr with Rachel Brochado
Chris speaks with Rachel Brochado about Eyeo and their products, Adblock Plus, Flattr, and the Acceptable Ads program. We also discuss the future of funding…
Tech LoungeStefan Thomas, ripple and Malta blockchain summit
Chris speaks with Stefan Thomas, ex CTO of ripple about his past and new projects. Also, featured is the Malta blockchain summit, happening in November…
Tech LoungeTales from Lithuania - Connected fishing with Deeper
We speak with Donatas Malinauskas of deeper, a smart device for anglers to find the fish they are looking for. http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast/…
Tech LoungeTales from Lithuania - Telesoftas and general impressions
In this episode Cate and Chris discuss more of their recent trip to Lithuania. This time about Telesoftas, an innovation house with an enigmatic leader, and…
Tech LoungeThe Future of Cities and Frankenstein AI
Chris speaks with URBAN-X’s Managing Director Micah Kotch to speak about the startups they fund, and to Rachel Ginsberg about the Frankenstein AI project that…
Tech LoungeMarketing Blockchain with Consensys and Lisk
Chris speaks with Amanda Gutterman of Consensys and Thomas Schouten of Lisk about their projects and how to market something as complex as Blockchain. Previous…
Tech LoungeTales from Lithuania - bit&byte and infobalt
We begin our series of interviews from our recent trip to Lithuania. First a coding school for children and the trade association for ICT. Thanks to telesoftas…
Tech LoungeComputational Knowledge with Stephen Wolfram
Chris speaks with the venerable Stephen Wolfram about his career, company and the future of how we process data into something meaningful…
Tech LoungeThe JavaScript and Hyperledger foundations
Chris speaks with the leads of two open source software foundations, Kris Borchers of the JavaScript Foundation, and Brian Behlendorf of the Hyperledge…
Tech LoungeThe future of Big Data with Datical and Pepperdata
Chris speaks with Sean Suchter of Pepperdata and Robert Reeves of Datical about the future of DevOp and deployment for Big Data applications…
Tech LoungeA fast train to the World
In this episode Cate and Chris discuss their extensive travels, public transport, the first victims of GDPR, should we be worried about China and more. Show…
Tech LoungeMarty the Robot and Robotical
Chris and Cate speak with Myles from Robotical about their all-singing-all-dancing Marty the robot for education. https://robotical.io…
Tech LoungeThe Weekly Squeak - Team Assemble!
In this episode Cate discuss ChromeOS, Robots, GDPR, Bromads, games, and is Ready Player One really not a work of fiction, but a manifesto of what's wrong with…
Tech LoungeZilliqa - High throughput Blockchain
In this episode Chris speaks with Xinshu Dong of Zilliqa about their ideas on how to implement a high throughput blockchain output. https://www.zilliqa.com…
Tech LoungeArtificial Millennial Intelligence
In this episode, Cate and Chris talk about AI and the human machine era, the end of the 8 hour work day, when crypto conferences go wrong and more… --- Send in…
Tech LoungePutting your brain in control - With Max Newton of BrainCo
Chris speaks with Max Newton of BrainCo about how their brain-interfacing devices help people focus better. http://www.brainco.tech/#/about Previous episodes…
Tech LoungeOpen Source Deep Learning with Skymind - Chris Nicholson
Chris interviews Chris Nicholson, the CEO of Open Source Deep Learning platform, Skymind. https://skymind.ai https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvnicholson/ Show…
Tech LoungeThe World's First Emotional Processing Unit
Do We Need the World's First Emotional Processing Unit? Chris interviews the founder of Emoshape, a company who thinks we do, and has created the first EPU…
Tech LoungeThe Center for Social Media Responsibility
Chris speaks with Garlin Gilchrist II and Aviv Ovadya at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan about their mission. Show…
Tech LoungeSWSW, social credit, and the right to be forgotten
In our latest episode, Chris reports back from SXSW and we talk about interesting articles from the week including the creation of the internet, China’s…
Tech LoungeCreative Industries on the Blockchain - Zach LeBeau of SingularDTV
Chris speaks with Zach LeBeau of SingularDTV at SXSW about their ambitious plans to bring music and video production, distribution, rights management and…
Tech LoungeMobile World Congress 2018
Chris & Cate are back at Mobile World Congress and bring your their highlights from this whopper of a show. Show notes: gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support…
Tech LoungeRed Hat acquires CoreOS, an interview with Brian Gracely
Chris speaks with Brian Gracely, director, OpenShift product strategy about the container space more generally and how the acquisition might fit into it. ---…
Tech LoungeAiva - The Ai that composes music
We speak with Pierre Barreau, CEO of Aiva who's AI has helped compose music for presentations, games, concerts, and even has its own album…
Tech LoungeThe Big Data Bikocalypse
In this episode Cate and Chris discuss the birthday of open source, big data, transportation and how to conduct yourself at networking events. Show notes -…
Tech LoungeDecentralised exchanges and AirSwap
Chris speaks with Sam Tabar, strategist at AirSwap about trading cryptocurrencies on decentralised exchanges and how we can solve the problems of VC backed…
Tech LoungeOptimize your cloud native infrastructure with Replex.io
Chris speaks with the three founders of replex.io who aim to help you identify inefficiencies at every level of a stack, from discrete hardware components all…
Tech LoungeNuraphone - Best of Innovation award at CES 2018
Fresh from their Best of Innovation at CES Innovation Awards, we finally publish an interview with Nuraphone when Chris visited their office in Melbourne in…
Tech LoungeContainers and Serverless Predictions with Lucas Carlson
Chris speaks with Lucas Carlson of Automic to discuss the current state of Containers and Serverless, plus predictions for 2018. Previous episodes & Show Notes…
Tech LoungeCES 2018 - The woeful and the wonderful
In this episode Cate and Chris tackle CES, a crazy show of more than 4,500 exhibitors spread over 11 official venues. It's an exercise in stamina as you…
Tech LoungeDaniel G. Siegel - the bullet hole misconception
Chris speaks with Daniel G. Siegel about his talk "the bullet hole misconception" covering topics such as how developers should challenge themselves and…
Tech LoungeCCC, recounting 2017 and predictions for 2018
Chris and Cate recount the year that was, look forward to 2018 and discuss the recent CCC in Leipzig. Previous Episodes - gregariousmammal.com/podcast Support…
Tech LoungeBerlin Blockchain Day Panel
Chris hosts a panel at the recent Berlin Blockchain day with three blockchain luminaries: Dmitry Meshkov, Alexander Chepurnoy, Vlad Zamfir and Alexander…
Tech LoungeDubai Startups - Wrappup, a meeting AI
Chris interviews Dubai startup Wrappup about their meeting AI bot and running a startup in Dubai. https://www.wrappup.co Previous episodes -…