What The Tech Podcast (AU)

What It Takes To Become FDE w/ Ben Davies

21K views · 1w ago · 1:05:51

Guest: Ben Davies

AI is changing technology careers — from the roles companies are hiring for to the skills candidates need to demonstrate. In this episode of What The Tech Podcast (AU), we welcome back Ben Davies, who works across AI, machine learning and data recruitment, to explore what is changing in Australia’s tech job market.

Topics: AI Jobs and the Future of Technology Careers · What Has Changed in AI Hiring? · The Wider Tech Market and How to Stand Out · Forward Deployed Engineers and Emerging AI Roles · Business Problems Companies Are Willing to Fund · How Software Engineering Is Evolving

Bad Tokens Cost Good Money w/ Beibei Guo

35K views · 2mo ago · 1:24:43

Guest: Beibei Guo

This is a #paidpartnership with Commonwealth Bank AI is moving from experimentation to real execution but what does it actually take to make AI work safely, responsibly and at scale inside large organisations? In this episode of What The Tech Podcast (AU), we sit down with Beibei Guo from @CommBank to unpack what AI adoption looks like beyond the hype, demos and proof-of-concepts.

Topics: Welcome and Episode Introduction · Scaling Innovation Responsibly · What Is Really Changing With AI? · Choosing the Right Kind of Failure · Moving From AI Experiments to Enterprise Scale · Why AI Is Different From Previous Technology Waves

AI Is Changing Software Development — But There’s a Catch w/ Gerardo Estaba

4.2K views · 5mo ago · 1:13:09

Guest: Gerardo Estaba

AI is changing the software development lifecycle — from how ideas are prototyped, to how products are shipped, secured and scaled. In this episode of What The Tech Podcast (AU), we sit down with Gerardo Estaba from Supabase to explore the rise of the AI development lifecycle and what it means for developers, founders, product teams and enterprises.

Topics: The AI Development Lifecycle · AI Coding and the Compression of the Stack · Complexity Problem vs Scaling Problem · What Makes a Great Developer Platform · What Is Postgres? · pgvector, Embeddings and AI Workloads

Who Owns Your Data in the AI Era? w/ Dr. Sue Keay

7.5K views · 6mo ago · 57:07

Guest: Dr. Sue Keay

In this episode of What The Tech Podcast (AU), we sit down with Dr. Sue Keay. She is a leading voice in Australia’s AI and robotics ecosystem — Director of the UN AI Institute and Founder of Robotics Australia Group — to unpack the reality of AI adoption, data ownership, and capability building in Australia.

Topics: What AI adoption looks like on the ground · The rise of AI enablement roles · Why some organisations succeed with AI · Regulation vs innovation · Data ownership and competitive advantage · Are AI productivity gains overstated?

How AI Shapes Product Design w/ Christina Jones

26K views · 8mo ago · 49:48

Guest: Christina Jones

How is Generative AI changing product design? And what does “good design” mean in the age of AI? In this episode of What The Tech Podcast (AU), we sat down with Christina Jones, Head of Generative AI Design at Canva, about how AI is transforming product design, creativity, and human-centred experiences at global scale.

Topics: What is “good design” in the AI era? · Craftsmanship vs curation in generative AI · Human-centred design and predictive systems · How Canva experiments with AI (6-week cycles) · Evaluating multimodal AI models · AI as collaborator vs replacement

Australia versus Big Tech w/ Dave Lemphers

27K views · 9mo ago · 56:21

Guest: Dave Lemphers

In this Season 2 opener of What The Tech Podcast (AU), we sat down with Dave Lemphers, CEO and co-founder of Maincode, to tackle a question Australia can no longer avoid Should Australia build its own AI or remain dependent on Big Tech?

Topics: Meet Dave Lemphers and the origin of Maincode · From transformers to real-world AI systems · Public vs private sector AI adoption · Chatbots vs agents explained · Knowledge surfacing and low-hanging AI use cases · Open-source AI and model transparency

Securing the Modern Workplace: Cisco's Adaptive Access Strategy

81K views · 11mo ago · 3:00

We discussed with Greg on Cisco's approach to future-proofing workplaces through secure, flexible access solutions. We explore Secure Services Edge (SSE), which includes internet security, private access, digital experience monitoring, and AI usage controls that help organizations manage remote work and technology safely.