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Black tech careers, told from the inside.
#BITTechTalk is an interview series from Blacks in Technology centered on Black people shaping engineering, data, cybersecurity, Web3, consulting, recruiting, and learning platforms. The conversations pair career origin stories with concrete lessons about community leadership, business building, and access.
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#BITTechTalk is an interview series from Blacks in Technology focused on Black people building, leading, learning, hiring, and founding across the technology world. The show’s center of gravity is career testimony with practical detail. Greg Greenlee often introduces guests through the mission of Blacks in Technology, then opens space for their background, current work, and lessons from the field. The result is less like a news panel and more like a community archive of tech pathways. One episode follows Dennis Campbell through engineering, entrepreneurship, emerging technology, geofencing, mobile apps, touring logistics, and the cost of cloud infrastructure before business maturity catches up. Another tracks Dr. Marquisea Pierce’s work helping tech accelerators, investors, portfolio companies, and STEM founders turn technical ideas into fundable ventures. Andrea Parker’s conversation broadens the definition of a tech career, showing how marketing, project management, branding, event logistics, and professional identity fit inside technology companies. Vera Dureke’s episode brings the lens of data science, mathematics, contract analysis, AWS, Tableau, Power BI, Apache Spark, and tactile learning. Dominique Carney’s story connects anthropology, cybersecurity, job pressure, layoffs, mistakes, and growth. Bobby McNeil’s appearance highlights recruiting, Raleigh-Durham’s tech community, and chapter leadership. Marlaina Love brings Web3, venture studio work, digital ownership, and the changing role of gatekeepers in music and platforms. Dawn Nicole McIlwain’s episode adds AI-driven eLearning, licensing models, continuing education, and workforce development. The pacing is conversational, sometimes informal, and often generous. It gives guests room to explain both achievements and uncertainty. That matters because the show’s recurring question is not simply who made it into tech, but how people keep building once they arrive. Listeners hear about tools, companies, chapters, learning systems, professional networks, and local ecosystems. They also hear a consistent argument that technology includes many kinds of labor beyond writing code. #BITTechTalk is best for people who want grounded Black tech stories with business context, community memory, and career navigation built in.
Made for: Built for Black technologists, aspiring tech professionals, founders, recruiters, community organizers, and anyone studying how careers in technology actually take shape. It is especially useful for listeners who value mentorship, representation, and practical career range.
What sets it apart: The show combines personal career histories with the infrastructure around them: chapters, consulting models, hiring networks, local tech hubs, and business lessons. It makes room for engineers and non-engineers alike without treating either path as secondary.
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The geofence bill comes due; Greg Greenlee helps you hear the business lesson behind the build.
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An engineer's path into entrepreneurship, where ambitious geofencing runs into the hard economics of early technology.
Dennis Campbell's path from St. Louis to Atlanta, Georgia Tech, and the power industry gives this episode a clear frame: engineering ambition can open a door to entrepreneurship, but it rarely removes the operational weight behind a product.
A practical founder-stage conversation about turning technical ideas into business stories and clearer first steps.
Dr. Marquisea Pierce keeps the conversation centered on a useful founder-stage question: once the technical idea exists, what comes next? Speaking as founder and principal consultant at Ruby Leaf Media, she describes work with tech accelerators and investors that support STEM…
A grounded episode on finding a place in tech through marketing, project work, community leadership, and professional identity.
Andrea Parker brings a career path into view that moves through marketing, project management, community leadership, and consulting around branding and growth.
A practical conversation about data work, learning by doing, and leadership turned toward service.
Big Tech Talk takes a grounded route into technology work through a Chicago chapter president balancing data science and mathematics with contract analyst work at CDW.
A grounded tech-career conversation about turning mistakes into safer, more human work.
Dominique Carney's route into tech gives this episode its useful shape: a military-family upbringing in Chicago, anthropology at DePaul University, and a master's in human-computer interaction all point toward a career built by asking better questions about people and…
A clear, grounded look at Web3, creative access, and the gatekeepers technology keeps reshuffling.
Web3 comes into focus through a practical cultural question: who gets to decide which creators find an audience. Greg Greenlee's conversation with Marlena Lowe, the Twin Cities chapter president of Blacks in Technology and founder and CEO of Pipe Dream Ventures, follows that…
A chapter leader connects tech recruiting, regional pride, and the local work of stomping the divide.
BIT Tech Talk's episode with Bobby McNeil turns tech community-building into something specific and grounded. McNeil, a tech recruiting leader and former college athlete, talks through the Raleigh-Durham area's active member base, its pull for networking and events, and the…
A practical look at how Skildora packages professional learning for individuals, partners, and organizations.
Dawn Nicole McElwee lays out Skildora's approach to professional learning as a mix of direct consumer access, annual organizational licenses, and preferred learning provider partnerships.
Weighing AI tools, one practical use at a time.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Dennis Campbell says walking to the library for internet access, cutting grass with a lawnmower, and seeing Facebook at Cardinal Ritter College Prep pushed him toward tech.
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Gray Greenlee, founder of Blacks in Technology, interviews Vera Direcki, the BIT Chicago chapter president and a contract analyst at CDW, about her path from Chicago's South Shore into data science and mathematics.
BIT Tech Talk by Blacks In Technology follows Dominique Carney from Chicago and Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, to DePaul University, human-computer interaction, and work in finance, cybersecurity, senior security analysis, and UX research.
Greg Greenlee interviews Marlena Lowe, founder and CEO of Pipe Dream Ventures and president of the Blacks in Technology Twin Cities chapter, about Web3, virtual reality, and creator-led business.
Bobby McNeil describes moving from a North Carolina college basketball career and NCAA National Championship at Barton College into more than 15 years of technology recruiting, including work with Amazon Web Services.
Dawn Nicole McElwain explains how Skildora shifted from an expert-led course marketplace to AI-avatar instruction after experts resisted filming, editing, and course production.
Malik Garandan describes moving from four years as a Walgreens cashier to cybersecurity after the 2021 Colonial Pipeline incident prompted him to study CompTIA materials and online lessons.
Greg Greenlee interviews Imani Nichols, a Manhattan-based UX researcher from Brooklyn who studied media studies and sociology at the University of Virginia.
Malia Baxter, a Towson University computer science senior, describes discovering coding through an eighth-grade Hour of Code and nearly leaving the field after entering a male-dominated programming classroom.
Oladoshu Teibo explains how leaving General Dynamics IT led him through customized computer sales, Froetry, and the creation of Analog Teams.
Deshae Woods tells Greg Greenlee how she moved from art education, nonprofit work, and Playworks into software engineering after receiving a BIT Foundation scholarship for Tech Elevator in 2022.
Chanel Power describes moving from chemistry, mathematics, and medical research into software engineering at Apple.
Justin Reddick tells Natasha Robinson how homelessness, witnessing a friend's killing, dropping out of North Carolina A&T University, and serving prison time from 2011 to 2014 shaped his path into Bitcoin education.
Angela Fisher, founder of New Fluence, describes moving from finance and entertainment roles at Viacom, MTV, VH1, and BET Her into technology.
Greg Greenlee interviews Lexi B.
Greg Greenlee interviews Neil Thompson, a materials and biomedical engineer from Brampton who worked on spinal implants and now operates Teach the Geek.
Greg Greenlee interviews 15-year-old Ian Taylor Schultz, CEO and founder of Kidlamity Gaming, about homeschooling, college, gaming, and entrepreneurship.
This episode introduces the Blacks in Technology BitTech Talk podcast, which features interviews with Black professionals in the tech industry.
Host Greg Greenlee interviews Daigo Fujiwara, a front-end developer and data journalist, about his work and the Baseball Hack Day initiative.
Host Greg Greenlee introduces the podcast and guest Sarita Hines, discussing the show's mission to highlight people of color in technology.