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A weekly show where we bring you the awesome, innovative people building our South Florida Tech Community.Each Week, we’ll introduce you to one of the Sunshine State’s top tech leaders - learn about who they are, what they do, and have some fun conversation along the way.
A VC sends back a term sheet he finds aggressive; Nikki Caboose lets you hear why.
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A South Florida panel reads CES through practical business use cases in AI, retail, digital twins, and health tech.
The South Florida Tech Podcast uses its CES panel to look at the show less as spectacle and more as a read on how technology moves toward everyday business use.
A warm South Florida conversation about healthcare technology, STEM access, and widening the path into tech.
Meggie Solomon brings a long view of healthcare technology to a practical question: who gets a real invitation into the field. Her path through bioinformatics, Big Pharma, clinical research, and healthcare IT gives the conversation useful range, while her work with Tech Hub's…
A Miami-rooted founder conversation about Salo Sterental's path from music production and marketing to SoStereo's artist-brand model.
Salo Sterental's route from working with Grammy-winning music engineers and production artists at 17 to co-founding SoStereo gives this episode its cleanest hook: a founder story rooted in music, advertising, and the practical work of helping brands become memorable through real…
A host swap turns the 50th episode into a clear-eyed look at South Florida's crypto ambitions.
South Florida Tech Podcast marks its 50th episode by reversing the usual setup: Damian Montero, organizer of Florida JS, interviews Nikki Kavos, CEO of Tech Hub and the show's regular host.
Michael Hall looks at how early money, networks, and access shape South Florida's startup ecosystem.
Michael Hall frames South Florida's startup scene around a practical question: who gets early money, trusted networks, and enough room to build.
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.
South Florida Tech Podcast's CES 2023 panel brings together Nadia, Rob Petrosino, Jason Golston, and a Sightbox founder to compare what CES is for.
South Florida Tech Podcast host Nikki Caboose interviews Meggie Solomon, who has 15 years in healthcare technology and chairs the Tech Hub health tech and life science task force, about identity, meditation, and South Florida's tech community.
["South Florida Tech Podcast episode #51 features host Nikki Kabus and Salo Sterental, the co-founder of SoStereo, a company that licenses real artists' music for ads and other commercial uses.", "Sterental says he was born in Peru, raised in Miami from about age 8, studied music production and engineering at Berklee College of Music, and won Berklee's Creativity Award.", "He traces SoStereo to a college partnership, a Zumba Fitness campaign, and an indie artist from Colombia whose music helped drive about 10 million views and mid-to-high five figures in sales.", "The conversation also covers major-label catalog bottlenecks, Miami's immigrant sports culture, and why he thinks TikTok showed how music as a core feature can help a platform compete."]
["South Florida Tech Podcast #50 swaps the microphone to Damian Montero, organizer of Florida JS, who interviews Nikki Kavos, CEO of Tech Hub, for the show's 50th episode.", "Kavos says she was born in West Palm Beach, stayed in Palm Beach County, and joined Tech Hub after volunteering with South Florida Technology Alliance and Tech Lauderdale.", "She argues South Florida has long had tech talent, from the personal computer in Boca Raton to the Kauffman index, but tourism and fragmented county-level efforts have kept the region from fully owning that story.", "She says women and career changers should enter web3 now, because many self-described experts are only six to twelve months in, and her billion-dollar idea is a school for underserved people."]
["South Florida Tech Podcast #49 centers on Michael Hall, CEO and co-founder of DGIT, and Nikki Caboose frames the conversation around South Florida tech, inclusion, and access west of I-95.", "Hall says he was born in Southern Alabama, raised in Panama City, and later moved through West Palm Beach and Bonita Springs before launching Medium Four in 2006 after the housing bubble was already visible to him.", "He describes the 16-digit ear card, Gateway Software for diversity scoring, and We Are Tech, while linking that work to Knight Foundation support and Matt Hagman's west-of-I-95 visits.", "The transcript turns personal when Hall talks about his mother's mental-health guidance, his father's inclusion work at Tuskegee University, and the 1987 300ZX story tied to Yvette, the Black pharmacist who inspired his car hobby."]
South Florida Tech Podcast host Nikki Caboose interviews Ricky Levina, the Miami-born CEO and co-founder of TaxFile, about building an accounting technology company after working at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Maria Russo, Director of Community at Florida Funders, describes evaluating early-stage startups through market size, founder-team fit, and persistence after setbacks.
Jeff Ransdell explains why he founded Fuel Venture Capital in Miami in 2017, when South Florida was not yet viewed as a major technology hub.
John Stecher, CTO of Blackstone, explains how he divides his role among running technology for 650-plus staff, advising portfolio-company technology teams serving more than 400,000 employees, and supporting investment diligence.
Dmitri Kosko, Chairman and CEO of Motorsport Games, explains how NASCAR, Formula E, 24 Hours of Le Mans, and other licensed racing properties connect video games with esports.
An interview with Jan Bednar, CEO of Shipmunk, about his entrepreneurial journey and the South Florida tech ecosystem.
Host Joe Russo introduces the podcast and a new sponsor, then interviews Angelo Bianco, leader of the Boca Raton Innovation Campus.
Host Joe Russo interviews Brian Breslin, a longtime leader in the South Florida tech community, about his background and work with Refresh Miami and the University of Miami Launchpad.
Host Joe Russo interviews Myra, CIO of Citrix, about her career and the South Florida tech scene.