Technology through the operator’s lens.
Tech Talks is an interview-led technology show hosted and edited by David Savage, with Nash Squared behind the production. Recent conversations range from passwordless security and digital identity to AI leadership, stablecoin payments, e-fuels, conferences, creator businesses, and startup operating work.
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Tech Talks is a technology interview show hosted and edited by David Savage and produced by Nash Squared. It works from the assumption that tech matters most when it changes what a business can actually do. The recent episodes put that idea under pressure from several directions. A conversation with Elliot Fullerton from Zally turns passwordless security into a practical discussion of phones, touch behavior, authentication, banking apps, SDKs, and the promise of systems that work in the background. Tiago Sada’s episode moves from deepfakes and fake identities into bot traffic, fake playback, fintech account creation, and World ID as one proposed answer to online proof of humanity. AI appears less as hype and more as an operating question: Karthik, the CEO of Ascendian, argues against treating AI transformation as a bolt-on role and talks about agents inside software development work. Fintech comes through in Mariam Habibi’s conversation about crypto wallets, Swift payments, stablecoins, and the difficulties faced by small businesses in places such as Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. The show also widens beyond software. Anthony Wang of ET Fuels gives David and Sam a route into e-fuels, aviation, renewables, and the hard economics of replacing liquid fuels where batteries are not the obvious answer. Casey Wu’s episode uses the idea of the horizontal specialist to talk about business operations, startup life, and the unglamorous work behind early-stage companies. Another recent episode turns conferences into a business tool, weighing visibility, audience fit, speaker hotels, sponsor presence, and the odds of actually meeting the right stakeholders. David often opens by setting the topic with Sam, then moves into a guest interview that keeps circling back to use cases and constraints. The tone is conversational, but the emphasis is concrete. It is not a gadget show. It is not a pure cybersecurity show either, despite a strong thread of identity, trust, and fraud. Its center is applied technology: who adopts it, what problem it claims to solve, where the costs land, and what founders or executives have to decide next.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants technology discussed through business decisions, implementation pressure, and real-world adoption. It fits people interested in AI, fintech, identity, startup work, and the commercial side of emerging tools.
What sets it apart: Tech Talks stands apart by keeping expert interviews tied to practical tradeoffs: fraud risk, payment rails, conference value, software delivery, market access, and product adoption. David Savage’s plain-spoken framing gives technical subjects a business context without sanding off the complexity.
TechTalks are short podcasts with leading figures in the tech and digital industry today. If you’re in the space, want to be in the space or just interested listen to what these experts say and find out what challenges technologists face in large environments, how to launch a product, or what advice start-ups can pass on!
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A practical look at choosing conferences for the right audience and access, not just the biggest room.
Conferences come through as a targeting question, not a ritual of badges and hallway noise. David Savage and Sam look at whether a major event can put a company near the stakeholders it actually needs, with audience research carrying more weight than a broad promise of…
A grounded look at how convincing bots are pushing banks and online platforms to rethink who counts as human.
Tech Talks brings digital trust down to the level of systems trying to decide who is real. David Savage's conversation with Tiago Sada, CPO at Tools for Humanity, moves from bot traffic overtaking, or soon overtaking, human traffic to fake listener accounts generating millions…
A clear, grounded review of how stablecoins may reduce cross-border payment costs and delays for small businesses.
Tech Talks makes small-business payments feel unusually concrete. Mariam Habibi, Chief Revenue Officer at BitPace, keeps the focus on companies in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia that are trying to trade across borders while dealing with slow, expensive financial…
Technology's mechanisms, power's consequences.
Dave, Joe, and Maria break down phishing kits, deepfakes, and social-engineering scams weekly.
This episode of Tech Talks discusses climate pragmatism and soil as a carbon capture technology with Robin, CEO of eAgronom.
David Savage interviews Sam about disrupting the $300 trillion housing market by enabling home purchases through equity instead of debt.
["Kathy White tells David Savage on Tech Talks that conference value comes from access to the right people, not from a bigger attendee count.", "She uses Data Decoded at Olympia, Web Summit Vancouver's 40,000 attendees, Web Summit Rio, Mobile World Congress, and Slush to show how event size changes the job.", "Her practical advice is to choose breakfast meetings, leave room for a loose daily framework, and use Luma or the conference app to build a target list.", "She ends by saying speakers need something bold, interesting, and future-facing, because organisers want thought leadership rather than a sales pitch."]
Tech Talks revisits Zally with host David Savage and development lead Elliot Fullerton, recorded at Zally’s new Manchester office.
Tech Talks host David Savage speaks with Tiago Sada, CPO at Tools for Humanity, about proof of human as bot traffic and AI-made identities spread across finance and consumer apps.
Tech Talks hosts David Savage and Sam open with Easter scheduling, 3D-printed chocolate, and cultivated meat before turning to Karthik, CEO and founder of Ascendion.
David Savage's Tech Talks interview with Mariam Habibi of BitPace centers on a simple pitch: stablecoins can cut cross-border payment costs from 2 to 7 percent to under 1 percent for businesses in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
ET Fuels CTO Anthony Wang says e-fuels turn wind and solar electricity into liquid fuels for aviation and shipping.
Kelsey Brett says doctors linked her hives to ulcerative colitis, while her specialists focused only on colitis.
Anu Alabajo says venture hiring is being constrained by funds that have not realized portfolio returns and cannot readily raise their next funds.
A discussion on the challenges and perceptions of influencers transitioning to founders in the creator economy, focusing on the lack of venture funding for women.
David Savage interviews Casey Wu about being a horizontal specialist in business operations and the realities of startup life.