Let's Talk Tech
By Let's Talk Tech
Hosted by Oyin and Temi
Let's Talk TechApr 21, 2023
Let's Talk Day in the Life of a Consultant
In episode 6 we welcome Lisa, who talks about her journey from healthcare start-up to a big four consultancy, digital consultancy and finally landing at a Strategy Consultancy as a Management Consultant.
She gives some great advice about how to transition between roles, how to leverage the functional skillset of your desired job and what mindset shifts you should make once you get there.
We delved into mindset, behaviour change, culture and the psychology that drives technology change. Tune in and let us know what you think!
Let's Talk Day in the Life of a Software Developer
From a degree in Classics to becoming a Senior Software Developer, Celia shares her journey into tech and gives us a glimpse into her typical workday. In this conversation, we explore what her role looks like now compared to when she started out, the challenges companies consider when hiring a Junior Developer, why it’s important to write clean code, how diversity in tech is essential to building products that don't cause harm, and a surprise reveal that shocked Temi 😅
Join us for this really insightful and fun conversation about Software Development.
Show Links
Ruby Groups on Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/topics/ruby/
Let's Talk Day in the Life of a Software Engineer
Episode 4 of Let's Talk Tech is all about Software Engineering, and how a desire to create a website led Michael to this role. Find out how his day progresses from Stand-Ups to problem-solving, coding and much more. Are you interested in this career route? Tune in for a very insightful discussion about Software Engineering, routes into the role and how they're just one big supportive family 🥹. As always, we talk moneyy. We also touch on everyone's favourite Generative AI - ChatGPT and what it could mean for technology roles and how we think about intellectual property.
Resources that Michael gave a shout-out to (they're free to use):
https://www.hackerrank.com - for Practice before interviews
https://www.freecodecamp.org and https://www.w3schools.com- to learn how to code
Let's Talk Day in the Life of a Growth Marketer
In episode 3 of Let’s Talk Tech, we chatted with Chiedozie about how he became a Growth Marketer and what drives him every day to wake up at 4 am (we’re still wow-ing at that😅) and everything about his career to date. Join us for this enlightening conversation on what working as a Growth Marketer looks like.
For all your Growth Marketing education - www.demandcurve.com
For how to think - www.fs.blog/how-to-think/
Let's Talk Day in the life of a Product Designer
In this episode, Charles discusses his career path, his journey to becoming a Product Designer and how he co-founded Spire. He also gives some insight into his work and offers advice for people looking to get into Product Design.
Join us for this delightful conversation!
Let's Talk Season 2
We're excited to be back for season 2 of Let's Talk Tech 🎉🎉🎉!
Join your hosts Oyin and Temi as they explore the lives and career paths of people working in various technology roles.
We will be talking about everything from what it takes to become a Developer to a Tech Recruiter, MONAYYY, and what we think about the current tech layoffs.
We hope you enjoy it, let's go!
Let's Talk Augmented/Virtual Reality
Join us in the final episode of season 1 of Let’s Talk Tech as we discuss the various forms of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, exciting real-life applications and of course, the recently announced Metaverse.
We share our personal opinions on Metaverse and would be interested in hearing your thoughts as well - Let us know what you think!
Resources:
Years and Years https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000539g/years-and-years
Let's Talk Quantum Computing
We've put in the work and in part 1 of Season 1's finale, your hosts Tolu and Temi take you through a breakdown of Quantum Computing!
With visual descriptions utilising common principles - think flipping a coin, grains of sand and more. We use these illustrations to explain quantum principles: superposition, entanglements (not the Red Table Talk type lol) and interference.
Tune in to get a fairly unknown technology explained and simplified by a familiar voice.
Let us know what you think!
Resources:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/overview/what-is-quantum-computing/#how-it-works
Let's Talk Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Although Oyinda started off as a computerphobe, she has conquered her fear and now works as a UX/UI researcher at The Honeycomb Works. She also recently completed her Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction. She has a cocktail of skills and has worked across a number of roles in tech: Developer, Digital Marketer, Graphic and Brand Designer and now a UX/UI Designer.
This episode is definitely a must-listen as Oyinda does an incredible job explaining what HCI is and how it applies to everyday life. Listen to learn why it's important that people know how to use technology and that it's easy for people to use. You’ll also learn more about some of your favourite apps like Candy Rush, Snapchat and the concepts behind leaderboards and Streaks
Resources:
Human AI interaction design. Google resource for designing human-AI interaction
UX/HCI - International design foundation has great courses.
Microsoft: www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/Human-Computer-Interaction
Let's Talk Blockchain
In the latest episode in our tech breakdown season we are joined by Gozie - CEO of Naija Crypto.
He does and excellent job breaking down Blockhain by introducing us to the Byzantine Problem and the problems that blockchain aims to solve.
This episode is packed full of current and futuristic applications.
Resources: Book - Digital is the new cash by Nathaniel Luz. Check out Gozie's properly tailored Crypto index at barwi30.com.
Let's Talk Adulting...It's been a while
ADULTING.. What does it mean?
We understand Blockchain now. Find out how you can too.
Let's Talk Big Data & IOT
In Episode 5 of Let's Talk Tech, continuing our Tech Breakdown season, we are joined by Emeka Obi, a Connected Vehicle System Architect with Ford Motors in Michigan, USA.
Emeka breaks down Big Data & IOT superbly with everyday practical examples from talking kettles to connected vehicles and his enthusiasm for the subject makes it even more fun!
Want a perfectly brewed cup of tea waiting for you when you get home? Or your microwave heaitng up your food to the perfect temperature? Or your car alerting other cars out of your line of sight that you're about to brake ? Find out how this magic is possible.
Don't be afraid of smart devices (or do).
Definitely a must listen.
Let's Talk Data Analytics
Tolu and Temi are joined by special guest Abisola. Aby is a Tableau Zen master who works for a fin-tech company called Paystack as a Data Analyst. She is also the founder of a fantastic peer-to-peer data enthusiasts community - Wevisualize.
This episode is full of simple definitons, breakdowns and examples. Expect to understand how to approach Data Analytics as a data analyst or a business looking to leverage the technology.
Join us in this great breakdown of Data Analytics, skills required, resources to use and much more.
WeVisualize:
Twitter - mobile.twitter.com/We_Visualize
Meetup - www.meetup.com/WeVisualize/
Resources that Aby shouted out:
tableau.com/learn
Data Makeover Mondays
Iron Quest - hosted by sarah
Data Camp - SQL
Udacity
Udemy
W3skills
Freecodecamp
Let's Talk Cloud
In Episode 3 - Let's Talk Cloud, we are joined by special guest Samuel Shobowale, who does an exceptional job breaking down Cloud.
Sam describes himself as a Cloud Protect Professional with a specialism in AWS and a deep expertise in IT and Cloud. He works as a Technological Delivery Specialist at Accenture.
Sam showers us with simple definitions and numerous practical examples and a nice link to AI (check out our previous episode 👀).
Let’s Talk Cloud!!
Let's Talk Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Welcome to episode 2 of Let's Talk Tech: Let's Talk AI!
Tolu and Temi are joined by special guest Josh Uwaifo. Josh works for an exciting start-up called move.ai as a Computer Vision Engineer.
We were hoping for a breakdown but instead Josh gave us a poetic dissection of the essence of AI.
Join us in this great breakdown of AI, skills requires, resources to use and much more.
Let's Talk Tech: An Introduction
Get to know your hosts: Tolu and Temi and what we will be discussing in Season 1.
On the first episode of Let's Talk Tech Season 1, we take you through why and how we got into tech, why we're doing this podcast and what our vision is.
In this podcast we will be discussing topics ranging from: getting into the tech field, understanding what certain roles entail, what it's like working in tech department in XYZ industry etc.
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