Tech Except!ons

Jonah Kowall, CTO of Logz.io, joins Adi Polak to discuss his career path transition from engineering to an analyst at Gartner and all the way to becoming CTO of Logz.io. Logz.io recently closed the latest funding round, which brings the total capital raised to more than $120 million, including $74 million raised over the last 18 months. That amount of available capital allows the company to accelerate product development initiatives around AI and Machine Learning, expand headcount and propel go-to-market activities worldwide. Grab your favorite drink and get ready to be enlightened.

Guest: Alex Kendall, Host: Adi Polak Join us for an exceptional conversation with Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve, who raised more than 40M$ to kickstart the biggest vehicle academy. Alex shares the technology that powers Wayve, how they are building the largest autonomous driving academy in the world, and what the future holds for this ever-growing ecosystem. To scale their solution, the three-year-old company is leveraging both Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft for Startups: Autonomous Driving program, which provides benefits like free Azure credits and access to Microsoft engineers and program managers to support the development of these complex workloads on the cloud. Kendall: "Just like humans, our system learns most efficiently using many sources, including unsupervised learning, imitation learning and reinforcement learning." Listen Now!  #TechExceptions #ExceptionalTechConversations #StartupsStories #Wayve

Rust is growing blazingly fast. Even in Microsoft developers adopting Rust for building software. Curious why Rust is so exciting? How can you get started? What about Facebook and Google? are they part of it too? In this episode, we interview Ryan, where he shares all about Rust and the Rust community!   Ryan Levick is available on Twitter: @ryan_levick

Adi Polak met Chris Noring for an open discussion on tech communities, Vikings, Angular and more. Visit ngVikings to learn more about the Vikings tech community.