WeTal Talks

Azin Akbari is the Director of Software and Platforms at Zound Industries. Zound Industries industries is known for their hardware as headphone and speakers. Now they have moved into software. Azin has joined us to talk about her passion - innovation in tech and why it’s so important when creating amazing tools and products.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Cecilia Borg. Cecilia Borg is a Interim CTO and her latest mission was G-Loot, which is one of Sweden's largest E-sports company. Cecilia's passion is both gaming and DevOps. She talks about how to make organizations sing with the help of DevOps.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Aygül Kabaca who is Diversity and Inclusion expert at Make Equal, who is WeTals equality advisors. They’ve been a part of making our equality initiative for women in tech that is called WeTal Include. Today Aygül will deep dive in to the tools that we’ve come up with to educate companies and leaders in more diverse recruitment.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Daniel Forslund who is the CTO of ILT education, a company that works toward the mission that every child has the right to equal education. We talk about his journey from being a co-founder of the startup Ugglo, and how they where bough by their competitor ILT. They then wanted to hire him as a CTO to manage 15 developers and he shares some learnings from that journey.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Sofie Perslow who is the former CTO of Aller Media, a traditional media house with a mission to become more data driven. She has twice been top ranked as one of the futures female leaders by the organization The Leaders. She talks about how she became a CTO without a development background. 

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Anton Aderum who is the CTO of Bokadirekt.se. He started there seven years ago as a full stack developer, and four years later he was promoted to CTO. He talks about the journey going from 3 to 20 developers, and the many technical challenges they have solved along the way.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Olga Stern. Olga is the CTO of Tangy Market. She has been named one of Sweden's most talented developers according to IDG. They talk about her book ones and zeros secret lives, and what she thinks makes a talented developer.

In this episode, Charlotte meets Maria Cheadle who is the CTO and co-founder of Addressya. Maria will talk about the technical challenges when building apps for people in low-income countries, and how to do user research when you are just beginning to understand a new culture. They also talk about what having an address can mean for social and financial inclusion.

In this episode, Charlotte meets Jesper Lekland. Jesper is the CTO at Yepstr. Yepstr’s mission is to become Sweden's largest marketplace for young professionals. They talk about Jesper's passion to coach junior developers, how he manages his remote tech team, and why his influence in fitness career might have been beneficial when become a leader.

In this episode, Charlotte meets Camilla Lundin who is the co-founder of Qalora capital who helps tech startups, Business and Dreams which is a female business network, she's been in Forbes 30 under 30 and she has held a Ted talk. We talk about how finds her drive and how to be more successful in your tech career.

In this episode, Charlotte meets Ivana von Proschwitz from Women in AI. She talks about her passion about AI and why diversity is so important in tech. She talks about how aI can discriminate and how Women in AI are on a mission to solve that.

In this episode, Charlotte meets Monika Orski, CTO of Youple. Monika has been the char of Mensa in Sweden. She has written a book called the art of herding cats which is about leading very smart people. We’ll talk about her experience leading a tech team and discuss what makes a good leader.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Kim Elman who is the Director for Center for cyber security at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. In this talk we will talk about hacking, threats and the trends in cybersecurity. Before we kickstart this talk we just want to say that we’re for spreading information about hacking but we are against using hacking to commit crimes.

In this episode, Charlotte meets Emmelie Strand and Ida Franzén Leibnitz from the coding network Hello Girl! They will talk about a technique in personal development, that stems from the life compass. The technique is about finding and acting according to your core values. This will make it easier for you to take decisions both in work and personal life.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Ehab Khaireldin who works as a tech lead at Postnord. He'll go through the differences between working in a startups and big companies. He will share his knowledge about the job market in Stockholm and how to get into the tech scene.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Benjamin Waye and Edvin Fernqvist from Bemlo. They will talk about the non-code tool ReTool and how they manage to rebuild their back-office over a weekend. They will also share the pros and cons of using a non-code tool.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Tugce Özdeger, senior developer and tech career mentor. We talk about what you can expect from your first developer job and what you should think about when choosing technologies and the company you are going to work with.

In this episode, Charlotte chats Denise and Juliana from Beela. Beela is a support network that empowers immigrant women and non-binary people in Sweden to join tech. They will talk about their work with Beela and give great advice on how to get your first job in tech in Sweden. We also catch Juliana on the week when she won the title “mentor of the year” by nordic women in tech awards.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Cozette Wachtmeister, Co-founder and CEO of the impact startup Removement. She has a long career in being an agent for developers. She has listen to thousands of tech interviews and coached developer to get their dream job. Today she will share her expert advice for nailing the tech interview.

In this episode, Charlotte Holmen meet Eva and Claire who works for Le Wagon. Le Wagon is one of the largest coding bootcamp in the world, and they are active across 46 cities. They talk about how the bootcamp works, why you should take a bootcamp and they answer the question everyone wants to know: is it possible to get a job after a 9 week bootcamp?

In this episode, Charlotte Holmen chats with Sofia Vaz Sousa, a front end developer who switched career after 12 years working as a nurse. We are going to talk about how she got into tech, what challenges she faced  and tips to those who are in the process of changing careers.

In this episode, Charlotte Holmen chats with Anna Leijon who is a freelance engineer with one of the biggest freelancer blogs in Sweden. They talk about how you can become your own boss, how to get new customers, and pros and cons when being self-employed.

In this episode, Charlotte Holmen chat David Evholt, CTO at Krafthem, who is using AI and ML when developing their platform. David talks about the basics of Machine learning, how you quickly can get started and what challenges he has faced. He will also talk about how one would get started if you are interested in coding your own AI/ML scripts, what pitfalls you should avoid and how to think before you even get started.

In this episode Charlotte Holmen chat with Brittany Villegas and Matt Smith from Coding For Immigrants. They talk about how they became coders in Sweden, what challenges they faced as immigrants and how they now support other immigrants when beginning to code.

Charlotte Holmen and Zuzanna Brozozowska from WeTal will talk about how to build a startup MVP to a startup app! We will also talk about how we build the WeTal platform, the technologies we chose and challenges we faced along the way. 

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