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The Brave Technologist
Brave Software
223 episodes
Technology is reshaping society—but how are users included in the conversation?
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The Brave Technologist explores how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and Web3 are influencing our lives, our choices, and our collective future.
Unlike many tech podcasts that focus on hype and disruption, this show puts users at the center of the conversation. Each episode features thoughtful discussions with technologists working to ensure that innovation serves the public interest. How are these tools impacting users? And how can we ensure that technology is developed with transparency, accountability, and the public good in mind?
We're going deep with founders, builders, policy makers and researchers to explore the worlds of privacy, AI, crypto, digital rights, algorithmic accountability, and everywhere else where cutting edge technology impacts our daily lives.
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Novo Nordisk: The Risks of Over-Governing AI
Margi Sheth, Head of AI Governance & Enablement at Novo Nordisk, shares what it takes to build AI governance inside one of the most heavily regulated industries in the world. She explains how pharma's long history of…
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Why US Crypto Needs Laws, Not Just Friendly Regulators
Cody Carbone, CEO of The Digital Chamber, shares what the digital asset industry has been fighting for in Washington, and explains why clear, durable legislation is the only thing that can give builders, developers,…
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Building Zcash to Last a Hundred Years
Mark Henderson, Engineering Manager at Shielded Labs, shares what it looks like to build privacy infrastructure on a hundred-year time horizon. He also breaks down two of Shielded Labs' most significant technical bets:…
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The Barista Knows Your Salary: The Hidden Cost of On-Chain Payments
Howard Wu, CEO of Provable and Shield Wallet, makes the case that full, on-chain transparency was never a design principle—it was a limitation that mainstream finance cannot build on. He draws a direct line from the…
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The Fund Structure That Could Replace the ETF
Juan Leon, Senior Investment Strategist at Bitwise Asset Management, returns to the show to share how much the convergence of traditional finance and on-chain infrastructure has accelerated since our last…
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Why Meta Threw Out the Interviewing Playbook
Danit Nativ Navon, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Meta, unpacks how the company became the first major tech firm to build AI-enabled coding interviews. She breaks down the process of rethinking what engineering…
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How a Solana NFT Project Landed on Amazon Prime
Andrew Pelekis (CEO of HEEBOO) and Nicholas Cabana (Co-Founder of Claynosaurz and Chief Creative Officer at HEEBOO), break down how a Solana-based digital collectibles brand and a small team of Hollywood animators grew…
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Beyond the Yield: What Staking Is Really About
David Kinitsky, Chief Corporate Development Officer at Everstake, shares what distinguishes this cycle of enterprise crypto adoption from every previous one, and why the shift matters. He explains why staking is a…
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Why Non-Dollar Stablecoins Might Strengthen the Dollar
Navin Vethanayagam, Chief Brain of IQ and Co-founder of KRWQ, unpacks his "Stablewoods" theory: why non-dollar stablecoins like KRWQ, the first Korean won stablecoin, may end up reinforcing dollar dominance rather than…
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What Binance.US Is Betting on Next in American Crypto
Steve Gregory, CEO of Binance.US, shares what it actually takes to bring a compliant crypto exchange product to market in the US. He explains how his background as a compliance lawyer shapes the way he leads product…
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The Enterprise AI Mistake Most Companies Will Regret
Joel McKelvey, VP of Product Marketing at Glean, shares why the enterprises winning with AI right now aren't the ones chasing the latest model—they're the ones who got their context layer right first. He explains why…
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Why Most Enterprise AI Projects Never Make It to Scale
Natalia Konstantinova, Lead Enterprise Architect in AI at Natwest, shares why most enterprise AI projects don't fail because of the technology, they fail because organizations skip the foundations. She also explains…
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The Global Fight for Free Speech Starts With a Hamster
Preston Byrne, Tech & Free Speech Lawyer at Byrne & Storm, P.C., shares how a small American imageboard became the first test case for whether foreign governments can legally force American companies to comply with…
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How to Know When Personalization Becomes Creepy (AI Summit LDN)
Dr. Mohsen Ghasempour, Chief AI Officer at Kingfisher, unpacks why the most dangerous thing a company can do with customer data is use all of it. He explains how a global, multi-brand retailer can draw the line between…
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What Counter-Terrorism Taught the NFL About Cyber Risk
Kam Karaji, Director of Cyber Security & Risk Management at the NFL, shares what 13 years in counter-terrorism and criminal intelligence taught him about protecting high-stakes environments, and discusses how that…
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How a 200-Year-Old Bank Deploys AI Agents
Andy McMahon, Principal AI Engineer at Barclays, shares how a 200-year-old bank is deploying autonomous agents inside one of the most heavily regulated environments in the world. He argues that observability and kill…
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LIVE FROM THE AI SUMMIT LDN: Inside Sony AI's Bet on Open Research
Fred Gifford, Strategy Lead and Sr. Product Manager at Sony AI, shares how his team is building knowledge graphs from academic literature to predict new biomedical relationships and accelerate drug discovery. He…
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Pandora: How Much Freedom Should a Shopping Agent Have? (AI Summit LDN)
Riccardo Arnaldi, Agentic AI Product Manager at Pandora, shares what it actually looks like to build and scale a brand-facing LLM shopping agent live with millions of customers. He explains why too much autonomy is a…
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AI Is Now Buying Cars and Negotiating Better Than You
Zach Shefska, Founder & CEO of CarEdge, shares how he and his father (a 43-year auto industry veteran) turned a broken, opaque car buying process into a transparency-first business powered by AI agents that now…
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Why Your VPN Isn't Actually Keeping You Anonymous
Harry Halpin, CEO of Nym Technologies, shares why the surveillance Web is more dangerous than most people realize, and why most privacy tools aren't enough. He explains how traditional VPNs still leave you exposed, why…
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AI Agents Need Names, And Nobody Owns Them Yet
Balazs Nemethi, CEO of the Agent Community, explains why AI agents need identities and why the window to decide who controls that infrastructure is closing fast. He breaks down how a community-governed effort is…
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Why One AI Agent Will Never Be Enough
João Moura, CEO of crewAI, shares why single AI agents fall short and what changes when you give them a crew. He explains how multi-agent systems are already running inside Fortune 500 companies; why accountability and…
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How U.S. Policy on Bitcoin Is Changing Fast
Sam Lyman, Head of Research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute and former Senior Advisor and Chief Speechwriter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, shares what it looks like inside the U.S. Treasury when Bitcoin,…
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Your AI Chats Aren't Private (And How "Unlinkable Inference" Can Help)
Ken Liu (Computer Science PhD at the Stanford AI Lab) and Erik Chi (CS PhD at UMich) are the Creators of the Open Anonymity Project, which lets people prove things about themselves online without revealing their…
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Why Cyberattacks Are Now a Matter of Life and Death
Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, shares how cybersecurity threats have evolved from data breaches to full-scale operational disruptions, and why modern resilience strategies must go beyond prevention. He…
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General Assembly: The Skills That Actually Matter Now
Jourdan Hathaway, Chief Business Officer at General Assembly, discusses her experience integrating AI agents into her admissions team, including stories of real-world complexities, edge cases, and unexpected messiness…
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Inside MCP: How AI Agents Are Learning to Talk to Each Other
Andy Maskin, Director of AI Creative Technology at Publicis Sapient, explains why brands are shifting from SEO to "AI visibility," where success is no longer about ranking on search engines but instead showing up in…
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AI Anxiety: The Occupational Identity Crisis
Dr. Maha Hosain Aziz, an international relations professor at NYU and Global Foresight Advisor at the World Economic Forum, highlights the often-overlooked societal, economic, and psychological impacts of AI adoption.…
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Cybersecurity Is Moving to the Browser and Becoming the Attack Surface
Or Eshed, co-founder and CEO of LayerX Security, shares why the browser has become the most critical (and overlooked) security layer in modern work. He explains key browser risk areas including phishing, cookie theft,…
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The Human Layer in an AI-First World
Joseph Ng, Chief Strategy Officer of GeneGenius and author of The Hybrid Mind, discusses how institutions must redesign decision architectures as humans and intelligent machines operate together. His vision for the…
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How Stablecoins with Built-In Yield Could Revolutionize Everyday Spending
Anna Yuan, founder of Perena and former head of stablecoins at the Solana Foundation, discusses how Perena is designing new on-chain financial products, including USD*, a liquid yield token that earns continuously…
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The CHRO Is the New CTO: Leading in the AI Era
Elise Neel, Global Head of Strategy & Strategic Partnerships at Panasonic Go, shares lessons from leading innovation within large legacy companies and the cultural challenges of driving transformation. She explains how…
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Bri Teresi: Digital Sovereignty and Protecting Creator Freedom
Bri Teresi, host of 'Free The Money' and a prominent crypto influencer, shares the biggest misunderstandings about cryptocurrency in mainstream media and consumer behavior, along with the biggest challenges faced by…
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How SheFi is Onboarding More Women into Web3
Maggie Love, Founder and CEO of SheFi, discusses the critical role of the community in managing decentralized spaces and making crypto accessible and relatable for all. She delves into the importance of building…
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AI That Acts: How Autonomous Agents Are Rewriting Org Charts
Manoj Saxena, Founder and CEO of Trustwise, explains why agentic AI represents a major shift inside organizations: from AI as a tool to AI as an active participant. He addresses the operational challenges that…
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When AI and Enterprise Tech Feel Like Magic [Live from AI Summit]
Kapil Gupta, former Enterprise AI Product & Platform Leader at Cigna, shares insights from more than two decades of turning cutting-edge technology into enterprise-ready products. He unpacks the difference between…
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Is Digital Money Becoming a Surveillance Tool? [LIVE From AI Summit]
Chastity Murphy, former Senior Advisor at the U.S.Treasury and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, shares her experiences working on digital money legislation, including the Stable Act. She…
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Accountability Requires Identity: AI Agents & the Future of Digital Trust
Evin McMullen, co-founder and CEO of Billions Network, explores how identity for agents is going to unlock the next era of the Internet. She shares outcomes from collaborations with regulatory bodies and major…
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Charles Hoskinson: Re-Architecting Money and Extending Human Life
Charles Hoskinson is a co-founder of Ethereum, and the CEO and Founder of Input | Output (the company behind the Cardano blockchain). In this episode he shares his journey into the world of cryptocurrencies and his…
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When AI Becomes the Attacker: Most Organizations Aren't Ready for AI Threats
Dave Chatterjee, Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke University, explains how scale, speed, and surprise are reshaping cyber threats and why many organizations remain dangerously reactive. He shares his…
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LIVE From AI Summit: AI That Only Gets Paid When It Works (Inside Tinman AI)
Leah Price, Vice President of Tinman AI Platform at better.com, breaks down why traditional subscription-based pricing no longer works and how outcome-driven AI can unlock real value for enterprises. She also shares…
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Navigating AI's Hidden Risks: Lessons from the Nova Bridge Chatbot Failure
Bhavesh Mehta and Mahesh Kumar—senior technology leaders at Uber and co-authors of the practical guide AI-First Leader—discuss the lessons learned from Nova Bridge's collapse, and share best practices for mitigating…
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Building an Intelligent Internet: AI's Future is in Specialized Agents
Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet, discusses his vision for an open and intelligent internet, along with the impact it can have on everyday users. He acknowledges the risks of AI surpassing human…
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Zcash and the Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age
Arjun Khemani, memetic warlord at Zcash, shares his journey from questioning conventional thinking to becoming an advocate for rational optimism and privacy in the digital age. He discusses the importance of fighting…
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Live From Rare Evo: What's Stopping DeFi from Going Mainstream?
Thorsten Jaeckel, Head of Product at 0x and Matcha, discusses the biggest hurdles facing DeFi adoption—including regulatory uncertainty, user experience challenges, security concerns, and the need for better education.…
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BrainChip: Bringing Brain-Inspired AI to Everyday Devices
Sean Hehir, CEO of BrainChip, discusses their innovative neuromorphic technology, which mimics the way the human brain processes information to enable smarter, more efficient edge computing. We explore the real-world…
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LIVE From Rare Evo: The Hidden World of Web3 Asset Trading
Jay Chrawnna, director of The Kus, dives into the subtle ways people are already using Web3 in everyday transactions (often without realizing it) and what this means for the future of consumer Web3. He explores how…
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The $500 Trillion Opportunity: Tokenizing the Real World
Juan Leon, Senior Investment Strategist at Bitwise Asset Management, unpacks the rapid institutional adoption of Bitcoin and Ethereum, fueled by ETFs, regulatory clarity, and the rise of tokenization. He shares key…
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Pinecone is Democratizing Access to Vector Database Technology
Jack Pertschuck, former Principal Engineer at Pinecone, discusses what vector databases are and why they matter for AI and search applications. He also discusses the challenges of communicating the value of this…
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Nobody Sausage & Claynosaurz: Reaching Millions Through Frictionless Digital Collectibles
Andrew Pelekis, CEO of Claynosaurz, shares how they're making digital ownership fun, accessible, and frictionless. He also discusses the role of community and fan engagement in the success of digital brands. Key…
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