Face of Tech
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The Face of Tech Podcast started to inspire more women and diversity into startups in Australia and New Zealand. Join co-hosts Baidy Laffan and Anna Zam as they speak with trailblazing women in the Australian & New Zealand tech scene. If you want to hear the raw and real stories of women in the industry, this is the podcast for you.
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Today on the show we're joined by Michelle Aguilar.
Michelle is the CTO and Co-Founder of VAPAR, deploying simple and fast water asset management solutions. They are ones to watch! Smart Company included them in their coveted '10 startups to watch in 2021' list and Michelle was a finalist in the Women in AI Awards.
Michelle graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with first class honours in Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering; working as an engineer before co-founding VAPAR.
We talk about why sewers and AI are a match made in heaven, taking a highly technical product from 0 t ..read more
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Today on the show we're joined by Dr Angela Lim, founder of Clearhead, the startup creating your very own digital therapist.
Intrigued? Clearhead is an online mental well-being platform, making personalised mental health and wellbeing support accessible for everyone. Why start here? For anyone who’s sought support before, you know it can be hard to find where to start; face expensive bills or not gel with your psychologist. Clearhead is changing that.
Trained as a Doctor, Angela started her career in paediatrics, before she co-founded Clearhead in 2018. As if running a startup isn’t enough ..read more
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Today on the show we're excited to have Julia Arnott-Neenee.
Julia is a dynamo of the Aotearoa tech scene serving on a number of boards, as an Advisor to two startups, and as the Director of Strategy & Insights at The Spinoff and Daylight Creative, an online magazine and full-service content agency and studio, respectively.
She is also the Co-Founder and Director of PeopleforPeople_NZ, a youth-led Pacific Social Enterprise on a mission to ensure that everyone confidently participates in the Digital World of today and tomorrow. Before returning to Aotearoa in 2020, she was the Global Soci ..read more
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Today on the show we're lucky to have Kate Cornick.
Kate is the CEO of LaunchVic, Victoria's Startup Agency responsible for developing Victoria's startup ecosystem.
LaunchVic is doing great things for the ecosystem and particularly for women through the Alice Anderson Fund, the support of Scale Investors, the funding for SBE, Atto and other women-focused accelerators and being a voice for women in tech and startups at a government level.
We cover her passion for tech and innovation, the secret to LaunchVic's success, the 475% growth in Melbourne's ecosystem in the four years since LaunchVic ..read more
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Today on the show we're joined by serial entrepreneur and writer, Rebekah Campbell.
Rebekah launched the careers of Australia's biggest stars including Evermore, Matt Corby and Van She through Scorpio Music. She co-founded 'Hey You', a mobile app used by more than one million Australians to order and pay at cafes. Rebekah is also an accomplished writer having written for the NY Times and the AFR, and just published her first book '138 Dates' on her quest to find love and build her company.
We're covering how she disrupted the music and hospitality industries, her relationship to the love vs ..read more
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Veronica Munro joins us to share how she left Florida as a Microbiology major for Australia where 10 years on she is the General Manager of Common Code, who build products, communities and enterprises for a better world. We talk about her Diversity, Equity and Social Inclusion efforts at Common Code and how they went from 30% women to 45% in 9 months in an industry where women only make up 15% of developers; and how the Harvard Business Review’s iconic article ‘Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders’ inspired her to take the reins at Common Code.
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Today on the show we are lucky to have the impeccable Samar McHeileh, the Co-CEO of Scale Investors.
Scale Investors is a female-focused Angel Investor network who invest in exceptional female founders. Samar is the current co-CEO at Scale Investors after joining the business in early 2019 and prior to joining Scale she had a rapid rise at JBWere as a member of the Executive Leadership team.
We are so excited to have Samar on the show today to chat about her path to Scale, angel investing and how the tech and startup landscape is changing for female founders.
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