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We caught up with one of Sydney’s hottest tech talents in Vaibhav Namburi, or V, to discuss his thoughts on entrepreneurship and emerging technologies. He's already built a blockchain solution for the United Nations, as well as mobile apps for the likes of William Hill, News Corp and PwC.

He’s also disrupting the recruitment world with his automated and anonymised hiring platform Laddr.

We discuss:

- How he got into the industry
- How to differentiate yourself in business
- Marketing methods he’s used in his business
- How to harness social media
- What’s next in emerging technology in the 12 months
- Ethics in AI
- Challenges he faced with building his businesses
- Branding
- Problem solving in growth marketing
- The biggest lessons he’s learned
- Why he focuses on marketing
- The importance of simplicity, messaging and trust in business

In part two of data in sport we focus on AI as we speak with Ian Partilla, head of global revenue and sports at GumGum. Episode 13 was recorded at Sport Accord on the Gold Coast.

We address opportunities in sponsorship and digital media, Ian’s role at GumGum, the opportunities for sports teams in how they categorise their digital and social assets, the role of ad-tech in sports and what the future of the technology could mean for brands.

Episode 12 we speak with David Melia, head of sports at Global Web Index on the Gold Coast ahead of him speaking at Sport Accord.

GWI is the world’s largest survey of online behaviour and we quiz David on how data is increasingly being used in sports to improve the fan experience.

In this episode we discuss his role at GWI, how he got into the industry, the challenges he's faced, what he does on a day to day level, the opportunities for brands in the sporting space and what we should look out for in the next 12 months.

Episode 11 looks at the psychology of choice and we’ve got someone who is very familiar in the workings of this area, we have the help of PsytAssist co-founder Lauren Fell.

As someone researching how we can predict human behaviour, Lauren discusses how we make choices every day, the role of intuition/nostalgia, how we can reframe choices, including anchoring, how unconscious bias influences us, trust, how shopping is a form of gambling, decision fatigue, bias in interviews
and her upcoming research project.