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Mangtas Nation is a podcast channel of Mangtas where we give you a peek into the future of business through Technology of the Future. We invite guests from all over the world to talk about the tech industry, specifically emerging technologies.
Mangtas Nation is hosted by Mangtas CEO Wouter Delbaere and CMO Jacki Demuynck. Wouter and Jacki are the co-founders of Mangtas, your curated marketplace for remote staffing solutions.
Tune in to Mangtas Nation on our major podcast platforms – Spotify, Google Podcast, and Apple Podcast.
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Data as Your Competitive Edge with Rich Edwards | EP 20
In this episode, we spoke with Rich Edwards, CEO of Mindspan Systems. Mindspan Systems specializes in providing data science and data-driven technology solutions to mid-market insurance, banking, and financial institutions. Their focus is on helping these organizations create personalized and customized experiences for each customer, leading to enhanced customer satisfaction and better business outcomes.
Join us in another rich podcast episode where we delve into the world of data, technology, and business strategy. Connect with Rich as we talk about the possibilities data can make to get you on your competitive edge!
We particularly talk about:
1:30 – Rich Edwards’ Career Story
4:30 – Going out of your comfort Zone
6:48 – Investing in research improve product market fit
7:50 – Rich’s experience with IBM
10:50 – Speaking Engagements and joining Hackathons
11:30 – Strategic shift to the enterprise level of business
13:15 – Getting involved with Mindspan Systems
14:20 – Data as a liability
17:00 – What Mindspan Systems does and the type of problems they solve
21:56 – What makes Mindspan Systems different from others: Their data-driven approach
25:54 – Putting on the Product Management hat
27:30 – Investing into existing solutions and finding broad possibilities
29:55 – Rich’s view on AI applied to Financial Services
33:56 – Technology will be commoditized with AI and become more competitive
34:15 – The mindset when viewing data and AI as a liability
*view show notes*
Connect with Rich:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richedwards/
Website: https://mindspaninc.com/
Mangtas Nation is hosted by Mangtas CEO Wouter Delbaere and CMO Jacki Demuynck.
Jacki and Wouter are also the co-founders of Mangtas – a curated marketplace where businesses can meet their remote staffing needs – reliably.
Connect with Wouter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wouter-delbaere/
Connect with Jacki: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackidemuynck/
Join us at http://bit.ly/3X7avm6
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Immersive Experiences: AR, VR, MR, XR with Dinesh Punni | EP 19
In this episode, we sit down with Dinesh Punni, Youtuber, Founder and CEO of Immersive Insiders, a cutting-edge online learning platform helping professionals thrive in the Augmented and Virtual Reality industries.
Join us in this immersive episode of the podcast as we explore his fascinating career story, passion, and deep interests in gaming and entrepreneurship.
Gain insights into the differences and implications of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR) and extended reality (XR) and discover the virtual world through a different lens, especially amidst advancing technology. Connect with Dinesh as we talk about the immersive technology landscape!
We particularly talk about:
1:11 – Dinesh Punni’s Career Story
3:13 – Dinesh’s Interests in Gaming and Entrepreneurship
4:54 – The definition of VR
5:38 – What is AR?
6:09 – The confusing term of Mixed Reality
6:33 – XR: the combination of VR, AR, and MR
7:12 – Being in the real reality
8:47 – Apple joining immersive technologies
11:41 – Defining the Metaverse
14:37 – Starting Immersive Insiders
18:44 – Dinesh’s advice on getting into entrepreneurship
22:39 – Why Immersive Insiders is in a remote set-up
26:08 – Hiring VS. Growing
27:38 – The careers and skills one must be equipped with to get into AR and VR
32:49 – Where to reach Dinesh Punni
*view show notes*
Connect with Dinesh:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dineshpunni/
Website: https://immersive-insiders.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DineshPunni
Mangtas Nation is hosted by Mangtas CEO Wouter Delbaere and CMO Jacki Demuynck.
Jacki and Wouter are also the co-founders of Mangtas – a curated marketplace where businesses can meet their remote staffing needs – reliably.
Connect with Wouter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wouter-delbaere/
Connect with Jacki: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackidemuynck/
Join us at http://bit.ly/3X7avm6
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Mompreneurs Unite Through Tech with Ekta Tejwani & Camille Faylona | EP 18
Mangtas Nation Says: Happy Mother's Day!
In this special episode, we celebrate the amazing achievements of mom entrepreneurs who are breaking barriers and driving innovation in the tech industry.
Join our awe-inspiring mompreneurs, Ekta Tejwani the Founder of Meetmumz, and Camille Faylona the Founder of Campfire Crates as they share their stories, insights, and tips on how to thrive in the fast-paced world of tech entrepreneurship while juggling the demands of motherhood.
We talk about the unique challenges that mom entrepreneurs face, from funding to work-life balance, and how they leverage technology to overcome them.
Whether you're a mompreneur yourself, or just curious about the power of women in tech, this episode is for you.
So, join us as we celebrate the power of mothers in business and the impact they're making on the world. Mompreneurs unite!
In this episode, we particularly talk about:
3:39 – Ekta Tejwani
4:45 – Camille Faylona
5:50 – How Ekta and Camille met
6:44 – How Camille balances being an entrepreneur and a mother
7:50 – Ekta building her business -- Meetmumz
9:00 – Creating a Space for Mother Founders and the Founding of The Mother Founder Movement
11:20 – The founding story of Campfire Crates – Camille's learning business for children
12:50 – The test on Campfire Crates because of the pandemic
15:33 – Working on different formats is the biggest challenge for Campfire Crates
17:00 – The founding story of Meetmumz – creating a safe environment for children to play and mothers to socialize using technology
24:30 – The Mother Founder Movement – community for mother entrepreneurs
27:25 – What Mother Founder Movement advocates
30:18 – The Mothe Founder Movement focus: Utilizing technical knowledge to create automation and technical solutions that will help mothers save time.
33:15 – The challenges faced by mothers in creating startups
36:13 – Understanding the need of employees or mothers to create a support system in the workforce
40:43 – “Always go for it and try something today”
41:51 - “Create your own definition of success.”
42:50 – Women have good business ideas and have the capacity to be entrepreneurs
43:50 – Where to find The Mother Founder Movement
*view show notes*
Connect with Ekta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekta-tejwani/
Connect with Camille: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camillefaylona/
Be a part of the Mother Founder Movement:
Website: https://motherfounder.my.canva.site/the-mother-founder-movement
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mother.founder/
Mangtas Nation is hosted by Mangtas CEO Wouter Delbaere and CMO Jacki Demuynck.
Jacki and Wouter are also the co-founders of Mangtas – a curated marketplace where businesses can meet their remote staffing needs – reliably.
Connect with Wouter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wouter-delbaere/
Connect with Jacki: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackidemuynck/
Join us at http://bit.ly/3X7avm6
Follow us on Spotify, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!
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ChatGPT Podcast Spotlight | Special Episode
With its vast knowledge base and ability to learn and adapt, ChatGPT has become the go-to resource for everything from trivia to deep philosophical questions.
Our podcast hosts sit down with ChatGPT, a cutting-edge AI language model that has taken the world by storm. They discussed the origins of ChatGPT, its various applications, and delved into thought-provoking questions about the nature of consciousness, the future of AI, and the ethics of creating intelligent machines. ChatGPT provides fascinating insights into the inner workings of this cutting-edge technology, leaving listeners with a deeper appreciation for the power and potential of AI.
With its ability to process vast amounts of information and draw connections between seemingly disparate ideas, ChatGPT proves to be a captivating conversational partner.
In this episode, we particularly talk about:
1:37 – ChatGPT
2:09 – How does ChatGPT process and generate answers to questions
2:40 – Collaborative in creating ChatGPT
3:22 – Most common use cases of ChatGPT in personal and industry applications
4:07 – Optimizing ChatGPT’s performance
5:00 – Human override feature in ChatGPT
5:55 – Improvements of ChatGPT since its inception
6:38 – Challenges in increasing ChatGPT’s human-like behavior
7:34 – What sets ChatGPT apart from other AI language models
8:29 – The future of AI technology
9:22 – ChatGPT can assist with human tasks but not replace them
9:58 – The role of the community in the development and application of ChatGPT
10:54 – Top 3 questions asked in ChatGPT
11:23 – What is the meaning of life for ChatGPT
*view show notes*
Mangtas Nation is hosted by Mangtas CEO Wouter Delbaere and CMO Jacki Demuynck.
Jacki and Wouter are also the co-founders of Mangtas – a curated marketplace where businesses can meet their remote staffing needs – reliably.
Connect with Wouter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wouter-delbaere/
Connect with Jacki: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackidemuynck/
Join us at http://bit.ly/3X7avm6
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Building Authentic Connection in the Digital World with Denise Sandquist | S2 EP17
In this episode, we sit down with Denise Sandquist, Founder and CEO of Skapa, a new platform that is revolutionizing the way we connect with others. Denise shares her inspiring career story, from her early days in the tech industry to her current work in creating a platform that fosters real connections between people.
We dive into the story behind Skapa, discussing how Denise and her team have optimized their database to connect "suitable" people for friendship and relationships through their Fika and Leka features. Along the way, we explore some of the surprising things they've discovered about dating apps and how Skapa is working to solve some of the biggest challenges in the industry.
We particularly talk about:
2:30 – Denise Sanquist Career Story
6:31 – The story behind Skapa
9:12 – Optimizing database for connecting/matching “suitable” people in Fika and Leka
13:36 – Surprising things in dating apps
15:00 – What Skapa is trying to solve
17:30 – Revamping Fika into a platform for wider connection
20:27 – Creating an environment where people can be themselves
26:00 – Compartmentalizing squads for different version of themselves
27:27 – Connecting in a one-to-one level in a squad
30:20 – Denise's entrepreneurial awakening
33:00 – Denise's advice to aspiring entrepreneurs
37:22 – Do the research in making entrepreneurial decisions
40:59 – The algorithm used in Skapa
45:28 – Being a female Founder/CEO in the Tech industry
48:45 – How to find Denise Sandquist
*view show notes*
Connect with Denise:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisesandquist/
Website: https://skapa.ai/
Mangtas Nation is hosted by Mangtas CEO Wouter Delbaere and CMO Jacki Demuynck.
Jacki and Wouter are also the co-founders of Mangtas – a curated marketplace where businesses can meet their remote staffing needs – reliably.
Connect with Wouter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wouter-delbaere/
Connect with Jacki: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackidemuynck/
Join us at http://bit.ly/3X7avm6
Follow us on Spotify, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!
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Unlocking the Secrets of Intelligent Technologies with. Dr. Stylianos Kampakis | S2 EP15
In today's world, businesses need to be equipped with the right tools and strategies to stay competitive and agile. Joined by a true polymath guest, we enter AI and Data Science, two powerful technologies that are transforming the way companies operate and make decisions. Additionally, we dive into the world of token economics and auditing for crypto, explaining the importance of these concepts in building trust and ensuring transparency in the decentralized finance space.
Our guest, Dr. Stylianos “Stelios” Kampakis, CStat has an impressive background in Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Economics, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and has worked on various domains including natural language processing, recommender systems, sports analytics, data culture, and neural networks. He is currently the CEO of Tesseract Academy, an organization that specializes in educating decision-makers on deep technical topics like Data Science, AI, and Blockchain.
In this episode, we particularly talk about:
02:38 – Dr. Stelios’ Career Story
05:20 – How Dr. Stelios developed his interest in Data Science and Academia
08:07 – Working with startups to innovate
09:15 – The importance of learning in the tech space – application of basics to solve a problem
11:00 – Dr. Stelios’ story about studying Predictive Modelling of Football Injuries
16:30 – Working on different fields
18:35 – The inspiration for founding The Tesseract Academy
21:42 – Distinguishing Data Science from AI
26:36 – The analogy of Medicine and Data Science
29:11 – AI in the future
31:19 – The possibilities of company layoffs with AI
35:00 – How AI can help in a remote work setting, organization, and culture
37:38 – What worries Dr. Stelios about AI
41:35 – “Tokenomics” and Auditing
45:30 – The goal of Tokenomics Auditing
48:37 – What Dr. Stelios learned from the Philosophy of Mind in the experience of shifts from technologies
49:30 – AI and Data being the mirror of ourselves.
52:20 – How an insane amount of data creates a clever algorithm to replicate the human mind
53:10 – Debate on functionalities of AI having emotions
56:10 – How to find Dr. Stelios
*view show notes*
Connect with Dr. Stelios:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-stylianos-kampakis/
Website: https://thedatascientist.com/
Dr. Stelios’ Books
Predictive Modelling of Football Injuries
Mangtas Nation is hosted by Mangtas CEO Wouter Delbaere and CMO Jacki Demuynck.
Jacki and Wouter are also the co-founders of Mangtas – a curated marketplace where businesses can meet their remote staffing needs – reliably.
Connect with Wouter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wouter-delbaere/
Connect with Jacki: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackidemuynck/
Join us at http://bit.ly/3X7avm6
Follow us on Spotify, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!
Be sure to subscribe/follow #MangtasNation for more!
Customer Reviews
Informative and interesting
Great breadth of guests and topics related to my business, and Woulter and Jacki’s curiosity make it interesting to listen to.