Tech Talks

David Savage is joined by Matt Bird, CEO and co-founder of Supercritical Solutions, for a candid conversation about what it really takes to build a hardware deep tech business in the UK. Matt explains why he spends 80% of his time fundraising, and why his Series A relationship with Toyota Ventures and Shell Ventures took three years to land. He also explains why the UK is a brilliant place to start a company but a hard place to scale one.
They also tackle the boardroom reality of climate tech. Matt describes a world where "net zero" has become a dirty word, and where the green premium is a non-starter with finance directors. In that world, the only sustainable path is technology that wins on pure economics. Matt also shares how Supercritical hires for fit before technical skill, and why the company invests in interns and school outreach for a generation struggling to get on the ladder. Finally, he explains why tritium, the scarce fuel that powers most fusion reactors, is the fusion story more people should be talking about.

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Last year, an IT leader told his C-suite the only thing he could guarantee about their new AI tooling was that they'd change their minds within six months. It took three. Now it's budget season again, and boards are demanding AI savings yesterday. Jim Daniel, Senior Vice President of Enterprise IT and Business Operations at Smarsh, argues that pressure is exactly why so many enterprises are deploying AI without governing it, and why so much of the output is slop rather than value. At Dreamforce, we unpack why the model is no longer the limiting factor, how a switch to usage-based pricing changed who gets access, why vendors quietly switching on AI is the governance gap nobody budgets for, and why he's relieved he no longer owns security. If your AI spend is climbing faster than your confidence in what it returns, press play.

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For years, Nowi Kallen's team searched for the legal software platform an entire industry would standardise on, and never found it. Then AI shifted the ground, and the bet suddenly made sense. Recorded at Dreamforce, David asks Nowi, Partner at Salesforce Ventures, how he decides which founders and which spaces are worth backing when AI is rewriting the rules every quarter. We unpack why AI-native founders skew younger, why the best of them hire for where the business will be in 12 months, why "a few years out" is no excuse to wait on space technology, why Europe's founders are building everywhere but still lack the compute, and what ambient agents will mean for your working day. If you want the next five years through the eyes of someone paid to bet on them, press play.

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Every time the writer pitched one more personalised detail, the CTO's workload grew exponentially: hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of artwork permutations for one children's book.
Now AI has made that product easier to build and the job harder. Mark Daniell (writer and education lead) and Alex Pond (CTO), co-founders of You Are The Star, turn children into the heroes of personalised sports stories, in print and in a digital library. Alex argues that AI hasn't removed work; it has stripped out the routine and left a relentless stream of high-stakes calls on risk, compliance and accuracy, with children on the platform and rights holders scrutinising every frame. We unpack why they build artwork from 3D models rather than generating it, why a printed book still beats an app, and why Mark stopped blaming the phone.

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A customer told Taksina Eammano something that morning that should worry anyone running a physical workforce: 17% of their people will retire in the next few years, and decades of know-how will walk out with them.
Her bet runs against the doom narrative. While AI disrupts desk jobs, she expects a surge back into the trades, because no model is fixing a roof or rewiring a building, and the global data-centre boom needs people on site.
Recorded at Dreamforce, David Savage and Salesforce's EVP & GM of Field Service unpack where the "human premium" is worth paying for, why robots are taking the dull, dirty and dangerous work first, and the question almost nobody is asking: how do you performance manage a team when AI makes everyone 70% as good?

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