Tech Reimagined

An entrepreneur’s life is never dull and offers its specific benefits. Yet without proper support and a safe place to discuss challenges, it can quickly become a lonely and sometimes difficult space.   
 
In today’s episode, Kelly Baynes, founder of the Nurture Network and the Lemon Quarters shares the story behind a community that impacts the lives of 700 women in business.  
 
Tune in to hear the full story.  

With under 10% of women occupying top leadership positions across the globe, women’s underrepresentation is STILL a pressing issue.  
 
In this #IWD episode Helena Nimmo, Endava’s CIO, and Bradley Howard dive into some of the aspects that influence gender diversity in the workplace and offer valuable insights on how leadership groups can promote the advancement and equal opportunities for women in their organizations.  
 
They also shed light on mentorship projects and highlight the benefits of mentorship for both mentors and mentees.  
 
Tune in to learn more about what can be done to support and empower women in STEM.

In this last episode of the Digital Next aviation special series, Roshina Nandra, PhD   - Product Development Executive and Innovation Strategist and Justin Marcucci - Chief Digital Officer at Endava explore practical ways to modernize legacy systems without pressing pause on day-to-day operations.

Discover how airlines can rise above difficulties, make the most of their underutilized data, and, ultimately, accelerate digital strategies.

As ‘digital travellers’ demand more control over their purchase journey and seamless transactions, this episode will explore the need for airlines to not only modernize its technology but make fundamental changes to transactional assumptions with digital models.

Scott Harkey, EVP Financial Services and Payments, Endava, will also discuss how airline payments processes can accelerate digital strategies and bridge the gaps to achieving frictionless experiences; from subscription models to loyalty programs, cashless transactions and more.

In the first part of Digital Next Aviation Podcast our colleagues Roshina Nandra, PhD   - Product Development Executive and Brian Estep, Global Head of Mobility, Endava as they explore how aviation can learn from adjacent industries to realize the future of Mobility as a Service, including logistics, banking and capital markets, retail, insurance and more.

Tune in and delve into how airlines can both learn best practices from sectors that are more digitally mature, but also how they can partner with them to sell their services and generate new revenue possibilities.

In this week's podcast episode, we'll explore the entrepreneurial spirit and the challenges of starting your own business.

Kelly Baynes, owner and co-founder of The Lemon Quarters and Nurture Network, discusses her favourite projects and shares her advice on how to succeed in starting your own business. 

 I  think  as  people,  as  business  professionals,  we  often  let  perfection  be  the  enemy.  I  think  nothing's  really  more  important  than  getting  your  ideas  out  there  in  front  of  the  people  who  will  be  your  potential  customers,  people  who  don't  know  you,  basically,  people  who  aren't  family  and  genetically  predisposed  to  be  kind  to  you.

 I  think  there's  a  tech  mantra,  is  it  fail,  fail  quickly,  fail  better.  It  comes  from a Samuel  Beckett  quote,  but  reality  really  is  that  best  teacher.  We  learn  so  much  more  from  our  mistakes,  or  the  things  that  we  don't  do  well,  or the  things  we  can  improve on  much  more  than  any  success  we  might  have.  Really,  how  can  you  improve  if  you  don't  start?

Tune in to find out more and join the conversation @Endava on LinkedIn!

Thomas Bedenk, Endava’s VP of Extended Reality, has joined us again on the Tech Reimagined Podcast for what turned out to be a very insightful conversation on the metaverse and its opportunities for businesses in the years to come.

He believes the public’s growing appetite for virtual reality experiences that feed into the metaverse is mostly driven by the growth of the gaming industry and the increasing use of games as a social and exchange medium.

However, it's essential to distinguish the metaverse from the games industry and gaming as a whole. Virtual items in these games have a real economy, and virtual items can be as real as physical items to those who own and use them in the metaverse, which has the potential to transform business models and how companies interact with customers.

How exactly? Find out in this episode and share your opinion @Endava on Linkedin.

Innovation is a strategic game with long-term results. To play it right, one must ask the right questions, and create the proper context and space to help people thrive. 

Join Bradley and Eoin Woods this week as they discuss a subject very important to him and Endava – innovation in technology. Delve a bit into how we foster innovation within our teams and what it means for everyone involved. 

Bradley Howard: Eoin,  today  I  really  want  to  talk  about  how  to  incubate  innovation.  So what are  the  essential  preconditions  for  novelty  of  cultures  within  organizations?

Eoin Woods: Thanks  Bradley.  It's  a  complicated  question,  isn't  it?  Because  so  many  people  talk  about  innovation and  so  many  people  say  they've  delivered  innovation  and  yet  sometimes  it's  quite  hard  to  know  what  they  mean.  For  me,  innovation  is,  I  think  what  you  said  in  the  introduction  is  real  impactful  change  to  the  way  the  organizations  either  work  or  deliver  the  services  or  the  products  that  they  create.  I  think  the  most  essential  precondition  for  innovation  within  an  organization  is  an  acceptance  of  failure.  I  hear  quite  a  lot  of,  we  sometimes  even  get  this  with  our  clients  who  are,  hear  quite  a  lot  of  organizations  talking  about  the  need  for  innovation  and  how  they  want  to  innovate  and  then  when  they  start  talking  to  people  about  let's  start  doing  some  innovation  they  say, " How  long  will  it  take?  How  much  will  it  cost,  and  what  will  I  get?"  And I  always  look  at  them  slightly  confused.

 Well  if  it's  innovation  you  won't  know  any  of  those  things in  the  beginning.  I'm  afraid  that's  just  development  or  business  development  or  whatever  it is.  I  think  taking  risks,  I  think  being  prepared  to  learn  from  failures  and  doing  failures  is  a  positive  thing,  which  is  much  easier  said  than  done  especially  when  it's  your  money  you're  spending.  I  really  do  feel  for  senior  managers  who  just  feel  that  they're  abandoning  money  to  a  black  hole  but  they  do  have  to  let  go  and  just  see  what  happens.  And  I  think  the  other  precondition  is  the  fact  that  innovation  is  actually  done  in  the  business.

 The  biggest  anti  pattern  I  see  in  innovation  is  a  separate  innovation  center.  You  can  always  tell  innovation  centers  because  the  people  dress  differently  and they  have  totally  non- standard  IT  hardware.  If  the  organization  is  a  window  center,  they  will  inevitably  have  max.  If  the  main  organization  is  a  max  center,  they  will  inevitably  have  Linux  machines  and  they  go  off  and  innovate  in  a  bubble  and  then  when  they  try  and  come  back  and  apply  that  innovation,  the  organization  kind  of  rejects  the  organism  because  it  just  doesn't  fit  with  the  way  the  organization  works  and  its  real  needs.

Enjoyed this segment? Have a listen to the whole episode and join the conversation with us: @Endava on Linkedin. 

Join us and Endava’s VP of Extended Reality, Thomas Bedenk, in this very first episode of 2023, where he highlights the recent advancements in virtual and extended reality, like AI-trained conversational models such as chatGPT. 

While chatbots have been around for decades, only recently have they become more prevalent with advancements in AI and language models.

He believes that these advancements have the potential to revolutionize the way virtual worlds, user-generated content and large productions are created. 

Thomas also raises ethical concerns, such as the potential for confusion between human and AI interactions in virtual reality, issues of identity, and copyright. He emphasizes that organizations must consider how they want to approach and adapt to this rapidly advancing technology.

Have a listen and let us know your opinion @Endava on Linkedin.