Hitechies - Podcast

In this episode of the Hitechies Podcast Pramod Dhakal(Hitechies) Talks to Sagi Eliyahu who is the cofounder at Tonkean
Experience in numerous engineering and leadership roles at IDF-8200, startup and enterprise companies. Proven track record of successfully building and managing R&D teams, from a handful to dozens of employees across multiple locations and time zones, and developing innovative technology solutions from ideation to mass adoption.
Right now is a crucial time for us to decide what should and shouldn't be automated. Tonkean's co-founder Sagi Eliyahu believes that we should answer that question by focusing on helping people instead of only caring about efficiency gains.

Tonkean is the operating system for business operations, a no-code platform that enables operations teams and IT to rapidly increase efficiency of their processes while minimizing change management. Business operations teams are using Tonkean to improve key cross-functional operational metrics like revenue velocity, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.

Tonkean allows ops teams to rapidly deploy solutions that orchestrate dynamic, human-centric processes without introducing new tools or interfaces. With 1000+ connectors to existing enterprise systems, like CRM, HRIS, ERP and ticketing systems, and to communication tools like email, MS Teams and Slack, Tonkean manages, monitors, and accelerates business operations without forcing people to change their behavior.

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Eyal Sivan is a seasoned technologist specializing in all aspects of open banking. Eyal leverages his 25 years of IT experience in management, business analysis, systems integration and distributed application architecture to drive his clients towards open banking readiness, client-focused agility, rapid innovation and global technology leadership.
Beyond his technology expertise, Eyal has excellent leadership and communication skills, consistently striving to inspire the teams he works with. He also has extensive public presentation experience, having spoken at numerous international conferences on APIs, integration architecture, open banking & the general impact of technology on our lives.
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As Mr. Open Banking, Eyal has dedicated his career to help drive the evolution of open banking forward. He believes it can improve millions of lives by enabling a more innovative, resilient & inclusive financial ecosystem.

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Excellence is about self-mastery.
Stephan K Thieringer is a Business Thinker, Innovation Strategist, and Executive Coach. His recent company, The Human Innovation Garage, is a leading coaching and advisory firm, working at the critical intersection of talent and business. Stephan has been recognized by the WHRC and WCC as a 2020 World’s 101 Top Coaching Leader and received various other global and national accolades.
Stephan is passionate about inspiring people and transforming organizations and the culture of organizations. As a serial entrepreneur with many disappointments and failures and some successes he is passionate about reminding people of the human factor and create a space for high performance but being, living.
Stephan has keynoted events around the world, engaged deeply in education technology and education impact, and equal access. He serves on several company boards, is an angel investor in over a dozen companies, and recently became a shareholder in a foosball club [soccer].
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Stephan is originally from Stuttgart, Germany, and resides currently in Boston MA.
In the conversation with Pramod Dhakal in Hitechies Podcast, Stephan discusses some very interesting topics.
Some of them are as below :
Who is an entrepreneur
What is motivation
What separates an entrepreneur from the rest?
Why people don't stay in a company for long?
What is authenticity?
What is excellence?
Transformation

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Tasso Roumeliotis is currently the CEO & Co-Founder of Numa.Before NumberAI, Tasso founded Location Labs and was an early pioneer in mobile and location-based technology. He built it to 200+ people and eventually sold Location Labs for $220M with only $19M of primary capital invested. Location Labs was profitable for seven consecutive years and was an INC 500 company. He was also an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist Award winner.

Before Location Labs, Tasso worked as Vice President for Claridge Investments (Bronfman Family Office) and as an associate in the merchant banking group of Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette. Tasso started his career at Bain & Co where he was the highest ranked associate in his class. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.Comm from McGill University in Montreal.

What is Numa ?
Numa is an AI-powered virtual assistant and concierge platform created to make
consumers lives easier while helping small and medium-size businesses—
Mainstreet USA—thrive in an era where text messaging has become a preferred
and more convenient way to communicate. Making a business number textable,
Numa handles and responds to every voicemail, text, Facebook message and more with its AI-based platform that is always learning from employee- customer interactions and adjusting its answers automatically in a voice uniquely tailored to each business.
In the U.S., more than 29 million small and medium-size businesses juggle
hundreds of millions of calls from customers and clients. Yet, failing to
respond to a voicemail, or worse, leaving calls unanswered affects the bottom line. Launched in 2016, Numa was created to make consumers lives easier and Mainstreet USA businesses more responsive and profitable. Leveraging AI, Numa’s business messaging platform offers 24/7 text answering and virtual receptionist services to businesses, even when they are closed. By connecting to existing phone systems, businesses can be online in just a few minutes. Here’s how it works:

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Yvette Adams is a serial entrepreneur and a multi-award winning business woman including winning the ICT Woman of the Year at the iAwards in 2013 and the Commonwealth Bank Business Owner category at the Telstra Business Womens in Queensland in 2010.
She has started six businesses, two of which she has since sold.
The first was a newspaper that she started at the age of just 17 years old which she sold to an American entrepreneur after the first issue! She created her second business and first e-commerce site in 2002 – an online tee-shirt business. Within one month of launching she received a Government Grant and won a website award.
She lived and worked around the world for a seven year stint from 1998 to 2004, with stints working for magazines and newspapers, including a year long travel writing round-the-world assignment.
In 2004 she settled in Australia and in 2007, just 7 weeks after the birth of her second child she launched The Creative Collective from the study nook of her home – a creative services agency.
In just her first year of business she won the Queensland Small Business Champions Young Entrepreneur award and has since gone on to win or be a finalist in numerous other local, regional and national business awards. See: https://www.thecreativecollective.com.au/awards/ for a full list.
Her level of expertise and delivery style has been recognised by Government and has seen her develop and deliver webinars, workings and programs for numerous Government departments, the most notable of which, the GetUpToSpeed program has up skilled 1000’s of people with essential digital skills, and which gained her company The Training Collective the Access & Digital Skills Award at the ANZIAs in 2014 (Australian New Zealand Internet Awards).
She has assisted thousands of business owners to either get online or succeed online and either establish or grow their businesses. She has consulted hundreds businesses in New Zealand, the UK and Australia on their online strategies and built many websites and assisted business owners to commercialise their products and business ideas.

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