Product Hacker

Your house, your fridge, your car, even your pacemaker – “smart” devices have taken over the world. But as businesses rush to tap into these new sources of user data, they run the risk of crashing headlong into a bevy of serious privacy and ethical concerns.

Join guests Mark Hughey and Shahrukh Tarapore as we continue our discussion of emerging technologies by diving deep into the Internet of Things. From supply chain management and healthcare to white-hat hackers and “instant owning,” it’s a strange new world of data.

Automation helps companies save millions of dollars a year by taking humans out of the customer support process. But at what cost? We present a brief cautionary tale about customer satisfaction, project management, and the future of machine learning.

Hosted by Kurt Schiller, producer by Martin R. Schneider.

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There’s a new class of digital wellness tools rising to prominence on the market: apps that help people directly manage their conditions, and can open that care up to more people in the process.

We spoke with CEO William Gadsden and pain psychologist Dr. Caryn Seebach from Ctrl M Health, a Philadelphia-based startup that's partnered with the headache center at Jefferson Health to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital platform that helps people living with chronic headaches and migraines access a personalized plan of support through an innovative mobile app and a line of evidence-based supplements.

We're also joined by Arcweb UX architect Mike Balcerzak, who worked with the Ctrl M team and helped bring their app to life.

Ctrl M Health website: https://ctrlmhealth.com/

Music by Prox-C.

Each year, companies miss out on billions of dollars of potential revenue by not giving their employees a chance to innovate. On this mini-sode, we take a look at the high cost of lost entrepreneurship and offer up one methodology that can help even the biggest company innovate like a startup.

Produced by Martin R. Schneider. Music by Prox-C and:

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Product market fit is at the heart of every product decision, from features to architecture. But how can you find market fit in today's constantly shifting tech landscape? We spoke with Ubek Ergashev of Comcast's machineQ IoT platform about making the pivot from infrastructure to product company, the state of IoT, and how to make technology selections that won't come back to haunt you.

About machineQ:

machineQ is an enterprise-grade IoT platform that helps businesses build, manage, and scale their own IoT networks and solutions. Based in Philadelphia and incubated out of Comcast, machineQ delivers best-in-class LoRa®-based hardware, enterprise grade software, and IoT expertise that speeds up innovation and reduces time to market.

About Ubek:

Ubek Ergashev is a Product Manager for machineQ. Over the course of the last twelve months he’s led the effort to build the machineQ ecommerce store and mobile app, which will enable customers to purchase machineQ’s IoT hardware products like gateways and sensors, and make it simple and easy to get them up and running for their business.

Produced by Martin R. Schneider. Music by Prox-C and Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/