A very quick intro into what this show is about, why I decided to do it and who I'll be speaking to in the very first episode.

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Richard Potter is the CEO of Manchester based SaaS company Peak who have built their own AI system which is helping companies across the UK leverage their data and give them access to Peak's incredibly talented team of Software Engineers and Data Scientists.

We cover his education, early career and how Peak came to be - including a drunken decision to buy a new domain name!

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Adam Sroka is the Data & AI Director at Incremental Group - a Glasgow based Microsoft partner.

In this episode we chat about his background, education and his career from start-ups to where he is now.

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Erik Arne Mathiesen-Dreyfus is the Head of Data Science at Attest, a rapidly growing scale-up in London.

He's also the Founder & Co-organiser of MancML - the North of England's biggest and best data meet-up.

An all round great guy and probably the smartest person I know.

In this episode we chat through his life, career, start-ups, scale-ups, burnout, new borns, Arsenal, MancML and MMA!

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Jo Watts is the Founder & CEO of Effini, a growing Data Consultancy headquartered in Edinburgh.

As well as running a business, Jo is also on the Board of The Data Lab, has written the Data Analytics course for CodeClan and is a Non-Executive Director of GAMSTOP.

In this episode we chat through Jo's background as an Astrophysicist, to Credit Risk specialist (what we now know as a Data Scientist) and eventually starting Effini on her own.

As always, this episode is brought you by Cathcart Associates.

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Craig Lynn is the Co-Founder & Director of Filament, a Product Design company in Glasgow.

He's also the organiser of Silicon Swalley, a tech meet-up in Scotland focusing and various key themes.

Filament alongside Arceptive have recently been awarded a place on a Scottish Enterprise scheme to help solve the Climate Crisis using AI.

Craig and I chatted about this and much more, I hope you enjoy!

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Samantha Rhynas is the Head of Data at Edinburgh based data start-up Effini (Jo Watts, founder of Effini was on episode 4).

As well as working at a busy start-up, Sam is an absolute legend of the Scotland meet-up scene, running and organising GirlGeek Scotland for many years and she runs the Edinburgh chapter of PyData.

We had a great chat about her career path and involvement in the community.

I hope you enjoy!

As always, this episode was sponsored by Cathcart Associates, tech recruitment extraordinaires.

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Euan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Anomalous Technologies, an AI start-up based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Euan and his Co-Founder Matt have developed a product which can literally stop planes falling out of the sky using AI.

This was a super fun talk and is exactly the reason I started the podcast to give people like Euan & Matt a platform to tell their amazing story.

We had a great chat about his education, career, lessons learned starting Anomalous and indeed his hybrid Scottish accent!

I hope you enjoy and as always, thank you to Cathcart Associates for sponsoring the podcast.

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