Explore every episode of the podcast Caribbean Tech Pioneers Podcast
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| Shaka Hislop: Professional Career, ESPN, Tech in Sports - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 25 Aug 2024 | 01:26:13 | |
Neil Shaka Hislop is an ESPN soccer analyst and commentator, Howard University alum, and former professional soccer player. He represented Trinidad and Tobago internationally, including the 2006 World Cup. Hislop co-founded "Show Racism the Red Card" and has received numerous awards for his contributions to sports and anti-racism efforts. | |||
| Stefan Uddenberg: Perception & Cognition, Human Faces Research, PhD and AI - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 08 Jan 2024 | 01:14:23 | |
Dr. Stefan Uddenberg, With a PhD from Yale University and extensive research experience at the Perception & Cognition Laboratory under the guidance of Brian Scholl, Dr. Uddenberg is set to make waves as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UIUC next summer. | |||
| Stefan Hosein: Experience at Google & Twitter and Hard Work - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:38:51 | |
Stefan is currently a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Deliveroo working on ranking and recommendations in London, UK. Previously, he worked at Google and Twitter doing a lot of work in the search and Natural Language Processing space. He got his Masters from Cambridge and bachelors from the University of the West Indies. | |||
| Anthony Cole: Amazon Music, Tips for Interview, and Passion for Music - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:35:47 | |
Anthony Cole is a Sr. Program Manager of Employee eXperience & Trust (EXT) for Amazon Music and serves as president of Amazon's Black Employee Network (BEN) HQ chapter. Prior to joining Amazon Anthony had ten years of experience in private banking, sales, and account management with J.P. Morgan and Wealth-X. At Wealth-X, he was responsible for leading a team of Client Success Associates to drive client retention, fostering engagement and adoption of Wealth-X solutions via consulting, wealth information and market research services. At Wealth-X he managed a $10MM book of business achieving a 90% revenue retention rate, streamlined processes for client onboarding, engagement and issue resolution to achieve scalability for global team implementation, and collaborated with sales, marketing, technology, and product teams to deliver solutions tailored to client needs. His background enabled Anthony to ramp quickly at Amazon, embracing the leadership culture. | |||
| Kyle Maloney: Business & Startups, Future of Tech in Caribbean, Networking - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:20:52 | |
In this episode, we learn about Kyle Maloney's Entrepreneurial Tech journey in the Caribbean. He has founded 5 companies and obtained over 3 million in funding along the way. The TechBeach Retreat team is building out the tech ecosystem in the Caribbean, so get in contact. Hope you find some inspiration from his story. Remember to connect with us on LinkedIn: | |||
| Jonathan Pierre: Deep Learning Startup, and career in investment banking - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:26:36 | |
In today's episode, we speak with Jonathan Pierre. He is the CEO of GEOTree, a deep learning startup for Environmental Monitoring. He is also the President of Mantle Labs, a fintech startup that enables farmers to get funding by leveraging satellite imagery. He has over a decade of experience trading commodities at top companies such as citibank and is originally from Trinidad and Tobago. | |||
| Dion St. Hilaire: Cloud Computing, Consulting and Journey to Microsoft - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:19:26 | |
In today’s episode, my guest is Dion St. Hilaire. He has over a decade of experience as a Cloud Architect at Microsoft and does Cloud Computing consulting. He breaks the mold of the typical software engineer, running a party events company while being a Cloud Computing consultant. I hope you enjoy the interview and take some lessons for your own journey in machine learning and tech. | |||
| Cecil Phillip: Developer Advocacy, Opportunities in Tech, and Leadership - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:38:54 | |
In today’s episode, my guest is Cecil Phillip. He is a Senior Developer Advocate at Stripe. He was a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and has had roles at numerous software companies. I hope you enjoy the interview and take some lessons for your own journey in machine learning and tech. | |||
| Dennis Ramdass: Compute Virtualization, Startups Vs Enterprise, & MIT - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:19:12 | |
In today’s episode, my guest is Dennis Ramdass. He is a Staff Engineer 2 Stripe at VMWare where he focuses on building ML-based products. Dennis is an MIT Alum and is originally from Trinidad and Tobago. He shares some great lessons for having a great tech career and how to be at the intersection of software engineering and machine learning. | |||
| Dr. Deana A.: UX Research in Google, Personal Branding, Career Diversity - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:21:35 | |
In today’s episode, my guest is Dr. Deana A. She is originally from Jamaica and is currently a Staff UX Research & Strategy Lead at Google. Her journey from Jamaica to Silicon Valley is truly inspiring. | |||
| Dr. Naila Murray: Meta AI, PhD, and Career Advice - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:29:03 | |
In today’s episode my guest is Dr. Naila Murray. She is from Trinidad and Tobago and is currently a Research Engineering Manager at Meta AI (formerly facebook AI). Prior to joining Meta AI she was the Director of Science of Naver Labs Europe, and a Manager & Senior Scientist at Xerox. Dr. Murray obtained her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2007, and the Masters and PhD in Computer Science from Univesitat Autonoma de Barcelona. While Dr. Murray’s career path may seem very intentional you will learn in the interview that her journey to Meta AI was on of just following the opportunities that presented themselves to her as she went along. I hope you enjoy the interview and take some lessons for your own journey in machine learning and tech. | |||
| Gerald Jean Baptiste: Journey to Youtube, Creativity, & New Opportunities - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:18:54 | |
In todays episode we speak with Gerald Jean-Baptiste, he is our first guest representing the Haitian region. The focus of today’s podcast is creativity and cultivating it in our data-driven careers. Gerald currently works at YouTube, as a Video Producer in the YouTube Support Solutions Organization. While at Google, he co-produced Google’s first ever Black Culture and Music festival, SoulFest. He hails from the great city of Miami and is of proud Haitian descent. Gerald had the privilege to study at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and received his Bachelors in Fine Arts (BFA) in Film and Television in 2012. As an emerging filmmaker, Gerald has directed various shorts, and his most notable work is his thesis film entitled The Choice. After Gerald completed his studies at NYU, he felt impassioned to return to Miami to improve the education system in his hometown. Gerald was then inducted as a 2012 Teach For America Miami-Dade Corps Member and placed at Miami Edison Senior High. He had the fortune of teaching English Language Learners at Miami Edison, many of whom were recent Haitian immigrants. Gerald then received a master's degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a focus on Arts in Education. Any type of innovation in tech and machine learning requires creating something new given what currently exists, so pay attention to the gaps in your own creative process. | |||
| Kirk - Anthony Hamilton: Caribbean Startups, Fear of AI and opportunities - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 31 Aug 2023 | 01:10:13 | |
Kirk-Anthony Hamilton, a distinguished entrepreneur, investor, and community curator. With a background in architectural design, Kirk-Anthony Hamilton is the visionary behind the Infiniti Partnership Inc., Tech Beach Retreat, and The Destination Experience. | |||
| Dr. Andrew Russell: Google, Magic Leap, Nvidia and Teaching- Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:37:45 | |
Today my guest is Dr. Andrew Russell, our first guest from Jamaica. Dr. Russell currently works at NVIDIA as a Principal software engineer. He has worked at other top companies such as Google, Magic Leap, and Texas Instruments. Dr. Russell received three degrees from MIT a Bachelors's, Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has more than 40 patents filed in his name and is one of the inventors of Google's Project Starline, a holographic video conferencing system. Dr. Russell has also taught at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus in Jamaica and attended high school at Campion college and Munro college for A-levels. He now lives in Florida with his wife Wendy and 4 children. | |||
| Marcelle Bonterre: Machine Learning, Rock Climbing, and Passion for Math - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:36:56 | |
In todays episode we speak with Marcelle Bonterre. He is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer focusing on Natural Language Processing at Turnitin. Before Turnitin, he was either the first or an early engineer at several startups, whose businesses ranged from smartwatches to FinTech. He holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from Wright State University. Marcelle spends part of his spare time mentoring new engineers through affiliations with various organizations, and spinning through his rolodex of hobbies including mountain biking, rock climbing, tinkering with electronics, roasting coffee, falling down wikipedia language-origin rabbit-holes, or indulging his passion for autodidactic study of astronomy, quantum physics and various mathematical esoteria. Marcelle is an immigrant from Trinidad & Tobago and what I want you to take from his journey is his focus on learning the skills needed to be successful in your data science career even without a formal education in machine learning. | |||
| Dr. Jason Pinto: Entrepreneurship, Machine Learning, Life Lessons - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 00:45:07 | |
In this episode we learn about Dr. Jason Pinto's journey from Trinidad to the UK. He is currently the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Pace Revenue, a machine learning startup in the UK focused on dynamic price optimization. Jason loves the world of fast, dynamic startups and has advised several companies and been a venture partner at Amadeus Capital Partners where he focused on companies in the online services and digital media space. Dr. Pinto obtained his bachelors in materials science and engineering from MIT, his masters in Materials science and engineering at Stanford university, and his PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge. Jason shares many great lessons in this interview around balance, maintaining your health for the long startup journey and the mindset it takes to succeed at startups. | |||
| Dr. Sekou Remy: IBM, Passion for Tech, Academic Experience - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:38:38 | |
Sekou L. Remy is a Research Scientist and Technical Lead at IBM Research – Africa. A member of the healthcare team, he is excited about developing appropriate technologies which will transform Africa, and the world. A proud alum of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and of Morehouse College (both in Atlanta, GA USA), Sekou has had teaching and research appointments at Clemson University, the University of Notre Dame, and Spelman College. | |||
| Dr. Anil Kokaram: Film Broadcasting, Cambridge University and Cricket - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:25:40 | |
In this episode we interview Professor Anil Kokaram. He graduated in 1993 with a PhD in Signal processing from the Cambridge University Engineering Department in the UK. He is now Professor and Chair of Electronics at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. From 2011-2017 he was the lead of the Media Algorithms Team at YouTube/Google. Before that, he founded a media digital signal processing group at Trinity College Dublin working in the broad areas of Digital Signal Processing for Video Processing, Bayesian Inference and motion estimation. He has published over 200 referenced papers in these areas. He was a former Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Video Technology and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and currently serves as Senior Area Editor. He was founder of a company (GreenParrotPictures) producing video enhancement software that was acquired by Google in 2011. In 2007 he was honored with a Science and Engineering Academy Award from the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work in video processing for post-production applications. | |||
| Dr. Mark Moyou: Starting and Accelerating Your Data Science Career - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:00:59 | |
✅ Connect with Dr. Mark Moyou on LinkedIn (leave a note about the video to connect): | |||
| Dr. Nick Fuller - IBM Research, Physics, and Importance of Tech - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:21:27 | |
In this episode, we learn about Dr. Nick Fuller’s career journey. He is currently the Vice President of the Distributed Cloud organization at IBM Research and has held numerous leadership positions in the company over his 18+ year career. Hope you find some inspiration from this interview. | |||
| Yinka Badejo: Women in Tech, Data Science, Meta, and Consultancy - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 19 May 2023 | 01:25:59 | |
In this episode, we learn about Yinka Badejo’s journey from St. Maarten in the Caribbean all the way to Silicon Valley. She is currently a Data Science Manager at Facebook. Her story has many lessons for women in tech and data science. | |||
| Kyle De Freitas - CashApp, Managing Burnout, & International Opportunities - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 19 May 2023 | 01:37:18 | |
In this episode, we learn about Kyle De Freitas's journey from St Vincent and the Grenadines to Trinidad and then to Canada where he works as a Machine Learning Engineering Lead at CashApp. Kyle's story is a true reflection that hard work and setting vision plays a big role in your professional success and asking yourself ""what is next"" is the key for finding motivation to work harder. | |||
| Dr. Kwame Johnson: Product Management, Healthcare, & Importance of Writing - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 19 May 2023 | 01:39:41 | |
In this episode, we learn about Dr. Kwame Johnson’s medical journey from the Caribbean to becoming a Senior Product Manager at Hinge Health, one the fastest growing Healthcare Startups. He was a Program Manager at Microsoft and a Product Manager at Google DeepMind Healthcare. Hope you find some inspiration from his story. Remember to connect with us on LinkedIn | |||
| Zachary Harding: Marketing, DJ, Life Lessons, AI & Business - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 16 Jul 2023 | 01:17:54 | |
Zachary Harding is our 4th guest from Jamaica, the founding partner of Delta Capital Partners, a private equity group focused on high-growth and high-impact sectors such as Financial Services, Digital Payments Facilitation, and Digital Healthcare and Wellness. | |||
| Learie Hercules: Data Science Career, Mentorship, Oppurtunites in Tech - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 19 May 2023 | 01:22:59 | |
In this episode, we learn about Learie Hercules’ data career journey from the Caribbean to the US. He is currently the Chief Technical Officer at Smart Warehousing, a leader in Fulfillment & Logistics. We speak about how to think about data and many data career strategies, that if you deploy them, will enable you to accelerate your career progress. Hope you find some inspiration from his story. Remember to connect with us on LinkedIn | |||
| Geoff Seyon: Leveraging Caribbean Heritage, Healthcare, Education at MIT - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 19 May 2023 | 01:21:01 | |
In this episode, we learn about Geoff Seyon’s journey from the Caribbean to MIT and then to Silicon Valley where he gathered over 27 years of experience as a Technology Leader. We really talk about leveraging your Caribbean background to make great strides in your career and he reminds us to continue pushing because the age of AI and its vast changes are coming. I know you will find some inspiration from Geoff’s story. | |||
| Dr. Patrick Hosein: Data Science in Caribbean, MIT Journey, Google - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 19 May 2023 | 00:56:42 | |
In this episode, we learn about Dr. Patrick Hosein’s AI career journey from the Caribbean to doing research on a global scale and back. He holds five (5) degrees from MIT and is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of the West Indies. He has been a Principal Engineer at Nokia Bell Labs, AT&T, Ericsson. We talk about the history of computing in the Caribbean, his journey at MIT and how you can get started with your career in AI in the Caribbean. Hope you find some inspiration from his story. Remember to connect with us on LinkedIn | |||
| Dr. Mandela Patrick: Machine Learning Career, Pinata Farms, & Study Groups - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 19 May 2023 | 00:56:53 | |
In this episode, we learn about Mandela Patrick's AI career journey from the Caribbean to the US then the UK. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Computer Vision at the University of Oxford and is a Visiting Scholar at Facebook AI Research. We talk about how to the importance of study groups, extra-curricular activities, trends in machine learning and working and mentorship. Remember to connect with us on LinkedIn | |||
| Dr. Timothy Hospedales: Professor of ML & AI, Tips on Pursuing PhD - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 19 May 2023 | 00:59:10 | |
In this episode, we learn about Dr. Timothy Hospedales’s AI career journey from the Caribbean to the UK. He is currently a Principal Scientist at Samsung AI Research Center in Cambridge and a Full Professor at the University of Edinburgh. We cover topics such as optimizing your PhD in Machine Learning, networking to expand your AI career and different areas of machine learning research. | |||
| Dr. Danielle Belgrave - Microsoft - Principal Research Manager | 06 May 2023 | 00:52:36 | |
This episode teaches about Dr. Danielle Belgrave's AI career journey from the Caribbean to the UK. | |||
| Richie Etwaru: Immersive AI, Innovating Tech & Lessons - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 07 Jul 2023 | 01:32:13 | |
Richie Etwaru is a distinguished innovator, author of three books, a TEDx speaker, and co-founder of Mobeus. His groundbreaking work in Immersive AI has revolutionized human-machine interaction. With numerous patents and extensive experience working at the leadership level of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. | |||
| Garnet S. Heraman: Venture Capital, Startup Success Secrets, Meditation - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 02 Jul 2023 | 01:25:22 | |
Join Garnet S. Heraman, a prominent Venture Capitalist (VC) focused on multicultural mainstreaming. Delve into the world of venture capital as Garnet discusses the various components of funding in Aperture VC and explores the vibrant VC scene beyond Silicon Valley. Discover the intriguing differences in business ecosystems and learn what the Caribbean startup scene is missing. | |||
| Dr. Terri-Karelle Reid: Personal Branding, Event Hosting & Personal Life - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 24 May 2023 | 02:02:08 | |
Dr. Terri-Karelle Reid is an award-winning media specialist who has mastered the art of communication, online branding and storytelling. She is also the author of 'My Brand Compass: The 13Cs To Building Your Personal Brand'. | |||
| Darnel Francois: Founder Insights, Draper Startup House, AI & Job Security - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 24 May 2023 | 02:12:30 | |
In this video, Darnel from Trinidad, Co-Founder & CEO of Draper Startup House Caricom, talks about the challenges businesses face in the Caribbean region and how to market a global brand locally. He shares his experience as a founder and gives insights into the Caribbean startup ecosystem. | |||
| Kesann Walrond-McClean: Google, Coding Tips, and Problem Solving - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:09:07 | |
In this episode, Kesann shares his framework for problem-solving, coding tips, and how he cracked an interview at Google. He is originally from Barbados and is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Google and also worked at amazon as Intern and Software Engineer. | |||
| Dion Paul: Electronics Engineering, Agriculture, Importance of Nature - Caribbean Tech Pioneers | 22 May 2023 | 01:30:07 | |
Dion Paul is originally from Trinidad and Tobago and is currently a Program Manager at Google where he has had a strong career there for the past 7 years working as a Solutions Consultant and IT Resident. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. | |||