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Where would your business be in 10 years time? How about 5 years from now? Or even tomorrow? Chances are, you’re already in the age of a digital business. Tech Talk is the programme that gives you access to the minds that are shaping the world of tomorrow. Hear from global and regional experts and a...
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MSP340. The Reality Remix: AI’s Amazon Moment
Spongebob for President. As our social media feeds fill with the examples of OpenAI’s experiment in synthetic cinema, the quite shocking Sora 2 text t...
Malaysia's MarTech Machine
Now, marketing used to be about clever slogans and good lighting. These days, it’s about data pipelines, consent forms, and algorithms that know you’r...
MSP339 Weird Science. Hard Work: Babies, Bank Cards & Body Art
Is the existential threat of the office cubicle replacing traditional horror movie fixations like zombies and monsters? As workplace horror sweeps the...
Has Illegal Streaming Gotten Out Of Hand?
Cybersecurity conversations often focuses on phishing, ransomware, and data breaches, but a less obvious threat is growing into households through ill...
Why Deep Tech Could Be Malaysia’s Next Big Play
When we talk about startups in Malaysia, we usually think of e-commerce, fintech, or SaaS. But deep tech and AI startups are a different story and qui...
MSP338 Buying Time: The Price Of Immortality
Can money buy you time? If breakthroughs in epigenetics continue, the only thing between you and a lifespan of 150 years might be the ability to pay f...
When Cyber Recovery Becomes Leadership’s Job
Kavitha Mariappan has spent her career helping organisations navigate technology shifts, from driving customer transformation at Zscaler to her curren...
MSP337. Reality Sandwich: Has The Internet Turned To Slop?
From uncanny valleys to Big Willie style, Rich and Matt leave no metaphorical stone unturned as they pour a hefty bucket of AI slop over themselves.
Wasted Power, Big Ideas
John Belizaire has gone from architecting systems at Intel to selling two tech companies and now building data centres powered by renewable energy tha...
Can Malaysia Scale Industrial AI?
Over the past few years, industrial AI has moved from boardroom buzzword to factory floor reality. It’s now being deployed to streamline operations, c...
MSP336. Slop, Scams and Strikes: Halfway to Hail
On this oddly timed edition, Matt and Rich hike into the uncanny valleys of machine music. From the Laurel Canyon folk rockers that never existed, to...
Hackathons and the Future of Youth Employment
Malaysia is producing more tech graduates than ever, yet many still struggle to land the right jobs. Hackathons are changing that — evolving from codi...
MSP335. AI Ate My Intern: The Talent Search For Empathy
Like a hungry Pac-Man after too many power ups, AI is coming for the career ladder itself. The grunt work is gone, replaced by break-free LLMs, while...
The Digital Gap: Why Malaysian Enterprises Are Stuck In The Middle
AI is reshaping industries worldwide, but Malaysia’s digital journey has its own challenges and opportunities. We speak with Prateek Pashine, Chief En...
MSP334. The Big Sleep: Business at Bedtime
Decades of mid-morning mania, questionable (sleep) hygiene and an anesthetist’s worst nightmare, Matt Armitage is the closest thing to being professio...
Should We Trust AI Before We Buy?
AI isn’t just helping us shop anymore—it’s starting to decide how we shop. In Southeast Asia, and especially in Malaysia, consumers are embracing AI b...
MSP333. Uber for Snake Oil
The brain worms might be slowing him down this week, but Matt Armitage is no stranger to parasites. This week we’re back inside the world of startups,...
Tackling Online Harm, One Case at a Time
Online safety has always been a concern, but in a world increasingly shaped by AI, scams, and digital manipulation, it’s become a critical public issu...
MSP332. Florida Man, Robo Bunnies And The Cure For Cancer
This week’s episode might sound like a Flaming Lips album title but robot bunnies really are fighting Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades. With...
Built to Protect: CelcomDigi’s Scalable Cybersecurity for Every Business
In this episode of Tech Talk, we dive into how CelcomDigi is helping businesses strengthen their cybersecurity posture in an increasingly complex digi...
MSP331. Weird Science: Coldplay, Coal And Data Hygiene
An awkward clinch on a jumbotron is an odd place for Matt and Rich to start their thoughts, but, in 2025, the world of tech is a strange place to be.<...
How SapiensAI Is Rethinking Work Tools
As Singapore rolls out its National AI Strategy 2.0, the region is signaling a strong focus on AI as part of its economic and digital future. SapiensA...
MSP330. If It Ain’t Grok, Don’t Fix It
Grok. It’s the best AI out there.* If you want a crash course in what AI should and shouldn’t be, Grok is the model to head for. At least that’s the o...
Using AI to Analyse Gut Microbiome to Help Everyone
When it comes to health tech, most of us think gadgets, not gut bacteria. But what if the future of medicine isn’t wearable, it’s microbial?
MSP329 Spin Cycle: The Machine Intelligence Unicorn With A Human Heart
We’re no strangers to flights of fantasy here. So, it makes a change to be explaining scams rather than apologizing for them. Or so Matt keeps telling...
Broken Browsers: Is Your Extension Secretly Spying on You?
They promise to check your grammar and boost your productivity, but are your browser extensions a hidden backdoor for data theft? A recent wave of att...
Can Fintechs Fix Finance Without Fixing the Banks?
Malaysia’s fintech scene is booming on the surface, but underneath, many startups are still stuck at the MVP stage, blocked by legacy systems, fragmen...
Can Fintechs Fix Finance Without Fixing the Banks?
Malaysia’s fintech scene is booming on the surface, but underneath, many startups are still stuck at the MVP stage, blocked by legacy systems, fragmen...
How to Spot Real Agentic AI (And Avoid the Hype)
We’re talking about a term that’s been making its way into boardrooms and vendor pitches alike: Agentic AI. It’s being positioned as the next leap for...
MSP328. Weird Science: Beyond The Airgap
If you are fluent in Windows 95, if you can transfer files to and from a floppy disk, if you can write notes on paper, there may be exciting career op...
The ESG Reality Check: Data, Action, and Accountability
Environmental, Social, and Governance, or ESG, gets thrown around a lot. But for many businesses, it still feels confusing, costly, and out of reach....
MSP327. AI And The Cost Of Ignorance
As Apple quietly pivots from AI to UI, and a lawsuit from Reddit challenges the do no harm credentials of ethical AI developer Anthropic, Rich Bradbur...
Should Businesses Treat Data Like Any Other Assets?
What does it really take to build cyber resilience in a world where the threats are smarter, faster, and evolving in real time? We speak with Dr Craig...
MSP326. The Pink Past Of The Electric Car
A little over 100 years ago electric vehicles were everywhere. They outsold petrol machines, were faster, cleaner and more reliable. And then, in the...
Can AI Tools Really Stop Online Scams?
Microsoft’s Cyber Signals report suggests that the company blocks about 1.6 million bot signup attempts per hour, and has already stopped over $4 bill...
MSP325. Rung Out_Repairing The Career Ladder
Cool don’t pay the bills. Unless you’re Richard Bradbury and Matt Armitage. After slapping themselves on the back for tapping into a Gen X zeitgeist t...
The Future Of Market Research, Here and Now
In today’s episode, we explore the evolving role of market research to see what happens when artificial intelligence intersects with human insight. Wi...
MSP324. Chatsplained. An Unsustainable Model?
We live in a world of digital rent where FOMO about the latest IAP, streaming service or text-to-video generation tool is already creating a constant...
Leading Through the AI Hype
Everyone’s talking about AI, but few are talking about how to lead through it. We speak with Joe Atkinson, the newly appointed Global Chief AI Officer...
MSP323. The Sandwich Generation. The Curse of Gen X
Every generation has its thing. Artisan toast. Screaming for the manager. Existential crises in the organic food aisle. For Gen X it’s simpler. The wo...