The Brave Technologist
by Brave Software
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How Nevada Runs Its Government Like a Technology Company
How Nevada Runs Its Government Like a Technology Company
About this podcast
Technology is reshaping society—but how are users included in the conversation?
The Brave Technologist explores how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and Web3 are influencing our lives, our choices, and our collective future.
Unlike many tech podcasts that focus on hype and disruption, this show puts users at the center of the conversation. Each episode features thoughtful discussions with technologists working to ensure that innovation serves the public interest. How are these tools impacting users? And how can we ensure that technology is developed with transparency, accountability, and the public good in mind?
We're going deep with founders, builders, policy makers and researchers to explore the worlds of privacy, AI, crypto, digital rights, algorithmic accountability, and everywhere else where cutting edge technology impacts our daily lives.
Episodes
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- How Nevada Runs Its Government Like a Technology Company · 23 minCisco Aguilar, Nevada's Secretary of State, shares what it's like to run a government office with the discipline of a technology company, and discusses how that mindset led…
- Novo Nordisk: The Risks of Over-Governing AI · 20 minMargi Sheth, Head of AI Governance & Enablement at Novo Nordisk, shares what it takes to build AI governance inside one of the most heavily regulated industries in the world. She…
- Why US Crypto Needs Laws, Not Just Friendly Regulators · 27 minCody Carbone, CEO of The Digital Chamber, shares what the digital asset industry has been fighting for in Washington, and explains why clear, durable legislation is the only…
- Building Zcash to Last a Hundred Years · 38 minMark Henderson, Engineering Manager at Shielded Labs, shares what it looks like to build privacy infrastructure on a hundred-year time horizon. He also breaks down two of…
- The Barista Knows Your Salary: The Hidden Cost of On-Chain Payments · 36 min · Season 8Howard Wu, CEO of Provable and Shield Wallet, makes the case that full, on-chain transparency was never a design principle—it was a limitation that mainstream finance cannot…
- The Fund Structure That Could Replace the ETF · 28 minJuan Leon, Senior Investment Strategist at Bitwise Asset Management, returns to the show to share how much the convergence of traditional finance and on-chain infrastructure has…
- Why Meta Threw Out the Interviewing Playbook · 24 min · Season 8Danit Nativ Navon, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Meta, unpacks how the company became the first major tech firm to build AI-enabled coding interviews. She breaks down…
- How a Solana NFT Project Landed on Amazon Prime · 41 minAndrew Pelekis (CEO of HEEBOO) and Nicholas Cabana (Co-Founder of Claynosaurz and Chief Creative Officer at HEEBOO), break down how a Solana-based digital collectibles brand and…
- Beyond the Yield: What Staking Is Really About · 24 minDavid Kinitsky, Chief Corporate Development Officer at Everstake, shares what distinguishes this cycle of enterprise crypto adoption from every previous one, and why the shift…
- Why Non-Dollar Stablecoins Might Strengthen the Dollar · 34 minNavin Vethanayagam, Chief Brain of IQ and Co-founder of KRWQ, unpacks his "Stablewoods" theory: why non-dollar stablecoins like KRWQ, the first Korean won stablecoin, may end up…
- What Binance.US Is Betting on Next in American Crypto · 20 minSteve Gregory, CEO of Binance.US, shares what it actually takes to bring a compliant crypto exchange product to market in the US. He explains how his background as a compliance…
- The Enterprise AI Mistake Most Companies Will Regret · 25 minJoel McKelvey, VP of Product Marketing at Glean, shares why the enterprises winning with AI right now aren't the ones chasing the latest model—they're the ones who got their…
- Why Most Enterprise AI Projects Never Make It to Scale · 22 minNatalia Konstantinova, Lead Enterprise Architect in AI at Natwest, shares why most enterprise AI projects don't fail because of the technology, they fail because organizations…
- The Global Fight for Free Speech Starts With a Hamster · 41 minPreston Byrne, Tech & Free Speech Lawyer at Byrne & Storm, P.C., shares how a small American imageboard became the first test case for whether foreign governments can legally…
- How to Know When Personalization Becomes Creepy (AI Summit LDN) · 22 minDr. Mohsen Ghasempour, Chief AI Officer at Kingfisher, unpacks why the most dangerous thing a company can do with customer data is use all of it. He explains how a global…
- What Counter-Terrorism Taught the NFL About Cyber Risk · 19 minKam Karaji, Director of Cyber Security & Risk Management at the NFL, shares what 13 years in counter-terrorism and criminal intelligence taught him about protecting high-stakes…
- How a 200-Year-Old Bank Deploys AI Agents · 27 minAndy McMahon, Principal AI Engineer at Barclays, shares how a 200-year-old bank is deploying autonomous agents inside one of the most heavily regulated environments in the world…
- LIVE FROM THE AI SUMMIT LDN: Inside Sony AI's Bet on Open Research · 23 minFred Gifford, Strategy Lead and Sr. Product Manager at Sony AI, shares how his team is building knowledge graphs from academic literature to predict new biomedical relationships…
- Pandora: How Much Freedom Should a Shopping Agent Have? (AI Summit LDN) · 22 minRiccardo Arnaldi, Agentic AI Product Manager at Pandora, shares what it actually looks like to build and scale a brand-facing LLM shopping agent live with millions of customers…
- AI Is Now Buying Cars and Negotiating Better Than You · 30 min · Season 8Zach Shefska, Founder & CEO of CarEdge, shares how he and his father (a 43-year auto industry veteran) turned a broken, opaque car buying process into a transparency-first…
