“Finding Your Atom” is the new podcast series by Amrita Sen, artist, designer, and producer, and Dinis Guarda, author, and founder of citiesabc and openbusinesscouncil. Today’s guest is Leadership coach, Author of ‘The Way. Finding Peace in Turbulent Times’ Katey Lockwood.

Amrita Sen and Dinis Guarda come together again, after the success of their previous podcast series “Music For” with another concept of recognising unique identifiers, and motivating the audiences with an increased mindfulness and self-awareness. The podcast is available on Dinis Guarda YouTube channel, and major podcast directories.

The presenters of the podcast are adept with the knowledge of meditation fundamentals, and consequently emphasise on negating the cacophony of the thoughts in our lives, focussing our energies on the relevant one. Thus, “Finding Your Atom” could be a unique opportunity to glue yourself with your own personality.

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Amrita Sen And Dinis Guarda Create Mindfulness And Rediscover Self At “Finding Your Atom” Podcast

About Katey Lockwood

Katey Lockwood was born and educated in the UK and began her career in media where she worked on the Harry Potter franchise and special effects team.

She studied NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) with Richard Bandler and The Kabbalah for a further 5 years. She then went on to study philosophy at the LSE. During the past decade, she has analyzed and studied many philosophical and metaphysical principles, including the Universal Laws and The Hermetica and is also well versed in spiritual practices, including meditation.

Her knowledge of cognitive psychology, EQ assessing, clinical hypnotherapy, philosophy and spirituality has enabled Katey to coach and teach, guide and mentor at the highest level. Her list of clients includes business executives, celebrities and high-profile sportspeople as well as those needing help and support in finding a more effective and happier way of conducting their life. Katey also does voluntary work coaching members of the public and friends. She has participated in and led podcasts, workshops, discussions and courses on many subjects including stress management, life skills and personal transformation.

Katey was a Trustee of the Katie Piper Foundation, whose vision is to have a world where scars do not limit a person’s function, social inclusion, or sense of well-being. Katey worked extensively with Katie Piper herself.

The Way – Finding Peace in Turbulent Times is Katey’s first book co-authored with Vernon Sankey. The Way Course is their second venture as co-authors. They are both co-founders of ImproveMyWorld.com.

www.ImproveMyWorld.com.

https://www.amazon.com/WAY-Finding-Peace-Turbulent-Times/dp/1999597230

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/katey-lockwood-ba20a5170

About Amrita Sen

Originally from India, Amrita Sen is a US-based designer, singer, producer and business woman of Indian-themed products and entertainment for global markets. Amrita Sen combines the creation of original artistic content with extensive business experience to commercialize unique products at retail and on-the-air.

Among her many achievements, Amrita performed at the 2009’s Academy Awards with music legend AR Rahman, singing Jai Ho from the Oscar-winning movie, Slumdog Millionaire. As an entrepreneur, Amrita creates original Indian-themed art on successful lines of fashion and home products and distributes it through her own personal brand, Amrita Sen Designs.

More about Amrita Sen

Read The Book: https://issuu.com/bollydoll/docs/awak…

Listen To Amrita’s Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/21n4V…

https://www.amritasen.com/

https://www.amritasen.com/music/

About Dinis Guarda

Dinis Guarda is an author, academic, influencer, serial entrepreneur and leader in 4IR, AI, Fintech, digital transformation and Blockchain. With over two decades of experience in international business, C level positions and digital transformation, Dinis has worked with new tech, cryptocurrencies, drive ICOs, regulation, compliance, legal international processes, and has created a bank, and been involved in the inception of some of the top 100 digital currencies.

Dinis has created various companies such as Ztudium tech platform a digital and blockchain startup that created the software Blockimpact (sold to Glance Technologies Inc) and founder and publisher of intelligenthq.com, hedgethink.com, fashionabc.org and tradersdna.com. Dinis is also the co-founder of techabc and citiesabc, a digital transformation platform to empower, guide and index cities through 4IR based technologies like blockchain, AI, IoT, etc.

As an author, Dinis Guarda published the book 4IR: AI, Blockchain, FinTech, IoT, Reinventing a Nation in 2019, among others. His upcoming book, titled 4IR Magna Carta Cities ABC: A tech AI blockchain 4IR Smart Cities Data Research Charter of Liberties for our humanity is due to be published in 2020.

He is ranked as one of the most influential people in Blockchain in the world by Right Relevance as well as being listed in Cointelegraph’s Top People In Blockchain and Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100. He was also listed as one of the 100 B2B Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow in 2020 by Thinkers360.

About citiesabc.com

https://www.citiesabc.com/​​​​​​​​​​​

https://twitter.com/citiesabc__​​​​​​

About openbusinesscouncil.org

https://www.openbusinesscouncil.org/

Dinis Guarda’s 4IR: AI, Blockchain, Fintech, IoT – Reinventing a Nation https://www.4irbook.com/

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Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.

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The labor force is turning remote. The Financial Times just reported on the large effect that outbreaks such as the Coronavirus have on labor forces across the world. Everyday we are designing tools that redefine the workplace. It’s become more commonplace to see a team of employees spread out across different time zones. According to an article by Inc., 63% of companies now have remote workers.

Workers worldwide are accessing and sharing sensitive information across places such as Slack, Chanty, and SafesForce. Trying to understand when and where workers remotely are accessing key information is a task companies that to address in order to best attack cybersecurity issues.

In an iPass Survey, 2018 Mobile Security Report, there had been breaches at about 52% of companies.The CIOs of these companies believed these hacks to have occurred within the past year. Most breaches are believed to have occurred as a result of compromised wifis at places like cafes and  coffee shops.

We sat down with tech CEO and Founder of jsDelivr, Dmitriy Akulov, to answer some questions addressing some of the biggest problems companies that are hiring remotely are facing on the security front.

Akulov, is a tech innovator and entrepreneur, that is the leading force behind some of the largest names in the tech world including: PerfOps, jsDelivr, and Prospect One. Companies that use jsDelivr include Target, Business Insider, Citi, NBC, NewYorker, Texas.gov, NYC.gov, Toyota, NBA, National Geographic, amongst many others.

Q: What are some of the risks associated with having a remote company?

There are hundreds of risks that come with having employees across the world. Companies with remote workers have a multitude of issues to tackle. These companies have to share sensitive information across platforms that may put a company at extra risk.

I find that a lot of executives are thinking about software problems with a lot of times the issue is locality. Remote workers also put companies at great risk with things like coworking spaces and cafes. Connected and shared servers and network connections can be troublesome for companies. Phishing emails and the use of personal devices for work are also things you have to consider.

Q: How do you think the remote trend will change the cloud game?

The remote work trend will push cloud development to new limits. Every day new platforms and cloud-based service providers are being developed to try and answer problems that arise with the newfound conventionality of remote work.

It’s exciting times for tech and the digital workforce.

Q: What steps do companies need to take to ensure cloud security? How is this different in a remote company?

Keeping a company secure is always hard but it is much easier when your workers are on-site. Having your workers in one location gives you full control over the hardware and the network your employees are using. But there are things that can be put in place to prevent breaches:

Companies need to train their employees well. This ensures that remote employees understand the risks around them giving them the knowledge to make better choices. Companies need to focus on establishing policies forcing encryption and strong passwords.

Invest in better tools. Create a list of company approved services and platforms that all remote workers can use. The more control you have over where your content is being uploaded the more you can focus on addressing cyber issues in that specific platform.

SSO and multi-factor authentication are crucial. Requiring additional identifications and verifications allows companies to have better control over who is accessing what information and when.

VPN connections are a must nowadays. Even for employees working exclusively from home and using private wifi, VPNS are an added layer of security that can prevent the use of any information that has been accessed by a breach.

Q: What advice can you provide a company thinking of going remote about their Cloud security?

Always prepare for the worst and have protocols in place for every single thing that can go wrong. The first way and one of the key ways to prevent security breaches comes from educating your employees.

But, regardless you must always be prepared for the worst and have protocols in place for every single thing that can go wrong. Poor security understanding by employees, people dropping communication, people changing jobs without notice. These are all things you have to consider as you think of a predefined system to enforce your privacy policies globally.

Q: Anything else you’d like to highlight?

Remote companies are hard to organize and run, and it becomes exponentially harder the more people you add on to the team. On top of figuring out how to run a super complicated system of workers across different time zones, executives of these companies have to tackle mammoth issues such as security. Sure, there are a ton of risks but overall the beauty in running a remote team successfully is that your talent doesn’t have to be limited by location, geography, or zip codes. You can put together the best team, give them the proper tools, set up the appropriate channels, and let them focus on the end result.

Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.

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Matt Haworth, gadget enthusiast and co-founder of Reason Digital, a tech social enterprise, discusses how he created a business with a mission to use digital to do good and work exclusively on projects that ‘have a positive social impact on people and change lives for the better.’

Values

“We’re maybe not what you think of when you picture tech entrepreneurship. We’re driven by very different goals. For a typical entrepreneur in tech, all too often users are monetised and mined for value – be that for their data, their attention spans or their voting preferences. For us, users are the people we want to work with to find innovative ways to improve their lives.”

“We don’t support charities through a CSR arm of our company, instead our whole mission is around helping the causes that charities fight for, making a real difference to society. By harnessing digital for good, we’ve helped to raise tens of millions of pounds for charities.” he says.

Haworth co-founded Reason ten years ago when he was just 20, with a desire to partner with charities and pro-social organisations, helping them use the power of technology to improve the lives of their service users.

“We have made a real difference to society by working on projects to reduce the stigma of HIV, protect sex workers from abuse, support children and young people with cancer and assist people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction,” he continues.

Mission driven business

The organisation now employs 45 people and has a turnover of £2m. Unlike the average tech director who pay themselves 40 times more than the most junior members of staff, Matt earns the lowest salary of all full-time employees. Reason is less about the short-term value to shareholders and investors and instead focuses on doing what’s right and offering long-term life solutions to service users. This means profits are reinvested to fund new innovations for good.

Impact Reporting – the CSR reporting tool is one example of the result of this reinvestment. Now valued at £2 million, this tool can be used by any organisation to track, record and report on environmental and social sustainability, engaging employees in taking ownership of their impact and contribution to the organisation as a whole. It is now being used by The University of Manchester and DWF as well as housing providers like Places for People and One Manchester.

Similarly, Matt worked with other partners to invest profits into ‘Gone for Good’, an app that allows people to upload photos of their furniture, or unwanted goods to then be collected for charity shops. This is now a standalone business, with charity partners including British Heart Foundation, Oxfam and Barnados which has raised over £1m-worth of extra donations for charity.

Setting up the social enterprise

“As a teenager I found solace in online communities through some pretty difficult times, which illustrated to me the potential power of technology to help people.” says Matt. “I want to show that you can have a successful business that puts the good of society at the core. We can change lives by doing the job we love doing, which more than compensates for knowing we’ll never be rich.”

He and co-founder, Ed Cox, met while working at The University of Manchester and realised they had the same ambition – to use their tech skills to make a difference. After much discussion, Ed and Matt set about working with pro-social clients and partnering with charities, housing associations and not-for-profit companies. At this point, they didn’t realise this could translate into a separate, pioneering organisation, which would eventually become nationally recognised. Matt says: “Ed and I set out trying to develop careers which focused on using tech for good. Our vision has now expanded and we’re able to offer 45 people the chance to work towards the same goal.”

Partnering with charities

“I believe in tech as a force for good and we show its potential every day, from supporting parents and carers of very sick children to cope and manage with everyday life, to using artificial intelligence to allow one charity support worker to provide help to hundreds of thousands of people.”

Working with leading third-sector organisations Reason has developed outstanding tech solutions to potentially life-threatening situations. For example, they partnered with National Ugly Mugs, an organisation helping sex workers access protection and justice, to develop SafetyNets. This app was built to discreetly protect the lives of sex workers from potentially dangerous customers. It focused on empowering users to share time-critical safety alerts with others nearby, using their smartphones.

Reason partners with charity leaders to build innovative solutions to address challenges. Over the last decade the team has worked with hundreds of charities to provide insight into long term issues in the sector. A problem most charities have is not having enough staff to support the amount of service users. Reason recognised most charities can’t upscale recruitment and began looking into how technology could help.

In collaboration with Parkinson’s UK, Reason built CHAP (Charity Health Assistant Project), an online assistant powered by machine learning, which offers service users personalised practical and emotional support, at every stage, from treatment to rehab. The tech was inspired by start-ups that were using AI to cheaply provide more customers with tailored personal shopping advice.

Matt says: “We thought it was more important that people with Parkinson’s got the right support when needed, rather than online shoppers being assisted to select the perfect pair of chinos for their look.”

However, innovation in tech is not the only focus for the team at Reason. Unique collaborations between charities and digital organisations is something Matt is keen to encourage. He made the decision to engage a group of health charities to financially partner on CHAP, allowing them to apply this tech to their own advice services.

Julie Dodd, director of digital transformation and communication at Parkinson’s UK, said:

“CHAP is designed to be a fully automated and bespoke system. It will work out, from the responses that individual users give, the most common challenges. This could be ground-breaking for service users as this type of technology is usually used for more commercial means, whereas we have a real opportunity to make a difference to people with Parkinson’s by using it in this space.

“I wanted to collaborate with Reason and other charities to support this because it means they can use their unique expertise to build the most valuable service for their users. Charities can bring so much to the table in terms of understanding needs and support required, we need to be open and confident in partnering with digital experts.”

Research and innovation

The organisation is recognised as a leader in the social tech space. Its numerous accolades demonstrate this and range from being Matt being named as Digital Entrepreneur of the Year at the Digital Entrepreneur Awards, to being chosen as one of ‘100 Faces of a Vibrant Economy’ by Grant Thornton UK LLP. This acknowledgement of excellence often provides opportunities to be involved in sector leading networks and initiatives.

Nurture Network – a £8m network funded by UK Research and Innovation, a new research body, which was established by psychologists and doctors – approached Reason to help research the impact the digital world is having on children’s mental health. The working group, which also includes the NSPCC, Instagram, Disney, Barnardo’s, Save The Children and BBC Children, is looking at the indicators that predict the emergence of mental health conditions and ways to help children and families benefit from mental health research.

Empowering the next generation

“We want to act as a beacon for the next generation – to show them you can be a tech pioneer and change lives in an ethical and meaningful way. You don’t have to set up a venture capital-backed app that mistreats people’s data or uses immoral advertising practices to be successful in tech. Young people understand the shortcomings of tech because they’ve lived it and its impacted on their own mental health. It’s vital that we can offer an alternative route for young people to take offering them the opportunity to see digital as an inclusive, diverse and exciting solution for problems in society.”

The future

“I started Reason and working in the tech for good sector because I couldn’t motivate myself to use tech, to make some rich guy, a little bit richer. But my ambitions have since grown and I see the impact its having and the future potential. Now I’m driven by wanting to leave a legacy. I want to provide a platform for as many talented people as possible, to channel their skills towards more meaningful ends. I want to show that being a tech entrepreneur and caring about the world you and I live in shouldn’t be in opposition.”

Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.

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UK business leaders are abandoning long-term strategy and development, with time being directed towards managing their day-to-day workload, according to new research.

Hampered by time “wasted” on admin, Priority Software found that if time-strapped business leaders had more hours in the day, they would spend them on:

• Strategy and planning (30 per cent)
• Growing the business (28 per cent)
• Personal development and self-training (28 per cent)

Instead, more than half of senior decision makers in the UK are wasting the equivalent of a working month on administrative tasks, while 50 per cent of C-Suite executives are spending over a quarter of the working week in meetings.

Lunch breaks are a rare occurrence with almost a third of senior decision makers stepping away from the desk less than once a week.

Working through lunch, combined with wasting time on inefficient tasks, points to poor time management, and can result in an unhappy and inefficient workforce.

“If business leaders are wasting this much time on admin, it’s fair to say this problem will run right through the organisation,” said Andres Richter, CEO of Priority Software. “The concern from our findings is that because of this, managers are not spending enough time on long term planning and strategy.  

“Business leaders should conduct an audit of where they’re spending their time to build an honest picture of where improvements could be made. Whether it’s deploying collaboration tools, transferring core functions into the cloud for real time progress reports or simply appraising wellbeing culture, this will put firms in a stronger position when weathering an unpredictable economic climate.”

The state of business mobility survey targeted 650 senior decision-makers in UK businesses using an online survey. The study, conducted by Atomik Research, analysed the perceived productivity of participants and their businesses. Respondents’ insights were further broken down based on demographic qualifiers, location, age, job level and sector. Priority Software completed this study to help businesses gain a better understanding of the challenges to maximising productivity in the workplace.

Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.

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