First Name Basis

TribalScale Chief of Staff, Heather Page, is joined by Michelle Abbs, Founder and CEO of Web3 Equity—aimed at providing education & empowerment to achieve gender equity in Web3. Tune in to this week's episode to learn more about skill building for allies in the community, accessibility challenges that women face, and the Web3 community in Miami. All this and more on this episode of #FirstNameBasis!0:30—Michelle's journey & Web3 Equity's mission.3:45—What inspired the goal of gender equity in Web3 specifically.5:45—Feedback from allies in Web3 and what skills they need to work on.8:30—Accessibility challenges of Web3.10:05—The potential for Web3 to make space for women.12:15—How Web3 Equity provides education, empowerment & engagement to deliver on its mission.15:20—The Tuttle Tribe NFT collection as a tribute to Julia Tuttle, the woman who founded Miami.17:20—The significance of Miami to Web3 Equity and the Web3 community.20:20—Community building approaches in Miami.22:50—The future of Web3 Equity.

TribalScale CEO, Sheetal Jaitly, is joined by Jenna Pilgrim, CEO of Rite Network— NFT licensing platform. Tune in to this week's episode to learn more about Jenna's journey from blockchain to starting Rite Network, how the Bear Market is inspiring the rise of Web3 and NFTs, and other market insights. All this and more on this episode of #FirstNameBasis! Jenna's Journey - 0:45Blockchain - 3:14The Start of Jenna's Career - 5:38What Rite Network does - 8:48Web3 Market Downfall Insights - 11:15Jenna's insights on emerging concepts from Web3 - 16:40Access to Web3 for the “average person” - 19:25Influencers of the NFT Community - 22:46The Utility of NFTs / VIP experience  - 24:12NFT Loyalty - 26:18 Predictions on Bitcoin - 28:17Institutional funding trends - 29:36Sheetal's predictions on institutional funds - 31:35How Enterprises should step up - 32:54Jenna's move to Miami - 34:56

TribalScale VP of Product/Design, Krys Krycinski, is joined by Steven R. Smith, President at AccuWeather—weather forecasting pioneer. Tune in to this week's episode to learn more about how AccuWeather is infusing technology with weather, their path to building digital experiences, and the impact of climate change. All this and more on this episode of First Name Basis!Steve's Role at AccuWeather - 0:44 Insights on AccuWeather's roots - 2:18 How technology has impacted the company - 5:50 Factors that weigh in on decision making from a product and technology stand point - 10:37 Technology available to create safety - 13:15 Path to building digital experiences - 14:33 Data examples that depend on AccuWeather results - 17:30 Customer examples that depend on AccuWeather data - 18:53 Steve's predictions for AccuWeather's big opportunities and innovations for the future - 21:22 Climate change - 27:12

This week TribalScale CEO, Sheetal Jaitly, is joined by our Chief of Staff, Heather Page. Tune in to learn more about the Chief of Staff role, Heather's experience working alongside Sheetal and the leadership team, and the challenges she's overcome. All this and more on this episode of First Name Basis! Heather's journey to becoming Chief of Staff at TribalScale—1:10The need for a Chief of Staff at TribalScale—5:00Chief of Staff building trust with leadership team—6:35How the CEO and Chief of Staff work together—8:35Trusting your Chief of Staff—9:25Connecting with other employees outside of the leadership team—12:20Heather's definition of the Chief of Staff role—15:35How Heather structures her day—17:25What personality traits would Heather look for in her replacement—20:00Challenges Heather faced in the role—22:40Next steps for Heather—26:45TribalScale's framework and values contributing to Heather's role—28:30Heather's advice for founders and anyone interested in the Chief of Staff role—30:45

This week TribalScale CEO, Sheetal Jaitly, is continuing the conversation with Jodi Kovitz, Chief Growth Officer at Vetster—the leading veterinary telehealth platform. Tune in to part two of this series to learn more about Vetster as an employee benefit, Jodi's approach to the CGO position, patience and compartmentalizing with growth efforts. All this and more on this episode of First Name Basis! Vetster's vision and what inspired the platform—0:35Vetster as an inclusive employee benefit—2:44Vetster's product roadmap and what they have planned for the future—7:25Government regulations and pet medication—9:15Getting to know Jodi better—12:35Jodi's approach to the Chief Growth Officer position—15:20Mistakes people make in growth positions—19:05

This week TribalScale CEO, Sheetal Jaitly, is joined by Jodi Kovitz, Chief Growth Officer at Vetster—the leading veterinary telehealth platform. Tune in to part one of this series to learn more about building meaningful business relationships, Jodi's entrepreneurial journey, and the intersectional equity landscape in tech. All this and more on this episode of First Name Basis! What shaped Jodi's character - 0:30Building meaningful business relationships through passion and trust - 5:10Jodi's inspiration behind Move the Dial and entrepreneurial journey - 8:43Intersectional equity landscape in tech - 13:50The Toronto tech movement and building a powerful ecosystem - 16:33

We're continuing the conversation for Mental Health Awareness Month with Host Heather Page and Monique Peats, Co-founder and Chief Clinical Director at Inward Strong. Tune in to the second part of this podcast series to learn about the importance of empathy, how to incorporate workplace wellness into company culture, and advice for entrepreneurs. All this and more on this episode of First Name Basis!  Why empathy is one of the most important skills to have as a leader - 0:38Steps companies can take to build workplace wellness into culture - 3:05 Remote culture - 8:20Advice for entrepreneurs - 14:40

For Mental Health Awareness Month, Host Heather Page is joined by Monique Peats, Co-founder and Chief Clinical Director at Inward Strong. Tune into this two part series and find out about Monique's Inward Strong entrepreneurial journey as well as how mental health relates to the COVID pandemic, leadership, and workplace wellness. All this and more on this episode of First Name Basis! Find out about Monique's entrepreneurial journey and Inward Strong—0:30 How the COVID pandemic relates to mental health services and awareness—9:10 Leadership's role in workplace wellness and investing in mental health—12:50 Learn more about the Inward Strong platform—16:25

For International Women's Day Leire Martin, Alice Mao & Bernadine Crisostomo from TribalScale's engineering team discuss their experiences navigating the world of tech as women. Find out how they help team members succeed, manage work-life balance and overcome imposter syndrome. All this and more on this episode of First Name Basis!

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by CEO of Drop, Derrick Fung, to talk about the Drop app, customer loyalty and navigating remote work. While this new remote world has seen the rise of new tech like crypto and NFTs, it has also created implications for gaining consumer trust and maintaining company culture. All this and more packed into this episode of First Name Basis!

This week TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Intuitive Branding Specialist Sunil Godse to talk about the power of intuition. Sunil takes us through his journey with intuition and how trusting his intuition changed his life. Want to crush your competition? Sunil dives into the three pillars that will help you overcome your competition and how they intertwine to make the right decisions. Plus, hear Sunil's insights into intuitive branding, the four types of intuition, living in the present moment, trusting your intuition. All this and more packed into an hour of this First Name Basis episode! 

This week we chat with two extraordinary kids from The Knowledge Society. They're not even finished high school and they're already planning on changing our world's future. From research on longevity to how VR will improve healthcare, to quantum computing and key takeaways for machine learning's next five years - this is a conversation you can't miss. Also, a 14-year old's tips for living longer! 

Everyone and their uncle are talking about NFTs. Non-Fungible Tokens, unique digital files such as audio clips or art pieces, have stirred up quite the frenzy in the cryptocurrency world, and tech innovators, creatives, and namely musicians are finding ways to take advantage of this spotlight. Lead vocalist & songwriter of Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace, Raine Maida, speaks with TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly about the platform S!NG, the company he's CPO of, and how NFTs  are re-creating that unique fan experience we held close in the days of live concerts. How are platforms like S!NG  protecting this new generation of creators as well as producing NFTs to their benefit? All this and more jammed packed into one half hour of First Name Basis! 

[Episode recorded in December 2020] TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Serial Technology Entrepreneur, Cofounder of Tinder, and Tech Investor & Adjunct Professor Dinesh Moorjani for an in-depth analysis of the non-linear path that led him to a path of chemical engineering to esteemed co-founder, investor, and CEO. The magic that created Tinder, sustainable technology within this changing landscape, what he’s keeping his eye on as an investor, and what specific characteristics make for the world’s top performing leaders. All this and more packed into this episode of First Name Basis!

This week TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by the CEO at Digital Theatre, Neelay Patel! The essential strategy of thought leadership and pro bono work in the early days of COVID-19, how Neelay's company survived when schools (his clients) were all closed, accessibility of learning materials for teachers and students, and running the world’s leading digital on-demand platform for the performing arts. Plus, from London and back, Neelay's story of entrepreneurship and engineering pre-internet, his work at The Economist, BBC, AOL, and more! 

Jeremiah Zinn has had an extensive and incredible run through some of the most ambitious e-commerce companies. Now Chief Product Officer at Freshly, he fills us in about his learnings at Viacom, conducting dog shopping research at Bark & Co., and how to understand your users - canines and humans alike. The secrets to success of lifestyle brands, the costs of ownership, and  what mindset to have to tackle the startup world. All this and more this week on First Name Basis with Sheetal Jaitly! 

It's been five years of TribalScale. Flipping through the pages of our history, it's hard to believe all the experiences we've amassed in what is a short amount of time. Epic highlights, immense expansion, humbling lows, and decisions that kept the boat afloat. In this short podcast, we hear from six leaders at TribalScale, across all departments, about their perspectives on TribalScale's successes and challenges, and at the end of the day, what is most important for leading a team in the competitive world of app development. Take an inside peek into our internal processes, discovery processes, business development, cadences, remote working, and the healthy friction that keeps us finding the right clients and the right team members. 

These days, it's all about retail and customer experience. TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly talks with Co-CEO of American Dream, Mark Ghermezian about the mega amusement park he helped launch this fall, after 23 years in the making. Part retail, part food, the indoor experience lies just outside Manhattan complete with indoor ski hill, water park, rollercoasters, and brand partnerships with Nickelodeon and DreamWorks to name a few.  Establishing a platform for retail is an amazing prospect, until the world shuts down just days before your grand opening. Now operating at 25% capacity, American Dream is still somehow moving forward. Mark talks about keeping his team motivated, opening the largest indoor amusement park right before COVID-19's second wave in the States, and adjusting digitally to make it work. Also - they talk about the obvious - the election that is still being determined, Sheetal's opinions on how we shouldn't be shocked at the razor edge results, and Mark's origin story launching Braze. All this week on First Name Basis!

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Mike Stern, CEO at Connected for a transparent conversation and swapping of industry expertise between two XtremeLabs alumni. "Go Fail Fast," is the classic line - and it's shaped through stories of doing just that. Where future does Mike urge enterprises to look for post-COVID-19? "Prioritize product and features beneficial not just for your end user but for your business, too. Among the toxic aspects of Facebook, there's still a commitment to evolving their mission statement to create more meaningful connections."Hear the key takeaways of tools, techniques, and methodologies between two CEO's, and what kind of company survives not only recessions, but ones that hit during a global health crisis.

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by the CMO of Cadillac, Melissa Grady! This day and age, there's so much to ask of someone in an industry like automotive: their COVID-19 era advertising strategy, how'd she get to wear she is now? Autonomous vehicles? What can we expect from America's luxury car brand we all know so well? It's all covered in this episode of First Name Basis! Melissa shares her epiphany when deciding to rent a aar and driving west without destination in mind, the importance of unplugging, her experience at Jaguar, Motorola and more.

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by CEO & Co-Founder of Feminuity, Dr. Sarah Saska for an incredibly in-depth, transparent, and eye-opening conversation about the glaring Diversity and Inclusion effort mis-steps and equity and equality injustices currently plaguing the tech scene globally.  "We need to call BS on Canadian tech sector for their diversity tout" Saska says. "There's still so much work to be done." From her explanation of taking an intersectional approach to problem solving, to how to view AI algorithms properly, to how tech companies are working rightly, and wrongly, to establish more diverse seats at their tables, this is our most illuminating and revealing episode yet. Feminuity partners with leading technology startups through to Fortune 500 companies to embed diversity, equity, and inclusion into their business.

Host Sheetal Jaitly, CEO, TribalScale is joined by Rory Capern. An industry titan in the Canadian Tech Space throughout the past two decades, Rory has advised and overseen the rapid growth of the early days of Google and Twitter in Canada, as well as been a part of teams at Microsoft, The Weather Network, Torstar, and Bell. So what makes the most dangerous sales person? Also, Rory tell us about his "random walk down Bay Street," innovation in early days, competing with Google and ending up working on the same side, and the four things to know to capture revenue in any industry space! 

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Director of Communications at OMERS Ventures, Jennifer Janson! How is a company built, and what are the key takeaways on how not  to build it? What's the strategy to communicating with journalists, to spreading your company's message across a specific medium? This episode grants us an insightful convo on how to inject purpose into your business, how to be "relentless" in your expectations, and how to utilize your core values. 

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Human Rights Activist, enterprise advisor, Exec Team Building Strategist, and change-maker Jay Rosenzweig. Humanitarian efforts, anti-racism initiatives that use tweeting, and how to get back on the horse when a COVID-19 economy knocks you off. Jay's journey to advocate, act, and encourage societal change comes from a place of passion to help others, and we get to hear all about how his law degree led to a career of advising people to live a better life, and improve the lives of others! 

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by fellow martini lover Helen Kontozopoulos, Co-Founder& CGO of ODAIA.ai. Artificial Intelligence is on everyone's minds lately - how can it help society as a whole? How can it help my company sell better, understand our clientele better? Helen breaks it down for us. ODAIA.ai helps companies understand their customers through the power and seemingly "magic" intelligence of the newly emerging AI world. From being a Computer Science prof at the University of Toronto to co-founding the idea of truly grasping and knowing the customer journey, Helen chats her story and those privacy issues that keep coming up, contact tracing, partnerships, and how the business of AI has only just begun to take the world by storm!  

Senior Product Designer Eman Faiz is joined by Bevinash Mohabeer,  Product Design Manager at TribalScale Dubai for this episode of First Name Basis! These two worked with one of the biggest shipping/cargo enterprises in the UAE for four months, and they share their learnings, challenges, and overall takeaways from a Design Transformation journey in Dubai. From marrying scrum with design work, internal processes, design thinking workshops, strategy, and the magic of post it notes and sharpies, in four months these two learned more about Design Strategy and processes than they could have imagined. With changing client requirements week by week, working with Engineers, testing, and facing doubts that turned into successful outcomes, we hear how a project that was not originally one became a transformation journey. 

TribalScale Design Manager Ailsa Blair is joined by Executive Creative Director of Grassriots Inc., and author of brand new book The Conscious Creative, Kelly Small! Beginning from their job in advertising and marketing for big box stores, Small noticed that ethically, there was a massive divide between what they knew was morally correct and what said companies they worked alongside were participating in. In this episode, they tell that story full of personal challenges, successes, and breakthroughs which led them to where they are now. This story also raises the discussion on ethical design, the responsibility of creatives putting stuff out into the world, and what they should  be doing to support communities and movements like Black Lives Matter, especially in 2020. An episode full of questions on inclusive design, the world "inclusive" itself, mental health, politics, morality, personal triumph, and of course, the book that outlines it all, it's one you simply cannot miss.  

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Senior Advisor to FinTech firms and Financial Institutions and personal friend, Peggy Van de Plassche! She climbed that difficult ladder to the top and has pages of indispensable advice  for anyone hoping to push change in their business, hire the right candidates, and be more diverse and inclusive in their hiring process. Her expansive portfolio advising multiple big companies has accumulated into great stories, and great takeaways for CEOs & CIOs of Financial Institutions. Transformation? Change? How do you make it happen? It's all right here on this episode of First Name Basis. 

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Scotiabank's VP of Digital Product Management, Katie Sokalsky and CEO of Dream Payments, Brent HoYoung.  With two FI industry experts, Sheetal gets to the bottom of a big Canadian bank's response to COVID-19, and how they dealt with distributing government relief funds in one week. Additionally, we learn the challenges of digital banking and connecting people to relief finances in the United States compared to Canada, and what Dream Payments is doing to solve those problems. Identity & data stewardship, relationships between banks and customers, a human-centric approach, digital transformation, and digital banking - hear their take on all of it and more.  Oh, and if you're in FI on a digital journey, what are the key takeaways, regardless of the size of your organization? Find out in this week's episode of First Name Basis. 

On this episode of First Name Basis we get absolutely schooled by teenagers. In his first podcast with the "kids" of The Knowledge Society (TKS) and Founder Navid Nathoo,  TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly learns what students Faith Inello & Jack Bodell are working on, and how they are undoubtably two minds to change the world. At 16 and 17 years old, Faith and Jack have mastered the "Boss Mentality" when starting their own businesses.  From seeking to alleviate mental suffering via nanotechnology to leveraging brain-computer interface tech into daily life, this is a conversation that left us speechless. What's the mindset to achieve anything you set your heart to? How do we expand our minds? How does one achieve all this before the ripe old age of 20? "Uncertainty is not risk" says Founder Navid Nathoo, and it's all about having that "Boss Mentality". Hear from the brightest young minds of our generation in this special feature of First Name Basis. 

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by fellow TribalScale Co-Founder Mitch Seguin. Now the Co-Founder and CPO/CTO of his startup company ChefsList in Berlin, Mitch has an incredible wealth of knowledge when it comes to launching and running a successful startup. He shares key pointers to the mindset one needs to have, how to communicate with clients, and why design sprints are a must-know in today's tech world. Plus, a complete breakdown of the COVID-19 response in Germany, and why they were able to not overrun their hospitals even with one of the highest case counts in the world. How TS started, key takeaways for working within product, and what tools to use mentally and physically in startup life - this is an episode you can't miss!

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Radar's CEO & Co-Founder, Nick Patrick for an in-depth conversation about location services and technology, ethical implications, how Radar's location gathering products have aided companies so far, and how they will improve business and safety in the future. Post COVID-19 contact tracing, data selling and protection, and how Radar is helping pave the way for a location-based tech future in our society are just a few topics on this week's episode of First Name Basis!

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Matt McGowan, Director and General Manager at Snap Inc. They chat all things SnapChat, busting myths about Gen Z, how we use Snapchat to communicate and why it's one of the most successful communicator apps right now. From earlier days at Google and Adestra to meeting Sheetal in Barcelona (are you noticing a trend of where Sheetal meets a lot of our podcast guests?) Matt has a rich history of experience in the software & mobile world. 

TribalScale's CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Dr. Daniel Pepe, Family Physician, London Lambeth Medical Clinic & Dr. Puneet Seth, President of InputHealth, for this influential and momentous episode. We're given the full lowdown on InputHealth's technology and mission to connect patient's to their healthcare system. From the idea's conception from a single tweet to this system being implemented across entire regional healthcare establishments in Ontario, Daniel & Seth are working not just on the frontlines during this COVID-19 Pandemic but behind the scenes, implementing a ground-breaking way to have physicians virtually assess patients, for patients to virtually monitor their symptoms, and all around, to completely revolutionize our healthcare system for the future. Learn about the 12,000 and counting people who have used InputHealth's online assessment tool, how they handle data privacy, and what really gives both doctors hope at a time like this.     

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Founding Partner of ENIAC Ventures, Nihal Mehta. From music startups to Barcelona's Ocean's 11 dinner,  from filing for bankruptcy to being known as "the human Rolodex" Nihal has decades of stories from the highest glory days of a startup, to the lowest lows, and as he says, these are often occurring within the same 24 hours. 

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Raj Singh, Co-Founder & CEO of Loop Team. Because of COVID-19, many companies have transformed their teams into being fully distributed. Time zones, equipment, communication, it all needs to be considered. Raj has been an expert on effective and competitive remote work before it was the popular choice.  From his adventures in mobile in the early 2000s to mastering the art of running a full distributed team, we get all the best insights in this episode of First Name Basis.

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by EVP of Technology & CTO at Bloomberg Industry Group Eric Schvimmer in this latest episode of First Name Basis. From his earlier days at the Washington Post and the Internet of Things to being an earlier adopter of Agile teams, Eric shares with us his advice on how to transform an Engineering team to have the ability to deploy in a revolutionary way. What is Bloomberg Government, what was it like in the early days of site engineering at AOL? What do we need to do to become Agile? All this and more.

On this latest episode, we join a roundtable of our entire Design Team to talk Design Strategy, Problem Solving, Design Thinking, and everything that leads down the path to an unbeatable product. UX/UI, art history and graphic novels, even dishing about what it's really  like to work alongside Engineers, it's all here. What role does Design play in creating the best products? How do we consider user experience in that process? What questions do we ask to solve the right problems? What does an Agile environment look like? From our Senior Product Designers and Design Manager, we get the perspective from design eyes. 

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Alfredo Tan, CDO of WestJet Airlines. Besides talking about The Last Dance and where they're going to have dinner once restaurants open back up, we get the inside scoop on what Alfredo is working on with his remote digital team on advancing and enhancing WestJet's digital presence to better handle what comes next for air travel. And what does come next for traveling post-COVID? Alfredo has some ideas. From AI to contact tracing to early days working for Facebook to his ironic fear of flying, Alfredo and Sheetal have a conversation for the books. 

TribalScale CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by personal friend Swan Sit, a well-known digital strategy expert with extensive experience in global and digital marketing. From her early days in the Dotcom boom to taking a team into a SARS hot zone to set up shop, the stories are countless. Estee Lauder, Revlon, Elizabeth Arden, Nike, it's all on her resume. We learn about the massive global strides of the campaigns she led, the places she's travelled, and the cultures she has experienced. From growing up as an Asian child in a Catholic school, to understanding the forces of assimilation, and eventually owning the fact that she never fit in, the lessons learned are ones you're going to need to write down. 

TribalScale's CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by RBC's Senior VP, Office of the CEO, John Stackhouse. What's Canada's financial outlook post COVID-19? What about real estate? How will we overcome deficits? We hear a message of mental health, of what businesses we need to protect, and why our bank reps have become our therapists. Oh, and of course, what restaurant we're racing too as soon as it's safe...

TribalScale's CEO and Co-Founder Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Grace Saati, CEO and Founder of LawHero, a platform connecting people unable to afford a lawyer to legal professionals online. We hear about Grace's early days in law, the immense challenges, her entrepreneurship as a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field, and how this detail has only served to motivate and drive her forward. We learn that through legal advice and support on discrete tasks, Saati gives people access to legal advice and services at affordable rates in her business. Oh, and there's talk of soap operas and hip-hop too - because it's First Name Basis and Sheetal is hosting. 

TribalScale Co-Founder & CEO Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Rakesh Tiku, President of inField Solutions Inc., and Paula Kwan, Former Founding Director Civic Innovation Officer at City of Toronto. Side Walk Labs? Smart Cities? Connected lamp posts? Yes, they cover it all. Get a front row seat to the innovation happening in our city and across oceans, the future we're moving to, the barriers, and the processes that all culminate into Smart Cities. 

TribalScale's Director of Engineering Alfie Tham is joined by Pearlyn Ng, Research and Knowledge Lead at the Canadian Mental Health Association.  They unpack Anticipatory Grief, that is, the grief that people experience when there is uncertainty in what the future holds, and the difficulty to define and communicate this. During this COVID-19 era, it's critical to keep tabs on our own mental health and the health of those around us. Pearlyn delivers key takeaways on how to do this, and the important conversation around what we're all feeling in this time. 

Where is Canada in terms of re-opening? How will we survive the coming recession? How do we prepare and protect the businesses that will rebuild our economy? All these questions answered in our latest podcast. TribalScale CEO & Co-Founder Sheetal Jaitly is joined by John Ruffolo, Founder of OMERS Ventures and Co-Founder of the Canadian Innovation Council and Dr. Chitra Anand, author of The Green House Approach and Advisor to High Growth Tech Companies. It gets real fast. John doesn't hold back in telling Sheetal where Canada is in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic peak, the entire layout of the phased reopening of Ontario, and what businesses need to be protected to keep us in good shape for the inevitable recession on the horizon. Chitra outlines the mindset needed and the action to take to rebuild and transform the economy through innovation and "adaptation theory". 

TribalScale CEO & Co-Founder is joined by Karthik Ramakrishnan, VP & Head of AI Strategy and Enablement at Element AI. With gin and juice in hand, the two talk about which countries are leading the AI game, what AI is actually capable of relevant to things like global pandemics, what Element AI is currently working on, and where we're headed in terms of Machine Intelligence and where its enhancement and improvement can take our society. All this and more in this week's episode. 

TribalScale's Design Manager Ailsa Blair and Content Writer Rachel Hammermueller are joined by Avery Swartz, CEO and Founder of Camp Tech, and Author of new bestselling book See You On The Internet. Want to know how to digitally market your small business? How about your personal brand? How about how to keep your network booming during a world-wide economic crisis? We learned so much about publishing, how to approach marketing with a sense of humour, and key takeaways that apply to any industry. 

Amar Varma, arguably Canada's most successful tech entrepreneur and business man of this past decade, shares his tech journey from XtremeLabs to creating Tinder with TribalScale's CEO and CO-Founder Sheetal Jaitly. His first interview in five years, we hear about challenges, successes, and tips fo the trade from someone who has seen it all from Silicon Valley, through the Dot-com bubble, 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis, and now the 2020 Global Pandemic. 

TribalScale's CEO and Co-Founder Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Family Physician Dr. Daniel Pepe of London Lambeth Medical Clinic and Anna Foat, Director of Global Transformation at Sunlife.  Daniel and Anna give an in-depth look into their partnership on their efforts to digitally transform our healthcare system using connective technology to give health care workers more bandwidth, more support, and more opportunity - holding the patient user experience as their guiding light. They discuss the struggles of healthcare in the wake of COVID-19, how tech can help society combat this deadly virus, how to stay positive during it all, and all around sharing their immense expertise in both of their respective fields. 

On this episode of First Name Basis: Remote Edition, TribalScale's CEO and Co-Founder Sheetal Jaitly is joined by Farhan Thawar, VP Engineering at Shopify. They swap stories on their layoffs and firings, how they bounced back, and owned their careers.  Their in-depth analyses of their experiences on searching for work shortly after 9/11 and learning from mentors draws important conclusions on taking care of your mental health, and how to get out of a cycle to bounce back. 

Our host CEO and Co-Founder Sheetal Jaitly is joined by personal friend and Lawyer Caitlin Fell, who is a Founding Partner at Weisz Fell Kour LLP. They chat in-depth and transparently about financial hardships and successes when dealing with funders, banks, crises and more. Caitlin lays out the next steps for anyone or any company struggling financially through this current COVID-19 pandemic.