Podcast appearances and mentions of jeff sandhu

According to 42 Malaysia's Jeff Sandhu, digital skills is now a necessity and not just an advantage, as he advocates the need for the awareness of having a clear pathway to success in this field.

The interior design, renovation and building materials industry has been negatively impacted by the current pandemic and is still trying to find its footing. The Interior Hub which was created in February 2020, just before the pandemic hit Malaysia, had to quickly innovate themselves to help aid the search and discovery of everything needed in the sector. On the show today, Jeff Sandhu speaks to Adrian Chima of The Interior Hub on the changes they went through just after the launch.

This pandemic has created a rapidly changing and uncertain environment, and especially “forcing” companies to adopt automation, if they are not already on their digital transformation journey. Jeff Sandhu speaks to Zakir Ahmed of Kofax on best practices to automate and optimise the way we work in the new norm.

This pandemic has created a rapidly changing and uncertain environment, and especially “forcing” companies to adopt automation, if they are not already on their digital transformation journey. Jeff Sandhu speaks to Zakir Ahmed of Kofax on best practices to automate and optimise the way we work in the new norm.

Work From Home or WFH has become the biggest shift in most organisations today but not many have ensured a high level of compliance, security and quality or nimble enough to deliver service across a distributed workforce. On today’s show, Jeff Sandhu speaks to William Foo from Everise about how they are helping SMB’s across Malaysia to adopt a more agile yet secure workspace outside of the office.

MSP says a fond farewell to Jeff Sandhu by celebrating the decade that shaped him. Mobile phones, PCs, the Web 1.0 and a sea of plaid, acid washed jeans and boho-chic.Hosts: Matt Armitage & Jeff SandhuProduced: Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9Episode Sources:https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/91603cc1-f159-4c89-9462-443a078945cahttps://www.history.com/news/1990s-the-good-decade EPISODE EXCERPTA couple of weeks ago we were talking about the 80s and MSP’s Matt Armitage came to the conclusion that the 80s has overstayed its cultural welcome and should go away and leave us all alone. What will fill the gap? Does that mean we’re all set for a 90s revival?[you want to ad lib something about it being your last episode?]Do we need another revival?I don’t think we do. One of the conclusions we reached on that previous show was pretty much to that effect. Hopefully by throwing all the Gen X and Gen Y contaminated stuff out of the window, it will leave the Gen A and Bs space to create something that doesn’t reference Star Wars as its starting point. So, no, I don’t think we’ll see a full-on 90s revival.We’ve seen a mini-spike over the last couple of years in terms of TV revivals. Friends has been one of the most streamed shows of the past couple of years.We’ve seen shows like the short-lived Roseanne reboot, Will & Grace, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, 90210. New Jumanji movies.Plenty of music. The 90s is alive and well.So, what’s it doing here, today?Well, as I think we mentioned on that 80s show…The 90s for me was a kind of proto-digital decade. It laid the framework for the digital world we’re enjoying twenty years later. Yet, when we look back at the 90s the two things people kind of pick out are Grunge - Nirvana - obviously and Friends.So, as it’s your last appearance on the show, I thought we’d do your defining decade, the 90s.For those of you who are wondering, Jeff is relocating to one of Kulturpop’s retirement communities where he can keep fit with some light, hands-on cobalt mining classes during the day and use the clear mountain air to clear his Black Lung at night. So, the 90s is a bit of a going away present to him.Jeff, what did the 90s mean to you?[we can probably ad lib back and forth on this for a couple of minutes]I’ll ask you favourite music, TV, gadgets, clothes etc. [Back to Matt]I think one of the weird things is that we don’t have a firm grasp of what the 90s was, beyond those stereotypes we discussed.When you picture the 60s you have the kind of groovy, James Bond, mini skirts, Beatles and paisley image. With a backdrop of civil rights, protests and hippies.The 70s is long hair and flares. Economic decline and strikes. The 80s was that material greed decade. Fall of the Berlin Wall. Triumph of capitalism and bright, shiny pop culture. all of those are unrealistic encapsulations, of course.

Mohammed Hikmet started his business repairing computers after leaving war-torn Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. In the many years of struggle, he spotted opportunities in manufacturing electronic road signs which was then followed by the need for autonomous vehicles. Hikmet is also New Zealand’s EY 2019 Entrepreneur of The Year. In this episode, Jeff Sandhu speaks to Hikmet about his challenges and struggles to reach the success he has gained so far and the lessons he has learnt.

Lockdowns around the world have boosted the gaming industry into new levels. While in reality we practice physical distancing, it’s quite the opposite in the gaming world. Jeff Sandhu speaks to Quentin Staes-Polet, the GM for India and SEA for Epic Games, makers of Fortnite and creators of Unreal engine, about how the gaming industry could help pioneer a shift in other sectors.

MSP says a fond farewell to Jeff Sandhu by celebrating the decade that shaped him. Mobile phones, PCs, the Web 1.0 and a sea of plaid, acid washed jeans and boho-chic.

It's the last of Geeks with Jeff Sandhu & Matt Armitage as they look back at some of your comments and give us one final prediction of the future.

What do printers and dolphins have in common? It's a topic of discussion in this week's episode. Also, we're about to say goodbye to the show for its current format with Jeff Sandhu so send us what have been some of your best memories or why do you keep tuning into the show all the years.

It may be emotionally draining, technically challenging and socially isolating, but working from home could turn out to be a secret superpower. One that lowers business costs, boosts productivity and profits and gives employees more freedom, independence and flexibility.Presented by: Matt Armitage & Jeff SandhuProduced by: Jeff Sandhu

The Geeks look at how CES fared this year and some of Jeff Sandhu’s top picks and why robots could one day need emotional support.

The Geeks look at how CES fared this year and some of Jeff Sandhu’s top picks and why robots could one day need emotional support.

Forget a year-end review special, we’re doing a Decade In Review! In episode 1, Jeff Sandhu sits down with the geeks from SoyaCincau to learn about how consumer technology has evolved over the last 10 years and what is the future of mobile and smartphone? Have we reached the peak in innovation or have we just begun? Will SkyNet rule us all or is AI just a fad?

Forget a year-end review special, we’re doing a Decade In Review! In episode 1, Jeff Sandhu sits down with the geeks from SoyaCincau to learn about how consumer technology has evolved over the last 10 years and what is the future of mobile and smartphone? Have we reached the peak in innovation or have we just begun? Will SkyNet rule us all or is AI just a fad?

On today's special episode of Let's Talk About, we sit down with Jeff Sandhu of BFM89.9 to talk about the last 10 years in technology. What's changed? What hasn't? And what can we expect for the future of tech? All that and more right here.

On this episode of Geeks, Jeff Sandhu reviews the Sony’s WF-1000XM3 earbuds and if it's actually worth the hype?

Squawking alone, Jeff Sandhu talks about a machine-learning model from Facebook’s AI research group suggest tweaks to your outfit, pointing a possible future of algorithm. Also, now it’s your chance to name a moon, 20 of them in fact, found orbiting Saturn.

Squaking alone, Jeff Sandhu talks about Russia. From how they plan to cut the internet and gene edited babies.

Online shopping is a convenient marvel of the digital age. But are there ways to make those services more effective, efficient and ultimately more sustainable?Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9Episode Sources:https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332460-800-guilt-free-online-shopping-is-possible-if-we-reinvent-home-delivery/EPISODE EXCERPTShopping Online. Most of us have done it. The convenience of buying with a click and having that product delivered to your door is one of the minor miracles of the digital age. But have you stopped to think about the impact your shopping habits are having on the environment? Or even if the current system of online retail is remotely efficient. Someone who is definitely overthinking it is MSP’s Matt Armitage. What’s your problem with home delivery?Yesterday I had deliveries from the Post Office, a food delivery service, a local online retailer and an overseas online retailer.That’s two bikes and two vans. That’s kind of an average day. But you can pretty much live off online purchases. A friend was recently hurt in a fall - fortunately he’s healing now.He lives alone, so in between visits from friends, he had to bring in everything by delivery.Surely that’s a good thing?You know what my answer’s going to be, don’t you?Yes and No? Because you’re boring and predictable?[Pause]As Jeff knows, in radioland we use silence to denote displeasure.You say boring and predictable.I say nuanced. Isn’t nuanced another way of saying talking nonsense?Take the nonsense out of these shows and all you’re left with is some ad breaks.Can I go on?Sure. If I wasn’t here I’d have to do some actual work…To answer your question.Your question…Ok. To answer my own question.It’s amazing that we can pick up a phone, open an app, and as long as we have the money, buy pretty much anything we need - or want. It’s incredible - and slightly odd - that I can buy a boiled egg or a can of soda and have that single item delivered to my house within minutes.It’s hard to believe that buying things used to be such a hassle.When you were a kid?It’s not that long ago…And it wasn’t that backward.Not like we existed god’s lovely turnip, maggoty bread and devil’s dumplings, to paraphrase Blackadder and Lord of the Rings. But that’s what makes it so remarkable that things have changed so fast. As a kid a lot of the stores in my town closed at lunchtime for an hour, finished up their working day by 5pm, closed at midday on Wednesdays and Saturdays and all day on Sunday. It’s a wonder we even managed to eat. I think the supermarket opened till about 7pm and we had sundry stores that opened till 9.

Resident tech guru and BFM radio host Jeff Sandhu (@itsjeffsandhu) talks about the technological landscape of Malaysia, where we are currently when it comes to leading innovators from the likes of China and Silicon Valley, and why he thinks influencers aren't using their base to the fullest potential to educate their followers on certain topics.

In the 2nd part of our Disrupted World series, MSP dismisses Avengers Endgame and looks to The CW’s The 100 for a solution to our privacy problems.It was supposed to be a celebration of Star Wars for May 4th but we couldn’t think of anything that hasn’t already been done. That’s how Disruptive we are. Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9Show Links: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/reuters-america-update-2-facebook-overhauls-messaging-as-it-pivots-to-privacy.html Episode TranscriptThese shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws.As this show is airing on May 3rd, you might expect that uber Geek Matt Armitage would be doing a Mattsplained Star Wars tribute today. The answer, of course, is no. It seems like we’re going with the return of the slightly trashy steampunk sci-fi show The 100, instead.Are we continuing last week’s Disruption theme with a TV show about the most Disrupted future you can imagine?•Yes, I’m continuing with the Disrupted World theme we started last week.•Originally I was going to do something that tied in with Star Wars a little more closely.•In fact, I was planning to do a show about how movies now seem a little disappointing compared to games.•I watched Avengers Endgame this week and I have to admit I was slightly disappointed.•I’d heard all the hype and I’d kept away from spoilers – and don’t worry – no spoilers here, so I was imagining how it might work, especially now Captain Marvel has been admitted into the MCU.What disappointed you?•It turned out my imagination was taking me way further out than the movie went.•Don’t get me wrong – it’s a really good movie, but I found it fairly predictable.•That spun me back to the idea I’d had about so many movies being a little underwhelming compared to streaming shows and, of course, the increasingly vast universes that games now seem to inhabit.But you don’t know enough about gaming?•Yes. So, it made my comments seem a bit trivial.•I stand by the idea though. The complexity of the worlds you can now explore and inhabit in gaming is astonishing.•Especially the titles that don’t have a standardised gameplay.•Where you can explore the world or worlds and bash a few heads along the way when you get bored, but where you can define your own role and your own place in those worlds.•That’s far more interesting to me than the kind of linear narrative movies we’re seeing.You’re going to talk about books again…•I am, because I love books. •I think what disappointed me the most about Avengers Endgame – and if some of you are wondering if you’re listening to a tech show or a movie review – •This is a tech show and I will get to the point…•The thing about Endgame was the idea of all the realms and dimensions that the previous movie, Infinity War, had laid open for us. •I imagined it spinning off a little like the Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter series The Long Earth where the population of earth suddenly gains access to an almost infinite number of parallel earths and spreads out.Before this gets any more complicated. Let’s summarise things a little. You decided not to talk about Star Wars because you were disappointed in the Avengers movie. You didn’t know enough about gaming to make your central point. And now you want to talk about The 100 because it’s the ultimate example of a Disrupted world?•So nearly right. And yet so wrong. For two reasons which will I hope will become clear.•When we started talking about Disruption last week, I thought it was going to be a one-off show.•But since then – and thanks to comments and feedback from listeners on that show – it’s going to be more of a mini-series. Probably a 4 parter. •I was expecting it to go the other way tbh. I thought that the haters would pile on me.•Which goes to show how few start-up operators are actually listening to this show. •Maybe they were too busy making Disruptive proposals to Angels investors who were in turn planning to Disrupt them out of their ownership stake. So this is a continuation?•In some ways•But it’s more about how we can stage our own Interruptions – I’m going to call them that instead of Disruptions.And the second reason?•This week we received an enormous gift from Mark Zuckerberg.•The statement that ‘the future is private’.•Zuckerberg acknowledged that FB doesn’t have the best reputation in that respect.•And as well as integrating the messaging apps of all Facebook’s products and bringing them together, he also announced that the company would trial a payments system via Whatsapp in India. And what has any of this to do with The 100?•Firstly, because we have to be totally committed to the idea of protecting our privacy.•The idea that any company – let alone FB – is going to do that is a notion we have to get rid of immediately.•Governments and lawmakers can help us but only if we elect the ones who are truly committed to making the changes we want. •And lastly, because it’s going to take a lot of effort and commitment from us to get us back on track to a world where we are connected but still private citizens.

It’s the entrepreneurial equivalent of a middle finger. Disruption is more than a tech bro buzzword. It’s a destructive force that we’ll be paying the price of for generations to come. Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9Show Links:https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38901702-lab-ratshttps://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/future Episode TranscriptThese shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws.I’ve been away from MSP for the past few weeks. Because Matt decided that I needed some attitude adjustment. However, while I was away our Inbox was flooded with complaints that the show was starting to sound like the BBC Shipping Forecast. So, who’s attitude do you think needed adjusting?Of course, we wouldn’t want Matt to adjust his attitude or change anything up, which is why, on this week’s show, we’re talking about Disruption.Are we looking at the effects of Disruption on our future?•I actually wanted to call today’s show the search for a noun.•But I knew that was essentially suicide in terms of SEO, unless we compensated by filling the introduction full of spam terms like size, money, crypto, wealthy, enrichment and pharmaceuticals.You mean, you’d have had to do exactly what you just did?•There, you see, I’m already being Disruptive.•Mostly to the norms of taste and decency.You sound as though you’re saying Disruptive with a capital D…•Your ability to aurally process grammar, is extremely impressive. •that’s aural with an au not an or, by the way.•I’ve successfully wasted 103, no 105, no 107 words since you asked your first question. •I’m Disrupting the show again.•[pause]•Have you noticed that Disruption always has a capital D?•If you see it in a presentation, even in the middle of a sentence, it always seems to be capitalised.Jeff Replies•There’s this element of shoutiness about the word Disruption. •It’s the entrepreneurial equivalent of a middle finger.And you think that’s what Disruption – with a capital D – has become?•Absolutely. On the one hand it’s a very arrogant response. •On the other. It’s like a panic reaction•it has this ‘rabbit in the headlights’ quality about. •Somewhat lacking in specificity…A bit like this show…•Oi. •Someone asks you what your company does or what’s unique about your product.•And the only thing you can think to say about what you do is that it’s disruptive.

Is your technology working for you, or are you working for it? Why machines want us to prove that we are human.Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFM89.9Show Links:Episode TranscriptThese shows are dictated to and transcribed by machines, and hurriedly edited by a human. Apologies for the typos and grammar flaws.One of the reasons that this show exists is to demonstrate some of the many ways that technology is dramatically improving our lives. But what do you do when the technology that is supposed to be making our lives easier seems to be serving other masters?This sounds like another of those Game of Thrones inspired episodes. Are we back to your master and servant theme?•Indirectly, I guess.•This is another one of those episodes I’ve had sitting on the burner for a while.•And then the brouhaha about Facebook’s supposed pivot towards privacy broke cover last week and I thought it was time to tackle this one.Before we head into Facebook land again, do you want to give us a little background for today’s show?•As you mentioned in the intro, I think technology is fantastic.•For the majority of humans – in the developed world at least – this is still the best time to be alive.•And part of the reason for that is technology.•Whether it’s technology delivering information to your hand, safer and more reliable modes of transport, cheap and plentiful food, incredible medical advances.•Everywhere you look, technology is chipping away at the brutality of the past.You could argue that some of that technology is pretty brutal too.•Absolutely. We have an enormous capacity for violence and destruction.•And one of the first things we do with a lot of technological developments is to weaponise them and use them for so-called defence or security purposes. •Whether it’s video cameras or advances in sonics. •It’s not what we’re talking about today, but if you are interested in that part of our development, there’s a great article at New Scientist called How Humans Evolved to be both shockingly violent and super co-operative.•Not the snappiest title, but the piece, written by Richard Wrangham, looks at the evolutionary and societal case for violence and cooperation.When do you think we lost control of the technology?•I’m not there’s even an answer to that question.•You could say that we lost control of technology hundreds of years ago. •Donald Trump loves to tell people how well walls have worked for millennia.•And yes, they keep marauders and bandits out.•History is full of walled cities that fell to invaders.•Some were more technologically advanced than the invaders, who simply encircled them and starved them out.•But often it was technology that breached the walls.•Siege engines. Catapults. Crossbows.I thought we weren’t talking about wars and violence?•Yeah, but if I start talking about looms and steel mills people are going to switch off.•The things most people seem to remember from their history classes are the battles and the wars.•And greater technology has often – not always – played a decisive role in who wins wars.•The US Civil War is a good example. The industrialised Union States literally had an enormous war machine that the more agricultural and slave based economy of the Confederate States couldn’t compete with.

From the moment of conception to the time they die, the next generation of children may be tracked, monitored and surveilled every minute of every day.Produced by Jeff SandhuTranscripts & more at www.kulturpop.com Episode ExcerptWhen I first saw that today’s show had Babies in the title, I assumed it had to be a joke. Matt Armitage is not known for being child friendly. In fact, I’m fairly sure that he thinks they should be farmed. Or grown in vats, like clean meat. But it would seem he’s genuinely worried about generations still to come. Matt. Data Babies and trackable humans. What’s going on?•You sound like one of those local TV news anchors in the US doing a hard hitting interview.•Mrs McGillicutty’s slipped on ice because no one salter her path. Here to answer our questions is city representative, Jeff Sandhu. Councillor, what’s going on?It really must be hurting you to devote an entire episode to children.•I prefer to think of them as boxed in adults. •In that you keep them in a box until they’re 18.•I had one of those weird realisations over the weekend.•I’ve been listening to and watching a bunch of anti-vaxxer information over the last couple of weeks.•To the point where parents are turning down routine vitamin K injections for newborns in some countries, while in other places we’re seeing the return of infectious diseases like measles because fewer kids are being inoculated against themThis doesn’t sound as though it’s related to data…•Because there’s a weird corollary. •At a time when parents are rejecting medical interventions for their kids in increasing numbers, ignoring the science that shows these interventions lead to better health outcomes. •Yet, despite the concerns people have about data privacy with Facebook, Google and the scores of apps and companies that track our habits and movements every second of the day.•Despite those facts, plenty of people are willing to use services that offer them utility in helping to raise their kids in exchange for a very rich stream of data.

Technology companies, like people, don’t always make smart decisions. When they make truly disastrous ones, those are the mic drop moments. Today’s show takes a leap through the Portal.Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFMEpisode Transcript:What’s on your mind?•Facebook. They’ve done something silly, again. •And this time, it’s a genuine mic drop moment.The Portal?•Back in 2012 Mark Zuckerberg told the world that Facebook was not in the business of making hardware.•Jump to October 2018 and FB is making hardware. Specifically, a voice activated communication screen that works rather like Amazon’s Echo devices.To be fair, Facebook has been in the hardware game for a few years, since it bought over Oculus, the Virtual Reality specialist.•Yes, but that was as much about bringing FB up to speed with VR in general.•Not because the company wanted to become the world leader in moleman goggles.The Portal device has been on the cards for a long time. Reports suggest it was delayed for 6 months.•And the reasons for that delay are one of the reasons we’re talking about it today.•Regular listeners will probably have noticed that we don’t pay much attention to gadget releases on this show.•So gadgets have to be very very good or very very bad in order to grab our attention.I’ll take a guess. The Portal is very very good?•I think the Portal may end up belonging in category roughly alongside the Smart hairbrush we loved so much last year.•For those of you who really don’t care about these things and who haven’t heard what Facebook is up to this week the Portal and that’s with a capital P, is a smart communication device, Bluetooth speaker, Home hub etc etc with a big screen.•It’s essentially Facebook Messenger with a screen.And it’s ugly? It’s slow? It doesn’t work at all?•None of those things.•One of the wonders of the particular age that we find ourselves in is that there are very few truly bad electronic devices.•Yes, of course, you can find yourself in trouble if you opt for those generic brands but don’t meet international safety requirements and all that kind of stuff.•By and large, anything that comes out of a reputable company is usually half decent in terms of build and design and functionality.•But that’s not the same as saying you need it or it’s a good idea.

Who controls your mind? With mind-reading technology already showing incredible accuracy, is it time to ask who owns our thoughts?Produced by Jeff Sandhu for BFMEpisode Excerpt:You’re already making us sound like machines…•We are machines.•But we’re thinking, feeling, sensing and self-determining machines.•We’re conscious.•You can press a button or issue a command that will wake Siri or Alexa, but the best those devices are is a one-dimensional representation of who and what we are.•We haven’t found a way to mimic or replicates that consciousness.•Yet.And now we can? This is another one of your killer AI shows?•There will be plenty of AI.•It’s weird, isn’t it?•I talk about 3-D printing twice in a year and I have an obsession.•We could literally rename this show Matt and Jeff talk about AI and nobody would bat an eyelid.Or pulse a chip?•Precisely. To answer your previous question, no we don’t have conscious AI.•But strangely, and I expect somewhat creepily to some of our listeners, we can use AI in various ways to unlock the secrets of our brains.Is this like tweaking your DNA in a garage? Something you can do because you can?•One of the reasons we’ve been so preoccupied with creating humanoid robots is precisely because we have so little understanding of what makes us conscious.•I’m going to stick with technology rather than philosophy today, mainly because my philosophy knowledge is probably equivalent of a 16-year-old who study selfies rather than philosophy.•And at least with technology I can lie and makes things up and nobody will find out till later.•Understanding the brain is a bit like decoding our personality or our sense of self.The last frontier of medicine?•I wouldn’t go quite that far.•Our bodies still contain plenty of mystery.•Like the appendix. Its only purpose seems to be to create excruciating pain and ruin family holidays.•We’ve certainly become much better at the routine mechanical parts of medicine.•If your car gets in an accident you can just pop down to the junkyard and that some panels off another wreck and you’re as good as new.•Same with people. We can replace arms, legs and the wiggly bits that attach to them.We can turn our insides into bak kut teh our insides.•For those listeners who don’t know what bak kut teh is, honestly, don’t Google it you’re better off not knowing.•It really stretches the definition of what food is and should be.•Yes you make a valid point we can replace organs.•We can even perform face transplants, which is incredible, odd and slightly frightening.•When it comes to our brains were bit like mountaineers attempting to scale at peak for the first time.•We’ve got maps that take us some of the way, but, on the whole it’s a maddening game of trial and errorAll of which is taking us further away from machines that can read our thoughts…•I’m Setting the scene, and that’s all.•On Geeks we have to race through the stories. Here we can give them room to breathe.

Last week, Matt Armitage got away with some ranting as Richard Bradbury stepped in. This week, Jeff Sandhu is back and is holding Matt to task. It's time to be optimistic about science so why can't we cure the common cold?