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Don't miss out on the next WeAreLATech podcast episode, get notified by signing up here http://wearelatech.com/podcastWelcome to WeAreLATech's Los Angeles Tech Community Spotlight!   “Remix: Brian Sanders, Mari Bower, and Alpa Patel”WeAreLATech Podcast is a WeAreTech.fm production.To support our podcast go to http://wearelatech.com/believe To be featured on the podcast go to http://wearelatech.com/feature-your-la-startup/Want to be featured in the WeAreLATech Community? Create your profile here http://wearelatech.com/communityHost,Espree Devorahttps://twitter.com/espreedevorahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/espreeGuest,Brian Sandershttps://twitter.com/briansventuresGuest,Mari Bower mari@kitterly.comhttps://twitter.com/marimareeGuest,Alpa Patel alpa@spaceez.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alpa-patel-220636105For a calendar of all LA Startup events go to, http://WeAreLATech.comTo further immerse yourself into the LA Tech community go to http://wearelatech.com/vipLinks Mentioned:Nexcast, https://twitter.com/nexcastKitterly, https://www.kitterly.com/Quilt, https://wequilt.com/Startup Boost, http://startupboost.org/Spaceez, http://spaceez.com/Credits:Produced and Hosted by Espree Devora, http://espreedevora.comStory Produced, Edited and Mastered by Cory Jennings, https://www.coryjennings.com/Production and Voiceover by Adam Carroll, http://www.ariacreative.ca/Team support by Janice GeronimoMusic by Jay Huffman, https://soundcloud.com/jayhuffmanShort Title: Brian Sanders, Mari Bower, and Alpa Patel

In this, the final episode of our third season, we speak to Humber College President Chris Whitaker about learning new tech on the fly, the decision to move all classes online, and what the Humber community should be focusing on right now.

In this episode, we speak to Humber Fashion Arts and Business professor Kristi Kennedy about the challenges—and unexpected rewards—of moving courses online due to a global pandemic.

In this episode, two senior members of Humber's Teaching & Learning Support team - Heidi Marsh and Marl Ihnat - discuss the Learning Continuity Kit, created to assist faculty as all classes go online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Free downloadable transcript available at humberpress.com/ The Learning Continuity Kit available at https://sites.google.com/view/learningcontinuitykit/home

In this episode, Humber journalism professor and program coordinator (and repeat NEXTcast guest) Dan Rowe talks about taking a group of students to New Hampshire to cover the US Democratic primaries. Free downloadable transcript available at http://humberpress.com/ Some of the stories written by Dan's students are available at http://skedline.com/politics/.

In this episode, we speak to Rai Reece, a professor in Humber’s Faculty of Social & Community Services, about learning from teaching challenges and the importance of having difficult conversations in the classroom. (Apologies in advance for the sound quality - but the discussion is great!)

In this episode, Nathan speaks with Jessica Freitag and Jennifer Winfield, professors in Humber’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Innovative Learning, about their TIF research focusing on collaborative writing in the classroom.

In this episode of NEXTcast, Nathan sits down with Shirantha Beddage—professor in Humber's Faculty of Media and Creative Arts, saxophonist, and composer—to chat about how Shirantha incorporates technology in his classroom.

In our second collection of teaching tips, Humber faculty, staff, and students offer more ideas on creating engaging learning environments. Special thanks to Shirantha Beddage, Sarah Feldbloom, Dan Rowe, Arun Dhanota, Kristin Valois, Christine Zupo, Alex Evans, Lexa Castellan, Daniel Bear, Ranya Khan, Cheryl Mitchell, Laura Page, Leanne Milech, Jessica Freitag, Jennifer Winfield, and Matt Ramer for the great tips.

NEXTcast 3.8 Kristin Valois On The Transition From Humber Student To Industry Pro by Humber Press

In this episode of Humber NEXTcast, Nathan sits down with Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellness professor Matt Ramer to learn more about his TIF research project on the efficacy of oral assessments.

Sabemos que o dia do comércio exterior é bem corrido, por isso o pessoal da Next Shipping preparou para você um pouquinho do que acontece aqui nos bastidores. Afinal, a vida não é só container e follow up - também precisa de um momento de descontração.

In this episode, we sit down with Laura Berg, a professor in Humber's Professional Writing and Communications program, about a real-world experiential learning project she developed for her classroom.

In this episode, we sit down with Laura Page, Teaching and Learning Specialist, to learn about the importance of critical thinking, and how to encourage it in the classroom.

In this episode, we sit down with Humber Arboretum Director Alix Link to learn more about the Humber Pond Revitalization Project.

In this episode, we speak with professor Naeema Farooqi about her experience teaching a popular Social Media course in Humber's Global Summer School program.

In this episode, we speak with Jennifer Gordon, Director of the Centre for Creative Business Innovation & Galleries, about the new mandate for the Humber Galleries, and the ways faculty and students can get involved.

We thought we’d do something a little different to kick off our third season. We’ve compiled some great teaching tips from our faculty and students for new faculty who are just starting out in the classroom. We’d like to thank Arun Dhanota, Cheryl Mitchell, Mark Rector, Naeema Farooqi, Christine Zupo, Lexa Castellan, Alex Evans, Dan Rowe, Daniel Bear, Laura Page, Ranya Khan, Leanne Milech, Sarah Feldbloom, and Maya Shah for contributing to this episode.

In our final episode of the season, we're at Humber Showcase 2019 with a live-off-the-floor special, chatting with faculty about their Showcase experience. As we note in the intro, the sound on this one is a little more raw.

In this episode we speak with Daniel Bear, a professor in Humber's Criminal Justice degree program, about research into attitudes towards cannabis education that he conducted with a team of students.

In this episode of NEXTcast, we talk to Gian Pileri, an educational technology specialist at Humber's Centre for Teaching & Learning, about using apps to augment the classroom experience. Download a free transcript of this episode at humberpress.com/next/

For the first time on NEXTcast, Nathan welcomes two students into the studio! Guelph-Humber students Alex Evans and Lexa Castellan join their professor, Christine Zupo, to discuss their experience participating in a TIF-funded research study.

In this episode, Nathan sits down with professors Arun Dhanota and Dan Rowe to learn about the documentary they created to be used as a teaching and training tool.

In this episode of NEXTcast, Nathan sits down with Applied Technology professor Mark Rector to discuss the inspiration behind his new book about Canadian inventions.

In this episode, we speak to Humber English professors Sarah Feldbloom and Leanne Milech about research they've done into the use of multimodal texts (including Solange's "Don't Touch My Hair") as teaching tools.

In this episode, NEXTcast producer Kristin Valois speaks to Geoff Lachapelle—Humber's eSports coordinator and a lecturer in the Game Programming program—about the educational value of competitive gaming.

In this episode, we speak to Humber Business School professor Cheryl Mitchell about research she has done into the manner in which students approach projects in entrepreneurship. [Note: this is the first episode recorded outside the CTL studio and with our new remote microphone, so the sound is a bit rougher than usual]

In this episode, we speak to Humber professor Louise Zimanyi about the Forest and Nature Program she helped to create, and about research she has done into the impact of the program.

In this episode, we speak to Humber professors Dennis Kappen and George Paravantes about a groundbreaking augmented reality project they worked on with a team of students and brought to a major international tech conference.

In this episode, we talk to Darren Richards, the head of Creative Productions at the Centre for Teaching & Learning, about Panopto, Humber's new educational video streaming platform.

Due to unforseen circumstances, we have no interview ready this week, but we have something almost as good: transcripts of every episode! Email humberpress [at] humber [dot] ca to request a free transcript. (They will soon be downloadable at humberpress.com.)

In this episode, we talk to Child and Youth Care professor Ron Old about the links and partnerships he created between Humber College and Ripple Effect Children's Services, where he serves as program director. The partnership offers students great new learning opportunities.

In this episode, we speak with Eileen DeCourcy, Humber's departing Associate Vice-President, Teaching & Learning, about the development of the Centre for Teaching & Learning, and her vision for postsecondary education.

In this episode, Kristin Valois speaks with the Office of Sustainability's Tayler Buchanan about the work she does to promote sustainability at Humber, and the learning opportunities the office creates with faculty and select programs.

In this episode, special guest host Kristin Valois speaks with CTL programmer Lichuan Wen about the Accessibility Bar, which makes the web more accessible for everyone, and which has getting attention and interest inside and outside of Humber College.

In this episode, the first official episode of our second season, we talk to Media Studies professor and program coordinator Steve Cober about the great Transmedia Fellowship project he helped oversee this past summer.

Before we start our second season of NEXTcast (first new episode on September 18!), we thought we'd release a couple of "best of" episodes, which pull together some highlights from the conversations we had with Humber faculty and staff in our first season. This episode is the second of two parts. Enjoy!

Before we start our second season of NEXTcast (first new episode on September 18!), we thought we'd release a couple of "best of" episodes, which pull together some highlights from the conversations we had with Humber faculty and staff in our first season. This episode is the first of two parts. Enjoy!

In this special preview of Showcase 2018, we speak to Mary Goral (Humber Libraries), Adam Thomas (School of Media Studies and Internet Technology) and Dawn-Marie Warren (Centre for Teaching & Learning) about the workshops they will present at the event. For more information on Showcase: http://www.humber.ca/showcase/2018/ Note: This is our last episode of the season. See you in September 2018!

We talk to professor Christine McCaw, the program coordinator for the Business School's marketing diploma, about research she has done into the impact of different teaching spaces on students.

In this episode, we talk to professor Helena Moncrieff about her new book, The Fruitful City, and how writing and researching it has changed her perspective on teaching.

In this episode, we talk to Leila Kelleher, who teaches Fitness and Health Promotion at Humber College and Kinesiology at the University of Guelph-Humber, about flipping workshops and labs.

In this episode, we talk to Colin Flint, who teaches advertising in Humber's School of Media Studies and Information Technology, about research he did into student perceptions of internships – research that was recently published in the first issue of the Journal of Innovation in Polytechnic Education(JIPE.ca).

In this episode, we talk to Bernie Monette, the program coordinator for the Web Development program at Humber College, about an experiment in multi-disciplinary learning in which students from two different programs take the same class simultaneously.

In this episode, we talk to Cheryl Francis-Nurse, the program coordinator for the Project Management graduate certificate at Humber College, about the new partnership she helped develop with the Toronto chapter of the Project Management Institute.

In this episode, we talk to Anne Zbitnew, who teaches Photography and Visual Literacy at Humber, about using games as teaching tools.

In this episode, we talk to Sarah Nieman, a recent Humber graduate and a current member of the college's Institutional Learning Outcomes project, about the benefits of real-world learning.

We speak to Radio Broadcasting professor Paul Cross about the challenges of preparing new students for post-secondary learning.

We speak to Baking & Pastry Arts professor Douglas Smith on bringing an international perspective to the classroom.

We speak to the Centre for Teaching and Learning's Katie Billard and Bianca Sorbera about designing courses that work for everyone.

We speak to English professor Lara McInnis about her research into using think-aloud protocols to improve feedback to students.

An interview with Nicola Winstanley, program coordinator for the Media Foundation program, about using team-building exercises in class to engage students.

An interview with Alexandra Link, director of Humber's Arboretum, about the new Sustainable Urban Beekeeping program.

An interview with Dr. Heidi Marsh, Humber College's Director of Scholarship for Teaching & Learning, about ways to improve teaching practices through research, and about what kind of music orangutans prefer.

Podgodz 203 (CCIII) Recorded 19 July 2016 Nextcast thoughts (Laxdude: Crusher of Dreams) Policing thoughts Ghostbuster thoughts Top 5 shows of the Week – LAX   Up for contention but not making the list this week   Hello Internet #66: A Classic Episode Roderick on the Line #208: Coney Island Horniness No Agenda #843: Save the Date   Top 5 5) Reconcilable Differences #30: Captain of the Living Room 4) Game Show: Low Definition: Hell is Other People’s Words 3) Defocused #105: The Definitive Guide to Winging it (JJ Trek) 2) TV Guidance Counsellor #161: Guy Branum 1)  The Incomparable #309: Boats in Space (spaceship draft)   GIO TOP 5 Steve Agee UHHH #62 Matt Besser ADS #377 and #378 Reasonable Doubt #52 Christopher Darden/ TV Guidance Counselor #161 Read More →

Podgodz 203 (CCIII) Recorded 19 July 2016 Nextcast thoughts (Laxdude: Crusher of Dreams) Policing thoughts Ghostbuster thoughts Top 5 shows of the Week – LAX   Up for contention but not making the list this week   Hello Internet #66: A Classic Episode Roderick on the Line #208: Coney Island Horniness No Agenda #843: Save the Date   Top 5 5) Reconcilable Differences #30: Captain of the Living Room 4) Game Show: Low Definition: Hell is Other People's Words 3) Defocused #105: The Definitive Guide to Winging it (JJ Trek) 2) TV Guidance Counsellor #161: Guy Branum 1)  The Incomparable #309: Boats in Space (spaceship draft)   GIO TOP 5 Steve Agee UHHH #62 Matt Besser ADS #377 and #378 Reasonable Doubt #52 Christopher Darden/ TV Guidance Counselor #161 Read More →

Aaron and Brian talk to Jeff Dickey (@jeffdickey; Chief Innovation Officer @Redapt) and John Griffith (@jdg_8, Software Engineer @SolidFire) about the evolution of Redapt, best practices for building large-scale clouds, comparing OpenStack to Docker communities and how the ecosystem is changing from Vendor to SP to VAR. Links from the show: Redapt Homepage Jeff Dickey's Bio NextCast Podcasts Thanks for the Docker folks for having us! - DockerCon 2015 on YouTube Topic 1 - Tell us about yourself and some background on Redapt. Topic 1a - You both have OpenStack background. Why are you here at DockerCon? Topic 2 - Aaron knows Redapt from his day job, but you really got on our radar the past few weeks with a bunch of announcements recently (eg CoreOS Fest + Tectonic). How did Redapt get involved with delivering solutions around these new Cloud Native frameworks? Topic 3 - What you do is really a next-step in how companies are able to build or consume these new Cloud Native frameworks. How does Redapt go about pulling these systems together? Topic 4 - We talked yesterday about your team. How do you keep the talent levels up to date on your team? Topic 5 - Redapt is well-known in the cloud circles. What best practices can you take from your learnings and apply them to all these Enterprise and Mid-Market companies that want to do all the cool stuff we hear about here at DockerCon?

Context Relevant CEO Stephen Purpura is working on the leading edge of big data — helping companies use their data more effectively. But Purpura, whose company scored $21 million from Bloomberg Beta, Madrona, Vulcan and others earlier this year, followed a career path many of his peers advised him against. After working at Microsoft, Purpura decided to go back to school, earning a degree from Harvard and studying at Cornell before returning to found his own company. He describes being CEO of Context Relevant as “one of the most exciting things that I could do in my life.” At Context Relevant, Purpura and his team are leaders in the field of big data and automated machine, exploring a space few other companies have investigated so deeply. Explaining why he loves his position, Purpura says the big idea behind Context Relevant is “to analyze data without hiring an expert.” [1:40] Though an executive now, Purpura’s focus has always been on the technical. He explains that he wanted to be more than an “empty suit” who couldn’t explain how a product worked. “The only way you can do interesting new things and really explore the space is to get in and do it, he says. He adds: “If you do not understand [the tech], it is really difficult to lead a team effectively.” [6:40] Before he was a startup CEO, Purpura spent several years at Microsoft, though he knew he wasn’t meant for that environment for long. “At bigger companies I sort of felt stifled,” he explains. As a CEO, “I get more ability to…be my inner child, in the sense that I get to do what I want as long as I can back it up and actually make it happen.” [9:00] On leaving big companies to pursue further education, Purpura explains that many of his technical peers told him he was making a mistake. “Many people believed it was a blunder for me to go back to school,” he says. But he counts this time as a blessing. “Let’s face it: when you work at Microsoft or when you work in the industry, you sort of get a point of view, and you put blinders on that point of view. And what I was able to do in the middle of my career was redefine my point of view.” [11:00] When asked if he had advice for other startup founders, Purpura emphasized the importance of being in the right market. He shared a story from an earlier startup where they failed to find a big enough market for their product, from which he ultimately learned that it’s better to find a great solution to a problem in a big market than to focus on finding the right team or the most money. “Even if you have a fantastic team with $100 million in cash, it’s difficult to fix the market,” he said. “If the opportunity is large enough, you will find people who want to work on it” even if you have to bootstrap on the weekends. Purpura closed the interview with thoughts on life as a founding CEO. He describes his company as “an overnight success story that took 13 years.” “You are responsible for everything and there is nothing going for you,” he says, adding that it’s the hardest job he’s ever had in his life.

Former Seattleite Jon Jenkins, the Head of Engineering at Pinterest, has taken the lead of a “super scrappy, super agile” team of engineers building one of the biggest social networks on the web today. Using billions -- or maybe even trillions -- of data points supplied by users around the world, he and his team are curating personalized experiences for every Pinner, helping to show them new things they didn’t even know they liked yet. I sat down to talk to Jon about solving some of the most exciting challenges of his career in this edition of Nextcast; here are a few of the highlights: This PolySci graduate with a knack for “hacking around” has done the big company and the startup thing more than once in his career. After spending almost 9 years at Amazon in Seattle, he hightailed it to San Francisco to join the Pinterest startup team, who piqued his interest with an intriguing set of problems to solve. Jenkins says he is “fascinated by challenges associated with scaling things...and challenges associated with data mining or deriving useful information from large pools of data.” He adds, “Pinterest has both of those challenges at an even bigger scale.” (4:30) The problems Pinterest is solving for its users are based on huge amounts of data providing huge amounts of value to customers, who may not even know they want that value until they get it. “A pin is an object...coupled with the user’s context about that object,” Jenkins explains. It’s not just about what gets pinned, but what it says about the Pinner’s interests. Jenkins and his team are using that information to present that user with even more things they might enjoy, even if the user doesn’t know they like it yet. “We can tell you things about yourself that you didn’t even know,” based on what you pin, within the context your boards and profile. “That’s something I don’t think anyone has done before.” (7:20) Jenkins shares that his business philosophy is based on always putting the customer first. “In no matter what you’re building, you should absolutely understand how it’s going to positively impact...customers,” he says. If you can’t articulate that in a way a customer will understand, he says, you’re not likely to be successful. He feels just as strongly about APIs -- which helps to explain why there is no Pinterest API yet. “APIs are forever, and you need to treat them that way. You don’t get to release these things to the world and then pull them back, or at least you shouldn’t.” Jenkins adds: “Software is a promise.” (12:02) Though he still loves Seattle, Jenkins admits he wishes he’d moved to San Francisco earlier. The vibrant, connected, sharing-focused community is something he would like to see carry over to other tech communities. Another thing he wishes? That’d he’d pushed himself harder, earlier in his career, to take more risks. “Being successful in technology is really about pushing the boundaries,” he says, advising tech upstarts to not let a fear of failure control them. And though risk-taking and idea-challenging are now part of his daily routine, he explains, “I should not have been afraid to break things or challenge conventional thinking earlier.” (17:00) Jon’s advice to other startups and leaders is concise, but powerful. “You better understand what your customer wants,” he says first. “[Be] incredibly pragmatic in how you deliver,” is his second tip, which is all about the power of fast iteration and agility. The quicker you can notice problems and do something about them, the better off you are. And finally, he says: “[Build] an engineering team that actually wants to deliver stuff.” Not every engineer gets excited by shipping, but you need to make sure your team is staffed with only that kind. Getting your product in front of customers is the difference between success and failure. (24:25)

Though he’s only held one other job since college, WhitePages founder and CEO Alex Algard thinks he’s found a pretty good fit in his growing company. “I like the feeling of making an impact and a positive difference in the world,” he says of his role running a site that boasts over 50 million monthly users who come to them for contact information. And it’s not hard to see how he translated this into his role running a company based on delivering “directory assistance to the masses for free”. He has learned a lot along the way, from why getting rid of investors might just be the best thing you can do for your business to how being a great leader makes great products possible. Here are some of his top lessons that he shared with Nextcast. “We’re in collective denial,” Algard jokes about his now 10+ year old business. “If you look at how we do business...we have much more in common with how startups do business and how startups interact team-wise.” What this means is that despite having a team of over 100 people, his number one priority is still innovation and creating amazing products for their customers above all else. Part of the company’s focus has come from getting rid of their external investors. “We still have a rockstar board,” he explains, but he adds that external investors by their very nature have different priorities for your company than you do. Their first priority is to their partners; as a CEO, your first priority should be to customers. “Sometimes it can be a little bit distracting to have a whole bunch of different people to report to as far as investors and employees and customers too.” After buying out his investors, Algard says his board conversations now aren’t about investment decisions, but about how to run the business even more effectively. (4:30) “Nothing’s better than working with great people,” Algard says. His team at WhitePages works hard to maintain an incredibly high bar for talent, though “it’s absolutely a war for talent out there.” However, he has found power in his network to bring him the best of the best. “I think a lot of our best recruits came from networking,” he explains. And when it comes to keeping great people around? “We can’t over-invest in keeping our employees happy and productive.” (15:30) What would Algard tell his younger self, if he could? “I would advise myself to focus on...lifelong learning. Don’t optimize your career on your 1 or 2 year timeframe; optimize it on a 10 year timeframe.” He adds: “It’s much more about the learning, it’s much more about the people that you work with” than necessarily making the biggest paycheck. (17:15) Be sure to stick around for the end of this video where Algard reminisces about the time when WhitePages was recruiting one of their first-ever full time engineers. It’s a hilariously cringe-worthy look back on the startup days of a now established and growing company. As the company launches WhitePages PRO, their growing B2B unit, and continue “building a contact graph that maps out how people and businesses in the world are connected based on contact information” there are certainly many more good days and good stories to come. (20:45)

As a one-time English PhD student, Janis Machala didn’t always know her career would lead her down a business path. But now she helps other people pursue their passions and get the education they need to achieve their dreams, as the Executive Dean of Continuing Education at Bellevue College. On this edition of Nextcast, I interviewed Machala and learned how technology is changing education and why working at a big company might be a better first job for recent graduates. Plus, Machala shares her tips for creating an amazing startup culture. “I never thought of myself as a business person,” Machala says. But when a friend referred her to her school’s business school as a possible avenue for jobs, she found herself enrolling in an MBA program, eventually specializing in marketing. “I loved the complexities you get in the marketing field.” (2:00) Once she entered the workforce, Machala began working in textbook publishing -- an industry which, at the time, was struggling with how to integrate software and CD-ROMs into their products. “Nobody knew what to do with software,” Machala explains. A natural risk-taker, Machala volunteered for every opportunity to experiment with the new technology. “I found that making things up where there hasn’t been a hundred year history...is much more my style, she said, adding, “I realized the technology field was probably a great place for me.” (4:00) Machala has worked at companies big and small across many industries, and has learned the importance of culture -- and why it’s more than ping pong tables and beer fridges. “So few people take a job for salary. Most people take a job because they believe in what that company’s doing,” she says. “Founders need to understand that they need to market to their talent.” And it’s not all about money. She notes, “Amazon is pretty frugal. It doesn’t stop them from recruiting talent.” (7:50) “I think technology is going to radically change education,” Machala says. “Not only are we going to have this integrated offline-online world, but there’s going to be some fundamental analytics and big data elements” which will allow teachers to have early warning for students who are falling behind. She is curious to see how online education solves its current culture problem: students don’t form the same friendships and teams they do in in-person classes. “People have to know themselves,” she says, before trying a course online. (9:00) Her advice to young founders and businesspeople is simple: “be willing to take calculated risks.” She adds that much of her success is due to being “willing to jump in and learn about something and not accept the status quo.” She adds that listening is just as important as talking. “You learn more by hearing what the needs are than by assuming what the needs are.” (13:35) Machala says she advises students who are considering startups for their first jobs to first spend some time at a big company. A big company is “a great learning environment”. When you are just starting out, you have no sense for what is a good company, a good financial model, a good marketing strategy. Get your baseline education at a big company, and the innovate when you’ve got the necessary basics down. (20:00)