25. Azin Akbari - Innovation at Zound Industries

Azin Akbari is the Director of Software and Platforms at Zound Industries. Zound Industries industries is known for their hardware as headphone and speakers. Now they have moved into software. Azin has joined us to talk about her passion - innovation in tech and why it’s so important when creating amazing tools and products.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Cecilia Borg. Cecilia Borg is a Interim CTO and her latest mission was G-Loot, which is one of Sweden's largest E-sports company. Cecilia's passion is both gaming and DevOps. She talks about how to make organizations sing with the help of DevOps.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Aygül Kabaca who is Diversity and Inclusion expert at Make Equal, who is WeTals equality advisors. They’ve been a part of making our equality initiative for women in tech that is called WeTal Include. Today Aygül will deep dive in to the tools that we’ve come up with to educate companies and leaders in more diverse recruitment.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Daniel Forslund who is the CTO of ILT education, a company that works toward the mission that every child has the right to equal education. We talk about his journey from being a co-founder of the startup Ugglo, and how they where bough by their competitor ILT. They then wanted to hire him as a CTO to manage 15 developers and he shares some learnings from that journey.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Sofie Perslow who is the former CTO of Aller Media, a traditional media house with a mission to become more data driven. She has twice been top ranked as one of the futures female leaders by the organization The Leaders. She talks about how she became a CTO without a development background. 

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Anton Aderum who is the CTO of Bokadirekt.se. He started there seven years ago as a full stack developer, and four years later he was promoted to CTO. He talks about the journey going from 3 to 20 developers, and the many technical challenges they have solved along the way.

In this episode, Charlotte chats with Olga Stern. Olga is the CTO of Tangy Market. She has been named one of Sweden's most talented developers according to IDG. They talk about her book ones and zeros secret lives, and what she thinks makes a talented developer.

In this episode, Charlotte meets Maria Cheadle who is the CTO and co-founder of Addressya. Maria will talk about the technical challenges when building apps for people in low-income countries, and how to do user research when you are just beginning to understand a new culture. They also talk about what having an address can mean for social and financial inclusion.

In this episode, Charlotte meets Jesper Lekland. Jesper is the CTO at Yepstr. Yepstr’s mission is to become Sweden's largest marketplace for young professionals. They talk about Jesper's passion to coach junior developers, how he manages his remote tech team, and why his influence in fitness career might have been beneficial when become a leader.

In this episode, Charlotte meets Camilla Lundin who is the co-founder of Qalora capital who helps tech startups, Business and Dreams which is a female business network, she's been in Forbes 30 under 30 and she has held a Ted talk. We talk about how finds her drive and how to be more successful in your tech career.