Two interviews from Web Summit 2024… Corynne McSherry from the EFF and Nick Durkin from Harness. Quite the variety of topics, but both fascinating!

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Defending the internet with the EFF and delivering the Internet with Harness

In this episode, Cate discusses the state of Italian tech, and Chris and Cate discuss the recent Opera Days announcements.

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Links

 * https://tech.eu/2025/04/11/italy-defies-global-slowdown-with-315m-in-q1-tech-funding-with-jeff-bezos-to-headline-italian-tech-week/
 * https://tech.eu/2025/04/09/italian-medtech-medicud-raises-1-3m-for-wound-pressurising-device/
 * https://tech.eu/2025/03/18/italy-s-startup-renaissance-closing-in-on-spain-s-lead/
 * https://tech.eu/2024/12/19/ekore-secures-1-3m-seed-leading-italy-s-largest-digital-twin-investment-of-2024/

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Italian Tech and Opera

I speak with Kyle from Depot.dev, which promise to speed up your your Docker image builds and GitHub Actions workflows. Depot easily integrates with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time.

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Build faster and waste less time with Depot.dev

I speak with Will of Northflank, a self-service developer platform for apps, databases, and jobs. Start with one workload, scale to hundreds on compute or GPUs.

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Automate any workload with Northflank

In this episode, I speak with Chad Whiteacre of Sentry about their functional software license and the open-source pledge.

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Functional licenses and the open source pledge with Chad Whiteacre of Sentry

In this episode, I speak with Vinoth Chandar about Onehouse [https://www.onehouse.ai/], a Universal Data Lakehouse and the only data platform instantly accessible from any engine, from BI to AI.

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Onehouse: Your Universal Data Lakehouse

In this episode I speak to Michael Hunger of Neo4j about the vector database's history and how the product copes with changes in the technology industry around them.

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Michael Hunger and Neo4j

In this episode Cate talks about the state of European medical tech and Chris talks about the recent FOSSBackstage event that covered topics around open source software that aren't development.

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 * https://tech.eu/2025/03/04/how-the-world-s-first-mental-health-focused-vc-fund-masawa-is-changing-venture-investing/
 * https://tech.eu/2025/03/05/digital-mental-health-startup-hellobetter-secures-6m-and-eyes-french-market-entry/
 * https://tech.eu/2024/01/26/czech-startup-hedepy-closes-eur385m-investment-for-its-online-psychotherapy-platform/
 * https://tech.eu/2025/02/25/monument-therapeutics-secures-ps850k-to-advance-schizophrenia-treatment-with-mt1988/
 * https://25.foss-backstage.de/

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MedTech and FOSSBackstage

I speak with the infamous Dave Thomas about his programming journey, his book, the pragmatic programmer and his publishing history, and much more!

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30 years of pragmatic programming with Dave Thomas

In this episode Cate and Chris talk about the future of European tech in the wake of the many challenges the block faces from the US, Russia, China, and more.

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