Fast rewind back to February and I had some fascinating conversations with various projects at FOSDEM in Brussels, including the Rust Foundation, Sysdig about StratoShark, Next Cloud, and Mastodon.

 

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Voices from FOSDEM 2025

I spoke with Dom Weatherbee of Regenx [https://www.regenx.tech] to discuss their precious metal recovery technology and how it can benefit the circular economy for new gadgets and devices.

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Precious metal recovery with Regenx

In this episode, Cate and Chris discuss a flurry of events over the past months, including Deep Tech Momentum, Gitex, London Tech Week, Super Invest, and more!

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From Berlin to Bono

I speak with Daniela Miao of Momento to discuss her journey from DynamoDB at AWS to creating an alternative caching platform for large scale real time applications.

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Robust, Turnkey Caching at Massive Scale with Momento

In this episode, Chris and Cate speak with Jessica Baladad, of feelforyourlife.com, [https://www.feelforyourlife.com/]an advocacy platform that utilizes digital and print resources for better breast health.

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Using AI to assist breast cancer examination with Jessica Baladad

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

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