Have you ever considered automating your SaaS and B2B email marketing campaigns? In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the CEO of Userlist, Jane Portman, to discuss email marketing automation strategies going into 2022. At its core, Userlist is helping to automate the email marketing lifecycle with its new email automation tool. It makes starting email marketing campaigns and delivering custom email blasts that are personally tailored to SaaS businesses...

In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the CEO of SecondKeys, Amber Hayes to discuss AI enhanced property management and predictive analytics for homeowners. SecondKeys is bringing artificial intelligence and automation into the property management space using machine learning to predict maintenance needs for properties ahead of time. However, that’s just the beginning of where this is all going in the future. What are the aspects of property management...

The US healthcare system is broken in many ways, and functions great in others, but what are some approaches to actually solving the problems we are seeing currently in medicine? In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with James Lott, the CEO of Scripted to discuss how pharmacies can become point of care destinations. This could be a game-changer for both pharmacies and the patients that they serve. During Covid-19, we witnessed the staffing shortage in...

What parts of contract management can be automated and what role does data-driven decision making play? Where do blockchain and smart contract technology fit into all of this? In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the co-founders of the AI-powered digital contract management platform, Revnue, to discuss contract automation tools and where this is all going. Sunny Sharma, CEO, and John Cortez, COO, explain how contract management has typically been a highly...

Sports analytics and data science in sports are topics that are getting a lot of traction lately in the sports world. Every year, more and more teams are being united around intelligence, and in this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with the CEO of Kitman Labs, Stephen Smith, to learn why. Kitman Labs is a company focused on improving human performance in sports by analyzing athlete data. Their Intelligence Platform  allows you to consolidate millions of data points about game stats,...

DemandJump is a marketing strategy platform that uses AI to determine the most important keywords for driving search engine traffic, and in this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the CEO of DemandJump, Christopher Day to learn more. Based on Google keyword analysis and understanding search intent, DemandJump’s AI keyword research tool provides a game plan for content marketers who want to increase first page rankings. Artificial intelligence does the SEO...

In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the CEO of Improovy to discuss how he took his painting contracting company and turned it into a tech company. Along the way, he has become an expert in SEO strategy, so he will also be sharing some of his top tips for local SEO and search engine marketing. Kazimierski has a fascinating Founder’s Journey, and in many ways, Improovy now functions kind of like an Uber for the home improvement industry. Instead of...

Why are artists creating NFTs and what are the various NFT use cases going to be in the future? In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson talks to art expert Monty Preston from Saatchi Art to learn more about NFT, digital art, cryptocurrency, blockchain tech, and where this is all going. At its core, Saatchi Art is an online marketplace for independent artists to sell their artwork. It currently features over 1.4 million original artworks created by 94 thousand emerging...

In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with the SVP & CMO of Denodo, Ravi Shankar, to discuss data virtualization and the future of big data. Through various use cases and examples, Shankar walks us through the exciting history of data analysis, what his company is currently up to, and where this is all going in the future. With Denodo’s data virtualization platform, companies can use modern data integration and management to sift through mountains of data to...

In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with Mo Asady, the CTO of Convirza, to learn about how marketing teams are tracking and evaluating sales calls using AI. If you only have one or two sales calls to make, it’s easy to evaluate what happened after the call. However, if your team needs to examine the trends across hundreds of hours worth of conversations, artificial intelligence is likely a better solution. Through speech recognition, natural language processing, and ultimately,...

What does the future of education and virtual learning look like? In this edition of the UpTech Report, Alexander Ferguson meets with the CEO of InSpace, Narine Hall, to discuss how her company is helping educators to teach online with video conferencing software. InSpace’s virtual classrooms try to emulate what a real classroom would actually look and feel like, providing students and teachers with fun features such as freedom of movement. Plus, after the virtual lesson is over, students...

In this edition of the UpTech Report, Alexander Ferguson meets with Gustavo Rodriguez to learn about online parenting classes, learning activities for kids, and educational games. Rodriguez is the CEO and creator behind BabySparks  — a parenting app that helps parents plan and track meaningful play activities for kids between the ages of 0 and 3. It’s about encouraging a child’s growth and reaching new development milestones through fun family activities. Their smart adaptive technology...

How can we make virtual meetings less soul-sucking and more productive? In this edition of the UpTech Report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with David Shim of Read to discuss his computer vision tech for analyzing engagement levels on Zoom meetings. When you’re looking at twenty different faces on a screen, it’s kind of hard to get a feel for what’s going on, but Read Dashboard provides metrics that allow you to actually scientifically quantify how a meeting is going. By using deep...

In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with Katherine Wells, the CEO of Serenity Engage, to learn how the elderly care communication process can be streamlined to help combat Covid-19 and solve the staffing shortage in healthcare. Serenity is a HIPAA-Compliant Messaging Platform for senior care that helps to streamline communications between care staff and families. In the past, communication has involved three to five hours per week of time per patient, and a mix of phone calls,...

Phygital is a new industry aiming to merge digital content with physical objects in the real world, and Anna Belova, the CEO from DEVAR is a leader in this category. In this week’s UpTech Report, Anna Belova enlightens host Alexander Ferguson about her company’s augmented reality educational tech and AR creation tools. She also discusses the Metaverse, the difference between virtual reality and augmented reality, and her company’s fascinating journey. With DEVAR’S MyWebAR platform, your...

In this edition of the UpTech report, host Alexander Ferguson meets with Rema Matevosyan, the CEO of Near Space Labs, to discuss her Earth imaging company. In a single day, Near Space Labs can deploy up to four Swifty balloons on a flight to the stratosphere where they capture images of Earth from an altitude of 60,000 to 85,000 feet. The Swifty is not just a weather balloon though. There is so much technology under the surface of this sophisticated stratospheric robot. In the insurance...

Software can make the lives of business owners much easier, but assuring that disparate pieces of software can communicate properly with one another is often a difficult challenge for B2B software companies. In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with Michael Zuercher, the CEO of Prismatic, to find out more about integration platforms and how they can help. We’ll learn about Zuercher’s history growing his embedded iPaaS company and how the market is currently evolving. Plus, what was...

hat if companies could automate almost all of the hiring process AND make better hiring decisions? In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with Omer Molad, the CEO of Vervoe to discuss automated recruitment, applicant tracking systems, and a brighter future for job seekers in the information economy. Forget about all of those boring, conversation-based interviews of the past. Through a carefully constructed series of skill-based questions and online tasks, Vervoe is bringing AI and...

In the face of climate change, how can businesses reduce their energy usage, save money, and transition to a more sustainable future? In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with Mike Kirkup. He’s the CTO leading the way at EnPowered, a cCleantTech electricity platform that helps organizations decrease their energy costs and upgrade to new sustainable energy solutions. EnPowered is giving businesses the ability to make clean, smart energy choices that are actually good for the...

Kintone is an all-in-one workplace platform with a fascinating history, and in this edition of the UpTech report, we get into all of it. Host Alexander Ferguson has the CEO of Kintone, Dave Landa, on the show to talk about the wide range of solutions that they offer and what they’ve been up to all these years. For starters, the platform empowers anyone within a company to build custom workflows and pick and choose the perfect apps for their department. Whether that’s a sales team that...

In this edition of the UpTech Report, we connect with Tom Symonds, to talk about building a VR training simulator on his platform — Immerse. It’s clear that virtual reality training is going to be one of the top ways employees are made job-ready in the future with companies such as Walmart already plowing full-steam ahead. If done correctly, VR training can actually be even more beneficial than traditional methods! However, it’s not just retail that can benefit. Symonds walks host Alexander...

In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with the CEO of Renovai, Alon Gilady, to discuss AI in retail and how AI is changing the way that we approach home decor and interior design. Gilady tells his story of how he first came up with the idea for an AI design tool, plus everything that followed after. Host Alexander Ferguson dives into all of it, learning about the wide array of fascinating functionality that Renovai’s AI interior design app provides to both businesses and...

Professional networking has always been a challenge, but since we’ve been spending so much time out of the office recently, it’s gotten even harder! It’s clear that we need new ways of connecting professionally with industry leaders and colleagues, but what is the solution? In this edition of the UpTech Report, we meet with Sam Jacobs, CEO of Pavilion (formerly known as Revenue Collective) to talk about professional learning communities in the business world (PLCs) and business networking...

In today’s tech world, employees often have to juggle dozens of different apps at once just to get work done. Imagine searching for files on Google Drive, so that you can update a Task on Trello, and communicating about all of it over Slack or Zoom. Often, messages, files, notes tasks, and video calls all require different apps that are completely mismatched. Kenzo Fong knew we needed a better, more unified way of doing things so he launched his SaaS company Rock. “Rock is a new hub for...