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about us

The award-winning tech podcast that asks : "Are we the ones breaking the world?"

Most tech podcasts are an echo chamber for builders. We step outside. We talk to the observers, the social scientists, and the deep thinkers who study the friction we create and the human systems we disrupt.

Lianne Potter and Jeff Watkins strip away the industry fluff and pit academic research against the harsh reality of real organisations and real human incentives.

We don’t just talk about AI, security, and automation; we explore the unintended consequences of our own "elegant" solutions.

We’re here to look at tech through a different lens and ask the uncomfortable questions that the industry usually avoids. Because if you’ve built a system that has become everyone else's problem, you have to ask:

"Am I the compromising position here?"

MEET THE HOSTS

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  • CO-HOST

    Lianne is an award-winning cyber anthropologist and security transformation leader with experience in the retail, healthcare, finance, private and non-profit sectors.

    She specialises in providing strategic and technical consultancy to help organisations build and evolve their security operation functions into mature, resilient, and forward-thinking teams. From guiding the establishment of new security functions to elevating existing ones, she partners with organisations to ensure their SecOps department is not just operational but transformational.

    Previously, as Head of SecOps for Europe's largest greenfield technology transformation, she built a cutting-edge security team from scratch to safeguard a modern retail organisation. Her leadership empowered the team to set new benchmarks in industry best practices through innovation and collaboration.

    As an international keynote speaker for both technical and academic audiences, she shares insights at the intersection of cybersecurity, technology, and anthropology. Drawing on her practical experience as a security-focused software developer and my continued work as a practicing anthropologist, she brings a unique perspective that combines deep technical expertise with a focus on human-centered design and cultural understanding.

    Committed to fostering diversity and inclusion in tech, she has advised community initiatives, authored publications, host award-winning podcasts, and earned accolades including Security Specialist of the Year, Security Leader of the Year and Cybersecurity Personality of the Year.

    She is currently doing an MSc in AI and Data Science

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  • CO-HOST

    Jeff is Chief Product and Technology Officer for CreateFuture.

    He is a lifelong technologist with nearly 25 years’ experience in the industry, first having started coding at age 6.

    Having worked in the Financial Services, Healthcare and Retail industries, on enterprise and national scale programmes.

    Over the years he has become increasingly interested in Cybersecurity and AI and how both will shape our future, both technologically and the human impact.

    Jeff has founded multiple CyberSecurity teams and is currently working on several new pieces around the secure development and deployment of Generative AI based solutions.

    He is a tech blogger, writer, podcaster and public speaker, having recently keynoted at the Webinale international web conference in Berlin and International Javascript Conference in London.

    Jeff has a Master's Degree in Cybersecurity and is currently studying for his Master's in Artificial Intelligence.

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