Slideshow with Dave Hayward
Slideshow with Dave Hayward
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Slideshow is a podcast about ideas worth sharing, one slide deck at a time. In each episode, a guest brings in a handful of slides to unpack a bold idea, a clever framework, or a working demo. Host Dave Hayward (Europa Creative Partners) guides the conversation through business, marketing, strategy, technology and AI. We're all about making space for sharp insight, creative detours, and the occasional cosmic reference. More information and resources are available at www.europa.nz.
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The podcast covers a range of topics centered on business, marketing, strategy, technology, and AI. Notable episodes include discussions on programmatic media buying, the creative influence of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the impact of AI agents on productivity, providing listeners with a blend of theoretical insights and practical applications.
Slideshow is a podcast about ideas worth sharing, one slide deck at a time. In each episode, a guest brings in a handful of slides to unpack a bold idea, a clever framework, or a working demo. Host Dave Hayward (Europa Creative Partners) guides the conversation through business, marketing, strategy, technology and AI. We’re all about making space for sharp insight, creative detours, and the occasional cosmic reference. More information and resources are available at www.europa.nz.
Somewhere out there is a $10 skill pack that thousands of people have cheerfully downloaded without reading. A couple of hidden lines in one of those, and it could be raising invoices through your connected Xero before anyone notices. Nyssa Waters would like a word before you hit download.
Produced by Europa Creative Partners (europa.nz).
In this episode of Slideshow, host Dave Hayward sits down with Nyssa Waters, CEO and co-founder of Possibl AI and RCRT (Right Context Right Time), and one of the most brilliant minds working in AI right now. She led AI adoption at Google Cloud before building her own company to over $4M in revenue in under two years, and she moves from security architecture to the future of the working week in the same breath. The conversation covers serious ground. What an AI agent actually is, for a start (most of what people call agents is automation with better PR). Then the risks that come with wiring AI into everything your business owns: skill poisoning, tool drift, downloaded skill packs nobody reads. Every connection is a point of vulnerability, and most businesses have no idea what they've granted access to.
The warnings are only half the story. Nyssa has a hefty bet running with a US venture capitalist that he'll stop opening his email within two years, and she's building the case for why she'll win: her company is replacing 90% of its 42 SaaS subscriptions with a system her own team built. Their first mission was, in her words, destroying Jira. From there it ranges wide: purpose-led teams, why nobody should write a three-year AI strategy, and her belief that AI can restore us to being human again. If you want to know where all this is heading, an hour with Nyssa Waters is a very good place to start.
Links:
Nyssa Waters, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nyssawaters/
Possibl AI: https://www.possibl.ai/
RCRT: https://www.possibl.ai/rcrt/
Possibl AI, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/possiblai/
Dave Hayward, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haywarddave/
Chapters
Introduction (~0:00)
AI Agents Defined (~1:42)
The Problem with SaaS (~5:26)
AI Security Risks (~7:56)
Future of Work & Purpose-Led Teams (~35:10)
Backend as a Service & RCRT (~47:37)
AI Restoring Humanity (~1:02:28)
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