Best Dominic De Gioia Podcasts (2024)

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Discussion with Major League Hacking Coach Aditya Oberai 36:31

3y ago36:31

36:31

In this episode, I interviewed Aditya Oberai. Aditya is a Major League Hacking coach, Twilio Champion, Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador and Google DSC Lead. He shared his wealth of knowledge about Hackathons with us and what hackers, mentors, and organisers need to do to be successful. I hope you enjoy the show…

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Melanie De Gioia and The Humanitarian Innovation Hackathon Awards 57:45

3y ago57:45

57:45

In this episode, I caught up with Melanie De Giola, a detailed Project Manager and Hackathon organiser who specialises in bringing order to chaos and thrives when working with a number of key stakeholders. Melanie is an organiser of The Humanitarian Innovation Hackathon, a weekend-long virtual event designed for university students to work collabor…

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Daniel Stillman and Designing Conversations that Matter 48:16

3+ y ago48:16

48:16

In this episode, I interviewed conversation deisgn expert, Daniel Stillman. We discussed the importance of intentionally designing conversations and how to engage the end-users in problem-driven solutions in Hackathons. Daniel had amazing insights into how to effectively collaborate with team members and how to design amazing conversations. I hope …

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Progressive Diversity With Lauren Mua 30:45

3+ y ago30:45

30:45

The conversation on diversity has been going for decades. Lauren Mua spoke to Mel & Dom about Progressive Diversity. She has seen and experienced changes in the industry during her 10+ years as an engineer. “I put progressive in front of that diversity, because I see it as something that … is about moving forward, promoting change and improving our…

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What’s in a title? With Steve Howe 33:34

3+ y ago33:34

33:34

What is in a title? When you’re an engineer, a title could mean a lot. Stephen Howe spoke to Mel & Dom about his observations of a worrying situation in the engineering industry where engineers are chasing the grandiose role title, even if their experience doesn’t equate. “But don't play into this phenomenon of "job title, scope creep" that I think…

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Campaign Labs and Hackathons 51:16

3+ y ago51:16

51:16

In this episode, I discussed community hackathons in the political industry with Campaign Labs organisers, Hannah O'Rouke and James Moulding. Campaign Labs building the case for an evidence-based approach to campaigning and in December 2020, they hosted their first Hackathon. Hannah and James share their experiences building a grassroots community …

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Human Systems with Grace Kennedy 19:00

3+ y ago19:00

19:00

Grace Kennedy is a Systems Engineer.  She specialises in understanding, modelling and communicating the interaction of humans and technical systems. She spoke to Mel & Dom about her thoughts and experience on Human Systems Integration and expresses her concern with engineers ensuring they keep the human interaction at the forefront of their mind as…

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Electric Shocks with Peter Stepien 22:49

3+ y ago22:49

22:49

Electricity in mines is a very concerning hazard. And while there have not been any fatalities in Australian mines due to electrocution in well over 30 years, this does not mean engineers are not working on it. Peter Stepien spoke to Mel & Dom about his concern that engineers must stay vigilant with evolving technology, specifically currently with …

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SexTech Hackathons, Touchy Feely Tech and Creative Technology with Alice Stewart 41:03

3+ y ago41:03

41:03

In this episode, I spoke to Alice Stewart, the founder of Touchy Feely Tech, a hardware company that creates educational kits and experiences that combine hardware, software, and hands-on craft. Alice shares her insights into the role Hackathons have to play in the creative landscape and her take on SexTech Hackathons. I hope you enjoy the show.…

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IOT with Ami Pasricha 26:45

3+ y ago26:45

26:45

Ami Pasricha has been thinking about the Internet Of Things (IOT) since very early in her career. In fact, her very first project at university utilised this technology. Ami spoke to Mel & Dom about her incredible work in this cutting edge area of IOT and describes some of the challenges facing this technology in the future. This is a podcast about…

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OnDeck's 2021 Global Build Weekend with Cactus Chu 33:43

3+ y ago33:43

33:43

In this episode, I interview Catcus Chu, an inductee into OnDeck's Podcaster Fellowship and podcast host of Meta Politics, a podcast that asks tough political questions such as why is politics irrational? And why are there blatantly deranged ideas in every level of media? In this show we discussed the OnDeck's 2021 Global Build Weekend and the inte…

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Design thinking approach to hackathons with Tähe-Kai Tillo 58:09

3+ y ago58:09

58:09

In this episode, I connected with Tähe-Kai Tillo, the Co-founder and design sprint facilitator of Studio Leek, a design sprint agency in Tallinn, Estonia that is helping bring innovation to business' workflow to build better products faster. I discussed the intersection between design thinking and Hackathons with Tähe-Kai. I hope you enjoy the show…

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Cyber Engineering with Renee Wootton 25:12

3+ y ago25:12

25:12

Our reliance on computers means the fact of cyber-crime is more of a question “when”, not “if”. Renee Wootton spoke to Engineering Heroes about how society is now facing cyber-attacks on a daily basis and how it is of vital importance that cyber engineers are involved in the development and upgrade of computer systems. This is a podcast about the e…

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Open Scout & The Faster Further Competition 54:03

3+ y ago54:03

54:03

In this episode, I discussed scout programs, entrepreneurship, and the faster further pitch competition with Adam Hardej, the founder and CEO of Open Scout. Adam shares his entrepreneurial journey and his mission to make venture building more equitable.

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WindHackers 2021 with Founder Karlis Skuja 1:15:02

3+ y ago1:15:02

1:15:02

In this episode, I discussed WindHacks, a community for innovators and entrepreneurs to learn, create and share, with Karlis Skuja, WindHacks founder and community, open communication, and innovation enthusiast. Karlis shared his extensive hackathon experience and knowledge and discussed his forthcoming SexHack and MediaHack events.…

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Skills shortage with Craig Smith 28:33

3+ y ago28:33

28:33

Craig Smith has worked in the engineering industry for over 2 decades. He notes that we are living in a real infrastructure boom, an era of mega projects. And he’s deeply concerned about the real skills shortage being experienced in Australia. No longer can Australia rely upon engineers from overseas bolstering the engineering ranks, we must look t…

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Water with Sue Murphy 28:32

3+ y ago28:32

28:32

Sue Murphy is a highly regarded engineer who has worked in the industry for nearly 4 decades. She spoke to Engineering Heroes about the importance of water management, which is a key priority in WA, and how the key to any successful engineering project is communication and co-operation with the community and all stakeholders. "Politicians of Wester…

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Disaster Resilience with Paul Gleeson 21:40

3+ y ago21:40

21:40

Disaster Resilience is all about managing floods and fires and everything nature can throw at us. Well, this would be wrong. According to Paul Gleeson, you can’t consider disaster resilience without also considering climate change. If you want to consider and manage Australia’s disaster resilience, you need to look deeper, towards climate change, w…

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Sustainable and smart communities with Zoe Eather 18:51

3+ y ago18:51

18:51

“Smart communities are sustainable communities”. This week Mel & Dom speak to Zoe Eather, the host of The Smart Communities Podcast. Zoe discusses that the technology the is required to improve our living in our communities, but it also goes a step further. A mindset change is needed, and sustainability is more than just an individual or community …

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Food with Brandon Miller 13:37

3+ y ago13:37

13:37

Consider walking into a supermarket, placing your order for fruit & vegetables and then getting them picked fresh from the rooftop garden. Today’s guest is Brandon Miller from Sprout Stack and that is exactly his vision for the future. His engineering has the potential to completely revolutionise the way society experiences food. This is a podcast …

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Annabelle Xing and Alexis Fry | Creatica 2020 40:55

3+ y ago40:55

40:55

In this episode, I’ll be talking to Alexis and Annabelle, two of the organizers of Creatica, New York City’s first virtual, all-female, trans, and non-binary hackathon. Creatica equipped equip young women in high school and college around the world with the real technical skills and a support network to pursue their interests in tech.‍ Creatica was…

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Energy with Dr Xiaojing Hao 15:21

3+ y ago15:21

15:21

This is another mini-episode in the lead up to World Engineering Day 2021. In this episode we speak to Dr Xiaojing Hao about her work in energy and finding ways to boost the world’s solar power. Imagine if your mobile, or car, or building could become a solar panel and actually generate enough energy to run itself. "There are lots of scientists and…

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Circular Economy with Ashley Brinson 19:24

3+ y ago19:24

19:24

World Engineering Day for 2021 is upon us, and Engineers Australia is proud to present Ashley Brinson as he shares with us how important engineers are in ensuring a healthier planet. Ashley discusses how important the circular economy is to a sustainable future and the important roles engineers have in ensuring this. This is a podcast about the eng…

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REFOCUS: Space 2.0 with Anntonette Dailey 13:52

3+ y ago13:52

13:52

“If you’re in space, you’re in the future”. Today is the final REFOCUS episode for season 4, and we revisit a very, very early episode where we spoke to Anntonette Dailey, the Executive Director of the Australian Space Agency. Anny spoke to Mel & Dom about how the agency “is not going to be a NASA” and the role is aims to play in forming our modern…

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REFOCUS: Engineering items from season 4 14:52

3+ y ago14:52

14:52

Every episode of Engineering Heroes, Mel & Dom ask our guest what is an engineering item they admire? In this REFOCUS episode, Mel & Dom compiled the most popular engineering items. Items include Bridges, Space and the Snowy Mountain Scheme. With honourable, interesting mention going to the Deathridge Wheel and Crash Test Dummies. This is a podcast…

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Jared Broad | Democratising Finance with Quant League 27:11

3+ y ago27:11

27:11

In this episode, I spoke to Jared Broad, the founder of QuantConnect. QuantConnect open, decentralized algorithmic trading infrastructure. Jared shares his journey from being a biomedical engineer to founding a trading platform that provides its community of over 90,000 quants with access to financial data, cloud computing, and a coding environment…

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Peter Ma | Hacking hackathons like a professional 55:01

3+ y ago55:01

55:01

In this episode, I’ll be talking to Hackathon expert Peter Ma. Peter is an experience Hacker that has won some of the highest-profile competitions. Explored explore interesting ideas about Hacking Hackathons and turning a winning project into a startup. I hope you enjoy the show.

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David Clark - Call for Code 36:43

3+ y ago36:43

36:43

In this episode, I’ll be interview David Clark, the CEO of Amnesty International and the Founder of Call for Code. Call for Code is a Global Challenge for developers and non-developers worldwide to come together to solve global problems. David shared with us the story of how it all began. I hope you enjoy the show.…

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REFOCUS: Engineering Heroes with Dan Taylor 14:00

3+ y ago14:00

14:00

This is a REFOCUS episode... an episode where we revisit to refocus on a topic from an earlier time in our podcast history. Dan Taylor thinks it's well past time for engineers to step forward and promote themselves as the experts they are... “Be a Kevin McCloud of engineering” Being reserved at the start of your career is expected, but there comes …

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REFOCUS: Advice from 2020 7:58

3+ y ago7:58

7:58

Every episode of Engineering Heroes, Mel & Dom ask our guest what a piece of advice is they would offer an engineer just starting out. In this final episode of 2020, we have compiled to top advice from some of the leading engineers in Australian industry. This is a podcast about the engineering challenges that are facing today’s society. These are …

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Jonathon Gottfried | Major League Hacking 35:14

3+ y ago35:14

35:14

In this episode, I catch up with Jonathon Gottfried, the Co-founder of Major League Hacking and former developer evangelist at Twilio. Johnathon shares his wide-ranging insights with us about hackathons and the story of major league hacking. This episode was one for the books. I hope you enjoy the show!…

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REFOCUS: Policy Certainty with Dr Mary Stewart 11:55

3+ y ago11:55

11:55

REFOCUS is a short episode where we revisit some of the key ideas from some of our previous guests on the podcast. This week we refocus on the message presented to us by Dr Mary Stewart. She speaks to us about the important role engineers have to ensure our planet’s climate doesn’t continue to spiral out of control. But engineers, and others, won’t…

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Innovation in Construction with James Glastonbury 23:35

3+ y ago23:35

23:35

James Glastonbury is 3rd generation engineer. And he believes that, in construction “as an industry, we're underperforming.” James believes that engineers have a very important role to play in meeting the challenges being presented, but also unlocking the opportunities of innovation within the construction industry. This is a podcast about the engi…

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Coping with COVID with Kathleen Boseley 30:02

3+ y ago30:02

30:02

Kathleen Boseley spoke to Mel & Dom about how she and her team at Airbus are coping with COVID. Because while work and life has become a challenge, if you're creative with it, it can actually be really beneficial. This is a podcast about the engineering challenges that are facing today’s society. These are our Engineering Heroes. A podcast from Eng…

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Redesigning the Legal Industry with Marie Potel-Saville 44:24

4y ago44:24

44:24

In this episode, I spoke to Marie Potel-Saville. A legal designer combining Magic Circle and in-house experience that focuses on driving human-centric innovation in the legal industry. Marie has lead organizations such as Estee Lauder and Chanel in making the law accessible, actionable, and beautiful and continues her efforts as the founder and CEO…

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Fast pace of innovation with Richard Hopkins 34:17

4y ago34:17

34:17

Richard Hopkins is an EA Companion. He left school at 16 to work in Formula One which he saw “formula one as a bit of an avenue to make something of myself.“ And he has. Now Richard is a Professor of Practice at UNSW and is training the engineers of the future on keep up with the innovations that are regularly happening. “What we don't want to do i…

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Remembrance Day 2020 Special 6:11

4y ago6:11

6:11

This is a special short episode of Engineering Heroes. Mel & Dom speak to Marcus Thompson about his involvement with Remembrance Day 2020. Lest we forget. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Engineers Australia

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Abandoned Engineering with Ruby Heard 27:23

4y ago27:23

27:23

Ruby Heard is concerned about “how to deliver responsible, sustainable energy solutions to remote communities”. She works in the remote communities of Australia and the Pacific and see so many examples of abandoned engineering – “We've just left them with no support and no money to have these things maintained”. Unfortunately, the solution is compl…

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Challenge to design with Stewart Garden 32:04

4y ago32:04

32:04

Stewart Garden joins us to discuss that design in infrastructure is a real issue in Australia. This has been a problem building over the last 20 years, and we are at “an intergenerational low in the quality of design information and design output”. And it’s an issue that will require changes is design standards, training, fee structures, politics, …

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Dima Syrotkin | Sparking wisdom in Hackathon participants 44:36

4y ago44:36

44:36

In this episode, we will be talking to Dima Syrotkin. A Ph.D. student researching self-managing organizations and cofounder of Panda training. Panda training is an award-winning micro-coaching startup that supports management teams in strategy execution and people development. Dima has some amazing insights on innovation, management, and Hackathons…

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Antiquated Engineering with Joyce Ferng 23:10

4y ago23:10

23:10

Joyce Ferng believes we need “a change in the whole concept of how we design things and how we construct things”. Change is inevitable, but Joyce Ferng spoke to Mel & Dom about how the engineering industry is falling behind, it needs to be more progressive. She points out that engineers need to be more future-focused in not just solving problems of…

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SMR the future with Tony Irwin 31:50

4y ago31:50

31:50

Tony Irwin started working in power plants at 15 and has loved every minute of it. He is now ‘retired’ - yet busier than ever! - Tony is passionately communicating to the wider community about generating energy from clean emission sources, of which nuclear must be part of the solution. Tony believes that the key to moving Australia from one of the …

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome with Alexandra Radulovich 35:37

4y ago35:37

35:37

Alexandra Radulovich doesn’t feel she has experienced any direct impacts of discrimination, in fact her career is progressing well. And, as her career has progressed, Alex has started experiencing Imposter Syndrome. “Being a female in engineering has never really bothered me”. But she can’t stop the voice in her head asking... “why are they listeni…

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Rising to the challenges with Marcus Thompson 24:56

4y ago24:56

24:56

Mel & Dom speak to Major General Marcus Thompson, the current Head of Information Warfare for the Australian Defence Force. He spoke about the many, many challenges facing all of society now and how engineers are perfectly placed to rise to the challenge and help tackle the issues. He also discusses how the solutions and the technology being utilis…

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Alexander Nolte | How to Support Newcomers in Scientific Hackathons - An Action Research Study on Expert Mentoring 1:04:29

4y ago1:04:29

1:04:29

In this episode, I spoke to Alexander Nolte, Associate Professor @ University of Tartu, Adjunct Associate Professor @ Carnegie Mellon University. We discussed his thoughts on Hackathons from published research paper’s You Hacked and Now What - Exploring Outcomes of a Corporate Hackathon and How to Support Newcomers in Scientific Hackathons - An Act…

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Broadening Scope with Rosie Mosely 23:29

4y ago23:29

23:29

Rosanna Mosely has seen that increasingly, engineers require a more diverse range of skills. No longer is it just about maths and problem solving. Engineers must be able to broaden their scope of what is required of an engineer to include the soft skills that are so often spoken about. This is a podcast about the engineering challenges that are fac…

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Muntaser Jems Syed | MLH Top 50 Hacker 55:18

4y ago55:18

55:18

In this episode, we caught up with Mantaser, a research assistant at the Florida Institute of Technology and a Major League Hacking Top 50 Hacker. He shared with us his Hackathon stories and his amazing journey to becoming a Hackathon expert. I hope you enjoy the show.

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Dr. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf & Sarah Lebovitz | minimal and adaptative coordination 57:08

4y ago57:08

57:08

In this episode, I connected with Dr. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf Assistant Professor at NYU, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard University and Sarah Lebovitz, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. We discussed their research on both minimal and adaptative coordination: how hackathons Projects Accelera…

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Engineering Failures with Sean Brady 32:53

4y ago32:53

32:53

What is the cause of engineering failures? This is a question that Sean Brady has examined a number of times, in a number of ways. Sean is an engineer and a podcaster and is driven to present to society the multitude of reasons things fail. And urges “we really have to start thinking about failure in a different way.” This is a podcast about the en…

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Flexible Engineering with Adele Faraone 23:05

4y ago23:05

23:05

Adele Faraone made the decision to shake things up and moved her engineering career to the Northern Territory.... just as the impact of COVID started to hit society. Adele spoke to Engineering Heroes about how, pre-COVID a key challenge for engineers was getting flexible working options. And how COVID has actually forced the solution – but will it …

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