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A zippy conversation about trending technology hosted by industry veteran Niki Christoff. What’s happening right now on the frontlines of tech? From the C-Suite and Capitol Hill, to crypto and Gen Z TikTok, Niki breaks it all down to help savvy listeners get even smarter. Guests include experts, enthusiasts, regulators, policymakers, CEOs, and reporters.

Full episode list below.

Tech'ed Up Episodes

Episode 1

Facebook: "An Ugly Truth"

Guest: Cecilia Kang (New York Times)

Date : 9. 30. 21

Episode 2

AI: Winning the New Cold War

Guest: Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX)

Date: 10. 7. 21

Episode 3

Crypto 101: The Basics of Blockchain

Guest: Jamie Smith

Date: 10. 14. 21

Episode 4

what are NFTs?

Guest: Macey Smith

Date: 10. 21. 21

Episode 5

Regulating Digital Currency

Guest: Commissioner Hester Peirce (S.E.C.)

Date: 10. 28. 21

Episode 6

Surviving a North Korean Cyber Attack

Guest: Stevan Bernard (Sony)

Date: 11. 04. 21

Episode 7

Cleaning up Cyberspace

Guest: Niloo Razi Howe

Date: 11. 11. 21

Episode 8

Battling Disinformation

Guest: Camille François (Graphika)

Date : 11. 18 21

Episode 9

Making sense of the metaverse

Guest: Emily Birnbaum (POLITICO)

Date : 12. 02. 21

Episode 10

WTF is Web3?

Guest: Sheila Warren (Crypto Council for Innovation)

Date : 12. 9. 21

Episode 11

AI: What do People Think?

Guest: Leo Rees (Milltown Partners)

Date : 12. 16. 21

Episode 12

Satellites & Space Junk

Guest: Charles Miller (Lynk)

Date : 12. 23. 21

Episode 13

The Case for Digital Currency

Guest: Deana Burke (Celo)

Date : 01. 13. 22

Episode 14

Lessons from Silcon Valley's C-Suite

Guest: Ann Hiatt

Date : 01. 20. 22

Episode 15

Anti-Trust: Breaking up Big Tech

Guest: Ashley Gold (Axios)

Date : 01. 27. 22

Episode 16

Self-Driving Hits the Highway

Guest: Lea Theodosiou-Pisanelli (Aurora)

Date : 02. 10. 22

Episode 17

Parenting in the Algorithm Age

Guest: Kat Mauler (Google)

Date : 02. 17. 22

Episode 18

Start-Up: Refinancing Auto Loans Online

Guest: Kevin Bennett (Caribou)

Date : 02. 24. 22

Episode 19

Start-Up: Telehealth For Women

Guest: Chelsea Kohler (Favor)

Date : 03. 03. 22

Episode 20

Ethereum Explained

Guest: Laura Shin

Date : 03. 10. 22

Episode 21

Crypto 101: Understanding Stablecoins

Guest: Chris Grieco

Date : 03. 17. 22

Episode 22

Royally Obsessed

Guest appearance

Date : 03. 22

Episode 23

No, your Computer isn't Listening to You

Guest: Austin Carson (SeedAI)

Date : 03. 31. 22

Episode 24

Unchained

Guest appearance

Date: 04. 22

Episode 25

Battling Big Tech Backlash

Guest: Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt

Date : 04 07. 22

Episode 26

Building U.S. Mission-Focused Tech

Guest: Amy Gilliand

Date : 04. 28. 22

Episode 27

Solving Crimes on the Blockchain

Guest: Jennifer Vander Veer (TRM Labs)

Date : 05. 12. 22

Episode 28

Elon Musk's Twitter Deal

Guest: Kate Conger (New York Times)

Date : 05. 19. 22

Episode 29

Making Cyberflashing a Crime

Guest: Payton Iheme (Bumble)

Date : 06. 02. 22

Episode 30

AgTech Can Fix Farms

Guest: VC Connie Bowen

Date : 06. 16. 22

Episode 31

Building Without Scaling Harm

Guest: Miriam Vogel (EqualAI)

Date : 06. 30. 22

Episode 32

Blockchain Growing Pains

Guest: Kathleen Breitman (Tezos)

Date : 07 14. 22

Episode 33

Untangling the Supply Chain

Guest: VC Santosh Sankar

Date : 07. 28. 22

Episode 34

China Could Win a War in 72 hours

Guest: Sean Gourley (PrimerAI)

Date : 08. 11. 22

Episode 35

TikTok: China's Trojan horse

Guest: Commissioner Brendan Carr (F.C.C.)

Date : 08. 25. 22

Episode 36

The Crypto Cavalry Has Arrived

Guest: Tory Newmyer (Washington Post)

Date : 09. 08. 22

Episode 37

The Story of Grindr

Guest: Patrick Lenihan (Grindr)

Date : 09. 22. 22

Episode 38

Guest: Stu Alderoty (Ripple Labs)

Date : 10. 06. 22

Episode 39

YouTube’s "Rise to World Domination”

Guest: Mark Bergen (Bloomberg)

Date : 10. 20. 22

Episode 40

Is AI Becoming Sentient?

Guest: Nitasha Tiku (Washington Post)

Date : 11. 03. 22

Episode 41

Crypto Shockwaves

Guest: Dante Disparte (Circle)

Date : 11. 17. 22

Episode 42

Is Tech Policy Passé ?

Guest: Karen Kornbluh. (German Marshall Fund)

Date : 12.01.22

Episode 43

Workplace Mental Health

Guest: Malcom Glenn

Date : 12.15.22

Episode 44

The Business of Cyber

Guest: Stefanie Drysdale (Prescient)

Date : 12.29.22

Episode 45

Crypto Aftershocks: Live From CES

Guest: Sheila Warren (Crypto Council for Innovation)

Date : 01.12.23

Episode 46

Chips, China, & TikTok

Guest: Senator Mark Warner (D-VA)

Date : 01.26.23

Episode 47

Facts Favor The Optimist

Guest: Rep. John Delaney (D-MD)

Date : 02.29.23

Episode 48

Making Sense of the Metaverse

Guest: Denise Zheng (Accenture)

Date : 02.23.23

Episode 49

Online Speech & The Supreme Court

Guest: Emily Birnbaum (Bloomberg)

Date : 03.09.23

Episode 50

Bye, Trolls

Guest: Tracy Chou (Block Party)

Date : 03.23.23

Episode 51

Cyber Safety

Guest: Debbie Taylor Moore (IBM)

Date : 04.06.23

Episode 52

Ai Deep Dive

Guest: Dorothy Chou (Google DeepMind)

Date : 04.20.23

Episode 53

Crypto For Good (for real)

Guest: Denelle Dixon (Stellar Development Foundation)

Date : 05.04.23

Episode 54

Kids & Social Media Addiction

Guest: Previn Warren

Date : 05.18.23

Episode 55

Deep Fake Drake

Guest: Jessica Powell (AudioShake)

Date : 06.01.23

Episode 56

The Deep & Dark Web

Guest: Matteo Tomasini (District 4 Labs)

Date : 06.15.23

Episode 57

Race For Space

Guest: Ashlee Vance (Bloomberg)

Date : 06.29.23

Episode 58

AI, Hacks, & Cyber Attacks

Guest: Paul Rosenzweig

Date : 06.13.23

Episode 59

DC & Tech Hot Topics

Guest: Ashley Gold (Axios)

Date : 06.17.23

Episode 60

Is Crypto Back From The Dead?

Guest: John Rizzo

Date : 08.10.23

Episode 61

Smart Guns 101

Guest: Kai Kloepfer (Biofire)

Date : 08.24.23

Episode 62

Profiles in Tech: From Oxford to Reddit

Guest: Jessica Ashooh (Reddit)

Date : 09.27.23

Episode 63

Tech'ed Up Turns 2!

Guest: Best of Compilation

Date : 09.21.23

Episode 64

FinTech in DC

Guest: Penny Lee (Financial Trade Association) & Amena Ross (Block)

Date : 10.05.23

Episode 65

Digital Ticket Era

Guest: Laura Dooley (StubHub)

Date : 10.19.23

Episode 66

Futureproof

Guest: Kevin Roose (New York Times / Hard Fork)

Date : 11.02.23

Episode 67

Take Back Your Data

Guest: Martina Larkin (Project Liberty)

Date : 11.16.23

Episode 68

Tech at the CIA

Guest: Sheetal Patel (CIA)

Date : 11.30.23

Episode 69

Is Tech Policy Passé ?

Guest: Bruce Mehlman

Date : 12.14.23

Episode 70

Profiles In Tech: Running at Walls

Guest: Meghan Joyce (Duckbill)

Date : 12.28.23

Episode 71

The Future of Digital Money

Guest: Matt Swinehart

Date : 01.11.24

Episode 72

Reframing AI

Guest: Chloe Autio

Date : 01.25.24

Episode 73

The Future Of Podcasting

Guest: Jordan Newman (Spotify)

Date : 02.28.24

Episode 74

Quick Tech Takes: Layoffs & Spy Satellites

Guest Host: Lauren Tomlinson (Steer PR)

Date : 02.15.24

Episode 75

The AI Ripple Effect

Guest: Dex Hunter-Torricke (Google DeepMind)

Date : 02.22.24

Episode 76

Quick Tech Takes: Spamoflauge, Google Gemini, & ChatGPT

Guest Host: Lauren Tomlinson (Steer PR)

Date : 02.29.24

Episode 77

Billionaires Playing Politics

Guest: Teddy Schleifer (Puck)

Date : 03.07.24

Episode 78

Quick Tech Takes: TikTok & EU's Digital Market Act

Guest Host: Adam Kovacevich (Chamber of Progress)

Date : 03.14.24

Episode 79

Regulatory Hacking

Guest: Evan Burfield

Date : 03.21.24

Episode 80

Quick Tech Takes: US v. Apple & the Rewiring of Childhood

Guest Host: Adam Kovacevich (Chamber of Progress)

Date : 03.28.24

Episode 81

Profiles in Tech: Put Yourself in the Room

Guest: Jill Hazelbaker (Uber)

Date : 04.04.24

Episode 82

Quick Tech Takes: Privacy Legislation & Tech's AI Data Race

Guest Host: Kat Mauler (Google)

Date : 04.11.24

Episode 83

Profiles in Tech: Fighting Online Hate

Guest: Imran Ahmed (Center for Countering Digital Hate)

Date : 04.18.24

Episode 84

Quick Tech Takes: Surveillance, TikTok, & Robots

Guest Host: Kat Mauler (Google)

Date : 04.25.24

Episode 85

A New Net

Guest: Frank McCourt (Project Liberty)

Date : 05.02.24

Episode 86

Archer Aviation Takes Off

Guest: Adam Goldstein

Date : 05.16.24

Episode 87

AI Mythbusting

Guest: Nikki Pope (NVIDIA)

Date : 12.01.22

Episode 88

Blockchain's Promise

Guest: Sheila Warren (Crypto Council for Innovation)

Date : 06.13.24

Episode 89

Fun & Games at Discord

Guest: Ross LaJeunesse (Discord)

Date : 06.27.24

Episode 90

The State of Tech Policy

Guest: Dave Barmore (Runway Strategies)

Date : 07.11.24

Episode 91

The Case For Digital Solidarity

Guest: Pablo Chavez

Date : 07.25.24

Episode 92

Profiles In Tech: Grit & Gratitude

Guest: Tiffany Moore (Consumer Technology Association)

Date : 08.08.24

Episode 93

Tech On The Hill

Guest: Andrew Desiderio (Punchbowl News)

Date : 08.22.24

Episode 94

Venture Capital Meets Mission Critical

Guest: Steve Bowsher ( In-Q-Tel)

Date : 09.05.24

Episode 95

Quantum 101

Guest: Murray Thom (D-Wave)

Date : 09.19.24

Episode 96

AI's Campaign Influence

Guest: Sheera Frenkel (New York Times)

Date : 10.03.24

Episode 97

Profiles in Tech: From Campaigns to Crypto

Guest: Julie Stitzel (DCG)

Date : 10.17.24

Episode 98

Lessons from Twitter's Takeover

Guest: Lauren Culbertson Grieco

Date : 10.31.25

Episode 99

The Art of the Pivot

Guest: Gary Shapiro (Consumer Technology Association)

Date : 11.14.24

Episode 100

SCOTUS Tech Docket

Guest: Chris Mohr (SIIA)

Date : 11.14.24

Episode 101

Banking's AI Revolution

Guest: Paul LaRusso (Akoya) & Nicole Elam (National Bankers Association)

Date : 12.12.24

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