Why have one guest when you can have three? Watch this episode of Tech Leaders Hub featuring industry experts Jan Pleszyński, Krzysztof Sopyła, and Marcin Zabawa. In this session, we delved into the latest trends and insights in the tech landscape, exploring the future of software development, emerging trends, and how tech leadership can stay ahead of the curve.Our guests, a solution architect, an AI & ML expert, and a director of core services, shared their perspectives on balancing innovation with practicality. Specifically, we discussed the Python Tech Radar, its purpose, and any updates or changes since its release. We also explored the future of Python and its potential in the AI field, as well as the importance of understanding machine learning and algorithms in the Python ecosystem. Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://stxnext.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/STXNext/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Behance: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

As the field of AI continues to explode, the role of designers is more critical than ever. But how do you design for a technology that is completely different from anything we've seen before? And how do you develop a team that can thrive in this fast-changing environment? Watch this Tech Leaders Hub session with Stefanie Lauria, Design Lead at IBM, as she shares her insights on navigating the new frontier of AI design. Drawing on her 15 years of experience in the industry, Stefanie offers practical advice on everything from designing for enterprise vs. customer-level, through adapting agile methodologies, to the unique challenges of working in the AI space right now. During the episode, we covered topics such as: The paradigm shift & role of a product designer in the age of AI The project vs. product mentality Developing a team that can thrive in a fast-changing environment Introducing changes in existing structures and implementing agile solutions Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://stxnext.com/⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/STXNext/⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/⁠⁠⁠ Behance: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

Watch this special edition of Tech Leaders Hub as we said farewell to Jakub Grajcar, the creator and now former host of the show. During the session, Jakub shared what he's learned from interviewing almost 40 tech leaders and his own experiences as one. Discover what all great leaders have in common and gain insights on how to become a better leader yourself. Hear about Jakub's journey and the most memorable moments from the show. We also won't forget to ask Jakub about his #1 tip for tech leaders! Don't miss this unique opportunity to be part of the exciting changes ahead and witness the torch being passed to the new main host of Tech Leaders Hub, Natasza Mikołajczak! Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: ⁠⁠https://stxnext.com/⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/STXNext/⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/⁠⁠ Behance: ⁠⁠https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

What should tech leaders do about the uncertainty brought about by the changes happening in 2023? We were talking about market instability, the effects of the recession, as well as the rise of AI tools. How will these factors affect the way software is developed? How will they influence developers themselves? To answer these questions and more, we invited three extraordinary guests to the latest edition of Tech Leaders Hub. You may have met some of them before on the show! Our guests were: 👉 Alvaro Moya, CTO & Founder at LIDR.co 👉 Andrew Beacock, CTO at Guidr 👉 Itai Rosenblatt, Engineering Manager at Google Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: ⁠https://stxnext.com/⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/STXNext/⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/⁠ Behance: ⁠https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/⁠ Youtube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

Unlock the secrets to striking the perfect balance between independence and control within your organization with Adrián Moreno Peña, Director of Engineering at SumUp, in this episode of Tech Leaders Hub. With over 4 million vendors relying on their products, SumUp is a leading provider of financial services for small businesses. As the Director of Engineering, Adrian leads a team of over 50 people, including 30+ engineers, responsible for the development of online invoicing and accounting tools. One of the key challenges facing Adrian and his team is how to balance the need for individual growth with the needs of the larger organization. By focusing on helping others grow and succeed, Adrian has been able to foster a culture of collaboration and success within his team. During this episode, we explored topics such as: How to foster a culture of innovation and sustainability within a larger organizationThe benefits of allowing smaller units to operate with a startup mentality within a companyThe importance of setting clear investments and goals for each unitThe role of teaching and mentoring in fostering growth and development within a teamStrategies for balancing the needs of the individual with the needs of the larger organization One more thing that made this episode special was our new host, Natasza Mikołajczak, who was joining the roster of Tech Leaders Hub hosts alongside Jakub Grajcar. This episode marked Natasza's first time as a host, and we're excited to have her bring her unique perspective and insights to Tech Leaders Hub. Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

You know that migrating enterprise systems is a huge technological challenge, but have you considered how it might affect your team culture? If that challenge sounds in any way relevant, you should listen to this Tech Leaders Hub episode. Our guest was Tsvika Naveh, VP of Platform Engineering & Product at WalkMe. We've been discussing the topic of migrating enterprise systems. The technical challenges associated with such a change are just the tip of the iceberg; Tsvika was also talking about how such changes affect team structure and team culture, and how to navigate this situation as a high-level executive. At WalkMe, Tsvika’s roster of team members includes over 100 people, with a wide range of responsibilities including product management, R&D, and DevOps. He brought a wealth of experience to this Tech Leaders Hub's episode. We have discussed about: How to migrate enterprise systemsHow such migrations relate to lean product developmentHow software architecture and team culture influence each otherHow to restructure teams when breaking up a monolithWhat it’s like to manage both R&D and product together and how leading the product management changes your development process and methodology Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

As a cybersecurity expert with over 20 years of experience in tech, Avi Chesla has seen firsthand the rapid evolution of the industry. In this episode of Tech Leaders Hub, Avi joined us live to share his insights on the current challenges in cybersecurity and how to protect your company while maintaining cost efficiency. Avi’s experience includes serving as the CTO of Radware (NSDQ:RDWR) as well as being the founder & CEO of empow Cyber Security, a NG-SIEM and XDR company later acquired by Cybereason. He has been featured in articles and on the conference speaking circuit, and he also holds 40 patents in data analytics and cybersecurity solutions. During the live stream, we discussed about: The latest trends and developments in the cybersecurity fieldThe concept of “data gravity centers”, and the risks and inefficiencies involved in using themWhy some parts of cybersecurity should shift left and move closer to data sourcesHow to stay ahead of the curve with predictive models and expert systems in the rapidly changing world of cybersecurity Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

For our next session of Tech Leaders Hub, we were pleased to welcome Yakov Becker, Chief Technology Officer at Investing.com. Yakov has a wealth of experience in the technology industry, including leading the development of multiple product lines and managing teams in various roles. At Investing.com, his teams are responsible for everything from product development through DevOps up to support for production. We were exploring the topic of why you should skip team leads in your engineering organization structure—an approach Yakov has successfully tested in the past with good results. As always, we also took the chance to draw from Yakov’s deep experience and unearth other pieces of advice tech leaders can benefit from. If you want to benefit from his lessons learned and become a better leader for your engineering org, you need to watch this session! During the live stream, we discussed: The benefits and drawbacks of skipping team leads in engineering organizationsHow this structure can impact team dynamics, communication, and decision-makingYakov's experiences with this approach and the lessons he has learned Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

New technologies like Web3, blockchain, and the metaverse are finding new advocates and critics every day. The challenge for tech leaders is to know which technologies you should invest your time in, and which you should approach with caution. Perhaps there are even some technologies that are simply a distraction, and the less time you spend on them, the better.  But how can you tell which technologies have potential, and which don’t? That’s the question we tried to answer on the next Tech Leaders Hub session. Our guest was Espen Sande Larsen, Senior Vice President Of Technology Exploration at DNB, the largest bank and financial services group in Norway. We discussed about: the hype trains tech leaders are onwhether you should really be excited about Web3, blockchain, the metaverse, and other technologieswhat the history of Web 2.0 can teach us about the hype for Web3who actually wins in the hype cycleadditional advice from Espen on hiring, management, and team composition Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

If you want to harness the power of AI & machine learning, how do you get started building a team and setting your department up for success? And if you’re a fresh Head of ML tasked with building a team from scratch, how can you make sure you haven’t missed any steps? More importantly, how do you ensure that your initiatives end up in production creating value to your company instead of in the trash can? During this session, we talked about AI strategy, team building, data science roles, data product development, data productization, the most common bottlenecks to avoid and more! Benjamin Biering, our next Tech Leaders Hub guest, can tell you all about it—he’s done it more than once. Benjamin’s machine learning journey has taken him through various roles (Digital Analyst, Data Product Manager, Head of Data Science) at various companies (@Creuna, @Ebay, @2021.AI) all the way to becoming Head of Machine Learning at Podimo. If you haven’t heard of Podimo yet, they’re on the path to building the equivalent of Netflix for the audio stories space: their platform offers podcasts, audiobooks, news, and more. We discussed about: The specific questions you need to ask yourself before building a machine learning teamHow to synchronize your ML team with the overall strategy of the businessHow to hire the right ML talentHow to support teamwork between your ML team and the rest of the organizationHow to create the right conditions for successThe importance of thinking about productizing ML-based data products Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

“When I’m building a team, what I want are team members who can take on any task.” – Harlan Beverly, VP of Engineering at Mercado Labs, author of “Navigating Your Way to Startup Success” The key to a successful startup—and a successful business in general—is the team that’s leading it, as well as the teams of individual contributors delivering great work every day. If you want to learn how to build a well-rounded team that can take on any challenge, this Tech Leaders Hub session is for you. Our guest was Harlan Beverly, VP of Engineering at Mercado Labs and author of “Navigating Your Way to Startup Success”. Harlan has a wealth of experience in building and scaling startups, and was sharing his secrets to repeatable startup success. We've discussed: How Harlan managed to build five successful startupsHow to balance engineers and QAHow to balance in-house team members vs contractorsWhy the full-stack approach allows you to address the market fasterHow you can apply Agile outside of engineering to make the whole company move faster Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

You’re facing way too many challenges as a tech leader to be able to deal with them all—so where do you start? Perhaps it makes sense to listen to someone who’s in the business of working with technology leaders around the world to help them negotiate leadership challenges and achieve their optimal career impact. Jason Noble, Co-Founder at CTO Academy and our next Tech Leaders Hub guest, has spent years engaging with high-level tech executives in 86 countries and has a highly nuanced understanding of the challenges they face. For this talk he identifies three of the key challenges consistent to tech leaders he has worked with around the world and he’s agreed to join Tech Leaders Hub to tell us how to address them. We discussed about: The most important problems Jason has identified by talking with CTOs and through building CTO AcademyWhy the most popular CTO Academy modules say a lot about mindset, as well as challengesWhy effective tech leadership is rarely about the techThe unknown unknowns that tech leaders might not even know how to identify Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

When you’re an engineering leader in the business of transporting critical parcels like human organs across the world as fast as possible, can you still approach your software development in an agile way? Thilo Seliger, our next Tech Leaders Hub guest, is the Director of Engineering Europe at @Airspace, where his team is building software for one of the most high-stakes industries in the world: emergency logistics. Airspace arranges transportation of critical spare parts to make sure that factories can keep running—and your airplane can take off when there’s a sudden malfunction. They also provide critical healthcare shipments, where speed of delivery can mean the difference between life and death. Thilo built Airspace’s European Engineering team from scratch and not only is the team working in a very complex domain, but they also need to collaborate with development teams on the other side of the world while trying to be as autonomous as possible. That’s the challenge that Thilo and his team have been engaged with, leveraging his experience brought in from companies like @Temenos @ING Deutschland, @time:matters, and @Zettle by PayPal Watch this episode to learn about Thilo’s approach and benefit from his experience! We discussed about these topics: Learnings from building engineering teams from scratch and leading in different business domainsThe unique complexities of software development in the emergency logistics industry—and how to navigate them as a leaderThe lessons from emergency logistics that can be applied to other software development situationsChallenges with Agile in conservative industries like logistics and banking and how it developed over timeWhen you shouldn’t use an Agile approach Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

Question: What is something that JPMorgan, McDonald’s and Snoop Dogg are all investing in? Answer: The metaverse! 🥽🕹📹 In our latest Tech Leaders Hub session we’re diving deep into the cutting edge of tech and business. Our guest took us on a journey through the landscape of metaverse and Web3, and explained why it’s high time to become aware of what’s coming in the industry—and what’s already here. Our guide was Keren Chavkin Lior, CEO at AIME, a startup building an AI tool for the metaverse. Keren brings in a whopping 17 years experience from HSBC—where she was Head of Enterprise Architecture and headed up the Innovation Lab of HSBC Europe, among others—as well as 5 years of experience as an entrepreneur. We had a lot to discuss with Keren! Including: What the metaverse and Web3 are, exactlyWhy companies like Nvidia, Apple, and Meta are making big investments in the metaverseWhy you should pay close attention to the metaverse and Web3 even if you’re not planning to actively invest in themThe opportunities the metaverse presents to business leadersHow AI can help solve the challenges of the metaverseHow crypto plays into the metaverseHow analytics work in the metaverse Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

The way we work has been changing at an incredible pace. When some members of the same team are dialing in remotely from different time zones while others are sitting together in a conference room, flexibility is the name of the game On top of that, a new generation is joining the workforce who want more freedom in what they do at work and when they do it. Put it all together and you get an environment in which leaders have to adapt fast to find new ways to improve the flow of information and get everyone rowing in the same direction. Ender Yüksel, PhD, our next Tech Leaders Hub guest, is a Director, Development Manager at SimCorp. He’s an experienced leader and manager with lots of actionable advice to share for anyone who wants to structure their teams better, make work flow more effectively, and keep employees from all generations happy and productive. We’ve discussed: Why the career ladder has become more of a career jungle, especially for the new generationHow working with Gen Z is different and how tech leaders should adapt to itHow to create effective teamwork when working with distributed teams in a hybrid work environmentHow individual contributors can achieve higher ranks in an organization without becoming managers Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

“Leadership should not be something reflected in the org chart. It’s something people do to each other.” – Anders Kring, Head Of Technology, Banking Operations at Lunar At Lunar, managers don’t hire new team members. The team does. Even before new hires join, they’ve already spoken with 4+ colleagues and begun to build a trust-based relationship with them. And even though the manager serves as an initial filter of candidates, it’s the team that ultimately decides who joins and who doesn’t. This is peer leadership in action. And it’s the topic that our next Tech Leaders Hub session revolved around. Our guest was Anders Kring, an engineering leader with over 20 years’ experience currently serving as Head Of Technology, Banking Operations at Lunar, a Nordics-based fintech company building a single platform to control all of your finances so you can get more power from your money. The company has offices in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, more than 500.000 users and over 600 employees. We've discussed: How to build trust within your teams through peer leadershipHow to get your developers to share in the responsibility of hiring new people and become deeply invested in new team members’ successHow peer leadership helps address depression and burnoutWhy leaders should respect the gigantic impact they have on their people Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

You can debug an organization just like you debug code. And breaking up monoliths applies not just to applications, but also to teams. Intrigued? We’ve got a very special Tech Leaders Hub session in store for you with Søren Bjørnbo Engel, Head of Engineering at Linkfire. Søren has hands-on experience with making major technological changes happen in big organizations. The kind of changes that require everyone—from the CEO through team leaders all the way to junior developers—to pay attention and change the way they’re doing things. The kind of change that would make any tech leader break into a cold sweat just thinking about the scope, and the effort and communication that will be required for it. It’s also the kind of change that dramatically changes not just the organization’s software, but also the organization itself, including the way teams are organized and connected. Bringing to bear his experience from Linkfire as well as companies such as Sitecore, Pentia, and Netcompany, Søren shared how to successfully navigate through such a transformation, down to all the details you may want to know about. We've discussed: Change management: how to reshape people’s minds to think in a different wayHow to break teams down so they can work at a high pace with a controlled number of useful connectionsHow to get sponsorship and buy-in for big tech changes from top leadership all the way to junior developersHow to rebuild internal educational efforts to build the new skill sets needed by the changeHow to talk with other departments such as product, marketing and sales and bring them in on the change Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

“Is this harder than it needs to be?” - that’s the guiding question that our next Tech Leaders Hub guest encourages leaders and team members to ask to identify systems debt in their organization. Is systems debt the same as tech debt? Not quite. But you can be sure that the more systems debt you have, the more likely you are to accumulate unmanageable amounts of tech debt—as well as grind delivery to a halt. To save tech leaders worldwide from this very scenario we’re teamed up with Alishah Novin, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, as our next Tech Leaders Hub guest. Alishah to bear over a decade of engineering leadership experience and a history of making a tremendous impact at companies such as Cognizant and Celero Commerce. He’s also extremely passionate about helping people find jobs as software engineers. But that’s not all. If you’ve ever seen someone on LinkedIn with the #OpenToHelping frame on their profile, Alishah is the one who came up with it—and got a modest 2 million views / 21,000 reactions on his LinkedIn post when he did! Be sure to tune in to our session, where we have discussed about: What systems debt is, how it differs from tech debt, how it’s accrued, and how you pay it downWhat your Seniors should be doing to help you handle your systems debtWhy you should plan for your Juniors leaving after as little as 18 monthsWhy the way your team takes (or doesn’t take) breaks can help you diagnose systems debtWhy you should hold Stupid Questions Only meetings Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

The tale of fintechs vs banks has captured the imagination of many in the financial sector. But should it be considered a straight-up rivalry, or is there possibility for co-existence and cooperation? This question is especially interesting to ponder given the recent volatile movements in stock prices. So we decided to bring in an expert to comment on the current situation—and share advice on what fintechs should do to succeed (or even survive) in 2022. Meital Raviv, our next Tech Leaders Hub guest, brings 20 years of experience in the financial market and deep insight into its inner workings. Meital is currently Deputy CEO of Wallter, a leading European Electronic Money Institution licensed by the Bank of Lithuania and placed among the top 10 leading EMIs in Lithuania. But Meital’s career started on the tech side of things as a developer before transitioning to gradually more business-oriented executive roles at organizations including Bank Leumi (CDO), KPMG Israel (Head of Fintech & innovation), and Bank Hapoalim (Head of Digital Strategy, Open Banking, Innovation Lab and Fintech innovation). Meital is also a Member Of The Management Board at CityTLV - The Gateway to Greater TLV International Financial Center, which is a partnership for the promotion of Greater Tel-Aviv as an international financial and fintech center. We've discussed: How to handle the increased risk resulting from the current situation in the marketWhy fintechs vs banks is a love/hate relationshipThe mistakes Meital has seen fintechs make over and over again, and how to avoid them Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse

Itai Rosenblatt is an Engineering Manager at Google where his team works on complex database migration solutions. He was also the guest on Tech Leaders Hub! Our session was focused on the struggles of first-line managers, and how best to navigate the transition from individual contributor to first-line (and eventually second-line) manager. Itai knows exactly what that's like. Before Google he went from being a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco to starting on the leader’s path at ScaleIO (a software defined storage company), which is now part of Dell technologies. He was also a startup founder and he still runs Ace the Code Interview, providing mentorship for technical interviews. Taking all of the above together, Itai brought with him a real treasure trove of knowledge that you can benefit from by watching this session! We've discussed: – Why you need a support group as a manager (and how to find one) – What to do to create your own opportunities in your career – Why you need to stop chasing cows and build fences – Itai’s current #1 book recommendation for managers Get more guides, news, and videos from STX Next! Website: https://stxnext.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stx-next-python-experts Twitter: https://twitter.com/STXNext/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StxNext/ Behance: https://www.behance.net/STXNextTeam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stx_next/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/STXNextPythonPowerhouse