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The Tech Glow Up - Fabulous conversations with innovative minds.
Almost every founder is in a league of their own. It’s lonely at the top for founders and product leaders. It’s lonely in innovation - few people really understand what you do or can share relatable examples or advice.
Welcome to The Glow Up - Fabulous conversations with innovative minds. I'm your host - Nathan C - founder of Awesome Future.
Here at The Glow Up, we're on a mission to uplift and humaninze the world of startups and innovaiton by focussing on what really matters in the long entreprenuerial journey of successfully taking an idea or technology to market.
Most innovative ideas are ahead of their time, which makes staying on the playing field long enough for your idea to “hit” one of the most crucial skills for a founder or new business.
The Glow Up talks with innovators about their big ideas, how they stay resilient in the face of change and how they find and build the value that will drive their future success.
What is a glow up - you might ask?
Glow up is defined as "a positive transformation, often involving significant changes in appearance, confidence, or lifestyle.
We use "Glow up" to refer to the process of becoming a better version of oneself, more attractive, and more successful.
If you're a founder or a product leader who's looking to have a glow up of your own - or if you're a seasoned entrepreneur who's stories can support others, we'd love to hear from you. Please add you name to the guest list with the link in the show notes.
Each episode will also feature a community spotlight for innovative NGOs, non-proffits, and other organizations that are driving innovation and change in their communities. There's another link in our bio for community groups and sponsors to learn more!
The Tiny Sensors Used By The Top AI AR Smartglasses Are Actually A Pretty Big Deal - Omar Abed
Most conversations about smart glasses focus on the software, the display, or the AI. Omar Abed, CTO of InvenSense, a TDK group company, wants you to think about what's underneath all of that. Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026. Today's smart glasses carry 10 to 20 sensors each — and by count, ...
How To Make Your Tech 10X Better; Include Disabled People In Product Design – Michael Allen Nesmith
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026. Michael Allen Nesmith spent 10 years as a creative director at Amazon's Brand Lab — and built something there that had nothing to do with e-commerce: an in-house interpreting agency that embedded sign language interpreters across his team and eventually scale...
The Key To Deep Tech Innovation In Enterprise Is Solving Boring Problems - Poz Long, Salesforce
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026. Poz Long is Director of Creative Technology for Sports, Media, and Entertainment at Salesforce. Their job is to help people understand complex products through experiences — not documentation or demos, but through things that move people and actually solve so...
Heads Up and Connected - How Snap’s SPECS Are Bringing AR Smartglasses to Consumers - Joe Darko
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026. Joe Darko has spent twelve years at Snap making developers feel heard, supported, and paid. As Global Head of Developer Relations for SPECS, his team answers every email, monitors every Discord thread, and reports directly to CEO Evan Spiegel — who, Joe said,...
How Devs Are Building Web Apps For Meta Display Smartglasses in Less Than 30 Minutes With No Code - Oscar Falmer
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026. Oscar Falmer has spent eight years helping developers build for wearables — at Meta and at other companies doing interesting work in the space. As developer advocate for things like smartglasses, his job is to lower the floor for anyone who wants to build for...
Can Standards & A Spatial Web Browser Deliver The Metaverse We Were Promised Years Ago? Neil Trevett, Khronos Group, Metaverse Standards Forum, NVIDIA
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026. Neil Trevett has spent his career connecting software to silicon. As president of the Khronos Group — the organization behind OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR, and glTF — and president of the Metaverse Standards Forum, he works on the open interoperability standards th...
Aura, AR Glasses And Use Cases That Actually Fit The Enterprise Amir Khorram, XREAL From AWE 2026
Get a front row seat to the conversations about AI, AR smartglasses, and the future of enterprise technology from Augmented World Expo 2026. For six or seven years, the XR industry has been selling upgrades to people who already believe. Better resolution, more compute, a sleeker strap — for the same early-adopter audience already wearing a headset. I kept waiting for someone to answer the obvious...
Update: Get Ready For A Lot Of Great Spatial Computing Content From AWE 2026
Smart glasses had a moment at Augmented World Expo 2026 — and I was there for all of it. Here's your preview of what's coming. Sending this from a co-working spot in Japan, where I'm traveling for work and a little pleasure after AWE. I'll be honest: rather than wait to record a polished intro for every episode, I wanted to drop this quick update so you know what's heading your way before it start...
This Impact Angel Investor Reveals Their Secrets, Plus how Rural Hospitals Can Finally Get Paid - Joseph A. Riddle
Rural hospitals hold some of the most reliable receivables in finance — money owed by the US government — yet they can't borrow against them. Banks won't price the risk. So hospitals pledge buildings instead, starving themselves of capital. Joseph Riddle, Chief Commercial Officer at Capital Pulse, watched this problem up close before his company built the AI that cracks it: a model valuing any med...