South Pod: Rise Of A Region

Live from Mercantile & Mash in Charleston, it’s a perfect day on SOUTH POD. Meet self-described perfect day engineer, financial advisor, rock climber, mother, investor, entrepreneur and aspiring goat farmer Cokie Berenyi. On this edition, Cokie will talk about her new book, how she was inspired at DIG SOUTH Tech Conference and will leave us with a few choice perfect day hacks to cure your Lifestyle Deficit Disorder. Tune in for this special perfect episode.

On this edition of South Pod, You Are Here President John Buzzell answers some rapid-fire questions about immersive technology. How do businesses utilize AR and VR technology to train and market? Listen in to find out.

Megan Oepen, Head of Content for Under Armour, adrenaline junkie, story telling connoisseur and DIG SOUTH Keynoter has the lowdown on marketing. The key is innovation! From Atlanta to Baltimore to Charleston, Meg shares the secret to telling a great story through your brand. Listen in for her southern tale.

Marcus Shaw, CEO of DIG SOUTH Sponsor CO.LAB, joins host Stanfield Gray to talk all things #startuplife. From their very own GIGTANK accelerator to positioning Chattanooga as a "Rise of the Rest" city, CO.LAB helps young companies expand in three key areas: customers, capital and capacity. Listen in for growth hacking tips and a hot preview of what’s to come at the 2018 DIG SOUTH Tech Conference!

So you have great ideas but you’re not a unicorn startup and you don’t live in Silicon Valley? Nick Jordan CEO of Smashing Boxes is on South Pod with hosts Stanfield Gray and Jon Yarian to breakdown all of your startup and entrepreneurial misconceptions. Watch this episode for his take on startup ecosystems, inspiration, and why he says, “Good ideas are location agnostic.”

Face it: your workforce has made the digital shift. We’re spending less face time interacting with our fellow team members and more time in front of a screen. So how do we establish and sustain trust? Find out on this edition of South Pod as Spencer Stuart Leadership Consultant, David Metcalf, and South Pod co-host, Jon Yarian, dish on how the culture of the South impacts office culture. Metcalf offers tips and strategies for combatting the effects of this “modernization” and describes how to foster a more human connection.

Life is full of change. And dramatically change he did when Marc Murphy shifted from a career in the military to a corporate gig to the scrappy hustle of helming a venture backed startup. Now CEO of Charleston-based Atlatl Software, Murphy reflects on the evolving local tech scene and shares his forward looking view of Atlatl's plan to help companies integrate AR and AI into their businesses. How can we foster diversity, sustainability and growth in business? Is technology leading us toward utopia or dystopia? We’ve got the answers in this edition of South Pod.

Feel like your startup lives in a “media vacuum”? Hosts Stanfield Gray and Jon Yarian source the solution in this episode of South Pod featuring Jason Feifer, Entrepreneur magazine editor-in-chief and 2018 DIG SOUTH speaker. Jason shares tactics for earning media attention, explains how to gain exposure for your current business needs and breaks down best practices for utilizing that press once you get it. The trio also places bets on potential landing spots for Amazon’s HQ2, examines top trends for women in business and shares the 411 on Jason’s upcoming book launch!

A creator at heart, Mark Semler, CEO of ZIAN at Medical University of South Carolina, thrives on creating what’s missing. His team moves ideas “out of surgeons’ heads into product creation,” including an “uncheatable” concussion diagnostic device that’s already saved many lives and helped others recover from strokes. In this episode of South Pod, Mark explains how the science works and why this program has placed roots in Charleston.

“It’s not just the team, it’s not just the capital, it’s not just the idea. The thing that trumps all of them is timing.” In this podcast, Accelarise CEO Jack Harvey shares in-depth insight on what it takes to be an entrepreneur, current tech trends on where the market is headed and just how he helped engineer TechStars juggernaut Gnip for their $134,000,000 sale to Twitter in 2014.

This Charleston-based tech company is breaking barriers and introducing students to the space industry. Dynepic, founded by Krissa Watry, a USAF Academy and MIT educated engineer, and Jacqueline Arn, a 40+ year educator, provides children a safe way to connect with technology and create the future. In our inaugural podcast, Krissa joins hosts Stanfield Gray and Jon Yarian to share the secret sauce behind her company's newest app, iOKids, reveal what inspired her to become an entrepreneur and dish on the benefits of running a business in the South.