Digital Nexus brings you inside Australia’s AI frontier. Hosts Chris Sinclair and Mark Monfort sit down with founders and leaders shaping the market, uncovering the products, journeys, and ideas driving AI adoption. Smart, unfiltered, and a little cheeky — it’s your backstage pass to the people redefining Australia’s tech future (and the world of course). Mark Monfort, the tech wizard behind the @AusDefi Association and NotCentralised, isn't just a name—he's a legend. With blockchain fin-tec ...
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Chris Sinclair And Mark Monfort Podcasts
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AI vs The Creative Industry: Why It’s Changing for Good | with aiCandy Founders
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1:16:20Can you shoot a Cannes-level ad with no cameras, a fraction of the budget and a 99% lower carbon footprint? That’s exactly what Kent Boswell and Marcus Tesoriero are doing with aiCandy, one of the first AI film production studios built for brands and agencies. In this episode of Digital Nexus, we unpack how they’re turning “impossible” ideas from o…
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Stop Treating AI Like a Toy - Building real Workflows and AI Digital Twins w/ Tim Rayner
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59:26In this episode of Digital Nexus, Chris and Mark are joined by Dr Tim Rayner — AI Philosopher, author of Hacker Culture and the New Rules of Innovation, and educator at UTS Business School — to unpack how AI can move from “smart autocomplete” to genuine teammates that help people think better, learn faster and build braver. If you’re a founder, pro…
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The Loveable for Games - Tempest ai the one prompt game creator with Jack Wakem
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47:38Can AI make game dev truly “prompt to play”? Jack Wakem (Founder, Tempest AI) breaks down how his team is building “Lovable for games” — a consumer platform where anyone can prompt, iterate, and ship, including a timeline that lets you scrub your build like a YouTube video. Tempest started as an AI-native RPG engine (RAG, context engineering, custo…
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How Relevance AI & Build Club Turn Demos into Customer Ready AI Products w/ Annie Liao
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53:29Digital Nexus Ep 42: Annie Liao, From Community to Company: Building AI Products That Actually Ship What does it take to turn AI hype into shipped products? Annie Liao (Build Club / Relevance AI) joins us to unpack agentic workflows, community-led product discovery, and the mindset founders need to go from idea to MVP and revenue, fast. Annie share…
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From Mental Health App to Indy Jeff Quach on Building AI Families Actually Trust
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50:57From hacking mainframes to building Haven (mental health) and now Indy, an AI co-pilot helping families navigate paediatric and developmental care, Jeff Quach shares a builder’s journey grounded in anthropology, trust, and real-world impact. We unpack when AI should support human care (not replace it), why guardrails matter, how to find the right c…
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AI Doom, Hope & the Builders Shaping Australia’s Future - Hosted at SXSW 2025
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37:05AI isn’t the enemy, it’s the experiment of our lifetime. At SXSW Sydney 2025, we took Digital Nexus onto the floor and into the streets to ask a simple question: doom or hope? From late-night hackathons to founders shipping agentic workflows, this episode captures how Australians are actually building with AI. We go behind the scenes with builders …
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How AI Could Heal a Generation Mental Health to AI Leader w/ Nicole Gibson
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1:03:36Can AI help understand our emotional state? Nicole Gibson, founder of Love Out Loud and co-founder of inTruth, shares how a recovery journey became a product mission, and how she’s using AI in mental health to scale evidence-based impact, leadership, and a love-led culture. Watch for: From anorexia recovery to national advocate → AI product leader …
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Prompt Like a Product Pro in ChatGPT & Claude: The 3-Phase System you must know (w/ Bastian Epskamp)
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42:57By Chris Sinclair and Mark Monfort
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5 Product Traps Killing AI Projects (and What To Do Instead w/ Kurt Yang)
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34:33Build Real AI Products (Fast): Product Manager to Community Builder with Kurt Yang (Fintech & EdTech, RAG, Embedded Finance) From banker to PM to community catalyst, Kurt Yang shares how non-engineers are shipping functional AI prototypes, validating with customers, and turning meetups into massive and strong ecosystems. Chapters: 4:17 – Community …
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The CEO Who Cloned Herself To Run The Company — Michelle Gilmore (Juno leading AI research platform)
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43:07Michelle Gilmore (CEO & Co-founder, Juno) built a digital twin of herself to scale her business. Juno conducts high-quality, qualitative interviews—turning Michelle's 20+ years, and 10,000+ research projects into an AI “listening engine.” We dive into how Juno runs real conversations at scale, why expertise-in-the-loop beats checkbox surveys, and h…
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Stop Using Spam Cannons The B2B Playbook That 5×’d Replies w/ Serena Lam
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49:50From IBM strategist to startup founder, Serena Lam is building Fuzzy AI to reshape B2B sales with hyper-personalized outreach. In this candid conversation, she shares her founder journey, lessons from building in AI, and where sales tech is heading next. 👉 Expect practical founder advice, the realities of building with limited resources, and insigh…
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Aussie AI (Reality Check): From POCs to Product—What Changed? w/ Sha-mayne Chan
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42:54In this episode of Digital Nexus, we sit down with Sha-mayne Chan, Co-founder of Friyay and Wakey Wakey Sales, to unpack how AI is reshaping startups, SMEs, and big business in Australia. We cover: 🚀 How startups can now build products without a tech co-founder 📱 The story behind Wakey Wakey, an AI SMS sales assistant helping small businesses scale…
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