Ep. 79 - Creating a Tech-Wise Boardroom: How to bring tech-mindedness into the boardroom?

It’s part two of last ep’s convo with FDI’s Paul Smith and tech & governance experts, Pia Turcinov and Alan Jones. This time they’re thinking about how those ‘dangerous and disruptive tech folk’ can reframe what they offer, in order to get a seat at the boardroom table in the first place. 

The conversation spans:

• Why techy directors are seen as risky.

• Creating bridges in to the boardroom that can then grow more organically - from digital innovation subcommittees, to just one expert at the table.

• Getting the supply by reframing technologists as innovators. Speaking the language the board is speaking right now.

• Not just bringing in the technology of innovation, but also the processes of innovation – including, comfort with failure.

Pia Turcinov is a Non-Executive Director and Innovation Strategist, and founder of Venture X and Fund WA.

Alan John is a startup founder mentor and tech investor, who is a partner with M8 Ventures, and the chair of Catalysr, an entrepreneurship program focused on marginalised migrants and refugees.