This is the ninth episode of the Tiger Heart Chats podcast featuring Tiger Heart CEO Sanj Surati and Darragh Dandurand recorded on Tuesday 16th June 2020. Darragh Dandurand is an award-winning multi-disciplinary maven out to conquer projects about social impact, fashion, new media and immersive / emerging technology.
In this podcast, Darragh and Sanj discuss what it is like to work in the emerging technology space currently and how the current Black Lives Matter movement has impacted industry.

Some of the topics raised include:
VR & AR Global Summit - https://www.vrarglobalsummit.com
Black Lives Matter
Racial Divides
Civil Discourse
Politics
Women’s Rights
NYC Pride - https://www.nycpride.org
World Pride - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldPride
Journalist
Music
Arts & Cultures
Immersive Technology
Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Start-ups
Navigating press
Press Management
Andromeda Entertainment - https://www.enterandromeda.com
Oculus Quest - https://www.oculus.com/quest
Audio Trip - https://store.steampowered.com/app/826540/Audio_Trip/
Buck Creative - https://buck.co
Covid 19
The New Museum - https://www.newmuseum.org
Sensorium - https://www.sensorium.co.uk
Vice - https://www.vice.com/en_uk
Refinery 29 - https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb
Stefanie Riggs - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanie-riggs-50117b12/
Tiger Heart
Stanley G. Weinbaum - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_G._Weinbaum
Non-Profit
Film
Media
Creativity
Empathetic Technology
Boost VC
Creative technology
VR Scout - https://vrscout.com
Kyle Melnick - https://twitter.com/klyeonfire
YouTube
VR Consumers
Transsexual
Identity Politics
Fashion & Technology
The Terminator - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247
Black Mirror - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/
Dynamic Yield
Futurism
Data Protection
Human consciousness
Avatars
AI
Artificial Intelligence
Human behaviour
Atlas V - https://atlasv.io
Socio economics
Automation
Battle Scar – https://www.battlescarfilm.com
Creative
The Femme Futures Grant - https://www.immerseuk.org/funding/femme-futures-grant/
Kaleidoscope
Narrative Immersive
The Activist
Black Creators Grant
Abortion
Women in tech
Creative Futures
Public Speaking
Programming
Political discourse
Working remotely
Storytelling

Places:
New York
Austin
San Francisco
LA
Silicon Valley
London
Seattle

Advice:
Take the leap
Stay informed
Be conscious
Look for a wonderful community to surround yourself around
Diverse teams are better teams
Stay real

Darragh Dandurand Links:
darraghdanurand@gmail.com
https://darraghdandurand.com
https://twitter.com/DarraghDandy
https://www.instagram.com/darraghdandurand/

Sanj Surati & Tiger Heart
https://www.twitter.com/tigerhearttech/
https://www.twitter.com/sanjsurati/
https://www.instagram.com/tigerhearttech/
https://www.instagram.com/artistryinsentiment

You can listen to the Podcast on the following links:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tiger-heart-chats/id1507957892?uo=4
Google: https://bit.ly/2znRXIK
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/show/1048492

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Tiger Heart is an innovation agency that specialises in emerging technologies set up by Digital Atelier Sanj Surati. Sanj is an award winning multi-disciplined Digital Atelier with over twenty years of experience within the music, fashion and luxury industries. London-based Sanj has been working within digital and technology since 1998. He has seen the cultural shift in human habit and behaviour as we all evolve into digital consumers. Some of his successes have been burgeoning, ground breaking and, more importantly, culturally relevant.