Sensing the Signal

About Sensing the Signal

Sensing the Signal is a bi-weekly podcast produced by Atreides. In conversations with expert practitioners, we discuss the overlap between data, technology, intelligence, and national security and what it all means for analysts everywhere. How do we know AI is trustworthy? Can battlefield debris hunt down weapon transfers? How is technology transforming national intelligence? Find out answers to these questions and more from leaders in the field.

Publisher

Atreides

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jul 2024

Latest episode

29 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 28 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What did the World Cup tell us about human trafficking?

   Neil Giles and Alice Nott from Stop the Traffik discuss their findings on human trafficking trends during the FIFA World Cup 2026.

2. 

   31 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How Could a Mission to Venus Shape Defence Technology?

   Chris Isaac, CEO of SpaceAM, discusses how commercial space technology unexpectedly transforms UK defence capabilities in this interview.

3. 

   10 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How can the UK be more creative with Defence investment?

   Terry Pattar and Chris Toase of Atreides discuss the UK's Defence Investment Plan, analyzing its impact on defense industry growth and capability improvements.

Inside a recent episode

What did the World Cup tell us about human trafficking?

Published 29 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We know that SARS are raised, investigations happen, but it's not our job to know or find out what happens to those individual cases. You can't always link it back to your reporting. Exactly. But we do know, like our partners do tell us, we've had hits, this is also people we've been investigating. So we do get these sort of, uh, bits and bobs and we recognize, you know, where we're making an impact and when we do investigations. So the thing to say as well is when we are scraping data and pulling these adverts and we also did for Philadelphia, which I don't think I said, we also scraped job ad platforms and we did a big investigation into loads of high risk job advertisements and we shared those as well. […]

Who has been a guest on Sensing the Signal

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Neil Giles
• Alice Nott
• Chris Isaac
• Terry Pattar
• Chris Toase

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 17 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

21

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32