The Innovation Show

On this week's Innovation Show, we talk to best-selling author of 'Sell with Style' Carlo Pignataro. Carlo works with the most prestigious luxury brands all over the World. Carlo tells us about the psychology of luxury sales from active listening to CRM to NLP. We speak to Buddy Rizer of Loudoun County Data Centre during his tour of Europe. We talk data clusters and the opportunities they can bring. Finally, we speak to Wikimedia Foundation Director Juliet Barbara. We get an insight into how Wikipedia was founded, how it operates and how it is funded.

AI Special, Utopia? Dystopia? Singularity, Social Impact, Will we have jobs? We talk to Calum Chace. Calum is an author and speaker about artificial intelligence, and its likely future impact on society. His work is informed by the experience of a 30-year career in business. You can see some of his talks here. If you are new to the idea that machine consciousness and superintelligence may be with us soon (in decades rather than centuries), his novel Pandora's Brain and his non-fiction books Surviving AI and The Economic Singularity are great places to start. We tal to John Hubbs, CEO and Founder of Greymatter Alliance. ohn is a social entrepreneur. His job is empowering your world. John's Integrated Mission is to solve social, economic and environmental challenges through his portfolio of technical and social initiatives. His background as a highly focused and accomplished executive offers national and global B2B and B2C strategy and implementation expertise.

We talk to the recognised authority on future telecoms business models and technologies. Martin Geddes is formerly Strategy Director at BT's network division and Chief Analyst and co-founder at Telco 2.0. He previously worked on a pioneering mobile web project at Sprint, where he was a named inventor on 9 patents, and at Oracle as a specialist in high-scalability database systems. He co-runs public workshops on the Future of Voice and Telco-OTT Services, as well as provide speaking, consulting, training and innovation services to telcos, equipment vendors, cloud service providers and industry bodies. He is currently writing a book on the future of distributed computing, called The Internet is Just a Prototype. http://www.hypervoice.org/ https://vimeo.com/user15279745 http://www.slideshare.net/mgeddes/the-guardian-avatar

We talk to Ian McClean, founder of Flow Group, a specialist Leadership and Organisational Development consultancy working for change across global organizations for the past quarter century. We talk corporate culture and how culture can lead to profound success. http://www.greenlineconversations.com/ http://flowukandireland.com/

Denis Collins about The Smarter Senses Project, This is a three step programme that commenced in 2010 with the aim of driving the Shine Centre for Autism in Cork forward to become best in class globally and to enable children with autism to learn, develop and communicate more effectively. http://shineireland.com/

We talk to the recognised authority on future telecoms business models and technologies. Martin Geddes is formerly Strategy Director at BT's network division and Chief Analyst and co-founder at Telco 2.0. He previously worked on a pioneering mobile web project at Sprint, where he was a named inventor on 9 patents, and at Oracle as a specialist in high-scalability database systems. He co-runs public workshops on Future of Voice and Telco-OTT Services, as well as providing speaking, consulting, training and innovation services to telcos, equipment vendors, cloud services providers and industry bodies. He is currently writing a book on the future of distributed computing, called The Internet is Just a Prototype. We talk to Ian McClean, founder of Flow Group, a specialist Leadership and Organisational Development consultancy working for change across global organizations for the past quarter century. We talk corporate culture and how culture can lead to profound success. Finally we talk to Denis Collins about The Smarter Senses Project, This is a three step programme that commenced in 2010 with the aim of driving the Shine Centre for Autism in Cork forward to become best in class globally and to enable children with autism to learn, develop and communicate more effectively.

Ex-Army officer and telecoms man Fintan McGovern tells us how he and the Firmwave team are rolling out a different network and conquering the business world. We talk cyborg chickens and connected bus shelters.

We talk HR Lockers and setting up in Lahinch with CEO and Founder Adam Coleman.

We talk to Ronan Murphy, CEO and founder of Smarttech, he tells us of some of the latest scams and raises our awareness of how to prevent being a victim. Cyber Crime, Cyber Threats, Hackers.

Pat gives us some astonishing stats on cybercrime and gives us some practical, but excellent advice on how to prevent being a victim in work or even at home.