The Irish Tech News Podcast

In this podcast, Sangeeta Waldron speaks to Monty Panesar, former left arm spinner cricketer and English international. His career marked by 167 Test wickets, a Wisden Cricketer of the year award. Monty made his Test cricket debut in 2006 against India in Nagpur and One Day International debut for England in 2007. In English county cricket, he last played for Northamptonshire in 2016, and has previously played for Northamptonshire until 2009, Sussex from 2010 to 2013 and Essex from 2013 to 2015. He has also played for the Lions in South Africa. There is always a lot of love for Monty and in this conversation, Monty talks about hard-hitting issues from diversity in cricket, dealing with online racial abuse, mental health along with thoughts of his first love, cricket and his personal best moments from his career. We also find out that Monty is studying right now, has ambitions to land a sports presenting role and is about to launch ‘Monty Meets,’ his own podcast series. You can follow Monty on Twitter, Instagram. Look up his Monty Channel Connect with Sangeeta Waldron, Founder, Serendipity PR & Media and Author of Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not Public Relations on Twitter. Sangeeta Waldron is a multi-award winning Public Relations professional with over three decades’ worth of publicity, branding, communications, crisis management, marketing, media and social media experience. Recently named in the Top 15 Women of Influence in PR and Communications by Commetric, including its Top 100 List of PR Influencers. Sangeeta first business book, The PR Knowledge Book is published by Business Expert Press, receiving high acclaim by international business leaders. She guest lectures at Coventry University, teaching PR and global journalism. She is global contributing editor for India CSR Network, specializing in sustainability and corporate social responsibility; her work has been published by the United Nations and other leading news platforms.

CoinBurp raises $2m in private round to build a Coinbase for NFTs led by Moonrock Capital and Alphabit Capital The London-based cryptocurrency trading platform CoinBurp launches new DeFi project and raises $2m in the first private funding round, led by Moonrock Capital and Alphabit Capital in bid to build CoinBase for NFTs application ecosystem. CEO Pete Wood talks about raising money and the plans to bring innovative and easy to use NFT staking to his new DeFi project Your host is Jillian Godsil, an award winning journalist, broadcaster and author. Her latest book is available at https://persons-of-interest.io/

Great interview by Sangeeta with British singer songwriter, Rumer, who speaks honesty about the juggling act needed to be a successful musician, as well as the joys and challenges of parenting. In this episode of Irish Tech News, we get to know British singer, songwriter Rumer when she speaks with Sangeeta Waldron, openly about the challenges of moving back to the UK in the middle of the pandemic; juggling motherhood and song writing; London bus dramas; the importance of the arts; and gives us a glimpse into her childhood. Rumer is a wonderful song-catcher, who has written songs like “Slow” and “Aretha,” which made her a worldwide million-seller. Her 2010 debut album, Seasons of My Soul, was certified platinum in the UK and Ireland, earning her a MOJO Award for Best Breakthrough Act. She has an instinct for the work of others and has introduced her fans to musicians from the yesteryears. Burt Bacharach and Sir Elton John are fans and in 2012 Rumer was invited to perform at the White House for the Obamas. Her latest album, On Nashville Tears, recorded in Nashville is the catalogue of songwriter, Hugh Prestwood, a songwriter whose name is spoken with reverence in country music. Nashville Tears collects fifteen of Prestwood’s finest songs, many never recorded until now, revealing truths of the heart, both intimate and universal, realistic and romantic. You can find more about Rumer on her official website and book for her live tours. Follow Rumer on Twitter Instagram, Facebook and YouTube Connect with Sangeeta Waldron, Founder, Serendipity PR & Media and Author of Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not Public Relations on Twitter. Sangeeta Waldron is a multi-award winning Public Relations professional with over three decades’ worth of publicity, branding, communications, crisis management, marketing, media and social media experience. Recently named in the Top 15 Women of Influence in PR and Communications by Commetric, including its Top 100 List of PR Influencers. Sangeeta first business book, The PR Knowledge Book is published by Business Expert Press, receiving high acclaim by international business leaders. She guest lectures at Coventry University, teaching PR and global journalism. She is global contributing editor for India CSR Network, specializing in sustainability and corporate social responsibility; her work has been published by the United Nations and other leading news platforms. Sangeeta started out her career writing speeches for a previous UK Prime Minister and Ministers, and has worked at the top level with big, powerful global brands, which includes - being global communications director for the Economist Group; working for The Times Education Supplement; the Mayor of London; Cass Business School; and charities such as Breast Cancer Campaign. A regular international speaker and moderator. Sangeeta sits on different boards.

Being a serial entrepreneur can be fun and challenging especially when you are building plans, and scaling businesses. One such entrepreneur is Ollie Walsh who was also involved in creating one of Ireland’s first e-commerce websites back in the 1990’s and is now the Co-Founder & CEO of Pipit Global, a for-profit social impact start-up . Ronan talks to Ollie about his background, what Pipit Global does, their crowd funding round via Spark, why being technical service provider is a good thing, and why KYC can be a significant overhead. Ollie also talks and how Pipit Global coped during the current pandemic and Pipit Global’s future plans. More about Ollie: Ollie is the CEO of Terraforma, the company behind Pipit Global. He has twenty years experience developing strategies for Start Ups and SMEs to target new markets and to grow. He specialises in building teams and implementing plans and making them work. Ollie holds a MBS at National University of Ireland, Galway.

Mary Carty speaks with Antonio Avitable, Managing Director of Sony Innovation Fund Europe. They discuss the vision for the Fund, future trends and the importance of diversity. Antonio advises that money does not always bring good people so think about the expertise you require for your Board, as he remarks “diversity is the key aspect of innovation”. Listen in to this wide-ranging discussion including ESG, technology for good, opportunities for creative startups, sustainability and valuation trends. More about Antonio Avitabile Antonio has more than 20 years’ experience in venture capital and technology innovation. He joined Sony in 2000 and became Managing Director of the Sony Innovation Fund Europe in 2016. He is currently works with a team of 14 across Europe, as well as managing the Sony venture capital and corporate development arm in Europe and Middle East. He sits on boards of several startups and he has acquired and integrated several companies on behalf of Sony Semiconductor Solutions. More About Mary Carty Mary Carty is Director of Wilson & Keys working with an international client base. She is a serial entrepreneur with a background in the arts, education and technology. Mary sits on the Board of Science Gallery International and Branar Téatar do Pháistí. Over lockdown, she established AwakenHub, a community to support female founders from the Island of Ireland and her diaspora. Find Mary on Twitter https://twitter.com/marycarty Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/marycarty/ Wilson and Keys http://www.wilsonkeys.com/

In this interview, Amir and Duena talk about her background working in fintech. As well as the definitions to her concepts of human debt and agile teams. There is also a conversation about the spark behind her book and the process of researching for it. They then get to Duena’s thoughts on the future of work after the COVID-19 pandemic especially the banking industry. Duena is the author of “Emotional Banking” and “People Before Tech: The Importance of Psychological Safety and Teamwork in the Digital Age”. She is a doer, an entrepreneur, an industry influencer, a blogger with cutting edge opinion style, a writer for Forbes, an international keynote speaker and the creator of the Emotional Banking™ and Human Debt™ concepts. Over the past 20 years, Duena has worked with multiple large organizations be it to assist them in their digital strategy or to help them transform. Amir Najib is a Student journalist from Coventry University currently interning at Irish Tech News, his main interests are in sports, entertainment and cryptocurrency. He hopes to one day work in the journalism industry where he is doing multimedia on the subjects he enjoys. Twitter - @4mirN9

Informative and enjoyable conversation with Dusty Gedge.  Dusty is a green infrastructure consultant working in London, UK and Europe. He is the current President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB) and founder of Livingroofs.org. Though he has a particular interest in biodiversity and urban nature, his work in the built environment is focused on climate resilience and the promotion of greener cities through multi-functional green infrastructure. He has recently been an external advisor to the Greening Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2030 project. A recognised designer, technical and policy advisor on green roofs and urban green infrastructure., has worked on GI Projects in the UK for the last 20 years. Some of these are recognised as seminal projects, especially in London through his consultancy Qirm the Green Infrastructure Consultancy [GIC]. He is currently working on a number of design projects to deliver wetland green roofs and is part of the team working on Blue roof guidance for CIRIA. He also co-wrote the online small-scale green roof guide, with John Little www.greenrooftraining.com He has also a published author and has been instrumental in writing strategic reports on green roofs and green infrastructure, the most recent of which is the new London green roof report. Dusty has also been a TV presenter and is a recognised speaker at conferences and events around the world. www.greenrooforganisation.org - green roof UK trade body www.efb-greenroof.eu - European Federation of Green roof and wall associations www.worldgreenroofday.com Key social network accounts Twitter @RoofGRO, @worldgreenroof, @EFBgreenroof @greenroofsuk (my personal one) @WGRD2021 LlinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/38092472/admin/?msgControlName=reply_to_sender&msgConversationId=2-YTQyNzFjNGUtYjVkMS00ZGUyLWJmMjEtNGFiMGVlOGZlMDVjXzAxMw%3D%3D&msgOverlay=true green roof organisation https://www.linkedin.com/company/66765132/admin/?msgControlName=reply_to_sender&msgConversationId=2-YTQyNzFjNGUtYjVkMS00ZGUyLWJmMjEtNGFiMGVlOGZlMDVjXzAxMw%3D%3D&msgOverlay=true european federation https://www.linkedin.com/company/54096034/admin/?msgControlName=reply_to_sender&msgConversationId=2-YTQyNzFjNGUtYjVkMS00ZGUyLWJmMjEtNGFiMGVlOGZlMDVjXzAxMw%3D%3D&msgOverlay=true World green roof day My own page on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dusty-gedge-774a8ab/?msgControlName=reply_to_sender&msgConversationId=2-YTQyNzFjNGUtYjVkMS00ZGUyLWJmMjEtNGFiMGVlOGZlMDVjXzAxMw%3D%3D&msgOverlay=true

Jamil talks to Charlie Gleeson who is CEO and Founder of Zipp Mobility, the Irish shared e-scooter and e-bike operator. Charlie was awarded the 2021 NovaUCD Founder of the Year Award in recognition of his achievements and successes in developing and growing Zipp Mobility during 2020. Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation’s financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X.

In this insightful episode Jamil catches up with David Schwartz litecoin-foundation.org gethedge.io CEO & Co-Founder of gethedge.io. Has been the Project Director for the Litecoin Foundation since October of 2018, and directly involved in projects ranging from the UFC and Miami Dolphins, to helping research the viability of cross chain interoperability with blockchains like Cardano. Retired from the US Army in 2013 as a Master Sergeant. Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation’s financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X.

Susan Joseph, Founder and CEO of Healthtrends.ai and Founder and Principal, SusanJosephLLC Susan,  a JD/MBA and former General Counsel, is Founder and CEO of HealthTrends.AI, a healthcare data and analytics company that earlier this month was awarded a $256K National Science Foundation grant for our blockchain and smart contract solutions. She is Founder and Principal at SusanJosephLLC, a consulting firm and has been consulting and advising in legal and business applications for blockchain and fintech for the past five years in the areas of digital assets, cryptocurrencies, data integrity, distributed ledgers, smart contracts, nfts (non-fungible tokens) insurance, regulatory matters, identity and privacy, banking, and other issues across the financial services, insurance, and supply chain sectors. Susan is the Project Leader and Consortium Advisor for MMBI (Global Mining and Minerals Blockchain Consortium with the World Economic Forum), and co-founded and is the Executive Director of Diversity in Blockchain, a 501(c)(3) entity that provides education and resources to support diversity and inclusion in the blockchain space.  Susan was formerly the B3i North America Representative (Insurance Consortium) and advised RiskStream (Insurance Consortium) on their Civics Program. She created and ran Blockchain Working Groups for Global Insurers on both the asset and risk sides of the business, and was the first Executive Director of ID2020. Susan is an Advisor to Evertas (dedicated digital asset insurer) and One World Identity (identity and privacy). She is also a contributor to the World Economic Forum projects including the Blockchain Supply Chain Toolkit, the recently published Bridging the Governance Gap-Dispute Resolution for blockchain-based transactions, and a member of their Expert Network.  Susan publishes and speaks regularly on digital assets, defi, data, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, insurance, and insurtech regarding both business and legal issues to industry and legal groups. Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation’s financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X.