The Irish Tech News Podcast

Excellent interview by Jamil with legendary investor and bitcoin advocate Tim Draper A World Filled with Heroes Tim Draper founded Draper Associates, DFJ and the Draper Venture Network, a global network of venture capital funds. Funded Coinbase, Baidu, Tesla, Skype, SpaceX, Twitch, Hotmail, Focus Media, Robinhood, Athenahealth, Box, Cruise Automation, Carta, Planet, PTC and 15 other unicorns from early/first rounds. He is a supporter and global thoughtleader for entrepreneurs everywhere, and is a leading spokesperson for Bitcoin and decentralization, having won the Bitcoin US Marshall’s auction in 2014, invested in over 50 crypto companies, and led investments in Coinbase, Ledger, Tezos, and Bancor, among others. He is regularly featured on all major networks as a proponent for entrepreneurship, innovative governance, free markets and Bitcoin, and has received various awards and honors including the World Entrepreneurship Forum’s “Entrepreneur of the World,” and is listed as one of the top 100 most powerful people in finance by Worth Magazine, the top 20 most influential people in Crypto by CryptoWeekly, #1 most networked VC by AlwaysOn, #7 on the Forbes Midas List, member of the Global Guru 30 Startup Gurus in the world, and #48 most influential Harvard Alum. About Jamil Hasan 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.

The global pandemic may be a wake up call to a new age, one where the value of our work and the leadership we can provide is reflected back to the improvement to the community to which we belong. One way we can succeed in building a very different future — one much more equitable — is to appreciate how interdependent we really are, how everything in our life is a series of connected systems, both big and small. And that it is within our grasp to bend their functions toward a better way. Join us this week as Theo and Bradley talk about the global launch of their new book, Beyond Good.

We talk with Oonagh McCutcheon, Communications Manager to learn more about this positive new initiative from www.weare.ie The .IE Digital Town Awards 2021 are open to towns of various sizes across Ireland. This is the first pillar of activity under .IE Digital Town which has been developed to address digital enhancement and adoption in Ireland. The .IE Digital Town Awards promote awareness, knowledge, use and understanding of digital in Ireland by its citizens, businesses and communities. It also highlights the benefits and possibilities of digital and celebrates the digital achievements of local towns, big and small. There will be 14 awards in a number of categories with a total prize fund of €100,000 in 2021. 11 of the awards will be for digital projects and in addition there will be two special Award categories – Digital Changemaker and Digital Rising Star, which will chosen by an independent judging panel. We are also delighted to announce the totally unique Digital Hero Award. This will be a person in your community who is an unsung hero, who works tirelessly on initiatives to promote the digital enhancement of the town. There will be a special prize of €3,000 for this award. Applicants will be asked to provide information on their Digital Vision and Digital Projects underway. Entry to the awards is free. Enter via this link https://www.weare.ie/about-ie-digital-town-awards/

Interesting and informative conversation with Ambassador Patricia Cortés Ortiz about the technological and biological diversity of Colombia, and also its long standing links to Ireland also. Ambassador Patricia Cortés Ortiz is Colombia’s first Resident Ambassador to Ireland since August 2018. She is career diplomat with over 25 years of experience in the international relations area in the bilateral, multilateral, and high-level management. She has held the roles of General Director of America and Coordinator for the United States and Canada at the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Minister Plenipotentiary and Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of Colombia in Washington D.C.; and First Secretary at the Embassy of Colombia in Venezuela. She has a master’s degree in Contemporary International Political and Economic Analysis; and is a qualified Nutritionist-Dietitian. You can visit the Embassy of Colombia in Ireland website https://irlanda.embajada.gov.co or contact them via email at eirlanda@cancilleria.gov.co. You can stay in touch with the Embassy by signing up for their monthly newsletter here.

Jonathan Marriott is the Marketing Manager at Electroneum - one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency projects born out of the United Kingdom. Since their inception in 2017, the company has welcomed more than 4.2 million users onto their platform, which aims to simplify cryptocurrency payments for the masses. In late 2019, Electroneum launched AnyTask.com – a freelance marketplace aimed at overcoming the overwhelming issue of high sales fees and the need for bank accounts. Recently, AnyTask.com launched their new NFT category where buyers can source the skills of talented freelancers for far less than you would think! In this episode, we discuss everything NFTs, including what is an NFT, how Jonathan became involved with NFTs, and what his vision is for the space. The host is Jillian Godsil, award winning journalist, broadcaster and author  Her latest book can be found at https://persons-of-interest.io/

We catch up with Mark Mitchell, CWSI to learn more about remote & mobile working trends, and the threats and opportunities associated with them An experienced Infrastructure Architect and Design Authority responsible for delivering multi million pound projects, who also has experience as a Support Manager and Engineer. A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with experience in Active Directory design and Exchange deployment. Has diverse sector experience, including call centre environments. Experience of many aspects of IT, including all levels of support, solution design and managing resources. Is able to work equally well as part of a cohesive team or alone as the role demands. More about CWSI We’ve been helping clients adapt to the increasing presence of mobile technologies in business since the very first smartphones became available. Today our expert team, combines unrivalled knowledge and technical expertise with solutions from industry-leading software partners to help our clients leverage the power of mobile technologies. Our solutions increase productivity, enhance collaboration, improve employee engagement, enhance service delivery, increase customer loyalty, lower costs and gain competitive edge. From our offices in Dublin and London, we provide consulting, managed services, professional services and training to many of Ireland and the UK’s most respected organisations across a wide range of sectors.

Gender inequality sadly still exists and IT search have highlighted this in their 2021 Diversity & Inclusion, Salary & Market Sentiment report. Ronan talks to Ebony Lawless-McCrea from IT search about this and more. Ebony talks about her background, the technology recruitment market, the Zoom effect, and the 2021 Diversity & Inclusion, Salary & Market Sentiment report. Ebony also talks about the areas in tech that offer the best salary, cybersecurity, rapid digital transformation, women in tech, blind CV formatting, unconscious bias, and the most positive thing Ebony noticed in 2021 Diversity & Inclusion, Salary & Market Sentiment report. More about Ebony: Ebony has over 6 years of Technology Recruitment experience within Ireland and the US. She has covered most technical verticals working on both Permanent and Contract positions. Ebony holds the role of Client Services Manager for IT search, working with their existing client base to ensure they are continuing to provide the best service in the market, as well as working with new and prospective clients on developing exceptional ongoing relationships.

In todays podcast Melanie Boylan meets Katie Kilroy, a third year Mechanical Engineering student at Trinity College Dublin. She's the Head of Marketing of Formula Trinity; a chassis engineer for the internal combustion team as well as researcher for the control engineering department for the autonomous team. She's always up for new challenges and the chance to learn something new and it’s probably why She's on three departments. In her spare time Katie is developing android apps for people with dementia and volunteering tutoring secondary school students as a Committee member of Volunteer Tuition Program in Trinity. Katie joined the team three years ago, as a chassis engineer. The chassis is like the skeleton of the car and she was in charge of designing the tabs which are used to attach all the components to the chassis. This involved communicating and collaborating with multiple departments and teams which has helped her get where she is in Formula Trinity. This year, she's heavily involved with the CAD (Computer Aided Design) and FEA (Finite Element Analysis) of the chassis structure and she is in charge of testing the front impact attenuator. She was asked to join the Business and Operations team to help out with social media. Five months later she is now the Head of Marketing having run a successful “Femuary” campaign to promote women in motorsports alongside two of our other members; Katherine Hardgrave and Sabrina Steinberga. With another upcoming social media campaign “Ai-pril” headed by Katherine, with a talk on Women in Ai on April 7th.  About Formula Trinity:  http://formulatrinity.com/ Formula Trinity is a student lead team made up of current Trinity College students, competing in the UK competition of Formula SAE. The Team Captain Arnie Sasnauskas founded the team in 2017 after his 1st year of engineering here at Trinity, with the help of the Head of Engineering David Simonian and Deputy Head of Engineering William Dunne. The aim of the competition is to design and build a car throughout the academic year, you then race it at the Formula Student UK competition at Silverstone in July. The team gives Trinity students the platform to put the theory they learn in lectures to practice and gain real life experience as a member of an engineering, business, or autonomous team. The team motto is “Building careers, one race car at a time”. Being on the team is voluntary, they all put hours of work in during spare time to ensure they complete the car and rely on generosity from sponsors to fund the construction of the car. Since 2017, they have grown to over 80 members and have become the top performing team in Ireland, achieving 2nd place in the 2019 Class 2 in the Formula Student UK competition. They have accomplished this through bringing together talented students from first years to masters and multiple disciplines such as engineering, computer science, business, law and many others. They are a team of equal opportunity constantly promoting gender equality and women in STEM. The team made up of three main sections: Internal Combustion, Autonomous and Business & Operations, with each having broken down into departments. The internal combustion section has 7 departments ranging from aerodynamics and powertrain to suspension and electronics. The Autonomous section has 4 departments which include control engineering, path-planning, perception, state- estimation and reinforcement learning.

In this podcast today, Melanie Boylan speaks with Frederique Murphy about her very soon to be released book and how this will beneficial for industry leaders to teens by rewiring their brain. We delve through the wires (chapters) and understand the circuits (processes) involved and she helps outline a framework that you can use to understand and strategise with.  This may sound complicated but it really isn't! Listen in today and to pre-order your book, visit the book website. Frederique Murphy is a leadership mindset strategist, who inspires and equips leaders to move through extraordinary change. With her Mountain Moving Mindset platform, as an international keynote speaker and award- winning consultant, she works with global organizations, tapping into the power of their leaders’ minds to rewire their brains for success. In Lead Beyond The Edge, Frederique Murphy provides you with the mind strategies you need to rewire your brain for success. You will know how to overcome any challenges to accomplish anything, anytime, anywhere. Discover scientific strategies to lead transformations from within. Learn by doing more than just reading  to enhance your cognitive functions. Access a powerful 12-step framework to fire up your brain on command. You can lead beyond the edge but only if you know what to do when your brain    resists. Thanks to Frederique’s actionable strategies, memorable science and personal stories, experience self-directed neuroplasticity by building this bold path and make your extraordinary happen! Find Frederiques links below: https://twitter.com/IrishSmiley https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederiquemurphy/ https://www.facebook.com/FrederiqueMurphyM3/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbFNhOzsXnf6SHNFE9izcJA https://www.instagram.com/frederiquemurphy/

Jamil finds out more about this interesting and positive initiative Fran Strajnar is an entrepreneur and technologist in the blockchain and fintech industries. He is the Founder and CEO of Techemy, a holding company for an industry-wide blockchain enterprise ecosystem. Techemy includes Techemy Capital, an investment firm, and Techemy Advisory, which offers end-to-end deal structuring and strategy services. Fran is also the Founder and Chairman of Brave New Coin, a digital asset data company. In 2020, Fran launched BNC Pro, a low-cost, feature-rich digital wealth management platform for cryptocurrency investors. He holds an MBA from the University of Otago and is based in Auckland, New Zealand. About Jamil Hasan 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.