The Irish Tech News Podcast

How do you build something that delights customers?  Conventional wisdom would say that we need to talk to the customers and better understand their needs. But let’s be honest. Beyond the endless surveys, when was the last time your bank actually talks to you, the customer? In this episode of One Vision, Theo and Bradley talk to Billie Simmons, co-founder of Daylight. To Billie’s point, LGBT+ is not just a marketing segment. It is also a community with unique needs that incumbent financial institutions have largely failed to address. It’s about time we change that.

In today's podcast Melanie Boylan sat down and spoke with co-founder of The World Nano Foundation Paul Sheedy, who is based in Dublin to talk about how nanotechnology is transforming healthcare, engineering and many other sectors. We learn about how the infrastructure works and hear brief clips of information on what's to come in the months and years ahead.   The World Nano Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, which works and collaborates with a wide variety of partners. Maximising support and funding to bring the science of the ultra-small to the world and commerce. Aimed at aiding entrepreneurs, inventors, professors and professionals from a business-up perspective, the Foundation is a medium for nurturing, developing and commercialising ground-breaking new nanotechnologies to revolutionise the world and how we interact with it.

Daniel Doll-Steinberg, co founder of EdenBase “Seen a lot, done a bit, trying to make sense of it, working to ensure a beneficial cognitive revolution?” I ask about the above quote which is on Daniel’s Linkedin. His reply is that it has to be short and that he is relatively old. The former is true, the latter less so but the career in between is pretty impressive. Educated in the UK, Daniel admits he was not academic but he fell into finance and the early days of derivatives. This was a good fall as the market was disruptive and suited him well. He moved to the US and at the very young (if we are still comparing ages, although I’ve been taught comparisons are odious) age of 27 he saved a bank from being shut down by the banking committee. He moved into more disruptive sectors such as gaming, entertainment and marketing before spending four years advising the EU as a special advisor. He then turned gamekeeper to advise the British Government on the EU, continued advising the prime minister during the 2008 financial crash before getting involved in blockchain in 2016. Actually the involvement was more like a domination as the co founder of the Atari Token Project, a gaming play that took him all over the world. Around this time, the seen a lot came into play and Daniel took a deep breath. He met up with seasoned entrepreneur and ecosystem builder Eric Van Der Kleij and decided he wanted to give back and so EdenBase was born. “There is a real imperative to understand and implement frontier technologies. In ten years, maybe less, anyone not using those technologies is going to be at a serious disadvantage. We wanted to create an entity that was to help companies and make sure they achieve all they can.” Listen in to find out what he is doing to help companies do better. Jillian Godsil is an award winning journalist, broadcaster and author. Her latest book can be found at https://persons-of-interest.io/

In this episode Jamil catches up with Michael Creadon, who is Managing Director of Inveniam, and they cover a range of topics in this interesting and wide ranging conversation. The Never Ending Global Search for Market Yield As Director of Sales, Michael Creadon is responsible for expanding outreach efforts to private family offices looking to unlock value from balance sheets through the application of Inveniam’s SaaS offering. He also works closely with leading global exchanges and custodians to further expand the digitization of assets on the Inveniam platform. Additionally, Mr. Creadon is spearheading efforts with Jump Start Africa, a microfinancing charity in Uganda using Inveniam software. Mr. Creadon spent over 20 years in capital markets serving as CEO of Traditum Group, a proprietary trading firm specializing in U.S. interest-rate trading and energy-market making. As co-founder of the company, he grew the firm to 75 employees with offices in New York and Houston to become one of the most respected midtier prop firms in the industry. Prior to working in the futures and options markets, Mr. Creadon worked as a journalist at TIME, Bloomberg and Voice of America. Today, he continues to blog regularly on LinkedIn and is a widely followed thought leader on blockchain, bitcoin and numerous other topics. In 2019, he worked at DrawBridge Lending on global marketing and sales, and he is a frequent guest on podcasts and speaker at leading blockchain industry events. www.inveniam.io Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-creadon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/home iu 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 pandemic has had a far reaching impact on jobs with some jobs coming back sometime in the future and others never coming back. By 2022 there will be a skills gap of 146,000 jobs in the I.T. sector. So how do those who have last their jobs go back into the workplace and help fill the skills gap? Their only option is retraining and learning new skills, and that is where Dublin CODING School comes in. Dublin CODING School is teaching the skills required for certain jobs in the I.T. sector. Ronan talks to Luke Treacy the general manager of the Dublin Coding School. Luke talks about his background, how Dublin Coding School started, how Dublin Coding Schoolworks, the skills gap emerging in Ireland, and not leaving their students behind. Luke also talks about how they are focused on the jobs market, some of the courses they offer, providing live and online classes, taking a leaf out of B2B training, and Dublin Coding School's future plans. More about Dublin CODING School: The Dublin CODING School provides courses that have been specifically designed with the Irish tech-jobs market in mind. Each course is led by an industry professional sharing their first-hand and practical experience.  As well as offering a variety of cutting-edge training courses the Dublin CODING School also provides graduates with access to a "Career Centre" to help them prepare for their journey to a new profession.  Courses include Data Analytics, Full-Stack Web Development, Automation Testing, Manual Testing, and the Basics of Programming.

We catch up with Emmet Ryan, Connected editor and many other things with@businessposthq, and also editor of http://Ballineurope.com, the answer to the riddle of steel We cover tech trends, the value of journalism internships, how good was the Micheal Jordan Netflix series, and why season 2 of the Wire may or may not suck. You can follow him on Twitter here https://twitter.com/emmetjryan Emmet Ryan is editor of Connected Magazine and a business & technology reporter with the Sunday Business Post. In 2009, he was named Journalist of the Year at the IIA NetVisionary Awards and won the Alumni Choice Award at the 2014 Business Journalist Awards. Some of the topics we discussed -> Beer, sport & tech, what a great combination of interests, if you had to rank them!? How do they interplay, or is it also good to simply have some diverse passions? In what areas of tech does Ireland do well, & why so? How is the Business Post & Connected evolving and moving into the digital world? Will it be a more blended approach between print & digital / what does the future look like for you guys? What trends are you excited about? What are your sources of information and inspiration from? How do you ensure you are not in a filter bubble in terms of ideas & opinions?

Amjad Pirotti has set up a lottery with a difference - on blockchain where even past ticket holders can earn returns - and some 85% of all funds raised are dispensed to the ticket holders.  Mylottocoin.com was set up to - Designed to empower players and disrupt unjust classic games.

Latest insightful episode from Jamil Hasan, who interviews Dr. Drew Miller Crypto/Blockchain, Pandemics and the Use of Utility Tokens Colonel Dr. Drew Miller is a USAF Academy honor graduate who received an academic scholarship to Harvard University where he earned a Master’s Degree and PhD in Public Policy/Operations Research. His dissertation topic was underground nuclear defense shelters and field fortifications. Drew served in the Cold War at Strategic Air Command, deployed to Germany, Bosnia, and Iraq. In addition to serving as an intelligence officer in Active, Air Guard and Reserve AF positions, retiring as a Colonel, he served in the Senior Executive Service in the Pentagon, and in many business management positions. His articles on the bioengineered viral pandemic threat and collapse have been published in leading journals. In addition to opening new Fortitude Ranch locations, Drew serves as Ranch Manager for Fortitude Ranch Colorado. 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 pandemic has greatly changed how we access, consume and use data. This has resulted in a huge increase in cloud usage and data centres usage. Ronan talks to Seamus Dunne, the Irish, MD, of Interxion who were bought last year by Digital Reality creating the leading pan-European data centre provider. Seamus talks about what Interxion does, how the cloud has changed since the pandemic hit, the transformation of industry, multi cloud, blockchain transforming supply chains, smart contracts and infrastructure providers pivoting to deliver cloud experiences. More about Seamus: Prior to joining Interxion Séamus held various roles during a successful career with Hewlett-Packard, where his last position was Vice President and General Manager with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise based in both Texas and Ireland. He led the data centre services business which served customers in 170 countries across diverse vertical’s such as financial services, Government, Digital Media etc. His business unit’s focus was on supporting customers’ transitions from traditional IT infrastructure to hybrid cloud solutions.

In this episode Jamil Hasan chats with Sebnem Rusitschka Sebnem Rusitschka started her career as a computer scientist specializing in peer-to-peer networks at Siemens in 2006. The application domain was mainly in Smart Grids and Smart Cities. As senior key expert for cyber-physical systems, Sebnem founded Freeelio in 2016 as a free innovation collective to understand the paradigm shift of tokenizing real world assets such as decentralized energy resources. In June 2017 Freeelio became a founding member of German Blockchain Association, in which Sebnem led the Energy and Token Economy committees. The resulting Blockchain Strategy was adopted by the German government in 2019. During this time, Sebnem worked in networks of peers and organizations in a decentralized manner, yielding proof of concepts like Energy Solidarity Token, The Sun Protocol, and ElectraSeed Fund. In 2020, Sebnem started to curate and coordinate the community-sourced, crowdfunded book “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Token Engineering” and design courses for the Token Engineering Academy. She is part of the DADA.art collective, co-creating the Invisible Economy with embedded incentives to protect creative spaces. Since February 2021, Sebnem joined Boson Protocol as Ecosystems Architect, co-creating the Things Economy with embedded incentives to unbundle online commerce monopolies and rewire valueflows for a more equitable and sustainable dCommerce network. Sebnem Rusitschka started her career as a computer scientist specializing in peer-to-peer networks at Siemens in 2006. The application domain was mainly in Energy Management, for existing energy automation products & services: reaching from Meter Data Management for Online Energy Marketplaces, Plug & Play Intelligent Electronic Devices in Substations, Cloud Computing as a model for Smart Grid Data Management, to the combination of Machine Learning & Control Theory for Grid Monitoring, Protection, Control. Sebnem lead multidisciplinary research & innovation project teams both for Siemens and customers Europe wide, as Senior Key Expert for Cyberphysical Systems. Twitter: @sebnem LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rusitschka/ 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.