The Irish Tech News Podcast

The Irish data centre market is booming but how is it coping with COVID-19? Ronan talks to Russ Barker, Director of Vertiv Ireland about this and gets other insights in the Irish data centre scene including the other challenges the Irish data centre scene is facing and what makes Ireland a huge market for data centres.

COVID-19 has had a big impact on the RegTech sector and also SaaS platforms, so how can they lessen its effects? I talk to Simon Cole the CEO of Automated Intelligence about this, what Automated Intelligence does and their future plans.

COVID-19 has had a big impact on local businesses and their only way to lessen this is by digital transformation. So how do they go about doing this? Ronan talks to Jade O'Connor, VP of Product and Marketing for FCR Media the company behind golden pages.ie about this, their ShopNow product that helps businesses move online and how Golden Pages underwent a digital transformation and moved online.

One of the ways to get your business working better is to have your staff do team building. One of the new ways of doing this is by live gaming but how can this be done during the current COVID-19 crisis? Ronan talks to Ruben Hamilius, Managing Director at BusinessGames Ireland about his background, what BusinessGames does. how they have coped during the current COVID-19 crisis, and live gaming will change because of COVID-19.

The cloud has ushered in new ways to communicate. We no longer need landlines and companies like NUACOM are designed for remote working and working in pandemics like the current COVID-19 crisis. Ronan talks to Igor Toma the Managing Director and co-founder of NUACOM about what NUACOM does, virtual communications, how NUACOM helped businesses cope during the current COVID-19 crisis, and what the future of telecoms looks like.

The biggest problem with medicines is how they are stored, where they are stored and their use by dates and with an ongoing global pandemic this is an issue we will face when a COVID-19 vaccine is found. Ronan talks to Dr Bruce Roser the founder and chairman of Stablepharma whose StablevaX technology offers vaccine stabilisation. Dr Roser talks about his background, COVID-19, mistakes made during the current world pandemic, Stablepharma ’s StablevaX technology and how it can help when a COVID-19 vaccine is found.

With COVID-19 remote working is now a reality but how do you do your HR effectively. Ronan talks to Crystel Robbins Rynne the head of product and marketing with HRLocker about what HRLocker does, managing your HR in a pandemic, remote working in a COVID-19 world, and the charity initiative that they have just launched.

Oliver Mauss is the founder of DRVE a company that specialises in fuelling the growth of online business and as DRVE was setup with remote working COVID-19 has not had much of an impact. Ronan talks to Oliver about this, what DRVE does, what they invest in and where to apply for their programs.

During the current COVID-19 crisis you have to focus on your customer needs so how do you do this and how has content marketing changed? Ronan talks to Inken Kuhlmann-Rhinow EMEA marketing director of HubSpot about this, how Hubspot has adapted too remote working, the changes in customers behaviour and the future of content marketing.

With COVID-19 we have seen an increase in online grocery shopping but will this continue? Ronan talks to Devan Hughes the co-founder and CEO of Buymie an on-demand grocery app that allows big and small food retailers to sell online. Devan talks about his background, how Buymie started and what they actually do. Devan also talks about the impact COVID-19 has had on Buymie, their clients and why it will see an increase in online shopping.