The Irish Tech News Podcast

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.

We are now living in a COVID-19 world and the perfect storm that it has created has brought up lots of issues including economic ones, and Identity Governance is now being seen as one of the main solutions. I talk to Ben Bulpett the EMEA marketing Director of SailPoint about this, what the future landscape will look like and more.

Managing in a crisis within a crisis is something we are doing now because of COVID-19. So how do we go about doing this and what should we be looking out for? Ronan talks to Chris Greany Managing Director InfoSec at Templar Executives about this and more.

COVID-19 has changed the way we do our grocery shopping, so how will technology help with this? Ronan talks to Eamon Breen the founder of Roadrunner, a new app that can get your groceries delivered in a tap. Eamon talks about his background, how Roadrunner started, and why COVID-19 made them pivot. Eamon also talks about their expansion into Belfast, their plans to expand into Dublin and other parts of Ireland, getting their suppliers onboard, how COVID-19 has an increase in usage of Roadrunner and their competitors and the impact COVID-19 has had on them and their suppliers.