The Irish Tech News Podcast

Ronan talks to Stephen Bowes the Head of Technology at BSI. Stephen talks about what he does at BSI, GDPR, the challenges CISO’s face in 2020 and how they can address them. Stephen also talks about IoT, cloud services and the key skills that CISO’s require to do their job today.

Ronan talks to Adam Hankin the General Manager for Wagestream Ireland. Adam talks about his background, what Wagestream does, how Wagestream works., their mission to kill off payday loans. Adam also talks about doorstep loans., financial stress, cryptocurrencies and his time with Living Social.

Ronan talks to Rajesh Ramanand the C0-Founder and CEO of Signifyd. Rajesh talks about his background, describes what Signifyd does, and how global fraud in e-commerce has changed since the early days of e-commerce. Rajesh also explains why they opened an R&D centre in Belfast, the news jobs at Signifyd in Belfast.

Ronan talks to Dr Steve Chien, Head of Artificial Intelligence with NASA. Dr Chien talks about what he does at NASA, NASA’s interesting in sending people to Mars, why they have not sent humans back to the moon, how the AI at NASA is similar to the AI used in the business world, how computing at NASA has changed over the years and why they are working with private companies like SpaceX.

Peter O'Neill the co-founder of SEO & Grow by Infused Media

Ronan talks to Sean Sears the MD of Park Place. Seans talks about what Park Place does, how they grew so rapidly at their EMEA Operations Centre in Cork, and what jobs they are hiring for. Sean also talks about their plans for the next 5 years, and how their involvement with CoderDojo is going to help tackle the stem shortage.

Ronan talks to Suvish Viswanathan, head of marketing for ZOHO Europe. Suvish talks about what ZOHO does, why ZOHO has embraced the cloud taking the SaaS route, and why ZOHO has embraced bootstrapping. Suvish also mentions how GPR has impacted on what ZOHO does, how AI and blockchain are part of their future. and the university ZOHO has setup in Chennai India.

Ronan was at the recent Dublin Tech Talks Meetup and he spoke to Stewart McCarthy, Senior Product Designer, WorkHuman and Gigio Attanasio, Product Design Manager, Workhuman. Stewart and Gigio talk about what they do at Workhuman, how they have to deal with many different screen sizes, the future technologies that we may be using, and online algorithms.

Ronan was at the recent Dublin Tech Talks Meetup and he spoke to Caroline Hynes Director of Product at Zendesk who was one of the speakers. Caroline talks about her background, product marketing, and the talk she will be giving at Dublin Tech Talks.

Ronan talks to Alex Alexandrov CEO of Velas AG and CoinPayments. Alex explains the difference between Artificial Intuition and Artificial Intelligence and talks about the benefits of blockchain and AI. Alex also talks about Velas containers and the biggest blockchain challenges.