The Irish Tech News Podcast

Ronan talks to Dr Horacio González-Vélez the head of the cloud competency centre in NCI. Dr González-Vélez talks about how the cloud competency centre has changed since he joined NCI 7 years ago, their partners, their advisory board, and the MSC in FinTech that they offer. Dr González-Vélez also talks about GDPR, supercomputing, the cloud, and the new courses that they will be offering.

Ronan talks to Scott Eddy. Scott talks about his background, how he keeps his personal brand relevant, his favourite social media platform, what advice he would give other entrepreneurs, and his favourite place to visit. Scott also does digital consulting, brand ambassadorship, corporate training and public speaking, and talks about which one he loves doing the most and what he is doing next.

Ronan talks to Will Conaghan and Lizzy Hayashida, the co-founders of Change Donations. Will and Liz talk about their backgrounds, how Change Donations started and what Change Donations do. They also talk about being in Hothouse, happy memories of DogPatch Labs, their plans for the next 5 years, future partnerships, and transparency.

Ronan talks to Aine Denn the Co-founder of Altify and Nigel Cullington the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Altify. Aine and Nigel talk about their backgrounds, what Altify does, and the Salesforce platform that they are built on. They also talk about how Customer Revenue Optimisation which is also known as CRO works, the recent report by Aragon Research that mentions Altify, and what’s next for Altify.

The Future Creators 2019 graduation took place last night and Ronan interviewed Niall the Future Creators Coordinator, and Fiach Mac Conghail the CEO of the Digital Hub.

Ronan talked to Claire Carroll from Accenture’s The Dock. Claire talks about her background, the report Putting the human first in the home and some of it’s findings, and why she thinks people over 65 are more trusting of smart technology. Claire also talks about we can do to reassure younger people about smart technology, and where she sees the future of smart technology in the home.

Ronan talks to Fergal O’Sullivan, the Country Manager & Regional Director Ireland & Scotland Territories, for Nutanix. Fergal talks about his background, what his role in Nutanix entails, and the jobs that Nutanix are hiring for. Fergal also talks about how Nutanix are positive on Brexit, how Hyper-converged infrastructure usage has increased,

Ronan caught up with Sean and Daniel 2 of the co-founders of Micron Agritech, who are the first undergrads in TUI to get funding from Hothouse. They talk about what they do, their plans to go to this years ploughing championships, their funding aspirations, AI, and their long-term vision. They also talk about how they can save farmers money, new areas of opportunity, and Michael O’Leary.

Ronan talks to Binny Gill the CTO of cloud services at Nutanix. Binny talks about his background, what he does at Nutanix, how serious they take security, their AI and machine learning usage. Binny also talks about how Nutanix can be scaled, how Nutanix can adapt to different hardware and software, and what their end goal is.

Ronan talks to Rob Solomon the CEO of GoFundMe. Rob explains what Gofundme does, gives an example of an Irish GoFundMe campaign that tugs at your heartstrings, and how they are used by big and small charities and NGO’s. Rob also talks about their trust and safety process, how easy it is to share campaigns, their new enterprise level software, how sports fan are using it in a unique, and how the Irish are the most generous people on Gofundme campaigns.