The Irish Tech News Podcast

Ronan talks to Urs Bolt from Pikcio AG. Urs explains what Pikcio AG does, what Switzerland is doing in fintech, what the Swiss version of Enterprise Ireland is doing in the fintech space, if there will be a Swiss cryptocurrency, cryptocurrencies and tokens in gaming and what he hopes to get out of MoneyConf.

Ronan is at MoneyConf in Dublin and he met Sebastián Valdecantos and Marina Solanas from WABA Network. Sebastián and Marina tell me about WABA Network, what makes it unique, their funding plans, their plans for Europe and what they hope to get at MoneyConf.

Ronan talks to Joanne Sweeney-Burke, the CEO of Digital Training Institute. Joanna talks about how social media has changed, her background, the changing face of news in the digital age, the truth in digital media. and fake news. Joanne also talks about Ireland's first Public Sector Digital Marketing Summit which she is organising and why we should expect more from how the public sector handles digital and social media, and how our politicians are using social media to communicate with their constituents.

Ronan talks to Curtis Peterson the SVP of Cloud Operations at RingCentral. Curtis tells Ronan what Ring Central do, why cloud technology is very important to them, what areas they focus on, and their plans for the next 5 years. Curtis also explains how Ring Central can save you money, how security is a key concept, and why they are spending money on innovation.

Ronan talks to Tim Pitcher VP of Cloud Infrastructure with NetApp at Dublin Tech Summit. He tells Ronan what they do, how prepared they are for GDPR, how they were in the cloud before the cloud became ubiquitous and he also talks about his talk at Dublin Tech Summit.

Mark Sachleben the CFO of New Relic tells Ronan why Newrelic moved to Dublin, who their competitors are, what their USP is and when they started. Mark also mentions that they are hiring and what roles they are looking for, how they are prepared for GDPR and their plans for the next 5 years.

Ronan talks to Philip McNamara the VP of Business Development for Voxpro in the USA and the organiser of MobilityX. Philip talks to Ronan about the Mobilityx Conference, what to expect at it, self driving cars, and why some of the technology in self driving cars is available in most cars sold today.

Dr Mick Kerrigan is the Chief Science Officer for RecommenderX who won a DatSci Award last year, he is also on the advisory panel for DatSci's and this will be his 3rd year on the judging panel for the DatSci’s (Data Science Awards). Mick tells Ronan why data science has become more popular, what roles are available in data science and where data science will go over the next 5 years. Mick also explains what RecommenderX do, and what winning a DatSci has done for Recommender X.

Ronan talks to CMO and Social Media Director of MGHUS Ryan Goff. Ryan talks to Ronan about the recent Facebook newsfeed changes and how they can affect your brand, what the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal has revealed. Ryan also talks about how Facebook come back from this, how do they regain trust with their users, what other social media platforms can learn from this. and what can/should Twitter do whilst Facebook are in trouble and how do they deal with the verified accounts issues they have been having.

Ronan talks to Laurence Buchanan from EY who is one of the keynote speakers at Dublin Tech Summit. Laurence talks about digital transformation, doing digital versus being digital, digital factories and gives a few client case studies.