The Irish Tech News Podcast

Cormac Whelan the UK and Ireland CEO for Nokia explains what Nokia have been doing the fast few years including having Bell Labs as part of the Nokia family, the new Nokia Smartwatch, and how they are now getting into IoT and Smart Cities. Cormac also talks about Bell Labs work on new power sources, Nokia becoming a world player with ultrafast broadband, the national broadband plan, and farming tech.

Lucinda Kelly the CEO and founder of Popertee and Gerard Lynch the Lead Data Scientist of Popertee talk to Ronan about how Popertee started, what it does, data science, and how they are using AI. They also talk about how the security of their data is important, how they work with brands and that they are looking to hire more people.

Ronan talks to Jemma Sophie the founder of jemmasophie.com, a new startup that aims to be the Deliveroo of fashion. Jemma tells Ronan about her background, how came up with the concept of JEMMASOPHIE.COM and what it does. Jemma also explains why she is launching in Dublin, her plans to go further afield, what clothes she will be hand delivering and how fashion and tech have become a good fit.

Ronan talks to Peter Cahill the CEO and Founder of Voysis. Peter talks about his background, what Voysis does, the differences between Voysis and Watson, and how Voysis works with different accents. Peter also talks about voice and AI, GDPR, how voice technology has improved over the past 20 years., the hiring of Ian Hodson from Google, and their plans for the next 5 years including hiring more staff.

Nigel talks to Ronan about what Aqua Comma do, their work with Scandanavian data centres, their work in North America and their future plans. Nigel also tells Ronan about how long the cables they deploy last, how secure the data transferred on the cables are, how much data can be transferred on the cables.

Hurricane Ophelia recently caused problems for businesses including the LUAS which had to suspend services because of unplanned downtime but you can stop these unexpected problems occurring. Ronan talks to Michael Cade technical evangelist at Veeam about how businesses can protect themselves from suffering downtime. Michael tells Ronan about his background, what Veeam do, the Veeam 3 2 1 rule, and how secure Veeam is. Michael also explains how unplanned downtime affect businesses, and how businesses can protect themselves from suffering downtime.

Ronan talks to Jeremy Nathan Tisser, composer of the critically acclaimed VR shooter Raw Data about music in video games, about Jeremy’s work on the VR shooter Raw Data, music in video games and the future of VR.

Ronan talks to Seamus about what Graphics Mint does, how they started and Agile UX.

Adrian Clarke, Talent Manager for Analytics for Alternatives, Charley Stoney, Group Managing Director for Alternatives and Lorcan Malone, the CEO of the Analytics Institute, talk to Ronan about the Analytics Institute and what they do, what Alternatives do, careers in analytics. Adrian, Charley and Lorcan also talk to Ronan about the salary survey the Analytics Institute has done with Alternatives which will be launched this month.

Yesterday Irish Tech News held their Fintech 20 event in UCD and for our one hundred and fiftieth podcast Ronan interviewed Mike Ross the ex Leinster and Ireland rugby star who is the commercial director of Wizuda and Emma Walker Account Director with Wachsman PR and Managing Director of Wachsman PR’s Dublin office. Mike was giving a keynote at the Fintech 20 event on GDPR and Emma was on one of our panel discussions. Mike spoke about his talk, GDPR which comes in next May and gave some GDPR tips. Emma spoke about fintech startups, Wachsman PR and how Blockchain is becoming a very important part of fintech.