The Irish Tech News Podcast

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.

Ronan talks to Paul Hayes and Maria Diviney from Beachhut PR about the EACD event GDPR - The death knell for unsolicited media outreach? which takes place this Thursday evening the 19th of April in Dogpatch Labs. Paul is the founder of Beachhut PR, and the EACD Regional Coordinator for Ireland, and will moderate the discussion. Paul and Maria talk about the event including what attendees can expect and what GDPR will mean for companies that send's unsolicited emails to journalists.

Ronan talks to Evert Bopp the founder of Disaster Tech Lab a charity which is based in Galway. Evert talks about his background, how Disaster Tech Lab started, and how they started to use Cambium Network’s WiFi Technology. Evert also talks about his work in Puerto Rico, Hati and Greece and the Connectivity Hero Award that he will be receiving soon.

Ronan talks to Alex Packham the CEO and Founder of ContentCal, and he talks about his background, what ContentCal does, the changes he has noticed in Social Media over the past few years and what changes he predicts over the next 5 years, the data challenges that Facebook and other Social Media platforms are facing. Alex also talks about, how social media delivers the news, which social media platform he prefers, why ContentCal doesn’t allow you to reshare content again and again and again, Twitters verified accounts conundrum, and ContentCal’s plans for the next 5 years.