The Irish Tech News Podcast

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.

With more and more people in the tech industry contracting and freelancing what is the best way to do this? Kevin Deasy the founder of Accounting Pro talks to Ronan about this, giving some great tips for people contracting or setting up a startup company and he also explains what Accounting Pro does. Kevin has another company http://www.playbackservices.com and he tells Ronan what it does and how it can cut down on collusion and fraud. Kevin also has a great offer for Irish Tech News readers if you quote Tec Dr you will get 20% off your first month if you sign up to use Accounting Pro.

Ronan speaks to Keith O’Leary Principal Consultant, for Sungard Availability Services. Keith gives Ronan a brief overview of GDPR, when it becomes legal, and why GDPR should be seen as an opportunity and not a weakness or threat. Keith also talks about what backups you should keep and gives some tips on GDPR compliance including how to correctly implement GDPR in your business.

Ronan talks to Benoit Simeray, Catapult Sports CEO of Consumer and he tells Ronan how Catapult Sports started, what they do, how their analytics work, and the teams and sports who use their product. Benoit also talks about Playertek an Irish company that Catapult Sports bought last year and Catapults plans for the next few years including using machine learning.