The Irish Tech News Podcast

John Ryan the CEO And Co-founder Of Zinopy talks to Ronan about his background and how Zinopy started, the recent deal they have done with Sungard Availability Services, uncertainties in the market such as Brexit. John also mentions that they are hiring and what they are looking for, the upcoming GDPR, and the upsides and downsides of using the cloud.

In this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast, Ronan talks to Jessica McCabe from Ookla better know for speedtest.net. Jessica talks to Ronan about how speedtest started, how it works, how Irish broadband speeds compare to other countries in Western Europe and the U.S, why Ireland's broadband speed makes it easier for companies to move to Ireland, and what effect IoT will have on broadband.

In this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast Ronan talks to Eric Horgan the Irish Country Manager and Gareth Soye the EPOS sales manager of Elavon Ireland. Eric and Gareth tell me about their new iPad epos system and Talech app, and they show me a demo of it, explaining how it works. They also talk about their secure pro service, and what their future plans are.

On today's Irish Tech News Podcast, we are doing a St Patricks Day episode as Ronan talks to Cameron Worth from SharpEnd an innovation partner of Jameson’s involved in the development of Jameson’s 2017 Limited Edition St Patrick’s Day Bottle. The IoT-enabled bottles, developed in partnership with SharpEnd and piloted exclusively for the Irish market, will mark the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day through a range of services and digital experiences. Cameron talks about his agency SharpEnd who are the UK’s first Internet of Things agency, the IoT bottle developed for Jameson, how NFC can work for brands and consumers, and why NFC lessens the needs for companies and brands to build an app.

In today's Irish Tech News podcast coming from SXSW, Paul Burfield from the Enterprise Ireland California Office and Adrian Farrell the Consul General of Ireland in Austin talk to Kevin Kline about SXSW, some of the Irish companies they admire at SXSW, and how the Irish have taken to SXSW.

In today's Irish Tech News podcast coming from SXSW, Kevin Kline talks to Fearghal Kelly the CEO of Digisoft TV. Fearghal talks about what they are launching at SXSW, what advice they can bring to other startups, what they hope to accomplish at SXSW and the Cork tech scene. Another podcast recorded by Kevin at SXSW will be published tomorrow.

In our second SXSW themed podcast, Ronan talks to Helix Works co-founders Nimesh Chandra and Sachin Chalapati just before they headed off to SXSW to pitch at it. Helix Works is in the IndieBio EU program run by SOS Ventures and they focus on DNA data storage as they are a DNA factory that synthesises DNA. Nimesh and Sachin talk about the help they got from Enterprise Ireland and the local enterprise office in Cork and IndieBio program they are involved. Nimesh and Sachin also talk about how they ended up going to SXSW and what the future holds for Helix Works including being able to store a terabyte on a USB stick.

Girl Crew the Irish Tech startup founded by Elva Carri, Aine Mulloy and Pamela Newenham are off to SXSW and before they headed off Ronan met up with Aine and Pamela. They tell Ronan how Girl Crew started including how they joined forces at surf summit, that their membership is growing, and their Tinder prank which got picked up on Reddit. They also tell me that while they are at SXSW they will be crowning the Queen of Tech and doing a soft launch of their web app.

Denis Kennelly, the VP Development & Technology, IBM Security Systems is one of the speakers at the Zero Day Security conference in Dublin. Denis talks to Ronan about his talk Cognitive Security: A new approach to Cyber Defence and where he sees Watson heading.

Mike Hanrahan from jet.com talks to Ronan about how Jet started, what they do in e-commerce, how Walmart bought them over, and the Innovative tech they use such as AI and VR. Mike also explains why their focus is on America, why they love hackathons, how seriously they take security, and that they are looking to hire more people for their Dublin office.