The Irish Tech News Podcast

Damien McCann Director of Sales & Marketing in Viatel by Infused Media

Chris McCreery the director of the Northern Ireland Science Festival which takes place from the 16th to 26th of February talks to Ronan about the Science Festival, what you can expect at it, who some of the speakers are including the first British Astronaut Helen Sharman, Professor Alice Roberts, the director of IBM’s Watson project, Marcus du Sautoy the UK professor for public understanding, and Tom Solomon who was Roald Dahl’s doctor. Chris also talks about the worlds first AI beer, the science behind Irish Whiskeys, and Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell who discovered pulsars and will be delivering the closing talk with Jim Al-Khalili on the last day of the festival.

Carmel Owens the Sales and General Manager of Sungard AS Ireland talks to Ronan about Sungard AS Ireland and what they do, recovery time objectives, who some of their clients are. Carmel also mentions their growth strategy and plans for the next 5 years, how eco friendly they are, and how they make sure their customers are compliant with data security.

In this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast Ronan talks to Ali Rayl Slacks director of experience. Ali tells Ronan how Slack started including how they grew from 8 to 750 employees, and why internal email is bad for communication. Ali also mentions how secure Slack is, AI integration with Slack, new jobs coming to Ireland and in the face of Brexit why moving to the UK was not an option.

Data Protection Day is this Saturday and in the lead, up to it Irish Tech News is publishing a series of security themed podcasts. In the third and last of our series of security themed podcasts, Ronan talks to Dennis David data security expert, and President & CEO of Agenda LTD. Dennis talks to Ronan about IoT security risks, how and where is your data stored, why you need your own encryption and protection systems. Dennis also talks about the difference between cybersecurity and compliance and the new GDPR regulations.

Ronan talks to Ronan Murphy the CEO from Smarttech who are one of the sponsors of the Zeroday Security Conference. Ronan who is also one of the speakers at Zeroday talks about the conference mentioning the topics covered and the speakers involved. Ronan also talks about the security challenge that IoT faces, corporate hacking and why education is the key.

Data Protection Day is this Saturday and in the lead, up to it Irish Tech News is publishing a series of security themed podcasts. In the first podcast Emerald De Leeuw a Data Protection Specialist and the CEO of EuroComply a SaaS company that helps you comply with the GDPR regulations that come in to force in May 2018. Emerald talks to Ronan about EuroComply, the GDPR regulations, who they are applicable to and what they mean to businesses. Emerald also describes the difference between privacy statement and privacy policy, and that she is a finalist in the European innovator of the year awards.

Ronan talks to Ollie Hynes the co-founder and CEO of HUB controls. Ollie talks to Ronan about the background of the company and how it started, what platforms their Smart Hub works with, and how it can save you money on your heating bills. Ollie also mentions how secure their devices are, how secure your data is with them as you own the data, the IoT market in Ireland, where you can buy their products, how much it costs, how often you get updates, why their touch screen interface is the future, and Amazon Alexa and other voice recognition products.

Richard Barrett The Co - Founder Of Pundit Arena by Infused Media

Aaron Gibson talks to Ronan about his background in edtech and how when he sold his first start-up he used the money to form Hurree. He also talks about Hurree and how it works, their current funding plans, their future plans, and why Irish companies should play up their Irishness when abroad.