The Irish Tech News Podcast

Daniel Mackey the co-founder of teamwork.com talks to Ronan about how the company started, their unique approach with their development team, their recent jobs announcement. Daniel also talks about their new escape to cork website and the free hot desk space they are offering in their old offices.

Victor Corcoran CEO of XSellco talks to Ronan about Ray Nolan the founder of XSellco, how XSellco works, how Micks Garage uses XSellco, some of their other clients. Victor also tells Ronan how XSellco integrates with Amazon, the different software offerings XSellco have, and their future plans including hiring more staff.

Mike Cowen and Jason Lawor from Mastercard appear on this episode of the Irish Tech News Podcast. Mike and Jason talk to Ronan about the changing landscapes of payments in Ireland including the big changes around mobile payments, biometric payments such as fingerprint scanners and retinal scanners. They also talk about their new technology platform MDES that banks can plug into and allow systems like Apple Pay and Android Pay to work. MDES platform and what Mastercard products are coming on stream soon.

Maighread Ní Ghrásta is the singer in Blackbird and Crow a Donegal Blues Band and in this episode of the Irish Tech News Podcast Maighread talks to Ronan about how technology has enabled artists to release records and promote their gigs without having to break the bank. Maighread also tells Ronan about how Facebook helped bring them to a wider audience, and how a Facebook page called the Motley Crew which is a fan page to listeners of the Pat James show on Radio Nova is used to promote new and obscure artists. Maighread also shares some tips about using social media and how a great web designer can make all the difference when it comes to your website.

Marieke Flament the European Managing Director for Circle a blockchain company breaking boundaries in fintech, talks to Ronan about their app and what what platforms it can be used on. Marieke also explains how it works, how their recent launch went in Ireland, what currencies it works with including Bitcoin, their partnership with Barclays Bank, how secure Circle is and how they utilise blockchain.

Last week the Agile, Devops and Testing conference took place in Dublin and Ronan interviewed two of the speakers. In this episode of the Irish Tech News Podcast Ronan talks to one of those speakers John O’Connell the director of the jet.com, Dublin Dev-ops team about the conference. John also spoke about what jet.com do, how they successfully utilise open source software on Azure cloud to rapidly scale and innovate, and what’s the best way to scale your infrastructure successfully.

Last week the Agile, Devops and Testing conference took place in Dublin and Ronan interviewed two of the speakers. In this episode of the Irish Tech News Podcast Ronan talks to one of those speakers Adrian Skehill about the conference and what he spoke about, namely, Infrastructure as Code and how you manage your infrastructure side and how you would codify it. Adrian also talks about how secure the environments he is working in.

Frank Casey the founder and director of ResourceKraft, talks to Ronan about how the company was founded, what they do in the energy efficiency area and who some of their clients are. Frank also tells Ronan about their growth over the past few years, their latest deal with Irish Rail, where they plan to go to next, and the benefits gained by their customers.

Ashwin Ramachandra And Jagadish Iyengar From Sasken appear on our last Iot World podcast. They talk to Ronan about their company Sasken explaining the different products they make, they also talk about their wearable products, and how they take security very seriously.

In the fifth of our IoT world podcasts Ronan talks to Octavio Hernandez and Michael Fallon from Cubic Telecom. They gave Ronan a demo inside an Audi Q7 of the product that they supply to Audi and they also spoke about what clients they are looking for.