The Irish Tech News Podcast

In the latest edition of the Irish Tech News Podcast Ronan chats to Russell Brower the director of audio and the lead composer for Blizzard Games who was speaking at the IDIG Music Festival. Russell is a three-time Emmy Award-winning sound designer and best known for his work on World of Warcraft.

On the latest Irish Tech News podcast Ronan Leonard and Reuben Godfrey chat to Gary Allen English and Alan Jones from UiDEAS, The University of Interactivity, Design, Entertainment Arts and Sciences about their plans to open their administrative office in Dublin and also

In this episode of the Irish Tech News Podcast Ronan talks to Craig Stuart Garfinkle the video game composer and the husband of Eimear Noone the Irish Queen of Video Games Music. Craig who works for Blizzard games and is well known for his work on World of Warcraft, is the co-founder of the IDIG Music Festival which he runs with Eimear. Craig talks about the Festival and his big hopes for next year, where the third IDIG Music Festival will take place in Dublin.

In this episode of the Irish Tech News Podcast Ronan talks to Eimear Noone the Irish Queen of Video Games Music, about her work with Blizzard on their World of Warcraft and Diablo games, working with Nintendo on the 25th anniversary of Zelda, why there needs to be a video games tech hub in Ireland backed with government funding, music in video games and why it is now an important part of video games development. Eimear also talks about this weekend’s upcoming Second Dublin International Games Music Festival, which she runs with her husband Craig Stuart Garfinkle. The festival starting on April 28th, takes place in the RDS and closes with the Video Games Live Concert in the Dublin Convention Centre on May 1st.

In this episode of the Irish Tech News Podcast Ronan talks to John Coolican the programme manager at Accenture’s Fintech Innovation Lab in Dublin, about blockchains,hackathons and ,online peer-to-peer currency exchange and top tips that startups should follow. We also talk about Courtsdesk, Ostia, and Touchtech who are in Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab Accelerator programme.

Hortonworks, the leader in open enterprise Hadoop, recently opened a new office in Cork and in this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast I talk to Andy Leaver Hortonworks International Vice President, about Hortonworks, Hadoop and how they use the cloud.

In this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast I talk to Danielle and Lauren from Good as Gold, about UI, UX, Digital Branding, Digital Marketing. I also talk about the big Irish Tech Success story that is Intercom as well as the seven new companies including Bizimply who are now in the Digital Hub.

Ronan Leonard aka the Tec Dr from Irish Tech News Interviews Chad Hollingsworth the co-founder and President of Triaxtec. Chad talks about their impact sensor technology that is used to detect head injuries in sport.