The Irish Tech News Podcast

During the pandemic how we worked has changed for ever. Hybrid and remote working has become the new norm and this has impacted on tech recruitment. Phoenix is a global specialist search agency that was set up by founder and co-CEO Ed Rossiter in 2018. Offering recruitment services to companies in tech, fintech, financial services and professional services, Phoenix has scaled rapidly throughout the course of pandemic, while servicing many Irish companies with the same ambitions. Ronan talks to Ed Rossiter about the latest tech recruitment trends and more. Ed talks about what Phoenix has seen in the work place, remote working, the tech jobs that are most in demand, videoconferencing, the pandemic, interviewing for jobs remotely, working for startup or an established company and up skilling. More about Phoenix: Phoenix is redefining the way recruitment is executed, by creating a more personalised, modern and bespoke approach. They are helping companies scale globally and conquer the world by finding the right people at the right time. Providing agile, tech-enabled recruitment services to help scaling companies reach their goals. As a young company who have grown rapidly throughout the pandemic, Phoenix understands the needs of a new workforce, helping companies expand internationally and hire top talent in targeted areas.

Henry from Irish Tech News speaks with Professor Wulf Kaal about his experience with DAOs, horizontal governance, equity online,and his own project, Menagerie. How does this counter big companies’ data farming? How can this upgrade level 1 governance? We speak about all this and more. Bios: Wulf Kaal is a professor, lawyer, and economist. Originally hailing from Germany, he immigrated to the United States as a young adult, where he worked with top US firms, such as Goldman Sachs and Swain & Moore. He has taught at several universities across the globe, and is the co-founder of Menagerie.is, an internet tool that helps anyone begin their own decentralized community online. Wulf’s vision is to decentralise the internet in a way that will lead to more equity among users – this includes employing the use of DAOs and combatting data farming by large corporations. He is currently working at the University of St. Thomas Law School in Minnesota, the United States. Henry Fox is a freelance journalist and student at Coventry University in the UK, currently interning at Irish Tech News. Originally hailing from Limerick, Henry has a passion for all things nerdy, from emerging computer technology to cult movies.

During these strange times global manufacturing companies who are in heavily regulated sectors, such as pharma and healthcare face several issues. The biggest being maintaining budgets as raw materials prices and other costs swing upwards. Macmarts a Limerick based provider of cloud applications for manufacturing companies has the solution. Spendbooks is a one of a kind spend management software for manufacturing companies or companies who are in heavily regulated sectors such as pharma and healthcare. Ronan talks to Tony Frawley, CEO of Macmarts about Spendbooks more. Tony talks about his background, what Macmarts do, sustainability, how Spendbooks works, budgeting, digital transformation, approval of requisitions, change management, why they are a scale up, their future plans, and Brexit. More about Macmarts: Macmarts was originally developed by their parent company Macnovate in 2017, Macmarts delivers spend management and project resource management applications for the life science, healthcare and other heavily regulated industries. Macmarts is a flexible and fully customisable platform ideally suited to manufacturing organisations ranging from medium-sized businesses to large enterprises. With four decades of real life experience working at the coalface in the ever-changing, high-octane manufacturing arena, we’ve harnessed our collective industry intelligence to develop a SaaS platform to support manufactures in building Digital Manufacturing Enterprises.

Curated metaverse platform Metropolis World engages Flare as a key interoperability partner powering seamless movement between different metaverses and blockchains Metropolis World, a soon to launch curated metaverse platform, announces a partnership with Flare, a new blockchain which enables secure decentralized interoperability between chains and metaverses. Flare’s blockchain technology will allow for the seamless movement by users between different metaverse ecosystems and blockchains, such as Decentraland and Sandbox, which is a key aspect of Metropolis’ vision for the metaverse. The Flare partnership means that Metropolis World becomes a one stop destination as it now has a bridge into other metaverses. Metropolis users will be able to move into other worlds easily without borders. Metropolis World differentiates itself from other metaverse platforms due to its design aesthetic: its cities are created digitally by hand and every property is a unique standalone piece of art. Unlike the majority of NFT collections Metropolis is not utilizing generative art to create the actual cities. The real-world ecosystem is already developed as it has formed partnerships with a wide range of high-profile ambassadors from the worlds of music, art, gaming, NFT, crypto and business whom it is calling founding citizens. These include — 3LAU, Bored Elon, Chad Knight, Dillon Francis, Diplo, Fvckrender, Valfre, Meltem Demirors, Outlier Ventures, Steve Aoki. Metropolis’ first metaverse city called Celeste is launching in the fall and over the next 12 months it will drop its avatars and the ecommerce platform. Within 18 months it expects to launch six cities with each property sold as an individual NFT. Hugo Philion, CEO & Co-founder of Flare, said: “Interoperability is a critical challenge, not just for blockchains, but also for metaverses. We share Metropolis’ vision for a seamlessly interconnected metaverse universe, and as their key interoperability partner, we will be implementing decentralized and insured LayerCake bridges to ensure safe transit for all user assets.” Rashid Ajami, Co-Founder of Metropolis World, said: “The backing of Flare enables us to offer users the seamless movement between different metaverse ecosystems — this really sets us apart and reflects our big picture vision of how the metaverse is going to evolve.” Rania Ajami, Co-Founder of Metropolis World, said: “Metropolis will offer a metaverse experience unlike anything else out there. We see huge scope for the platform globally as the melding of digi-physical immersive experiences for our users blends into one life, but not just in our capital cities of the metaverse but on other platforms too thanks to our partnership with Flare.” To listen to a podcast with Rashid and Rania - tune in here. Your host is Jillian Godsil

When we reflect upon who we are and where we are in our career path, who has influenced us the most in our journey, to become the person we are today? In this episode of One Vision, we welcome the return of our co-host Stephanie Foster, as we chat with Dana Wilson, CEO and Founder of CHIP, on wealth management and the importance of empowering others to live their financially authentic lives.  There is no magic bullet — nor a single set of remedies — when it comes to fostering diversity and inclusion. From family endowment, education, employment, access to finance, to representation, and social attitudes, there are many factors that influence both equality of opportunity and equality of outcomes. But if we are intentional about creating space for others at the table, and making sure people are seen and their voices are heard, we can fight for — and effect change — together. We belong here.

James West, CEO Globe Derivative Exchange James West is a man who likes numbers, preferably lots of them. His PhD is in Biostatistics and at one stage he was also an ergodic theory researcher. For reference this is the definition of ergodic mathematics: relating to or denoting systems or processes with the property that, given sufficient time, they include or impinge on all points in a given space and can be represented statistically by a reasonably large selection of points. I rest my case. Although West explains ergodic dynamic systems using doughnuts because doughnuts are more interesting than regular planes as fundamentally there’s a hole in a doughnut. When asked if it mattered if it was cream filled or chocolate covered the answer was no, neither made a difference, although usually the math department preferred chocolate filled. For a time, West was also an entrepreneur in residence which was much more than just about numbers. He was employed by a VC to come up with business ideas in an incubator-like environment with 100 other like minded people. “It was like being in college, only being paid for it,” suggests West. To find out more, please to this very discursive and interesting podcast. You host is Jillian Godsil

On this Podcast, Diana Paiva is joined by author and multi-media creator, Melanie Ho. She talks about her book Beyond Leaning: Gender Equity and What Organizations Are up Against, a new kind of novel to spark discussion and change. Melanie Ho talks about the reason she decided to write about this subject and the problems and solutions for gender equity in society. She also explained how arts can help gender equity at work. Melanie Ho is the author of BEYOND LEANING IN: GENDER EQUITY AND WHAT ORGANIZATIONS ARE UP AGAINST, a silver medalist in the 2022 Axiom Awards recognizing the world’s best business books.  She speaks, facilitates workshops, and consults on a variety of topics, including women in leadership; diversity, equity, and inclusion; the future of education; and the use of creativity and the arts in business.  Formerly SVP at education technology and consulting firm EAB Global, Melanie now works with organizations ranging from small start-ups to multi-billion-dollar global conglomerates to leading universities. She started her career teaching literature, leadership, and visual culture at UCLA, where she received her PhD in English. About Diana Paiva Diana is currently interning with Irish Tech News. She graduated from Birkbeck University, with a degree in modern languages and she is currently doing a master’s in Journalism at the University of Roehampton. She has an interest in technology, fashion, and the environment. Starting her master’s in journalism made her realise that she has a passion to report and write people’s stories. After graduation, her main priority is to find a job in communications or public relations. Diana Paiva is active on social media platforms, including Twitter, and LinkedIn.

With remote working now part of daily lives, the technology to do this has become more sophisticated. Logicalis is one of the companies providing the technology to enable seamless remote working. Their Intelligent Connectivity solution is empowering customers and enabling connectivity by supporting agility, scalability, security, and sustainability. Ronan talks to Robert Price, Digital Infrastructure Practice Director for Logicalis about this and more. Robert talks about his background, what Logicalis does, the Logicalis’ Intelligent Connectivity solution, software defined solution’s, AI ops, the pandemic, and some of the current mega trends. Robert also talks about the cloud, IT as an industry, the role logically plays in remote working, what we will see in the next thirty years, and IOT devices. More about Logicalis: Logicalis is an international solutions provider of digital services currently accelerating the digital transformation of its 10,000 customers around the world. Through a globally connected network of specialist hubs, sector-leading experts in education, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, professional services, retail and telecommunications. As well as strategic partnerships including Cisco, Microsoft, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Oracle, ServiceNow, and VMware.

ITN's Henry Fox interviews Droom and ShopClues CEO Sandeep Aggarwal, one of India's most successful entrepreneurs, about his business, e-commerce in India, and expansion into the modern day. We go into the future of his company, and what he imagines life to be like in the metaverse. Bios: Sandeep Aggarwal is a serial entrepreneur and a self-described pioneer in the field of the manufacturing and supply chain industry. Sandeep is an investor in cryptocurrency and a blockchain enthusiast. He is the CEO of Logix Coin, an upcoming cryptocurrency, and has channelled his over 20 years of experience as a business owner and director into his current work. Henry Fox is a freelance journalist and student at Coventry University in the UK, currently interning at Irish Tech News. Originally hailing from Limerick, Henry has a passion for all things nerdy, from emerging computer technology to cult movies.

Caroline Hughes is the CEO and co-founder of Lifetise, a Web 3 consumer fintech in the metaverse where people can plan and visualize their goals.  She is a Tech lawyer by training.  She an activator in SheEO, a global community of radically generous women transforming the way we fund, support and celebrate women-led Ventures working on purposeful business ventures.  She is also included in the Crypto Goddess and God community (CG) of 1,000 thought leaders across finance, fintech and web3 featured in 1 of 1 rare portrait NFTs.  Caroline Hughes -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-hughes-46494915/ Lifetise - https://lifetise.com/ SheEO - https://sheeo.world/ CG Pantheon NFT: https://magiceden.io/marketplace/cgpantheon?activeTab=auctions Caroline Hughes Goddess NFT : https://magiceden.io/item-details/EUdN66kc74D8jkqng2EPtFW95ipVrSK9gHB51x2Bk5QK?name=Caroline-Hughes-%23162 Dr. Efi Pylarinou is the No.1 Global Woman Influencer in Finance & the Data conversation by Refinitiv, a Top Thought Leader by Onalytica, and a Top Digital Futurist, Linkedin and Twitter Voice, by Engatica. A seasoned Wall Street professional & a recognized technology thought leader on innovation topics. Founder of Efi Pylarinou Advisory servicing Big Tech, Financial Services and Fintech clients. She strongly believes in building bridges between the old and the new economy. She shares her passion of content creation with her 190,000+ followers on Linkedin and 18,000+ on Twitter.  Join her on the social platforms https://linktr.ee/Efiglobal Listen to more podcasts here.