The Irish Tech News Podcast

Leveraging Blockchain Technology to Reunite Families Impacted by Failures in Local Judicial Court Systems, with Kristine Smith Kristine A. Smith is a Star Producer and Ambassador for the Erasing Family Documentary, (www.erasingfamily.org)  a free non-profit feature-length film about family court induced trauma and real-life reunifications ,  the film is endorsed by the American Psychological Association. This film is designed to help erased kids open up to reuniting with their parents. Kristine Smith has been written about in Jamil Hasan's book Block Chain Ethics, in Chapter 4 "Cracking the Glass Ceiling".  Jamil writes of Krissy’s sudden status as a newly minted “bitcoin” millionaire in 2017 and her struggles as a “non-custodial” parent and her ongoing custody battle in Chester County Pennsylvania “Family” Court. Jamil details the story of how Krissy made money on cryptocurrency to donate to Ginger Gentile the Director of the Erasing Family social impact documentary, in order to make it free and available to educate the masses (including divorce attorneys!!) on the mental health crisis caused by “Family” Court.. Krissy Smith has been a proud and loud voice for the #PsychiatricSurvivor and the #FreeBritney movements. In the state of Pennsylvania, Krissy is an advocate for 50-50 Shared Parenting. She believes that anything less than that will perpetuate the mental health crisis underlying many suicides, homicides, and mass shootings in our society. Smith doesn’t want others to suffer the same fate she has, missing out on the holidays with her offspring. To achieve that goal, she has been rallying support for HB 1397, a proposed Parenting Time bill in Pennsylvania. This bill promotes gender equality in custody determinations and aims to protect the right of children to continue to have both parents meaningfully involved in their lives following a separation or divorce.

Launching Industrially Designed 3-Dimensional Metaverse Marketplaces, with Julian Picaza and SmartMFG With a 25 year background as a Fine Artist Filmmaker, Visual Effects Supervisor, Industrial Product Designer, Makerspace Founder, CNC Operator and more, Julian Picaza is the Quintessential Maker, now leading SmartMFG’s NFT Platform in the role of (Chief) Product (Officer) Manager. Smart MFG Tech LTD promotes new technologies and applications for use within the Industrial Manufacturing industry. We aim to be pioneers in the Industrial Internet of Things and work towards helping develop Industry 4.0. Smart MFG Tech LTD promotes digital transformation of industrial manufacturing supply chains using blockchain as a key building block of Industry 4.0 Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil’s experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over ninety podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil’s primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.

SciFest, Ireland’s largest and most inclusive second level STEM fair programme took place recently, and it aims to give students of all abilities and backgrounds the opportunity to develop research, problem solving, critical thinking, and presentation skills. Participation in the SciFest programme is free at all levels. Since its foundation in 2006, SciFest has grown from a single STEM fair of 170 students to 99 STEM fairs with 10,000 students participating around the country. Ronan talks to Diarmuid Hayes one of the SciFest finalists. Diarmuid talks about his background, the SciFest National STEM competition, his SciFest project, Benford’s law and how he proved how accurate Ireland’s Covid data is. More about Diarmuid: Diarmuid Hayes is a student at Coláiste Iognáid, Galway. Diarmuid investigated a a law in nature called Benford’s Law that all data follows. If the data does not follow Benford's Law, then the data is likely fake and possibly manipulated either on purpose or accidentally. He subsequently developed a dashboard test that incorporates Benford’s Law, statistical and graphical techniques to test if data is real or fake. The platform is a user-friendly application so that anyone can test data quickly and efficiently. His innovative project will be helpful for scientists or students to be used as an analytical tool to check that their data is not biased in any way and will help identify if images or videos are fake or real so that public can be made aware of fraud, fake news, or scams.

Using his background in aircraft avionics software, Rex has specialized in quality and best practices on smart contract software. Starting from EthDenver 2018, Rex established secureth.org as a set of software development process guidelines. At the start of DeFi Summer (June 2020), Rex started DeFiSafety to measure DeFi protocols on transparency, best practices and processes and implicitly safety. DeFiSafety has rated over 170 protocols on 7 chains and has become the pre-eminent independent source for technical ratings on DeFi protocols. Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil’s experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over ninety podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil’s primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.

Rebuilding the Global Energy Industry with Bitcoin and the Energy Tech of Chips, with Arthur Lee and SAI Tech Founded in 2019，SAI is a global computing & energy operator who empowers high-performance chips with clean energy. Adhering to the corporate vision of “energy-driven computing, computing-driven future”, our mission is to enable everyone to use cleaner and more affordable computing power, electricity and heat resources. Use the power of technology to accelerate the reduction of entropy and continue to create value for market customers and partners. Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil’s experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over ninety podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil’s primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.

Dennison Bertram is a serial entrepreneur with an art background. CEO and Co-Founder of Tally, the leading DAO Governance portal. Building tools to enable the future of human organization and collaboration. Previously, founder of DappHero, and BuyBTC.cz, first Bitcoin exchange in the Czech Republic, 2012 Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil’s experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over ninety podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil’s primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.

In this podcast, Shane is Joined by Craig Golinowski, President and managing partner of Carbon Infrastructure Partners to discuss Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) and how important it will be in the race to achieve net-zero. With many countries committing to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 or 2070, Craig gives his thoughts on whether or not this will even be possible and also discusses Clean Firm Energy, Carbon Infrastructure Partners' vision for a global energy system. About Craig Craig is the President and Managing Partner at Carbon Infrastructure Partners, he has 18 years of experience in the financial and oil and gas industry and has been active in private equity fund management since 2007. Before working at Carbon Infrastructure Partners, Craig worked as an investment banker with RBC Capital Markets, where he focused on equity finance and mergers and acquisitions for domestic and international oil and gas, oil sands and energy service companies. About Shane Shane is currently interning with Irish Tech News. He is in his third year of studying Journalism at NUI Galway where he also studies IT and has an interest in programming and web development. He also likes to write about sport in his spare time. His main areas of interest are football, rugby and basketball. He is currently interning with Irish Tech News which will last for the duration of his third year in university.

Sonny Vu is CEO of Arevo, an advanced manufacturing technology company that uses 3D printing to automate the production of carbon fiber composite products. He is also founder of Alabaster, an investor focused on early stage companies with technology based on scientific breakthroughs that have the potential for creating positive, planet-level impact. Recurring themes include alternative protein production, new materials, and novel semiconductors. Previously he founded and sold a number of technology companies, including most recently selling Misfit to Fossil (NASDAQ:FOSL) for $260m. Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil’s experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over ninety podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil’s primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.

Canada fintech funding soars to a record $2.2B in 2021 YTD, according to CB Insights. With 90 percent of the market being dominated by six big banks, however, one would imagine the dynamics between incumbents and fintechs would play out a bit differently than what we may find in other markets.  In this new episode of One Vision, Theo and Bradley chat with Sue Britton, Co-CEO of FGS, on the open banking agenda, financial inclusion, and the future of the Canadian fintech ecosystem.

In this podcast, Shane is joined by Christoper Burge, CEO and co-founder of Spark Crowdfunding, Ireland's only equity crowdfunding platform who are based in Dublin City, to discuss the crowdfunding space in Ireland and what makes Spark Crowdfundings approach unique to other platforms. Chris also discusses Spark Crowfundings approach to attracting investors/investees as well speaking about the future of equity crowdfunding in Ireland and, after a very successful year, he discusses the year ahead and would make 2022 an even better year for Spark Crowdfunding. About Chris Christopher Burge is the CEO and co-founder of Spark Crowdfunding, before moving to Ireland in 2000, he worked around the world as an engineer, in places such as France, South Africa and the United States. After moving to Ireland, he worked in a number of different businesses before deciding to start Spark Crowdfunding after seeing the rise of crowdfunding in the UK and the United States. About Shane Shane is currently interning with Irish Tech News. He is in his third year of studying Journalism at NUI Galway where he also studies IT and has an interest in programming and web development. He also likes to write about sport in his spare time. His main areas of interest are football, rugby and basketball. He is currently interning with Irish Tech News which will last for the duration of his third year in university.