The Irish Tech News Podcast

Ria talks with Steven Roberts about his recently published book ‘Data Protection for Marketers: A Practical Guide’, and how data protection is constantly changing. He also speaks about GPDR and the difficulties that can be faced by marketers and market teams when implementing GDPR principles. Steve elaborates on his work and how keeping up to date with data protection regulations will create transparency within and out of the work environment. Steven Roberts is head of marketing at Griffith College. He is a certified data protection officer and vice-chair of the ACOI’s data protection and information security working group. His new book Data Protection for Marketers: A Practical Guide, published by Orpen Press, is available now at all good bookstores. Ria McGuire is a DCU journalism studying for her final year of college and recently began a two-month internship with Irish Tech News in May. Ria has written for TheJournal.ie, The Leinster Leader, DCU’s The College View, and HerCampus Online Magazine. She also has experience in audio Journalism as she hosted two DCUFm shows called ‘Awkward Encounters’ and ‘The Commuters’ over the course of her first and second year. Ria has also participated and appeared on First Dates Ireland. She is excited to be a part of the Irish Tech News Podcast and have the opportunity to talk to a variety of different people.

CEO and founder Firdosh Sheikh has created a new NextGen ride hailing platform or Taxi 3.0 as she calls it for short where the drivers are enabled and commissions removed. Launching in India, Brazil and France there are already 10,000 drivers clamouring to get on board. Decentralization as it should be. Your host is Jillian Godsil, award winning journalist, broadcaster and author. Her latest book can be found at https://persons-of-interest.io/

Techstars is a a globally-renowned seed accelerator that helps to catalyse founders, early-stage companies and support organisations to create a more dynamic and vibrant startup community. Part of what Techstars do is community building but how is this implemented? Ronan talks to Clark Dever, Senior Product Manager at Techstars about this and more. Clark talks about his background, the startup community in Buffalo, blockchain, ecosystem development, the pandemic, give first, the Bridge app, and his goal of introducing 1000 people in a year. More about Clark Dever: He is a data driven, process-oriented, and customer-focused senior IT and operations management executive with 15+ years of technical experience and unique understanding of business management building high performance teams utilising process orientation for repeatable success. As a strategic systems thinker and resourceful problem solver, He possess an innate ability to drive process design / implementation, full stack Web development, and personnel management and development.  

What else would you do with your Space-mad-preteen but send them to a Job Camp and let them hear from SpaceX's Inspiration 4 Astronaut DR SIAN PROCTOR, NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut NICOLE STOTT and also Future Mars Walker Alyssa Carson? This Job Camp has been unveiled on our podcast as fully sponsored and paid by the generosity of Shetland Space Centre at Saxa Vord, Unst, Scotland, and Wildland.   We also talked about Why Space? How to Participate in Space Sports?  Mike also mentioned Humunnaires.org which provides a wonderful and supportive way to reassure and support children who have to quarantine, a novel idea! About Mike Mike Mongo is an astronaut teacher and author of the children's book The Astronaut Instruction Manual. He is also vice-president of interstellar space science maker group & non-profit Icarus Interstellar, and strategic director for biennial interstellar space science summit, Starship Congress. What's more, he also serves as an At-Large Board Member and active student member of Students for Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS). Interestingly he is also one of the co-founders of Yuri's Night Space Coast at Kennedy Space Center. He lives in Sherman Oaks, CA, where he works on a television series for the first kids in space with Alcon Entertainment (The Expanse). You can often find him at a local coffee shop in front of a laptop. Astronaut Job Camp Tomorrow’s jobs are in Space! Learning this, gives today's kids  critical competitive advantage for tomorrow’s space jobs. Mike Mongo’s Astronaut Job Camp opens the door to tomorrow’s jobs in space by giving today’s students permission to imagine themselves living, working, and playing in Space.

Ori Levi is CEO of NFTrade. Ori has been a Bitcoiner and cryptocurrency enthusiast since 2012. Ori designs and builds projects from ideation to completion, and has been advising top blockchain projects for the better half of a decade. NFTrade is the first cross-chain and blockchain-agnostic NFT platform. NFTrade is an aggregator of all NFT marketplaces and hosts the complete NFT lifecycle, allowing anyone to seamlessly create, buy, sell, swap, farm, and leverage NFTs across different blockchains. Using NFTrade, anyone can gain access to the entirety of their NFT, unlocking the total value of the NFT market. www.NFTrade.com Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation’s financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X.

Evan Kirstel is a B2B thought leader and top technology influencer with an aggregate social media audience of 470,000 people (350K Twitter, 54K LinkedIn and 70K Instagram followers, 3K Clubhouse). Evan has built an organic reach in the tens of millions, in just 10 years and has been named the 4th Most Engaging Digital Marketer by Brand24. B2B tech brands like Intel, 3M, AT&T Business, Qualcomm, HPE, Telefonica, Samsung, Citrix and Ericsson have hired Evan to help them to achieve massive visibility and scale, leveraging the power of social media in a variety of market segments including: mobile, blockchain, cloud, 5G, HealthTech, IoT, AI, Digital Health, crypto, AR, VR, Big Data, Analytics and CyberSecurity. Evan has 30 years of enterprise sales, alliances & biz dev experience in the telecom and IT arena, He brings a unique perspective on opportunities in the Unified Communications & Collaboration space, including extensive practical knowledge of mobile, voice/video/web collaboration and cloud technology. Evan understands emerging cloud & mobile technology and market convergence dynamics, and has a strong track record in selling and marketing disruptive technology to enterprise and service providers. He is the Co-Founder of EvIRA Health, a close-knit network of fellow B2B thought leaders and digital social practitioners tirelessly serving the global health tech community. www.evirahealth.com www.evankirstel.com Twitter @evankirstel Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation’s financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X.

Amir Najib is a student journalist from London, currently studying in Coventry University. He initially got into journalism for the interest of speaking to people with interesting stories. Specifically in the fields of the entertainment industry and sports industry. He felt those people who had interesting stories deserved to have a spotlight put upon them. In the future he hopes to pursue a career within those specific industries making multimedia content on the things he is passionate about. To learn more about Amir see here -> https://amirnajib583072630.wordpress.com Twitter - @4mirN9 Instagram – amir_najib_journalism

Food and beverage waste is something that is still a common problem and how can we go about solving this issue? Well, DigiTally a Galway based company might have the solution. They have a software product that enables multi-site food businesses in the hospitality, catering, and retail industry to count, collate and report on their food and beverage gross profit margins. This is being done up to 72% faster with further extensive results causing a huge shift in the industry in the awakening of the pandemic. Ronan talks to Patrick McDermott Co-Founder & CEO DigiTally. Patrick talks about his background, how DigiTally started, what DigiTally does, making count stock and inventory fun and not boring and solving peoples pain. Patrick also talks about food wastage, digitising, making it easy for the customer. More about DigiTally : DigiTally was formed in 2016 with the purpose of giving retailers and suppliers an easier, faster, and more efficient way to count their inventories, something that isn’t quite there yet as most businesses still use the standard and more traditional pen and paper method with Excel and double entry. It also allows you to efficiently manage all your counts, see your profitability, instantly generate your gross profits, manage all your sites, keep track of your counts electronically and instead of spending a full day counting your inventory, how about imagining that it could only be one or two hours.

According to a recent survey, nearly two-thirds of full-time employees indicated that their financial stress has increased since the start of the pandemic. To engage and retain productive employees, companies must help foster a culture of financial wellness and support to help their workforce better manage their finances and plan for the future. Providing access to financial wellness benefits can become a key differentiator when the labor market is tight; it can also positively impact the organization’s bottom line by relieving employee financial stress. In this episode of One Vision, Theo and Bradley chat with Rebecca Liebman, co-founder and CEO of LearnLux on her entrepreneurship journey, and creating a better world through the power of technology.

In this podcast Amir and Aileen speak about protest music and the initial origins of it, as well as how social media has contributed to the development of protest music. And finally the future of protest music, in regards to if it will continue to grow. Aileen is a Ethnomusicologist, Global Irish musics specialist, and Popular Music scholar with research interests in ethnicity, identity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the traditional and popular music’s of Ireland, UK, North America, and Australia. She has a PhD in Ethnomusicology, from the University of Chicago. She has won various awards such as the HERA travel award in 2015 and the Fulbright Alumnus award in 2018 Twitter - @aileen_dillane Amir Najib is a Student journalist from Coventry University currently interning at Irish Tech News, his main interests are in sports, entertainment and cryptocurrency. He hopes to one day work in the journalism industry where he is doing multimedia on the subjects he enjoys. Twitter - @4mirN9