The Irish Tech News Podcast

Jamil interviews Chirag Jetani Chirag heads the operations at Diamante Blockchain LLC. He owns an Engineering degree from RV College of Engineering, India and further advanced his technical skills by holding a Masters from FAU, Germany. Being an Executive Managing director of a prestigious Diamond company, Chirag has technical, administrative and authoritative experience working within the Diamond Industry. Being a crypto and blockchain enthusiast from the rise of cryptocurrencies he has broad understanding about the crypto market and holds solid convictions about its utility and its application to the Diamond Industry. www.diamanteblockchain.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.

Businesses are using technology in various ways to improve how they work. One such technology is machine learning but how can businesses use machine learning to improve customer experience and consequently boost ROI ? Ronan talks to Paul McBride, Managing Director and Co-founder of the Mayo based start-up Peroptyx about this and more. Paul talks about his background, what Peroptyx does, helping improve recommendation engines, real world problems being solved, machine learning, data on apps not being compromised. Paul also talks about data vandalism, voice assistants, chatbots, the progress of technology, where Paul sees machine learning heading and the future plans of Peroptyx. More about Paul McBride: Following some formative years on the Windows development team at Microsoft, Paul spent two decades serving the world's data driven brands in their mission to improve the local relevance and global reach of their online products and services In 2018, Paul McBride and Maeve Bleahene, founded Peroptyx a machine learning start-up. Peroptyx helps businesses to rapidly adapt their machine learning models and reflect what is happening in the real world.

Whether it’s the Queen’s bank in the U.K., a neobank in Brazil, a challenger fintech in the U.S., or one of the mighty superapp platforms of Asia, there is nothing more central to that conversation than compliance, risk, and regulation. This is especially true as it relates to data, privacy, and the evolution of the financial services business model. Yet this trifecta of controls are often overlooked. In this episode of our #OneVision podcast, Theodora and Bradley talk to Victoria Martin, Head of Client Risk and Compliance at 10x Future Technologies. With leading roles in risk, compliance, and regulatory matters, and time spent at 11FS, ClearBank, Octopus, Tandem Money, and RBS among them, our conversation covered a lot of ground. Join us as we learn more about the differences in how startups and banks approach compliance, how open banking standards differ across geographies, and where Victoria thinks we are heading next when it comes to regulation.

Treedom is a tree planting company that has worked with 782,698 people, 5,800 companies and 118,209 farmers to plant a variety of trees all over the planet. So far, they have planted over 2 million trees. Rachel talks with Federico Garcea about how he came up with the idea for people to be able to buy trees and be able to track and monitor them from thousands of miles away. Federico discusses how Treedom was inspired by a game, the types of trees that are planted and the benefits of being able to learn about the ethics and principles of farming in various regions, such as Central and South America. Federico is the founder and CEO of Treedom. Federico was inspired to created Treedom in 2010 while working on a project in Cameroon, and witnessing the local economic, environmental and social disadvantages caused by deforestation. Rachel is a Journalism student at Coventry University, currently interning with Irish Tech News – which marks the start of a partnership between the two institutions. Rachel’s main interests are politics and conflict, human rights, animal welfare and the environment.

Ria talks with Andrew about how Aristo’s biggest aim is to 'Rid the world of Boring Speakers', and how the word presentation should be erased. He also speaks about where his initial interest in helping startups and entrepreneurs stemmed from and how that grew into a business. In addition to this Andrew elaborates on his experiences and how even when pitching a business idea, a good story will always sell. Andrew Keogh has been an entrepreneur & sales professional for the last 30 years. He started his first business in 1988 supplying specialist equipment and components to the Electronics and Aircraft Industry, primarily dealing with multinationals in Ireland and overseas. Aristo. ie was founded by Andrew 16 years ago with the specific intention of helping businesses to pitch and present to win sales and investment. A special niche for Andrew is coaching start-up companies & researchers to pitch to potential investors.  As a result, Andrew’s pitch coaching system has been honed as part of his involvement with the following Programmes. Ria McGuire is a DCU journalism studying for her final year of college and began a two-month internship with Irish Tech News at the beginning of 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. 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.

Adam Bouktila is the CEO and co founder of dMerch, a concierge-style, hand holding service to onboard artists, musicians and enterprises into the new world of NFTS. In this interview he explains how it works, how he can help and highlights some of the artists he is working with. Your host is Jillian Godsil, award winning journalist, broadcaster and author, whose latest book can be found here https://persons-of-interest.io/

Futurism looks at events and trends of the future and the anticipation of what’s going to happen next. Futurists explore and analyse predictions about future trends in technology and how they’re going to come about. Rachel talks with Bronwyn Williams about what futurism means, how her career developed and what informs and inspires her to continue to research and work in this industry. Bronwyn discusses the idea of privacy and how generations regard it differently, whether privacy can be bought and sold, and how it’s important to remember that man made technology - not the other way round. Bronwyn is a futurist, economist and trend analyst. She is currently a Partner at Flux Trends, a boutique trend analysis and insight agency with clients across the world. She recently co-authored ‘The Future Starts Now’ with Theo Priestly. Rachel is a Journalism student at Coventry University, currently interning with Irish Tech News – which marks the start of a partnership between the two institutions. Rachel’s main interests are politics and conflict, human rights, animal welfare and the environment.

Keelvar based and founded in Cork is the leading global provider of intelligent sourcing automation solutions, and recently announced some exciting news. David Clarke the co-founder of Cape Clear, and the former CTO of Workday joined their board of directors as Chairperson. Ronan talks to David Clarke about his background, his time with Workday, how Cape Clear got its name, choosing the right name for your startup, what Keelvar does,. David also talks about AI, remote working, the future plans for Keelvar, handling mistakes, and their recent financing round. More about David: David Clarke has nearly three decades of experience defining and communicating the strategic direction for innovative technology companies. He was the co-founding CEO of Cape Clear Software, which was started in 1999 and raised $50 million in investment capital from leading venture capital firms through its acquisition by Workday in 2008. At Workday, he served in various technology and product leadership roles, ultimately serving as CTO, while the company grew from its early stages into a leading global cloud ERP provider.

Amy Thomson, author of Moody- A 21st Century Hormone Guide and Founder at Moody App  talks about why women's hormones are so important and how technology and machine learning can help.   Your host is Jillian Godsil, award winning journalist, broadcaster and author. Her latest book can be found at https://persons-of-interest.io/

Alex Adelman is the CEO & Co-founder of Lolli, a rewards application that lets people earn bitcoin when they shop online from 1,000+ top merchants. Alex was previously the CEO & Co-founder of Cosmic, the leading e-commerce gateway, which was acquired by PopSugar in ’15 and then by Ebates in ’17. Alex positioned Cosmic and Lolli as high growth, high value, and industry-leading technology companies, establishing strategic partnerships with key partners in e-commerce. Alex was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Retail & E-Commerce. His work has been featured on WSJ, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, TechCrunch, Cheddar, MarketWatch, and Digiday and he’s presented at Advertising Week, Fashion Tech Forum, TechCrunch Disrupt, Tech Cocktail, Money 20/20, and Technori. Alex holds a BA in Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill. 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.