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The Irish Tech News Podcast

Irish Tech News

Irish Tech News are Ireland"s number one online tech publication and often Ireland"s number one tech podcast too. We aim to cover innovation, entrepreneurs, startups, green tech, clean tech and tech for good that aims to help the planet. If you have a good story drop us a line.

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00:33:30

Alessandro De Grandi on buying bitcoin in 2010 and...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/09/12

In 2010, Alessandro De Grandi, CEO and founder of The Nemesis, was playing Second Life, basically a rudimentary Web2 Metaverse, when he bought his first bitcoin, two of them actually. They cost less than a dollar each and he sold them for around $75 a few years later to his great satisfaction. However, it was the sensation of buying bitcoin in a metaverse that changed his thinking. “It was a beautiful sensation. Something changed in my mind when I realised that we could make the metaverse into

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00:47:48

Climate Alpha a world impacted by climate change

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/09/11

Climate Alpha In this week’s episode of The Futurists, bestselling author of MOVE and futurist Parag Khanna joins us to talk about climate migration, geopolitics, real-estate and agriculture in a world impacted by climate change. Khanna is the founder of futuremap and climate alpha, and has worked with the US government, World Economic Forum and others on climate change adaptation strategies and policy. Welcome to the Futurists where your hosts Brett King and Robert Tercek interview the worlds

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00:30:58

The role of Humans in executing Sustainability goals

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/09/10

Description: The complexities of NetZero journeys are real and people need to be upskilled to be able to execute their strategic goals. In this episode, we discuss these topics with Helene Li, Top voice in Sustainability & Impact in the APAC region. We also touch on Greenwashing, Cop27, and the current macroeconomic environment. Helene Li (https://www.linkedin.com/in/helene-li-1555bb16/) is the CEO and co-founder of Go Impact Capital Partners (https://goimpact.today/home), andCo-Chair of

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00:40:19

What does it take for your financial brand to go...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/09/08

There are so many interesting paths that financial services and fintech have taken the past decade. How we serve customers across the landscape of products and services has seen a sea of change and the addition of digital experiences as the business model has changed. Yet, when we think about the ways that financial brands can go down the wrong path, the list of lessons is a long one indeed. To avoid some of these pitfalls, it is important to truly understand and appreciate your customer

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00:33:46

The new frontier in online sales Rónán Ó ’Dálaigh,...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/09/06

Thriftify, is a sustainable E-Commerce company that acts as an online retailer for 98% of Ireland’s charity shops and plans to expand its workforce with 20 new hires planned across the tech, e-commerce and sales and marketing sides of the business. As well as their expansion plans, Thriftify has just received a huge financial boost having just signed a €1.6m investment deal. Ronan talks to Rónán Ó ’Dálaigh, Thriftify CEO about how Thriftify and more. Ronan talks about his background, what Thriftify

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00:51:03

An insiders perspective on the 1st SuperApp, Kevin...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/09/03

Description: Mini-programs and the ecosystem design of WeChat, are unique. We discuss these and other differentiations of the WeChat journey (which continues) with Kevin through several examples and juxtapositions to the Western apps and BigTech companies. Are SuperApps going to make it in other parts of the world? Kevin Shimota was the global head of marketing and partnerships at WeChat (2016-2019) and has just published a book on this topic. The world envies the business model that was born in

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00:20:26

How to Transform Photovoltaic Power Stations into a...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/09/01

In this episode Melanie Boylan spoke with Shafi Kadem about his most recent work on photovoltaic power stations and how to optimise energy storage using artificial intelligence. He and his team found solutions that would be easily adapted to current stations without a reduction in levels or massive increased costs. Listen in as Shafi talks through his findings. IERC The “Intelligent Grid (iG)” Research Group @ IERC aims to design, develop and demonstrate (3D) intelligent and innovative solutions for

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00:30:09

The 5 Ways We Should be More Inclusive with Sinead Daly

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/09/01

Have you ever sat down and really drilled out how to make your business more inclusive? In this podcast Melanie Boylan and Sinead Daly have a fast paced chat on inclusion/culture/employee experience/sustainability and impact in fast-growth tech companies. These are very much the topics discussed in the recent book that she contributed to called The Key to Inclusion. This book isn't only to read but gives practical advice and guidance on how to implement as well and uses case studies and examples to

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00:32:29

That time when magic robots helped you get a loan

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/09/01

When was the last time you applied for a loan or some form of credit? Was it a magical experience? Did it take just a few minutes from application to funding? What if robotic process automation could mimic the human element for the more common requirements for lending and what if the majority of these, often tedious, parts of the loan application process could be done simply through a mobile phone? There are many efficiencies still to discover in financial services, and automating more and more of

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00:27:45

What does the company do when nobody is looking, Tim...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/30

Sustainability is becoming more important as climate change impacts more and more on our daily lives. Everyone has to do their part especially the tech sector. So, how is the tech sector doing this? Ronan talks to Tim Christophersen Salesforce VP, Climate Action about this and more. Tim talks about his background, if it was a logical progression moving to Salesforce, setting goals, why things are not as they should be, and why Salesforce are different from those merely greenwashing or looking to do

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00:34:15

How can more spending lead to more giving?

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/29

When we think about the way we spend money, we might think that the opportunity cost of that spending is what we cannot save or what we cannot invest. But what about the opportunity cost of not giving? Think about how much you have donated to charities or causes throughout your life, whether it was in the form of money or your time. What if every time we spent money, we saved some and simultaneously helped the organizations that take care of people in the most need across our communities? This needs

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00:19:50

Nick Vale - on how to rent, loan or borrow NFTs - and...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/29

Nick Vale – ahead of the NFT pack Some ideas make sense – once you hear them, like the infamous luggage on wheels and why did no one think of that before 1972. Others require a bit more imagination such as the touch screen and pinching to change the size of images. If hindsight is 2020 vision, it makes utter sense that these developments took place, but the trick is being the first to have the vision before everyone else. For our example today, enter the reNFT platform which offers the rental

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00:48:33

Redesigning Finance with the new modalities of Trust...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/27

Description:We now have the technology to link finance with the real economy in a sustainable way. The flow of money can be connected with the flow of things, business process and people in a cost efficient way. We can create networks that ennable trust in new places in supply chains. Professor Warwick Powel`s clarity on these topics is captivating. In the second half of our discussion we discuss about China`s adoption of these tech architerctures and its strategic commtiment to Blockchain

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00:47:25

Some companies reinvented themselves very quickly,...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/23

In February 2020 I recorded my last ever face to face podcast with Jason Adams and Michelle McDaid. Shortly afterwards the pandemic hit and remote working became part of our daily lives with the acceleration of the digital workplace. As how we worked has changed I reconnect with Michelle McDaid the Senior Director of Engineering at Workhuman, and talk to her about remote working and more. Michelle, talks about how the pandemic impacted on Workhuman, what she thinks the future workplace will be, if

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00:43:25

When we lose privacy and rights, we lose democracy

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/22

Data is central to everything that we do. But as we go about our daily lives, how do we ensure we are protected? It’s not just about what data is being collected and what is being done with it; it’s also about who holds the power to make those decisions. And what guardrails do we have in place to ensure companies are acting ethically? Can we push them to change? In this episode of One Vision, Theo chats with Joe Toscano, author of Automating Humanity, on data privacy and rights. When we don’t have

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00:54:24

Focus on an Inclusive Financial System with...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/20

Description:An Inclusive Financial System goes beyond reducing the number of people with no bank accounts or with no access to credit & investment opportunities. This long but colorful discussion with Theodora Lau from DC and Richard Turrin from Shanghai touch on the complexity and the nuances of the topic. This discussion was prompted after reading the WEF paper on `Shared principles for an inclusive financial system`https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/s... Both guests are authors of books

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00:21:08

Are YOU Ready to Change Social Enterprise? With...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/19

We know our listeners are shakers and movers in their sphere but today Melanie Boylan and Siobhán Finn are talking about Champion ChangeMakers (TM). Hear how the Community Enterprise Association Ireland has created ‘hackathon’ type events that bring local communities together to solve real world, everyday societal or economic challenges in ways that will positively impact our ever-changing world. Hosted as Champion ChangemakersTM, individuals of all ages as well as local groups, special interest

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00:45:26

Tom Serres, VC, on how to invest

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/17

Many entrepreneurial students start their first company while in college, but few start a company that will go on to be the largest political fundraising platform in the US. By the time Tom Serres came to sell his company, Rally, in 2014 it was powering 70,000 political operations across the US from aspiring senators to dog catcher campaigns. At its heart was a mechanism to raise funds efficiently over the internet and by 2014 it accounted for 50% of all political donations collected online. The

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00:48:46

Practical Sustainability in Disruptive Times, Corey...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/16

Earlier this year my colleague Simon Cocking reviewed the book Practical sustainability, circular commerce, smarter spaces and happier humans. Written by Corey Glickman and Jeff Kavanaugh, the book shares specific examples and case studies as well as reinforcing the concepts outlined by the authors. Ronan talks to Corey and Jeff, about the book, practical sustainability tips and more. More about Corey and Jeff: Corey Glickman is vice president and head of the Infosys Sustainability & Design

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00:27:49

Maarten Ectors - on creating an index token that gets...

The Irish Tech News Podcast ·

2022/08/15

Maarten Ectors is a man of many parts, mostly disruptive. He joined the Pollen DeFi team in October just after the initial founders put the project together. He reckons it’s all about the money, follow the money. “Take a step back,” Ectors advises. “Ten years ago if you had money it was relatively easy to invest through a broker or asset manager. Then Warren Buffet came along and burst the bubble pointing out that most of the managers never beat the market. So the next opportunity was indexed funds

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