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Design Talk (dot IE)

Design Talk. A podcast for learning about the business of technology design and management. Listen to stories, panels, interviews and discussions about technology and design in-the-wild: the good, the beautiful, and the useful. Whether you"ve got one big idea, you think of yourself as an organisation designer, product designer, creator, or entrepreneur. Each episode offers a take on how people design, strategise, organise, and develop technology. We want to dig into the essence of design, discover

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0264 - Navigating Risk with Peter Cripwell

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2025/11/11

Our hosts are Diarmuid Murphy and Leo CuddiganWelcome to the UCD Economics and Finance class.We are delighted to have Peter Cripwell, CEO at RiskSystem, in to talk to us today about Risk Analytics and Risk Reporting and the value of knowing a bit about programming.To start, Peter, can you tell us how you went from Nuclear Physicist to CEO of RiskSystem.·Can you give us a demo of what Risk Reporting as a service looks like·What technology do you use to design and build the product?·How do I get the

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0263 - Learning from the London Whale with Denis...

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2025/11/04

Welcome to the Economics and Finance class.Our hosts are Daksh Wadhwa and Peter Barrett.Today, we are very pleased to welcome Denis McCarthy, Head of Financial Risk Model Development at AIB.Thank you for coming in to speak to us today. Can you tell us a little about yourself and your journey into financial risk modelling?·What does a day in the week look like on your team? [for a finance/economist, quant analyst, programmer]·How can a large organisation manage end-user tools like Excel? [policy,

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0262 - From Grid to Dialogue with David Sammon

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2025/10/29

Hosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares.Welcome to today’s seminar by David Sammon from UCC, Cork University Business School.In this session David Sammon from University College Cork talks about his approach to unlocking the value of the 2x2 Matrix in the classroom. David is co-Founder of the Data Value Innovation Group, whose mission is helping organisations to deliver value from their data through data value mapping. The Data Value Map (http://datavaluemap.com) offers

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0261 - Data Practices with Hippolyte Lefebvre

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2025/10/28

Welcome to the CITO Podcast.Séamas Kelly invites Hippolyte Lefebvre to present an overview of his research interests and direction. Hippolyte is a member of CITO and the Management Information Systems group in the UCD College of Business, Dublin, and previously at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.Notes, extra questions, and further reading:Homepage at UCD -https://people.ucd.ie/hippolyte.lefebvreAndGoogle scholar page linkAcknowledgementsMusicTitle: Justice Little LeagueArtist: Ema

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0260 - Data Driven Fintech with Donal Rafferty

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2025/10/22

Hosted by Alex and Conal.Welcome to the UCD 2ndyear Economics and Finance class.Today, we are pleased to welcome Donal Rafferty, Director Product Development in Open Finance at Mastercard, Dublin.Thank you for coming in to speak to us today, can you share a little of your own story?·So, we’d like to start one of the ideas behind this series of talks. Do you think a finance professional’s working life will involve more or less interaction with dedicated development teams, IT or software

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0259 - Making New Money with Quinn DuPont

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2025/10/15

Welcome to the CITO Podcast.This episode is a seminar by Quinn DuPont titled “Making New Money: How autonomous communities produce and govern cryptocurrencies.”Paul Dylan-Ennis opens the session with a brief introduction after which Quinn presents an overview of his project, and Donncha Kavanagh makes some observations and invites reactions.Decentralized cryptocurrencies are upending the foundations of economic power, challenging centuries of state and bank control over money. This research

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0258 - Combining Business AND Technical Knowledge...

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2025/10/14

Our hosts for this episode are William Mugan and Grace Gunne from the BSc UCD Economics and Finance class.Today, we are very pleased to welcome Jane Antova from IBMConsulting and colleagues Angela Stakelum and Bernadette Keating.First, Jane, can you share a little of your own story and starting out in IBM?So, what does a day in the life look like?These days, do you find yourself needing more, or less interaction with technology specialists to get the job done?Can you talk about typical sources of

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0257 - Financial Tools and Applications with Raul Afonso

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2025/10/07

Our hosts are Tara O’Reilly and Jack Kavanagh.Welcome to the Economics and Finance class.Today, we are very pleased to welcome Raul Afonso, Chartered Financial Analyst and Chief Economist at MFW (Multi Family Wealth). MFW is an investment firm providing investment services on managed accounts and investment funds.Thank you for coming in to speak to us Raul. Can you share a little of your own story, how you came to Ireland and talk about the tools you use in your role as Economist and Financial

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0256 - Talking about Fintech with Dan Evison from...

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2025/09/30

Today’s hosts are Isabelle Howard and Adam Golden.We are very pleased to welcome Dan Evison, Founder and CEO of Manakau, a Financial Services Delivery and Consulting company based in Ireland.Thank you for coming in to speak to us today Dan. Can you tell us a little about yourself and the story behind starting Manakau?·You’ve spent your career working in finance.Could you tell us about the types of financial markets and activities you’ve been involved with?·Now let’s get to the premise for this

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0255 - Learning in the Digital Classroom

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2025/08/07

Welcome to Design Talk. This episode resurrects a recording from the College of Business Intercultural Forum bite-sized workshop series, session 7. A conversation with Jacob Eisenberg and Allen Higgins on “adapting experiential learning to the digital classroom”. The talk was hosted by Kathleen O’Reilly and Linda Yang.Key takeaways:Students benefit from being in control of at least some of the settings within which learning experiences unfold so, consider using multiple apps rather than integrated

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0253 - Teaching Analytics Visually with Stefan Helfrich

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2025/05/15

Hosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares.Welcome to today’s seminar by Stefan Helfrich.In this session Stefan talks about the education paths on offer for data analytics and the need for balance between learning concepts versus hands-on experiences with tools. Stefan makes the case for the value of visual workflow approaches for teaching and implementing analytics.How do we do that? KNIME implements a well-documented, comprehensive and capable software environment that enables

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0252 - どうして、日本?

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2025/05/12

Welcome to Design Talk.In this episode I give a short talk titled “Doshite Nippon?” for Naonori sensei’s 'Gateways to Japan' discovery module at University College Dublin. The talk was recorded on April 1st 2025.Kodate sensei is founding Director of the UCD Centre for Japanese Studies and Director of the Public Policy Programme in UCD.Why Japan? I contend that it is good to experiencethe ordinary strangeness of a culture that is quite different to one’s own. My starting point is to consider the

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0251 - BAEF Seminar - Marios Kremantzis on using AI...

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2025/03/29

Welcome to today’s seminar by Marios Kremantzis.In this session Marios presents current work related to two highly quantitative classes that have adopted a Chatbot as a teaching assistant. Two classes: Prescriptive Analytics” for the MSc Business Analytics programme and “Mathematics for Economists”, for the BSc Economics programmeHosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares.Further reading, sources, mentions and acknowledgements.‘AI Tutor Chatbots & Student

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0250 - Programming as Craft with Roland Tritsch

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2025/02/26

Today we’re talking with Roland Tritsch, about software engineering, the increasing relevance of functional programming, and his thoughts on the implications of using genAI in the development process. Our student hosts are: Lora, Noah, Mynah, Austen, Fionn, and Sergio, with Lucas on sound, and our audience is the class of 2025 studying the Contemporary Software Development module taught by Mel Ó Cinnéide.First, Roland, can you set the context and explain what it means to be a software craftsman?What

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0249 - Storytelling for Learning by Allen Higgins

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2024/12/06

[this one is for Séamas who kept asking if there was a recording of the talk I did for our Faculty Teaching and Learning Insights series...]A short talk by me (Allen Higgins)A Socratic questioning style for teaching/learning using a simple three-part structure: introduction, a series of questions, and closing comments.The hard part, or the art, is in asking good questions.Questioning 'story', or more specifically, 'storytelling' for teaching and learning.There is no set formula for creating a story,

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0284 - On Corporate Behaviour with Niamh Brennan

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2024/11/18

Hosts: Leo, Danny and BronaPreambleBrona Russell:The theme for today’s conversation is Good Corporate Governance.To help us dig into this topic we are delighted to be joined by UCD ProfessorNiamh Brennan. Niamh is the Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at University College Dublin and the Founder and Academic Director of the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance.To start, Niamh, can you tell us a little about yourself and how you came to specialise in Corporate Governance?Question

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0240 - Games that Work with Dov Jacobson

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2024/11/12

“I started computing when there was no screen, no colour, no pixel, the pixel had not been invented yet, literally!” (Dov Jacobson) Dov is a long-time game developer with a special background in Game-Based Learning and is currently experimenting with approaches for enabling non-programmers to create games using a special framework he has developed that includes a live AI shaped character using OpenAI's ChatGPT4 API in TWINE. In this talk Dov explores the development of the many features of immersive

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0247 - Saving the Game - GameChangers

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2024/10/25

Panel 3 – Saving the Game: philosophical, existential and technical issues, shaping the intersection of games and lawChair: Maria O’Brien•Kieran Nolan: Material and Cultural Preservation of Legacy Video Game Platforms•Abby Rekas & Matt Voigts: Saving the GameNotes, extra questions, and further reading:With thanks to the College of Business, Public Policy & Law for the funds to support this event. The event is also part-funded by the College of Business, Public Policy & Law research

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0246 - Gaming the System - GameChangers

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2024/10/25

Panel 2 – Gaming the System: the enabling aspects of regulation and competition as drivers of business opportunity for the games sector.Chair: Conn Holohan, Director Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway·Ambre Nicolle: Platform competition and strategic trade-offs for complementors: Heterogeneous reactions to the entry of a new platform·Alexey Rusakov: First-party complements and value in platform markets·Maria O’Brien: Ireland’s new Digital Games Tax Credit: the role of the state

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0245 - Testing, a Quality Mindset with Sushant Singhal

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2024/10/23

Welcome to Design Talk.Our guest today isSushant Singhal from Gartner. Sushant works on the Software Development and UX team in the Gartner Technical Professionals Guild (that’s my term for Garnet’s team specialisms).Sushant offers us his take on software testing and the quality mindset you need to bring to digital design and software engineering.There is lots to unpack here and to apply to your own environments.Don’t forget to look through the show-notes for further readings and links.Our hosts for

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