

AI Ireland with Mark Kelly
AI Ireland
Join host Mark Kelly on the AI Ireland podcast as he explores the impactful applications of AI in both business and society.
Discover groundbreaking research, innovative technologies, and thought-provoking discussions on the ethical implications of AI.
Gain valuable insights into how AI is being applied to business and society, as Ireland drives positive change and fosters innovation in this dynamic podcast.
Discover groundbreaking research, innovative technologies, and thought-provoking discussions on the ethical implications of AI.
Gain valuable insights into how AI is being applied to business and society, as Ireland drives positive change and fosters innovation in this dynamic podcast.
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Oct 21, 2021 • 17min
E70 Giovanni Tummarello, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Siren
In today's show, we speak with Giovanni Tummarello, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Siren. Siren provides the leading Investigative Intelligence platform to some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations for Investigative Intelligence on their data.
Rooted in academic R&D in information retrieval, distributed computing and knowledge representation, the Siren platform provides integrated investigative intelligence combining previously disconnected capability of search, business intelligence, link analysis and big data operational logging and alerting.
Topics include:
Origins of Siren
The problems they are solving within Investigative Intelligence
Benefits their platform brings to customers
How the Cybersecurity market has evolved
The threat of bad actors within CyberSecurity
Interesting AI applications that are making a difference within Society

Oct 14, 2021 • 18min
E69 Stephen Oman, Director of Data Analytics at Travelport
In today’s interview, we speak with Stephen Oman, Director of Data Analytics at Travelport. Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform with their next-generation marketplace connecting buyers and sellers that share a passion for delivering exceptional travel experiences. Unconflicted and independent, Travelport are reinventing a simpler future for travel’s complex ecosystem.
Topics include:
Overview of Travelport and the primary customers being served
The Data Analytics projects being worked on within Travelport
Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative data together
Examples of value-added benefits to the end user by applying data science
The Future of Travel

Sep 28, 2021 • 21min
E68 David Anderson, Technical Fellow at Bazaarvoice
In today’s show, we are joined by David Anderson, Technical Fellow at Bazaarvoice. David is passionate about driving technical strategy and helping others along the transformation journey. He has extensive experience in driving technical leadership, organizational strategy and Cloud adoption.
David has previously led transformation, technical excellence, cloud adoption, fintech/insurtech strategies, technical community activity and both participated and led several enterprise/organizational transformation efforts.
In the podcast, David discusses:
How to build AI in your business
Developing a data strategy using Wardley Mapping
Digital Transformation in the Fintech sector
Using the North Star Framework
Advice for embarking on your AI journey
His passion for serverless architectures
Being involved with Open source groups and research
A big thank you to David for being this week’s guest on the AI Ireland Podcast. If you would like to learn more David and his work, check out his personal blog www.theserverlessedge.com

Sep 16, 2021 • 32min
E67 David Moloney, Chief Scientist at Ubotica Technologies
In today’s show, we are joined by David Moloney, Chief Scientist at Ubotica Technologies. Ubotica Technologies develops and deploys AI solutions for industrial and commercial edge computing applications using the Myriad family of Vision Processing Units.
In addition to custom Neural Network development, the company specialises in combining AI with Computer Vision pipelines in hardware-targeted applications. Ubotica is actively engaged in the Space, IoT and Industry 4.0 sectors.
In the episode, David discusses:
An overview of his background
Founding Movidius and his previous work in Intel
His current work with Ubotica Technologies
Fascinating problems they are solving via Machine Learning
Challenges they face working on Space-related projects
His passion for Space innovation
Exciting applications of AI that can impact society

Sep 7, 2021 • 20min
E66 Barry Lunn, Founder and CEO at Provizio
In today’s show, we are joined by Barry Lunn, CEO and Founder of Provizio – Accident Prevention Technology™. Founded in 2019, Provizio perceives, predicts and prevents automotive accidents in real-time using proprietary long-range imaging sensors & AI at the edge.
Topics include:
Barry's journey to now
Why accidents rates and fatalities are increasing
Overview of Provizio mission to build an augmented driving platform to make us all safer and better drivers
How technology is being used as an enabler to solve it
The benefits from Provizio to the end user
The impact of COVID and the future of automotive

Aug 25, 2021 • 19min
E65 Alessandra Mileo, Associate Professor at the INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics at DCU & John Ward, Head of Digital & Emerging Technologies at EY Ireland
In today's episode, we are joined by Alessandra Mileo Associate Professor and FSI Funded Investigator at the INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics at DCU and John Ward Head of Digital & Emerging Technologies at EY Ireland. In today’s show, we will be discussing Artificial Intelligence in production, explainable (XAI) and the recent EU proposed regulation of AI.
Topics include:
Alessandra’s Explainable AI research at the INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
The importance of building trust in AI models
What you need to know about the production and maintenance of AI models
Thoughts on the recent proposed EU regulation of AI

Aug 17, 2021 • 18min
E64 Liam Cronin, CEO at RDI Hub
In today’s podcast, we are joined by Liam Cronin, Chief Executive Officer at the RDI Hub, which is a world-class centre for design-led, digital innovation located in Ireland’s South West. A first of its kind, RDI Hub focuses on digitisation, ideation and commercialisation of innovation and research in the Digital, AI, Data and related technology sectors.
In the podcast Liam talks about:
How Covid-19 has affected the way we work
The mission of the RDI Hub
Success stories of innovation in Co. Kerry
The AI Summer School

Aug 6, 2021 • 21min
E63 Lara Kelly, Head of Data Analytics at HealthBeacon
In today’s podcast, we are joined by Lara Kelly, Head of Data Analytics at HealthBeacon. Founded in 2014 by Jim Joyce (CEO) and Kieran Daly (CTO), HealthBeacon are an Irish Digital Health Company who develop smart tools for managing medication.
In the podcast Lara talks about:
How HealthBeacon is using digital technologies to improve patient’s lives across the globe.
The challenge to tackling one key area of patient health
The SMART tools HealthBeacon has developed to manage medication.
The AI applications that the HB Data Labs team is working on
The future of the Healthcare industry

Jul 26, 2021 • 14min
E62 Tiago de Melo Malaquias, R&D Data Scientist at STATSports
In today's podcast, we are joined by Tiago de Melo Malaquias, R&D Data Scientist at STATSports and Peter Lougheed Small, Medium and Corporate Sales Director at Microsoft.
In today’s show, we will be discussing how STATSports is leveraging data to improve performance with sporting teams around the world and how they have effectively utilised the cloud to provide additional services to WOW their customers.
Topics covered:
Overview of STATSports and some of the high profile Clubs around the world utilising their services
Working on Data Science Projects that can have a big impact on and off the field
The three key insights that enabled Sporting Clube de Portugal in winning the Portuguese League
How STATSports continue to scale and grow by utilising the cloud to provide a platform for growth

Jun 15, 2021 • 16min
E61 Edmond Harty, UCD Adjunct Full Professor & former CEO at Dairymaster
In today’s podcast, we are joined by Edmond Harty, Professor at UCD and former CEO of Dairymaster, and Brian Mullan, Principal Data Scientist and Analytics Manager at Microsoft Ireland.
In today’s discussion, we will hear how AI and cloud technology are being used as an enabler within the Agriculture sector to provide improved customer service and sustainability.
In the episode, you will hear about:
Overview of TerrainAI, a Microsoft and SFI co-funded €5m climate change project
The journey to utilizing technology as an enabler within the agriculture industry
Recent Agritech case studies on the island of Ireland


