The Irish Tech News Podcast

When you are a startup planning to launch later this year, what do you do when COVID-19 hits? One such startup is Bowsy who was going to launch later this year but brought their launch forward because of the pandemic. Ronan talks to John Brady the Co-founder of Bowsy about this, what Bowsy does and their future plans.

COVID-19 has changed the world of sport possibly forever. So how does it get back to normal and comply with social distancing? Ronan talks to Adrian Geissel who has developed an app that will help the world of sport live in a COVID-19 world about this and more.

The Irish data centre market is booming but how is it coping with COVID-19? Ronan talks to Russ Barker, Director of Vertiv Ireland about this and gets other insights in the Irish data centre scene including the other challenges the Irish data centre scene is facing and what makes Ireland a huge market for data centres.

COVID-19 has had a big impact on the RegTech sector and also SaaS platforms, so how can they lessen its effects? I talk to Simon Cole the CEO of Automated Intelligence about this, what Automated Intelligence does and their future plans.

COVID-19 has had a big impact on local businesses and their only way to lessen this is by digital transformation. So how do they go about doing this? Ronan talks to Jade O'Connor, VP of Product and Marketing for FCR Media the company behind golden pages.ie about this, their ShopNow product that helps businesses move online and how Golden Pages underwent a digital transformation and moved online.

One of the ways to get your business working better is to have your staff do team building. One of the new ways of doing this is by live gaming but how can this be done during the current COVID-19 crisis? Ronan talks to Ruben Hamilius, Managing Director at BusinessGames Ireland about his background, what BusinessGames does. how they have coped during the current COVID-19 crisis, and live gaming will change because of COVID-19.

The cloud has ushered in new ways to communicate. We no longer need landlines and companies like NUACOM are designed for remote working and working in pandemics like the current COVID-19 crisis. Ronan talks to Igor Toma the Managing Director and co-founder of NUACOM about what NUACOM does, virtual communications, how NUACOM helped businesses cope during the current COVID-19 crisis, and what the future of telecoms looks like.

The biggest problem with medicines is how they are stored, where they are stored and their use by dates and with an ongoing global pandemic this is an issue we will face when a COVID-19 vaccine is found. Ronan talks to Dr Bruce Roser the founder and chairman of Stablepharma whose StablevaX technology offers vaccine stabilisation. Dr Roser talks about his background, COVID-19, mistakes made during the current world pandemic, Stablepharma ’s StablevaX technology and how it can help when a COVID-19 vaccine is found.

With COVID-19 remote working is now a reality but how do you do your HR effectively. Ronan talks to Crystel Robbins Rynne the head of product and marketing with HRLocker about what HRLocker does, managing your HR in a pandemic, remote working in a COVID-19 world, and the charity initiative that they have just launched.

Oliver Mauss is the founder of DRVE a company that specialises in fuelling the growth of online business and as DRVE was setup with remote working COVID-19 has not had much of an impact. Ronan talks to Oliver about this, what DRVE does, what they invest in and where to apply for their programs.