The Irish Tech News Podcast

ARTE the European cultural network are one of Europe’s most innovative broadcasters with a long track record of producing interactive content and games. Kay Meseberg is the head of their 360/VR offering and he was speaking earlier at MediaCon, where Ronan caught up with him. Kay spoke to Ronan about his background and the work he is doing with 360/VR, including the opera that was filmed at Milan Airport and how the drama that they make using 360/VR makes the actors and actresses act differently.

One of the breakout hits on TV over the past few years, is the HBO documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst and the writer and producer of this groundbreaking show Marc Smerling was speaking at MediaCon 2016. Ronan caught up with Marc at MediaCon, and Marc spoke about the quality of content on a TV has to be good to get people watching it, how storytelling has improved, as tv becomes more digital why we will soon have buttons in on screens in our cars and tv’s that we press to get the latest news and information. Marc also talks about Catfish another show of his which was ahead of the curve.

Brendan Cannon the Chief Operating Officer from Adaptive talks about their EMEA office which they owned in the Digital Hub last year, describes what they do, especially their work with data governance and metadata. Brendan also talks about the award they recently won with Gartner, why data centric regulations that are coming out all the time are catapulting data governance into the boardroom, why a data management strategy including Adaptive’s software can help if you have a data breach, why trust is so important to your customers when you have data breach, and how their software works so well as a Microsoft Office plugin.

Rudy de Waele is a futurist, innovation strategist, keynote speaker, content curator and author, who assists global brands and startups with cutting edge open innovation strategy using new methodologies to re-invent and transform business. Rudy was over here last week to help launch the new Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and Ronan caught up with him. Rudy talks about his background, how technology impacts on work, business and society and how it’s touching everyones lives every day. Rudy also mentions that Silicon Valley is the operating system of the world and asks questions including do we want to be ruled by silicon valley ? and how do we handle AI and robots ethically?

On this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast Ronan talks to Stephen McCormack The Co-founder Of Mediacon about his background, including co-founding Ireland’s first tech podcast, and co-founding companies such as Itsmobile, BITBUZZ and Wildwave. Stephen who is also the founder and CEO of Straywave Media, a multi-platform TV and Digital Entertainment Company also talks about Mediacon and why he thinks that with our cultural history of great writers, poets and playwrights we should have within the next three years some global tv shows that are made in Ireland and written by Irish writers.

On this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast Ronan talks to Eamon Moore the founder of E-MIT about his background, about how E-MIT started and what they do. Eamon also talks about E-MIT’s corporate realignment in 2014 resulting in Dell and Microsoft becoming tier 1 partners, speaking at Microsoft’s world parter conference in Orlando last year, getting gold partner status, winning the 2016 Microsoft Global Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions Partner of the Year Award, how they handle BYOD, where they plan to go in the next 5 years and that they will be increasing their workforce.

On this episode of the Irish Tech News Podcast, Ronan talks to Anthony Moran a Network Engineer and Tech Support Specialist. Anthony talks to Ronan about Windows 10 and users of Windows 7 and 8 who have not upgraded yet, the most common problems he has had to deal with, and tips that will make your computer last longer, is the dreaded blue screen still an issue? Anthony also describes his favourite OS to work with, gives some tips about making your network a secure environment on and how to avoid email phishing. Anthony has also joined the Irish Tech News Podcast and will be our Agony Uncle who will answer computer queries that you may have. You can send in your queries to via email ronan@tecdr.net or @tecdr via Twitter.

Ronan was at AlterConf, a traveling conference series that provides safe opportunities for marginalised people and those who support them in the tech and gaming industries, and one of the speakers February Keeney, spoke to Ronan about her background and her work as the engineering manager for the Community & Safety team at GitHub, one of the top open source platforms. GitHub decided to put money and people behind actually making Github a platform that is safe and inclusive and February talks about some of the work her team does to make this happen and how they deal with online abuse.

Ronan was at AlterConf, a traveling conference series that provides safe opportunities for marginalized people and those who support them in the tech and gaming industries, and one of the speakers Jenny Wong, spoke to Ronan. Jenny is a Community Engineer at Human Made and was also part of the organising team at WordCamp London, a major WordPress conference that took place earlier this year. Jenny spoke about accessibility and gave some great tips you should use when planning a conference. Jenny also spoke about diversity in the tech community and burnout amongst developers which is something that you rarely hear mentioned.

In this episode of the Irish Tech News podcast Ronan talks to Nicaise Ishimwe from Women in tech Africa who recently opened a branch in Ireland. Nicaise talks about her background, Women in tech Africa, what areas in tech they are looking into, Fintech, and why mentors are very important to them. Nicaise also talks about how Dogpatch Labs has helped them and the Women in tech Africa tech week which will take place this September in Dublin.