Digital Irish Podcast

wio.io  Conall Laverty, is the Founder & CEO of Wia , an Irish startup that provides sustainability companies with cloud infrastructure to utilise the Internet of Things. He is a key figure in the global Internet of Things ecosystem and was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 for Europe. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he co-founded OSV, one of the fastest growing hardware movements to develop open sou...

After building a viewership of 4 million across two online magazines, Greta Dunne designed Marker Content and launched it last year.  Marker Content is an online library of evergreen articles that you can download and edit for use on your own website or social media platforms. Now reaching 75,000 contributors, she's aiming to build the biggest content marketplace in the world; written by write...

A born and raised New Yorker, Chris Walla moved to Ireland in 2017 to join the founding team of Dogpatch Labs, a startup incubator and innovation lab in Dublin. Over five years, Chris helped build Dogpatch Labs into Ireland’s top incubator and one of Crunchbase’s ‘Top 10 Incubators Around the World You Need to Know’, leading their business development unit. Chris works at the intersection of start...

Diarmaid is the founder of Tonnta ( tonnta.io ), a pioneering platform that simplifies inbox management for solopreneurs. Diarmaid's early career saw him work at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the University of Galway ISS department before venturing to New York in 2017 to join On The Stage, a company specializing in technological solutions for the creative arts market. Since starting Tonnta, Diarm...

In this episode, we speak to Edwina Fitzmaurice - EY Global Chief Customer Success Officer - about the potential opportunity for the Metaverse and the need to build a foundation with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in mind Edwina is responsible for customer success and products for Client Technology globally. She leads a network of customer success technology hubs across EMEIA, Asia-Pacific, and...

Barry Haughey is the Founder of HoloGen, a digital artist and educator with over 20 years working in the Irish education and youth work sectors. Throughout his career he has worked with a diverse range of harder to reach young people, striving to incorporate digital learning and future skills into his programmes. More recently he has founded HoloGen, an immersive technology consultancy for busines...

In this episode, we speak with Stuart Dempsey, founder and CEO of GamerFest, Ireland's biggest gaming and esports festival. During a 20 year career in marketing Stuart has worked in a variety of sectors before establishing his live events company in 2017, targeting the gaming space in particular. Since then his company has gone from strength to strength, delivering its most recent GamerFest event...

Gemma Allen is the vice president of B2C technology at IDA Ireland. In her current role with IDA Ireland, she is responsible for building relations with Executive decision makers, business leaders, political stakeholders and key industry players to secure foreign direct investment into Ireland. Allen is based in New York City and has over 17 years’ experience working with the world’s largest techn...

Bobby Healy is CEO and Founder of Manna Drone Delivery. Healy started off his tech career building games for Nintendo at the age of 16. After Nintendo, Healy founded the airline technology company Eland Technologies, which was then sold 12 years later. Healy then went on to build the largest mobility marketplace for airlines in the world, CarTrawler. Now, Healy is building Manna, the largest drone...

Sandra Healy is CEO and founder of inclusio. Sandra's career spanned 20 years in the global telecoms industry and five years at Dublin City University where she established the DCU Centre of Excellence for Diversity and Inclusion. She is an Organisational Psychologist who over the last 15 years, has championed and driven diversity and inclusion practice across industry and is considered a leading...

James Brogan is CEO and Co-founder of PepTalk. Former founder and MD of marketing agency, Legacy Communications. Ex Dublin footballer and All-Ireland winner. PepTalk is the first team experience (TX) platform designed specifically for the hybrid work environment . They help organizations understand what the cultural environment is really like within their teams and then create actionable solutions...

Begum is a researcher at Insight Centre for Data Analytics and a lecturer at School of Computer Science and IT, University College Cork. She is also the Ireland Ambassador of Women in AI. She is an advocate for increasing diversity and inclusion in the AI space, and passionate about designing AI solutions that are trustworthy. This episode is hosted by Dave Byrne

Sean Davis is the New York based Enterprise Ireland Regional Director for the Americas, taking up the post in August 2016, leading a team based in 9 offices across North & South America. This followed a 5 year posting as the Enterprise Ireland Regional Director MENA based in Dubai, 2012 to 2016. From 2006 to 2012 he managed the Enterprise Ireland Cleantech, Industrial & Life Sciences team,...

HoloToyz is a new Irish business innovating the toy industry globally. They launched with a range of children’s books, stickers, tattoos and wall decals that come to life through Augmented Reality and have recently signed deals with Nickelodeon (Paramount) and SEGA. The company believes children should be able to play and learn through new technologies in a safe environment, whilst not losing touc...

Paul joined Zai in October 2016, having been a customer of the company for several years before. Prior to joining Zai, he founded "Accelerate Success", to provide mentorship and capital to select high-growth ambitious software companies. He also founded Cadency, a SaaS workflow and finance automation business, in 2011, and grew revenue to circa US$60 million over 4 years prior to selling the busin...

Join us on Thursday May 26 at 6:15pm at BT HQ in London for a fireside chat and drinks with Anne-Marie Tomchak to hear about how sustainability is changing the face of business. There will also be a showcase of some top startups in sustainability. Since starting out as a journalist in RTE almost 20 years ago, Anne-Marie has been an innovator across news, technology and fashion. She launched the so...

Niall Horgan is CEO and Co-Founder of direct-to-consumer athleisure clothing brand Gym+Coffee. Founded, headquartered and operated from Dublin, in the last 5 years Gym+Coffee has scaled to over 200 team members, a best in class ecommerce experience, 12 physical retail clubhouses across Ireland and the UK, and has built a passionate community of over 500,000 around the brand. Niall has spent over 1...

Please join us for our next Digital Irish event at Bank of Ireland NYC Hub, where we’ll host Aidan O’Sullivan of Shapeways, to discuss the past, present and future of 3D printing - more details here: https://digitalirish.com/from-novelty-to-supply-chain-game-changer-the-evolution-of-3d-printing/ During the event, we will be fundraising for Rapid Response Ukraine - rapidresponseukraine.com They can...

https://www.olusedu.com Gavin is the Chief Product Officer and Co-founder at Olus Education. Olus supports digital learning in two key areas: Core digital skills in primary and secondary schools Advanced digital learning and computer science skills at home (extracurricular) Olus offers much needed resources for schools and students as the demand for coding, creative media and cloud skills continue...

Jonny is the co-founder and CEO at meetingRoom, a VR collaboration solution serving Fortune 500 clients. meetingRoom bridges the gap to in-person collaboration when you can't all be physically present. Jonny has a background in events, marketing and technology startups and is determined to promote the adoption of smart work-related technology as a contribution to decarbonisation and the future of...

www.goodrays.com Eoin is a recognised public speaker and cannabis and CBD industry leader. Eoin has spent a decade studying the international cannabis market. Beginning as part of his Undergraduate Degree at Trinity College, Eoin spent a year studying the leading markets in California and Canada. Since returning to Europe, he has spent the last 6 years growing some of the industry’s most influenti...

Stephen Murphy is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Prohibition Partners, the leading source of intelligence and insights into the global cannabis industry and Co-Founder of Cannabis Europa, Europe’s premier medical cannabis conference. Stephen is also Co-Founder & Director of Prohibition Holdings, a global leader in cannabis data, events and media, managing a portfolio of some of the best-k...

Fiachra is a marketing specialist, innovation enthusiast and entrepreneur with a long-held passion for the health benefits of cannabinoids and a focus on commercial opportunities within the rapidly-expanding global recreational and medical cannabis markets. In 2015, he launched California’s first discrete, full metal disposable cannabis pen through the medical dispensary channel. This, combined wi...

Mark Collins has fast become renowned as a successful entrepreneur and consultant in corporate cannabis; as well as an advisor for new businesses and entrepreneurs. Since 2015, he has helped build brands such as Bloom Farms and Otto. He also has raised over $260MM in capital for companies as diverse as MedMen and Harborside across coffee and cannabis; most recently raising $9.4MM round for hemp-pr...

Rena Maycock was recently named in the Sunday Independents top 30 women in tech - thanks to her work as founder and CEO of Cilter. Cilter are developing child-protection software for smartphones that keeps children safe from bullying, coercion and grooming and aims to help prevent child-suicide by alerting parents to imminent threats presented to their child via their smartphone. Before Cilter, Re...