Business Post Podcasts

Russell Keating of Samsung came on the big show to talk about a hectic start to 2021 as the phone maker brought out its S line of phones and related products a month earlier than usual in 2021. In addition to taking us through what's different with this year's S21 range, Keating told Emmet Ryan about what consumers are demanding more of from all of their devices now and what it means for manufactu...

Michael Conway of Renaissance and John Molloy of Zyalin join Emmet Ryan on Connected to talk about the challenges of ensuring a secure working environment at home and how to make it easy. Molloy is best known for his work with iKydz and he has taken inspiration from that to make managing a remote workplace as simple as plug and play. Conway and Molloy share plenty of insights over the show includi...

Don Stack, founder of Optical Rooms, joins Emmet Ryan to talk about the Vivior eye test monitor his business is distributing which is designed to work out how you need to adjust everything from lighting to your glasses in managing a home working environment. Stack's story is one of the wilder ones of lockdown, managing his Irish based business from Madrid while we all get used to a new way of doin...

Donál Óg McCarthy, managing director of cloud at Accenture, joins Emmet Ryan to talk about his company's new report, Secure Cloud. McCarthy shares his thoughts on the challenges businesses face in securing a return on investment in cloud infrastructure and how to best ensure your cloud set-up is secure.

Jason Ward, vice president and general manager of Dell Technologies Ireland, is our first guest of the year and he joins Emmet Ryan to share his company's big tech predictions for the year to come. From 5G through remote working and a lot more, Ward breaks down the trends he believes will make a difference to your life in 2021.

Connected closes 2020 with a look back at the tech trends that defined the last 12 months in the eyes of our team. Connected writers Róisín Kiberd and Jason Walsh join Emmet Ryan along with a first on show appearance by Jack O'Kennedy, our long suffering producer, to discuss the key topics that mattered to them over the year.

Alison Campbell joins Emmet Ryan on the big show to talk about her role as director of Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI). Campbell helped start the government backed organisation which brings academia and industry together to advance collaborative projects. Campbell highlights some really interesting projects KTI was involved in recently along with this year's KTI awards as well as explaining what...

We're allowed out again but even with social distancing, it's not easy for bar and restaurant staff. Enter Banba, a new way for ordering to your table. Cormac O'Riordan, chief executive of Banba, joins Emmet Ryan to explain how this app got started and why plans for it predate the pandemic.

Fenergo's chief revenue officer Paul Kavanagh joins Emmet Ryan on the big show to discuss, among other things, what exactly a chief revenue officer does. Kavanagh talks about growing a multinational power from Ireland and where he sees opportunities for the business along with what it has been like taking up the role during the pandemic.

Tommy Kearns, chief executive and co-founder of multichannel engagement business Xtremepush joins Emmet Ryan on the latest episode of Connected. In addition to explaining what a multichannel engagement business does, Kearns talks about his business being named in Gartner's Magic Quadrant along with talking about the work involved in growing a tech company without external investment and his growth...

Eimear O'Carroll and Rhona Togher first met when they were 15 and have been working together for 12 years. Their partnership through Restored Hearing brought them on a journey initially focused on aiding tinnitus to developing space age acoustic technology in the rebranded Lios. Togher and O'Carroll join Emmet Ryan to discuss their journey on building technology for space, getting a business up an...

Emmet Ryan is joined by Microsoft's Dr Frank O'Donnell and John Ward of EY to discuss the research the duo led into making artificial intelligence help the public sector. Ward and O'Donnell talk about the surprisingly high appetite within the sector for AI and how to make the most of it along with what's needed in order to make the potential of the technology a reality in government services.

Alan Branagh has seen so much in tech. Through Marconi, IBM, and, most notably, Beenz, he was at the heart of some of the biggest tech stories for good and bad at the tail end of the 20th century. The second half of his career has seen him guide businesses through their own challenges, leaning on what he learned along the way. Branagh joined Emmet Ryan to talk about the wild road.

It's rare to have royalty on the show but Amy Marks of Autodesk, the Queen of Prefab, graced Connected with her presence all the way from New Jersey in the US. Marks explains the role prefabrication is playing increasingly in construction, how the technology has evolved considerably in recent decades, and how Ireland can be a leader in the field particularly when it comes to healthcare.

Apple launched four new smartphones on Tuesday, the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12 Pro, and the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Ian Guider, markets editor with the Business Post, joins Emmet Ryan to look at what these phones have to offer and whether they will be hits for both Apple and 5G carriers.

Paul Higgins, Virgin Media's vice president of commercial, joins Emmet Ryan to talk about how his company has adapted through the Covid-19 crisis, the increased and changing demand for content from consumers, and the new Virgin Media 360 service.

With Three Ireland launching its new 5G network today, Emmet Ryan caught up with David Hennessy, its chief technology officer, to talk about what the network will mean for customers across the island. The duo discuss the challenge of rolling out a new network through the pandemic, the availability of 5G for Three's customers, and what 5G will mean for the end user.

Kelly Becker is country president of Schneider Electric in Ireland and she joins Emmet Ryan to talk about everything her business is doing throughout the unique times we are dealing with this year. Originally from New Orleans, Becker now calls Ireland home and has got to know the way business is done here and what is required to make a team succeed in this environment.

After a Covid-19 induced hiatus, the Connected podcast is back to discuss all the major happenings in the tech world. Joining us on this journey for our first episode since the pandemic began is Kenneth Arthur, the chief commercial officer at VisionID. The business has created a social distancing and contact tracing solution for Irish businesses. Kenneth talks about that along with how his busines...

Daniel Murray is joined by Mark Foley, chief executive of Eirgrid, for the latest episode of Five Degrees of Change.    Eirgrid operates the national electricity grid, which you use every time you turn on your lights at home, or power up your computer at work, or plug in your phone in a coffee shop. It delivers the electric lifeblood of our economy, and plans the electricity network out into the f...

In episode ten, host Daniel Murray is joined by Donna Gartland, CEO of Codema, Dublin's energy agency.   Donna is a qualified electrician who decided early on that she wanted to study energy engineering. After completing her Bachelors of Engineering in Energy in Tallaght Institute of Technology, Donna went on to do a masters in Denmark in sustainable energy planning. In 2013 Donna joined Codema wh...

In Five Degrees of Change some of the most influential voices on Energy and Environment will propose three big policy changes, and also outline two small personal changes they have made to contribute to a greener world. In episode nine, host Daniel Murray is joined by senior researcher in energy systems at UCC Dr Paul Deane.   Dr Paul Deane is an expert in the science, policy and economics of ener...

In Five Degrees of Change some of the most influential voices on Energy and Environment will propose three big policy changes, and also outline two small personal changes they have made to contribute to a greener world. In episode seven, host Daniel Murray is joined by former TD and former president of the European Parliament Pat Cox.   Cox has extensive experience working at the highest political...

Mark Campanale is CEO of Carbon Tracker, the financial think tank that interprets the financial realities of the energy transition. Carbon Tracker is a hugely influential body. It has led the charge on convincing investors around the world to divest of their fossil fuel assets. It was Carbon Tracker that coined the term 'carbon bubble' when it produced a paper in 2011 concluding that there were mo...