Design Talk (dot IE)

Today we’re talking with Roland Tritsch, about software engineering, the increasing relevance of functional programming, and his thoughts on the implications of using genAI in the development process. Our student hosts are: Lora, Noah, Mynah, Austen, Fionn, and Sergio, with Lucas on sound, and our audience is the class of 2025 studying the Contemporary Software Development module taught by Mel Ó C...

[this one is for Séamas who kept asking if there was a recording of the talk I did for our Faculty Teaching and Learning Insights series...] A short talk by me (Allen Higgins)  A Socratic questioning style for teaching/learning using a simple three-part structure: introduction, a series of questions, and closing comments. The hard part, or the art, is in asking good questions. Questioning 'st...

Hosts: Leo, Danny and Brona Preamble Brona Russell:  The theme for today’s conversation is Good Corporate Governance. To help us dig into this topic we are delighted to be joined by UCD Professor Niamh Brennan. Niamh is the Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at University College Dublin and the Founder and Academic Director of the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance.  To star...

“I started computing when there was no screen, no colour, no pixel, the pixel had not been invented yet, literally!” (Dov Jacobson) Dov is a long-time game developer with a special background in Game-Based Learning and is currently experimenting with approaches for enabling non-programmers to create games using a special framework he has developed that includes a live AI shaped character using Ope...

Panel 3 – Saving the Game: philosophical, existential and technical issues, shaping the intersection of games and law Chair: Maria O’Brien •       Kieran Nolan: Material and Cultural Preservation of Legacy Video Game Platforms •       Abby Rekas & Matt Voigts: Saving the Game Notes, extra questions, and further reading: With...

Panel 2 – Gaming the System: the enabling aspects of regulation and competition as drivers of business opportunity for the games sector. Chair: Conn Holohan, Director Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway ·       Ambre Nicolle: Platform competition and strategic trade-offs for complementors: Heterogeneous reactions to the entry of a new platform...

Welcome to Design Talk.  Our guest today is Sushant Singhal from Gartner. Sushant works on the Software Development and UX team in the Gartner Technical Professionals Guild (that’s my term for Garnet’s team specialisms). Sushant offers us his take on software testing and the quality mindset you need to bring to digital design and software engineering. There is lots to unpack here an...

Today’s episode is a cross-pod release with the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organisation. The following is the second recording from the Music and Virtual Worlds Workshop held on the 20th of June, 2024 – where invited guest, Emeritus Professor Karamjit Gill, co-founder and editor of the journal AI & Society reflected on his personal academic habitus; How he felt called to take ac...

Our hosts today are Bonnie Lyons and Téo Bayon, and our guest is Mitchell Eva, Principal Designer @ Sonalake, Dublin.  Welcome to the podcast Mitch. Starting off, could you say a little about your background and interests? ·       A short sketch of the kinds of projects Sonalake works on? ·       How does your process chang...

In this episode we go to UCD’s Building 71 where the 2nd year Architecture class of 2024 played host to three visiting architects, talking about how collaborative work has shaped their own practices.   I hope you enjoy listening to these inspiring accounts by architects navigating their own deliberate practice in the world, working alongside communities and a range of other stakehol...

Today’s episode is a cross-pod release with the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organisation. Hi. I’m Allen Higgins,  The following is a recording from the Music and Virtual Worlds Workshop held on the 20th of June, 2024 - a working event of the XTREME project, a research projected funded by the European Union. The workshop was a preliminary activity of the XTREME project; which sta...

A cross-pod release with CITO Conversations -  https://www.smurfitschool.ie/facultyresearch/cito/ The STS Ireland unconference of 25 June 2024. Welcome by Kalpana Shankar Professor Cassidy R. Sugimoto, chair of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor Rob Kitchin from the Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University. (the unconference was held at the Mu...

Our hosts are Chahat Goel and Shreyaa Krishnakumar. Today we’re talking with Shourjya Sanyal, AVP/ Head of Innovation at Unum Ireland. Unum is a Fortune 250 Insurance carrier. Shourjya co-heads Unum’s R&D & Software Centre of Excellence, with 300 people in Carlow, Ireland. 1. Could you share a bit about yourself and your role in Dublin? 2. When did you first start exploring outsourcing opt...

Our hosts are George and Jonas. Welcome to Design Talk. Today we’re talking with Feargal Bracken, Head of Property - Ireland at McLarens, a global claims and professional technical services provider. Feargal combines over two decades of insurance-related Major & Complex Loss Adjuster experience with a proactive approach to crisis management, specializing in catastrophe response and complex cla...

Cian Croghan and Sarthak Sunil Jaiswal are today's hosts for our interview with Karan Bagla, an IT professional based out of Bengaluru in India. Karan's industry experience at Paypal and technology consultancy firm EXL have given Karan experience on both sides of the offshore outsourcing equation, working directly for a large multinational firm in an offshore environment in addition to working for...

Welcome to Design Talk, I’m Saisnehha Natraj. I am delighted to have David Borowski to talk with us today. Dave is a Senior Partner at West Monroe, the business transformation company. Dave is an engineer by training with experience in operations, supply chain and business transformation. First, Dave, can you tell us a little more about yourself and West Monroe? And a question for you Allen. How d...

Hosts: Emily Zhong and Nishchay Joseph  We are delighted to have Patrick McDermott, CEO of DigiTally, sharing his outsourcing experience with us today. DigiTally is a software provider located in County Galway, dedicated to using digital solutions to help food businesses stocktake effectively and avoid food waste. It is a significant contributor to reducing carbon emissions.  In thi...

Today our hosts are Sagar Shetty and Sahil Gupta. First, an introduction to Mayank Kumar, Product Manager, Payments at Mastercard, Ireland and his career path thus far.  Questions:  1.     How does Lean product management stand out from traditional product management with its significance in terms of development, management and delivery? 2.   &nbsp...

Welcome to today’s interview: our hosts are Tobi Edward and Abhishek Mukherjee.  Today we’re talking with Justin McCarthy, a current Senior Director, EMEA Digital Sales, Customer Acquisition and Customer Success in Microsoft Ireland, reflecting on his experience at Microsoft, the challenges and operational complexities of outsourcing and offshoring, partner relationships, while supporting glo...

Our hosts today are Clare Mustapha and Akanksha Aravinda.  Welcome to today’s interview:  Today we’re talking with Joe Dowling, Chief Technology Officer at Sidero, a GlobalLogic Company.  ·       To start Joe, could you tell us a little about your career and introduce us to Sidero and Globallogic?  ·       Wh...

Our hosts are Laksh Sharma and Wassym Nait Oubihi Today we’re talking with Roland Tritsch, a software craftsman/engineer/architect/manager, about founding, sustaining, and growing local/remote work environments for globally distributed software teams. ·       To start, we love your website The Extreme Digital Nomad (TEDN), can you tell us about the meaning behind...

Welcome to today’s seminar by Dr Salimeh Pour Mohammad, Associate Professor and Curriculum Designer in Business Analytics at the University of Warwick Business School. In this seminar, Salimeh talks about one of the great educational challenges of our day; How to design the educational journey (curriculum, content, teaching methods, support and structure) for students learning business analytics a...

Welcome to Design Talk, I’m Kaushiki Agrawal I’m Christoph Neunsinger And I’m Akki Kumar and we are MSc Business Analytics students from UCD Smurfit Business School. Today we are ‘in conversation’ with Padraig Coffey (CEO) and Angel Benito (CTO) from Zartis, a software consulting firm situated in Cork, Ireland, talking about how to expand consultancy efforts and working with clients from different...

In part 2 of the Pepperdine/UCD MBA-MSC workshop, John Mooney introduces Morgan Hammersley from Global Payments. Morgan talks about his approach to Technology Strategy and business alignment, offering insights into the practical realities of performing IT strategy in a global financial services infrastructure company and sharing the learning he has gained on the road to developing a proactive and...

A podcast episode recording of the first session of the Pepperdine/UCD MBA-MSC workshop held on April 17th, 2024. Neil O'Herlihy talks about why your strategic 'gut instinct' is probably going to be wrong in a rapidly changing technology product environment. We are so used to thinking in terms of averages that we find it hard to develop an intuitive understanding of markets where power-law demand/...