Design Talk (dot IE)

Host: Allen Higgins We are very pleased to welcome Professor Joe Peppard, educator, consultant, and researcher. First, Joe, could you share a few words about your career to-date and your passion for IT? ·       <talking points> ·       Computers, networks, Internet, and platform software as transformative technologies. ·&n...

Hosts: Anugrah Gupta and Sindhusuta Mohanty We are very pleased to have Cormac Garvey with us today.  Cormac’s career spans factory automation, control systems, systems architecture, software prototyping and information modelling. ·       Cormac, before we start, can you introduce us to your world.  ·       You’ve desc...

Hosts: Son Nguyen and Sunil Kumar Today we are joined by Neetu Singla, co-founder of Lets Viz, headquartered in Delhi, India. Neetu, can you give us the backstory to starting “Lets Viz” and where are you based? ·       What does a typical workday look like? ·       Why is IT outsourcing from India appealing for clients? · &...

Hosts: Cathy Nguyen and Murhaf Abdalqader We are very pleased to welcome David Horn, Senior Manager in Artificial Intelligence & Data Consulting at  Deloitte. To start David, can you tell us a little more about your journey starting as an Analyst at Deloitte? ·       What are services does Deloitte Consulting provides?  ·   &nbsp...

Hosts: Simon Paul and Soumya Rajashekar We are very pleased to welcome Dean Murphy. Dean is Principal Solution Consultant at ABP, a process automation consultancy and services company. He has been involved in consultancy, business automation, technology, and services delivery for many years. To start, could you give us short sketch of your career to date. ·      &nbsp...

Hosts: Leo (Wong Tsz Lung) and Luca Spigai.  We are very pleased to welcome Kevin Dardis. Kevin is a consultant at Deloitte, starting out as an Analyst working on ERP implementations in the pharmaceutical industry before specialising in technology programme management and project management. He is also an active member of the Irish Chapter of the PMI. So, Kevin, how did you go from being a ma...

Hosts: Manali Dixit and Kushagra Mathur  We are very pleased to welcome Mark O’Connor. Mark is Head of Public Sector at ABP and has been involved in technology centred transformation initiatives across his career. ·       To start, could you give us short sketch of your career to date. ·       Can you tell us about ABP’s mi...

We are very pleased to have Ziv Baida, business consultant, coach and educator with a long career in technology-centred innovation initiatives. First, Ziv, begin by telling us a little more about yourself and your career interests... Can you give us an overview of data ecosystems? So how can we create value with unused data? What is the impact on the traditional transactional styles of company-to-...

John Sterne interview with Damian Scattergood on his career in software localisation (with occasional interjections from Allen Higgins who also worked at Symantec). In part 2 of the interview John Sterne talks with Damian about his move into software localisation at Symantec’s Irish subsidiary in Ballycoolin Business Park, Blanchardstown and ultimately, co-founding STAR Translation with Paul Quigl...

This is the first half of a two-part interview with Damian Scattergood, programmer and co-founder of STAR Translation Dublin, Ireland. Damian recalls how he got into programming as a teenager and his early experiences developing video games before moving into software translation and localisation.  Damian has programmed a wide range of computers, starting with the Z80 chip in the ZX80, the TR...

Host: Allen Higgins.  We are delighted to have Fergal O’Reilly with us today. Fergal is an Adjunct professor and a Research Physics & Innovation Officer in the UCD School of Physics, with a career that spans, experimental physics, innovation, entrepreneurship and new venture formation. Could you tell us a little about yourself and your background to begin? 1.     ...

Hosts: David Heskin and Allen Higgins We are very pleased to have John Sterne, a technology journalist, historian and digital archivist, long involved in recording the social history of technology in Ireland: writing books, articles, press and online on the website techarchives.irish. John, can we start by telling us a little about yourself and your vision for techarchives.irish? So, today’s conve...

Hi, I’m Allen Higgins. And I’m Déaglán Connolly Bree.  We are really excited to have Karl McCabe join us today, to talk about what he has learnt over the years developing web-scale software. Karl is a UCD Computer Science graduate with a career spanning start-ups and the tech giants, Amazon and Meta. I first met Karl in IONA Technologies, you may not have heard about but I’ll call one of Irel...

Hosts: Adnan Aklouk and Wenhao Liao  We are very pleased to welcome Luke Middleton, Head of Technology & Innovation at DataDyne Consulting  and Teng Yu from Huawei Cloud.  ·       Can you tell us a little about yourself and the story behind Datadyne? ·       And what does a day-in-the-life look like for y...

Hosts: Ines Poncon and Luke Harris We are very pleased to welcome Jacinta Owens, Programme Director at the Innovation Academy and Facilitation Specialist.  First, Jacinta, can you tell us a little more about yourself and your role in the Innovation Academy... 1.     Was the Innovation Academy’s workshop method inspired by the Design Thinking approach? 2.  &n...

Hosts: Aditya Devulapalli and Mohamed Danish  We are very pleased to welcome Chris Curran. First, Chris, could you give sketch of your career thus far to begin? 1.     It must be difficult to discover innovations and generate change in an established industry. What lessons have you learnt along the way? 2.     Let’s talk about the idea of...

Hosts: Liam Price and Maximilian Schnippering We are very pleased to welcome Patrick O’Donnell. First, Patrick, can you give us an overview of your career and how you ended up covering the game industry for equity investment? ·       So, how big is the game industry, where does it happen? (size, scale and global locations) ·      &nb...

Hosts: Luca Spigai and Wenhao Liao. We are very pleased to welcome Jeevantika Lingalwar, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. First, could you say a few words about yourself to begin? 1.     What does the CSA (Cloud Solution Architect) in Microsoft entail? 2.     Can you talk about what you need to be good at to be a software architecture? 3.&nbs...

Hosts: Sunil Kumar and Leo (Wong Tsz Lung). We are very pleased to welcome Dave Anderson; Author, Technical Fellow for the Bazaar Voice, blogger, and one of the hosts of “Serverless Craic” a podcast by The Serverless Edge. First, Dave, could you say a few words about yourself to begin? 1.     Tell us about your new book"The Value Flywheel Effect" and motivation for writing...

Allen Higgins in conversation with Liam Bannon, Professor Emeritus, and founder of the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick. Notes and mentions:  The Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick -  https://www.idc.ul.ie The Participatory Design page on Wikipedia –  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_design Xerox PARC and Rank Xerox Europarc -&n...

Hosts: Prince Priyank and Aisleen O'Neill We are very pleased to have Patrick Stacey with us today. Patrick is Associate Professor of Information Management at Loughborough University and founder of Ankwilitas – The Emotion Analytics Company. First, Patrick, can you share a few words about yourself and career to begin? 1.     We’d love for you share some thoughts on the de...

Hello, I am Priyanka Wadkar And I am Luca Massari We are very pleased to welcome Lisa Carey, Staff Technical Writer at Google. First, Lisa, can you share a few words about yourself and career to begin? 1.What does a day in the life of a technical writer look like?  2.Internal documentation has had bad press over the years. How much documentation is enough? 3.Can you tell us about the value of...

I am pleased to have Stephen Keenan with us to talk about founding a start-up, the early-stage product design and development process, and to share his thoughts about funding new ventures. First, Stephen, could you say a few words about yourself and the motivation behind Filter, the MedTech start-up you are part of? •Why are companies that have a hardware component considered 'Deep Tech'? oDeep te...

Ankur Banerjee, Aditya Devulapalli We are very pleased to welcome Felix Queitzsch, Chief Risk Officer at RiskSystem, an innovative Irish start-up offering risk and regulatory reporting services for asset managers and investment markets. Hello, Felix, could you start by telling us a little about yourself and your background? Questions… 1.What does flexibility, agility mean in a product development...

Hosts: Julian Andriesen and Mohamed Danish Zaveri Hello, I am Mohamed Danish And I am Julian We are very pleased to welcome Fin Golding; Author, Business Agility Advisor, and Consultant at Enterprise Flow. First, Fin, you’ve had an amazing career, could you say a few words about yourself to begin? 1.If you were to start from scratch, what would your ideal development team look like? [e.g. numbers,...