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Hosts: Conor Fitzpatrick and Gary Sandford Our guest today is David Nyaluke. David is the UCD Proudly Made in Africa Fellow in Business and Development. You are very welcome to the podcast David. Could you say a few words about yourself and PMIA? 1.Can you start by bringing us up to speed on the countries, the politics, and the economics of Africa?  2.Does Africa truly benefit from global tra...

Host(s) Kathleen Boyles and Anil Yadav  Hello, I am Kat And I am Anil We are very pleased to welcome Lisa Simpson from Deloitte Ireland. First, Lisa, could you tell us a little about yourself and how you came to manage Deloitte’s Blockchain lab in Dublin?. 1.What is a Blockchain lab? [What is it like to work in a Blockchain lab?] 2.What application areas are suitable Blockchain technology? [D...

Hosts: Nathan Summers, Aradhika Nigam We are talking today with Aoife Brodigan, Marketing Director for Huawei Mobile Services in Europe. To start, Aoife, could you tell us a little about yourself? 1.   Where does Aspiegel fit within Huawei group? [Aspiegel as digital service provider, role in looking after HMS products, subsidiary of Huawei]   2.   Could you expl...

We are joined today by Ciaran Treanor, CTO of Sonalake, a software engineering and services company with offices in Ireland, Poland, and Slovakia. Welcome to the podcast Ciaran, can you tell us a little about yourself to start? 1.Can you talk about the challenges of managing distributed teams, for sharing knowledge in a mixed/remote environment? 2.What does your ideal client organisation look like...

Host(s): Oisin McMullan and Colin Kieran… We are joined today by Alex Wilmer and Sae Wilmer, the partnership behind Wilmer Sound. You are both very welcome to the podcast. Can you tell us a little about yourselves to start? What inspired you to start out then decide to build the business? It must have been a crowded space to get into and difficult to stand out. How do you manage the different aspe...

Host(s) My Doan and Onss Saadyiah  Hello, I am My And I am Onss Today we are talking with Nubi Kay', start-up programs lead at Paystack/Stripe. You are very welcome to the podcast, Nubi. Can you tell us a little about yourself and the background to Paystack? What does being a start-up programs lead at Paystack involve? What time zone do you spend most of the day in? Are there other pathways f...

Host(s): Andres Aboitiz and Roshna Rasheed We are talking with Suhas Pathak, software engineer, entrepreneur and founder of Unnat-e SysTech You are very welcome to the podcast, Suhas. Can you tell us a little about yourself to start? What does a typical working day look like these days? Could you explain some of the assumptions behind outsourcing as a strategy? Do you think it is inevitable for a...

Hosts: Sheila Duignan and Christof Steiner  We are talking with Damian Scattergood, programmer, entrepreneur, and Managing Director of STAR Translation Ireland (https://www.star-ts.com). You are very welcome to the podcast, Damian. Christof: Can you tell us a little about yourself to start? Christof: What is localization? Sheila: To move the subject on to that of outsourcing and offshoring&nb...

Hosts: Brian Condon, Christopher Schlieper Today we are talking with  Niall Maher. CEO & Founder Digital Motorsports at ESE Entertainment First, Niall, thank you for taking the time to talk with us. For those who aren’t familiar with the sector, what is the difference between e-sports and real sports and why e-sports is taking off? What do you say to the idea some might have that e-sports...

Hosts: Franziska Freidel and Kate Nolan Our guest today is Nicole Scully, a strategy manager in Accenture. You are very welcome to the podcast Nicole, could you tell us a little about yourself and consulting in Accenture? For someone starting out, could you sketch the learning journey to become a consultant? Can you talk about the challenges you’ve faced working in a mixed/remote environment? What...

Hosts: Anil Yadav and Andres Aboitiz   We are very pleased to welcome Kevin Matthews from Coinbase. First, Kevin, could you tell us a little about yourself and how you came to be a Blockchain Operations Programme Manager for Coinbase? 1.     What attracted you first to a career in the Blockchain industry? 2.     Can you give us a sketch of the...

Coming up we talk with, Kimo Pope from Japanime Games, of Portland, Oregon.  KONDOU Koushi, game designer from Tokyo, Japan. And HARADA Midori, a game artist-author now living in Germany. First stop, the Adventure Planning Service booth in Halle 1 to meet Koushi and Midori. (APS is known as Bouken meaning ‘adventure’ in Japanese). HADARA-san (Midori) is one of the artists behind illustra...

Next up, we chat with Rafał Szyma – head of art & graphic design at Portal Games, based in Upper Silesia, Poland. Their speciality is intricate storytelling, narrative driven boardgames. Portal was showcasing three big titles at Spiel’21. “Dune House Secrets” is part of the Dune franchise and takes up where Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 movie ends.    https://boardgamegeek.com/bo...

Next up, interviews with The Detective Society and Dakota Irish. First, Dan Wiseman, Managing Director and Head of Marketing for The Detective Society. The Detective Society, based in London, create immersive narrative puzzle experiences. They make mystery detective games merging the vibe of a complex escape room with the dark tension of a whodunit. https://thedetectivesociety.com Now ma...

This is the first of our series of interviews at Spiel ’21   Messer Essen is huge. 8 halls. Each the size of very large aircraft hangers.   Our first vox pop interviews are with members of the public queuing and waiting for the fair to open. ... As you can hear, the doors have just opened to the main halls. The massive polite queues morph into a steady flow of humanity into halls 1 to 6...

In this episode of Software@ on Design Talk, we talk with Alex Moran, Vinicius (Vinnie) Vargas and Mateus Fregonassi about software development, Agile and the dogmas of software engineering.  Production team Donal O’Donnchadha Zhuo Liu  Oisin McMullan  (Daisy) Yichen Wan  Welcome to "Software@", on Design Talk. 1.What suggestions would you have for managing Conflict Resolution...

In this episode of Design Talk, we talk with Ruyue Jin and Matt McGee about design vision, consultancy, being entrepreneurial. Hosts:  Anil Deepika Manjith Prateek Shyni Guests:  Ruyue Jin  Matt McGee  Anil: Hello, welcome to another edition of design talk. This is Anil Yadav. In today's podcast, we will be exploring the views around design, consultancy and entrepreneurship.&nb...

Herzlich Willkommen, Bienvenue, Добрый день, Namaste to our dear guests and interviewees, Ritika and Eleanor and welcome back to our dear listeners to our "Software@", on Design Talk! Q1: Please tell us a little bit about yourself, your background and your experience. Q2: As both of you are currently working using scrum, what are the daily practices you use, to favour agile development? Q3: Could...

Welcome to "Software@", on Design Talk. In this episode we talk with Adrian and Alvaro, software engineers working in digital-first enterprises.   Q:1 Please share in brief your experience/background and describe your typical work week?   Q:2 What is design (for you)? - or - What does good/bad design look like?    Q:3 Do you need to be creative to work in softwar...

Welcome to "Software@", on Design Talk.   My name is David and I would like to welcome Kris and Guilherme to the podcast! Thank you both for giving us the opportunity to ask questions about design and the readings from their experience working.   David:  Kris how are you today? Could you please introduce yourself?  Thank you Kris and over to you Guilherme for an introduction. &...

In this episode of Software@ on Design Talk, we talk with Batu Orhan and Vikram Singh about software development, architecture and design for large scale systems.  Interviewers:  Toshik Doomra  Andres Aboitiz Chris Schlieper Bhavani Ragunathan Erwin Fuentes Guest(s) Speakers:  Vikram Singh Batu Orhan Welcome to "Software@", on Design Talk. ●Please share in brief your experience...

Next up we will be talking to Ahmed Ashour, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft and Julien Sirocchi, SaaS Cloud Security Director at Oracle. Both guests are experts in their domain. Together we talked about the different challenges software engineers encounter when working on small to large-scale development projects. From keeping the team in sync to mundane tasks such as debugging...

Next up we talk with Aleks Dzans and Komal Karir for Software@ on Design Talk Welcome to "Software@", on Design Talk. Kat : My name is Kat . Gaz: And my name is Gary. Gaz : And today we are chatting with Aleks Dzans and Komal Karir. Kat: Komal, could you say a few words about your background and experience? [Komal…] Kat: Aleks, could you tell us a little about your background and experience? [Alek...

Host(s):  Paliwal Nitish Zhang Xin Fei Yifei Guest(s):  Jason (Zhengzhang Lu) Martin Perry Florin Sabo Welcome to Software@ on DesignTalk. Today we are talking with: Jason, Martin and Florin.  Shall we start by introducing yourselves?   Talk about software career paths: service engineer, DevOps, software engineer, product owner / project manager? What kinds of skills are requir...

In this chat, Kieran Cox takes the spotlight, talking about the role of Ireland’s National Standards agency, the NSAI. Q: First question Kierán, should we spell standarisation with an "s" (CEN/CENELEC) or a "z" (ISO)? Q: With all the institutional involvement would you say that Standards processes are legal, or political, or scientific? Q: What is standarisation good for? Note: An example of old-s...