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Our guest this week is Seamus McAteer, who grew up in Dublin but is now living in San Francisco.  Seamus has a very successful career as a serial entrepreneur: starting companies, developing them and selling them. He tells us about how he ended up in the USA and how he obviously took to the American way of business with gusto.   He outlines how he puts together Intellectual Property, Market Tracti...

Our guest this week Andrew Parkin-White, Andrew has an extensive background in consulting and analysis with many significant companies in the Mobile Industry. Andrew is the leading the IoT focus of MEF.  MEF is the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, an energetic and diverse Mobile Industry Body Andrew firstly updates us about the scope of MEF around the three “I”’s. He then discusses the scope of the IoT mar...

We have an incredible story of entrepreneurial resilience this week, when we talk to Tomer Neu-ner, who lives in Stockholm. Tomer is a much travelled entrepreneur and he has some fun stories about his experiences with a second hand Toyota in South America.  After that, he returned to Tel Aviv, started his family, and, one day, frustrated while looking for a parking space, he had an idea that becam...

Our guest this week is Graham O’Rourke who is a serial entrepreneur – and a very engaging and interesting speaker. Graham tells us about his first successful company, MOR Digital, a web services company, which he co-founded with his wife and they’re still married! And, as if that wasn’t enough, he then founded Aphix Software about five years ago, which is a successful eCommerce company. Graham tal...

Our Guest this week is a pioneering entrepreneur in Machine Translation technology, Tony O’Dowd. Tony has established and sold a number of companies in this space and is one of the people who is bringing  Artificial Intelligence driven, machine translation, to new heights His company, xcelerator, works with major customers, such as Volkswagen, Caterpillar and eBAY, providing systems that translate...

We have great fun on the podcast with guest, Alan Quayle, the inspirational driver behind TAD Summit and TAD Hack. TAD Hack is the global leading Telco API Hackathon festival and reaches thousands of participators. I think the energy and charisma of Alan is one of the main reasons this is such a phenomenal success.   Alan tells us how TAD Summit and TAD Hack developed and how it tapped into the ne...

Did you ever meet a man who was blown overboard from his boat in the middle of the Atlantic during a sudden Squall?  Well, you’ll meet one today.   On the Podcast we a great Guest:  International Single Handed Sailor Tom Dolan who has sailed across the Atlantic twice and is planning to sail around the Globe.  Tom is recognised as an up and coming Sailor in the Ocean Going Sailing world and has amb...

We have a Berlin based Entrepreneur on the Podcast this week.  Niels Madan and his Team at Humby - https://www.humby.io – have the great idea of adding a social dimension to online video events.  So that means after your Zoom or Teams meeting, whether they are business conference or an entertainment event, you can casually meet and socialise with the other participants around virtual video tables....

We’ve a fun and buzzy interview this week with Dr John Whelan of the TTO Office in Trinity College Dublin. John is an experienced entrepreneur and also experienced at commercialising University Research in to real companies. Apart from talking about his career and how he succeeded we talk about what makes Start-ups successful. We talk about the state of research, quantum computing and, I love this...

Our guest this week is Mandy Kruger, an International Business Executive.   Mandy is a Strategic Operations Director with extensive experience delivering  Digital and Mobile Technology Products & Services in the Mobile Industry.  She has experience within both emerging and developed markets across Europe, Africa, Central America, South East Asia and Caribbean. Mandy tells her story and how she sta...

Our guest this week is Brendan McKenna, Brendan is an expert in Mobile Technologies, SIM and eSIM Technology and Location Based Data technology.  He consults with companies, is a member of GSMA Standards Bodies and is also an Expert Witness in Court Cases.  Brendan has extensive experience working with Mobile Operators and Software Suppliers. Brendan talks a little about his early career during th...

Our guest this week is Ofer HaCohen, Ofer is at the centre of the renown Israeli Start-up EcoSystem.  Apart from producing many more start-ups than other similar companies, the EcoSystem also manages to bring many of these successful companies to mega-growth and maturity. Ofer is an Innovation Executive at the heart of this, he is an expert in creating business value between start-ups and corporat...

Our guest this week is Clodagh Durkan who is a renowned expert in Mobile Networks and Cyber Security.  Clodagh has had a very interesting International career working in Ireland, Ghana, Italy and Germany – she tells us how each of those Cultures influenced her and her experiences as a Woman in Tech - #WomeninTech    Clodagh started working as a Student in a Call Centre and by her hard work and exp...

This week on the Podcast, we are delighted to welcome James Garvert from Neustar.  James is Senior Vice-President and General Manager for Caller Identity Services for Neustar.  Neustar is a Billion Dollar  Business information Services Company and offers a wide range of services to Telcos and Businesses. James talks a little about his University days in Villa Nova University and how it influenced...

Our guest this week is James Williams, also well known as Mr Connectivity.  James is an expert and advisor on Multi-Channel or Omni-Channel Marketing.  James works closely with Mobile Operators to help them develop their Multi-Channel strategies for the SME Sector. James is a lively and fun Guest who talks through the evolution of SMS from a personal communication tool to the most significant mobi...

We have an intriguing and entertaining guest this week in Colin Keogh, who is a Researcher in UCD University Dublin www.ucd.ie   When I looked up his range of achievements I  was bowled over: Colin is CEO & Founder at The Rapid Foundation PhD at UCD with Smartlab & the Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland supported by the Irish Research Council and Science Gallery International Forbes 30 Un...

On this weeks podcast we have a successful entrepreneur of the Telecoms Software industry, Steven Van Zanen of BroadForward in the Netherlands https://www.broadforward.com BroadForward is a Telecoms Signalling company founded by Steven and his colleagues after their experiences of working for many years with the large  SMSC company, CMG. Steven talks about his experience when he managed Innovation...

Welcome to The Good the Bad and the Ugly Innovation Podcast This is the podcast where we talk to people who “walk the walk”, solving real Innovation problems and developing startups.  They tell us the good the bad and the ugly of their experiences Pieter Oonk is a Dutchman living in Dublin and is a Serial Entrepreneur who has been involved in some very interesting start-ups. Pieter talks about how...

This week we have a very interesting guest, we are talking to Stian Kildal, the CEO of Ammeon. Ammeon are a very successful Software Services and Consultancy company headquartered in Dublin.    www.ammeon.com Ammeon specialises in: Enterprise Dev Ops Cloud Transformation And Lean Agile Consultancy While the company has a strong customer base in Telco Software in recent years the company has moved...

  Welcome to The Good the Bad and the Ugly Innovation Podcast This is the podcast where we talk to people who “walk the walk” solving real Innovation problems and developing startups.  They tell us the good the bad and the ugly of their experiences   Today we talk to Russell McHugh, an experienced Business Development Director about ARM, IoT and, his current role with Digimondo – we end up discuss...

Welcome to The Good the Bad and the Ugly Innovation Podcast This is the podcast where we talk to people who “walk the walk” solving real Innovation problems and developing startups.  They tell us the good the bad and the ugly of their experiences Have you ever met an Entrepreneur who’s first business she started when she was 15?  Well, this week you will. Cara Macklin is an Entrepreneur, Mentor an...

Welcome to The Good the Bad and the Ugly Innovation Podcast This week we are delighted to have a World Class Guest in Patrick Lopez of Core Analysis ( www.coreanalysis.ca ), Patrick is one of the leading experts on Innovation in Telco, Edge and Cloud.  He has a great deal of International experience bringing new Innovation to the Mobile Operator environment in particular. Patrick tells us whether...

This week we have a very exciting guest on the podcast, he is a very successful entrepreneur with an international background and now based in San Francisco.   Nicholas Henrichsen was born in Germany and lived in India before going to Stanford Business school.  Nicholas got his MBA at Stanford Business School in 2013 and started a company after graduating.   He went through the startup accelerator...

The Freya Distributed Compute Platform enables thousands or hundreds of thousands of computers to be harnessed to solve mammoth computations. The networks of computers can be donated voluntarily for good causes, or Data Centres can be used in their off peak time to deliver a new commercial Super Computer Service. We speak to Andy Ramgobin who explains the project and the team

We talk to Ger O'Shaughnessy, Head of Propositions at NearForm, about the good and bad of Front End design. We remember the genius of Ennio Morricone   Sponsored by www.nettzer.com - Digital Onboarding