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MoneyConf brought leading experts from the world of cryptocurrency, fintech and blockchain to Dublin. This week Niall Kitson sits down with Noelle Acheson of Coindesk; Aid:tech's Niall Dennehy; Nicolas Gilot of Ultra; and Grammy-winning founder of Mycelia Imogen Heap to talk about blockchain and what's in it for charities and creatives.

Mario is a robot being used to help patients with dementia maintain a healthy standard of living while taking pressure off healthcare professionals and family. This week Niall Kitson talks to project lead Prof Dympna Casey to find out more.

Has anything changed now that strong data protection measure are in place for EU citizens? We find out.

Academics are desperate to claim data science as their own territory, but is it a fight worth having? This week Niall Kitson visits NCI to get two sides of the argument. In one corner we have Professor Michael J. Franklin, Liew Family Chair of Computer Science and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago arguing in favour of data science as a new field. In the ot...

Smart NI founder and Tech Connect speaker takes us on a trip to the dark side of 24/7 connectivity.

We know AI is changing the world of work but how will it change the way we interact with each other? This week author, entrepreneur and lecturer Nell Watson lays out her vision of the future.

Blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin but it has plenty of uses beyond cryptocurrency. This week Oracle’s group VP of product development Rajan Krishna takes us through the possibilities. In other news, we look at all the developments from this year's Google I/O conference including duplex, AR and predictive e-mail.

The Tech Summit took place in Cork earlier this week and on this episode we talk with keynote speaker Dr Patrick Kramer of VivoKey about his three goals: do away with your keys, your wallet, and a device to connect to the Internet.

This week we have two interviews from the floor of this year's Dublin Tech Summit. First up we meet with quantum computing pioneer and D-Wave president Bo Ewald. Then we talk team building and a new mission to Mars with engineering development & operations manager for the Mars Science Laboratory Jordan P. Evans.

This week Niall Kitson sits down with HP Ireland managing director Gary Tierney to look at market trends in the consumer technology space, why the company considers itself a start-up and what big vendors can learn from the mobile phone sales model.

E-commerce websites are getting better at coming up with personal recommendations. On this week's show we ask Zalando delivery lead Adam Bermingham how data is driving the brains behind online shopping

So now we know what data Facebook is hoovering up about us what do we do next? Kevin Koidl from BigFoot Digital has been studying such 'digital footprints' and has some ideas on what we can do to be aware of our online presence and what the future of social networks might look like.

Facebook has admitted breaching users' trust by letting political consultants Cambridge Analytica use its data to construct psychological profiles of US voters. So what does this mean for the rest of us? With a referendum on the 8th amendment coming up, could the same techniques be applied to swing the vote here? This week Niall meets TCD Associate Professor of Law Eoin O'Dell to look at the local...

For St Patrick's weekend/Seachtain na Gaeilge Niall meets one researcher looking to prove Irish is far from a dead language. Dr Teresa Lynn has worked on the use of Irish through social media and how machine translation keeps up with the pace of change.

This week Dusty and Niall kick back and go through the news of the week.

On this week's show we meet Enable director Siobhan Clarke to find out how research on networks, software and analytics are being used to make cities smarter

This weekend the Mansion House hosts Immersive Stories, a conference and exhibition looking at virtual reality. Event curator Eoghan Cunneen sat down with TechCentral.ie editor Niall Kitson to talk about his virtual journey from Dublin to Pandora and back again.

From May this year the relationship between businesses, the public sector and the data we produce for them changes forever with the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This week Niall Kitson meets Laura Fannin, a partner with Hayes Solicitors, to talk about the legal, commercial and political implications.

This week Dusty and Niall talk Falcon Heavy and Brendan Woods talks about Autoentry - an app that uses AI to keep your accounts in order.

This week we meet with Rapid7 Internet of Things research lead Derryl Heiland to dicsuss the downside of nannycams, fitness trackers and more.

This week Niall Kitson visit IMMA to meet Julie Martin, former periodical editor of Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT).

Want a career in IT? This week Stephen Daly from Eolas Recruitment talks about the how the tech sector avoided the crash and what skills to focus on for the future.

Using robots as teaching aides for autistic children, managing the energy lost to bitcoin mining, a sensor to detect concussion in hurlers, and a treatment for teethgrinding - it can only be the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.

On this week's show Niall and Dusty bid farewell to 2017 by looking at a selection of big stories from the year that was.

In the second part of our look at automative systems research at Lero we meet Dr Edward Jones, Prof Greg Provan, and Dr Conor Ryan.