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Irish Tech News are Ireland's number one online tech publication and often Ireland's number one tech podcast too. We aim to cover innovation, entrepreneurs, startups, green tech, clean tech and tech for good that aims to help the planet. If you have a good story drop us a line.

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You hear about Aida Lovelace Tara Murphy, author and Irish PhD student at Cambridge University working in quantum technologies

Tara Murphy, is an Irish PhD student at Cambridge working in quantum technologies, who has recently written a children’s book called Qubit the Cat. It’s a children’s story that introduces quantum computing in a playful and accessible way. Tara knows quantum computing usually sounds like something only researchers or tech companies talk about, but she wanted to show that children can meet these ideas much earlier, through imagination and storytelling. I recently caught up with Tara to find out more about her and her latest book. Tara talks about her background, stem, her books, quantum and more. More about Tara Murphy: Tara is a recently graduated Theoretical Physics Student at Trinity College Dublin Ireland and last year she completed her MRes in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge. Tara has an interest in both Mathematical Physics and Machine Learning and hopes to combine these areas of physics throughout her future career. Tara also has a wide knowledge of various mathematical concepts in physics as well as experience in experimental physics, having completed four experimental and computational internships at Tyndall National Institute, VULCAN Laser Research Facility, IBM Research Ireland and Quantum Motion Technologies at UCL. Tara is currently pursuing her PhD on applying Machine Learning strategies and simulating Quantum Technologies with Quantum Motion Technologies.
Sep 1

Trust and transparency in Healthcare AI - Sean Higgins, Founder ViveoAI

Doing these podcasts gives me a chance to meet some great Irish start-ups and one such start-up is ViveoAI. Based in Coleraine, ViveoAI is a voice AI receptionist built specifically for dental practices and I recently caught up with Sean Higgins the founder of ViveoAI. Sean talks about his background, what ViveoAI does, creating a clone of a voice, AI receptionists and more. More about ViveoAI: The focus is on helping clinics answer missed calls, handle routine patient enquiries, and support appointment booking, rescheduling and cancellation workflows. Building the system around UK and Irish dental practices specifically, rather than using a generic US-style AI receptionist. This means local accents, Irish and UK phraseology, dental terminology, practice-specific workflows, and the kind of patient language people actually use when calling a clinic. As AI has to be deployed responsibly in healthcare settings and because dental practices handle sensitive patient information, there is a careful GDPR tightrope to walk. This ensures ViveoAI has to be useful, while also being tightly bounded, transparent, and clearly administrative rather than clinical. You can find more info on LinkedIn.
Aug 27

Breaking banking barriers with a single source of truth

In this week’s One Vision Podcast, Theodora Lau hosts Kathryn Outlaw, Co-Founder and COO of Spheros, a B2B SaaS platform that aims to unify client data into a single source of truth, enabling accurate, consented data sharing and supporting reliable AI agents. Kathryn talks about her entrepreneurial journey, the inspiration behind the startup, and the goal of making Spheros as essential as DocuSign for on-boarding. 💬Hot take: ”Banks don't have a data scarcity problem. They have a data comprehension problem.” 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Keywords: Fintech, Financial Services, Data, Banking Industry Timestamp: 00:00 Welcome And Guest Intro 01:27 From Banking To Startup 04:06 Why Spheros Exists 07:58 Agents And Data Consent 10:30 Open Banking Pathways 15:31 Founder Lessons Learned 17:01 Defining Success Ahead More about our guest 🌐Kathryn Outlaw on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynoutlaw/ More about our host and One Vision Podcast 🌐Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodoralau/ 🌐Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence (book): https://www.bankingonaibook.com/ 🌐Unconventional Ventures (company): https://www.unconventionalventures.com/ 🌐Listen to all One Vision Podcast episodes by visiting: https://shows.acast.com/one-vision
Aug 25

I’m seeing people missing phone calls Jack Power, founder SelenaVoice AI

Here at Irish Tech News we love meeting and introducing new Irish startups to our readers and podcast listeners. One such startup is SelenaVoice AI that builds custom AI phone receptionists for Irish service businesses. I recently caught up with Jack Power the founder of SelenaVoice AI. Jack talks about his background, what SelenaVoice AI does, coming up with SelenaVoice AI, guardrails, future plans, and more. More about Jack Power: Jack Power is a 20 year old entrepreneur from Co. Meath, currently studying Digital Business and Innovation at DCU while building SelenaVoice AI. After a business partnership collapsed and cost him every client he’d built, Jack started again from scratch under his own name. SelenaVoice AI builds custom AI phone receptionists for Irish service businesses, helping eliminate interruptions and stop them losing money to missed calls. Available and answering 24/7, so no lead is ever lost. Jack documents the journey daily on TikTok and Instagram.
Aug 20

Delight is a deposit strategy

🎙️ "Delight is a deposit strategy." In this episode of One Vision Podcast, Angela Scott, Sales Enablement leader at Zions, joins host Theodora Lau, to discuss her idea that “delight is a deposit strategy,” arguing banks can win deposits by creating intuitive, responsive, and even enjoyable experiences that make money movement easy, especially when digital experiences are constrained by shared core and app vendors. They get into: Why delight isn’t fluff Why the best deposit strategy makes money easy to move in and out The chick-and-egg trap of building on the same handful of core and app providers Financial literacy, and why communities shouldn’t bear the burden Why we need to make banking more legible Angela stresses balancing efficiency and humanity through employee, digital, and brand experience to build trust. 💬 “If you want deposits, you have to bring the right environment to set them free.” 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Keywords: Fintech, FinancialServices, Banking Industry, Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy 00:00 Welcome and Introductions 01:05 Delight as Deposit Strategy 04:43 Banking UX and Vendor Limits 07:16 Neobank Story and Micro Delights 11:46 Angela’s Origin Story 17:22 Inclusion and Literacy Work 25:29 Digital Efficiency vs Human Touch 33:02 Brand Experience and Differentiation 36:56 Takeaways and Goodbye More about our guest 🌐Angela Scott on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-scott-a2348827/ More about our host and One Vision Podcast 🌐Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodoralau/ 🌐Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence (book): https://www.bankingonaibook.com/ 🌐Unconventional Ventures (company): https://www.unconventionalventures.com/ 🌐Listen to all One Vision Podcast episodes by visiting: https://shows.acast.com/one-vision **
Aug 18

EU AI compliance insights Cathal McCarthy, Chief Strategy Officer Kore.ai

The EU AI compliance deadline arrived on August 2nd and it’s important that companies have been preparing for it. According to AI expert Cathal McCarthy of Kore.ai, companies that establish robust AI governance frameworks today will be better positioned to deploy AI faster in a highly regulated industry. To help leaders assess their preparedness, Cathal has developed a six-question diagnostic that evaluates the maturity of an organisation's AI governance program. The framework is designed to quickly identify whether key governance structures, accountability mechanisms, and oversight processes are in place, or where gaps still remain. I caught up with Cathal to find out more about the EU AI compliance and how businesses should prepare for it. Cathal talks about his background, AI compliance, AI adaptability, the ability to learn, AI transparency and more. More about Cathal McCarthy: Cathal is Chief Strategy Officer at Kore.ai, an enterprise AI and agentic AI platform serving Fortune 500 and PE-backed customers globally. He has twenty-five years scaling enterprise technology businesses and has held leadership roles at Apple during its growth from $8B to over $200B in revenue, and at eBay leading initiatives across 163 million users. He also brings P&L instinct, GTM design experience, and credibility in the boardroom on AI transformation.
Aug 10

Compliance is becoming more complex Ankur Arora, Co-Founder Montro

Here at Irish Tech News we love meeting and introducing new Irish startups to our readers and podcast listeners. One such startup is Montro that helps companies with their AI and SaaS governance. Earlier this year at Dublin Tech Summit my colleague Billy Linehan brought Montro onto out radar and I recently caught up with Ankur Arora one of Montro’s Co-Founders to find out more about Montro. Ankur talks about his background, compliance, what Montro does, shadow AI, EU regulations and more. More about Montro: Montro is a Dublin-based AI governance and SaaS intelligence platform that discovers unmanaged software and automates European regulatory compliance. Discover every tool, classify against EU AI Act, DORA, NIS2, and GDPR before auditors do.
Aug 7

AI is just an enabler Gary Leyden, CEO of InsTech.ie

As insurers move beyond AI experimentation towards enterprise-wide transformation, industry leaders are increasingly focused on one question: how do you scale AI to deliver measurable operational impact? This was one of the challenges explored at the recent InsTech.ie Transformation Summit 2026 and to find out more about this I caught up with Gary Leyden, CEO of InsTech.ie. Gary talks to me about about his background, AI adoption, insurance transformation, and the trends shaping the future of the sector. More about InsTech.ie: InsTech.ie was formally established as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee in November 2021. Since then they’ve been helping their members and insurtechs to connect, collaborate and build capability. In 2024 InsTech.ie was selected to receive funding under the Smart Regions Enterprise Innovation Scheme to help support the growth and development of our insurtech cluster. This funding will help us to maximise enterprise collaboration and stimulate the growth and development of the insurtech cluster in Ireland.

Irish Tech News are Ireland's number one online tech publication and often Ireland's number one tech podcast too. We aim to cover innovation, entrepreneurs, startups, green tech, clean tech and tech for good that aims to help the planet. If you have a good story drop us a line.

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