Digitise or Die
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -Digitise or Die - The Tech for Good Podcast. Join our (non tech) hosts Laura Blake and Emily Stickland talk to incredible Start-ups and Entrepreneurs who have harnessed technology to innovate solutions to social, environmental and healthcare issues. Digitise or Die, is an honest discussion on the nature of wanting to solve a problem and the ups and downs of the journey. You don't need to understand Tech to love this podcast, if you want to be inspired or even motivated to solve something yourself then tune in.
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Episodes
Aaron Hannon - Luminate Medical -Preventing Hair-loss during Chemotherapy
March 18, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBEngineer, Entrepreneur and Inventor, Aaron is focused on taking on patient needs in healthcare, attempting to make a big difference, and learning as much as possible along the way. Aaron is Passionate about putting the patient at the centre of the design and commercialisation process. On today's podcast we discuss his current mission to eliminate hair loss during chemotherapy with his new organisation Luminate Medical. www.luminatemed.com. Aaron received the much coveted Thiel Fellowshi...
Anne Lawlor - Journey Protector
March 11, 2021 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBAnne is an award-winning entrepreneur, currently the co-founder and CEO of Journey Protector an organisation that looks to protect haulage trucks as they cross boarders. Her system protects the cargo, the driver but most importantly aims to prevent human trafficking or threats to migrants. Anne is passionate about the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit. She believes that it is vital to strive to leave the earth in a better place than you entered it. To this end, she is a staun...
Jordan Scott - Life after Swipe
March 03, 2021 01:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBJordan Scott is a decision-making entrepreneur and content creator. She is the founder, CEO and Chief Editor of Cobble , an app designed to help people make better, faster decisions together. Jordan graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2015. She began her career as a news associate at CBS This Morning before launching her startup. To date, she has raised $3 million in seed funding, with thousands of users who have swiped over 200k times on dates and experiences an...
Jack Garrett - A Fish out of Water
February 24, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBJack Garrett is a young entrepreneur and inventor who currently serves as the Managing Director of G3 Marine, a family-owned business dedicated to developing innovative and conservation minded products in the marine and water-sports industries. After graduating (with departmental honors) from the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in Marine Biology, Jack worked on the Great Barrier Reef as a SCUBA Divemaster before returning home to work on the front lines of the COVID-19...
Michael Parkes - Bios - Urban Farms from building waste
February 17, 2021 11:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBMichael Parkes is CEO & Founder at Bios. Working across the corporate, social services and environmental sectors, Michael leads, manages and consults to programmes of work seeking to impact global challenges to serve people and planet. Participating the MIT Portugal PhD program at Institutio Superior Tecnico in Sustainable Energy Systems his focus is on the practical application of his PhD project with corporations and industry. By integrating learning from various dimensions, Michael can ...
Andrew Kilgallen - Covid Interns
February 08, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBAndrew Kilgallen is one of the co-founders and CFO of Covid Interns. Graduating from Economics and Finance in UCD last Summer, he joined his college friends Rob Muldowney and Paddy Ryder as they finished their final exams and looked around at the bleak employment prospects facing many of their peers, and sought to do something about it. Since then, Covid Interns has helped successfully partner 150 students and businesses in roles spanning from New York to Singapore, in areas equally as diver...
Iseult Ward - FoodCloud
January 19, 2021 03:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBIt is a fact that 33% of all food produced worldwide is wasted. On today’s podcast we talk to a remarkable woman, Iseult Ward, co-founder and CEO of the award winning social enterprise FoodCloud. FoodCloud put simply is an app that connects those with surplus food with those who need it. The FoodCloud app allows supermarkets to quickly notify local charities of any surplus food they have that is good to eat. FoodCloud have established two national solutions for food redistribution in Irel...
Greg O'Gorman - The Digital Health Resource
January 18, 2021 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBOn today’s podcast we have Greg O’Gorman, Co-founder & Director at DHR (Digital Health Resource Ltd). Greg is a former Group Marketing & Ecommerce Director at the Kilkenny Group and for over 14 years, ran the family business with over 17 stores & restaurants nationwide as well as a very successful ecommerce business. Three years ago, Greg and co-founder / Irish Olympian Derval O’ Rourke, established Digital Health Resource. DHR is a leading Tech Business specialising in supporting influence...
Andrew Bickley - What is IoT and why is it Exciting?
January 18, 2021 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBAndrew is EMEA Director for IoT and Engineering Services - A Graduate of Plymouth University, England having studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Over 25 years’ experience in the Semiconductor and Wireless Communications market supporting consumer, industrial medical and mobile customers. Has held regional and global positions in both Semiconductor Manufacturers and Distributors including placements in Silicon Valley, North America and Sweden and Finland. If you don't know what Io...
Emer Keaveney - ORCA Ireland
January 12, 2021 20:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBEmer Keaveney is a marine mammal ecologist, ocean educator, co- founder and Executive Director of Ocean Research and Conservation Association Ireland or for short ORCA Ireland. ORCA Ireland “for-impact” non-profit organisation that is dedicated to monitoring and minimising disturbance to marine wildlife through innovation and awareness. Emer is the first marine biologist in Ireland & the UK to pioneer the use of automated solutions for marine wildlife survey and data analytics using AI f...
Shona Darcy - Kids Speech Labs
January 10, 2021 23:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBToday’s podcast is focused once again on healthcare and we are bringing it back to the all important demographic of children. Our guest is the fabulous Shona Darcy founder of Kids Speech Labs a digital health platform to support children’s speech and language development. Kids Speech Labs aims to manage the early stages of speech development at home, with children playing voice enabled games that, through continuous monitoring, can adapt training modules to their ongoing speech and language ...
Becca Hume - TapSOS - Helping the non-verbal access Emergency Service
January 07, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBToday’s Podcast has the incredible Becca Hume, founder of TapSOS, a smartphone app that allows people to contact emergency services in a non-verbal manner. At 16 Becca worked alongside a deaf person in her afterschool job and decided to learn sign language to be able to communicate with him. She spent 8 years learning and has completed British Sign Language level 6. She went on to graduated from Ulster University in 2015 with a Masters in Multidisciplinary Design. Becca saw a gap in the mar...
Ali-Rose Sisk - SafeCare Nursing Software - Giving time back to Nurses
January 03, 2021 18:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBOur first episode features an incredible nursing graduate, Ali-Rose Sisk who is the founder of SafeCare – an innovative system aimed at nurses, which digitalises written documentation, allowing more time for patient care. Until recently, the East Cork native was based in London, where she was working on a Marie Curie PhD scholarship to develop NHS palliative care services for people with early-onset dementia. However, when the pandemic hit, Ali-Rose returned home to help on the frontline a...