Tech Talks Central
351 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Tech Talks Central web radio covers all the hot topics and trends in the connected world and features interactive interviews with thought leaders, as well as movers and shakers of the tech industry.
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TTC #279 Nanomaterials Improve Speed, Computing and Storage Capacity in Smart Devices
January 26, 2017 17:18 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBWe had the pleasure to interview Dr. Athanasios Dimoulas in the past and it seems that this interview is as interesting as the previous one. Athanasios Dimoulas is the head of Epitaxy and the Surface Science Laboratory at NCSR “Demokritos” and he gives us an update with the latest developments of new novel materials in nanoelectronics. The explosion of big data and IoT has resulted in a great need for energy efficient smart devices. Dr Dimoulas shares some of the problems and insights with th...
TTC #305 Assistive Care for Elderly and Chronically Diseased Patients
December 22, 2016 01:37 - 5 minutes - 7.91 MBCombining elements from Internet of Things and social media, the Greek startup company Bioassist offers services that will bring mobile health in the life of every elderly and chronic patient who desires to live independently. Petrina Smirli, the CEO of Bioassist and her team of five, talks about their mobile app called “Πάντα μαζί” (in Greek) or “Heart around” (in English). It bundles homecare and services with social networking, using easy, secure and user-friendly technology. All that is n...
TTC #304 A Humane World For People With Disabilities or Chronic Diseases
December 22, 2016 01:35 - 4 minutes - 5.86 MBHumane is a Greek social enterprise, a network empowering people with chronic diseases and disabilities; they believe in these people’s abilities, potentials for work and their power to change society by being an active participant. Ariadne Kosmadaki, herself a pharmacist and a member of the Humane team of ten, describes how they’re developing “reaction products” like T-shirts with messages on them in support of patients with different disabilities and diseases. Their motto is think - care - ...
TTC #303 Insybio Is Taking the First Steps Towards Personalised Medicine
December 22, 2016 01:33 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MBInsybio (from Intelligent Systems Biology) is a bioinformatics company focusing on biomarker discovery while their main product is a software platform to analyze biological data. Christos Alexakos, COO of Insybio, explains that -with the aid of their platform- they research the cause of diseases, not the results, and that’s the first step towards personalised medicine. Meaning, that if we find the right biomarker, we can make drugs adapted to each organism or therapies best suited for each ca...
TTC #302 Bloode Motivates People to Donate Blood
December 22, 2016 01:32 - 5 minutes - 7.42 MBBloode is a social enterprise aiming to change the perception we have for blood donors in Greece (and not only…), where less than 1% of the population are blood donors. As a consequence, donations cover only half of the blood units needed every year. So, a group of friends created a few years ago a platform matching people in need of blood with donors. Alex Sotiropoulos, a member of the Bloode team, describes what they have done up to now, the actions they have taken and -more specifically- h...
TTC #301 Promoting Family Well-being in Finland and Germany
December 15, 2016 23:17 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MBAnni Pakarinen, project researcher at the University of Turku and coordinator of the WellWe project, explains how their platform promotes a family’s healthy nutrition choices, physical activity and wellbeing, utilising available resources in their everyday life. She talks about how the platform takes into consideration the research outcomes they collected from pre-school kids, their families and healthcare professionals from children's centres and health clinics. Their approach includes gamif...
TTC #300 A Mobile App That Detects Harmful Danger
December 15, 2016 23:15 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBMobiltron is developing an app called WOVER that uses Artificial Intelligence algorithms and your smartphone sensors to better understand your activities, predict or detect if you are in danger. It all started when a good friend of Stavros lost his life. It motivated Stavros Schizas, CTO & Co-Founder of Mobiltron, to find a solution to prevent such incidents from happening. Stavros explains how their private beta app works, how they fine tune their algorithms and how they transform all the da...
TTC #299 Medical Consultation From Doctors All Over The World
December 15, 2016 23:13 - 8 minutes - 11.6 MBEveryone has come across the need to get a second or third medical opinion, from a top doctor abroad, only to find it comes at a high cost and it’s difficult to find the right lead. Sorin Dragomir, CEO of Healthcare Software Alliance, explains how Webhippocrates connects patients with top doctors from all over the world on a reasonable fee. He goes on to talk about the story behind the platform and why he personally experienced the need for such a solution. Webhippocrates is in private beta a...
TTC #298 Giving Redundant Drugs To Those In Need
December 15, 2016 23:11 - 6 minutes - 9.51 MBMedicine waste is a big issue worldwide. Only in Greece, over 14 tons of medicinal drugs are thrown away while more than 2 million people live under the poverty line. Teti Psarrou, Head of Marketing at GIVMED explains how they’ve managed to create a community of users who donate their redundant medicines to those who need them, but can’t purchase them. They have partnered with several organisations and NGOs in order to make the matchmaking process more efficient. What is remarkable is that th...
TTC #297 Intelligent Sensing for Dementia Patients
December 15, 2016 23:09 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MBThanos Stavropoulos, CEO & Co-Founder at Carealia, a spinoff of Dem@Care, a FP7 European funded project. Thanos explains how they worked together with IBM, Philips and several European clinics to build a smart home monitoring system to assist in the care of dementia. Interconnected devices such as retail wearables, ambient sensors and security solutions installed in a smart home, are combined with intelligent algorithms and clinical knowledge to produce insights and support doctors to assess ...
TTC #296 Healthy Club Monitors its Clients Progress 24/7
December 15, 2016 00:23 - 6 minutes - 9.57 MBAlex Itsios, Team Manager and Konstantinos Koliousis, Design & UI/UX at Healthy Club introduce us to a very simple, professional meal & exercise planning platform for nutritionists, trainers, gymnasts, clinicians & research centers enabling them to look after their clients in a revolutionary new way and stay close to them at all times. The biggest asset of their platform is the meal planner, which exploits a preexisting database of foods and supplements, allowing clients to achieve easily bet...
TTC #295 Ingredio, a Warning App for Food & Cosmetic Toxicity
December 15, 2016 00:22 - 5 minutes - 8.13 MBZetta Korda and Anaxagoras Fotopoulos, two members of the Ingredio team (Dr. Zoe Kournia, the founder and CEO was not available at the time of this interview) explain how their mobile app works: a simple scanning of the ingredient label, on a cosmetic product or food package, with a smartphone camera is all you need in order to check for the toxicity of ingredients correlated with official databases provided by the World Health Organization and the European Commission. This free app (or on a ...
TTC #294 Vitabroad, a Venture Accommodating Healthcare Tourism
December 15, 2016 00:20 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBKaterina Exakoustidou Co-Founder of Vitabroad talks about their full-service facilitator for medical tourism in Greece, which creates personalised medical travel plans, including healthcare services, accommodation, travel tickets, wellness and tourism services for international patients seeking treatment. The quality of their services is ensured, as she points out, stemming from established partnerships with European & American board certified physicians, as well as national and international...
TTC #293 Kinetisense is a Real-time Motion Analysis Tool
December 15, 2016 00:18 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MBVangelis(or Vangos) Pterneas, honoured by Microsoft with the title of Most Valuable Professional for his contributions to the technical community and CTO of Kinetisense, explains the impact their product has in motion analysis for patients and clinicians and how they use Microsoft Kinect to accomplish it. Kinetisense is a real-time motion analysis tool for practitioners, physiotherapists and personal trainers. It can analyse the range of motion for the patient’s shoulders, the back, the elbow...
TTC #292 Blueline, an ‘Uber’ Version of Doctors
December 15, 2016 00:15 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBNikos Naoum, Head of Product and Co-founder at Blueline talks about their mobile app, a real time on demand matchmaking-tool which connects patients and doctors. Although the app has competition they believe that following the ‘Uber’ model of allowing doctors to show real-time their availability, they will be able to serve patients within 2 hours but also motivate doctors to join since this will mean customers for them, exactly when they need them. The team is looking into collaborations wit...
TTC #277 The Digital Health Compass
July 07, 2016 10:26 - 35 minutes - 40.6 MBDo we know how to use our health data and what are the best choices for us? Although we often hear about patient empowerment, are we literate enough to understand what our health data mean? Three health IT professionals have set out to open this conversation, and while during eHealth Week they presented their first panel discussion on the Digital Health Compass, as they have named their quest, we thought we’d ask in person what they aim to accomplish. Anne Moen - President at the European fe...
TTC #276 The Patient is Ahead of Us When it Comes to Technology
July 07, 2016 10:20 - 22 minutes - 26.1 MBSteve Lieber, President & CEO of HIMSS, talks about HIMSS, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting a better understanding of health care information and management systems. He explains who their audience is and what kind of services they provide their community. We ask him if they’re working on behavioural change for clinicians and how difficult it is to keep up with the constant changes in informatics and educating their audience. HIMSS started out in the US but during the last...
TTC #275 By Exposing our NHS Data, We Are Open to Scrutiny
July 07, 2016 10:17 - 19 minutes - 23.2 MBHenrique Martins, President of the SPMS board talks about the NHS implemented services they’re working on in Portugal. He discusses their choices and how these have changed the citizens perception about the NHS. He talks about paperless health; the Open Data portal and its APIs the death certificate connected with the system to avoid fraud; public access to data; their developer community and mobile apps, like the waiting time for a hospital appointment. Most importantly, he elaborates on how...
TTC #274 EU Member States Learning From Each Other in eHealth
July 07, 2016 10:13 - 18 minutes - 21.3 MBTapani Piha, Head of eHealth Unit in the European Commission discusses eHealth and the European Commission, and how it facilitates member states to learn from each other in order to stimulate growth and development. Mr. Piha participated in the eHealth Network meeting during the eHealth Week, so we asked him how he sees member states performing when it comes to eHealth. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
TTC #273 The eHealth Network and its Objectives
July 07, 2016 10:10 - 19 minutes - 22.5 MBClemens Martin Auer, Chair for the eHealth Network & Director General at the Ministry of Health in Austria, sat down with us and discussed the outcomes of the 7th annual eHealth Network meeting in Amsterdam, during the eHealth Week. He explains what the objectives of this European Commission voluntary Network, of national authorities responsible for eHealth, are and how they try to accomplish them. The eHealth Network draws up guidelines in the area of eHealth aiming to enhance interoperabili...
TTC #272 Free & Open Development of Interoperable IoT Applications
July 07, 2016 10:07 - 33 minutes - 37.8 MBDuring the last 2 years we’ve seen several IoT development platforms spring up and they all strive to be the common ground that every IoT app and device will hook up to. Meanwhile, every large IT company is hasty to join, since it still remains foggy which will prevail. This time we decided to interview an Open standards solution, the EU funded IOT open platform, UniversAAL, a free and open enabler for rapid development & deployment of interoperable IoT application that enrich human lives, as...
TTC #271 Republic of Ireland and its eHealth Agenda
July 07, 2016 10:02 - 13 minutes - 16.2 MBYvonne Goff - Chief Clinical Information Officer & Richard Corbridge - Chief Information Officer, at the Health Service Executive from the Republic of Ireland, discuss the Irish health ecosystem. Richard talks about their eHealth agenda, Knowledge and Information Plan, e-referrals, the individual health identifier along with other achievements; while Yvonne explains how different stakeholders came together to implement the eHealth agenda. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
TTC #270 Philips and HealthCare in Asia, Europe and the US
July 07, 2016 09:59 - 15 minutes - 18.4 MBHans Notenboom, Global Head of Digital at Philips Healthcare discusses Philips positioning when it comes to health care. They had a dominant presence during the eHealth Week, something to be expected considering Philips is a Dutch company. Hans talked about Philip’s market share in healthcare, its future plans and technologies like it’s portable ultrasound solution, marketed around a subscription model; VR in surgery room planning and design; healthcare & wellness devices and more. He also ta...
TTC #269 Health & The EU General Data Protection Regulation
July 05, 2016 18:13 - 23 minutes - 26.8 MBPetra Wilson, an experienced legal consultant on EU health directives & regulations, and Director of Health Connect Partners explains the new General Data Protection Regulation (lovingly known as GDPR). Adopted on the 27th of April 2016 it will be applied on the 25th of May 2018, after a two-year transition period, and unlike a Directive it does not require any enabling legislation to be passed by governments. The European Commission intends to strengthen and unify data protection for individ...
TTCvoice #4 Can Podcasting Evolve?
May 25, 2016 14:33 - 55 minutes - 63.2 MBThe team got together to discuss podcasting and its intricacies. Prior to sitting in front of our microphones, we interviewed Stathis Koutsogeorgos - founder at Radiojar - and included snippets of his interview in our podcast. We discussed live shows vs podcasts and what each one entails; why TTC chooses to do both depending on circumstances; the minimal equipment required to do a good-quality audio interview on the move, and what are the available podcast media hosts and distribution channel...
TTC #268 What A UK-based VC Can Offer A Promising Startup?
April 25, 2016 20:45 - 13 minutes - 16.2 MBHaving an interview with a London-based VC was pretty exciting as for the European startup ecosystem London is the closest thing to Silicon Valley. Axel Wehr who is Partner at Firestartr and previously an Associate in Bain Capital’s private equity group introduced us to Firestartr and to which verticals and regions they focus in. He mentions some factors of their investment strategy and why they believe that there is room for European unicorns. Apart from the capital, a VC should help and sup...
TTC #267 The Solar Weather Seeker
April 25, 2016 20:43 - 9 minutes - 10.7 MBTheir “love story” started back in the 90s, when Angelos Vourlidas went to the States initially to study black holes - he chose the Sun, instead, fascinated by the only source of heat and light for our planet. Angelos talks about his job and explains the grave consequences of solar activity and “winds” in our daily life; he asserts that the Sun hides a lot of secrets from us and never stops changing. He says that there is still a long way for the prediction of solar weather and shares with us...
TTC #266 The Youngest Humanoid Robot Maker In The World
April 20, 2016 12:08 - 7 minutes - 8.84 MBWhen he was only 12, Dimitri Chatzis built his own large 3D printer that he consequently used to build, two years later, a big humanoid and highly sophisticated talking robot. “Troopy” is one of the only six similar robots -based on the InMoov ecosystem- in the world. Dimitri is from the northern Greek town of Kavala and still a freshman in High School. He travelled to Athens, along with his robot “Troopy”, in order to take part in the Athens Science Festival during 2016 and found the time to...
TTC #265 Connectivity Is Important As Water
April 18, 2016 18:18 - 17 minutes - 19.9 MBDr. Michail Bletsas, Research Scientist & the Director of Computing at MIT’s Media Lab was one of the founding members of the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ initiative, in 2005. He is a strong proponent of Connectivity, as he considers it is as necessary as our water supply; it provides the basis for communication, which he firmly believes distinguishes us humans from other complex species on this planet; it acted as the primary catalyst to help us “invent” social networking, law, religion, democracy...
TTC #264 A Javascript Framework For All Your Smart Devices
April 18, 2016 18:15 - 15 minutes - 18.3 MBAs a Lord of the Rings fan... Netbeast fits the“One platform to control them all” description, meaning that Netbeast will be able to control all your smart and connected devices through one app. Co-founders Jon Senra Dearle, CEO & Jesus Dario Rivera, CTO at Netbeast share their story and the startup’s journey up to now. You will listen to what IoT challenges they are tackling and a brief concern about privacy and security. One of the highlights of the interview is when they explain how one ca...
TTC #263 Tackling HealthIT Hazards and Safety Issues
March 28, 2016 21:41 - 17 minutes - 20.5 MBRonni Solomon, Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the ECRI Institute, a non profit organisation, dedicated to improving healthcare through discovering and educating on best medical procedures, devices, drugs etc. explains how the institute works and why they are considered highly credible, when it comes to their findings. The ECRI Institute and Ronni Solomon are very concerned with HealthIT and its associated safety issues. She gives us examples of hazards they have discovered i...
TTC #262 Bringing Oral Hygiene A Step Further Into The Future
March 22, 2016 21:37 - 25 minutes - 28.8 MBPhotOral is the first intra-oral blue light wellness device, suitable for controlling your mouth’s microbiome. Stamatis Astra, CEO at PhotOral, life science startup based in Boston, explains how the product stemmed from biomedical research conducted within the Forsyth Institute; and how they plan to have it in the market by the end of 2016. He also talks about product development costs, investor backup, dental studies and what led them in the development of a new product, this time for pet hy...
TTC #261 Wearables can produce Activity Data that refer to Behaviour
March 17, 2016 16:54 - 18 minutes - 21.7 MBChristopher J. James, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at University of Warwick and Senior member of IEEE explains how patient care is now changing from treating incidents at hospitals -where the patient was just a participant and the clinician was the ‘king’- to maintaining wellness through technology and monitoring at home. He emphasizes on the need for a common platform that will monitor and record continuous data in the home, which will change how we cure illness, by acting on activit...
TTC #260 Automating Google Adwords for Efficiency and High ROI
March 17, 2016 16:51 - 13 minutes - 15.5 MBIf you’re into digital marketing and Google Adwords, then this is an interview you should be listening to. RocketROI is a marketing automation tool, for small or medium enterprises, that need an efficient way to plan their advertising with Google Adwords while raising their ROI. Ignacio Rodes, CEO & founder of RocketROI, decided to make his own tool when he couldn’t find one to do the job for him. He gained expertise by actually preaching what he believed in; that using robots, for marketing ...
TTC #259 IoT & Blockchain Technology for Renting, Selling, Sharing
March 17, 2016 16:48 - 12 minutes - 14.1 MBSlock.it was the winner of the IoT competition at 4YFN, for 2016. Their system allows anyone to rent, sell or share anything without the use of a middleman. They have set up an ethereum-based locking system -based on blockchain technology- that can be opened with money. Stephan Tual, Founder & COO at Slock.it, gives an example of its use, explaining how someone could rent their house, without having to put it on a platform like AirBnb; which might not be available in every country and in the ...
TTC #258 Remote Assistance Through Smart Glasses & Augmented Reality
March 17, 2016 16:45 - 9 minutes - 11.6 MBJordi Boza, CEO at Remote Eye, explains how his 3rd startup focuses on remote technical assistance to enterprises, saving them money and time. By using their B2B software solution a company can use a smartphone, tablet or smart glasses to provide technical service or any type of assistance, remotely, without having to bare the cost of shipping someone physically. With the introduction of augmented reality they’re even able to physically show, the person on the ground, where he has to put his ...
TTCvoice #3 Discussing Barcelonian Startup Ecosystem with Barcinno
March 16, 2016 10:58 - 56 minutes - 65.9 MBOur 3rd TTCvoice podcast was recorded and broadcast live from Mobile World Congress 2016, in Barcelona. The biggest mobile technology event along with an amazing city, became the suitable backdrop for us to meet the people behind Barcinno, the online collaborative platform that shares news, knowledge & events of Barcelona’s startup, tech and innovation communities. It will be an understatement to say we weren’t thrilled meeting them; these guys excited us with all their knowledge and inside i...
TTC #257 Connected Car Driving Simulation Game for Kids
March 15, 2016 21:59 - 19 minutes - 22.3 MB"Are we thereeeee yet?" Grownups no longer will you suffer the ear piercing drama of children on long, or short, car trips. Igor Ponikarchik, CMO-Head of Mobile Unit Bamboo Group, talks to us about how ŠKODA LITTLE DRIVER will keep your kids happy and engaged while actually introducing them to the concept of driver safety. Igor lets us play with their new connected car app, designed as an interactive game, to teach kids driving basics and main traffic rules. The app simulates every component...
TTC #256 An App That Understands Speech Impairment
March 14, 2016 22:53 - 9 minutes - 11.6 MBTalkitt was designed to help people who have been speech impaired after a stroke, Parkinson's, Cerebral Palsy or other diseases and afflictions that may cause speech impairment. Stephanie Anais Cohen, Strategic Advisor for Voiceitt, explains how Talkitt adapts to intelligible speech by considering it a form of language accent, evolving with the user to essentially almost think and interpret the context of what they are trying to say with voice. The vocabulary -dictionary of terms- they have ...
TTC #255 How Mobile Payments Can Benefit Brands, Retailers and Customers
March 14, 2016 22:49 - 17 minutes - 20.1 MBAlain Falys and Michael Rolph are two of the Co-founders of yoyowallet, a mobile wallet that enables brands and retailers to answer the big three questions: Who are my customers; how do I engage with them in a more personal way; and how to sell more. Alain reveals how they have increased their users and developed their community by focusing in large closed environments. Michael highlights what is their key differentiator to other competitors and how they focus to providing one solution with t...
TTC #254 OJOO is the Wordpress of Gaming
March 14, 2016 22:46 - 9 minutes - 10.9 MBWho hasn't thought of creating a game at one stage of his or her life?! Peter Symons, Managing Director at OJOO, wants to gamify the world with ‘the Wordpress for mobile experiences’. He explains how easy it is for non-technical people to design, create a game and instantly an iOS and Android App. They have discovered that gamification can be applied to many different industries and they are now focusing on partnerships in order to scale their business and grow. As a serial entrepreneur he t...
TTC #253 Electronic Health Records (EHR) as enabler of Digital Health
March 10, 2016 21:08 - 8 minutes - 10.5 MBWe caught up with Tim Carter, Health Innovation Technologist at Equinix, after his presentation and panel discussion at ECHAlliance Digital Health & Wellness Summit hosted by Mobile World Congress. Tim talked about the new wave of eHealth being IoT or Io-Everything as they prefer it at Equinix. He predicts how devices connect to each other is where healthcare is going, quickly transforming the industry and taking people by surprise. Tim talks about the rapidly growing healthcare economy and e...
TTC #252 World’s First Portable Smart WiFi Device That Protects Your Privacy
March 10, 2016 21:06 - 13 minutes - 15.4 MBOnline freedom means protecting your privacy and security and at the same time enjoying a free and open internet. That’s what Keezel is all about according to Friso Schmid, Co-Founder & COO of keezel. Their initial funding target on Indiegogo -August 2015- was 60.000US dollars and up to now they have raised more than 700.000! They are working on developing their product and shipping their first 3.000 devices, by June. Friso points out where their focus is right now; where they’re looking for ...
TTC #251 Identity Verification From Your Mobile in Less Than 60sec is a Reality
March 10, 2016 21:04 - 11 minutes - 13.2 MBHave you ever tried to verify your identification through the internet, in order to do business? A nightmare in some cases. Forget all about it, as Authenteq is an automatic Identity Verification service for online marketplaces and it only takes 60 seconds. Yeah just 60 seconds by comparing a photo of yours and your passport. Kari Thor Runarsson, CEO & Co-founder at Authenteq, discusses with us about their proprietary and patent pending technology; the Authenteq’s team expertise; their plans,...
TTC #250 Crowdfunding on the Same Level as Venture Capital
March 10, 2016 21:01 - 19 minutes - 22.3 MBPepe Borrell, Managing Director at CrowdCube Spain, a subsidiary of CrowdCube UK explains how their crowdfunding service works and how the opportunity, for a department in Spain, appeared. He mentions the platform tools available for investors and what kind of startups have access to their service. He does mention investment figures and specific amounts, to give us an indication how crowdfunding investors receive the same deal as large VCs. Interviewed just a few days after the end of Mobile ...
TTC #249 Breakthrough Technology for Looking Through Walls & Our Body
March 09, 2016 22:18 - 11 minutes - 13.8 MBEver dreamed of looking through walls or your own skin with the use of supervision? Well it’s here and very soon the technology can be incorporated in every mobile device. Raviv Melamed, CEO and co-founder of Vayyar discusses with us their breakthrough technology, that involves several intellectual patents and has attracted serious funding. While he did show us on the spot how a mobile device can look through a wall and see the pipes going through it, he emphasized on more serious application...
TTC #248 IoT Is Based On Open Source Components & RedHat Is The Expert
March 09, 2016 22:14 - 14 minutes - 17.1 MBChris Wright, VP Chief Technologist at RedHat explains how the Internet of Things is being built on an infrastructure with core source components based on open source software, the main domain expertise of RedHat. He mentions several IoT components that fit well with their technology, part of the middleware stack, and goes on to respond several more questions on of which is on security issues that will arise with the expanding use of connected devices. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Ta...
TTC #247 Choons ‘n Chat Podcast w/ Heroes of the Mobile Fringe, 2016
March 09, 2016 22:11 - 59 minutes - 68.7 MBHelen Keegan, organiser of Swedish Beers and Mobile Advertising Expert, Troy Norcross, Startup Adviser and Digital Strategy Expert, Ilicco Elia, Head of Mobile at DigitasLBi and Rafe Blandford, Mobile Strategist at DigitasLBi discuss with us all about mobile trends and what they expect to see anew, at this year’s Mobile World Congress. In a beautiful down-town Barcelona apartment we got together on a Sunday morning, just before MWC16 hit off, and talked about mobile advertising, adblocking, e...
TTC #246 Higher Resolution Biometric Security
March 08, 2016 22:42 - 9 minutes - 10.8 MBVkansee produces miniaturized high resolution fingerprint sensors with a resolution of 2000 ppi which is 4 times higher than what is being used today -in our mobile phones that use fingerprint recognition- enabling higher security. Jason Chaikin, President at Vkansee, talks about how the company is focusing on commercial markets that require biometric security, mainly mobiles and IoT, while he does mention key generators for mobile payments and cross border authentication systems. Although st...
TTC #245 Charging Your Mobile Phone in 1 Minute
March 08, 2016 22:31 - 16 minutes - 18.7 MBCombining organic chemistry, physics and electricity, StoreDot has created a chemical compound which, along with a complete redesign of the battery, allows it to charge very very fast (1 minute for a mobile). Doron Myersdorf, CEO & Founder and Erez Lober, SVP of Electric Vehicles at StoreDot -an Israeli startup that has raised 66 million in funding from Samsung Ventures- goes beyond mobiles and batteries to talk about how they’ve launched the Electric Vehicle sector, which they believe will b...