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.
It’s a joint venture between entrepreneurs working in the mobile and technology field and people who love the radio waves!
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TTC #244 Seizing Opportunities From Your Data
March 07, 2016 22:06 - 14 minutes - 16.4 MBContiamo, a Berlin-based startup, present at this year’s 4YFN, has created a web-based Business Intelligence platform, that combines structured or unstructured data from many different sources into a single integration, offering useful data-driven results and a comprehensive approach to all members, of an affiliated organization. Michael Franzkowiak, founder and managing director of Contiamo, talks about his “incredibly powerful and flexible” platform and his vision to empower even traditiona...
TTC #243 Developing The Biggest Database Of Brains
March 07, 2016 22:04 - 11 minutes - 13.2 MBPaulo Rodrigues, CEO & Vesna Prchkovska, CSO & co-founders at MintLabs & Landon McKenna, COO/CFO at MintLabs MintLabs, a startup company that participated at 4YFN, has set a really aspiring goal: to create the biggest database of imaging data of the brain, in order to build models of healthy and diseased ones. Paulo Rodrigues, CEO at MintLabs and his multi-national team of experts talk to TTC about their vision, emphasizing on their social impact goals. Their already popular data visualizatio...
TTC #242 Everything Can Have A Unique Address With 3 Simple Words
March 07, 2016 22:02 - 10 minutes - 12.8 MBWant to know the winners of the best British Startup at Mobile World Congress 2016? Giles Rhys Jones , Marketing Director of what3words talks about their product, how they came up with the idea and their strategic decisions that made them the company they are now. He also shares some mistakes they made during their startup rollercoaster and what are their next steps to grow their company bigger. Last but not least he points out what 4YFN and MWC offered to what3words and the benefits of parti...
TTC #241 Growing Fast in a Competitive IoT Market by Differentiating
March 07, 2016 16:56 - 15 minutes - 17.6 MBLibelium CEO, Alicia Asin, despite her young of age is very knowledgeable when it comes to the Internet of Things hype and how she foresees her company growing within it. Dubbed as a baby unicorn by Silicon Valley, Libelium, is growing fast in the agricultural and smart city verticals of sensor and software infrastructure, for connected devices. She clearly defines their goals and main targets to become competitive in specific markets and to identify new ones, like water monitoring for irriga...
TTC #240 How Ford Views Smart Cars, Connectivity and User Experience
March 07, 2016 16:53 - 12 minutes - 15 MBFord is exhibiting at Mobile World Congress for the 5th consecutive year and Barb Samardzich, the Chief Operating Officer at Ford Europe, shared with us the new technologies and services Ford is offering. Learn what FordPass and SYNC3 technologies have to offer and what Ford’s R&D department is working on. She also highlights how important security and data privacy is and she talks about how sharing economy and Smart Cities can change the automotive industry. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafylla...
TTC #239 Connecting Different Mobile Payments
March 07, 2016 16:48 - 11 minutes - 13.3 MBA quite important benefit of the connected economy is electronic and -more specifically- mobile payments. Hiroyuki Sato, SEO at Docomo Digital, a subsidiary of the well-known Japanese carrier which is based in Europe, explains their new initiative that they hope will connect many different payment methods into one enabling platform which will offer global access to their customers via their mobile devices. Docomo Digital presence in MWC16 perfectly serves their purpose which is to start talki...
TTC #238 Aiming to Connect Every Device and Customer
March 06, 2016 21:17 - 18 minutes - 20.9 MBJasper is a pioneering company in the Internet of Things era and they’re out to connect everything from devices, vending machines, bicycles, users, customers and about anything that can transmit data. Mark Thomas, Director of Connected Car Product Marketing at Jasper, explains the backend cloud solutions they offer their customers in order to provide the needed infrastructure for the development of IoT solutions. We ask Mark about how he sees the future of IoT and what he believes about futur...
TTC #237 Affordable Mobile Roaming With Your Own SIM Card
March 06, 2016 21:12 - 12 minutes - 14.4 MBGood news for travellers around the globe, which are now able to save some money on roaming for calls and data! Gregory Gundelfinger, Chief Executive Officer at KnowRoaming presented such a product at MWC16 offering uninterrupted and much cheaper service to frequent travellers. Their scheme is based on a special sticker placed upon the normal SIM card of the user, some kind of e-wallet and a lot of agreements with local operators, as KnowRoaming offers its services in more than 80 (popular) c...
TTC #236 How Secure Are Your Smart Devices in the IoT World?
March 04, 2016 17:18 - 17 minutes - 20 MBWant to know more about Open source technology and security in the IoT era? Art Swift, President and Cesare Garlati, Chief Security Strategist at the prpl Foundation explain how they are creating an open community to drive new standards for the Internet Of Things. They highlight how critical security is for companies and where they mostly focus. They also refer to possible set of solutions that they have identified, and how security at a hardware level has room for a lot of improvement. Inter...
TTC #235 Using Ultrasound Software Technology to Recognise Gestures
March 04, 2016 17:08 - 18 minutes - 21.2 MBHaakon Bryhni, CTO at Elliptic Labs and Guenael Strutt, VP, Product Development, two researchers with a clearly technical background, talk about the team’s research in the lab and how it led to a software technology that utilises ultrasounds for gesture recognition. Their patented ultrasound software technology can be as simple as opening a light with a gesture, up to permitting the replacement of the optical proximity hardware, on our mobile phones, with software. Something that actually bro...
TTC #232 3D Interactive “SimCity” Maps Technology for Smart Cities
March 04, 2016 17:05 - 11 minutes - 13.3 MBWe met Jeremy Copp at the Scottish Development International booth where he talked about their 3d mapping and visualization platform. Jeremy is the Chief Commercial Officer of eeGeo and he explained how data can produce amazing insights through visualisation and how it could be combined with other applications to improve the whole experience and enter the Smart Cities era. He also shared some interesting real case studies and future applications. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech ...
TTC #234 How is AdBlocking Affecting Advertisers
March 03, 2016 23:01 - 15 minutes - 18.5 MBSean Huang, Global Head of Mobile at Quantcast and Amit Kotecha, Head of Mobile Marketing for Europe, discuss their findings from the survey they conducted in Europe, concerning mobile use. Amongst other trends they emphasize on how 64 per cent of consumers have been influenced to purchase by a mobile ad, a figure that rises to 80 per cent among millennials and how 76 per cent are more willing to accept relevant ads on their mobile device. Of course we did ask their thoughts on AdBlocking and...
TTC #233 mSchools #edu_Hack. Re-educating Teachers in Technology
March 03, 2016 22:58 - 17 minutes - 20.2 MBAlbert Forn, Associate Director at Mobile World Capital and Renee Jimenez, Manager at Mobile World Capital GSMA explain the purpose of the edu_Hack workshop coordinated by mSchools, the joint initiative by Mobile World Capital Barcelona and GSMA. Conducted during the weekend preceding MWC16, at the Arena in Plaza Espanya, they managed to bring together over 400 teachers from private and public schools to collaborate and develop ideas for integrating technology into schools. Although the audio...
TTC #231 Bringing IoT Functionality to Retailers
March 02, 2016 18:02 - 11 minutes - 13.6 MBKostas Sarafianos, Commercial Director at mPass explains how their new Internet of Things platform for retailers, Explor IT works. Although the concept is simple they hope to facilitate different retailers, who need something easy and manageable to enhance consumer experience. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
TTC #230 Grow Your Own Food at Home
March 02, 2016 18:00 - 11 minutes - 13.6 MBThe CEO & Co-founder of CityCrop, Christos Raftogiannis, reveals what CityCrop is working on and how they make indoor farming automated. He highlights the value proposition of having a smart Internet of Things device for farming and what it can offer to every household. He goes on to explain why they attended 4YFN. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central
TTC #229 e-Residency in Estonia
March 02, 2016 17:59 - 11 minutes - 13.9 MBKatre Kasmel, Head of Marketing & Communications e-Residency Team explains what the Esthonian e-Residency card entails, why they’re doing it and how developers can use their APIs to create software services. She talks about how entrepreneurs can open up their company in Esthonia, what the procedures are and emphasizes that by 2025 Esthonia wants to have 10 million e-residents. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
TTC #228 When Will Our Smartphone Become Smarter Than Us?
March 02, 2016 17:58 - 34 minutes - 39.5 MBProf. Kevin Curran, IEEE senior member & lecturer at Ulster Uni., Carl Uminski, Co-founder & COO at Somo Global, James Tagg, CIO at Truephone and Helen Keegan, Mobile marketing consultant & Sweedish Beers organiser gathered at a VIP meeting room at Mobile World Congress 2016 and discussed with us... Artificial Intelligence and how it will impact our lives, health and growth through our devices, smartphones and cars. They talked about the need for education of users; how education will change ...
TTCvoice #2 Getting the most out of MWC16
February 08, 2016 17:02 - 44 minutes - 102 MBGETTING THE MOST OUT OF MWC Insider survival guide In less than 2 weeks from now, more than 90,000 people will be descending on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress aka MWC. TTC has been there & done that so @vicki-kolovou, @athanasios-triantafyllakis, @vagelis-antoniadis, @athanasios-triantafyllakis, and Yannis Rizopoulos wanted to share some inside info with you! So if this is your first time in MWC (or even if you are a seasoned attendee and you need some refreshing - especially this year,...
TTCvoice #1 Taking The Plunge
January 11, 2016 15:16 - 48 minutes - 65.9 MBAfter, close to 2 years and 226 interviews with scientists, researchers and technologists, the time has come to turn the table on us. The TTC team sits behind the microphone and reviews latest experiences, trends and social economic issues that have affected us and the technology scene at large. We start with eHealth and how our interviewees responded to the question on whether we need medical software certification; we talk about the social economic impact of robotics co-existing with humans...
TTC #226 The Benefits of Interoperability in eHealth Systems
December 18, 2015 14:59 - 18 minutes - 25.2 MBWe discuss with Dr. Alexander Hoerbst, Head of the eHealth Research & Innovation Unit at the University of Health Sciences in Austria, interoperability needs on a European and national level; why he considers the EU framework a good base to start from and what organisations need to do in order to help companies comply with the European Interoperability Framework. He suggests actions for eHealth companies in order to compete in international markets and mentions the three basic outcomes from t...
TTC #225 Reaching Patients With No Medical Access
December 14, 2015 15:42 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBWe discuss with Dr. Philip Sotiriadis of Telematic Medical Applications and Telematic Global Medical Applications, about his companies' services providing home care and marine telemedicine applications. We talk about how the profound technological advances in health continue to depend on the human factor, whether it’s the medical personnel handling the technology or the patients willing to be treated remotely. Dr. Sotiriades talks to us about his future work partnering with NASA and Dr. Peric...
TTC #222 Radical Changes Coming Our Way in Healthcare
December 12, 2015 15:32 - 9 minutes - 12.8 MBLorenzo Pengo, Director for Healthcare Industry at Microsoft Central-Eastern Europe HQ presents MS’s idea for a healthier future for all of us; influenced by the power of two elements: mobility and cloud computing, that are already creating new and quite interesting scenarios, altering how the eHealth industry works. The three pillars supporting the new era are personalized computing; collaborative environment; and services in the cloud; supported by big data centers at a much lower cost towa...
TTC #221 Open e-prescription Systems in the South to Tourists
December 12, 2015 15:31 - 11 minutes - 15.3 MBClaudio Saccavini, Technical Manager of Consorzio Arsenal.IT, describes the efforts of Veneto region (i.e.NE Italy) to implement an e-prescription project and act as a (very succesful, up to now) pilot for the whole country, scheduled for adoption in January 2016. He cites the three goals of this system (similar to the ones implemented in Greece, Spain and UK - only four countries in EU have a running e-prescription system) which are to ensure that the right drug is being prescribed; to reduc...
TTC #216 Is an App a Medical Device or Software that Needs to be Certified?
December 12, 2015 14:47 - 17 minutes - 24 MBBrian O’Connor, Chair ECHAlliance Catherine Chronaki, Secretary General at HL7 International Foundation George Crooks, Medical Director for NHS24 Alexander Berler, HL7 Chair for Greece A recent Imperial College of London study showed that a number of NHS approved apps, while sending out data to associated services, 33% of them were doing so without encrypting their data. This is a security threat invoking identity theft plus privacy issues. Does the EU need a medical software certification s...
TTC #218 Interoperability Needs a National Infrastructure Framework
December 12, 2015 13:52 - 18 minutes - 25 MBMarc Lange, Secretary General for EHTEL, the European Health Telematics Association talks about why we need interoperability in eHealth, why standards are important and whether we need medical software certification for apps. He also talks about what competitive advantages European eHealth companies have in order to compete in the global market. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
TTC #224 Using 10M Health Records to Develop an Epidemiology Study
December 09, 2015 18:45 - 10 minutes - 14.1 MBGeorge Dafoulas, internal medicine resident at the University of Athens, talks about how they used data from one of the largest e-prescription databases to develop epidemiology outcomes, and correlations with other diseases, concerning three specific non-biased chronic diseases. With the use of a university grant they analysed the Greek e-prescription data, which includes over 98% of local residents, developing one of the first large epidemiology studies in Europe. He and his team plan to con...
TTC #219 When EU Projects & Global eHealth Innovation Harmonise
December 09, 2015 18:45 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MBJose Costa Teixeira, an expert in eHealth and EU projects explains what interoperability and standards mean in practical terms for health software and why they’re crucial. He talks about what are the competitive advantages of European eHealth companies; including multilingual environments and diverse health infrastructure systems, that can lead to new innovations. He analyses which apps should be considered medical devices and what kind of medical software certification we need. Interviewed b...
TTC #223 ICT is An Enabler of Integrated Care in a Fragmented World of Healthcare
December 09, 2015 18:44 - 23 minutes - 32 MBDr. Clemens Auer, policy maker and Director General of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health, talks about Austrias Health Strategy; the procedures they tackled in order to bring Austria to the forefront of eHealth in Europe, including the electronic health record and e-card. He mentions how they have complied with internationally recognised standards and how they learnt from other countries practices, implementing a comprehensive system. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
TTC #220 Pharmaceuticals Need Data for New Drug Development
December 09, 2015 18:44 - 22 minutes - 31 MBRichard Bergström, Director General, of EFPIA explains why pharmaceuticals need data to analyse people’s habits and drug intake, in order to innovate and develop newer and better drugs. He talks about the effect of the economic crisis on pharmaceuticals and analyses how the global pharma canvas is set. Of course we didn’t lose the chance to ask his opinion on Shkreli / Daraprim and the Golden Ticket concept (priority review voucher), the FDA offers to stimulate rare disease drug research and ...
TTC #215 The Need for Interoperability in eHealth
December 03, 2015 10:05 - 11 minutes - 16.7 MBBrian O’Connor, Chair ECHAlliance Dimitra Liveri, Network and Information Security Expert at ENISA, eHealth projects Catherine Chronaki, Secretary General at HL7 International Foundation How does compliance with the European Interoperability Framework(EIF) help a National health system’s sustainability? At what percentage would you say your country’s NIF is aligned w/ the EIF when it comes to eHealth? What are the obstacles? Does your country have a published eHealth Strategy and what are it...
TTC #214 Reaching Cross-Atlantic eHealth Markets
December 03, 2015 09:55 - 12 minutes - 17 MBBrian O’Connor, Chair ECHAlliance Catherine Chronaki, Secretary General at HL7 International Foundation George Crooks, Medical Director for NHS24 European eHealth companies have a huge potential to grow, by approaching an ever growing market inside and outside EU borders. Apart from the obvious innovation potentials in a broad number of health & patient care sectors, markets like that of the US, Latin America and China have come ‘closer’ due to international agreements. What kind of impedime...
TTC #217 eHealth, Interoperability & the European Commission
December 02, 2015 17:52 - 11 minutes - 16.5 MBGerald Cultot, Research Programme Officer at DG Connect responds to our questions on whether the European Interoperability Framework exists for eHealth and what is the level of compliance of Member States; what kind of barriers and impediments will European eHealth companies have to overcome, in order to reach and compete in these markets effectively; and last he mentions what actions are being taken, by the EU, to create a code of conduct for medical software certification.
TTC #213 eHealth, Digital Single Market & the Atlantic
December 02, 2015 16:24 - 6 minutes - 9.46 MBBrian O’Connor, Chair ECHAlliance Catherine Chronaki, Secretary General at HL7 International Foundation The Digital Single Market strategy has raised questions about its impact on U.S.-EU trade and investment, especially with respect to cross-border data flows, data protection, standards development, and competition. These questions arise as both the United States and the EU strive to negotiate the new Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Considering the EU has limited powe...
TTC #212 Digital Single Market Prospects in eHealth
December 01, 2015 14:49 - 13 minutes - 18.8 MBGeorge Crooks, Medical Director for NHS24 Karima Bourquard, Director of Interoperability at IHE-Europe, France Marcello Melgara Responsible for International eHealth Projects, Italy The Digital Single Market strategy has raised questions about its impact on U.S.-EU trade and investment, especially with respect to cross-border data flows, data protection, standards development, and competition. These questions arise as both the United States and the EU strive to negotiate the new Transatlanti...
TTC #211 Catherine Chronaki Of HL7 On eHealth Interoperability & Standards
December 01, 2015 14:17 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MBCatherine Chronaki, Secretary General at HL7 International Foundation responds to what interoperability means for us as patients; how communication between stakeholders can help in achieving it, and why standards are crucial in connecting health data from across platforms and mediums.
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TTC #210 George Crooks on Scotland’s eHealth Strategy & Interoperability
November 27, 2015 12:14 - 8 minutes - 12.2 MBGeorge Crooks, Medical Director for NHS24 and Director of the Scottish Centre for Tele-health and Telecare. President of the European Telematics Association (EHTEL) & leader of the Integrated Care Action Group of the European Innovation Partnership for active and healthy ageing for the European Commission George Crooks responds to our questions on whether Scotland has a published eHealth Strategy and what are its core objectives. Also, how does compliance with the European Interoperability F...
TTC #209 eHealth Companies Reaching International Markets
November 26, 2015 15:38 - 9 minutes - 13.3 MBHenrique Martins, President of the Board of SPMS - Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Portugal Karima Bourquard, Director of Interoperability at IHE-Europe, France Alexander Berler, HL7 Chair for Greece European eHealth companies have a huge potential to grow, by approaching an ever growing market inside and outside EU borders. Apart from the obvious innovation potentials in a broad number of health & patient care sectors, markets like that of the US, Latin America and China have com...
TTC #208 Interoperability & eHealth Strategies in Portugal & Greece
November 25, 2015 15:43 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MBHenrique Martins, President of the Board of SPMS - Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Portugal Alexander Berler, HL7 Hellas Chair, Greece How does compliance with the European Interoperability Framework(EIF) help a National health system’s sustainability? At what percentage would you say your country’s NIF is aligned w/ the EIF when it comes to eHealth? What are the obstacles? Does your country have a published eHealth Strategy and what are its core objectives? In what percentage is ...
TTC #207 The Digital Single Market & eHealth
November 25, 2015 10:47 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBHenrique Martins, President of the Board of SPMS - Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Portugal Alexander Berler, HL7 Hellas Chair, Greece Dimitra Liveri, Network and Information Security Expert at ENISA, eHealth projects The Digital Single Market strategy has raised questions about its impact on U.S.-EU trade and investment, especially with respect to cross-border data flows, data protection, standards development, and competition. These questions arise as both the United States and ...
TTC #206 Medical Software Certification?
November 20, 2015 22:41 - 11 minutes - 16.3 MBMarcello Melgara Responsible for International eHealth Projects, Italy / Henrique Martins, President of the Board of SPMS - Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Portugal / Karima Bourquard, IHE-Europe Director of Interoperability, France A recent Imperial College of London study showed that a number of NHS approved apps, while sending out data to associated services, 33% of them were doing so without encrypting their data. This is a security threat invoking identity theft plus privacy ...
TTC #205 Extroversion of eHealth Companies
November 19, 2015 21:30 - 8 minutes - 18.6 MBDimitra Liveri, Network and Information Security Expert at ENISA / Marcello Melgara Responsible for International eHealth Projects European eHealth companies have a huge potential to grow, by approaching an ever growing market inside and outside EU borders. Apart from the obvious innovation potentials in a broad number of health & patient care sectors, markets like that of the US, Latin America and China have come ‘closer’ due to international agreements. What kind of impediments will Europe...
TTC #203 Fighting Pollutants with Photocatalysis, Polycarpos Falaras
July 20, 2015 09:00 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MBDr. Polycarpos Falaras’ research focuses on using nanotechnology to convert solar energy to electricity; photocatalysis as an advanced oxidation process, to decompose pollutants; and carbon dioxide storage and conversion. He explains how within the photoinduced process they examine the interaction of matter -at the size of a nanometer- with light, for the creation of a new generation of photovoltaics... mentioning windows or walls that will produce electricity. He explains that although the w...