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Design Talk (dot IE)
by Allen Higgins
Design Talk. A podcast for learning about the business of technology design and management. Listen to stories, panels, interviews and discussions about technology and design in-the-wild: the good, the beautiful, and the useful. Whether you've got one big idea, you think of yourself as an organisation designer, product designer, creator, or entrepreneur. Each episode offers a take on how people design, strategise, organise, and develop technology. We want to dig into the essence of design, discover the backstory to technologies, and unpack the design attitude. We started this podcast for you, because you are interested in tinkering, in making, and how ideas become 'things', and because we are all, in some way, involved in designing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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0276 - The 4Rs of Research with Pamela Abbott
In this episode I talk with Pamela Abbott from the University of Sheffield about a paper she coauthored with Salihu Dasuki and Andrea Jimenez and published by the Information Systems Journal in 2025. The paper is titled "The 4Rs: A collective reflexive methodology for realising critical...
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0275 - Talking about reading groups with Adam Kelly
In this episode I talk with Adam Kelly about ACADEMIC reading groups, which I think we’ll DISCOVER, are a whole lot different to book clubs. Adam is an Associate Professor of English in UCD’s School of English, Drama and Film. He has written books himself and published special editions and edited...
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0274 - Techno-colonization with Simeon Vidolov and Stefan Klein
Professor Stefan Klein and Dr. Simeon Vidolov present their paper, "Techno-colonization of scholarly communication: A call to reclaim control". This paper contributes to wider research into how extractive publishing systems have colonized scholarly communication to gain not only infrastructural...
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0273 - The Sanctuary Hypothesis by Jean-Fabrice Lebraty
CITO Seminar: The Sanctuary Hypothesis in Information Systems — Blockchain and AI as Strategic Havens for Non-Dominant Organisations Guest: Jean-Fabrice Lebraty Host: Donncha Kavanagh Recorded on Tuesday, September 23, 4:00 - 5:00pm in Q2.33 Lochlann Quinn School of Business, UCD Belfield Campus....
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0272 - Beyond Compliance with Liam Brady and Thomas Hamill
Hosted by Sean Lynch and Akshara Jonna. In this episode, the Design Thinking class talk with Liam Brady and Thomas Hamill from the UCD Estate Services team about the complexities of modern campus design, focusing on accessibility features that go "beyond compliance" and how these lessons are...
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0271 - Agentic Transformation with Killian and Albena
Welcome to Design Talk. In this episode Killian O'Connor and Albena Krasteva from Zartis were in to talk to Masters students at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Killian and Albena presented a candid behind-the-scenes analysis of Zartis' initial struggles adopting AI within…
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0270 - Creative Community with Maya Gaul
In this, our first episode on ‘research design’ and ‘research designing’ I talk with Maya Gaul and Dunk Murphy from the Creative Futures Academy at UCD. Maya is completing a BA in Creative & Cultural Industries. Her final year project combines research with performance. The subject is Creative...
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0269 - Johno (Robert Johnston) on Psilocybin, Heidegger and being-toward-death
Psilocybin, Heidegger and being-toward-death Between 2020 and 2023 psychologist Marg Ross and psychiatrist Justin Dwyer, together with collaborators, ran the largest Australian randomised control of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of extreme death anxiety in terminally ill...
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0254 - The PMIA Perspective with Fernandos Ongolly
Today we’re talking with Fernandos Ongolly, to learn about home-grown innovations and digital startups from The Continent – in this case, Africa. Our hosts are Selma Anya, Safa A. A. Emam, and Diana Achiro, students on the MSc Digital Innovation programme. Fernandos has a PhD from UCD. He is the...
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0268 - Why Ireland? with Anna Scally
Our guest for this session is Anna Scally - Partner and Head of Technology Media & Telecoms, KPMG in Ireland and EMA KPMG in Ireland. This is the third of 3 seminars organised by John Mooney as part of the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School MBA programme in collaboration with UCD’s MSc Digital...
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0267 - Instructions Not Included with Dajana Achelpohl
Our guest for this session is Dajana Achelpohl. Dajana heads up AI Change Maker and is an alum of Google & PayPal. The second of 3 seminars organised by John Mooney as part of the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School MBA programme in collaboration with UCD’s MSc Digital Innovation programme.…
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0266 - Unlocking Design Expertise with Tom Rourke
Our guest for this session is Tom Rourke. Tom works in Kyndryl as Vice President for Design, Insights and Innovation. The first of 3 seminars organised by John Mooney as part of the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School MBA programme in collaboration with UCD’s MSc Digital Innovation programme....
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0265 - Siobhain Duggan on Learning from Leaders
Hosted by Brona Russell We are delighted to have Siobhain Duggan, CEO of GS1 Ireland in to talk to the first year Economics & finance Organisation Behaviour class today. The interview/podcast is being hosted by UCD’s first year Economics and Finance class as part of the Professional and Academic...
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0264 - Navigating Risk with Peter Cripwell
Our hosts are Diarmuid Murphy and Leo Cuddigan Welcome to the UCD Economics and Finance class. We are delighted to have Peter Cripwell, CEO at RiskSystem, in to talk to us today about Risk Analytics and Risk Reporting and the value of knowing a bit about programming. To start, Peter, can you tell...
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0263 - Learning from the London Whale with Denis McCarthy
Welcome to the Economics and Finance class. Our hosts are Daksh Wadhwa and Peter Barrett. Today, we are very pleased to welcome Denis McCarthy, Head of Financial Risk Model Development at AIB. Thank you for coming in to speak to us today. Can you tell us a little about yourself and your journey...
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0262 - From Grid to Dialogue with David Sammon
Hosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares. Welcome to today’s seminar by David Sammon from UCC, Cork University Business School. In this session David Sammon from University College Cork talks about his approach to unlocking the value of the 2x2 Matrix in the classroom. David...
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0261 - Data Practices with Hippolyte Lefebvre
Welcome to the CITO Podcast. Séamas Kelly invites Hippolyte Lefebvre to present an overview of his research interests and direction. Hippolyte is a member of CITO and the Management Information Systems group in the UCD College of Business, Dublin, and previously at the Université de Lausanne,...
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0260 - Data Driven Fintech with Donal Rafferty
Hosted by Alex and Conor. Welcome to the UCD 2nd year Economics and Finance class. Today, we are pleased to welcome Donal Rafferty, Director Product Development in Open Finance at Mastercard, Dublin. Thank you for coming in to speak to us today, can you share a little of your own story? · So…
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0259 - Making New Money with Quinn DuPont
Welcome to the CITO Podcast. This episode is a seminar by Quinn DuPont titled “Making New Money: How autonomous communities produce and govern cryptocurrencies.” Paul Dylan-Ennis opens the session with a brief introduction after which Quinn presents an overview of his project, and Donncha…
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0258 - Combining Business AND Technical Knowledge with Jane Antova
Our hosts for this episode are William Mugan and Grace Gunne from the BSc UCD Economics and Finance class. Today, we are very pleased to welcome Jane Antova from IBM Consulting and colleagues Angela Stakelum and Bernadette Keating. First, Jane, can you share a little of your own story and…
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0257 - Financial Tools and Applications with Raul Afonso
Our hosts are Tara O’Reilly and Jack Kavanagh. Welcome to the Economics and Finance class. Today, we are very pleased to welcome Raul Afonso, Chartered Financial Analyst and Chief Economist at MFW (Multi Family Wealth). MFW is an investment firm providing investment services on managed accounts…
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0256 - Talking about Fintech with Dan Evison from Manakau
Today’s hosts are Isabelle Howard and Adam Golden. We are very pleased to welcome Dan Evison, Founder and CEO of Manakau, a Financial Services Delivery and Consulting company based in Ireland. Thank you for coming in to speak to us today Dan. Can you tell us a little about yourself and the story...
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0255 - Learning in the Digital Classroom
Welcome to Design Talk. This episode resurrects a recording from the College of Business Intercultural Forum bite-sized workshop series, session 7. A conversation with Jacob Eisenberg and Allen Higgins on “adapting experiential learning to the digital classroom”. The talk was hosted by Kathleen...
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0253 - Teaching Analytics Visually with Stefan Helfrich
Hosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares. Welcome to today’s seminar by Stefan Helfrich. In this session Stefan talks about the education paths on offer for data analytics and the need for balance between learning concepts versus hands-on experiences with tools. Stefan makes...
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0252 - どうして、日本?
Welcome to Design Talk. In this episode I give a short talk titled “Doshite Nippon?” for Naonori sensei’s 'Gateways to Japan' discovery module at University College Dublin. The talk was recorded on April 1st 2025. Kodate sensei is founding Director of the UCD Centre for Japanese Studies and...
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0251 - BAEF Seminar - Marios Kremantzis on using AI Chatbots as Tutors
Welcome to today’s seminar by Marios Kremantzis. In this session Marios presents current work related to two highly quantitative classes that have adopted a Chatbot as a teaching assistant. Two classes: Prescriptive Analytics” for the MSc Business Analytics programme and “Mathematics for...
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0250 - Programming as Craft with Roland Tritsch
Today we’re talking with Roland Tritsch, about software engineering, the increasing relevance of functional programming, and his thoughts on the implications of using genAI in the development process. Our student hosts are: Lora, Noah, Mynah, Austen, Fionn, and Sergio, with Lucas on sound, and…
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0249 - Storytelling for Learning by Allen Higgins
[this one is for Séamas who kept asking if there was a recording of the talk I did for our Faculty Teaching and Learning Insights series...] A short talk by me (Allen Higgins) A Socratic questioning style for teaching/learning using a simple three-part structure: introduction, a series of...
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0248 - On Corporate Behaviour with Niamh Brennan
Hosts: Leo, Danny and Brona Preamble Brona Russell: The theme for today’s conversation is Good Corporate Governance. To help us dig into this topic we are delighted to be joined by UCD Professor Niamh Brennan. Niamh is the Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at University College Dublin and...
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0240 - Games that Work with Dov Jacobson
“I started computing when there was no screen, no colour, no pixel, the pixel had not been invented yet, literally!” (Dov Jacobson) Dov is a long-time game developer with a special background in Game-Based Learning and is currently experimenting with approaches for enabling non-programmers to...
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0247 - Saving the Game - GameChangers
Panel 3 – Saving the Game: philosophical, existential and technical issues, shaping the intersection of games and law Chair: Maria O’Brien • Kieran Nolan: Material and Cultural Preservation of Legacy Video Game Platforms • Abby Rekas & Matt Voigts: Saving the Game Notes, extra questions, and...
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0246 - Gaming the System - GameChangers
Panel 2 – Gaming the System: the enabling aspects of regulation and competition as drivers of business opportunity for the games sector. Chair: Conn Holohan, Director Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway · Ambre Nicolle: Platform competition and strategic trade-offs for...
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0245 - Testing, a Quality Mindset with Sushant Singhal
Welcome to Design Talk. Our guest today is Sushant Singhal from Gartner. Sushant works on the Software Development and UX team in the Gartner Technical Professionals Guild (that’s my term for Garnet’s team specialisms). Sushant offers us his take on software testing and the quality mindset you…
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0238 - A Storied Academic Life - Karamjit Gill
Today’s episode is a cross-pod release with the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organisation. The following is the second recording from the Music and Virtual Worlds Workshop held on the 20th of June, 2024 – where invited guest, Emeritus Professor Karamjit Gill, co-founder and editor of...
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0242 - Digital Product Design with Mitch Eva
Our hosts today are Bonnie Lyons and Téo Bayon, and our guest is Mitchell Eva, Principal Designer @ Sonalake, Dublin. Welcome to the podcast Mitch. Starting off, could you say a little about your background and interests? · A short sketch of the kinds of projects Sonalake works on? · How does…
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0241 - Community Engagement and My Practice
In this episode we go to UCD’s Building 71 where the 2nd year Architecture class of 2024 played host to three visiting architects, talking about how collaborative work has shaped their own practices. I hope you enjoy listening to these inspiring accounts by architects navigating their own...
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0237 - The Music and Virtual Worlds Workshop
Today’s episode is a cross-pod release with the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organisation. Hi. I’m Allen Higgins, The following is a recording from the Music and Virtual Worlds Workshop held on the 20th of June, 2024 - a working event of the XTREME project, a research projected…
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0239 - STS Community Making with Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Rob Kitchin
A cross-pod release with CITO Conversations - https://www.smurfitschool.ie/facultyresearch/cito/ The STS Ireland unconference of 25 June 2024. Welcome by Kalpana Shankar Professor Cassidy R. Sugimoto, chair of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor Rob…
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0234 - Offshore Entrepreneur with Shourjya Sanyal
Our hosts are Chahat Goel and Shreyaa Krishnakumar. Today we’re talking with Shourjya Sanyal, AVP/ Head of Innovation at Unum Ireland. Unum is a Fortune 250 Insurance carrier. Shourjya co-heads Unum’s R&D & Software Centre of Excellence, with 300 people in Carlow, Ireland. 1. Could you share a…
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0228 - Insurance industry Insights with Feargal Bracken
Our hosts are George and Jonas. Welcome to Design Talk. Today we’re talking with Feargal Bracken, Head of Property - Ireland at McLarens, a global claims and professional technical services provider. Feargal combines over two decades of insurance-related Major & Complex Loss Adjuster experience...
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0227 - An Outsourcing POV with Karan Bagla
Cian Croghan and Sarthak Sunil Jaiswal are today's hosts for our interview with Karan Bagla, an IT professional based out of Bengaluru in India. Karan's industry experience at Paypal and technology consultancy firm EXL have given Karan experience on both sides of the offshore outsourcing…
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0236 - Talking About Captive Centres with Dave Borowski
Welcome to Design Talk, I’m Saisnehha Natraj. I am delighted to have David Borowski to talk with us today. Dave is a Senior Partner at West Monroe, the business transformation company. Dave is an engineer by training with experience in operations, supply chain and business transformation. First,...
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0225 - Patrick McDermott Partnering with DigiTally!
Hosts: Emily Zhong and Nishchay Joseph We are delighted to have Patrick McDermott, CEO of DigiTally, sharing his outsourcing experience with us today. DigiTally is a software provider located in County Galway, dedicated to using digital solutions to help food businesses stocktake effectively and...
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0223 - Lean Product Management with Mayank Kumar
Today our hosts are Sagar Shetty and Sahil Gupta. First, an introduction to Mayank Kumar, Product Manager, Payments at Mastercard, Ireland and his career path thus far. Questions: 1. How does Lean product management stand out from traditional product management with its significance in terms of...
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0222 - Talking about Global Talent, Diversity and Inclusion with Justin McCarthy
Welcome to today’s interview: our hosts are Tobi Edward and Abhishek Mukherjee. Today we’re talking with Justin McCarthy, a current Senior Director, EMEA Digital Sales, Customer Acquisition and Customer Success in Microsoft Ireland, reflecting on his experience at Microsoft, the challenges and...
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0221 - Local Impact, Global Reach with Joe Dowling
Our hosts today are Clare Mustapha and Akanksha Aravinda. Welcome to today’s interview: Today we’re talking with Joe Dowling, Chief Technology Officer at Sidero, a GlobalLogic Company. · To start Joe, could you tell us a little about your career and introduce us to Sidero and Globallogic? · What...
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0220 - The Extreme Digital Nomad (TEDN) - Roland Tritsch
Our hosts are Laksh Sharma and Wassym Nait Oubihi Today we’re talking with Roland Tritsch, a software craftsman/engineer/architect/manager, about founding, sustaining, and growing local/remote work environments for globally distributed software teams. · To start, we love your website The Extreme...
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0235 - BAEF Seminar - Programme Design with Salimeh Pour Mohammad
Welcome to today’s seminar by Dr Salimeh Pour Mohammad, Associate Professor and Curriculum Designer in Business Analytics at the University of Warwick Business School. In this seminar, Salimeh talks about one of the great educational challenges of our day; How to design the educational journey...
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0231 - Consulting Values with Padraig Coffey and Angel Benito
Welcome to Design Talk, I’m Kaushiki Agrawal I’m Christoph Neunsinger And I’m Akki Kumar and we are MSc Business Analytics students from UCD Smurfit Business School. Today we are ‘in conversation’ with Padraig Coffey (CEO) and Angel Benito (CTO) from Zartis, a software consulting firm situated in...
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0230 - Technology Strategy with Morgan Hammersley
In part 2 of the Pepperdine/UCD MBA-MSC workshop, John Mooney introduces Morgan Hammersley from Global Payments. Morgan talks about his approach to Technology Strategy and business alignment, offering insights into the practical realities of performing IT strategy in a global financial services...
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Design Talk. A podcast for learning about the business of technology design and management. Listen to stories, panels, interviews and discussions about technology and design in-the-wild: the good, the beautiful, and the useful. Whether you've got one big idea, you think of yourself as an organisation designer, product designer, creator, or entrepreneur. Each episode offers a take on how people design, strategise, organise, and develop technology. We want to dig into the essence of design, discover the backstory to technologies, and unpack the design attitude. We started this podcast for you, because you are interested in tinkering, in making, and how ideas become 'things', and because we are all, in some way, involved in designing.
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