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Tech Talks Central
by Tech Talks Central
The 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!
Episodes
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TTC #335 Choons n’ Chat with Helen Keegan & Friends at MWC17
Helen Keegan, organiser of Swedish Beers and Mobile Advertising Expert, Ilicco Elia, Head of Mobile at DigitasLBi and Rafe Blandford, Mobile Strategist at DigitasLBi discuss mobile trends and what they expect to see anew, at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech...
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TTC #343 MWC18 Trends and AI Ethics
Choons n’ Chat with Helen Keegan and her friends is back for Mobile World Congress 2018 where else? Yes, once more in Barcelona. This time Helen Keegan, organiser of Swedish Beers and Mobile Advertising Expert hosts Rafe Blandford, Mobile Strategist at DigitasLBi and Paul Swaddle, Chairman and...
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TTC #344 Smart Cities and a Changing Future
Helen Keegan, the organiser of Swedish Beers; Paul Stringer, Head of Mobile at Equal Experts; Alex Barth, VP of Business Development at Mapbox; and Jeff Beene, Head of New Devices at Orion Labs, got together, during the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, to discuss smart cities, what’s...
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TTC #319 AI and Cybervision for Autonomous Navigation
Yiannis Rizopoulos speaks with Luca Verre, founder of the startup Chronocam, which develops a unique artificial vision and cybervision technology to be used for autonomous navigation and new IoT applications. Interviewed by Yiannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.
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TTC #328 One Mobile for All Your Identities
Vicki believes she discovered an innovative solution to the “I need 2 or 3 mobile phones” to separate “my different identities”. She spoke with Rob Grapes, from Graphite Software, about “spaces” and how they are segmenting your ONE phone -at kernel level- to serve your different profiles…
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TTC #334 Qualcomm’s Xprize and Connected Care
Venetia talks with Founder and leader of Qualcomm's healthcare subsidiary Qualcomm Life, Rick Valencia, about the two finalists dueling out to win the 10 million dollar tri-corder XPrize in the next 2 months, the path of getting to connected care being the standard of healthcare the Connect event...
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TTC #332 Language Translator Using AI, Voice & Gesture Controls
Venetia talks with Lennart van der Ziel and Nick Yap - the team that created "Travis the Translator" a device that uses AI, Voice Control and Gesture Control to translate in 80 languages in real time. The boys explain their plan to break the language barrier around the world bringing people...
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TTC #333 Gesture Control in the Classroom
Venetia talks with Carl Tonsgard of Crunchfish a company that's developing AR and VR gesture control for the classroom. Carl shows us the devices and explains how they will help kids and teachers in classrooms around the world. Interviewed by Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.
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TTC #331 Behavioral Patterns, AI and Elderly Care
Rafi Zauer, head of marketing at Essence, discussed about their newly deployed home care system for seniors and people with special needs. Their software algorithm creates and monitors behavioural patterns, notifying their carers at varying levels of alarm. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech...
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TTC #329 Security and Mobile Phones
Vicki spoke with John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos and experienced security expert, about why we need to take every precaution when it comes to privacy and our mobile phones. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
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TTC #330 EU and The Newly Established IoT Unit
Nikolaos Isaris, Deputy head of the IoT Unit at the European DG Connect office, discusses with Vicki about their newly established unit on IoT and actions they’re taking on promoting IoT while provisioning for standardisation, regulations, security and privacy. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for…
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TTC #327 What’s for Dinner? There’s an App for That
Iikka Salo co-founder and CEO of Trybe talks to us about their mobile app at 4YFN during Mobile World Congress 2017. You know how they say “it takes a village”? Well that’s exactly what the guys came up with, a smart way to connect the hungry with those who love and are great at feeding people…
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TTC #321 A Gamer and A Nurse Combines Two of Her Biggest Loves
Anna Sort aka @LostNurse, CEO of Play Benefit, and a World of Warcraft hard core gamer talks about gamefication and health. She explains how she got involved and what BeEnergy is trying to accomplish. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
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TTC #326 The Story of a Video that’s Made Up of Thousands of Our Videos
Adrian Domenech, CEO of Vitcord, tells us the story his community connecting and engaging people around the world through video at 4YFN during Mobile World Congress 2017. In this real-life-honest-to-goodness tale Adrian unfolds the process of how users contribute their videos through Vitcord to...
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TTC #325 Professional 360 Mobile VR Video at Your Fingertips
Paul Gailey Alburquerque, founder of Everywoah, talks to us about their experience in NUMA Barcelona and the company’s 360 video middleware apps for mobile VR, and ‘mojo’ - mobile journalism at 4YFN during Mobile World Congress 2017. Paul explains how they develop white label 360 video player…
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TTC #323 Adobe and 180 VR
Venetia talks with Campbell Foster, Director at Adobe Primetime, about Adobe’s strategy around 180 VR cinema, TV, and cross-device solutions. They discussed Adobe's first big project with with Coca Cola for a 180 VR ad that would run during the viewing of a 180 movie.
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TTC #324 Lock Your Bike With Your Phone
Venetia talks with Siri Sung Marketing director of BISECU a startup that developed a smart bike lock that works with your phone to help you "forget the lock and enjoy the ride". Interviewed by Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.
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TTC #322 4YFN Leading in the Startup World of 2017
Esteban Redolfi is the Director of 4YFN. Vicki asked him all sorts of questions on 4YFN 2017; how many startups and investors are participating; how many people they’re expecting and what the future beholds. Vicki says he was a great interviewee with a strong sense of what collaboration entails....
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TTC #320 What do Auto Companies Need to do to Cash In?
We talk with Brendan O'Brien , Co-Founder & Chief Innovation officer Aria Systems during Mobile World Congress 2017. Brendan, an IoT and connected car monetization expert, explains how (IoT) has created an entirely new market in the automotive industry with connected car services that are driving...
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TTC #315 Skolkovo, An Innovation Centre in Moscow
Skolkovo is the state owned innovation centre, in Moscow, with over 12 hundred startups under its wings. Vicki interviewed Alexey Belyakov, Vice President of Skolkovo Foundation, Maxim Zharenov, Director and Taisiya Yarmak, Head of International PR about Skolkovo, its aims as an innovation centre...
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TTC #318 A Chatbot for Hotels
We interviewed Pedro Concalves, COO for Hi Jiffy. He explains how the hotel chatbot works over Facebook messenger, communicating with potential customers, directly. Their strongest advantage is the sort of customer service they provide with a human touch. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech…
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TTC #317 All The Foodies Network
Vicki interviewed Anthony Rovito from All The Foodies. "All the Foodies" is a creative cooking network show with a hipster twist. Random chefs or wanna-be-chefs prepare the recipe in a very aesthetic video, explaining in 2 minutes the story behind the recipe. You can look up their videos on...
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TTC #316 What do Poker and Face Recognition have in Common?
Gesture and face recognition including emotions is the next big thing in the future of driving and safety when it comes to the automotive industry. Rony Greenberg, Vice President of Development at EyeSight talked with Vicki about how poker gave him the idea to work on face recognition.…
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TTC #314 Millions of GPS Connected Palettes
How about a smart palette? You might think of it as trivial, but GSMA surely thinks different, as it has awarded RM2 with the innovation award for its Smart Palette. Vicki interviewed Christopher Gibbs at the Innovation City and discussed about their geolocation enabled long lasting palettes with...
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TTC #313 Intel & The LIQD Program for IoT
Vicki was in the Innovation City speaking with Intel and AT&T on IoT and sensor kits, that cut back time and cost for ventures who are looking for ways to get into the Internet of Things era and wanna start small. Dipti Vachani, Vice President General Manager of strategy and solutions IoT Group…
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TTC #312 AT&T Avnet Starter Kit
Ever wanted to get started with sensors and create your own Internet of Things? AT&T has a starter kit solution for developers with limited development knowledge. Vicki discussed with Richard Finn, Lead Product Marketing Manager at AT&T, on the IoT starter kits available. Interviewed by Vicki...
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TTC #311 A Mobile That You Don’t Have To Change Every Two Years
Bas Van Abel, Founder and CEO of Fairphone talks to Vicki about the concept behind the mobile phone Fairphone. It all started from the awful mining conditions in Congo. It’s not often we talk about fair construction. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
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TTC #308 BMW Garage
Gregor Gimmy founder and head of the BMW Startup Garage talks to Tech Talks Central and Vicki about the term he’s coined "Venture Client", where a big corporation avoids the usual accelerator model and goes straight to being the client of the startup, supporting and growing it in the process....
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TTC #310 DIY HTML5 Ads
Daniel Cohen, Product Director at Fluid Ads, a UK startup, discusses with Vicki about their easy to use HTML5 ad creation platform. Daniel says it takes a few minutes to create a proper HTML5 ad on their platform -with limited technical knowledge- instead of the usual 4 to 5 days. Check it out!...
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TTC #309 La French Tech issues a Startup Visa
Vicki talks with Maya Thomine Desmazures, from La French Tech and finds out what France is doing for its ecosystem of startups. Ever wondered how you can move your startup to Paris? There’s a VISA for that now. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
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TTC #307 Iconectiv on IoT Security and Authentication
Yiannis Rizopoulos speaks with Suresh Subramanian VP of Global industry relations of Iconectiv, an Ericsson subsidiary on the standards of the MZM and Internet of Things era, security and authentication. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.
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TTC #340 Precision Medicine for Lung Cancer & Alzheimer’s Disease
Anastasia Krithara, research associate at the Insititute of Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT) of NCSR "Demokritos" talks about IASiS, an EU funded project that seeks to pave the way for precision medicine approaches by utilising insights from patient data. It aims to combine information…
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TTC #341 How a Small NLP spin-off Got Acquired by Samsung
Speech to text and vice-versa is a technology that is driving a lot of AI innovation. One of which is virtual interactive assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant. Aimilios Chalamandaris, CEO and Co-founder of Innoetics shares with us their 10-years journey, starting an NLP (Natural...
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TTC #338 The Many Useful Applications of Monte Carlo Simulations
Modern powerful computers open a whole new era for the application of the Monte Carlo method for the simulation of physical systems of higher complexity. The Monte Carlo simulations are important computational techniques in many areas of natural sciences and have significant application in…
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TTC #339 BehavioralSignals Going Beyond Emotion Recognition in Speech
Nassos Katsamanis, researcher at the ILSP Lap for the Athena Research Centre, and VP of Engineering for the Behavioral Signals startup, discusses the origins of the team and their research. He explains how the US based startup is using speech data, AI and deep learniing for behavioral modeling…
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TTC #336 Breakthrough for the Production of Nanomaterials, in Waiting...
Combustion processes (SCS) are advantageous for the production of nanomaterials, as an express and simple technology; using this method, which allows the creation of a unique morphology and metastable phase composition, particles of high purity can be obtained. Senior researcher at NCSR...
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TTC #337 Pancreatic Stem-cells as a Source of Hope for Diabetes Patients
What is going on in diabetic research? Can we revitalize pancreatic stem cells to prevent kidney failure and help diabetes patients? Dr. Garyfallia Drossopoulou offers valuable information on these very important issues for numerous people all over the world, based on her team research, which is...
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TTC #342 Innovative Digital Storytelling for Cultural Applications
Given the fact that millennials and Generation Z visitors rarely get attracted by the content of museums, even open-air ones, the need to find a kind of “bait” for them in order to visit, is more than an urgent one. Maria Roussou, Assistant Professor in Interactive Systems at UoA and senior...
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TTC #306 Hack_D_Gap challenging Women to Excel
Renée Jiménez, Head Marketing Communications, Manager GSMA talks to us about Hack_D_Gap, the global startup challenge, ahead of Mobile World Congress 2017. Renée sets the context by explaining what the GSMA’s plans for women4tech are, who initiated it, the initiatives planned during the MWC17 and...
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TTC #290 Humans Role in the IoT Era
Costas Spyropoulos, Director of Research at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications at NCSR “Demokritos” describes the many benefits of the IoT era, when we will have -in only a few years from now- several billions of connected devices all around us, offering terabytes of data and many,...
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TTC #289 Understanding Earthquakes and Preventing Tsunamis
Dr Athanassios Ganas is the Research Director for Active Tectonics, GPS, Geological Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geodynamics of the National Observatory of Athens. His research is focused on earthquakes and in understanding patterns and behaviour of earth’s cluster based on recording…
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TTC #288 Preparing for the Age of Magnetic Materials
Dimitrios Niarchos, Director of Research at NCSR Demokritos, talks about his specialty - magnetic materials; a multibillion dollar industry with a very bright future and the effort to get to new materials with better properties, that open the way for new markets in the coming Age of Magnetic...
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TTC #287 Open Science - Supporting Collaboration Amongst Scientists & Researchers
Natalia Manola, Assoc. Researcher at Athens University and Athena Research Centre, guides us through the initiatives taken in the EU on open access for data, open source and facility sharing, that aim to ameliorate collaboration among scientists and researchers around the world, in spite of many...
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TTC #286 Looking at the Dark Side of the Moon… and Counting Hits!
Alceste Bonanos, a passionate astronomer and Assoc. Researcher at the National Observatory of Athens talks about two very interesting research projects realised by her team: the goal of the first one is to identify over a period of three years all variable stars ever observed by Hubble telescope...
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TTC #285 Digital Libraries With Their Own Intelligence
Dimitris Gavrilis, Senior Researcher at the Digital Curation Unit of the Institute of Information Systems at the Athena Research Centre, talks about digital libraries which is the design and development of knowledge management systems mostly for the humanities. Mopseus, their digital library...
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TTC #284 Going Nano to Create Everyday Technology
Konstantinos Giannakopoulos is a Research Officer of the Laboratory of Electromicroscopy and Nanomaterials at the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”. He talks about how technology is now developing, by what he and his peers are doing at the nano and atom scale, where they...
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TTC #283 Researching Ovarian and Breast Cancer in Young Women
Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Director of Research at NCSR “Demokritos” and Director of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, talks about hereditary ovarian and breast cancer. Their research involves hereditary factors that lead to cancer in very young women, between the ages of 30-35 and even younger.…
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TTC #282 A Food Sniffer That Detects Pathogens In Production
Ioannis Raptis, Senior Researcher at NCSR “Demokritos”, discusses food safety. He starts out by mentioning several dangerous food scandals like the horse meat in over 10M burgers, the 3K patients fallen sick by e-coli in food, and the tainted baby milk in China. He continues by pointing out the...
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TTC #281 Super Performing Buildings Run On Zero Energy
Sakis Triantafyllakis interviews Dr. Elena Dascalaki, senior researcher at the Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development of the National Observatory of Athens on the energy performance and environmental footprint of buildings. Dr. Dascalaki talks about her work at the…
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TTC #280 Quantitative Assessment of Pollutants for Emission Control
Evangelia Diapouli, Postdoc Researcher in the institute of Nuclear Technology & Radiation Protection at NCSR "Demokritos", talks about their international environmental project which involves linking research discoveries with decision makers ie. state authorities. Their ‘EU Life Program’ funded...
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