Enterprise Ireland Nordic Ambition Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Enterprise Ireland is the trade and innovation agency of the Irish Government. This podcast will highlight our Irish indigenous companies and the opportunities for them in the Nordics.
Today, we begin our Nordic Life Science Days series. Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 5 Irish companies to Nordic Life Science Days, the largest Nordic partnering conference dedicated to the life science industry.
During this series, we will be speaking to our delegation of companies. First up, we spoke to Cathy Duggan, Clinical Trial Project Manager, for Dabl.
Dabl develops online cardiovascular disease management systems in collaboration with a number of international centres of excellence. These expert systems aid the PREVENTION and MANAGEMENT of high blood pressure, stroke, heart-attack and a range of other cardiovascular conditions. Dabl also provides a complete package for the implementation, collection and analysis of ABPM and HBPM clinical study data which can be tailored to suit the study protocol.
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Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 5 Irish companies to Nordic Life Science Days, the largest Nordic partnering conference dedicated to the life science industry.
During this series, we will be speaking to our delegation of companies. Today, we spoke to Jacqueline Griffin, CEO, for Kephala.
Kephala Ltd. is an Irish company founded in 2019 to provide secure and compliant clinical data transfer solutions with real-time data analytics for clinical trials. Kephala has developed a secure cloud platform, Kephala Share, for transferring, tracking, and storing clinical data files of any size and format. The company is ISO 27001 certified and compliant with all relevant privacy and health-related regulatory standards.
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Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 5 Irish companies to Nordic Life Science Days, the largest Nordic partnering conference dedicated to the life science industry.
During this series, we will be speaking to our delegation of companies. Today, we spoke to Thomas Plath, Senior Director Business Development, for ICON.
ICON is a global provider of consulting, and outsourced development and commercialisation services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations. ICON has been recognised as one of the world’s leading Contract Research Organisations through a number of high-profile industry awards.
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Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 5 Irish companies to Nordic Life Science Days, the largest Nordic partnering conference dedicated to the life science industry.
During this series, we will be speaking to our delegation of companies. Today, we spoke to Martin Glättli, Subject Matter Expert Aseptic Applications, for ProSys.
ProSys Containment and Sampling Technology specialize in the design and manufacture of Isolators, Gloveboxes, Downflow Booths, Laminar Flow Booths, Pack-Off System and Sampling solutions to meet the ever-changing requirements of the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical industries.
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Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 5 Irish companies to Nordic Life Science Days, the largest Nordic partnering conference dedicated to the life science industry.
During this series, we will be speaking to our delegation of companies. Today, we spoke to Ian Shanahan, International Business Development Manager, for Flow Technology.
Flow Technology is an Irish process engineering company specializing in the design, build, testing and delivery of customised process solutions for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Our expertise includes Filtration (UFDF/TFF, Viral, Nano, Depth), Chromatography Liquid handling, Inline Dilution & Conditioning systems, CIP, TCUs, and more. Working with 8 of the world’s top 10 biopharmaceutical companies delivering quality process systems to meet their exacting requirements.
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Today, we have our last episode of the IRELANDxTechBBQ series. Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 6 Irish companies to Scandinavia's largest start up event, TechBBQ. TechBBQ is held in Copenhagen on 13th/14th September.
We are speaking to David Kindlon, co-founder and CEO of Waratek.
Eppione’s cloud-based Employee Benefits platform is supporting businesses of all shapes and sizes to reduce the time and resource of admin, get more out of their employee benefits, and understand their workforce better than ever with people analytics. With a presence in Ireland, the UK, Australia and the US, over 1,100 businesses are using Eppione to manage their workforce and employee benefits.
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We continue our IRELANDxTechBBQ series. Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 6 Irish companies to Scandinavia's largest start up event, TechBBQ being held in Copenhagen on 13th/14th September.
Today, we speak to Sandra Healy, founder and CEO of Inclusio.
Inclusio is a science-based, data-led diversity and inclusion platform. Backed by Enterprise Ireland, Inclusio spun-out of Dublin City University after four years in R&D. The platform combines technology, psychology and Artificial Intelligence to measure, track and action D&I. The platform engages employees confidentially, delivering personalised D&I Nudge learning and scientific data insights linked to business KPIs, delivering measurable culture change across the organisation.
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Today, we continue our IRELANDxTechBBQ series. Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 6 Irish companies to Scandinavia's largest start up event, TechBBQ. TechBBQ is held in Copenhagen on 13th/14th September.
We speak to Paul Hurley, Senior Manager, Talent Advisory & Customer Success at Starcircle.
Starcircle is a tech-enabled talent sourcing service that empowers hundreds of in-house
talent sourcing experts with the latest in AI, talent analytics and search algorithms to provide
daily candidate searches for recruiting teams. By partnering with clients’ in-house recruiters,
Starcircle helps companies to find great talent faster, hit specific goals including diversity, and to scale entire teams at one time. Its products include talent sourcing, talent engagement, diversity sourcing, talent pipelining, and talent mapping.
Please make sure to follow the podcast on Spotify and follow us on LinkedIn at Enterprise Ireland Nordics.
This is the IRELANDxTechBBQ series. Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 6 Irish companies to Scandinavia's largest start up event, TechBBQ. TechBBQ is held in Copenhagen on 13th/14th September.
We speak to James Lenehan, founder and CEO of Digibreaks and its parent business, WIN|WIN.
Digibreaks is a specialist provider of travel and restaurant deal content to large scale retail loyalty programmes. Our clients promote our unique offer content to their members, who in turn get access to instantly bookable, deeply discounted hotel stays and meals out. Our Loyalty Club partners share the commission revenues from each booking which means they generate substantial income from our partnership while delivering a valuable and engaging reward programme to their customer base.
Please make sure to follow the podcast on Spotify and follow us on LinkedIn at Enterprise Ireland Nordics.
Today, we begin our IRELANDxTechBBQ series. Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 6 Irish companies to Scandinavia's largest start up event, TechBBQ. TechBBQ is held in Copenhagen on 13th/14th September.
During this series, we will be speaking to our delegation of companies. First up, we spoke to Doug Ennis, CEO of Waratek.
Waratek is the Security-as-Code platform that enables security teams to automate the management of security behavior to reduce human error, remove false positives, and maintain lockstep with the rapid rate of code changes and deployments.
Please make sure to follow the podcast on Spotify and follow us on LinkedIn at Enterprise Ireland Nordics.
Today we continue our VECS series. VECS is a conference in Gothenburg focused on the future of transportation with a specific look at autonomous and electric vehicles.
I chatted with Carlos Gomes, Product Marketing specialist at Taoglas. Taoglas are one of the 8 Irish companies Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading to VECS.
Taoglas is a leading provider of advanced technology for a smarter World, helping OEMs, enterprises, and communities to resolve the complexities of bringing digital transformation solutions to market quickly and cost effectively.
Next week, Hugh McCarthy and Darragh O'Carroll will be travelling to VECS in Gothenburg with a delegation of 8 Irish companies.
VECS is focused on the future of transportation with a specific look at autonomous and electric vehicles.
Darragh sat down with John Ryan, who will be travelling to Gothenburg with his company Allergy Standards, to speak about the capabilities and offering Allergy Standards have.
Today we begin our Success Stories campaign. We will be interviewing Irish companies who are excelling and winning big in the Nordic region.
First up, we speak to Mariana Kobal from WAZP. WAZP are a 3D printing company, providing direct-to-business and consumer design and development services using a process known as additive manufacturing.
In 2017, they began their partnership with IKEA, creating an artistic model of a hand for the Swedish giant.
Cyber Security is a growing and huge threat for companies across the world.
Hugh McCarthy, Senior Market Advisor ICT, hosted a webinar in November featuring some of the very latest Irish capability in Cyber Security. We showcased innovation from 5 Irish companies; Tines, Daon, GuardYoo, EdgeScan, & Siren.
We also heard from Brian O'Toole, Head of Digital Services for Ericsson, and Richard Werner from the Radar Ecosystem.
Richard and his team created a report on the Nordic Cyber Security market and the opportunities for Irish companies in the region.
Today, we continue our IRELAND@SLUSH Series. We speak to Emily Castles, who is the co-founder and CTO of Boundless.
Boundless are powering the new remote work revolution, which has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Boundless empowers organisations to confidently employ anyone globally in the way that’s best for their people and their business. Taking on all local employment responsibilities, including running payroll, filing taxes and providing statutory benefits to employees
The platform is currently live in 18 countries and by the end of 2021 hopes to have 7 more added.
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We continue our IRELAND@SLUSH Series. We speak to Johnny Campbell, CEO of SocialTalent.
SocialTalent is the training platform for hiring teams. Giving Hiring teams the knowledge and skills they need to find, hire, and develop great talent.
Johnny founded the company in 2010 and it has gone from strength to strength since, with many reference customers in the Nordics.
Johnny previously attended Slush with the Enterprise Ireland in 2019, the last time the event took place in person.
As you will hear in the podcast, Johnny is a great advocate for how Slush is run and how it brings so many influential people together.
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Today, we continue our IRELAND@SLUSH Series. We speak to Mohmmed El Sonbaty, co-founder of Educatly.
Educatly is an educational platform that provides learning opportunities and educational networking.
The startup has already had over 100,000 users from 190 countries worldwide, and now plans to build on this early traction after raising a $1 million pre-seed round, which enterprise Ireland have contributed to.
Mohmmed was named in the Business Post's 30 under 30 list for Irish tech in 2021.
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On today's episode, we continue our IRELAND@SLUSH Series.
We speak to Damian Young. Damian is the CEO of Zeus scooters.
Zeus is an electric scooter company employing over 70 people across Europe. In June 2021, they broke in to the Nordic market when they launched in the City of Halmstad in Sweden. Halmstad became the 26th city Zeus was operating in.
Zeus also have plans to operate in 7 cities across the Norway. Damian has previously emphasised how Zeus' commitment to carbon neutrality and environmentally efficient operations is a shared value with the Nordic nations.
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On today's episode, we will be continuing our IRELAND@SLUSH Series.
We speak to Gerard Carton. Gerard is the founder and CEO of PlantQuest.
PlantQuest uses engineering data or custom-built data to construct a bespoke digital map to help workers navigate their way around industrial sites, such as data centres or pharmaceutical plants, quickly and easily.
Ger describes PlantQuest as 'the google maps for big factories'.
We dive into PlantQuest's journey to where it is now and what ambitions it has for the Nordic region.
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Today, we begin our IRELAND@SLUSH series. Enterprise Ireland Nordics will be leading a delegation of 7 Irish companies to the Nordics largest start up event, Slush. Slush is held in Helsinki on 1st/2nd December.
During this series, we will be speaking to the founders of our delegation of companies. First up, we spoke to Paul Campbell, founder and CEO of Tito.
Tito describe themselves as a faster, more flexible platform for selling tickets online, serving thousands of technology, developer, and b2b conferences worldwide.
We speak to Paul about Tito's journey so far and what their ambitions in the Nordics are.
Please make sure to follow the podcast on Spotify and follow us on LinkedIn at Enterprise Ireland Nordics.
Welcome to the Enterprise Ireland Nordic Ambition podcast.
Enterprise Ireland is the trade and innovation agency of the Irish government. In the Nordic region, we have offices in both Stockholm and Copenhagen where we help Irish indigenous companies on their export journey. Currently, we have over 400 Irish firms exporting to the Nordics and this number continues to grow.
Ireland and the Nordic nations hold many of the same values and this region offers huge opportunities to Ireland's best and brightest.
Coming soon on the podcast we will be talking to some of our most innovative and disruptive Irish companies looking to explore the Nordics about what they do and why they are looking north.
Keep an eye out for the podcast and let us know what you think!