Notes:

The Creative Futures Academy - https://creativefuturesacademy.ie

UCD’s BA Major In Creative & Cultural Industries - 

https://www.ucd.ie/artshumanities/newsandevents/ucdlaunchesnewbaincreativeculturalindustries/

Acknowledgements

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Title: Departures

Artist: Portrayal

Source: https://bit.ly/2QkBzvI

License: CC BY 4.0

Cover Art 

Title: In the Think Lab

Artist: Allen Higgins. Photo credits: Dunk Murphy. Used with permission.

Source: MayaGaul.pptx

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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 patients using psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) (Ross et al, 2025). 

Over the past 15 months I have contributed to the analysis and reporting of qualitative interview data collected by these researchers before and after treatment. The therapy has been shown to be remarkably effective with 21 out of 28 patients who completed the full trial reporting sustained relief. Whereas before the treatment the patients had found themselves 'stuck' in an oppressive lingering present, after treatment they are able to 'step back into' a life that is in some ways fuller even than before the diagnosis (Dwyer et al, 2026). 

In this reading group/seminar I will briefly present Heidegger's account in Division II of Being and Time of being-toward-death and its role in prompting a more authentic human existence and richer lived temporality. I will point out its striking similarity to the change phenomenon we observed in the qualitative analysis. I invite discussion of this observation, its implications, and suggestions. Note I will devote little time to describing the clinical trial so reading the accompanying paper (Dwyer et al, 2026) is advised.

Johno

Robert B. Johnston is a professor (emeritus) at University College Dublin, and a person in his own right.

Dwyer, J., Johnston, R. B., O'Callaghan, C., and Ross, M. 2026. "Stepping Back into Life: How Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy Transforms the Way of Life of the Terminally Ill," General Hospital Psychiatry (98), pp. 86-96. 

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2025.12.002

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Music 

Title: Justice Little League

Artist: Ema Grace

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Title: Inspired by zoom

Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 current “Proudly Made in Africa” Fellow in Business and Development at UCD College of Business, and the founder of – Non-EU Academics and Researchers Community in Ireland.

Our audience is the class of 2025 studying the Outsourcing and Offshoring module taught by Allen Higgins.

First, Fernandos, would you like to say a few words about your current role and a little about your journey?

·       African nations might not be the first place that investors and business associate with “technology ambition”, can you set the context? [notes: technical infrastructure, physical infrastructure, population demographics, connectedness etc.]

·       Talk about some success stories from Africa and the sectors they occur in? [notes: in FinTech, Education, AgriTech and eCommerce]

·       What are the opportunities for outsourcing to Africa? [notes: BPO, content moderation and specialized services, much of today’s AI is/was trained by centers in Africa]

·       For the startup environment, like Silicon Valley, where are the incubators, clusters, and centers of excellence? [notes: the three big regions East, West and South – Kenya; Nigeria; South Africa]

·       Can you talk about the role culture plays. No doubt there are challenges but opportunities too? [notes: strong social ties, high-trust cultures, entrepreneurial attitude is prevalent – trading is a way of life]

·       Questions from the hosts

·       Questions from the audience.

Further reading and notes

Fernandos Ongolly on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernandos-ongolly-phd-89927b32/

Proudly Made in Africa is a Trade Justice and Global Citizenship Education organization. For more see - https://www.proudlymadeinafrica.org

Also, the PMIA Podcast on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@proudlymadeinafrica

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Faceplant with UK Garage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source:  a-Wed23Oct2024

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Includes samples from Ableton Live by Ableton AG and by KORG Inc.

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Title: Guest and class

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: Pepperdine_Fernandos.pptx

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Anna gave a masterclass intro to corporate taxation in Ireland and its relationship with global trade (focus on technology companies).

Yes, we need to talk about Trade, Tariffs, and Taxes, but the answers revolve around Technology, Connection, Trust, and People.

Notes:

Anna’s profile pages on KPMG.com (link) and LinkedIn (link)

For more about the KPMG Global Tech Innovation competition 2025 (link)

Washington National Tax (WNT); the KPMG think tank and technical core of KPMG’s U.S. tax practice. (link)

Anna sits on the Advisory Board of Scale Ireland - https://www.scaleireland.com - Scale Ireland is Ireland’s leading independent not-for-profit, representative organisation for Irish tech start-up and scaling companies.

IDA Ireland (the Ireland Development Authority) - http://idaireland.com - (Irish: An Ghníomhaireacht Forbartha Tionscail) is the agency responsible for the attraction and retention of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) into Ireland.

Enterprise Ireland - https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/ - EI invests in and supports the development of Irish-owned companies “on their journey to achieving greater scale and to become global leaders in their field.”  

Revenue - Irish Tax and Customs – https://www.revenue.ie/ - The Tax Relief Scheme for Capital Expenditure on Intangible Assets (S. 291A) – (link)

WTO landing page for learning about Tariffs –(link) 

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: First Take

Artist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'Neill

Source:  mis.aup3

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Cover Art 

Title:(Screenshot from KPMG Platform – Global Tech Innovation 2024 launch event.)

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: Pepperdine_AnnaScally.pptx

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Notes:

AI Change Maker - https://www.aichangemaker.com

Dajana on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dajana-achelpohl/

On other media:

Dajana Achelpohl’s talk with Audrey Chia “A Framework for AI-Ready Teams” (YouTube link)

From AI Ireland: ‘Demystifying AI: Practical Applications and Business Integration’ with Google’s Dajana Achelpohl (link)

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: First Take

Artist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'Neill

Source:  mis.aup3

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Cover Art 

Title: Instructions Not Included! (screenshot from Dajana’s talk with Audrey Chia on YouTube)

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: Pepperdine_Dajana.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 

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Notes:

Tom Rourke – LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-rourke-1a8b70/

Tom gave a shoutout to Kevin Bethune - https://www.kevinbethune.com

Also, the MRI design story by Doug Dietz, Industrial Designer – (link)

Also, Tom co-hosts The Progress Report, with Sarah B. Nelson (Chief Design Officer at Kyndryl) on:

Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-progress-report/id1627095388

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/23hDHHDkOPSeFrrNsa9jcD?si=fa531ad1ec36459b

Finally, The Kyndryl Institute (download the app) - https://www.kyndryl.com/gb/en/institute/

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Title: First Take

Artist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'Neill

Source:  mis.aup3

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Cover Art 

Title: Unlocking Design (screenshot from Tom in Kyndryl leadership video)

Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 Development module. Our focus is on the human aspects of organising in corporate settings, recognising the role of human behaviour in determining organisational effectiveness.

Welcome Siobhain. So, it would be great to hear first about GS1 and what the work that you do.  Then to understand your own career journey and how it has evolved over time:  

·        Your readiness to take opportunities as they presented themselves. 

·        Who were your mentors, and how did they help shape your career?

And regarding your current role:

·        What motivated you to step up and to take on the CEO role in GS1?

·        What are some of the biggest challenges you have faced, and how did you persevere through them?

·        How has your leadership style evolved since you took on the role?

·        What do you maintain a healthy work-life balance juggling work and travel and family?

And your thoughts in general on:

·        What are the most important qualities you look for in a future employee?

·        How important is diversity and inclusion to you as a CEO trying to encourage creativity and innovation?

·        How do you foster open communication and a positive work environment?

·        How do you foster a spirit of collaboration in your organisation?

Before we finish, is there anything further you'd like to add?

We’ll wrap it up there. Thank you so much for your time and for sharing your thoughts and experience with us today.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading, books, blogs, pods, articles?

Siobhain Duggan, CEO - GS1 Ireland - https://www.gs1ie.org/

Siobhain on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/siobhainduggan/

The UCD BSc Business and Economics programme (link)

Article: Keeping track of the COVID-19 vaccine (HSE, 2022: link)

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Impulse

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty (personal letter)

Cover Art 

Title: Pod-Cover

Artist: Allen Higgins (photo used with permission)

Source: Duggan_GS1.pptx

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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 us how you went from Nuclear Physicist to CEO of RiskSystem.

·       Can you give us a demo of what Risk Reporting as a service looks like

·       What technology do you use to design and build the product?

·       How do I get the most out of RiskSystem?

·       Do you think risk models are becoming too complex?

·       Where do you see AI fitting into the business?

·       With the time left we’d like to open it to questions from the audience…

Before we finish, is there anything further you'd like to add?

We’ll wrap it up there. Thank you so much for your time and for sharing your thoughts and experience with us today.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading, books, blogs, pods, articles?

RiskSystem - https://www.risksystem.com

Peter on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-cripwell-a2258b6/

Highly recommended reading

- Sparklines History by Edward Tufte: 1324 to Now - https://www.edwardtufte.com/notebook/sparklines-history-by-tufte-1324-to-now/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: First Take

Artist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'Neill

Source:  mis.aup3

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Cover Art 

Title: Class vignette

Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 into financial risk modelling?

·       What does a day in the week look like on your team? [for a finance/economist, quant analyst, programmer]

·       How can a large organisation manage end-user tools like Excel? [policy, practices, systems management…]

·       Much of the focus is on the technical characteristics and the actions of individuals but not so much on organisational cultural. How can we address the organisational culture angle? [for example, grow and protect a culture of dissent? What might that look like?]

·       What about review processes and how to avoid undue influence from one or other actors? [maybe relate to audit trails, version control]

·       Are our models becoming too complex? [to either understand fully or to apply in a timely manner? What kinds of new systemic risk do you think about?]

·       Is sentiment analysis applied much to risk measurement? [how to do it? gotchas and the dark art of automated textual analysis for gauging sentiment from company filings, conference call transcripts and other bulk sources]

Questions from the audience?

Before we finish, is there anything further you'd like to add?

Thank you so much for your time and for sharing your thoughts with us today.

Further reading: Articles, links etc.

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/denis-mccarthy-69970b2b/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

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Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 is co-Founder of the Data Value Innovation Group, whose mission is helping organisations to deliver value from their data through data value mapping. The Data Value Map (http://datavaluemap.com) offers resources for visual discursive organisational analysis and facilitation to build shared understanding around data initiatives.

Further reading, sources, mentions and acknowledgements.

David’s homepage at UCC - https://www.cubsucc.com/faculty-directory/dr-david-sammon/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Guitar House

Artist: josh pan (2020)

Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-LId8ZWBM

License: License CC BY 3.0

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Title: Complex collaboration for BAEF

Artist: Nuno Machado and Allen Higgins

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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, Switzerland.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

• Homepage at UCD - https://people.ucd.ie/hippolyte.lefebvre
• And Google scholar page link

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Justice Little League

Artist: Ema Grace

Source:  https://bit.ly/2tJ6Bnd

License:  CC BY 4.0

Artist notes: Ema Grace is an AI vocaloid produced by Ryoma MAEDA (@Ryoma_Maeda). Styled as virtual Singer&Idol 架空のバーチャルアイドル & シンガー、それがEma Grace.

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Title: Inspired by selfie and AI

Artist: Allen Higgins

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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, we’d like to start one of the ideas behind this series of talks. Do you think a finance professional’s working life will involve more or less interaction with dedicated development teams, IT or software engineers?

·       Can you make a case for the value of knowing a bit about programming (e.g. python) for working in Finance.

·       We are extremely interested in what you’ve learnt from experimenting with advanced aspects of LLMs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, agentic knowledge graphs, and process automation. What do you imagine is going to be the impact on the Finance industry?

·       On your website you used the phrase “embedded finance” a couple of times, can you explain the concept?

·       About your website, you said it was VIBE coded. What motivated you and what did you learn about the process? 

With the time left we’d like to open it to questions from the audience…

Any recommendations for books, podcasts, blogs??

(questions from audience)

Before we finish, is there anything further you'd like to add?

Thank you so much for your time and for sharing your thoughts with us today.

Notes and further reading: Key books, articles, blogs, podcasts, channels

• https://www.donalrafferty.com
• Explore Kaggle for inspiring examples of data analysis - https://www.kaggle.com
• Learn Python and Pandas! There are many resources available, for example, DataCamp - https://www.datacamp.com
• The Unicorn Project and The Phoenix Project. Two books by Gene Kim about tech projects and working in tech.
• Andrew Ng’s AI education platform - https://www.deeplearning.ai/ Register for a free account to get access to Andrew’s videos. (in fact Andrew Ng  coined the term “Agentic AI”, to describe a trend in how people were building applications)

Acknowledgements

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Title: First Take

Artist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'Neill

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Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 Kavanagh makes some observations and invites reactions.

Decentralized cryptocurrencies are upending the foundations of economic power, challenging centuries of state and bank control over money. This research critically examines the rise of digital wildcat banking and its profound implications for economic sovereignty. Leveraging digital forensics, data science, and OSINT, this work reveals who actually produces and governs cryptocurrencies—and how their collective labor reshapes value and risk. It explores the forces behind decentralized money, the vulnerabilities these systems introduce, and the future role of state-issued currencies in an era of rapid monetary transformation.

Reflecting on the project Quinn notes:

"I've been working on this for well over a year now, and while it is still in development, the basic outline is complete. I make some pretty provocative claims, like arguing that global forces first emerging in the 1970s lead us inexorably to this point where the labour required to produce and govern new money has become involuted[1]. It’s a unique project that reveals how new money is made and details the implications for banks, nation states, and society. I also have some fun stories to share, like my effort to vampire attack Trump's WLFI token or my reverse engineering of the FBI's Operation Token Mirrors."

[1] Involution; the theory from Clifford Geertz where, in the original context, rice production becomes internally competitive and the processes require more labour without an increase in output - analogous to this story of technological development and precarious technological labour. I argue that the operational infrastructure of crypto expands to require more labour, despite no correlated increase in output. Thus, crypto overtakes national currencies not by meeting a market demand, but by accommodating excess labour supply.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

• Quinn’s homepage - https://iqdupont.com
• China’s “Involuted” Generation by Yi-Ling Lu | The New Yorker Published MAY 14
• The president and the billion-dollar crypto businesses – How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto by Joe Miller and Alex Rogers in Washington, Paul Caruana Galizia, Nikou Asgari, Eade Hemingway, Oliver Hawkins and Chris Cook in London | FT.com Published OCT 16 2025
• "Overcapacity" or "involution"? How China's manufacturing suffers from over-competition Tracing the roots and perils by Elena Wang and Nina Chen | Baiguan.news Published APR 18 2024

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: CrazyMix

Artist: Sandbox Korg Ableton

Source:  CrazyMix.aif

License: : CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Cover Art 

Title: Inspired by Wordpress Defaults

Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 starting out in IBM?

So, what does a day in the life look like? 

These days, do you find yourself needing more, or less interaction with technology specialists to get the job done? 

Can you talk about typical sources of information and scale or size of datasets?

Can you talk about the tools used for modelling, economic simulations, machine learning, and use of AI?

Do you think that programming skills necessary or nice-to-have?

We have some time for questions from the audience…

Before we finish, is there anything further you'd like to add? (favourite pods, blogs, channels, books)

Thank you so much for your time and for sharing your thoughts with us today.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

IBM Skills Build - https://skillsbuild.org (free learning courses and resources)

PL/I – Programming Language One

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: First Take

Artist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'Neill

Source:  mis.aup3

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: JaneAntova-IBM.pptx

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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 and investment funds. 

Thank you for coming in to speak to us Raul. Can you share a little of your own story, how you came to Ireland and talk about the tools you use in your role as Economist and Financial Analyst?

[Raul opens with self-introduction and present some slides e.g. asset allocation, fund management, showcase doing analysis on output from Bloomberg]

I have a question; would you say that programming skills are necessary or just nice-to-have? 

Could you share some key information sources you think we as Economics and Finance students should know about and follow?

With the time left we’d like to open it to questions from the audience…

(question from audience)

(question from audience)

Before we finish, is there anything further you'd like to add?

Well, this has been an informative talk. Thank you so much for your time and for sharing your thoughts and experience with us today.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Key books mentioned?

Key pods, articles mentioned?

Other links…

Multi Family Wealth – the investment management company - https://mfw.ie

https://yardeni.com/charts/feds-stock-valuation-model/

https://www.ft.com/alphaville

https://www.zerohedge.com – the most famous blog in finance.

https://www.cfasociety.org/portugal/home

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: First Take

Artist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'Neill

Source:  mis.aup3

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Cover Art 

Title: Class vignette

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: RaulAfonso.pptx

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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 behind starting Manakau?

·       You’ve spent your career working in finance.  Could you tell us about the types of financial markets and activities you’ve been involved with? 

·       Now let’s get to the premise for this series of talks: For a career in financial markets, can you make a case for the value of knowing a bit about programming (e.g. python)? 

·       I want to become a quantitative analyst; What 3 technologies do you consider must-have?

·       How is AI going to affect careers in financial services? 

·       What advice would you have for a student who wants to work at one of the top financial firms, whether in Dublin, London, Tokyo or New York?  

Followed by questions from the audience…

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

• Manakau - https://www.manakau.com
• GTD or Getting Things Done - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done  
• Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet - https://www.d-eship.com
• Simon Willison’s blog is a long-running, practical, technical, openly documented experiments with all the AIs and up to the minute-of-the-day review of new GenAI developments -  https://simonwillison.net 
• Getting started on prompt engineering: O’Reilly’s “Prompt Engineering for Generative AI” book by James Phoenix and Michael Taylor

Acknowledgements

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Title: First Take

Artist: Debajyoti Biswas and Michael O'Neill

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Artist: Allen Higgins

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Key takeaways:

Students benefit from being in control of at least some of the settings within which learning experiences unfold so, consider using multiple apps rather than integrated systems, for example, separate the video presence experience (e.g. Zoom or Teams) from the digital whiteboard from the shared document.

• We should encourage experimentation with tools, old and new alike.
• Experiment with multiple means of engagement like polls, MCQs, discussion boards but feel free to drop a tool if you feel it doesn’t work well.
• Always be seeking copious feedback from learners all the time. The difficulties or challenges they encounter may be intrinsic to the learning process rather than problems to solve but just knowing where they are in the learning process is valuable; for example, are they stuck, is there a shared misunderstanding or misconception, or knowing who has made progress so they might act as a catalyst for the wider group.
• Use breakout rooms tactically to scale up and scale down groups to sizes appropriate to the activity.

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Title: Monologue Lu-Fugi octave climb with extra notes with wa wa with other tweaks

Artist: Allen Higgins

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Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 the case for the value of visual workflow approaches for teaching and implementing analytics.

How do we do that? KNIME implements a well-documented, comprehensive and capable software environment that enables users to design and operate data analytics workflows visually using the following objects:

·       Nodes perform tasks on data. Nodes have inputs and outputs. Nodes have status/indicators. Nodes are natively implemented in Java. Python scripts may also be used as code nodes.

·       Connectors link nodes. Connectors indicate data flows. Connectors send data from one node to another. Connectors have direction. Nodes plus connectors enable you to create workflows.

·       Workflows are designed aggregates of nodes linked using connectors 

·       Components/Metanodes encapsulate discrete sub-workflows. Component/metanodes can be used like nodes.

·       A large library of pre-build nodes and metanodes are offered for common tasks like cleaning up data, visualization, plug into Tableau and PowerBI.

·       Supports all types of data.

·       

Further reading, sources, mentions and acknowledgements.

Stefan Helfrich -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanhelfrich/  

KNIME – https://www.knime.com/

See the KNIME Educators Alliance and the Teaching Materials Repository.

References:

Berthold, M. R. (2019). What Does It Take to be a Successful Data Scientist? Harvard Data Science Review, 1(2)

Further reading:

For examples, additional teaching materials, sample curriculum, see “The Data Science Guide” – www.datascienceguide.org

Unless otherwise noted, the teaching materials (including workflow examples, code examples, and slides) are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).

Music 

Title: Guitar House

Artist: josh pan (2020)

Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-LId8ZWBM

License: License CC BY 3.0

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Title: We need You! Visual Analytics

Artist: Nuno Machado and Allen Higgins

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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 Director of the Public Policy Programme in UCD.

Why Japan? I contend that it is good to experience the ordinary strangeness of a culture that is quite different to one’s own. My starting point is to consider the classic images of Japan after which I strive to give a flavour of what it is like to live and work there.

Notes

Naonori – https://people.ucd.ie/naonori.kodate

Allen – https://people.ucd.ie/allen.higgins

Gateways to Japan (DSCY10080)

JET – The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (see JET Ireland), established in 1987 and still running, invites third level graduates from overseas to participate in international exchange and foreign language education throughout Japan. 

interac –Japan’s largest provider of ALTs (Assistant Language Teachers) https://interacnetwork.com

Japan Digital Nomad Association – https://japandigitalnomad.com/en/

Images:

四季と酒

shi ki to o-sake

These are: the four distinct seasons.

Haru (春) Springtime cherry blossoms. 

Natsu (夏) The lush greenery of summer holidays, flowers, fruit and heat.

Aki (秋) Autumn when the leaves turn red and orange and gold.

Fuyu(冬) Winter cold (really cold), snow, and cosy indoors.

Add to this Japan’s visually striking architecture: Buddist temples (tera/-ji), Shinto shrines (jinja), Torii (gateways), and Castles (shiro/-jo) – former seats of power from the medieval period.

And not to forget – sake!

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Check Them In

Artist: Ema Grace

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Cover Art 

Title: Japan Digital Nomads

Credit: Japan Digital Nomads Association

Source: https://japandigitalnomad.com 

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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 Economists”, for the BSc Economics programme

Hosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares.

Further reading, sources, mentions and acknowledgements.

‘AI Tutor Chatbots & Student Engagement’ 

Evaluating the Impact of AI Chatbots on Student Support and Engagement in UK Higher Education

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Guitar House

Artist: josh pan (2020)

Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-LId8ZWBM

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Artist: Nuno Machado and Allen Higgins

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First, Roland, can you set the context and explain what it means to be a software craftsman?

• What value there is in functional programming both technically and from a business perspective? 
• Are coverage tools widely used in practice, what value do they bring and what is the state of the Scoverage project?
• If you were assessing a code base for quality, what are the main aspects you would look for in the code?
• Talk about some of the non-technical factors at play in refactoring and code reviews.
• If you had to strip it back to the basics; what aspects of Agile are key for any successful software development process?
• In your view, what impact will GenAI have on software development and is now a good time to be graduating with a CS degree? 

Notes

Roland’s website and blog: https://tedn.life/

Roland is one of the committers on `scoverage` (together with Chris Kipp) - https://github.com/scoverage

And, as ‘the Augmented Software Engineer’ Roland is the host for a series of meetups dealing with the impact and implications of genAI upon the practice and profession of software engineering.

https://www.meetup.com/the-augmented-software-engineer/

Further reading

Jošt et al “The Impact of Large Language Models on Programming Education and Student Learning Outcomes” (2024) - link

Becker et al, “Programming Is Hard – Or at Least It Used to Be”, (2023) - link

Karaci Deniz et al, “Unleashing Developer Productivity with generative-AI”, McKinsey & Company, (2023) - link

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Faceplant with UK Garage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source:  a-Wed23Oct2024

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Includes samples from Ableton Live by Ableton AG and by KORG Inc.

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Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

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A short talk by me (Allen Higgins) 

A Socratic questioning style for teaching/learning using a simple three-part structure: introduction, a series of questions, and closing comments.

The hard part, or the art, is in asking good questions.

Questioning 'story', or more specifically, 'storytelling' for teaching and learning.

There is no set formula for creating a story, let alone a good story, but there is structure you can employ to help the process. 

For my own practice, when discussing ideas, I look for sequence, connections and flow.

·       Sequence: the classic, beginning middle and end.

·       Connections: call forwards, call backs, links to other sources, ideally, other related material you have written/recorded.

·       Flow: a natural logic or order of conversation.

Notes and further reading:

A link to the YouTube video version (link)

William Labov’s analysis of structure in oral narratives (link).

Freytag’s Pyramid - the stages of a narrative arc with rising and falling action (link).

Christopher Brooks seven basic plots.

Andrew Reagan’s illustration of six emotional arcs of narrative structure (link)

Joseph Campbell’s classic analysis of mythic narrative structure, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)

John Van Maanen’s Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (1988)

On visual storytelling or storytelling with data.

Edward Tufte’s “The visual display of quantitative information” (1983).

Edward Tufte’s “Visual explanations: images quantities evidence and narrative” (1997).

The “Carte Figurative des pertes successives en hommes de’l’Armée Français dans la campagne de Russie 1812-1813” (link)

John Snow’s Broad Street epidemiology map (link)

Andy Kirk’s (2019) CHRT(S) taxonomy for thinking about what kind of chart is best for your kind of data.

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Vinyl Static Quantized UK Garage Slow C Min 130 bpm 80s Beat 90 bpm

Artist: Allen Higgins and 

Includes samples from Ableton Live by Ableton AG and by KORG Inc. and vinyl_record_needle_static_01.wav by joedeshon -- https://freesound.org/s/140295/ -- License: Attribution CC BY 4.0

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Title: Thumbnails of Illustrations

Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 the Founder and Academic Director of the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance. 

To start, Niamh, can you tell us a little about yourself and how you came to specialise in Corporate Governance?

Question bank

<> Corporate behaviour and governance came into sharp focus at the time of the Global financial crisis of 2008. I presume it has improved since then?

<> What does it mean to be accountable?

<> Corporate culture is complex. Is it sufficient to set the ‘tone from the top’? 

<> What are the main challenges to establishing and maintaining good corporate behaviour?

<> As future BSc Economics & Finance graduates, what should we look for, in the organisations we join, in terms of good corporate governance?

<> What systems and indicators should we expect to see and have access to in our own organisations? 

<> Can you share some thoughts on how GenAI technology will impact corporate governance?

<> We’d like to open now to questions from the audience.

<> Niamh, you have any thoughts you’d like to add before we wrap up?

<> Well, thank you for taking the time to answer our questions and share your thoughts with us today.

Notes:

Niamh Brennan’s research profile at UCD (link) and Google Scholar page (link)

The verb ‘govern’ from the Latin gubernare and the Greek kubernan ‘to steer, rule’. Defined as the act or manner of governing an organisation. 

‘Good Governance’ - is dependent on how people behave according to a system of rules, practices and processes that encourage or discourage specific behaviours.

Additional reading:

Brennan, N., Conroy, J., 2013. Executive hubris: the case of a bank CEO. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (ISSN: 0951-3574)

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Vinyl Static Quantized UK Garage Slow C Min 130 bpm 80s Beat 90 bpm

Artist: Allen Higgins and 

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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 create games using a special framework he has developed that includes a live AI shaped character using OpenAI's ChatGPT4 API in TWINE.

In this talk Dov explores the development of the many features of immersive technology building up to AR and VR but going beyond these towards Game Based Learning and touching on AI. At each step - each immersive feature - we talk about its relevance to learning and how students might exploit it and illustrate with examples from the studio.

(for a link to the slides click here).

The talk took place on September 12th at 2pm in the Augmented and Virtual Reality class in UCD Computer Science (COMP47930). The lecture and recording was supported by Abey Campbell, Xuanhui (Issac) Xu, and Donal Fullam.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Dov’s website: dov.jacobson.net

Dov’s game “Mike Builds a Shelter” was acquired by MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, NY) and is now on playable exhibit on the 2nd floor (link)

Article: 12 Steps Toward Immersive Learning by Dov Jacobson, 2018 (link)

Article: Milgram, P., and Kishino, F. (1994). A taxonomy of mixed reality visual displays. IEICE Trans. Inform. Syst. 77, 1321–1329. (search link)

Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories (link)

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Harsh Computer Dual Saw Vapor Games Arp 1 Akustichor Stripped Down Sample Kit 108 bpm

Artist: Allen Higgins

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Title: Dov

Artist: Xuanhui (Issac) Xu and Allen Higgins

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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 further reading:

With thanks to the College of Business, Public Policy & Law for the funds to support this event. The event is also part-funded by the College of Business, Public Policy & Law research fund.

Supported by:

·       The University of Galway College (link)

·       College of Business Public Policy and Law (link), 

·       WRAP - developing a sustainable Film, Television Drama, Animation, & Games sector in the West of Ireland (link)

·       NEXUS Games Conference - by GamerFest (link)

·       IMIRT - The Irish Game Makers organization representing game developers in the Republic of Ireland (link)

·       ARDÁN - talent development in Film, TV, Games and Amination.

Thanks to all our presenters, participants, attendees and to the staff in the University of Galway for support including Mary O’Malley, Louise Monahan and Sergei Medvedev. Particular thanks to Professor Geraint Howells, Professor Martin Hogg and Professor Alma McCarthy for trusting this event to us and for all the support.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Injection Vapor Games House Beat Shuffle House

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source:  a-Fri24Oct2024

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Title: Abby, Kieran, and Matt

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: GameChangers_Panel-03

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Chair: Conn Holohan, Director Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway

·       Ambre Nicolle: Platform competition and strategic trade-offs for complementors: Heterogeneous reactions to the entry of a new platform

·       Alexey Rusakov: First-party complements and value in platform markets

·       Maria O’Brien: Ireland’s new Digital Games Tax Credit: the role of the state in supporting the games industry

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

With thanks to the College of Business, Public Policy & Law for the funds to support this event. The event is also part-funded by the College of Business, Public Policy & Law research fund.

Supported by:

·       The University of Galway College (link)

·       College of Business Public Policy and Law (link), 

·       WRAP - developing a sustainable Film, Television Drama, Animation, & Games sector in the West of Ireland (link)

·       NEXUS Games Conference - by GamerFest (link)

·       IMIRT - The Irish Game Makers organization representing game developers in the Republic of Ireland (link)

·       ARDÁN - talent development in Film, TV, Games and Amination.

Thanks to all our presenters, participants, attendees and to the staff in the University of Galway for support including Mary O’Malley, Louise Monahan and Sergei Medvedev. Particular thanks to Professor Geraint Howells, Professor Martin Hogg and Professor Alma McCarthy for trusting this event to us and for all the support.

Acknowledgements

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Title: Injection Vapor Games House Beat Shuffle House

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source:  a-Fri24Oct2024

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Includes samples from Ableton Live by Ableton AG and by KORG Inc.

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Title: Maria, Alexey, and Ambre

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: GameChangers_Panel-02

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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 need to bring to digital design and software engineering. There is lots to unpack here and to apply to your own environments.

Don’t forget to look through the show-notes for further readings and links.

Our hosts for this interview are Erin Nielsen and Vishvam Dave, Masters students at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business.

Welcome to the podcast Sushant. Starting off, could you say a little about your background and interests?

·       Why can't we have the developers do the testing as well and why should there be a separate role for testers?

·       Is there a future for manual testing?

·       Essential skills to move into testing?

·       Software testing in Agile teams… How that works?

·       Is there a critical step in the software development process that significantly reduces the likelihood of defects during testing?

Any additional questions from the audience?

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Sushant Singhal - Senior Director Analyst on the Software Development and UX team of ‘Gartner for Technical Professionals’ (GTP) - https://www.gartner.com/en/experts/sushant-singhal

Selected notes that Sushant has been involved in:

How to Create an Effective Software Test Plan - https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/5595259

How to Establish 4 Development and Test Environments for Effective Software Engineering - https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/5469695

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Faceplant with UK Garage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source:  a-Wed23Oct2024

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Includes samples from Ableton Live by Ableton AG and by KORG Inc.

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: SushantAndClass.pptx

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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 the journal AI & Society reflected on his personal academic habitus; How he felt called to take action and respond to the question: How do you bring people together to help others, to make change and create social value through technology, without money, without power, without fame, and when the human-technological-systems to do this are yet to be invented?

This episode’s cover art includes a photo of Liam Bannon, Satinder Gill, and Karamjit Gill taken at UHL. The lower picture is a snapshot from the panel discussion in the Irish Chamber Orchestra Building, University of Limerick. From left to right:Gerry Keenan, Simon Thompson, Andrew Kaung, Martin Cunneen, Karamjit Gill, Cathriona Murphy, Amanda Clifford and Satinder Gill.  Credit: Allen Higgins, 20th June 2024.

Notes, mentions, and further reading:

Mike Cooley (Wikipedia link) – Author of Architect or Bee? (1980). 

The Journal AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication (link). Published by Springer.  Established in 1987. Co-founded by Professors Michael Cooley and Karamjit Gill. Founding advisory board members: Joseph Weizenbaum, Hubert Dreyfus, Daniel Dennett, Maggie Boden, Terry Winograd, David F. Noble, Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky and others (see article at link).

XTREME – “Mixed Reality Environment for Immersive Experience of Art and Culture” is an EU Horizon 2020 project that started in January 2024 and will finish in December 2026. XTREME will explore and provide a mixed reality (MR) solution to experience different forms of art. The project is in close collaboration with 14 different partners who together will explore different alternatives to the traditional way of accessing music and art experiences.  https://xtremeitu.dk/about-xtreme 

The INSYTE-Cooley Research Lab (I-CRL link)

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

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Title: Vignettes from Limerick

Artist: Allen Higgins 

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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 your process change between your in-house products like SwitchedOn Fibre and your client work? 

·       What differences have you seen between working as a designer in Africa vs Ireland?  

·       Where do you see product design fitting within the whole product lifecycle? 

·       How is a Product Designer different to a UI/UX Designer or an interface designer? 

·       Thoughts on essential skills to work UX/ID?

·       Do you use AI in your own designer workflow?

·       Can you talk about the need for designers to go outside the bubble and consider the whole enterprise system... and sell the value of design to your team, your clients, the corporates.

·       Any books you'd recommend from your (virtual) bookshelf?

Are there any questions from the audience?

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Mitchell Eva on Sonalake - When Design is Not Design - https://sonalake.com/latest/canvases-and-frameworks-when-design-is-not-design/

Mitch has put together a design-focused learning resource library – (link) 

Innovation podcasts

The “Sans Permission” podcast (in French)

Actor Network Theory – see the Wikipedia entry (link). ANT arises as a coevolving concept/framework through the work of scholars such as Michel Callon, Madeleine Akrich and Bruno Latour, the sociologist John Law, and others.

The HEART framework - https://www.heartframework.com

Figma Design - https://www.figma.com

Friends of Figma - https://friends.figma.com/dublin/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Moody Break  01

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source:  a-Wed10Oct2024

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Includes samples from Ableton Live by Ableton AG and by KORG Inc.

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Title: MitchAndAllen

Artist: Allen Higgins

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I hope you enjoy listening to these inspiring accounts by architects navigating their own deliberate practice in the world, working alongside communities and a range of other stakeholders. 

I think the insights they share can inform and inspire anyone involved in designing for others; practices for learning about client’s expectations, how technologies are really used by people, about their goals, needs, desires; discovering new ideas, unmet potentials, and importantly, negotiating shared understandings. All of which comprise an intrinsically democratic design process.

Talk timeline -

(00:00:00) Preamble - Allen Higgins, UCD College of Business.

(00:03:37) Nathalie Weadick, UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy. Introduction.

(00:07:36) Laurence Lord from AP+E  talking about Lusk for Life

(00:33:28) Evelyn D’Arcy from 12th Field presenting an overview of her work and focus on the Bog Bothy project.

(01:03:7) Kevin Loftus, ACT Studio  presenting an overview of his work including Reimaging Lisdoonvarna.

(01:28:00) Audience discussion.

Speaker bios:

• Nathalie Weadick Hon FRIBA, is a Design Fellow, School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, PhD Candidate Queen's University Belfast and RMIT Melbourne - nathalieweadick.com
• Laurence Lord is an architect with AP+E and a lecturer in Queen’s University Belfast.
• Evelyn D’Arcy is an architect and educator with a passion for helping people to develop a stronger connection to their world.
• Kevin Loftus is a co-founder and design director at ACT (Accelerating Change Together), a social enterprise of architects, designers and policy specialists that have been established to accelerate the green transition in Ireland.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Monologue Lu-Fugi octave climb with extra notes with wa wa with other tweaks

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source:  introoutro

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0  

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Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 funded by the European Union.

The workshop was a preliminary activity of the XTREME project; which stands for

“’miXed Reality Environment for IMmersive Experience’ of Art and Culture”.

The goal of the project being to research new applications at the intersection between augmention technology and human kinaesthetic being. For example, by experimenting with embodied musical-artistic performance uniting AR/VR and AI, for therapeutic and other forms of human involvement.

The panel included:

• Martin Cunneen, from the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick and local PI for XTREME.
• Amanda Clifford, Physiotherapist, from the School of Allied Health, University of Limerick
• Satinder Gill, from the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Music and Science
• Emeritus Professor Karamjit Gill from University of Brighton and Editor of the journal AI & Society
• Cathriona Murphy,
• Gerry Keenan, 
• And Simon Thompson from the Irish Chamber Orchestra and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
• And Andrew Kaung a researcher on the XTREME project.

The goal for the workshop was to explain the scope of XTREME and its inspiration in ideas surrounding the blend of music, dance, physical and virtual embodiment. The local partners gathered to meet and introduce themselves, their motivations and research interests. 

Professors Karamjit Gill and Liam Bannon had planned to prompt a dialogue centred on the role of technology shaping human society and implications for computer mediated immersive experiences. Unfortunately, due to illness Liam was unable to attend on the day and so Karamjit offered a personal reflection on his own academic habilitation and storied career, which we present in the second episode/recording of this event.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

XTREME – “Mixed Reality Environment for Immersive Experience of Art and Culture” is an EU Horizon 2020 project that started in January 2024 and will finish in December 2026. XTREME will explore and provide a mixed reality (MR) solution to experience different forms of art. The project is in close collaboration with 14 different partners who together will explore different alternatives to the traditional way of accessing music and art experiences.  https://xtremeitu.dk/about-xtreme 

Speakers: Martin Cunneen, Amanda Clifford, Satinder Gill, Karamjit Gill, Cathriona Murphy,Gerry Keenan, Simon Thompson and Andrew Kaung

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

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Licensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collage incorporating the XTREME logo image

Artist: Allen Higgins and XTREME project

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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 Kitchin from the Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University.

(the unconference was held at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), St Stephen’s Green South, Dublin.)

Why an unconference? An unconference is an event where the attendees help set the agenda and content. Rather than papers and panels, we want to use this opportunity to foster networking and discussion.

The goal of this inaugural event was to acknowledge the specificities but also international connections/reach of STS (and the general implications of scientific research and policy here in Ireland) and bring researchers together for networking from different institutional and disciplinary homes. The unconference format included panel talks and small-group discussions to explore various facets of the socio-cultural study of technology, science, and medicine.

Schedule:

9:45 Registration

10:30-10:40 Overview/welcome

10:45-11:40 Keynotes

11:50-12:40 Panel discussion - Cassidy, Rob, Kalpana (Moderator - Christo)

12:50-1:50 Lunch

1:50-2:45 Breakout 1 (1:50 - 2:30, then return and discuss)

2:45-3:40 Breakout 2 (2:45 - 3:40)

3:45-4:30 Debrief and next steps

4:30-4:45 Closing

Notes, further reading:

Organised by Kalpana (kalpana.shankar@ucd.ie); Christo (christo.jacob@ucdconnect.ie)

The Website and registration link:  https://stscommunityireland.wordpress.com/

Supported by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Network Fund and the University College Dublin Centre for Digital Policy.

Museum of Literature Ireland - https://moli.ie

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: CrazyMix

Artist: Allen Higgins using Sandbox Korg Ableton

Source:  CrazyMix.aif

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Title: Inspired by Wordpress Defaults

Artist: Allen Higgins

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1. Could you share a bit about yourself and your role in Dublin?

2. When did you first start exploring outsourcing options, and which tasks were you looking to outsource?

3. What specific qualities or characteristics were important to you when selecting an outsourcing partner?

4. Have you encountered instances where outsourcing didn't meet your expectations, and what lessons did you gain from those experiences?

5. What advice would you offer to fellow entrepreneurs contemplating outsourcing?

6. Given your AI background, how do you see the potential of AI and machine learning technologies to improve the quality, efficiency and cost of outsourcing services?

And now some questions from the audience...

Thank you for finding the time to talk to us today. 

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Podcast team: Chahat Goel, Shreyaa Krishnakumar, Abhay V, Xiao Zhang, and Zijing Li.

Shourjya Sanyal at TEDxTallaght - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEpVUn6WUGA

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: KoffeeSwap Theme v2 - 90bpm

Artist: tukyo.eth

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Q1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about your role at McLarens? [claims management, loss adjusting and auditing services, pre-risk assessment and damage surveying]

Q2. Can you share a specific example from your experience where outsourcing played a significant role in managing a complex or major loss adjustment project?

Q3. In relation to handling this government project, how do you navigate the complexities of outsourcing when dealing with different cultural and regulatory environments?

Q4. Given your involvement in both client account management (external) and operational management (internal), how do you ensure effective communication and alignment between the parties?

Q5. Do you encounter resistance from the local employees within the client's organization when you implement your outsourcing solutions?

Q6. Considering the increasing digitalization and globalization of the insurance industry, how do you see the role of outsourcing evolving in the future?

Q7. Many insurance policies do not cover natural disasters treating them as ‘acts of God’. When you spoke about disasters and natural disasters, how are these two different from each other?

Q8. How is climate change affecting your business? How is business affected by higher inflation?

Thank you for finding the time to talk to us today. 

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

McLarens – loss adjustment, CAT response, global claims and professional technical services - https://www.mclarens.com

Podcast team: George Holland, Jingyun, Gao, Jonas Pilling, Rahul Yuvraj Kalshetty, Swati Nagar

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Golden Sunrise

Artist: Josh Woodward

Source:  https://bit.ly/4dn61jD

License: CC BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: podcast with feargal bracken

Artist: Group V (George Holland, Swati Nagar, Jingyun Gao, Jonas Pilling, Rahul Yuvraj Kalshetty)

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Questions

·       Could you please share with us a background to your career & experience to date?

·       What are the key differences between offshoring and outsourcing to you and what experience do you have working within this environment?

·       What sector or industries do you believe outsourcing is most prevalent in India?

·       What are some of the key trends you have seen regarding the Indian outsourcing and offshoring industry?

·       Can you please explain the differences between working directly for a large multinational and working for a consultancy firm?

·       How would you develop an outsourced team? 

·       How do you develop trust with outsourced employees? 

·       How would you help build culture in an outsourced team?

·       Where do you see the role of a data analyst in the next 5-10 years?

·       Any final thoughts you would like to share?

·       How do you stay ahead of industry trends?

·       What advice would you give to people preparing for the role of a data analyst?

Thank you for finding the time to talk to us today. 

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Guest LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karanbagla/

Podcast team: Sarthak Sunil Jaiswal, Cian Croghan, Soon Wei Er, Kostas Bafes, and Barrak Albabtain.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Intellect

Artist: Yung Logos

Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryMQhe49cdw 

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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, Dave, can you tell us a little more about yourself and West Monroe?

And a question for you Allen. How did you make the connection with Dave?

Okay, back to you Dave,

·       Is the ‘managed services industry’ the same as outsourcing/offshoring? (Old wine in a new bottle?)

·       You were recently featured in CIO magazine on the resurgence of captive centers. What is a captive center? (why might they be a good strategy?)

·       How do you think Ireland Inc. fits in this space?

·       Can you share your thoughts on ‘talent strategy’ and how to build and run captive centres?

·       Let’s talk about the impact of ‘AI’. Is ‘AI’ is ‘location neutral’ in terms of a services sourcing strategy? (is it prompting back-shoring or is it a driver for further off-shoring?)

·       Is there an expectation on captive centers to take the own lead on using genAI?

(Any more questions?)

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for talking with us and sharing your thoughts today.

Notes and mentions: 

WestMONROE - https://www.westmonroe.com

Article “Captive centers are back” by Stephanie Overby for CIO Magazine, 2024 (link)

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

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Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 avoid food waste. It is a significant contributor to reducing carbon emissions.  In this interview, we'll learn about Patrick's considerations when selecting outsourcing partners and their locations, as well as the challenges DigiTally has experienced in working with outsourcing teams.   Patrick also shares his experiences of successfully helping businesses achieve their goals such as reducing food waste, improving profit margins, and simplifying stocktaking.

1.     Can you tell us about DigiTally and why you decided to set it up?   How did your prior experience in high-end restaurants influence your decision to set up this business?

2.     Can you speak to DigiTally’s role as an outsourcing partner itself?

3.     Within food service operations, which areas do DigiTally's software have the biggest impact on reducing food waste (e.g., inventory management, ordering, forecasting)?

4.     What activities and services does DigiTally outsource and why did you decide to outsource them?

5.     We understand that you initially outsourced software development to India and then when that didn’t work, you switched to Poland.   Can you tell us about that experience and what you learnt from it?

6.     In light of those experiences, what are the attributes of an outsourcing partner that are important to you?

7.     During the outsourcing process, how do you manage communication with the external team and balance expectations with results?

8.     Your business has an environmentally conscious ethos in helping prevent food waste and some of the topics covered in your podcasts on your website have a sustainability focus.   Do you take into account ESG factors when selecting outsourcing partners?  

9.     We understand that you also outsource marketing for your business.  Can you tell us about that outsourcing relationship?

Thank you for finding the time to talk to us today. 

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

https://www.digitally.io/food-service-matters-the-podcast/

Podcast team: Anne Marie Godfrey, Emily Zhong, Nishchay Joseph, Vera Tan.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

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Title: Outsourcing experience of DigiTally

Artist: Anne Marie, Emily Zhong, Nishchay Joseph and Vera Tan

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Questions: 

1.     How does Lean product management stand out from traditional product management with its significance in terms of development, management and delivery?

2.     What is the scope of outsourcing and offshoring with respect to lean product management?

3.     Can you share a recent experience where you have outsourced any services during the product roadmap?

4.     How to determine which parts of the product development process are suitable for offshoring or outsourcing?

5.     What are the challenges and roadblocks a product manager can face during outsourcing and offshoring?

6.     What advice would you give to other product managers who are considering offshoring or outsourcing a part of their product development strategy?

Thank you for finding the time to talk to us today. 

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Podcast team: Sagar Shetty, Vishad Pimple, Kellen D’Costa, Sahil Gupta, Xiaoyu Ge

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

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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 operational complexities of outsourcing and offshoring, partner relationships, while supporting global talent, workforce diversity and inclusion. 

·       You've been instrumental in setting up high-growth digital acquisition and sales organizations. Can you share insights into how Microsoft approaches outsourcing and offshoring in the context of expanding its customer base for Modern Workplace, Dynamics, and Azure products?

·       As the COO of Microsoft Dynamics Asia, you oversaw end-to-end operations across multiple regions. How did you navigate the complexities of outsourcing and offshoring while ensuring seamless operations and customer satisfaction?

·       In your role as the Global Programs & Projects Leader for Enterprise Consulting Services, how did you leverage outsourcing and offshoring to enhance service delivery and drive digital transformation initiatives for Microsoft's clients?

·       Leading the EMEA Dynamics Program, Launch & Channel Management, you likely dealt with various outsourcing partners or offshore teams. Can you discuss some key challenges you faced in managing these relationships and how you addressed them to ensure project success and innovation?

·       As the Executive Sponsor of the LGBTQI+ & Ally Community at Microsoft, diversity and inclusion are evidently important to you. How do you see these values intersecting with outsourcing and offshoring strategies, particularly concerning global talent acquisition and management?

·       Looking ahead, what do you see as the emerging trends or challenges in outsourcing and offshoring within the context of digital innovation, and how should organizations like Microsoft adapt to stay ahead in this evolving landscape? 

Extra Questions from the Floor: 

·       We believe that outsourcing comes with advantages but also downsides like lack of control. How have you managed or manoeuvred through this? 

·       If you could talk about the challenges that you may have had with virtual teams and actions that you may have taken to help improve those scenarios. 

·       How many different teams do you consider yourself to be a part of?

·       Can you talk about Ireland's role in MS Global

Thank you for finding the time to talk to us today. 

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Team: Abhishek Mukherjee, Tobi Edward, Calum McCarthy, Kejia Shi, Xin Jiang

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

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Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 key lessons have you learned about managing outsourced/offshored delivery models? [e.g. Managing remote/offshore teams, what strategies have you found most effective for ensuring cohesive teamwork and productivity across different locations?] 

·       Can you talk about the impact that Sidero has had on Athlone, and maybe the value of setting up in a region as opposed to the capital? 

·       How has Sidero's acquisition by GlobalLogic changed things? [in terms of service offerings, access to new technologies, global reach, etc? What new opportunities has it created?] 

·       Can you share your thoughts on how Generative AI technologies are impacting software service firms? [opportunity, threat, same ‘ole]? 

·       Reflecting on your long experience working in software services and technology, what advice would you give to us as Digital Innovation students? 

·       Any final thoughts?  

Thank you for finding the time to talk to us today.  

Notes, extra questions, and further reading: 

Joe Dowling on LinkedIn (link) 

Sidero - IT Services and IT Consulting - https://www.sidero.ie

GlobalLogic – A Hitachi Group Company - https://www.globallogic.com

The interview team: Akanksha Aravinda, Clare Mustapha, Snehal Jain, Sofia Rollan Zegers, and Yizhuo Qiao. 

Acknowledgements 

Music  

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

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Title: Complex collage II

Artist: Allen Higgins

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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 Digital Nomad (TEDN), can you tell us about the meaning behind the title?

·       So, we are studying global outsourcing and offshoring in digital industry across a range of dimensions of closeness and distance, like cultural, linguistic, political, geographic... Should we think of the virtual/physical as a dimension in its own right? 

·       Talk about the pluses and minuses for both in-office work and work-from-home…

·       How do you think about organising for remote work? [pod, hub, tribe, squad…]

·       Let’s take a new-hire, fresh out of college. How do they start and grow their career as a remote worker?

·       Isn’t it this a recipe for “lonely, wired and tired?” How do you build-in personal well-being…

Okay, we’ll end there. Thank you for finding the time to talk to us today. 

Notes, further reading:

Roland’s website and blog: https://tedn.life/

Distances - Know them. Manage them. – (link)

Hub-First vs. Remote-First vs. Pod-First – (link)

Hybrid Work: Surprising Lessons from Gen Z, Brian Elliott on MIT Sloan Management Review – (link)

The interview team: Laksh Sharma, Shi Li, Songhao Liu, Wassym Nait Oubihi.

Extra Podcasts:

The Story of Software episode with Roland Tritsch, Sr. Director of Engineering, Community https://www.zartis.com/podcasts-story-of-software/74-remote-working/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

Cover Art 

Title: Complex photo collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: podcast-Roland.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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In this seminar, Salimeh talks about one of the great educational challenges of our day; How to design the educational journey (curriculum, content, teaching methods, support and structure) for students learning business analytics and data science? The question pertinent because knowledge of and skills in business analytics, data science and computer science feeds into all of the impactful technology potentials generating so much excitement in the current era. It is driven by the application of large language models and machine learning to everyday business problems, and the many open questions and huge unknowns surrounding the direction of developments in generative AI.

Hosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares.

Further reading, sources, mentions and acknowledgements.

• A cyclical model for action management -- Susman, G. I., and Evered, R. D. (1978). An assessment of the scientific merits of action research. Admin. Sci. Q. 23(4), 582–603.
• Identity-challenging innovation -- Anthony, C., & Tripsas, M. (2016). Organizational identity and innovation. The Oxford handbook of organizational identity, 1, 417-435.
• DataCamp -- https://www.datacamp.com/
• Contact details: Salimeh -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/salimehpourmohammad/
• Warwick Business School -- https://www.wbs.ac.uk

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Guitar House

Artist: josh pan (2020)

Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-LId8ZWBM

License: License CC BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collaboration for BAEF

Artist: Nuno Machado and Allen Higgins

Source: vignette_version.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Podcast License

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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 Cork, Ireland, talking about how to expand consultancy efforts and working with clients from different industries.

1.     How did you tackle the challenges of rapid expansion of Zartis from your founding through to now?

2.     Can you talk about your experiences expanding into new markets [countries or product markets?]

3.     The half-life of technology is incredibly short, how do you and your teams stay up-to-date?

4.     What do you consider when forming teams for client engagements? [When forming teams do you consider personal traits, knowledge maps?]

5.     When working with clients, do you have a general approach to problem-finding, a methodology or process to get the big picture?

6.     Let’s take a case, if client wants to do advanced analytics, but their systems are old or their data is a mess: how do you cope with deep strategic transformations [get client on board, manage expectations etc.]

7.     We’re interested understanding some of the problems of consulting. For example, how do you avoid the ‘halo’ problem? [e.g. fallen into the trap of ‘knowing best’ or reusing solutions from one site on another site without considering]

8.     Can you talk about your approach to Corporate Social Responsibility and outreach? [e.g. LevelUP]

Questions from the audience.

<conclude>

That’s probably a good point to wrap it up.

Thank you for taking the time to talk with us today.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Zartis (https://www.zartis.com)

Padraig was a guest on the pod back at episode 169 and cross-released by Zartis at…

https://www.zartis.com/podcasts-story-of-software/design-talk/where-does-design-happen/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: “It was just cold”

Artist: Andrew Codeman

Source: https://bit.ly/2Msarcj

License: “CC BY 4.0”

Cover Art 

Title: Eras ITC + photo of panel + 25% shp, 60% brt, -14% cnt, 400% sat, 11,200K, greyscale, pastels smooth.

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: podcast-Angel.pptx

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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 infrastructure company and sharing the learning he has gained on the road to developing a proactive and projective approach to IT strategy.

Yes, sometimes you 'just have to get stuff done’, but to really succeed you must become more aligned, forward looking, and ‘outcomes focused’. Morgan achieves this, in part, by embedding a feedback mindset. This involves carefully and systematically listening to the business and then delivering what the whole organisation actually needs.

Ask the business for feedback! Pose questions like:

• Would you recommend us to another customer?
• Are we delivering value?
• How are we doing from a service perspective?
• How well do we engage and communicate with you?

(The recording took place on April 17th, 2024.)

Notes:

NPS: Net Promoter Score 

Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual.

JV: Joint Venture

PI: Planning Interval (link)

Purposeful Meetings: changing behaviours result in culture…

Intent, vision, invested, alignment, outcomes.

RAG colours: Red, Amber, Green.

Use metrics to tell us if we’re moving in the right direction.

Music 

Title: “It was just cold”

Artist: Andrew Codeman

Source: https://bit.ly/2Msarcj

License: “CC BY 4.0”

Cover Art 

Title: Eras ITC + photo of Morgan presenting + sharpness 44%, bright 28%, contr 30%, 206% sat, 5,388K, pastels smooth.

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: podcast-Morgan.pptx

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Neil O'Herlihy talks about why your strategic 'gut instinct' is probably going to be wrong in a rapidly changing technology product environment. We are so used to thinking in terms of averages that we find it hard to develop an intuitive understanding of markets where power-law demand/reward curves work. 

"We don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, we just need to be ready when it does!”

Case Study Overview: 

InceptionExp is a fictitious rapidly growing Silicon Valley company offering unique AI solutions that can improve and optimize themselves through AI. InceptionExp have low costs of sales and very high year-over-year (YoY) revenue growth with huge headroom. They are operating in a context of technology and scale race where there are strong economies of learning and scale. The rapid pace of technological innovation means the environment is highly uncertain. Demand for InceptionExp's product/service in EMEA is skyrocketing, requiring rapid expansion to address this market. InceptionExp's customers and markets exhibit power-law distribution, meaning a small percentage represent the bulk of the opportunity.

Given the rapid innovation in the AI-building-AI market we need to decide:

1. How should InceptionExp build its EMEA go-to-market team,

2. Should it use an EMEA go-to-market hub location

3. How it should prioritize resources in a power-law market, and

4. How much to focus on sales efficiency?

Notes:

Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos by Shona L. Brown, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

The Lean Startup by Eric Reis

HBR on Strategy podcast (https://hbr.org/podcast/2023/07/defining-a-growth-strategy-in-uncertain-times)

episode recounting the different responses by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on the future of the mobile phone.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: “It was just cold”

Artist: Andrew Codeman

Source: https://bit.ly/2Msarcj

License: “CC BY 4.0”

Cover Art 

Title: Eras ITC + photo of Neil presenting + 300% sat, 6,500K, pastels smooth.

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: podcast-NeilOHerlihy.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Today we are talking with Emily Smith, Assistive Technology Specialist in UCD.

Emily, could you say a few words about role and how you came to champion accessibility?

·       I am always getting lost in buildings. How does anyone find spaces within places? [wayfinding systems, Google Maps, Navilens]

·       What is NaviLens? How do you use it? [an accessible wayfinding and information app that uses colourful QR codes to help individuals find their way around interior spaces] 

·       Who is the primary target group, and, can anybody use it? 

·       When did you first see a Navilens? [Kellogs pack]

·       Who makes Navilens? [Spanish company]

·       Are there any cases where Navilens is being rolled out? [New York MTA - subways and buses]

·       Can you track the use of a tag? [unique tags give data on number of times they have been scanned]

·       What do you need to consider when embedding Navilens in a space?

·       More questions from the audience? 

That’s probably a good point to wrap it up.

Thank you for taking the time to talk with us today.

Notes:

https://www.navilens.com/en/

https://www.ucd.ie/all/aboutus/campusaccessibility/navilens-accessibleinformationandcampusnavigation/

https://lighthouseguild.org/how-the-simple-qr-code-became-an-empowering-navigation-tool/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Impulse

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty (personal letter)

Cover Art 

Title: Futura + The NaviLens Team Photo credit: NaviLens – www.navilens.com. Permission granted “Absolutely! You can use it! Happy to see the result! , don't hesitate to share it with us.”

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: podcast-NaviLens.pptx

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The seminar was chaired by Dorota Piaskowska, associate professor in strategy and international business at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Frank Barry is Professor of International Business & Economic Development at Trinity Business School and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

And Marcin Piątkowski is Professor of Economics at Kozminski University, Warsaw, and Lead Economist at the World Bank.

This talk was recorded in person with a live audience on April 8th, 2024, in the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Dublin, Ireland.

The seminar was supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin and the UCD College of Business.

Location - Lecture Theatre N204 (followed by a reception in the Laurence Crowley Boardroom)

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin

Thank you for listening, please follow and share if you liked this episode.

The musical elements used are from the ‘Adagio in G Minor’ released under a CC-BY 3.0 license.

See the show-notes or the description for details.

Notes and links:

https://www.gov.pl/web/ireland/ambassador

https://people.ucd.ie/dorota.piaskowska

https://marcinpiatkowski.com

https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=barryfg

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Adagio in G minor

Artist: Remo Giazotto attributed to Tomaso Albinoni

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Licensed by Dick de Ridder: CC-BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: GraphicsAndText

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: Collage/various (CITO-podcast-FrankMarcin.pptx)

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So, let’s start with this idea that Accessibility is the Zeroth usability requirement, that we’ve got to consider it in parallel with every other requirement, everywhere, all the time, all at once.

Q: Why? Why bake accessibility into everything, why bring it into focus, and how do start the process?

Q: What skills do you see as essential? 

Q: Can you talk about some examples?

Q: You called it an ARIA label, so basically, nearly all access problem is an HTML problem.

Q: what QA tools do you have in your toolbox. 

Q: What about installing overlays... 

Q: What if you break something? 

Q: You may be putting an awful lot of work into address a small and shrinking portion of the population.

Q: Does accessibility affect you personally?

Q: Let's finish on an observation that some of the foundational technologies developed for accessibility have gone on to improve everyone's experience of the web. 

Q: Is there anything else you’d like to add before we wrap-up?.

Notes:

https://www.chargepoint.com/en-gb/

https://driver.chargepoint.com/ (driver portal)

https://www.w3.org/WAI/people-use-web/tools-techniques/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-label

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: The World

Artist: Ben Prunty (2012)

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

Cover Art 

Title: Screenshot+HighContrast+GlowDiffused

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: podcast-PatAllen.pptx

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I am Jennifer Keenahan and I am delighted to be joined by Allen Higgins from the UCD College of Business to talk about shaping and delivering a podcast.

Today I have turned the tables on Allen. Usually, he’s behind the scenes directing the show. Today I want him to share what goes into planning and producing an episode.

To start, Allen could you tell us a little about your background and how you came to bring podcasting into your teaching practice.

Q: Let’s start with your teaching pod, Design Talk. You had this idea that you wanted to make a podcast, how did you start? 

Q: So, let’s say I have an idea that I want to make a podcast. How do I start? 

Q: What kinds of pods are there; how do you choose one? 

Q: Let’s talk a bit more about format. 

Q: How do you organise or structure your own pod? 

Q: What is the key to a strong interview? 

Q: So, sticking with interviews, how do you prepare?

Q: Questions from the audience?

Q: Is there anything you’d like add?

Mentions, links and notes:

Jennifer Keenahan (link)

Mairéad O’Reilly – (link)

Allen Higgins (link)

Ruth Campion (link). Ruth is a game designer and 3D artist

Conor Reid (link). Conor hosts and produces his own award-winning arts and culture podcast, Words To That Effect

Siobhán McHugh (link). Siobhán is an Irish-Australian author, podcast producer and critic, oral historian, audio documentary-maker and journalism academic.

Audacity (link). Audacity is a freely available open-source DAW, a Digital Audio Workstation; a highly regarded and extremely capable software environment for audio engineering.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: vignette_version.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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We are proud to announce this seminar with Dr S M A Moin, a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marketing at Queen Mary University of London, and Director of Teaching Associates at the School of Business. He is an interdisciplinary researcher and a published author in brand storytelling, strategy, leadership and creativity & innovation.

Storified and creative teaching can break the clutter and connect with students’ rational brains by tapping into their emotions.

Further reading, sources, mentions and acknowledgements.

S. M. A. Moin. Creativity in the Imagination Age. Springer Books, (2022).

S. M. A. Moin. Brand Storytelling in the Digital Age: Theories, practice and application. London: Palgrave Macmillan, (2020).

Kay Peterson and David A. Kolb. How you learn is how you live: Using nine ways of learning to transform your life. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, (2017).

HBP editors. Why your students are disengaged and and what you can do to draw them back in. Harvard Business Publishing, (2022)

Joseph Campbell. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Various publishers, (1949-2008)

Alighieri Dante. The Divine Comedy. Various publishers, (-2017).

Contact details:

S M A Moin -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/smamoin/ 

Christina -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinajphillips/

A video version of this episode is published on the Business Analytics Educators Forum’s YouTube channel at: 

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Guitar House

Artist: josh pan (2020)

Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-LId8ZWBM

License: License CC BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collaboration for BAEF

Artist: Nuno Machado and Allen Higgins

Source: vignette_version.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Podcast License

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Julian is Director of Data Science for the Product team at Matillion.

·       To start, Julian could you share a little about your background in Data Science and introduce us to Matillion and its mission?

·       How does an independent services solutions company leverage while adding value to the models generated by the large LLM developers?

·       Can you share your some of the learning and discoveries you’ve made by researching and applying Gen AI to data engineering? 

·       Can you share your thoughts on its impact on the way data science is done? [

·       What do you consider to be the entry-level skillset? 

·       How do you approach teaching and learning skills in the area and what tips would you give a university educator?

·       On the topic of regulation and ethics for data scientists working with Gen AI. There is talk of mandating the 'human in the loop' approach for safety, that may even become regulation. How you see ‘human in the loop’ working?

·       Who are the key data science authors and media you refer to? [books, blogs, pods] 

·       Is there anything you’d like add?

Notes:

Julian’s blogs at Matillion

·       Matillion: The Data Engineer’s Guide to Prompt Engineering part 1 (link)

·       Matillion: The Data Engineer’s Guide to Prompt Engineering part 2 (link)

·       Matillion: The Data Engineer’s Guide to Prompt Engineering part 3 (link)

·       Matillion: Evaluating the performance of different LLMs (link) 

Recommended to follow Andrew Ng, researcher-entrepreneur (homepage)

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: The World

Artist: Ben Prunty (2012)

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collaboration for BAEF

Artist: Nuno Machado and Allen Higgins

Source: vignette_version.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Hosts: Saisnehha Natraj and Kushagra Mehrotra 

What experiences do each of you have in the arena of outsourcing?

According to you, what are the dimensional considerations for outsourcing?

How have things changed since covid in the marketplace, in terms of outsourcing?

Do you think the outsourcing practices are different across various sectors and countries?

How do you keep your customer satisfied?

What do you think about AI’s role in outsourcing?

Audience Questions.

Thank you for listening.

NOTES:

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

Cover Art 

Title: Aspects of Outsourcing

Artist: Group W (Junjie, Aman, Kushagra, Snehha and Subhashini)

Source: Scott_and_Ryan_Cover_Art.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Podcast team: Jack Daly, Shachi Parmar, Jennifer Kevany, and Ronan Brennan

[Jack] (Intro) Good morning and welcome to the Design Talk podcast.

So, today we are talking with Ajaya Singh, from True North AR, a Medical Process Outsourcing (MPO) services provider. To date in our podcasts we have gained some fantastic insight into the opportunities and challenges in outsourcing/Offshoring  from the client perspective , this morning we have a great opportunity to understand this process  from the service provider's perspective.

( Sales) The challenges of getting new contracts, new client development, building a sales pipeline, from a distance?

( MPO vs BPO) How is MPO different from ITO or general BPO?

( Advantages/challenges) What are the advantages of operating from Gurgaon/India? Challenges?

( Recruitment process) How do you bring new hires on board? 

( Client Trust) Building trust is a substantial part of an effective relationship for a client's perspective, how would you look to build such trust and how do you maintain it? ( reducing anxiety)

(Cultural differences and provider trust)We spoke about the cultural differences between India and the US discussing the societal view on bankruptcy, how do you overcome issues like this and how do you trust clients?

-        how do you overcome cultural differences and bias?

( Disagreements)Like all business , leaders and owners can be passionate but perhaps at time misinformed, now do you manage power dynamics and disagreements without being cold i.e “ out of scope”

( Recent LifeCyle) Can you tell us about the life cycle of a recent project 

-        what are the most important factors for  a successful project?

( Cost efficiencies ) We spoke about cost and ensuring cost efficiencies , using lesser skilled labour when possible, can you talk a bit more on this

( Societal impact) A substantial part of this course is reviewing the impact to society of a FDI investment,. how important is this, and how much responsibility do the local regions take to attract such investment.. eg dublin chamber and “ why dublin campaign”

( Risks and competition)What are the current risks to your business and industry

eg we hear alot about emerging nations competing for investment and contract, also the rise of machine learning and AI, how do you manage competition

CLOSING

So, on that note…

( thank guest, thank audience) We would like to thank you for making time in your busy schedule to talk to us today, from the other side of the planet.

And for sharing your knowledge and insights into delivering services from a distance.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: “It was just cold” (2018)

Artist: Andrew R Codeman

Source: https://bit.ly/2Msarcj

License: CC BY 4.0

Cover Art 

Title: Cartoon characters

Artist: Student team and Allen Higgins

Source: Background image.PNG

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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In this episode we speak with Bernard Harris, Head of Trust & Safety for TikTok, EMEA.

This pod was recorded on Tuesday 9th February 2021.

Podcast title and guest: Talking with Bernard Harris from TikTock.

Introduction by Fouz Alsubaie. Interview hosted by Caroline Willis, Cristina Primavera, Emma Ji, Danny Coss Heneghan, and Veronika Pushkina.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: “It was just cold” (2018)

Artist: Andrew R Codeman

Source: https://bit.ly/2Msarcj

License: CC BY 4.0

Cover Art 

Title: Think Lab Studio + Abadi MT

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: AudioStudio-GeorgeMooreBuilding.pptx

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* Luke Vilain, Data Ethics and AI Risk Specialist, working in financial services.

* Balagopal (Bala) Madhusoodhanan, a intelligent automation architect working on Low Code / No Code platforms and AI risk classification.

* James Winters, an AI consultant who develops strategies and governance solutions to help solve business problems.

* Marilena Karanika, Data Scientist, working in financial services modelling and analytics

Further reading and interesting takeaways...

* Discovering ethical challenges and future conundrums? Play the moral machines game --- www.moralmachine.net

* Recommendations for ‘must watch’ long form media? Watch The Social Dilemma (2020) -- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826

* “Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education” policy paper - GOV.UK (2023) -- https://bit.ly/3RXgCbK

* AI for Humanity -- https://mila.quebec/en/ai-for-humanity/

* Consequence Scanning, an agile toolkit -- from https://doteveryone.org.uk see https://bit.ly/3Hwv8SN

A video version of this episode is published on the Business Analytics Educators Forum’s YouTube channel at: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPQ1nwQVmvGUpKN0pey27g

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This ‘from the archives’ recording is the second part of the keynote from “ Triangular Conference 2008” in which Dermot Moran and Lucas Introna talk about the value of conducting research in the phenomenological tradition and considerations when carrying out research into organisations, information systems and modern technology.

Part 2

In part two Lucas argues that Phenomenology offers deep insights into fundamental aspects of the human experience of technology and information systems, with implications for the sociology of Management and Organisation.

The talk was recorded in-person with a live audience on Thursday June the 5th 2008 in the UCD Lochlann Quinn Undergraduate School of Business, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.

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This ‘from the archives’ recording is the first part of the keynote from “ Triangular Conference 2008” in which Dermot Moran and Lucas Introna talk about the value of conducting research in the phenomenological tradition and considerations when carrying out research into organisations, information systems and modern technology.

Part 1

In part one Dermot introduces Phenomenology and argues for its continuing relevance to Philosophy and Science. 

The talk was recorded in-person with a live audience on Thursday June the 5th 2008 in the UCD Lochlann Quinn Undergraduate School of Business, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.

Acknowledgements

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Title: Adagio in G minor

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We are delighted to have Sarah Irwin to talk with us today. Among her many roles Sarah is founder and community builder for ITGC (the Irish Tech General Counsel community, a forum for In-House Lawyers in Ireland.

To start, Sarah can you tell us a little about yourself and why you founded the ITGC?

Can you take us through some of the terminology? Lawyer, Counsel, Legal Counsel, General Counsel…

What are the basics, that we all need to know about the Legal side of business?

At what points in the growth plan does a technology start-up need General Counsel?

How can General Counsel become more end-user friendly?

Let’s shift to the legal industry itself, how has it been impacted by technology in its own operations?

Any questions from the audience?

Well, we’ll wrap up there. Thank you for talking with us today and sharing your knowledge and expertise.

NOTES:

https://www.itgc.ie

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-irwin-aa273064/

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We are delighted to have Laura Fay join us today. Laura studied Computer Science at Trinity College before setting out to the United States and kicking off her long career in the tech sector.

·       To start, Laura, can you talk about your journey from technologist towards product leadership?

·       The tech sector has always been ‘about the technology’, but is it ‘product’ or ‘service’? What is the right way to think about it? 

·       Do new tech delivery and payment models change how we design and sell digital?

·       Can you talk about the gap between engineers and salespeople? 

·       Should we consider the product person a ‘representative from Sales’ to Development or are they Development’s ambassador to the rest of the company?

·       What would you say to someone who wants to get into product management? What competencies do they need to learn and hone?

·       Questions from the audience.

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you, Laura, for taking the time to talk with us and share your ideas and experience with us today.

(thanks, wrap-up, summary). 

Notes:

Laura Fay presenting on XAAS to Product Collective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fcoWq5CgbI

Laura’s participation in a panel video “RSIA Researcher Hot Takes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRC_M2tz_o8

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We are delighted to have Suzanne Brennan with us today. Suzanne works as Innovation Lead at InsTech.ie.

• To start, Suzanne, can you tell us a little about yourself and about InsTech?
• Can you give us a sketch of the Insurance sector in Ireland (local market, global market, retail/commercial, insurance/reinsurance).
• Talk about challenges to the insurance industry from an innovation perspective?
• And how is the industry responding to disruptive technologies?
• You recently launched a report focusing on the future of insurance in Ireland.
• What was the motivation behind the project?  
• Can you talk us through the research design, the methodology?
• Why did you start with insights and interviews rather than the traditional survey and questionnaire?
• How are useful are surveys and questionnaires?
• What worked well and what would you change if you had to do it again? 
• So, the report is aimed at capability building in the industry. How do you imagine a member organisation will act on the findings?
• How can Design Thinking be used to enact and enable organisational change and transformation?
• How important is diversity in the creative process?  Is that something you pay particular attention to? 
• The role of leadership – the old model of leadership is defunct to some extent, in that for the process of innovation it is not necessarily assumed that the leader has all the ideas / answers.  However, is there a role for a leader within the team and, if so, what is it?
• Psychological safety is really important if the creative process is a team effort.  It requires the team to listen and withhold immediate judgement so that ideas are aired and properly considered.  How do you facilitate this process?
• Creativity and motivation are somewhat interlinked – the creative ability coupled with the desire and motivation to create something useful, beautiful, or different. How do you identify creative people and how do you support the creative process?
• Any questions from the audience?

Well, we’ll wrap up there. Thank you for talking with us today and sharing your knowledge and expertise.

NOTES:

InsTech.ie website: https://www.instech.ie

Insurance Innovation Capability Report 2023 - https://www.instech.ie/insurance-innovation-capability-report-2023

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We are very pleased to have Mark Cooke from Bright Eye Games with us today to talk about the business of publishing boardgames.

Brief self-introduction: How you ended up in Games and your motivation for staying in the industry.

How did you get into the gaming industry, and what motivates you to stay in it?”

What are the practicalities of being a publisher?

How did you discover CoraQuest, and what prompted you to publish it?

How important is the pitch for a game idea or game in development?

Can you talk about the challenges and opportunities of creating sustainable products?

How important are conventions and other forums for generating interest and finding your community?

What new projects are you working on for Bright Eye Games?

Are there any instances of licensing issues in the industry?

Do you prefer physical or digital games, and what are your thoughts on video game versions, companion Apps, digital resources? 

Talk a little about the role of game mechanics in terms of play and genre?

As a designer, how do you create atmosphere, mood, or essence of the game?

What financial aspects do you consider when deciding to publish a game?

How do you do marketing in this business?

Thank you for taking the time to talk with us and share your experiences.

Notes:

Bright Eye Games https://www.brighteyegames.com

Some titles published by Bright Eye Games:

CoraQuest (2022)

Battle Dentale (2023)

The Plot Thickens (2023)

Termite Towers (2022)

Waggle Dance (2022)

Interesting information about, and by, the game industry…

Green Games Guide: https://www.greengamesguide.com/read-the-guide

BoardGameGeek: https://boardgamegeek.com/

The Dice Tower: https://www.dicetower.com/

Shut Up and Sit Down: https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/

AireCon: https://www.airecon.co.uk/

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Nunzia is an Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems at University College Dublin, she is a member of the UK OR Society and its special interest group WORAN, and the current secretary of the EURO WISDOM Forum.

·       To start, Analytics educators come from all kinds of professions, how did you find yourself working in this field?

·       Can you share some lessons learned on becoming an analytics educator? (Three tips for a lecturer starting out?) 

·       Can you tell us a bit about your own research interests?

·       I know you record a lot of your lectures for students. Do pre-recorded lecturers change the classroom experience?

·       What for you is the essence of practical analytics? (a process of optimization… The issue is that analytics and Operational Research (optimization is part of OR) are not really the same: 

·       Can you talk about the challenges surrounding the academic/industry interface? (pure mathematics, applied mathematics > practical mathematics).

·       What technologies are a must-have in your toolbox? Your ‘go to’ tools for analysing data? 

·       To close out the interview... Do you have a favourite science or data podcast or video channel, or geeky secret?

·       Other questions…

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.

A video version of this episode is published on the Business Analytics Educators Forum’s YouTube channel at: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrPQ1nwQVmvGUpKN0pey27g

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Guitar House

Artist: josh pan (2020)

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I am delighted to have Anna Browne (née Brady) as my guest today, to talk about and reflect upon her career in code.

·       To start, Anna, can you share some of the key milestones in your career thus far? (Influenced at UCD by Dr Joe Morris in his Program Construction class; he made us write code, on paper, it made us appreciate the value of simplicity, the value of thinking things through.)

·       What for you, is the essence of design?

o   Can you share your reflections on the design process?

o   Is design ultimately a process of working alone on your own ideas. 

o   Talk about the difference between design as an individual and design in a team...

·       How, if at all, has the changing technology environment changed the way you perform design?

o   What do you insist on having in the physical work environment?

o   How do you get people to share design knowledge? To attain/agree on shared understandings and design vision?

·       As an educator yourself, what motivates you to advocate for maths and technology skills in students?

o   What tips can you share from your experience of teaching maths and practical IT for adult learners? Ways of engaging them, making it real, that overcome blocks.

·       And any final thoughts you'd like to share before we wrap up?

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.

Acknowledgements

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Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

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In this episode we talk about Mick Cooley and his legacy. Mike Cooley, from Tuam, Co. Galway, an engineer, academic, trade unionist, socialist, an activist and change agent. As a commentator on labour issues Mike was once a familiar voice in the Irish media, sought for his views on contemporary workplace and labour issues. 

Mike Cooley – author or Architect or Bee, a manifesto for designing for human use, was an engineer at Lucas aerospace. Throughout his career he sought ways to improve the work we do, to empower workers, to work better, to augment human ability and skills. For Cooley, real workplace transformation occurs as a kind of partnership between designer and worker, rather than by instrumental substitution of human roles by software, robots, or technologies. An organisation’s goal instead should be to augment human ability by improving the technologies we employ, and authentic innovation arises as a consequence of human-centered, collaborative and collective design processes.

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Christina is a senior lecturer in business analytics at Liverpool John Moores University and has worked in applied scienced research for industry.

·       To start, can you tell us a little about your own background and your perspective on data analytics?

o   How is analytics being used in industry?

o   Is data analytics an intrinsic part of academic research?

·       What was the motivation behind starting the Business Analytics Educators Forum, the BAEF?

·       Does it tie into your own research interests?

o   Are there connections between problem-structuring methods and systems methods like soft systems, design thinking, others?

o   Can you talk about the idea of ‘human-centric analytics’?

o   I’ve heard you say, “there’s nothing better than wallowing in data”. 

·       Can you share the kinds of must-have tech in your toolbox? Your ‘go to’ tools for analysing data? 

·       To close out the interview... Do you have a favorite science or data podcast or video channel, or geeky secret? 

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.

A video version of this episode is published on the Business Analytics Educators Forum’s YouTube channel at: 

https://youtu.be/THth52iN6oQ

Acknowledgements

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Title: Guitar House

Artist: josh pan (2020)

Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-LId8ZWBM

License: License CC BY 3.0

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collaboration for BAEF

Artist: Nuno Machado and Allen Higgins

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I am delighted to be joined today by Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares. 

Anabela is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy & Operations Management at the University of the West of England and a member of the Business Analytics Educators Forum.

·       To start, Analytics educators come from all kinds of professions. Can you share a little about your own background and your perspective on data analytics?

·       How is analytics used in your original profession’s day-to-day work? [e.g. accounting, sociology, psychology, marketing, economics, engineering, computing, medical specialism, etc.]

·       And how is analytics used in academic research?

·       Can you talk a little about how academic research differs from industry research?

·       How does analytics influence research design?

·       What do people mean by “good quality data”? How do you produce good quality data?

·       As a self-declared 'questionnaire geek' can you share three tips for someone designing a questionnaire?

·       To close out the interview... What are your favorite podcasts or video channels? 

·       And, can you share a geeky secret? 

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.

A video version of this episode was first published on the Business Analytics Educators Forum’s YouTube channel at: 

https://bit.ly/3Xgh2Mz

Acknowledgements

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Title: Guitar House

Artist: josh pan (2020)

Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-LId8ZWBM

License: License CC BY 3.0

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Title: Complex collaboration for BAEF

Artist: Nuno Machado and Allen Higgins

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I am very pleased to welcome Musa Afandiyev, former founder/director of Ağıllı Nağıllar, a creative agency based in Baku, Azerbaijan, now studying for a PhD at UCD.

·       So, Musa, could you say a few words by way of introduction and how you got into the creative agency business?

·       How does Creative agency business fit with Marketing agencies, PR, Media, and Advertising?

·       People talk about the need for digital clusters and partner ecosystems for creative industries, do you think digital agencies benefit from being around each other, even if they compete for the same work?

·       In your opinion, what size organisation best fits the creative agency space?

·       If smaller is better, how do you scale up when you need to?

·       As an entrepreneur yourself, what qualities do you look for in others to indicate entrepreneurial potential?

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for talking with us and sharing your experiences.

NOTES:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/musaeffendi/

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We are very pleased to welcome Ian Doyle, Consulting Manager at Guidewire Software, the international insurance software and technology company.

·       Tell us a little about your background and your current role? 

·       What does a day in the life look like?

·       How has Guidewire’s methodology evolved over the years? 

·       Is the methodology the same for both product development and client delivery?

·       What good-working-practices can you highlight for teams? 

·       You’d talked about the concept of value, is it intangible or something you measure? 

·       How does consulting change when a client engagement requires working with other partners? [external services, other consultants etc]

·       The insurance industry is famously based on data and actuary-centred, is there room for data scientists in the industry (and Guidewire)?

·       Can you share 3 tips and 3 cautions for a consultant starting out…

·       <and audience questions?>

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.

Notes:

[retro’s; well-functioning team; regular Slack calls – huddles, Zoom, frequent regular communications; brown-bags; clear role/responsibility; culture of openness; team charter; others]

[tips and pitfalls: Build a network; don’t be afraid to ask questions; and be prepared to challenge the customer. Have those difficult conversations. Build relationships, know your team, know the people up and below, keep your skills up to date. Look for variety in your roles – don’t get stuck in a niche; Look for places that give a mix of challenge and responsibility – balance between being spoon fed versus struggling; things are changing get over it, change can be an opportunity.]

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We are very pleased to welcome James Egan, software consultant at Murex.

Can you tell us a little about yourself to start?

·       Talk about the industry space that Murex operates in? 

·       Do developers need Financial Services knowledge to work in this space?

·       Having trained as an engineer, how did you get into product management?

·       How does the product development side interact with the customer facing side?

·       What approaches do you take to gathering and managing requirements? [expand on approach to Agile – SAFE]

·       What do you look for in new hires? [Fast, willing learners, open minds, problem solvers.]

·       Go-to tools and techniques for the job?

·       Where do you see design taking place? What is design? [architecture, interface, lines-of-code; design philosophy?]

·       <questions from the audience>

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.

Notes:

https://www.murex.com/en/who-we-are/about-us

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We are very pleased to have Gary Leyden with us today. 

Gary’s business career is distinguished by building new lines of business, founding, and investing in new ventures.

·       Gary, before we start, can you share some of the highlights of your career thus far?

·       Introduce us to InsTech.ie and the motivation behind it? [founder journey – btw is there a connection to Insurtechireland.org?]

·       How is InsTech.ie prompting innovation among its members? [benchmarking with Ninety]

·       Talk us through some of the challenges of creating innovation in a regulated sector? [approaches in different jurisdictions, EU institutions, Central Bank of Ireland, UK FCA, etc.]

·       How have other locations sparked innovation capability in Insurance and what can Ireland learn from them? [London]

·       Insurance is all about data and risk information. Is there any unused data left? [yes]

·       Does the insurance industry have the space for more data literacy roles, in addition to the actuaries? [yes, role for new Insurtech start-ups]

·       What is the potential for new data-driven services or products in insurance? [examples, regulated entities, sandbox]

<and some questions from the audience>

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.

Notes:

https://www.instech.ie  - Benchmarking Approach

https://ninety.com

https://irishadvantage.com/insuretech/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: vignette_version.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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We are very pleased to welcome Professor Joe Peppard, educator, consultant, and researcher.

First, Joe, could you share a few words about your career to-date and your passion for IT?

·       <talking points>

·       Computers, networks, Internet, and platform software as transformative technologies.

·       Knowledge management for technology.

·       Automation, strategic transformation, and organisational change.

·       Implications for the increasing use of AI in the economy.

·       New ways of working echo old ways of working.

·       Technology market – temporary monopolies and cycles of competitive domination.

·       Platform economies – the shift from hardware to operating systems to software as a service.

·       Transformational moments in computing and technology inflection points.

·       <any audience questions?>

Well, we’ll wrap up now.

Thank you for the stimulating discussion with lots of new ideas to reflect upon.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts today.

NOTES:

Joe Peppard - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-peppard-5868513/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: vignette_version.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Podcast License

Design Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 

The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are very pleased to have Cormac Garvey with us today. 

Cormac’s career spans factory automation, control systems, systems architecture, software prototyping and information modelling.

·       Cormac, before we start, can you introduce us to your world. 

·       You’ve described yourself as working at the plumbing end of data analytics. Can you explain what that means?

·       Who uses the data and what do they use it for? 

·       Having worked with and mastered a wide range of software tools over your career, what go-to approaches are in your consulting toolbox?

·       Can you give us a sketch of your approach to requirements capture?

·       How do you approach conceptual design? Both as an individual consultant and as a member of a team?

·       And translating a conceptual design into the full project?

·       What for you, is the essence of design?

<and some questions from the student audience>

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.

Notes:

Cormac’s profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/cormac-garvey-9a34503/

Cormac’s start-up is HAL Software – a standards-based software design tool for process control and MES environments (manufacturing execution systems). 

Watch the 2 minute HAL overview video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A1cEYaqr-k

Cormac is a member of and/or participates in:

·       The OPCUA REST subgroup

·       The Open Process Automation Forum

·       And the “biophorum”

The OPC Foundation (Open Platform Communications), an industry consortium that develops standards for connectivity of industrial automation devices and systems.

OPC UA (Unified Architecture) is a cross-platform, open-source standard for data exchange from sensors to cloud applications developed by the OPC Foundation. 

IEC 62541 is the international standard describing the OPC UA information model.

ISA-88, S88, aka ANSI/ISA88, is a standard addressing batch process control.

ISA-95 aka Enterprise-Control System Integration. An automation workflow standard.

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Voltaic Fluctuations

Artist: Ben Prunty

Source:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/

License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty

Cover Art 

Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: vignette_version.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Podcast License

Design Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 

The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.