Tech Talks Central

TTC #244 Seizing Opportunities From Your Data

07 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Contiamo, a Berlin-based startup, present at this year’s 4YFN, has created a web-based Business Intelligence platform, that combines structured or u...

TTC #243 Developing The Biggest Database Of Brains

07 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Paulo Rodrigues, CEO & Vesna Prchkovska, CSO & co-founders at MintLabs & Landon McKenna, COO/CFO at MintLabs MintLabs, a startup company that particip...

TTC #242 Everything Can Have A Unique Address With 3 Simple Words

07 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Want to know the winners of the best British Startup at Mobile World Congress 2016? Giles Rhys Jones , Marketing Director of what3words talks about th...

TTC #241 Growing Fast in a Competitive IoT Market by Differentiating

07 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Libelium CEO, Alicia Asin, despite her young of age is very knowledgeable when it comes to the Internet of Things hype and how she foresees her compan...

TTC #240 How Ford Views Smart Cars, Connectivity and User Experience

07 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ford is exhibiting at Mobile World Congress for the 5th consecutive year and Barb Samardzich, the Chief Operating Officer at Ford Europe, shared with ...

TTC #239 Connecting Different Mobile Payments

07 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A quite important benefit of the connected economy is electronic and -more specifically- mobile payments. Hiroyuki Sato, SEO at Docomo Digital, a subs...

TTC #238 Aiming to Connect Every Device and Customer

06 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Jasper is a pioneering company in the Internet of Things era and they’re out to connect everything from devices, vending machines, bicycles, users, ...

TTC #237 Affordable Mobile Roaming With Your Own SIM Card

06 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Good news for travellers around the globe, which are now able to save some money on roaming for calls and data! Gregory Gundelfinger, Chief Executive ...

TTC #236 How Secure Are Your Smart Devices in the IoT World?

04 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Want to know more about Open source technology and security in the IoT era? Art Swift, President and Cesare Garlati, Chief Security Strategist at the ...

TTC #235 Using Ultrasound Software Technology to Recognise Gestures

04 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Haakon Bryhni, CTO at Elliptic Labs and Guenael Strutt, VP, Product Development, two researchers with a clearly technical background, talk about the t...

TTC #232 3D Interactive “SimCity” Maps Technology for Smart Cities

04 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

We met Jeremy Copp at the Scottish Development International booth where he talked about their 3d mapping and visualization platform. Jeremy is the Ch...

TTC #234 How is AdBlocking Affecting Advertisers

03 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Huang, Global Head of Mobile at Quantcast and Amit Kotecha, Head of Mobile Marketing for Europe, discuss their findings from the survey they cond...

TTC #233 mSchools #edu_Hack. Re-educating Teachers in Technology

03 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Albert Forn, Associate Director at Mobile World Capital and Renee Jimenez, Manager at Mobile World Capital GSMA explain the purpose of the edu_Hack wo...

TTC #231 Bringing IoT Functionality to Retailers

02 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Kostas Sarafianos, Commercial Director at mPass explains how their new Internet of Things platform for retailers, Explor IT works. Although the concep...

TTC #230 Grow Your Own Food at Home

02 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The CEO & Co-founder of CityCrop, Christos Raftogiannis, reveals what CityCrop is working on and how they make indoor farming automated. He highlights...

TTC #229 e-Residency in Estonia

02 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Katre Kasmel, Head of Marketing & Communications e-Residency Team explains what the Esthonian e-Residency card entails, why they’re doing it and how...

TTC #228 When Will Our Smartphone Become Smarter Than Us?

02 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Kevin Curran, IEEE senior member & lecturer at Ulster Uni., Carl Uminski, Co-founder & COO at Somo Global, James Tagg, CIO at Truephone and Hele...

TTCvoice #2 Getting the most out of MWC16

08 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF MWC Insider survival guide In less than 2 weeks from now, more than 90,000 people will be descending on Barcelona for Mobile ...

TTCvoice #1 Taking The Plunge

11 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

After, close to 2 years and 226 interviews with scientists, researchers and technologists, the time has come to turn the table on us. The TTC team sit...

TTC #226 The Benefits of Interoperability in eHealth Systems

18 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss with Dr. Alexander Hoerbst, Head of the eHealth Research & Innovation Unit at the University of Health Sciences in Austria, interoperabilit...

TTC #225 Reaching Patients With No Medical Access

14 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss with Dr. Philip Sotiriadis of Telematic Medical Applications and Telematic Global Medical Applications, about his companies' services provi...

TTC #222 Radical Changes Coming Our Way in Healthcare

12 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lorenzo Pengo, Director for Healthcare Industry at Microsoft Central-Eastern Europe HQ presents MS’s idea for a healthier future for all of us; infl...

TTC #221 Open e-prescription Systems in the South to Tourists

12 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Claudio Saccavini, Technical Manager of Consorzio Arsenal.IT, describes the efforts of Veneto region (i.e.NE Italy) to implement an e-prescription pro...

TTC #216 Is an App a Medical Device or Software that Needs to be Certified?

12 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Brian O’Connor, Chair ECHAlliance Catherine Chronaki, Secretary General at HL7 International Foundation George Crooks, Medical Director for NHS24 Al...

TTC #218 Interoperability Needs a National Infrastructure Framework

12 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Marc Lange, Secretary General for EHTEL, the European Health Telematics Association talks about why we need interoperability in eHealth, why standards...

TTC #224 Using 10M Health Records to Develop an Epidemiology Study

09 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

George Dafoulas, internal medicine resident at the University of Athens, talks about how they used data from one of the largest e-prescription databas...

TTC #219 When EU Projects & Global eHealth Innovation Harmonise

09 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jose Costa Teixeira, an expert in eHealth and EU projects explains what interoperability and standards mean in practical terms for health software and...

TTC #223 ICT is An Enabler of Integrated Care in a Fragmented World of Healthcare

09 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Clemens Auer, policy maker and Director General of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health, talks about Austrias Health Strategy; the procedures t...

TTC #220 Pharmaceuticals Need Data for New Drug Development

09 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Bergström, Director General, of EFPIA explains why pharmaceuticals need data to analyse people’s habits and drug intake, in order to innova...

TTC #215 The Need for Interoperability in eHealth

03 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Brian O’Connor, Chair ECHAlliance Dimitra Liveri, Network and Information Security Expert at ENISA, eHealth projects Catherine Chronaki, Secretary ...

TTC #214 Reaching Cross-Atlantic eHealth Markets

03 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Brian O’Connor, Chair ECHAlliance Catherine Chronaki, Secretary General at HL7 International Foundation George Crooks, Medical Director for NHS24 E...

TTC #217 eHealth, Interoperability & the European Commission

02 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Gerald Cultot, Research Programme Officer at DG Connect responds to our questions on whether the European Interoperability Framework exists for eHealt...

TTC #213 eHealth, Digital Single Market & the Atlantic

02 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Brian O’Connor, Chair ECHAlliance Catherine Chronaki, Secretary General at HL7 International Foundation The Digital Single Market strategy has rais...

TTC #212 Digital Single Market Prospects in eHealth

01 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

George Crooks, Medical Director for NHS24 Karima Bourquard, Director of Interoperability at IHE-Europe, France Marcello Melgara Responsible for Intern...

TTC #211 Catherine Chronaki Of HL7 On eHealth Interoperability & Standards

01 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Catherine Chronaki, Secretary General at HL7 International Foundation responds to what interoperability means for us as patients; how communication be...

A Minute of TTC #25

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

What It’s Like to Work for Booking.com

A Minute of TTC #109

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Your brain as the ultimate controller, Prof. Bin He

A Minute of TTC #162

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Democratizing Access to Financial Information, Alexandra Pontikis

A Minute of TTC #167

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

How Secure are Your Devices, Phil Zimmermann

A Minute of TTC #185

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Including Human Behaviour, Interaction & Communication in Machines, Spyros Raptis

A Minute of TTC #210

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

George Crooks on Scotland’s eHealth Strategy & Interoperability

A Minute of TTC #206

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Medical Software Certification?

A Minute of TTC #196

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Leveraging Superfoods for Medicinal Purposes, Marina Sagnou

TTC #210 George Crooks on Scotland’s eHealth Strategy & Interoperability

27 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

George Crooks, Medical Director for NHS24 and Director of the Scottish Centre for Tele-health and Telecare. President of the European Telematics Assoc...

TTC #209 eHealth Companies Reaching International Markets

26 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Henrique Martins, President of the Board of SPMS - Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Portugal Karima Bourquard, Director of Interoperability ...

TTC #208 Interoperability & eHealth Strategies in Portugal & Greece

25 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Henrique Martins, President of the Board of SPMS - Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Portugal Alexander Berler, HL7 Hellas Chair, Greece How...

TTC #207 The Digital Single Market & eHealth

25 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Henrique Martins, President of the Board of SPMS - Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Portugal Alexander Berler, HL7 Hellas Chair, Greece Dimi...

TTC #206 Medical Software Certification?

20 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Marcello Melgara Responsible for International eHealth Projects, Italy / Henrique Martins, President of the Board of SPMS - Shared Services of the Min...

TTC #205 Extroversion of eHealth Companies

19 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dimitra Liveri, Network and Information Security Expert at ENISA / Marcello Melgara Responsible for International eHealth Projects European eHealth c...

TTC #203 Fighting Pollutants with Photocatalysis, Polycarpos Falaras

20 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Polycarpos Falaras’ research focuses on using nanotechnology to convert solar energy to electricity; photocatalysis as an advanced oxidation pro...

TTC #202 Can Pollution in the Marine Environment be Stopped? Helen Kaberi

20 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Helen Kaberi is a marine chemist and oceanographer and we talk about how humanity can stop the damage we’ve caused to our environment and more s...

TTC #201 How Natural Language Processing Technologies Benefit Our World, Voula Giouli

20 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Voula Giouli is a research associate and has been working at ILSP / R.C. "Athena" since 1998 conducting basic and applied research in Computational Li...

TTC #200 Monitoring Indoor and Outdoor air pollution, Vasiliki Assimakopoulou

19 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

There are numerous human-caused sources of air pollution. Dr. Vasiliki Assimakopoulou gives us an overview of the most important of them along with fa...

TTC #199 Seismic Detection Monitoring Networks, Nikolaos Melis

19 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The Institute of Geodynamics at the National Observatory of Athens operates and maintains the national Accelerometric Network, a computerized Seismic ...

TTC #198 X-Rays in Astrophysics, Ioannis Georgantopoulos

19 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Space astrophysics mostly depend on ground based telescopes for observation. However the most important part has to do with observation from outer spa...

TTC #197 Efficient & Sustainable Management of Resources in Fishery, Paraskevi Karachle

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Paraskevi Karachle is a researcher in the field of Fishery Science, a broad field spanning topics such as fish biology, feeding ecology and ecomor...

TTC #196 Leveraging Superfoods for Medicinal Purposes, Marina Sagnou

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview with Dr. Marina Sagnou we discussed the use of natural products, some of which are commonly known as superfoods, for the design and ...

TTC #195 Understanding Protein Biomolecules and the Human Immune System, Efstratios Stratikos

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Our talk with Dr. Efstratios Stratikos begins with an overview of the research currently being performed within his research group focused around the ...

TTC #194 Being a Researcher is Not a Job, It’s a Passion, George Mousdis

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“Love what you are doing and get paid for that!” That’s the aphorism that Dr. George Mousdis, a seasoned researcher of 30-plus years, kept for h...

TTC #193 Getting a Better Idea About Our World, Theodoros Geralis

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The close collaboration between the NCSR “Demokritos” and CERN is illustrated once more during our interview with Dr. Theodoros Geralis, Research ...

TTC #192 Rising Air Temperature in Athens Rings Warning Bell, Demetra Founda

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

A senior researcher at the National Observatory of Athens, Dr. Demetra Founda focuses on the “hot” topics of climate change and global warming in ...

TTC #191 Numismatics: Lessons From the Past, Sophia Kremydi

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Sophia Kremydi describes the history of her discipline, Numismatics, the study or collection of coins, paper currency, and medals. She tells us al...

TTC #190 Realizing a Conservation Strategy for Marine Life Ecosystems, Stamatis Zogaris

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

An associate researcher and member of the 35year-strong Institute of Marine Biological Resources & Inland Waters at Hellenic Centre of Marine Research...

TTC #189 A Bright Future for Dark Matter, George Fanourakis

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Particle physicist and Research Director at NCSR “Demokritos”, Dr. George Fanourakis, talks about the scientific revolution that has improved our ...

TTC #188 Preparing the Next Generation of Scientists, Vangelis Karkaletsis

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis, the seasoned Research Director at NCSR “Demokritos”, dives into the quite significant educational activities at the hist...

TTC #187 From the Gulf Stream to the Mediterranean Seas, Charilaos (Charis) Kontoyiannis

15 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Kontoyiannis is a physicist of the sea, a sea-going researcher who extracts valuable results based on the wealth of data obtained during his exped...

TTC #185 Including Human Behaviour, Interaction & Communication in Machines, Spyros Raptis

15 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Spyros Raptis has a degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering and a doctoral degree in computational intelligence. He talks about his main field...

TTC #186 Green Chemistry, a Growing Environmental Need, Ioannis Costas

14 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Ioannis Costas holds a doctoral degree in Chemistry and specialises in Catalysis and Organic Synthesis. His research, a palladium complex for the ...

TTC #184 Loukanikos is Back! Demetris Gerogiannis

18 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Demetris and his team (Dimitrios Dessylas, Rox Kulliye and Spyridon Michelakis) chose to combine tourism with philanthropy in their proposition for Ba...

TTC #183 Developing Solutions for Social Good Apps. Pawel Sawicz

08 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Pawel Sawicz is the API Developer and Developer Evangelist at JustGiving, a global social platform for giving, consisting of more than 24 million user...

TTC #182 The Right Skills for a Developer. Robin Johnson

08 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Johnson shares with us some interesting facts about Sendgrid, their amazing services and APIs and why they’re taking part at the Athens Battle...

TTC #180 Preaching Real Time Web Technologies. Pusher

08 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Hamilton Chapman talks about Pusher, what services it offers through its APIs and why they’re taking part at the Athens Battlehack 2015. We ask him ...

TTC #181 Being Part of BattleHack for the Fun of It! Manolis Nikiforakis

08 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Manolis Nikiforakis and his team (Dimitris Karagiannis and Thanasis Daglis) set out to create a multiplayer reactive game, using mostly Arduinos and P...

TTC #179 Getting Developers Pumped on Code. Alberto Lopez Martin

08 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

As the title suggests it’s all about taking care of the Developer Community, PayPal and Braintree have created, and Alberto Lopez Martin sure has th...

TTC #178 Matching Candidates to Vacant Positions, QuizJob. Fotos Georgiadis

08 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Fotos Georgiadis and his team (Dimitris Zorbas, Giannis Hatziioannidis, Javie Gonel) tried to find a viable solution, during BattleHack 2015 in Athens...

TTC #177 It’s All About the Code. BattleHack’s John Lunn

08 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

John Lunn, the main evangelist for the BattleHack series of events, has become a sort of legend. The great marketing efforts of Braintree_dev has cont...

TTC #176 Analysing the Genome, e-nios

21 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Aristotelis Chatziioannou, Electrical & Computer Engineer, Dr. Lefteris Pilalis, Biochemist and Dr. Ioannis Valavanis, Computer Engineer, all with...

TTC #175 The winner of the BattleHack 2014 Axe speaks out, Shai Mishali

14 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Shock, happiness, ecstasy, pure adrenaline and tiredness – those were the feelings moments after the announcement of the coveted victory… Shai Mis...

TTC #173 How to Keep the Network Reliable and its Customers Satisfied, Paul Carter

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

One of the greatest problems that network operators face in a daily basis, is how to keep their customers satisfied, in order to minimize churn. So, a...

TTC #168 What Kind of Threats are Out There for Your Devices, Raphael Labaca Castro

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Raphael Labaca Castro, Security Research at ESET & Chief Editor at WeLiveSecurity.com talked about some well known security threats, malware that coul...

TTC #174 Privacy & Security, Two Sides of the Holy Grail of WiFi, Michael Geer & Craig Vachon

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Michael and Craig of AnchorFree tell us about their company and its more than 300 million customers that increase by 200.000 per day! They also talk a...

TTC #172 Geolocation Incorporated Within the SIM Card, Steevie Ooi

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

A different approach to location-based services is being presented by Stevie Ooi, who is chief locationist at W-locate. While most other services are ...

TTC #171 Apps & Games have their own Master’s Degree, Ramon Reig Bolano

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Ramon Reig Bolaño describes the new Master’s degree on Mobile Apps & Games that runs for the second year at Vic University, in Barcelona,...

TTC #170 A Common Platform for Telehealth… We’re Getting Older! Joe Killen

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Killen of Tunstall Group talks about the technology and services his 60-year-old company is offering to elders or people with chronic diseases, st...

TTC #169 Referencing Citations & Bibliographies with a Click, Tom Hatton & Ian Forshew

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

RefME is a free tool to generate citations, reference lists and bibliographies in just a click. It allows students to scan book and journal barcodes v...

TTC #167 How Secure are Your Devices, Phil Zimmermann

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Privacy and security are important in the digital and data world and especially after Snowdens’ revelations. Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP and...

TTC #166 How Connectivity can Really Change the World as we Know it, Rami Avidan

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Connectivity and Internet of things will be changing our lives. Rami Avidan the M2M Director of Tele2 Group mentions some really interesting case stud...

TTC #165 Smart Bottle, NFC Labels and Technologies, Jennifer Ernst

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Ernst, Chief Strategy Officer for Thinfilm explains how Near Field Communication(NFC) labels and new technologies can revolutionize personali...

TTC #164 Personalisation of Services, David Chalmers

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Internet of Things, wearables, new devices and NFV are some of the new technologies that David Chalmers Chief Technologist, VP EMEA at Hewlett-Packard...

TTC #163 The Future of Cashless Societies, Corrado Tomassoni

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

PayPal is one of the largest players in online and mobile payment systems. They have many programs supporting startups and developers like BattleHack,...

TTC #162 Democratizing Access to Financial Information, Alexandra Pontikis

01 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The Fin-tech industry is booming and Alexandra Pontikis, Social Media and Marketing Manager explains what Invstr is and offers. With 50.000 downloads,...

TTC #161 We absolutely have to be prepared for IoT! Fotis Karonis

27 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Just a few days, after being named CTO for the Year 2015 by Mobile Europe, due to his critical contribution to the successful LTE rollout by EE, Fotis...

TTC #160 Re-inventing NOKIA, Phil Twist

27 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Phil Twist, VP in Portfolio Marketing for NSN/Nokia talks about the goals of the re-invented and refreshed Nokia and its ambitions for the future... H...

TTC #159 Smart Plates that Convert Showrooms to Scan and Buy spots, Tomohiro Hagiwara

20 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Tomohiro Hagiwara from the Tokyo based Aquabit Spirals company talks about their new product Smart Plate, an IoT connected card which delivers digital...

TTC #158 Mobile Efficiency for the Construction Industry, Tom Erik von Krogh-Martinsen

20 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Erik von Krogh-Martinsen, CEO and founder of CHECKD, a mobile software as a service application for the construction industry. CHECKD was launched...

TTC #157 Enriching CRM Data with Customer Voice and Emotions, Leslie Cottenje

20 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Leslie Cottenje, coFounder at the Belgian startup ‘Hello Customer’ talks about their B2B service which keeps things simple by asking one question ...

TTC #156 Discovering New Markets & Services in Healthcare, Jorge Fernandez Miranda

20 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jorge Fernandez Miranda, Global Health of Consumer Digital Health B2C at Telefonica talks about the number one Spanish multinational Telco and how the...

TTC #155 Converting Paper Maps into Digital with Geolocation, Jonathan Falon

20 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Trimaps converts any classic image map to an actual digital interactive map with geolocation. Jonathan Falon, founder at Trimaps, explains how the app...

TTC #154 Context Aware Technology Provider with High Accuracy, Filip Maertens

20 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Filip Maertens, Founder and Chief Product Officer of Sentiance a Belgian B2B startup that builds a rich contextual profile on the true behaviour of a ...

TTC #153 IoT will need Security of Data & better Management of Devices, Costis Papadimitrakopoulos

20 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Costis Papadimitrakopoulos, CEO of Globo presents GLOBO, an international leader and technology innovator delivering multi-platform enterprise mobilit...