E6 Coming up on this week's That Great Business Show, Episode 6(From 4.30")John Paul Prior, co-founder of ‘vertical farming’ startup www.Farmony.ie explains how the future of farming is up in the air, literally. He sees a world where we will be farming many of our greens and salads in disused commercial properties, in-store in supermarkets or even in your living room. Why? Because technology allows it and, for sensible sustainability reasons, we can’t continue to ship our lettuce or herbs from across the globe. Jamie Heaslip also explains the difference between a land owner and a farmer. He says the Kearney brothers, (Dave and Rob) come under one heading and Sean O’Brien comes under the other. Let’s see what comes of that.(From 20')There’s a nationwide opportunity in the in-situ health scanning business according to Mary Jones of www.mobilemedicaldiagnostics.ie We hear, incredibly, that she has the only mobile scanning business that brings medical scanning to patients in nursing and care homes. This avoids having to bring patients on long, complicated and ultimately disturbing trips to hospitals for scans, especially as we learn that 85% of those scans are ’outruled’ – i.e. good news, nothing broken. A true entrepreneur Mary even put her engagement ring on the line to raise collateral to lease her first scanner. She’s serious about the business.(From 37')How do you do business with giant corporations without being sucked in, chewed up and spat out – leaving without the business idea or solution that you brought to them? Veteran entrepreneur John Colgan of www.solgari.com explains how his small comms software company has successfully partnered with Microsoft, brining the Solgari solutions to the world, making both Microsoft and Solgari very happy indeed. John says that large corporations are agnostic to where solutions come from, so long as they’re good. He repeats the That Great Business Show mantra – it’s #StrictlyBusiness. Being a great guest John leaves us with some great tips.(From 53')If we could turn every one Euro in your pocket into six Euro, you’d love us. Well that’s the minimum that entrepreneur Sohini De claims that her business www.Empeal.com can deliver. She doesn’t like the word ‘wellness’ which she says is totally abused at this stage. Instead, what her business does do is use the appliance of science to turn employee health into a game. The more the employees participate, the more it benefits them. The healthier your staff, the happier the staff and the lower your staff turnover. This is one area where co-host Jamie Heaslip is seriously well versed. Hear what his verdict on the business is.As a subscriber, if you have a great business or know of an exceptional one, the type of brilliantly clever businesses we love to feature on Ireland’s best business podcast, please send us details at [email protected] You'll find full details of our requirements on our website www.ThatGreatBusinessShow.comWith our growing worldwide audience, our connections with www.iibn.com as well as with the @IrelandCTBiz on Twitter you’ll be doing those businesses a big favour.Find all episodes at www.ThatGreatBusinessShow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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