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Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Part 1 of 3 – 5G IoT and Edge Computing
Welcome to our Podcast Christmas Special – We’re delighted to present three snappy 20 minute episodes of opinion, discussion, information and ideas from two industry experts on 5G, IoT and Edge Computing.
Scott Stonham is an independent technology analyst and connector. With a focus on Technologies With Purpose, Scott is passionate about discovering companies using technology to do good for the planet and all its inhabitants. Scott’s work can be found on www.wellthatsinteresting.tech. Please contact him via the website.
Russell McHugh represents a number of startups in the US market in diverse areas: smart Ag, IOT and 5g managed service providers, metering, connected cars and software testing. Contact via LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellmchugh/
This is a great and fun podcast where two knowable Industry experts dissect and analyse 5G, Iot and Edge computing trends over three short podcasts, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital First Selling - www.nettzer.com
During these times of Covid and falling Telco Sales - Digital First Selling is the answer to new Customer Acquisition, increasing revenues and cost reduction
If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Digital First Selling-as-a-Service solution for you.
The Nettzer Digital First Selling solution:
Enables you to sell and onboard new customers remotely
It will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce
And we meet all regulatory requirements
Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Our guest this week is Ignacio Marco, who lives in Madrid.
Ignacio was a Senior Executive in the Plastics industry for his whole Career and worked for the likes of Exxon and Repsol. He worked on large Plastic Production plants from Spain to Mexico and even worked on building a plant in China.
Towards the end of his career, he joined the Plastics Europe, there he has begun to work on Plastics and Sustainability. He lobbies politicians and companies to help provide solutions to the problem.
Ignacio says that after Climate Change, Plastic Pollution is the second biggest environmental problem we are struggling with and, when I thought about it, that seems to be the case to me. Plastics take a few hundred years to break down and the biggest issue is plastics entering the Seas. Where does most of it come from?
Ignacio gives us an idea of how much Plastic is produced globally every day, an enormous figure.
In terms of personal responsibility, Ignacio identifies Single Use plastics to be a big culprit, something we might use for a minute or an hour and then it must be disposed of and takes a hundred years to degrade.
What is the solution? Ignacio gives us perspective.
And we play out with an absolute classic song
Ignacio can be contacted at:
imarcoarboli@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ignacio-marco-arbolí-21748729/
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital First Selling - www.nettzer.com
During these times of Covid and falling Telco Sales - Digital First Selling is the answer to new Customer Acquisition, increasing revenues and cost reduction
If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Digital First Selling-as-a-Service solution for you.
The Nettzer Digital First Selling solution:
Enables you to sell and onboard new customers remotely
It will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce
And we meet all regulatory requirements
Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Our guest this week is Seamus McAteer, who grew up in Dublin but is now living in San Francisco. Seamus has a very successful career as a serial entrepreneur: starting companies, developing them and selling them.
He tells us about how he ended up in the USA and how he obviously took to the American way of business with gusto.
He outlines how he puts together Intellectual Property, Market Traction and a great team of people then builds something with strategic value that then gets acquired.
You will hear how he describes himself in one word - or technically two.
He talks about how he puts a team together and inspires them to work to a common goal.
Seamus talks about the famous culture of Silicon Valley and it is really interesting to hear what he say about taking risks.
This is great podcast and you will enjoy it – plus we end on a cracker of a song.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcateer/
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital First Selling - www.nettzer.com
During these times of Covid and falling Telco Sales - Digital First Selling is the answer to new Customer Acquisition, increasing revenues and cost reduction
If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Digital First Selling-as-a-Service solution for you.
The Nettzer Digital First Selling solution:
Enables you to sell and onboard new customers remotely
It will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce
And we meet all regulatory requirements
Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Our guest this week Andrew Parkin-White, Andrew has an extensive background in consulting and analysis with many significant companies in the Mobile Industry.
Andrew is the leading the IoT focus of MEF. MEF is the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, an energetic and diverse Mobile Industry Body
Andrew firstly updates us about the scope of MEF around the three “I”’s.
He then discusses the scope of the IoT market.
Andrew discusses how IoT Companies are addressing the various market segments that are evolving in the areas of Automotive, Supply Chains, Healthcare, Robotics.
He also points out that smaller companies can address sub niches in the overall IoT market.
We discuss how the IoT market is likely to develop with the new IoT platforms from the likes of AWS. For example, will AWS compete more directly with Mobile Operators?
Andrew believes that partnerships are a key enabler in the IoT market to address all parts of the value chain.
Andrew outlines his thoughts on the current low revenue per IoT device that Mobile Operators can command and how that will change in the future
https://mobileecosystemforum.com
andrew@mobileecosystemforum.com
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital First Selling - www.nettzer.com
During these times of Covid and falling Telco Sales - Digital First Selling is the answer to new Customer Acquisition, increasing revenues and cost reduction
If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Digital First Selling-as-a-Service solution for you.
The Nettzer Digital First Selling solution:
Enables you to sell and onboard new customers remotely
It will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce
And we meet all regulatory requirements
Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
We have an incredible story of entrepreneurial resilience this week, when we talk to Tomer Neu-ner, who lives in Stockholm.
Tomer is a much travelled entrepreneur and he has some fun stories about his experiences with a second hand Toyota in South America.
After that, he returned to Tel Aviv, started his family, and, one day, frustrated while looking for a parking space, he had an idea that became the basis of his start-up. Parko.
He tells us how he and his team spent seven years building a successful company before eventually selling it. And it was some roller coaster ride over that time, as you will hear.
His recounting of how they pivoted the technology from hardware to ML is very revealing and shows how they learned from market feedback and customer behaviour.
Also his roller-coaster ride in funding and growing the company are a testament to his dedication and resilience and shows what you need to be an entrepreneur.
Finally, Tomer also tells us about his newest venture in on-line maths lessons for kids, which I think is a winner - www.1on1math.com
As always, we play out with a song of his choice.
Tomer can be contacted at:
https://www.1on1math.com/ & tom@1on1math.com
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital First Selling - www.nettzer.com
During these times of Covid and falling Telco Sales - Digital First Selling is the answer to new Customer Acquisition, increasing revenues and cost reduction
If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Digital First Selling-as-a-Service solution for you.
The Nettzer Digital First Selling solution:
Enables you to sell and onboard new customers remotely
It will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce
And we meet all regulatory requirements
Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Our guest this week is Graham O’Rourke who is a serial entrepreneur – and a very engaging and interesting speaker.
Graham tells us about his first successful company, MOR Digital, a web services company, which he co-founded with his wife and they’re still married!
And, as if that wasn’t enough, he then founded Aphix Software about five years ago, which is a successful eCommerce company.
Graham talks about how his business model involves selling through key partners, by bringing extra value to their eCommerce platforms. This has brought him to new markets all over the world.
Its great example of how a company firstly finds a new market by working with other companies and then perfects an efficient sales model with these partners.
As always, we play out on a great number, which is a lot of fun.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/grahamorourke/
https://www.aphixsoftware.com
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital First Selling - www.nettzer.com
During these times of Covid and falling Telco Sales - Digital First Selling is the answer to new Customer Acquisition, increasing revenues and cost reduction
If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Digital First Selling-as-a-Service solution for you.
The Nettzer Digital First Selling solution:
Enables you to sell and onboard new customers remotely
It will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce
And we meet all regulatory requirements
Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Our Guest this week is a pioneering entrepreneur in Machine Translation technology, Tony O’Dowd. Tony has established and sold a number of companies in this space and is one of the people who is bringing Artificial Intelligence driven, machine translation, to new heights
His company, xcelerator, works with major customers, such as Volkswagen, Caterpillar and eBAY, providing systems that translate billions of words.
How has COVID affected his company? Responding to the COVID Crisis Tony talks about how xcelerator has pivoted to Digital First Selling, after the virus stopped International travel and face to face meetings. This required both new technology tools and cultural changes internally, plus acceptance by customers. Its true to say that selling will never be the same again.
Tony is clearly a leader in the ML Industry and his story shows how staying innovative is key to his success.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyo3/
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital First Selling - www.nettzer.com
During these times of Covid and falling Telco Sales - Digital First Selling is the answer to new Customer Acquisition, increasing revenues and cost reduction
If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Digital First Selling-as-a-Service solution for you.
The Nettzer Digital First Selling solution:
Enables you to sell and onboard remotely
It will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce
And we meet all regulatory requirements
Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
We have great fun on the podcast with guest, Alan Quayle, the inspirational driver behind TAD Summit and TAD Hack.
TAD Hack is the global leading Telco API Hackathon festival and reaches thousands of participators.
I think the energy and charisma of Alan is one of the main reasons this is such a phenomenal success. Alan tells us how TAD Summit and TAD Hack developed and how it tapped into the new wave of CPaaS and API driven communications.
Alan relates some of his favourite hacks and how some of these didn’t actually come from Software Developers.
He tells where TAD will go in the future and his openness to different types of participants even from non-traditional backgrounds – consider it to be an invitation.
Alan is contactable at www.tadhack.com and www.tadsumit.com
He finishes the podcast by suggesting a great piece of music that just blew my socks off
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This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital First Selling - www.nettzer.com
During these times of Covid and falling Telco Sales - Digital First Selling is the answer to new Customer Acquisition, increasing revenues and cost reduction
If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Digital First Selling-as-a-Service solution for you.
The Nettzer Digital First Selling solution:
Enables you to sell and onboard remotely
It will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce
And we meet all regulatory requirements
Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Did you ever meet a man who was blown overboard from his boat in the middle of the Atlantic during a sudden Squall? Well, you’ll meet one today.
On the Podcast we a great Guest: International Single Handed Sailor Tom Dolan who has sailed across the Atlantic twice and is planning to sail around the Globe. Tom is recognised as an up and coming Sailor in the Ocean Going Sailing world and has ambitions for the next Olympic Games.
He has a great story of how he started as a kid on the local lough near Kells, County Meath in a tiny boat and worked his way up in the Sailing world.
You will hear of the determination, resilience, work ethic and competitiveness in Tom that has made him a great Sailor and drives him on.
Tom can be contacted at: - www.tomdolanracing.com
This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital Onboarding - www.nettzer.com
During these times of Covid and falling Sales - Digital Onboarding is the answer to new Customer Acquisition.
If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Cloud Delivered solution for you.
You can onboard your new customers, or business account customers remotely, at a fraction of your normal onboarding costs.
The Nettzer Digital onboarding solution:
will ensure your customer onboarding experience is easy and painless,
Will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce
And we meet all regulatory requirements
Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
We have a Berlin based Entrepreneur on the Podcast this week. Niels Madan and his Team at Humby - https://www.humby.io – have the great idea of adding a social dimension to online video events. So that means after your Zoom or Teams meeting, whether they are business conference or an entertainment event, you can casually meet and socialise with the other participants around virtual video tables.
We all know one of the big reasons we attend these events is to network for business or for social reasons.
I think this is a great idea for this time of Covid, working from home and living digital lives, so lets hear from Niels how they started the company and how its going.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsmadan/
This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital Onboarding - www.nettzer.com
During these times of Covid and falling Sales - Digital Onboarding is the answer to new Customer Acquisition. #DigitalOnboarding
If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Cloud Delivered solution for you.
You can onboard your new customers, or business account customers remotely, at a fraction of your normal onboarding costs.
The Nettzer Digital onboarding solution:
will ensure your customer onboarding experience is easy and painless,
Will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce
And we meet all regulatory requirements
Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.