Helen Keegan, organiser of Swedish Beers and Mobile Advertising Expert, Ilicco Elia, Head of Mobile at DigitasLBi and Rafe Blandford, Mobile Strategist at DigitasLBi discuss mobile trends and what they expect to see anew, at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Choons n’ Chat with Helen Keegan and her friends is back for Mobile World Congress 2018 where else? Yes, once more in Barcelona. This time Helen Keegan, organiser of Swedish Beers and Mobile Advertising Expert hosts Rafe Blandford, Mobile Strategist at DigitasLBi and Paul Swaddle, Chairman and Co-founder of PocketApp. They get together to discuss mobile trends, what they expect from this year’s Mobile World Congress, and interestingly enough they don’t shy away from hot topics like the new GDPR, that comes into full affect May’18; and ethics, involving the use and development of AI use cases. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Helen Keegan, the organiser of Swedish Beers; Paul Stringer, Head of Mobile at Equal Experts; Alex Barth, VP of Business Development at Mapbox; and Jeff Beene, Head of New Devices at Orion Labs, got together, during the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, to discuss smart cities, what’s happening right now and what we should be expecting. The podcast was sponsored by Equal Experts and hosted by Tech Talks Central.

Yiannis Rizopoulos speaks with Luca Verre, founder of the startup Chronocam, which develops a unique artificial vision and cybervision technology to be used for autonomous navigation and new IoT applications. Interviewed by Yiannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

Vicki believes she discovered an innovative solution to the “I need 2 or 3 mobile phones” to separate “my different identities”. She spoke with Rob Grapes, from Graphite Software, about “spaces” and how they are segmenting your ONE phone -at kernel level- to serve your different profiles including a…hidden one. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Venetia talks with Founder and leader of Qualcomm's healthcare subsidiary Qualcomm Life, Rick Valencia, about the two finalists dueling out to win the 10 million dollar tri-corder XPrize in the next 2 months, the path of getting to connected care being the standard of healthcare the Connect event he created to connect the tech industry under the responsibility to work together on bringing health innovation to scale for consumers as soon as possible.

Venetia talks with Lennart van der Ziel and Nick Yap - the team that created "Travis the Translator" a device that uses AI, Voice Control and Gesture Control to translate in 80 languages in real time. The boys explain their plan to break the language barrier around the world bringing people together. Interviewed by Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.

Venetia talks with Carl Tonsgard of Crunchfish a company that's developing AR and VR gesture control for the classroom. Carl shows us the devices and explains how they will help kids and teachers in classrooms around the world. Interviewed by Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.

Rafi Zauer, head of marketing at Essence, discussed about their newly deployed home care system for seniors and people with special needs. Their software algorithm creates and monitors behavioural patterns, notifying their carers at varying levels of alarm. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Vicki spoke with John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos and experienced security expert, about why we need to take every precaution when it comes to privacy and our mobile phones. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.