Tech Talks Central

PayPal is one of the largest players in online and mobile payment systems. They have many programs supporting startups and developers like BattleHack, Blueprint, Start Tank and have partnered with many top incubators, accelerators and VCs like 500 startups, Techstars, Google Ventures, Seedcamp, Startupbootcamp and much more. Corrado discusses with us how mobile payments will lead to cashless societies and some interesting fintech startups that will drive the innovation in the industry. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central.

The Fin-tech industry is booming and Alexandra Pontikis, Social Media and Marketing Manager explains what Invstr is and offers. With 50.000 downloads, invstr is a social network for finance that provides high quality information to users that was previously accessible only to certain elite groups. Alexandra talks about their business model, their plans for this year and their vision. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central.

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 Karonis talks to TTC Web Radio about this great honour and what it means for him. He talks about his company - EE, which boasts about its fastest and largest 4G network and subscriber base in Europe; recently acquired by British Telecom for 12,5 bn pounds - describing the challenges and the opportunities he faces in his job. Among them, the ever increasing stream of video and data, as well as the absolute need to be prepared for the Internet of Things tsunami. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

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... He tells us about Nokia Radio Cloud, the proposed migration route of the big telcos to the cloud that may increase their flexibility and capacity. He comments on the exponentially expanding market of the connected machines and things, that includes everything producing or crunching loads of data - from IoT to Smart TVs, connected cars and factory equipment, to home devices and even robotic surgery systems. He also explains all about the LTE-U (or Licensed Assisted Access) technology, which is a small-cell solution using WiFi unlicensed spectrum for additional LTE capacity, with the aim of offering improved network performance and superior customer experience. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

Tomohiro Hagiwara from the Tokyo based Aquabit Spirals company talks about their new product Smart Plate, an IoT connected card which delivers digital content to smartphones, directly. The actual plates connect, through an application, to the mobile which means the user can change the content on the fly. He explains how retailers in Japan -where real estate is very expensive and inventories are costly- prefer to create product showrooms, with a visual display or a single number of the item for customers to touch and feel, use Smart Plates for consumers to scan and buy. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Tom Erik von Krogh-Martinsen, CEO and founder of CHECKD, a mobile software as a service application for the construction industry. CHECKD was launched in Nov.2013 by a small Oslo based team and Tom Erik explains how he came about the idea, from his vast personal experience in construction and the need to solve the issue of over 30% waste in all construction projects. Although there are many office solutions that can help you control production they wanted to move everything in the field, which meant going mobile. Tom Erik talks about their funding and support from the Norwegian State and their App Circus prize and participation in the MWC15 Mobile Premier Awards. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Leslie Cottenje, coFounder at the Belgian startup ‘Hello Customer’ talks about their B2B service which keeps things simple by asking one question Would you recommend such product or company to your friends or family? With their second open question they offer text and sentiment analysis, taking away the burden from their customers of surveying, analysing and storing of customer feedback. Leslie explains how she wants to help companies listen to their customers and how her own company is growing with partners from the retail and consulting sectors. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Jorge Fernandez Miranda, Global Health of Consumer Digital Health B2C at Telefonica talks about the number one Spanish multinational Telco and how they hope to transform healthcare through three basic areas, a. the digital hospital & transforming healthcare processes, b. population health management, changing the way healthcare is delivered (remote management & telemedicine) and c. consumer digital health services. He mentions that very few telcos are approaching the end-consumer market, while Telefonica has already launched in Latin America with over 2M subscribed users. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Trimaps converts any classic image map to an actual digital interactive map with geolocation. Jonathan Falon, founder at Trimaps, explains how the application works on mobiles and how it can be used for hotels, recreation parks, golf courses and many more. They have an API for website use and an SDK for developers. Jonathan talks about their monetization model, their team and how they utilized their initial seed funding. He goes on to explain the use of their other product, called Tricount, which enables a group of friends to organise their group expenses. Balancing or ‘going Dutch’ on travel expenses and with a good initial number of users in 3 countries. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

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 user by using the built-in sensors of his/her mobile or wearables. As the company moto goes it makes Smart devices intelligent! Their product is a software development kit with revenues from daily active users. Filip mentions how they were surprised to find that the industry with the biggest interest in their product was the insurance companies since they want to know about our driving behaviour. He goes on to talk about their $2M funding, expanding to Asia and the US, the IPs involved in their product, data, artificial intelligence and the...singularity theory. One of the most interesting interviews to come out of MWC15. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks central.