Tech Talks Central

Nextexpo is making the most out of the business opportunities offered by industry expos; for organizers, exhibitors and visitors. Creating the missing link for a healthy ecosystem. A mobile app directory with over 12K exhibitions, featuring info, profiles, calendars for a targeted audience, professionals and event management pros. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks central.

Ioanna Ioannidou talks about the 22 year old company AllWeb, their own products and why they are the outsource solution for many foreign companies. Starting out themselves from a small town they responded to a local need for cost effective solutions developing a cloud loyalty platform that serves consumers and retailers. Interviewed by Tina Miteko for Tech Talks Central.

Evi Varsou of ATC talks about their new venture, News Asset, a media newscasting platform. Their product is an end to end solution for media organisations, including aggregation, editorial workflow, asset management, cross publishing and distribution. Evi talks about the vast changes in traditional media, information aggregation, trends and analysis of mass incoming data and how their product provides solutions. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

We talk with Fotis Paraskevopoulos, cofounder of Peekintoo, a service that allows you to upload short video moments, anonymously, just because you felt it was worth mentioning or responding to a demand. With presence in over 50 countries and plenty of hype generated during #mwc14 he joins us to talk about their service, their plans and possible funding opportunities. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Pollfish provides consumers insights through their mobile survey tool. Giannis Zaoudis, founder at Pollfish explains how their SDK gives developers an additional monetization path, the included gamification process, the metrics and how they incentivize users to participate in their surveys. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

We chat with Daniel Marischka, CEO of Flatout Technologies about the connected home, and ways for people to save energy and feel more secure by giving owners the ability to control their homes from anywhere, at anytime. Interviewed by Tina Miteko of Tech Talks Central.

Dominique Hazael-Massieux, lead of all things mobile at W3C, explains the work the organisation does with keeping most web technologies available to all under royalty free schemes. He talks about HTML5 and how the time for its standardization has finally come; the inevitable fragmentation periods; cross-platforms and more. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

Aimilios Chalamandaris from Innoetics explains how their text to speech technology is used for accessibility enhancement tools, education, GPS, mobile and much more. Whether emotion & expression can be included in artificial speech and how users can interact with their mobile phones in a more human way. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

Andreas Constantinou, Director & Founder of VisionMobile, gives an in depth analysis of some of the key trends in the connected industries and the announcements of the Mobile World Congress 2014: Big data, APIs, IoT/the connected everything, the Nokia Android (X) phone and why a Microsoft company would be moving in this direction. Is an Android phone, a calculated Microsoft strategy? Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

The two co-founders of Contests4Causes, Nick Tsoniotis and Alexandros Binopoulos talk about their presence at Mobile World Congress 2014 and how they plan to get their application known to the world. They explain that Contest4Causes is a platform combining people who like participating in contests and those who want to help good causes; a twist to the Κickstarter model in microfinancing for a social need. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for TechTalksCentral.