Tech Talks Central

Priya Prakash is a passionate entrepreneur that believes in making services and products with a true purpose. She has been deeply affected by what she has seen in communities of people in less economically fortunate countries and along with her experience in designing products like the Nokia Asha smartphone, she combines her strengths for lasting social impact. Here she explains to us where Changify is heading to. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

A fireside talk with Paul Papadimitriou reveals how he sees trends and announcements at Mobile World Congress 2014. As an unstoppable force he covers the race to the next billion (Facebook), low cost phones, platforms, mobile payments, ecosystems, apps, IoT, education, developers and everything new in the emerging markets. Not to be missed. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

Maria Papadopouli is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Crete with global distinctions by companies including IBM (Faculty Awards in 2004 and 2005) and Google (Faculty Award 2013). Maria is leading a team of researchers at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) developing CoRLAB & u-map, a portfolio of sophisticated solutions for multi-modal collection and intelligent, actionable, business-driven analytics of mobile network user experience. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

Maria Argyti, International Business Development Manager for SoftOne talks about enterprise resource planning, the Soft1 mobility platform, and when to choose a hosted vs. on premise solution. Interviewed by Tina Miteko for Tech Talks Central.

Jordi Bacaria, counselor-at-law at Global Legal Data, dives into consumer privacy and the guidelines mobile developers should follow to embed privacy practices in mobile app development. cInterviewed by Tina Miteko for Tech Talks Central.

We chat with Magnus Ekenheim and Anna Aleryd from Sony Mobile about the opportunities Internet of Things (IoT) presents for application developers, the Sony Smart Eyeglasses and Smart Watch, and how they see IoT affecting consumers in the future. Interviewed by Tina Miteko 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.

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.

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.

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.