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The current economic climate and tech slowdown may prove to be an opportunity for Irish SMEs and start-ups says Ruth Lyndon, the co-CEO of up-and-coming recruitment business Phoenix. She talks about leaving the life of a big 5 funds lawyer behind for entrepreneurship and offers her perspective on the recruitment landscape in 2023.

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Having lit up the internet in recent weeks, ChatGPT signals a new chapter in the artificial intelligence arms race in tech but also portends new challenges for how we work, how we study and more. Bank of Ireland’s head of Tech, Media and Telecoms Paul Swift explains what ChatGPT is and how businesses should be organising themselves around this new epoch for technology.

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The ongoing tech wreck may sound like bad news for the tech sector but the reality, according to Kevin O’Loughlin from Nostra, is that tech is ingrained in every business. If anything the recalibration of global tech giants spells good news for growing and scaling indigenous Irish tech firms on the talent front.

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What began as a local initiative to keep business in the town of Letterkenny
has spiralled into a success that is the envy of towns across Ireland. ShopLK,
Letterkenny’s shop local initiative has achieved more than four million euros
worth of local spending. We talk to the CEO of Letterkenny Chamber Toni
Forrester and board member Jimmy Stafford about how this local spend
could potentially be leveraged up to millions more for the town’s traders.

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At the dawn of a new working year, productivity expert Moira Dunne talks about how to hit the ground running, especially if you are in a hybrid working situation between the home and the office. She talks about how to focus and get into a perfect flow and how to be realistic about managing your time.

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RedZinc founder Donal Morris has won approximately €40m in EU grants. An entrepreneur from the age of 10, his technology began initially as a way of helping paramedics but founds its real calling helping doctors and nurses during Covid. He reveals his secret to continuous success at winning EU grants.

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The future of computing is quantum computing and an Irishman is at the
helm. Joe Fitzsimons’ Horizon Quantum Computing, a business he started in
Singapore, is to create 10 new jobs in Dublin over the next six months. He
talks about how the quantum computing revolution will overshadow the tech
revolution we’ve seen so far..

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Kealan Lennon, founder and CEO of CleverCards, talks about the changing
landscape of the payments ecosystem and the switch to digital cards over
plastic cards. CleverCards is an Irish-owned global payments platform that
enables anyone, anywhere to purchase online and offline.

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An estimated 70% of Irish e-commerce spending each year goes overseas.
Bank of Ireland’s head of Tech, Media and Telecoms Paul Swift and the
bank’s head of Retail Sector Owen Clifford on how we can bring more Irish
SMEs online.

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Irish businesses are sitting on vast hordes of hidden wealth in the form of
unused data. Deirdre Purcell, area vice-president of Salesforce in Ireland
talks about how businesses can unlock the value of that data.

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