The Irish Tech News Podcast

What do the American people actually expect from companies deploying AI — and are corporate leaders listening?
In this episode of One Vision Podcast, Theodora Lau sits down with longtime friend Tyler Spalding, Chief Marketing, Communications & Engagement Officer at JUST Capital, to unpack the organization's latest research on how the public, investors, and corporate executives view AI's impact on society, jobs, and the economy.
They dig into the perception gap between public sentiment (66%) and corporate optimism (94% of investors and 90% of corporate leaders see AI as a net positive), and what that gap means for business leaders navigating workforce decisions, reskilling investments, and responsible AI deployment.
The conversation also explores the tension between AI-driven efficiency gains and the human cost of disruption — from layoffs framed as AI transformation and the anxiety facing the next generation entering the workforce, as well as the importance of defining and incentivizing responsible AI through consistent, comparable standards guided by public expectations.

📍Hot take: “ I've long believed that listening is a superpower.”

Keywords: AI, Trust, Financial Services, Responsible AI, Future of Work, Venture Capital 
#AI #ResponsibleAI #FutureOfWork 

00:00 Welcome and Introductions
04:02 What Just Capital Does
04:29 AI Optimism and Trust Gap
05:43 Responsible AI Expectations
12:34 Jobs Anxiety and Layoffs
15:13 Reskilling and New Opportunities
17:51 Next Generation and Education
21:34 Defining Responsible AI Standards

More about our guest 
🌐Tyler Spalding on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-spalding/ 
🌐Spring 2026 American Public, Investor, and Corporate Leader Perspectives on Responsible AI Deployment: AI Optimism Rises but Concerns Remain: https://justcapital.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Wave-2-AI-Report.pdf 

More about our host and One Vision Podcast 
🌐Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodoralau/ 
🌐Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence (book): https://www.bankingonaibook.com/ 
🌐Unconventional Ventures (company): https://www.unconventionalventures.com/ 
🌐Listen to all One Vision Podcast episodes by visiting: https://shows.acast.com/one-vision 
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Audrey AI, a Dublin startup building AI for financial auditors recently announced a $1.8m pre-seed. The round was backed by Sure Valley Ventures, Delta Partners and Enterprise Ireland, with Donnchadh Casey (ex-CEO of Calypso) and Conor Jones (ex-CBO of Wayflyer) also investing.
To find out more I caught up with Ryan Laughran the CEO and Co-Founder of Audrey AI.
More about Ryan Loughran:
Ryan has a BSc Accounting, from Queen's University Belfast and an MBA from Stanford. With 5+ years in professional services at McKinsey & Co he also has 5 years helping audit firms adopt technology at Qualtrics.

What separates an AI agent that demos beautifully from one that actually runs in production at a bank? In this episode of One Vision Podcast, Theodora Lau reconnects with Maté Jendrolovics, CEO and Founder of Intuitech, for a candid conversation about the reality of agentic AI in financial services — where "80% accurate" doesn't mean 80% of the value. Maté shares how Intuitech has expanded in the past year, and his idea of an AI-native bank. 
A grounded, hype-free conversation about doing AI in financial services the hard way — and why that's the only way it creates real value.
📍Hot take:  we don't treat agentic AI technology as a magical wand that does everything.
Keywords: AI, Fintech, Agentic, AI Agents, Banking Industry 
#AI #Fintech #Agents #AgenticAI #BankingIndustry
00:00 Welcome Back Maté
03:10 From POCs to Production
04:22 Accuracy Over Demos
07:07 Composite Tech Not Magic
08:49 When Not to Use GenAI
10:46 Designing AI Native Workflows
13:49 What Is an AI Native Bank
15:15 Three Pillars of AI Native
19:45 What We Want the Market to Learn
More about our guest 
🌐Maté Jendrolovics on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mate-jendrolovics/ 
More about our host and One Vision Podcast 
🌐Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodoralau/ 
🌐Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence (book): https://www.bankingonaibook.com/ 
🌐Unconventional Ventures (company): https://www.unconventionalventures.com/ 
🌐Listen to all One Vision Podcast episodes by visiting: https://shows.acast.com/one-vision

With An Garda Síochána recently reporting that over 2,100 motorists were caught speeding during the Easter Bank Holiday surge, road safety is now an important story.
While the national figures show the scale of the problem, new research of 60,000 policies by Irish provider its4women identifies exactly where these habits are most ingrained. Their data reveals Cavan as the nation’s speeding hotspot (26% "dangerous speeding" rate), while Limerick and Roscommon emerged as the most compliant.
Crucially, the study shows that telematics (black box) tech is actually fixing the issue, and in Limerick, claims for black box users dropped to less than 1%. To find out more about this I spoke to its4women’s CEO, Gary McClarty. Gary spoke about his background, the its4women’s analysis, telematics and more.
More about its4women:
its4women provides fast, flexible and reliable car, home and travel insurance available anytime, anywhere. You can make an amendment, view your documents or even renew your insurance policy via their quick and easy Customer Portal.

When AI agents start buying and selling on our behalf, who do they really represent? In this new episode of One Vision Podcast, Theodora Lau sits down with Marc Massar — payments veteran and founder of Aura Labs — to unpack the merchant side of agentic commerce that most of the industry is overlooking. They dig into why today's agentic protocols are still walled gardens, what happens when transaction context disappears but liability doesn't, why dynamic pricing gets dangerous at machine speed, and what merchants need to do now before they get trapped in someone else's ecosystem. Marc draws on past lessons to make the case that market design — not smarter agents — is what will determine whether agentic commerce works for everyone or just the platforms that control it.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro
03:03 Protocols and Walled Gardens
10:25 Who Does the Agent Serve
14:20 Post Purchase Identity and Disputes
22:54 Merchant Playbook for Agentic Search
32:41 Consent and Payments Friction
35:25 Dynamic Pricing Meets Agents
39:06 Market Design and Controls
44:48 Seller Data Playbook
51:35 Closing 

📍Hot take:  "Whose agent is it? Who benefits?"

Keywords: AI, Agentic Commerce, Fintech, Autonomous Agents, Protocols, Market Design, Digital Commerce, Payments, Data Management
#AI #Fintech #AgenticCommerce #Data #Payments 

More about our guest 
🌐Marc Massar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcmassar/  
More about our host and One Vision Podcast 
🌐Theodora Lau on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theodoralau/ 
🌐Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence (book): https://www.bankingonaibook.com/ 
🌐Unconventional Ventures (company): https://www.unconventionalventures.com/ 
🌐Listen to all One Vision Podcast episodes by visiting: https://shows.acast.com/one-vision