The Irish Tech News Podcast

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

The market has evolved and the technology has evolved Sheila Kavanagh, female engineer and Network Director Vodafone Ireland
Last month, Vodafone made telecoms history with Ireland’s first-ever mobile video call via satellite through a smartphone. Satellite video calls happen when data is beamed directly to and from satellites orbiting Earth. It means regular phone users in Ireland will soon be able to access the internet and make video calls via satellites, without needing to own a clunky satellite phone.
It’s a significant move in the right direction for Ireland’s telecommunications industry, which regularly experiences connectivity challenges due to flooding, big freezes and heatwaves. I caught up with Sheila Kavanagh, engineer and Network Director Vodafone Ireland to find out more about this.
Shelia talks about her background, Ireland’s first-ever mobile video call via satellite through a smartphone, the growing popularity of video calls and audio messages and more.
More about Ireland’s Ireland’s first-ever mobile video call by Vodafone via satellite: 
Powered by AST SpaceMobile BlueBird satellite, Vodafone hopes this new technology will help people stay connected, even in the most hazardous climate conditions. In January last year, it was estimated that over one third of mobile phone users were affected by Storm Éowyn.
In addition, the National Climate Change Risk Assessment (NCCRA) published by the Environmental Protection Agency last June identified 115 risks to Ireland from climate change, the most pressing being risks to energy and communications infrastructure due to extreme winds.

While the conversation around AI often centers on automation and efficiency, the real opportunity lies in AI’s ability to act as a decision-making layer. In this episode of One Vision podcast, Theodora Lau hosts Bianca Zwart, Chief Strategy Officer at bunq, to unpack what it truly means to be AI-native. For bunq, AI isn't a feature bolted onto an existing model. It's the operating system. Bianca shares how bunq's obsession with the user experience drives every technology decision. The conversation also explores what's next for agentic AI — and why the future isn't about AI taking over, but about making users smarter supervisors of their own financial lives.
Plus: bunq's bold move into the US market, the needs of the people navigating life on both sides of the Atlantic, and why Bianca believes trust — not technology — is ultimately the only thing that matters.

📍Hot take: “...  the first question that you always need to answer is, what is in it for the user?”
📍Hot take: “You can copy features. But you cannot copy DNA (of a company).”

00:00 Welcome and Introductions
00:47 Why bunq Is AI Native
03:42 Meet Finn GenAI Platform
08:26 US Expansion Strategy
13:00 User First AI Mindset
18:39 Privacy Trust and Transparency
22:10 AI Fraud Prevention Journey
24:11 What Keeps Bianca Going
27:20 Closing and Farewell

Keywords: AI, Fintech, User Experience, Banking Industry, User Centricity, GenAI, AI Ethics, AI in Banking, Fraud

More about our guest 
🌐Bianca Zwart on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bianca-zwart/ 

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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