The Irish Tech News Podcast

Manage Engine recently announced plans to expand their Ireland operations after 25% year on year growth. Manage Engine,is  a division of Zoho Corporation and a leading provider of enterprise IT management and security solutions. and  has been in Ireland for nearly two decades. Their continued growth in Ireland can also be attributed to ManageEngine's local partner,Servaplex.
To find out more about this I recently caught up with Rajesh Ganesan CEO Manage Engine, Gerry Cullen Sales Director and Co-founder Servaplex, and Tim McAlpin Director and Co-founder Servaplex.
Rajesh, Gerry and Tim talk about their background, on prem v cloud, increased costs, AI, ticketing growth in Ireland and more.

More about Servaplex:
Servaplex works across government, education, financial services, construction and manufacturing, supplying, implementing and supporting enterprise IT-management technology, and has developed a particularly long relationship with ManageEngine, dating back around 17 years.

HIQA’s recently published Ireland’s first national guidance on the responsible and safe use of AI in health. The guidance highlights the potential for ambient AI tools to reduce administrative work and give clinicians more time with patients, while stressing the need for human oversight, governance, staff training and ongoing monitoring.
To find out more about this I caught up with  Jonathan Larbey, CEO of Dublin-headquartered clinical documentation company T-Pro.
Jonathan talks about his background, regulation, what T-Pro does, what HIQA’s guidance means for the safe, practical use of ambient AI in healthcare, AI powered documentation and more.
More about Jonathan Larbey:
Jonathan Larbey is the Founder and CEO of T-Pro, which he built from an Irish digital voice technology start-up into one of healthcare's leading clinical AI platforms, now trusted by 132,000+ clinicians and 1,000+ organisations across the UK, Ireland and Australia. He was named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year finalist in 2024.
Jonathan's view of the industry is that the value of clinical AI isn't in generating a note, but in completing the whole documentation lifecycle, safely and at scale. That belief shows up directly in how he leads: he builds technology around how care is actually delivered, putting clinicians and governance first rather than retrofitting workflows to the tool.
Under his leadership, T-Pro has focused on lifting the clerical burden of documentation and unlocking the value of clinical data, so clinicians and healthcare leaders can spend more time with patients and less on admin.

A lot of companies are now connecting AI directly to more systems: CRM, email, meeting recorders, Slack, documents and internal knowledge. On paper, that looks like the obvious next step. Give AI access to everything, and it should be able to help with anything. But access alone does not create understanding. One person who knows all about this is Roope Heinilä, founder and CEO of optivian.ai, and he recently wrote about the hidden cost of connecting AI straight to the sales stack. Every time someone asks a question like “where does this deal stand?”, the AI often has to rebuild the picture from raw material: emails, transcripts, notes and CRM records. It can pull in too much noise, miss important context, and start from scratch again the next time. To find out more I caught up with Roope.
Roope talks about his background, what Optivian does, SaaS, and more.
More about Roope Heinilä:
Before Roope founded Optivan. he founded Smarp, scaled it to a successful exit, and later served as Group CEO of Haiilo, a larger enterprise SaaS business with 700+ enterprise customers.

What do you do when your customers love you for being local and expect you to work like a big global bank? 
In this episode of One Vision Podcast, Jerry Siegel and Joanna Watts join Theodora Lau to discuss the priorities and challenges that shaped AuburnBank's digital strategy and the decision to select Alkami’s Digital Sales & Service Platform. Nick Weston from Alkami joins the conversation to explain how an integrated platform can help financial institutions connect account opening, digital banking, data, and marketing as they plan for the future.

🔥Hot take: “There is a risk to staying where you are.” – Jerry Siegel, Sr. Vice President / CTO, AuburnBank

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

Keywords: Digital Transformation, Banking Industry, Financial Services

Timestamp:
00:00 Welcome and meet the guests
02:20 Jerry and Joanna backstory
04:01 Balancing legacy and tech
07:38 Why AuburnBank needed change
13:26 Implementation game plan
17:17 Training and change management
22:54 What success looks like
26:23 Wrap up and thanks

More about our guests 
🌐Jerry Siegel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-siegel-2b6409/ 
🌐Joanna Watts on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-watts-8726aa3a7/ 
🌐Nick Weston on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick--weston/ 
🌐AuburnBank: https://www.auburnbank.com/
🌐Alkami Technology: https://www.alkami.com/ 

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

We've reached a point where a phone call from your child, a video from your boss, or an email from a trusted friend can no longer be accepted at face value. Artificial intelligence isn't just changing how we work. It's changing how we decide who and what to believe. While most AI experts focus on productivity and automation, Aaron Painter, CEO of Nametag argues that the technology's most immediate threat is much more personal: the erosion of trust. 
Aaron’s book Deepfaked: Restoring Trust in the AI Era was published today and it examines how AI is changing the way we recognise truth and why rebuilding trust may be the defining challenge of this decade.  I caught up with Aaron to find out more about his book and deepfakes. Aaron talks about his background, his book, deepfakes, and more.
More about Aaron Painter:
Aaron Painter is the CEO of Nametag, the identity verification company helping organisations restore trust in an era of AI-generated impersonation. Nametag pioneered a new category of identity verification that protects organisations from impersonators and AI-generated deepfakes, helping leading enterprises prevent fraud, reduce support costs, and securely verify customers during high-risk interactions. Named a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Identity Verification, Nametag is helping redefine how trust is established online.
Aaron has spent his career helping people earn trust in a world transformed by technology. That journey has taken him across six countries and four continents. Aaron has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, Hong Kong, mainland China, and the United States, and has visited more than 100 countries.
Those experiences shaped his belief that while technology continues to change how people live, work, and connect, trust remains the foundation of every successful relationship, organisation, and society — and that it must be earned differently across cultures.