The Lagan Stream Podcast
Welcome to The Lagan Stream Podcast which explores the key issues in the great city of Belfast.
On each edition of this podcast, we will spotlight the bridge-builders, peacemakers and leaders who are promoting Belfast as a modern, tech city with unlimited promise.
In particular, we will provide a platform for voices from our global Irish family, drawing heavily on events and conferences hosted by our sister organisations Aisling Events, Belfast Media and, in New York, the Irish Echo.
Music by Antoni Veresano.
Attracting Companies Scaling Internationally
This week on the Lagan Stream podcast, we’re delighted to bring to you a lively and captivating discussion from the Irish Roundtable in the Valley which was hosted by Aisling Events in Stanford University, California, on 9 May 2024. In the chair if Chris Ehrlich, Editor in Chief of tech news publication VKTR and our panelists are Andrea Haughian, Head of Americans with Invest Northern Ireland, Ivan Houlihan, Head of the West Coast USA with IDA Ireland and Michael Madden Head of the School of Computer Science at University of Galway. The panel was rounded out by Giancarlo DiVece of Unosquare, a company headquartered in Guadalajara but with offices across the Americas and in Belfast, Ireland.
A Disruption in the Workplace
In this edition of the Lagan Steam podcast, we’re bringing you another captivating discussion from the Irish Roundtable in the Valley which was hosted by Aisling Events in Stanford University on 9 May 2024. Our topic is ‘AI Disruption in the Workplace’. In the Chair is Ken Nim, Director of CityBuild with the City of San Francisco, Julie Lind, Executive Officer of San Mateo Labor Council, Stevie Morrow, COO of Belfast-based global company Options IT and legendary fintech business figure John McDonnell of Phoenix Managed Networks.
Placing Bets: How to Assess AI Start-Up Investments
This week, we’re bringing you a recording of a panel discussion at the Irish Roundtable in the Valley which Aisling Events hosted in Stanford University on 9 May 2024. In the chair was Harley Semple of Options IT and her Bay Area-based panelists are Gareth Keane, an investor with Promus Ventures, Rich Moran, author and venture capitalist, Anne Patterson, founder of Ceramic.ai, and Jason Devitt, CEO and cofounder of Compound Eye.