Tina Miteko chats with Alexander Berler, Chair of HL7 Hellas and Director at Gnomon Informatics about the interoperability challenges that exist today in healthcare; innovative initiatives such as the Greek ePrescription system; and how European-wide pilot projects such as epSOS are helping to reach cross-border interoperability between health record systems in Europe.

TTC #40. Healthcare Standards & Interoperability Beyond Borders

Tina Miteko talks with John Crawford, IBM’s Healthcare Industry Leader Europe, about major problems and inefficiencies within healthcare, the types of problems big data can help solve, IBM’s Watson technology and its impact on healthcare.

TTC #42. Moving Toward Smarter Healthcare

Tina Miteko talks with Matic Meglic, Head of Healthcare Informatics Center at the National Institute of Public Health in Slovenia about his experience in eHealth and public health; policy actions that impact digital health; his involvement on European initiatives such as epSOS and PARENT; and the role that gamification and social media play in managing chronic care and promoting wellness.

TTC #50. Next Generation Healthcare

Nafsika Zevgoli, head of Corporate Responsibility at Vodafone Greece, explains the reasons that the company’s Telemedicine Program has been an overwhelming success story during the last nine years, covering with basic medical examinations more than 500.000 people living in remote mountainous areas or islands in Greece. Interviewed by TTC’s Yannis Rizopoulos.

TTC #67. A Telco slash Telemedicine success story

Pantelis Aggelidis, founder & CEO of Vidavo, dives into some of the practical issues of realizing large scale Integrated Care services. Pantelis talks about the central role of eHealth in any Integrated Care implementation, the impact of Integrated Care on Health Care processes and actions such as the integrated prescriptions and treatments, as well as the social and cost benefits. We then talk about IC impact on different patient groups and some ongoing implementations in Europe. Interviewed by TTC’s George Voulgaris. 

TTC #61. Integrated Care: technology, benefits and applications

John Lunn, Lean Evangelist for EMEA PayPal, covers their major Mobile World Congress 2014  announcements; the Samsung Galaxy S5 which will allow payments with your fingerprint and the collaboration on the Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 Watch. How PayPal is more interested in making our lives more convenient and not only secure. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.


TTC #35. PayPal is collaborating with big brands making lives convenient

Maria Papadopouli is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Crete with global distinctions by companies including IBM (Faculty Awards in 2004 and 2005) and Google (Faculty Award 2013). Maria is leading a team of researchers at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) developing CoRLAB & u-map, a portfolio of sophisticated solutions for multi-modal collection and intelligent, actionable, business-driven analytics of mobile network user experience.  Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central. 


TTC #26. Maria Papadopouli on Intelligent mobile user experience analytics

We chat with Sami Pippuri, Nokia’s Lumia Product Marketing Director about Nokia’s Imaging SDK and the spaceselfie app which was developed to showcase its capabilities while providing users a fun and out of this world experience. The interview took place at WIPJam, Mobile World Congress 2014.


TTC #22. Nokia, on a Mission to Capture the Imagination of Developers

Dr. Constantinos Potamitis is a PostDoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation. In his interview, he talks about Virtual Screening, a computer simulation technique used as the first step in the medicinal drugs discovery process. Virtual Screening reduces the need for the costly and resource-intensive manual lab experiments which determine the effects of linking/combining molecules and proteins. Current research done in the Lab of Molecular Analysis, focuses on how to improve the accuracy of existing models. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.

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TTC #88 Virtual Screening: using computer simulation in the drug discovery process

Dr. Garyfallia Drossopoulou explains in simple terms what neural stem cell development from the human olfactory mucosa(in the nose) means for patients with spine injuries and other related health problems. She dwells into the purpose of cultivating such cells in order to get concentrated populations but also capable of multiplying & self-renewing. She explains the ‘olfactory’ term and the solution it entails to finding the right tissue without ethical boundaries. Ending, she gives us her own insights on whether young students should follow her footsteps in medical research and what they should expect from the science. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.


TTC #78 Neural Stem Cells from Olfactory Ensheathing Cells

Dr. Kayyali explains the benefits of CANadvice, an Android mobile application tested in 2014 in UK and used by patients receiving oral chemotherapy at home, in order to alert their doctors about possible quite painful side-effects, while undergoing treatment. She also speaks about Welcome, a European project which is in essence a monitoring system for pulmonary diseased patients, based in the cloud. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #117 Monitoring of oral chemotherapy patients at home, Prof. Reem Kayyali

The close collaboration between the NCSR “Demokritos” and CERN is illustrated once more during our interview with Dr. Theodoros Geralis, Research Director at the Institute of Particle & Nuclear Physics of the historic institution in Athens, and also President of the 300-strong Hellenic Society for the Study of High-Energy Physics. Dr. Geralis gives us a first-hand account on their common activities, explaining the different kinds of NCSR participation in the famous CMS experiment which lead to the discovery of the Higgs particle, in 2012. He also describes the next steps towards a frame larger than the standard model, which will explain our world even better, solving perhaps the problem of dark matter. Finally, he points out the high level of the Greek researchers, demonstrated by the fact that they play a critical and quite disproportional to the size of their country, role at CERN. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.


TTC #193 Getting a Better Idea About Our World, Theodoros Geralis

Alex Itsios, Team Manager and Konstantinos Koliousis, Design & UI/UX at Healthy Club introduce us to a very simple, professional meal & exercise planning platform for nutritionists, trainers, gymnasts, clinicians & research centers enabling them to look after their clients in a revolutionary new way and stay close to them at all times. The biggest asset of their platform is the meal planner, which exploits a preexisting database of foods and supplements, allowing clients to achieve easily better performance in their health goals. The project is unique in Greece, created from scratch with only 2 competitors internationally, as they say. Interviewed by Katerina Giosma for Tech Talks Central during the eHealth Forum Festival in Technopolis, October 2016.

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TTC #296 Healthy Club Monitors its Clients Progress 24/7

Everyone has come across the need to get a second or third medical opinion, from a top doctor abroad, only to find it comes at a high cost and it’s difficult to find the right lead. Sorin Dragomir, CEO of Healthcare Software Alliance, explains how Webhippocrates connects patients with top doctors from all over the world on a reasonable fee. He goes on to talk about the story behind the platform and why he personally experienced the need for such a solution. Webhippocrates is in private beta and has already been involved in 40 serious cases in Romania. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central during the eHealth Forum Festival in Technopolis, October 2016.

TTC #299 Medical Consultation From Doctors All Over The World

Costas Spyropoulos, Director of Research at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications at NCSR “Demokritos” describes the many benefits of the IoT era, when we will have -in only a few years from now- several billions of connected devices all around us, offering terabytes of data and many, many new simple and complex services as an answer to our needs. Dr. Spyropoulos gives some examples of these services in tourism, health, culture, retail and other sectors but he also points out the existing problems in interoperability, privacy and security. He also talks about their research, at NCSR; their own IoT platform and services that use open standards in order to easily extend and foster broad use. Finally, he insists that the public has to be educated on IoT and for that reason, himself and his team participate in conferences to inform the audience and demonstrate best practices. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

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TTC #290 Humans Role in the IoT Era

Gregor Gimmy founder and head of the BMW Startup Garage talks to Tech Talks Central and Vicki about the term he’s coined "Venture Client", where a big corporation avoids the usual accelerator model and goes straight to being the client of the startup, supporting and growing it in the process. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

Tech Talks Central @ MWC17

TTC #308 BMW Garage

Gesture and face recognition including emotions is the next big thing in the future of driving and safety when it comes to the automotive industry. Rony Greenberg, Vice President of Development at EyeSight talked with Vicki about how poker gave him the idea to work on  face recognition. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #316 What do Poker and Face Recognition have in Common?

Vicki interviewed Anthony Rovito from All The Foodies. "All the Foodies" is a creative cooking network show with a hipster twist. Random chefs or wanna-be-chefs prepare the recipe in a very aesthetic video, explaining in 2 minutes the story behind the recipe. You can look up their videos on Facebook at AllTheFoodiesSpain. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #317 All The Foodies Network

Skolkovo is the state owned innovation centre, in Moscow, with over 12 hundred startups under its wings. Vicki interviewed Alexey Belyakov, Vice President of Skolkovo Foundation, Maxim Zharenov, Director and Taisiya Yarmak, Head of International PR about Skolkovo, its aims as an innovation centre and its strong points. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #315 Skolkovo, An Innovation Centre in Moscow

Esteban Redolfi is the Director of 4YFN. Vicki asked him all sorts of questions on 4YFN 2017; how many startups and investors are participating; how many people they’re expecting and what the future beholds. Vicki says he was a great interviewee with a strong sense of what collaboration entails. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

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TTC #322  4YFN Leading in the Startup World of 2017

Venetia talks with Campbell Foster, Director at Adobe Primetime, about Adobe’s strategy around 180 VR cinema, TV, and cross-device solutions. They discussed Adobe's first big project with with Coca Cola for a 180 VR ad that would run during the viewing of a 180 movie.

TTC #323 Adobe and 180 VR

Adrian Domenech, CEO of Vitcord, tells us the story his community connecting and engaging people around the world through video at 4YFN during Mobile World Congress 2017. In this real-life-honest-to-goodness tale Adrian unfolds the process of how users contribute their videos through Vitcord to create a living 'mosaic', a continuously evolving body of experiences that come together to tell a life story. Vitcord and its growing community is creating a new way of seeing the world through video. We all create content individually on a daily basis, but in this hyper-connected digital environment Vitcord makes us collaborators through an app that allows us all to add clips of an event creating unique content that grows as our community of contributions grow. With Vitcord, events and social media viral content take on a life of their own enhanced and embellished by each of our personal perspectives while still remaining unique enough to call our own. Interviewed by Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #326 The Story of a Video that’s Made Up of Thousands of Our Videos

Anna Sort aka @LostNurse, CEO of Play Benefit, and a World of Warcraft hard core gamer talks about gamefication and health. She explains how she got involved and what BeEnergy is trying to accomplish. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #321 A Gamer and A Nurse Combines Two of Her Biggest Loves

Iikka Salo co-founder and CEO of Trybe talks to us about their mobile app at 4YFN during Mobile World Congress 2017. You know how they say “it takes a village”? Well that’s exactly what the guys came up with, a smart way to connect the hungry with those who love and are great at feeding people, all while making a connection, a community, a “tribe”. Crazy right? Well, if you pay the rent checking spreadsheets 9 to5 but have mad skills in the kitchen, there’s no reason why you couldn’t cook for your neighbors and make a pretty penny while you’re at it. Trybe is SaaS enabled marketplace for independent chefs to set up, operate and promote an online food business. With over 1000 chefs and 10,000 customers so far, Trybe connects chefs who prepare food with the hungry patrons who are looking to purchase some excellent quality eats. Hey! Step away from the microwave and explore your Trybe, I bet a real person is making you dinner, around the block, with love, and no, it is not your mother. Interviewed by Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #327 What’s for Dinner? There’s an App for That

Vicki spoke with John Shier, senior security advisor at Sophos and experienced security expert, about why we need to take every precaution when it comes to privacy and our mobile phones.  Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #329 Security and Mobile Phones

Rafi Zauer, head of marketing at Essence, discussed about their newly deployed home care system for seniors and people with special needs. Their software algorithm creates and monitors behavioural patterns, notifying their carers at varying levels of alarm. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #331 Behavioral Patterns, AI and Elderly Care

Venetia talks with Carl Tonsgard of Crunchfish a company that's developing AR and VR gesture control for the classroom. Carl shows us the devices and explains how they will help kids and teachers in classrooms around the world. Interviewed by Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.

Tech Talks Central @MWC17

TTC #333 Gesture Control in the Classroom

Venetia talks with Lennart van der Ziel and Nick Yap - the team that created "Travis the Translator" a device that uses AI, Voice Control and Gesture Control to translate in 80 languages in real time.  The boys explain their plan to break the language barrier around the world bringing people together. Interviewed by Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #332 Language Translator Using AI, Voice & Gesture Controls

Venetia talks with Founder and leader of Qualcomm's healthcare subsidiary Qualcomm Life, Rick Valencia, about the two finalists dueling out to win the 10 million dollar tri-corder XPrize in the next 2 months, the path of getting to connected care being the standard of healthcare the Connect event he created to connect the tech industry under the responsibility to work together on bringing health innovation to scale for consumers as soon as possible.

TTC #334 Qualcomm’s Xprize and Connected Care

Vicki believes she discovered an innovative solution to the “I need 2 or 3 mobile phones” to separate “my different identities”. She spoke with Rob Grapes, from Graphite Software, about “spaces” and how they are segmenting your ONE phone -at kernel level- to serve your different profiles including a…hidden one.  Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #328 One Mobile for All Your Identities

Yiannis Rizopoulos speaks with Luca Verre, founder of the startup Chronocam, which develops a unique artificial vision and cybervision technology to be used for autonomous navigation and new IoT applications. Interviewed by Yiannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #319 AI and Cybervision for Autonomous Navigation

Helen Keegan, the organiser of Swedish Beers; Paul Stringer, Head of Mobile at Equal Experts; Alex Barth, VP of Business Development at Mapbox; and Jeff Beene, Head of New Devices at Orion Labs, got together, during the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, to discuss smart cities, what’s happening right now and what we should be expecting. The podcast was sponsored by Equal Experts and hosted by Tech Talks Central.

Tech Talks Central @ MWC18

TTC #344 Smart Cities and a Changing Future

Choons n’ Chat with Helen Keegan and her friends is back for Mobile World Congress 2018 where else? Yes, once more in Barcelona. This time Helen Keegan, organiser of Swedish Beers and Mobile Advertising Expert hosts Rafe Blandford, Mobile Strategist at DigitasLBi and Paul Swaddle, Chairman and Co-founder of PocketApp. They get together to discuss mobile trends, what they expect from this year’s Mobile World Congress, and interestingly enough they don’t shy away from hot topics like the new GDPR, that comes into full affect May’18; and ethics, involving the use and development of AI use cases.  Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #343 MWC18 Trends and AI Ethics

Helen Keegan, organiser of Swedish Beers and Mobile Advertising Expert, Ilicco Elia, Head of Mobile at DigitasLBi and Rafe Blandford, Mobile Strategist at DigitasLBi discuss mobile trends and what they expect to see anew, at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.

TTC #335 Choons n’ Chat with Helen Keegan & Friends at MWC17

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