Design Talk (dot IE)

Host: Allen HigginsWe are very pleased to welcome Professor Joe Peppard, educator, consultant, and researcher.First, Joe, could you share a few words about your career to-date and your passion for IT?·       <talking points>·       Computers, networks, Internet, and platform software as transformative technologies.·       Knowledge management for technology.·       Automation, strategic transformation, and organisational change.·       Implications for the increasing use of AI in the economy.·       New ways of working echo old ways of working.·       Technology market – temporary monopolies and cycles of competitive domination.·       Platform economies – the shift from hardware to operating systems to software as a service.·       Transformational moments in computing and technology inflection points.·       <any audience questions?>Well, we’ll wrap up now.Thank you for the stimulating discussion with lots of new ideas to reflect upon.Thank you for sharing your thoughts today.NOTES:Joe Peppard - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-peppard-5868513/AcknowledgementsMusic Title: Voltaic FluctuationsArtist: Ben PruntySource:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben PruntyCover Art Title: Complex collageArtist: Allen HigginsSource: vignette_version.pptxLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.

Hosts: Anugrah Gupta and Sindhusuta MohantyWe are very pleased to have Cormac Garvey with us today. Cormac’s career spans factory automation, control systems, systems architecture, software prototyping and information modelling.·       Cormac, before we start, can you introduce us to your world. ·       You’ve described yourself as working at the plumbing end of data analytics. Can you explain what that means?·       Who uses the data and what do they use it for? ·       Having worked with and mastered a wide range of software tools over your career, what go-to approaches are in your consulting toolbox?·       Can you give us a sketch of your approach to requirements capture?·       How do you approach conceptual design? Both as an individual consultant and as a member of a team?·       And translating a conceptual design into the full project?·       What for you, is the essence of design?<and some questions from the student audience>Well, we’ll wrap up there.Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.Notes:Cormac’s profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/cormac-garvey-9a34503/Cormac’s start-up is HAL Software – a standards-based software design tool for process control and MES environments (manufacturing execution systems). Watch the 2 minute HAL overview video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A1cEYaqr-kCormac is a member of and/or participates in:·       The OPCUA REST subgroup·       The Open Process Automation Forum·       And the “biophorum”The OPC Foundation (Open Platform Communications), an industry consortium that develops standards for connectivity of industrial automation devices and systems.OPC UA (Unified Architecture) is a cross-platform, open-source standard for data exchange from sensors to cloud applications developed by the OPC Foundation. IEC 62541 is the international standard describing the OPC UA information model.ISA-88, S88, aka ANSI/ISA88, is a standard addressing batch process control.ISA-95 aka Enterprise-Control System Integration. An automation workflow standard.AcknowledgementsMusic Title: Voltaic FluctuationsArtist: Ben PruntySource:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben PruntyCover Art Title: Complex collageArtist: Allen HigginsSource: vignette_version.pptxLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.

Hosts: Son Nguyen and Sunil KumarToday we are joined by Neetu Singla, co-founder of Lets Viz, headquartered in Delhi, India.Neetu, can you give us the backstory to starting “Lets Viz” and where are you based?·       What does a typical workday look like?·       Why is IT outsourcing from India appealing for clients?·       Has outsourcing given a social impact benefit to India?·       No doubt there is a huge opportunity for data analytics, analysis, visualisation. Where does the appetite for “Lets Viz” services come from and who is your ideal customer?·       Tell us a little about the way data analytics is being used and what tools do you use?·       How does remote work fit in with your business growth plans?·       Is English language the baseline for international communication?·       What is your approach to working with international partners? How do you manage timezone gaps and distance related issues?·       How do you generate new business? ·       What are the opportunities and risks, running a business in the global marketplace? ·       How do you react? Starting with a new client and find out that they don’t have as much knowledge of their own data…·       <any additional questions?>Well, we’ll wrap up there.Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.Notes:https://lets-viz.comAcknowledgementsMusic Title: Voltaic FluctuationsArtist: Ben PruntySource:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben PruntyCover Art Title: Complex collageArtist: Allen HigginsSource: vignette_version.pptxLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.