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Can Ireland reshape big tech?

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.4221 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

How Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner could change the way big tech firms operate. Plus why Dublin is a favoured place for startups. And economists and comedians gather in the city of Kilkenny for the tenth annual Kilkenomics festival where cryptocurrency is one of the topics on the agenda. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield and special guests Peter Antonioni from UCL and the journalist Jamie Bartlett, presenter of the hit podcast “The Missing Cryptoqueen”.

(Image: Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon outside her office in Dublin, Credit: Rory Cellan-Jones/ BBC).

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Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly guide to all the hottest news and trends from the technology business.

0:55.9

I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and this week we have a special program from the River Court Hotel in Kilkenny in Ireland,

1:02.9

where Kilkenomics, the annual Festival of Economics and Comedy, yeah, you heard it right, is underway.

1:08.7

We're taking a look at the Irish tech landscape with an interview with Europe's most

1:13.1

powerful data regulator, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon.

1:18.5

We head to a pub to find out about the Dublin tech startup scene.

1:23.0

And we talk about one of the hot topics at Kilconomics, cryptocurrencies.

1:27.3

We've a very special guest on that topic,

1:29.6

joining us from London. And also in London at TechTentHQ is BBC Technology Reporter Jane Wakefield

1:35.7

keeping the show on the road. Hi Jane, how's your week been? Well, you're not the only one out

1:39.8

and about. I've been at Web Summit this week, so just back from Lisbon. Good for you.

1:45.2

And my special guest here in Kilkenny is Peter Antonioni from the Management School at University College London,

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