Colin Ryan

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Founded last year, this Belfast-based start-up wants to use VR to make ‘fear less scary, therapy more human and support more accessible’. With millions of people worldwide suffering from at least one phobia, there’s a good chance that you either suffer from a phobia yourself or you know someone who does. As an anxiety disorder, a phobia is defined as an extreme or irrational fear or aversion of an object or situation.

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Kyndryl’s Ben Scowen discusses a new energy platform, which hopes to lower the barrier to entry for small clean energy providers to the grid. Last month, tech infrastructure company Kyndryl announced the successful delivery of a new megawatt dispatch (MWD) platform to accelerate the delivery of new clean energy sources across the south-east of the UK.

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UL’s Dr Eoin Hinchy talks about the past, present and future of industrial automation, and how trends such as AI and mechatronics are making their mark. In order to understand just how far industrial automation has come, Dr Eoin Hinchy says you have to look at how things were made in the past. Hundreds of years ago, he explains, products were manufactured individually by hand as one-offs.

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Jakob Østergaard on the importance of awareness in data protection and why we need a new breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Jakob Østergaard is the CTO of Keepit, a Copenhagen-based company which has developed a cloud platform that focuses on data protection, backup and recovery. After obtaining a master’s degree in computer science and applied mathematics from Technical University of Denmark, Østergaard says a major decision paved the way for his career.

1 week ago | siliconrepublic.com | Colin Ryan

Founded in 2021, this Danish start-up wants to make agritech autonomy certifiable and dependable. Henrik Lynge Jacobsen has an extensive background in agricultural science. As well as holding a master’s degree in agricultural science, Jacobsen has worked in various agricultural companies over the course of his career, including major leadership roles such as group project director at Kongskilde Industries and chief commercial officer at AgroIntelli.