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ubloquity started out in life as a food provenance platform, enabling our customers to trace their products back to the most relevant start point in the supply chain. We’ve since diversified, serving multiple sectors from logistics providers to livestock producers, retailers to regulators, pharma firms to food and beverage companies…enabling us to connect (more or less) anyone to anything. In this podcast we explore the world we operate in, speaking to those at the cutting edge of advancemen ...
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Revolutionising Compliance and Auditing in the Food Industry with Digital Catapult
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In this podcast we speak to Ellen Moorehead and Scott Grant about ubloquity’s Innovative Leap with Digital Catapult and McColgan's Quality Foods. ubloquity, a frontrunner in distributed ledger technology solutions based in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, is helping transform data management in the food industry. Our flagship paVe platform is not just …
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Alan Lowry, CEO at ESF - smart street furniture to charge your phone to recycled plastic thanks to The Wombles
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Alan Lowry is the CEO at ESF - a serial entrepreneur and award winning director, he is also an expert in overseas trade and export sales. He is an export champion for the Department of Business and Trade, and Chair of Federation of Small Businesses in Northern Ireland. Having worked and travelled all over the world, he is now based in Northern Irel…
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Alex Alexander, Xoots founder, experienced CPTO/CTO, and all round nice guy
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Alex is an internationally experienced CTO/CPTO leading diverse global technology teams for major companies. He has led seven technology transformations, achieving top quartile performance and accelerating profitable growth. Starting in software development, Alex rose to head of Retail Banking technology at a leading UK internet startup bank. He la…
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Helping reduce burden on meat exporters by harnessing blockchain & IoT, with Ellen Moorehead
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Ellen Moorehead is ubloquity's award winning agri tech manager. A farmer herself she knows first hand how bureaucratic processes and paperwork add complexity and cost when seeking to move animals across borders. In her role at ubloquity and as the coordinator of a new consortium - TETA - she is helping lead the way by testing innovative processes, …
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Interview with Najaf Gillani OpSec Security’s Chief Software Development Officer
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Najaf Gillani has over 20 years of experience running Global Software Engineering teams working for eCommerce giants like eBay, Walmart, & technology disruptors like Openwave systems. He is now OpSec Security’s Chief Software Development Officer. OpSec Security, is a global leader in physical and digital anti-counterfeiting and brand protection sol…
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How can food regulators harness blockchain technology & IoT by collaborating more with industry?
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In this podcast we discuss the challenge of needing more regulation to ensure our food is safe to eat, while recognising there are less resources for regulators to carry out 'in-person' checks. We explore the potential for new and emerging technologies like blockchain and IoT devices, to help tackle the problem, while making the entire system bette…
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Oran O'Flynn founder of Soul Search - a blockchain enabled verification platform
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Oran O'Flynn is the CEO and founder of Soul Search, having graduated from University College Cork with a degree in chemical engineering. But even while he was still at school he was innovating, and was lucky to be one of 50 students from across the globe to spend two weeks at NASA in Houston, Texas planning a mission to Mars. Soul Search is a start…
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Award winning innovator, Ineke Rentmeesters ubloquity COO
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Ine is an inspirational leader. One of the co-founders of ubloquity, she is highly skilled at managing complex, global IT projects. Last Thursday she was recognised as a leading innovator at a gala event in Belfast at the Women in Business Awards. Under her COO leadership, Ine has been instrumental in the scoping and project delivery of ubloquity’s…
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Interview with Doug Heintzman, Chief Catalyst Blockchain Research Institute
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Doug Heintzman is the Chief Catalyst at the Blockchain Research Institute, a role that sees him travel the world sprinkling pixie dust and encouraging things to happen that otherwise may not and then to help them grow more quickly. He's been in the technology sector for 30+ years, and spent nearly 25 of those at IMB. He believes the role of the Blo…
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Interview with employee number 1, Ellen Marks, one to watch in women in tech
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Ellen was ubloquity's official first ever employee and recently celebrated her first year in the role. 12 months in any startup is a long time and this is no exception. Ellen reflects on the role she started doing, and how she and the company have developed in such a short space of time. In her first year she has trained as a scrum master and been …
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Interview with John Breen, solution architect at ubloquity
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John joined ubloquity following a wide and varied career in information technology stretching back 38 years. He is always learning new technologies having worked in industries like financial services and banking, physical security, and time management systems. When he first came across ubloquity and considered taking up a new role, what interested …
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Interview with Peter Bracher, Supply Chain In-Sites (SCI)
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Peter Bracher is a highly experienced food auditor and compliance expert having started out in life in the UK as a government environmental health officer, before moving into retail for Tesco then Asda. Having left Asda, Peter helped the richest man in Asia Mukesh Ambani set up a retail empire in India, before moving to NSF and setting up its Asian…
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ubloquity celebrates its first birthday with cofounder Kieran Kelly
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Dom Burch caught up with cofounder and CTO Kieran Kelly on a whirlwind first 12 months of ubloquity. Kieran shares his pride of seeing the vision he and his cofounders had 18 months ago coming to fruition. ubloquity has quadrupled in size, signed an exclusive three-year partnership with Fujitsu, and built a food provenance platform for one of the w…
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Interview with Louise Manning Professor of Sustainable Agri-food Systems
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Louise Manning, PhD, has worked as an academic, management consultant, lecturer and business and personal coach for thirty-five years addressing business management, quality assurance, brand equity, food safety, animal welfare, corporate social responsibility, ethical issues, and environmental protection. She is passionate about food and transparen…
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ubloquity Signs 3-Year Exclusive Deal to be Fujitsu’s Smart Border Blockchain Provider
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ubloquity today announced it has signed an exclusive three-year partnership agreement with Fujitsu UK & Ireland to underpin its smart border solution – Atamai Freight – with ubloquity’s enterprise blockchain technology. The contract comes on the eve of the ubloquity’s first anniversary, during which time it has quadrupled in size, built a provenanc…
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Interview with Gideon Greenspan CEO Multichain
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Gideon is the founder and CEO of Multichain, he started coding as a child and selling his software in high school. He has built a number of successful websites, including Copyscape, a leading plagiarism search engine, and Web Sudoku, the most popular sudoku online. Gideon has a BA and PhD in Computer Science (Cambridge and Technion) and an MA in Ph…
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Interview with Sean Kane, Whites Agri Supply Chain Coordinator
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Sean Kane was appointed by Whites to the role of Agri Supply Chain Coordinator in June 2018 having graduated from Queens with a degree in agriculture. His degree consisted of animal husbandry, crop husbandry and business management - a joint qualification with CAFRI. It opened up his mind to data and how you can apply it in farming. In his role at …
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Interview with Rob Chester, CEO at ubloquity
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Rob Chester started his career as a Saturday worker at Tesco, worked his way up to being a store manager. Got into compliance and spent the rest of his career in various roles at Asda, Walmart US and China. When he arrived in China on the back of a food crisis, the term compliance wasn't common parlance. Much of the traditional compliance tools and…
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Interview with Rohit Talwar, CEO Fast Future
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Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning keynote speaker, author, and the CEO of Fast Future. His prime expertise lies in helping clients understand and shape the emerging future. He has a particular interest in how we can create a very human future by putting people at the centre of the agenda. He has been interested in looking into the fu…
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Interview with Brian Anderton, Ops Director, Trans-Bridge Freight Services
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Brian has grown up with trucks and vehicles and the transport industry. Right from a very early age from being a 'truck wash Saturday lad' with a local family business, his aspiration was to be an international truck driver, much to my father's dismay back in the 80s. He later decided that life on the road wasn't for him but secured a job with a co…
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Interview with Frank Dunsmuir, Industry Lead for Customs & Trade, Fujitsu
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Frank is the industry lead for customs and trade at Fujitsu. He has over 20 years experience working for global technology organisations delivering services and solutions to the retail industry, the supply chain industry, as well as major government programmes, including the Government's DVLA electronic vehicle licencing. Frank specialises in new a…
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Interview with John Best, beef farmer in Northern Ireland, tech pioneer
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John Best is a pioneering farmer from Northern Ireland. He has been plying his trade for nearly 50 years, having graduated from university with a degree in agriculture. Along with his two sons he is a mixed arable and beef farmer. His family has been working from this farm for more than 100 years. He aims to keep his supply chains short and supply …
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Interview with Prof Chris Elliott OBE, Queens University
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In this episode Dom caught up with Professor Chris Elliott OBE - a globally renowned expert in food fraud and has investigated the complexity of supply chain networks for more than 30 years. He has published more than 300 papers in the field of detection and control of chemical contaminants in agri-food commodities and co-ordinated one of the world…
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Interview with Ellen Marks, agri tech manager at ubloquity - active, driven & chatty
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Ellen Marks recently graduated from Queen’s University Belfast and CAFRE the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise, with a degree in agricultural technology. While on placement from uni she previously worked part-time for NSF Verify within NI on a pilot program focusing on Northern Ireland’s beef industry. She also undertook a placement…
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Welcome to the ubloquity podcast with cofounder Kieran Kelly
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In the first episode of the ubloquity podcast we hear from cofounder Kieran Kelly. Kieran is a successful tech entrepreneur having worked with multiple organisations to help deliver positive economic change through digital transformation. The three things that neatly sum him up are butcher, IT nerd and TEDx talker. After spending almost two decades…
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