episode #10 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…
episode #9 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…
episode #8 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…
episode #7 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…
episode #6 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…
episode #5 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 and emerging…
episode #4 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…
episode #3 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…
episode #2 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…
episode #1 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…