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The Big Tech Show

Irish Independent Tech Editor Adrian Weckler hosts this award-winning business podcast which dives deep into the biggest industry advances and tracks the key movers and shakers behind the innovation. From interviewing Big Tech CEOs to investigations into how tech affects our working lives, the show has become Ireland’s most listened-to technology podcast.

Is 5G really necessary right now?

38 mins; November 06, 2020

Irish made: the headphone designer who’s taking on Sony and Bose

33 mins; October 30, 2020

All about the iPhone 12

46 mins; October 23, 2020

The death of cinemas

33 mins; October 16, 2020

From the source: Huawei’s CTO unfiltered

40 mins; October 09, 2020

What, when, where, how: 5G in Ireland

32 mins; October 02, 2020

Let’s be honest for a second about Facebook and the EU

42 mins; September 25, 2020

Why Apple rules the world

45 mins; September 18, 2020

What to expect from the iPhone 12

33 mins; September 11, 2020

The latest tech toys: the good, bad and ugly

41 mins; September 04, 2020

From Nua age visionary to waste warrior

45 mins; August 28, 2020

Are we all just ignoring our data privacy rights?

50 mins; August 21, 2020

Why email fraudsters deliberately use bad grammar and dodgy spellings

19 mins; August 14, 2020

Go big or go home, how to raise millions abroad

23 mins; August 07, 2020

The great media paywall debate

27 mins; July 31, 2020

How I raised €10m in 3 months of lockdown

29 mins; July 24, 2020

Vestager vanquished, Schrems scores

56 mins; July 17, 2020

The Cork lads who went straight to the source for €15m

38 mins; July 10, 2020

“I came within hours of selling it for $1bn”

42 mins; July 03, 2020

How to run, and maybe save, a media business

44 mins; June 26, 2020

Steorn: a cautionary tale of delusion, Irish tech and the search for a perpetual motion machine

32 mins; June 19, 2020

A rocky road to success in digital media

52 mins; June 12, 2020

Celeb-bait, scams and the encryption debate

51 mins; June 05, 2020

From Rathfarnham to the tech world’s summit — an interview with Zoom CIO, Dubliner Harry Moseley

65 hours 55 mins; May 29, 2020

Do Irish startups deserve help during the lockdown? The view from MIT

51 mins; May 22, 2020

Startup survival and thermal cameras

50 mins; May 15, 2020

Mike Feerick interview: why the pandemic’s shift to online learning should kill colleges

29 mins; May 08, 2020

Should Google be allowed near contact-tracing apps?

27 mins; May 01, 2020

Why politicians sometimes can’t resist supporting anti-5G groups

43 mins; April 24, 2020

Tell everybody to Go Fund Themselves

27 mins; April 17, 2020

Are tech giants now suddenly the good guys?

54 mins; April 10, 2020

Are pro-government Twitter bots really happening in Ireland?

51 mins; April 03, 2020

Sign on, sign on, with hope in your heart

31 mins; March 27, 2020

“Unmute... Tom, please unmute!”

32 mins; March 20, 2020

I’m in lockdown, you’re in lockdown

34 mins; March 13, 2020

Is stopping the spread of Coronavirus worth giving up our Google passwords to see where we’ve been?

62 hours 29 mins; March 06, 2020

An honest look at the top smartphones: Samsung’s Flip Z, Huawei’s Xs & models from Google, OnePlus

33 mins; February 28, 2020

Why 5G? A critical look at its strengths and weaknesses

31 mins; February 21, 2020

TV or not TV: Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video and the great switchover

33 mins; February 14, 2020

From sport to tech: the Jamie Heaslip interview

60 hours 43 mins; February 07, 2020

Eir CEO talks GoMo, Huawei and other stuff

28 mins; January 31, 2020

Don’t tweet angry

19 mins; January 24, 2020

Skulduggery, social media and Election 2020

34 mins; January 17, 2020

Dublin’s new €1bn TCD tech hub – beacon or elitist island?

46 mins; January 10, 2020

Predictions for 2020: part 2

25 mins; January 03, 2020

What’s what for 2020

33 mins; December 27, 2019

The best tech of 2019

62 hours 22 mins; December 20, 2019

Trying to fulfill your potential as a tech firm

18 mins; December 13, 2019

Why we don't change our passwords

19 mins; December 06, 2019

Post-founder depression

51 mins; November 29, 2019

Bit by bit, a little more Facebook privacy

21 mins; November 22, 2019

Edelman on the mic

22 mins; November 15, 2019

Come fly (and eat)with me

39 mins; November 08, 2019

Paddy takes an Irish media break - but not before letting off a little more steam

58 mins; October 31, 2019

I wanted to love the Pixel 4 but I can’t

49 mins; October 25, 2019

Oh, you’re a Smart one

31 mins; October 18, 2019

The Voice

28 mins; October 11, 2019

How to start-up effectively

38 mins; October 04, 2019

Why battery life is the real reason to upgrade to the iPhone 11 Pro

63 hours 10 mins; September 27, 2019

Start up (and then what?)

45 mins; September 20, 2019

The 5G health scare is it real?

47 mins; September 13, 2019

Is gaming addiction becoming a real problem?

37 mins; September 06, 2019

When is 'unlimited' really limited?

31 mins; August 30, 2019

Find your way as a boss in a post-PC era

44 mins; August 23, 2019

The National ID Card project is stopped in its tracks

59 mins; August 16, 2019

With a no-deal Brexit, get ready for privacy chaos

50 mins; August 09, 2019

Privacy, please

29 mins; August 02, 2019

The Eir debate

38 mins; July 26, 2019

FaceApp - are we mugs to upload our mugs?

36 mins; July 19, 2019

Women in Tech: Jennifer Cox

29 mins; July 18, 2019

Robot love

34 mins; July 12, 2019

Women in Tech: Iseult Ward

28 mins; July 11, 2019

O taxi, MyTaxi: where art thou?

39 mins; July 05, 2019

Women in Tech: Ingrid Devin

26 mins; July 03, 2019

Women in Tech: Vanessa Tierney

29 mins; July 03, 2019

Take it to the bank: AIB’s CIO comes clean

43 mins; June 28, 2019

Are politicians helping or hurting tech in Ireland?

63 hours 16 mins; June 21, 2019

Women in Tech: Regina Moran

30 mins; June 21, 2019

Don’t push too far, Mr Trump: China’s in your hand

51 mins; June 14, 2019

Why we, the media, are not screwed

44 mins; June 07, 2019

Is Helen Dixon doing a good job?

28 mins; May 31, 2019

Top of the polls: an interview with SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie

35 mins; May 24, 2019

Wires crossed – Richard Bruton and The National Broadband Plan

40 mins; May 16, 2019

A frank chat with eir’s CEO

35 mins; May 10, 2019

Eye of the broadband storm

45 mins; May 08, 2019

The email scam that keeps working

39 mins; May 03, 2019

The truth about rural broadband

27 mins; April 26, 2019

Are we wrong to care about Facebook privacy screwups?

44 mins; April 19, 2019

Yes, Amazon is listening in on us

46 mins; April 12, 2019

Zuck comes to Dublin

27 mins; April 05, 2019

Apple’s big screen adventure (on a little screen)

36 mins; March 29, 2019

Should we break Google and Facebook up?

37 mins; March 22, 2019

Connect cars: from 4G to 5G

26 mins; March 15, 2019

Private Zuckerberg

48 mins; March 08, 2019

Facebook and me

48 mins; March 01, 2019

The trouble with AI and Europe

35 mins; February 22, 2019

To 5G or not to 5G

24 mins; February 15, 2019

Alan Coleman: doing it all again after €60m

48 mins; February 08, 2019

Startups and starting up

43 mins; February 01, 2019

Won’t somebody think of the kids?

44 mins; January 25, 2019

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