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As November 21st approaches, Ramees is poised to take the stage in Los Angeles, representing not only Ireland but also carrying the flag for Kerala and India. His dedication to natural competition, despite the injuries, financial hurdles, and the sheer effort involved, makes him a true champion regardless of the final outcome.

The fact that all ecological research is usually done with the guidance of a tribal person or what we call indigenous Adivasi person because they are the ones who know the forest and they know where what is flowering, what is fruiting, where is the horn bill nesting and what not. I hope you all carry a bit of the forest in your in your hearts.

At the community level, football provides a unique platform for people to connect with their neighbours and like-minded individuals. These gatherings, often starting informally with a few people kicking a ball around, grow organically, fostering camaraderie and mutual respect. In such environments, social and economic barriers fade away, replaced by a shared love for the game, friendly competition, and laughter.

The startup ecosystem in Ireland is on a steady growth curve. The number of new startups, new accelerator programs, funds, hubs, 360 degrees ecosystem, all add to this. During the recently concluded National AI Meet in Galway, I had an opportunity to meet Dr. Divya Rajput, CEO of JSS Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park in India. Dr Divya Rajput and myself connected again towards the …

"Our journey has been diverse, our journey has been mixed, but there's been one common thread across.It's to always do what you're passionate about. Be it in corporate, be it as anchor, and now being as an entrepreneur."

We're releasing our product in three key versions. So our main aim our North Star is for real time exercise feedback and analysis. So everyone who is doing physiotherapy at home or training in the gym that they can get live, completely individualised feedback on their movement patterns so they can stop injury risk and then maximise their results.

This is the last of the 5 episodes. In these 5 episodes, Jeri talks about her life learnings, challenges, startup hurdles, leadership lessons and always be prepared for the next 'humbling' moment.

In this 4th episode, Jeri talks about the thought process and research behind the startup Tilt Five's offering. The special light weight Augmented Reality glasses, focal points, interactive gaming, etc. The features and uses of Tilt Five other than just gaming. Jeri spoke about how they worked on the idea of virtual game board, holographs and partnering with board game developers, etc. The challenges and bad sides of emotional excitement including subtle manipulations.

Jeri talks about the early days of Tilt Five. The initial days of putting together the team, technology , why the name 'Tilt Five' and the call she received from Atari founder Nolan Bushnell which actually pushed her to start Tilt Five.

She was surviving on the meagre savings doing part time work but her passion to make many innovative circuit boards, FPGA chips that could act as video screens, sound generators, etc. helped her to focus on her strengths & finally got the first 'engineering' job.

My dad's name is Klaas. That's where the Klaas Kickz comes from. I created a bond with my dad through football. I'm hoping that this can do the same with parent and child all around Ireland and even the world. My dad wasn't big into football until I was big into football. But he knew the importance of playing, activities and being outside in fresh air.

In this episode, Jeri shares the story of her adventures with dirt car racing, learning the basic of building and racing cars from Duke Southard, selling computers through her initial entrepreneurial journey , "Computers Made Easy", the humbling moments, life lessons and much more.

In this latest edition of PAC Talks, it was a pleasure to interview one of the top 20 Artificial Intelligence startups in India. Data Science Wizards (DSW) is a very young company, started in 2019, which is growing at a steady pace in the right direction. I met with the team, Pritesh Tiwari , Founder & Chief Data Scientist, Sandeep Khuperkar, Co founder & CEO …

Adam calls the Millo Air, the 2.0 version as the 'Silent Blender'. He demonstrated this during the interview and even at 1200 rpm, there was hardly any sound. The initial blender from Millo was developed with a focus on user experience, design and convenience. The team behind this wanted to improve this offering and has now launched the new version where they are using the help of a magnetic drive to rotate the blades.

"They are all consuming content, following the teams, going to games, it is a social avenue for people - going to pub watch the game, etc. While doing that they are constantly trading opinions and knowledge, up until now lot of that has been in ether. Who actually knows his football, is it the one who is always yapping or the quiet guy, whereas now you can come in to FutNut , make your predictions and see how you rank against everybody else. So now the talking is over and let us see who actually knows their football. " - Alan Loughrey.