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• Fast and bad is still bad: how to get policy into practice

  October 7, 2026 · 25 min

  Every new policy asks people to do something differently, but training is often treated as a mere afterthough, taking place after rollout. So what if we flipped the process? What if we treated learning as an essential, so policy actually…

• Six months for one meeting — then everything about how her hospital uses AI changed

  September 30, 2026 · 28 min

  Recorded live at the All-Ireland Clinical AI Congress in Belfield, this episode features Dr Amrita Kumar, Radiology and AI Clinical Lead at Medica and a consultant breast radiologist who has built hospital-wide AI implementation from…

• Are we really talking about infrastructure — or are we talking about saving lives?

  September 22, 2026 · 28 min

  Ireland is about to spend €275 billion on infrastructure with a workforce that's already stretched. So what is the difference between AI as a nice-to-have productivity tool, and AI as the thing that actually closes the gap between what we…

• The £1 billion decision that became a £10 billion problem

  September 17, 2026 · 31 min

  Ireland has committed €275 billion to infrastructure by 2035. Globally, 9 out of 10 major projects fail to deliver on plan, scope, or budget. What goes wrong, and can Ireland beat the odds using AI, digitisation and know-how? In Part 1 of…

• What Irish Rail's overruns can teach every public sector project team

  September 2, 2026 · 42 min

  Could Irish Rail have saved the State €16.5 million, and got a working traffic management system, if its project had been managed differently? Today, guest James Louttit — Founder and Lead Trainer at Impactful Project Management — argues…

• Can AI help the public sector do more with less — and can we reskill fast enough?

  August 25, 2026 · 31 min

  Public services need to deliver more, for a growing and increasingly complex population, but the people and technology resources available to do it are finite. Could AI change that? In Part 2 of her conversation with Transform Gov, Audrey…

• What would you do with 10,000 extra public servants?

  August 12, 2026 · 26 min

  For decades, Ireland has built its economic identity on being a knowledge economy: highly skilled, highly educated, and a magnet for global investment. Agentic AI is about to test whether that advantage still holds. Most conversations…

• Ireland’s new government CIO wants to end the form-filling groundhog day's

  August 5, 2026 · 21 min

  Ireland's Government CIO Louise McKeever returns for part 2 to talk about what it actually takes to join up government services around citizens. Louise takes us inside: 🔹 Digital building blocks — the reusable infrastructure (gov.ie…