A Conversation with Victoria Mackecknie, VP of Enterprise Technology at IDA Ireland

Ireland is well-known as a welcome destination for high-tech companies, including some of the biggest names in the U.S. technology sector. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Dell, to name a few, have taken advantage of the country's generous tax laws and high-quality technical talent. Victoria Mackecknie, VP of Enterprise Technology at IDA Ireland, was in the Bay Area for the annual RSA Security Conference recently. John caught up with her to talk about Ireland's appeal to the tech sector, and its evolving efforts to provide workers with in-demand cybersecurity skills. 

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Silicon Valley-based journalist and author John K. Waters talks with local luminaries and worldwide technology mavens about an array of tech trends in this twice-monthly podcast. Topics range from artificial intelligence to DevOps, quantum computing to the Internet of Things, robotics to the Cloud--and just about everything in between. Waters is the editor in chief of the Converge360 news and information sites Application Development Trends, Pure AI, and Futuretech360. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/johnkwaters.