Speakers
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Dr. Sean BakerSteering Board ChairmanIrish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce
Sean Baker serves as the Steering Board Chairman at the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4), an Enterprise Ireland funded Technology Centre that conducts industry-led research in cloud computing. Sean is Chairman of the National Digital Research Centre and Incaplex, a healthcare software startup, as well as a Director of Calom Technologies . He is a member of the Advisory Science Council and sits on the Governance Committee of Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre. Sean co-founded Iona Technologies in 1991 and served as its CTO and Chief Scientist up to 2008.
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Mary Moloney, Coder DojoGlobal CEO CoderDojo Foundation
Global CEO CoderDojo Foundation with responsibility for CoderDojo operations & growth worldwide - currently 600+ coding clubs in 58 countries & growing rapidly. Previously a Partner at Accenture with 20+ years in lead positions within Accenture including operating at C-level both internally and for International organisations. Mary is a law graduate from Trinity College Dublin and is very active in community and business organisations. In 2014 she was Awarded Top 100 Women in STEM by Silicon Republic & Runner Up CEO of the year by Image & secured CoderDojo's listing within Nomi
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Richard Garsthagen, EMEA Director for Cloud Business Development at OracleDirector of Cloud Business Development Oracle
Director of Cloud Business Development at Oracle and is a Cloud Business Specialist
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Shay Garvey, Partner and Co-Founder at Frontline Venture CapitalShay Garvey, Frontline Ventures
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Dr. Brian Lee, Cloud Security Theme Lead, Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce
Dr Brian Lee is the Director of the Software Research Institute and holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin the application of programmable networking for network management. He has over 20 years experience in fixed and mobile network management and has extensive experience of systems and software design and development for large telecommunications products. He has managed numerous internal and external projects including Celtic Plus projects and has been task and WP leader on both EU and Celtic projects. He was previously director of research for LM Ericsson Ireland with responsibility for
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Brian Honan, BH ConsultingSecurity ConsultantBH Consulting
Brian Honan is recognised as an industry expert on information security providing consulting services to clients in various industry segments. His work also includes advising various Government security agencies and the European Commission on matters relating to information security. In 2008 Brian founded the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service (IRISS www.iriss.ie) which is Ireland's first CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team). Brian is a member of the Advisory Group on Internet Security to Europol's Cyber Crime Centre (EC3). In 2013, Brian was awarded the SC Magazine Award for
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Aidan Gallagher, CEO, Inishtech
Aidan has over 30 years experience in the Global ICT sector, primarily in leading the international Sales and Marketing operations of global software companies. Aidan was Executive Vice President of Similarity Systems, now part of Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ:INFA). During his tenure quarterly revenues grew over 20 fold in 6 quarters. From 1997 to 2002, Aidan was Executive Vice President of Global Internet Security company, Baltimore Technologies (NASDAQ:BLM) where he oversaw revenue growth from under $1M to over $130M in four years. Previously Aidan served as Director of Sales and Marketin
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Pearse Ryan, Arthur CoxArthur Cox
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Ken Bagnall, Managing Director, The Email Laundry
Ken Bagnall is Managing Director of The Email Laundry. The Email Laundry is an award winning vendor of cloud based security services. The Email Laundry is one portal to manage all aspects of your customer's email, the email security, email hosting, email signatures and encryption and archiving. The company provides a partner portal for their partners to manage what customers they put on the range of services. Here the partner can manage renewals reporting, billing etc. The Email Laundry email security service has just won 7 consecutive Virus Bulletin awards, coming top worldwide for reputat
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Dr. Michael Harris, Grant ThorntonComputer Forensics Investigators Grant Thornton
Michael leads the cyber security practice for Grant Thornton in Ireland. He specialises in cyber security, information security, IT risk management and computer fraud prevention.
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Lisa van der Werff, Postdoc Researcher, IC4
Lisa van der Werff is an organisational psychologist and postdoctoral researcher with the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce. Her research interests are in the area of trust decision making, maintenance and repair. Lisa also has an interest in quantitative research methodologies including structural equation modelling, latent growth modelling, Bayesian analysis and big data analysis. Her research with IC4 focuses on how cloud service providers can communicate trustworthiness to consumers and on trust repair processes following data breach. Lisa holds a PhD and MSc in Work and Organ
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Dr. Theo LynnPrincipal InvestigatorIrish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce
Dr. Theo Lynn is a Senior Lecturer at the Dublin City University, Principal Investigator of the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce and Director of MarketingLab, a new applied marketing technologies research and outreach centre. He was director of the Leadership, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre at DCU from 2009 to 2011 and has been Director of Industry Engagement at DCU Business School since 2010. Dr Lynn holds a PhD, MBS (MIS) and BBLS all from University College Dublin. Dr. Lynn has founded a number of ICT companies incl. Enki Information Systems, Educational
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Grace Milton, Account Director, Edelman
Communications consultant with in-depth experience in corporate communications, Government and political affairs- working across a range of sectors including healthcare, energy, environmental, retail, banking, science, technology and telecoms. Established in 1981, Edelman is one of Ireland’s leading communications consultancies.
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Dr. Pooyan Jamshidi, Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and CommercePost Doc ResearcherIrish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce
Dr. Pooyan Jamshidi is a post doctorate researcher at the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce (IC4). He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and systems engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), in 2003 and 2006. Pooyan’s general research interests are in the field of software engineering and his focus lies predominantly in the areas of cloud computing, software architecture, model-based self-adaptation and self-adaptive software.
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Chris Woods, IntelSoftware Architect Intel
Chris is a software architect with both extensive mobile and cloud experience. Chris is currently researching future Cloud & mobile infrastructure and application design at Intel. In addition to his architecture experience Chris was a program manager in Microsoft’s Azure (Cloud) infrastructure team. This role included not only specifying the original software, but designing the support processes and hence the support tools required to maintain it on a daily basis. Chris has experience in leading geographically diverse software teams, defining processes and development controls, support pra
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Professor John MorrisonDirector of the Centre for Unified ComputingUniversity College Cork
Prof. John Morrison is the founder and director of the Centre for Unified Computing. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Boole Centre for Research in Informatics and a co-founder and co-director of Grid-Ireland. He is the UCC PI for the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce. Prof. Morrison is a Science Foundation of Ireland Investigator award holder and has published widely in the field of Parallel Distributed and Grid Computing. He has been the guest editor on many journals including the Journal of Super Computing and the Journal of Scientific Computing. He is on the Editorial B
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Prof George A. GravvanisProfessorDemocritus University of Thrace
George A. Gravvanis is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Numerical Computing with the Division of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Democritus University of Thrace. He received a Bachelor of Science with Joint Honours in Science from University of Salford (Manchester, UK) in 1982, a Degree of Mathematics from National and Kapodistrian University Athens in 1986, Master of Science in Numerical of Analysis from Brunel University (London, U.K.) in 1984 and the Doctoral Degree (Ph.D) in Computing Sciences from the Department of Informatics of A
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Prof Dana PetcuProfessor, Computer Science Department | CEO, Institute e-Austria Timisoara. West University of Timisoara, Romania
Dana Petcu is Professor at Computer Science Department of West University of Timisoara, scientific manager of its supercomputing center, and CEO of the research spin-off Institute e-Austria Timisoara. Her interest in distributed and parallel computing is reflected in more than two hundred papers about Cloud, Grid, Cluster or HPC computing. She is and was involved in several projects funded by European Commission and other research funding agencies, as coordinator, scientific coordinator, or local team leader. She is chief editor of the open-access journal Scalable Computing: Practice and Exper
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Dr Tobias BeckerHead of MaxAcademyMaxeler Technologies
Tobias Becker is the Head of MaxAcademy at Maxeler Technologies where he coordinates various research activities and Maxeler’s university engagement. Before joining Maxeler he was a research associate in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. Tobias received his Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 2011. His research interests include reconfigurable computing, custom accelerators, adaptive computing, low-power optimisations, and financial applications.
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Ronan Dalton, Cloud Computing Leader, IBM Ireland Cloud Computing Leader IBM, Ireland
Ronan is an IBM Certified Solution Advisor for Cloud Computing Architecture and a trusted advisor to IBM in Ireland's clients on Cloud Strategy and Design. He has a passion for technology and loves teaching & learning - so he thankful to get paid to do both. Ronan is a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society (FICS), Chartered IT Professional (CITP) and Chartered Engineer (CEng). Recognised as an IBM Technical Staff Member and member of the IBM UK & Ireland Technical Consulting Group.
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Sergej SvorobejPhD ResearcherDCU Business School
Sergej Svorobej is a full-time PhD researcher in the DCU Business School at Dublin City University. In the past he has worked with SAP Research Belfast and has spent over five years working with SAP SSC Dublin in an IT Support Consultant role. His research interests include simulation of Cloud Computing, data centre simulation and performance evaluation.
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Eamonn PowerSenior Sysadmin/Researcher/Software EngineerTSSG
Eamonn Power is a Software Technical Lead at the TSSG. He’s been working in research and development for the last five years and developing software for eight years. His project portfolio includes VoIP multitennancy research, demo components for IPv6 mobility solutions, Future Internet network management and federated testbeds. His most recent work before joining the OpenRMC team was in the area of European Cloud Computing Security. In the context of OpenRMC, Eamonn has been leading the development of RTMP-based components and getting the initial infrastructure off the ground. Eamonn's inter
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Prof Fiona ReganPrincipal Investigator, DirectorMESTECH, DCU
Fiona Regan, Associate Professor in Environmental Sensing since 2009, established the Marine and Environmental Sensing Technology Hub (MESTECH), DCU in 2010. Her research is in the area of separations and sensors, materials for sensing and anti-biofouling applications on aquatic deployed systems, including novel sensors and sensor networks and decision support systems. Fiona is Director of MESTECH and coordinates the Marine ICT SmartBay research under PRTLI V and the International SmartOcean Graduate Enterprise Initiative (ISGEI).
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Dr Gareth JonesPrincipal InvestigatorADAPT
Dr Jones is the Principal Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland CSET Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) and member of the Centre for Digital Video Processing and National Centre for Language Technology research centres. His research interests focus primarily on information processing issues in human-computer interaction including Information Retrieval, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Modelling, Information Visualisation, Mobile Computing, Affective Computing. Dr Jones has authored and co-authored more than 250 research publications and given a number of presentatio
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Dr Martin CollierDirectorThe RINCE Institute, DCU
Dr Collier is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering at DCU and runs the Switching and Systems Laboratory at DCU, which is affiliated to the Network Innovations Centre, one of RINCE's constituent centres. His research interests include Switching and Routing, Quality of Service, software-defined Networking, data centre networks. Dr Collier co-authored the successful proposal for the CANCAN project, which was funded under the EU ACTS programme in 1994-96. He formulated the RINCE proposal (jointly with Prof Charles McCorkell), which was a key element of DCU's successful applic
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Antonio Cruz, SAPOSoftware Architect and Project ManagerSAPO
Antonio is a Software Architect and Project Manager at SAPO, the leading web presence in Portugal and a subsidiary of the Portugal Telecom Group. He is responsible for managing the Service Delivery Broker (SDB) and Geographical Information System (GIS) projects. Antonio has worked as a consultant, lead developer, trainer, architect and manager for several entities in Defense, Banking, Industry, Services and Telecommunications. He is a Certified Scrum Master, a Certified Scrum Product Owner (Scrum Alliance), a Professional Scrum Master and a Professional Scrum Developer (Scrum.org). His curr
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