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Anchor Sponsor European Tech Summit 2014 13th May 2014 City Hall, Cork Media Partner Sponsors Innovation Sponsor Ticket Rate: For Members: €195.00 For Non Members: €250.00 Student Fee: €40.00 If you would like to get involved in the European Start-up rate and bundled ticket rates available. Tech Summit 2014 Register Today: www.itcork.ie please contact Sarah Walsh at 021-4868180 or email [email protected] Session Chairs Anton Savage Broadcaster, Columnist, Managing Director of The Communications Clinic Anton is a regular contributor and columnist. He currently presents Savage Sunday on TodayFM, writes a weekly column for The Herald and contributes each week to Ireland AM on TV3. He has been a columnist with Sunday Independent. Freelance contributor to the Irish Independent, Irish Daily Mail, Irish Mail on Sunday, and The Herald and has contributed to Today with Pat Kenny, the Marian Finucane Show, the Dave Fanning Show, Primetime, Ireland AM, Seoige, Tonight with Vincent Browne, The Last Word and The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show. He has been stand-in presenter on The Tubridy Show, The Ray D’Arcy Show, The Last Word and presenter of The Sunday Business Show and The Apprentice, you’re fired! on Tv3. Paul Hearns Editor, TechPro magazine, Techcentral.ie Paul Hearns is Associate Publisher for Technology with Mediateam, where he has been editor of TechPro (formerly ComputerScope), Ireland’s IT professional journal, since 2005. Hearns writes for Techcentral.ie, and chairs the TechFire series of IT briefings. European Tech Summit Committee Members Ronan Murphy Cian Kennedy CEO Smarttech, Director Cork Chamber Director of IT and eCommerce at of Commerce Holidaytaxis.com Director IT@Cork European Cian is Director of IT and eCommerce at Holidaytaxis.com, a Tech Cluster global travel business transferring over 2 million passengers annually from airport to their holiday resorts. Working Ronan is a seasoned operating executive with hands-on between Brighton and Cork, Cian drives the effective experience in managing and implementing a range of alignment of IT and eCommerce capabilities and contributes complex IT and BPO projects. He is passionate about to holidaytaxis.com global growth through its B2C, B2B and delivering managed tech services, desk side support and B2B2C channels. Prior to joining holidaytaxis.com, Cian global helpdesk services to our clients in order to streamline worked as Head of IT and Legal Affairs at Laya Healthcare in their IT processes and reduce operating costs. Business goals Cork. Cian is a member of the IT@Cork Board and chaired include global delivery of MSP and global help desk services the Tech Tuesday committee in 2012/13. from their 200+ seat contact centre in Ireland. Strategic partnerships include Trend Micro and IBM for delivery of MSP services to their customer base. Ronan is heavily involved with IT@Cork, European Tech Cluster where he has supported a number of iniatives such as Tech Tuesdays, European Benchmarking program, Skillsnet and of course Tech Summit. Ruth Buckley Caroline O’Driscoll Head of IT and Business Services Tax Partner, KPMG in Cork City Council Caroline is a tax partner with KPMG in Cork where she advises technology companies - from start ups to large multinationals Ruth Buckley is the Head of IT and Business Services in Cork – as they expand their business in Ireland and overseas. She City Council. In addition she is currently leading the “Women is a member of the board of directors of IT@Cork, European in Technology” program within it@cork and is a founding Tech Cluster and is on the steering committee of skillsnet. member of the Water systems and services innovation centre. Caroline is a regular contributor to the Tech Summit (both on In 2011 Ruth was elected chair of the Irish HIS¹ liaison group. the stage and behind the scenes!). She also served as vice-chair of the Majorcities of Europe group from 2008 – 2011 and is a founder member of a regional public sector CIO² forum. Serena Lawless SMB Sales Manager, Google Serena is a Senior Sales Manager in Google Ireland, leading the UKI Agency and more recenlty the Irish sales team in Googles Small & Medium Sized Business Division. Prior to Google she has held various Senior Sales and Business Development roles across Telecommunications and Digital Media, working internationally for companies such as Ericsson, Realnetworks, Silicon and Software Systems and LogicaCMG. Don O’Leary Sales Director, UK & Ireland, Twitter Don joined Twitter 2012 to help launch the Twitter advertising products across Europe. Prior to Twitter, he worked in Google’s International HQ. Before the world of online advertising, Don developed software for a number of startup companies in San Francisco, but also worked as a mechanical design engineer in the aerospace industry in Los Angeles. In his spare time Don develops mobile apps with over 5 million downloads on the Android market. Magnus Ternsjö CEO, UPC Ireland Magnus Ternsjö is CEO of UPC Ireland, and is responsible for overseeing the strategic planning, operational management, and corporate development of both UPC’s residential and business divisions in Ireland. Previously, Magnus was Managing Director of UPC Broadband’s DTH business (UPC DTH S.a.r.l. in Luxembourg), a premium Central European DTH operator covering 4 countries, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania. UPC Direct operates via the Telenor 1 degree west satellites. UPC Broadband (UPC) is the European division of Liberty Global, Inc., the world’s leading international cable operator. UPC brings television, broadband internet, and telephone services to approximately 23 million customers throughout 12 European countries. Denis Kennelly VP Development & Technology, IBM Security Systems Denis Kennelly is VP of Development & Technology for IBM Security Systems where he leads the world wide team developing IBM Security products and Threat research. Prior to Denis’ appointment to VP Security Systems, he was VP of Development and CTO for the IBM-Tivoli Network Management Product Portfolio. Denis has 25 years experience in both the Telecommunications and IT industries. During this time, Denis has helped define and develop both network and service management products in a number of different industry segments. Denis joined IBM through the acquisition of Vallent Technologies which specialized in Cellular Network Service Assurance software and was acquired by IBM in February 2007. Jeetu Mahtani Managing Director at HubSpot Jeetu “J” Mahtani, is a Managing Director at HubSpot, a marketing software company, where he is responsible for driving HubSpot’s growth in Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. Jeetu launched HubSpot’s international operations and under his leadership has grown HubSpot’s customer base outside North America to over 1000 customers. Richard Munro Technical Director for vCloud Hybrid Service, EMEA, VMware Richard Munro is the Technical Director for vCloud Hybrid Services, EMEA at VMware. Richard joined VMware in March 2012 to lead the solution architecture practice responsible for working with VMware’s strategic alliances that cover cloud transformation and End-User Computing. Prior to this he was Technology Strategy Director for Atos – a top five global systems integration firm. Richard is also a certified Enterprise Architect and is married with three children. He enjoys reading, sailing, rock guitar, snow- boarding and cycling. Avril Ronan Global Programme Manager for Internet Safety, Trend Micro Avril is responsible for the global management of Trend Micro’s Internet Safety programme. As the largest independent cloud security organisation, Trend Micro, is committed to making the world safe for exchanging digital information. In Ireland, Avril has spearheaded the firm’s drive to ensure Internet Safety for Families and Kids (ISFK). The programme has reached more than 40,000 parents, teachers and young people nationwide, through the delivery of cybersafety training programmes and peer-led training delivery. Working closely with the Webwise, the Department of Education & Training, An Garda Siochana, Facebook, Twitter, and a number of related online and national and regional youth groups, Avril and the dedicated team of over 50 trained Trend Micro volunteers, have created a hugely successful model for digital safety, “Be Smart”. The model is focused on raising awareness through education, parent, teacher and youth advocacy and this programme is now being rolled out worldwide. Dr. Nicola Millard Customer experience futurologist, BT Dr Nicola Millard is a customer experience futurologist with BT. Nicola isn’t actually a technologist and combines psychology with futurology to try and anticipate what might be lying around the corner for both customers and organisations (sadly, her crystal ball is currently broken). She was involved with a number of BT “firsts” including the first application of intelligent systems into BT’s call centres and BT’s initial experimentation with home working. John Scanlan Vice President of Operations: Flextronics Global Services and Solutions Flextronics is a $24B, industry-leading, Fortune Global 500 end-to-end supply chain solutions company with a global workforce of 200,000 and operations in over 30 countries. Mr. Scanlan is responsible for Pre-Manufacturing Logistics, “Configure to Order” Manufacturing, Fulfilment Services and Reverse Logistics in the EMEA Region. Managing multiple sites across 9 different countries, each providing industry leading supply chain solutions for the world’s largest OEMs. Mr.