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Julie Cullen Prof. Orla Feely Julie Feeney Aideen Howard Bríd Horan Bill Liao

Prof. Brian MacCraith

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Marian Corcoran Clara Halpin

Paula Neary Miriam O’Callaghan

Prof. Sinéad Ryan Keelin Shanley Julie SinnamonAnn O’Dea Liz Waters

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Marian CorcoranClient Director, Accenture Strategy

Marian is a Client Director in Accenture’s Strategy Business and is a Director of Accenture in Ireland. Marian recently sponsored Accenture’s research ‘Powering economic growth; Attracting more young women into science and technology’ and is a strong advocate of the importance of skills in science and technology as an enabler for young women to encourage them to actively participate and succeed in the new digital economy. Marian has a breadth of business experience through 25 years of working with senior clients across multiple geographies and industries – shaping, leading and challenging

operating model changes, transformation programmes, IT enabled change and cost reduction programmes. In her spare time Marian is a member of the Board of Management of her daughter’s secondary school, is relearning coding with her son at CoderDojo in DCU, is a Munster rugby supporter and spends time with her family. She has a B.Sc. in Biotechnology from DCU and has successfully completed her Dip as a Chartered Director.

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Julie Cullen

Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary

Miriam O’Callaghan

Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Julie CullenEU Code Ambassador to Ireland

Julie is a secondary school teacher (English and European Studies) in Drogheda, Co. Louth. She has been teaching for eight years. She has previously completed a Masters in Education with a focus on e-learning. This focus on e-learning awakened a huge passion within her. She created her own class blog where her students can interact with other students from all over the world. She began to attend CESI (Computer in Education Society of Ireland) conferences and take part in education chats on Twitter (#edchatie).

For the past year, she has been one of 25 Young Advisors to Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission. This position enables her to travel to Brussels and advise VP Kroes on issues related to education, technology and other matters. Last October, she acted as Irish Ambassador for European Code Week. This was an open source project that encouraged people to learn how to code.

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Julie Cullen

Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Prof. Orla FeelyVice President for Research, Innovation and Impact, UCD

Orla Feely is Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact in University College Dublin, a Professor in UCD School of Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering and Chair of the Irish Research Council. Professor Feely received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering from University College Dublin (UCD) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. She has won a number of awards for teaching and research.

She is a director of the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, and a member of the EU Horizon 2020 Advisory Group on Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Professor Feely is a Fellow of the IEEE, Engineers Ireland and the Irish Academy of Engineering.

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Julie Cullen

Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Julie FeeneySinger, Songwriter, Composer, Orchestrator and Producer

Winner of the ‘Choice Music Prize’ for ‘Irish Album of the Year’ for her self-produced debut album ‘13 songs’, Julie’s second album ‘pages’ was shortlisted for the Choice Music Prize and featured in ‘101 Irish Albums You Must Hear Before You Die’. Her third album ‘Clocks’ went straight to No. 1 in the Independent Irish Album Charts; was voted ‘Best Album’ in The Irish Times ‘Album of the Year’, and was shortlisted for the Meteor Choice Music Prize.

‘Clocks’ was crowd-funded by 209 fans and is the most successful music project yet on Fundit.ie. Her sell-out shows on both sides of the Atlantic have received rave reviews whether solo, with ensemble, with choirs or with full orchestra and she composes, arranges and orchestrates all of her own music. Her opera ‘BIRD’ goes into full production in 2015. Julie is self-managed and runs her own label ‘mittens’.

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Julie Cullen

Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Aideen HowardLiterary Director, Abbey Theatre

Aideen Howard is the Literary Director of the Abbey Theatre with responsibility for commissioning new plays and developing new writers for both stages of the Abbey Theatre. Aideen set up the New Playwrights Programme in 2009 and is editor of Irish Shorts: New Plays from The Abbey Theatre. She edited and compiled DOWN OFF HIS STILTS: Yeats and The Abbey in His Own Words in 2012 and she runs the Yeats Studio, a research initiative to investigate the plays of WB Yeats.

For the Abbey Theatre she leads the Abbey NUIG Digitisation Project, the world’s largest theatre digitisation project. Aideen holds an MA in Drama from UCD and a BA in English and German from Trinity College. She was the first Artistic Director of Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray where she programmed and ran a multi-disciplinary arts venue. She has previously worked as literary consultant to Arts Council projects and as dramaturg at the Abbey Theatre.

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Julie Cullen

Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Clara HalpinHead of Personal Shopping, Arnotts

Head of Personal Shopping at Arnotts, Clara Halpin, is responsible for many style transformations in recent years. With a client list including TV personalities, celebrity men and women, key political figures and more importantly, Arnotts customers, Clara is the go-to style guru whatever your fashion need. A supporter of Dress for Success, a contributor to TV3’s Xpose and helping the female delegates of many international companies take their look from Desk to Dinner,

Clara not only dispenses style advice but also invaluable lifestyle dressing tips which sees her customers return time after time.

Appointments with Clara and her team can be made by contacting [email protected].

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Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Bríd HoranDeputy CEO, ESB

Before joining ESB in 1997 as Group Pensions Manager, Bríd Horan headed KPMG Pension & Actuarial Consulting. Currently Deputy CEO of ESB, Bríd oversees ESB’s strategy development, corporate communications and compliance, as well as NIE Networks, providing electricity network services for Northern Ireland (c. 1300 employees).In recent years, Bríd led the transformation of ESB’s retail businesses from a regulated model to a fully competitive and newly branded business, Electric Ireland.

She also led the integration of internal services into a central Business Service Centre, delivering improved effectiveness and savings. An Actuary and a Chartered Director, Brid was a Commissioner of the National Pensions Reserve Fund from 2001 to 2009 and a Board member of IDA Ireland from 1996 to 2006. Bríd is also currently a Non- Executive Director of FBD Holdings plc, Chair of Investment Committee Novus Modus, ESB’s cleantech investment fund and a Director of Chamber Choir Ireland. She is married with two adult sons

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Julie Cullen

Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Bill LiaoEntrepreneur and Co Founder of Coder Dojo

Bill is an Australian entrepreneur, business mentor, diplomat, author and speaker with a distinguished record in the areas of business, development and community activism. He is co-founder of the CoderDojo movement, a free global network formed to assist young people to learn how to computer program. As well as co-founding XING, a pioneering business social networking platform in 2003, Bill has served as COO of Davnet a telecommunications carrier that went public in the late 90’s Bill serves as a special diplomatic envoy for St Kitt’s and Nevis,

with an emphasis on sustainable development and the environment. Author of three books, he is a regular speaker at many events and venues such as The London School of Economics, The World Economic Forum, The Globe Forum in Sweden, The House of Commons and TED as well as TEDx. He is Founder of WeForest that has planted over 5 million trees globally.

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Julie Cullen

Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Prof Brian MacCraithPresident, DCU

Prof. MacCraith holds a Personal chair in Physics at Dublin City University (DCU). He is renowned internationally for his research on optical chemical sensors, nanobiotechnology and biosensors. He was founding Director of both the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR) and the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (BDI) at DCU. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP), and a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineers (IAE).

Prof. MacCraith has had a substantial involvement in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education activities and initiatives for many years. He is Chair of the Board of SciFest and also Chairs the STEM Education Review Group (established by The Minister for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock TD). In July 2010, he commenced his role as President of DCU, a position that he will hold for 10 years.

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Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Paula NearyClient Director, Accenture Health and Public Service

Paula is a Client Director in Accenture’s Health and Public Service Business. She sponsors Accenture’s award winning Accent on Women program, which is responsible for the retention and progression of high performing women in Accenture, currently 30% of Accenture’s Senior Executive team in Ireland is female.

Paula is the host for our 2014 International Woman’s Day celebrations. She has a B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering from DCU and has been responsible for the successful design and execution of a number of large scale complex business and IT transformation programmes in the Public Service. Paula is a board member of the DCU Enterprise Advisory Board.

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Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Miriam O’CallaghanBroadcaster

Broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan was born and raised in Dublin. She qualified as a solicitor before beginning her broadcasting career on ITV’s This is your Life. She joined the BBC as a producer in 1987, and went on to become a reporter on BBC2’s Newsnight. In the early ‘90s Miriam returned to Ireland to present RTÉ’s current affairs flagship programme Prime Time, while continuing to cover the Northern Irish peace process for Newsnight. Miriam was voted Best TV Personality at the Irish Film and Television Awards in 2003.

In June 2013, her Prime Time interview with Praveen Halappanavar, won the Television News Category of the Justice Media Awards. Outside of her work on Prime Time, Miriam presents her own chat show during the summer, Saturday Night with Miriam, and a radio programme Sundays with Miriam. She has previously presented Miriam Meets.... which won the PPI Radio Award in 2011 for best Speech Driven Magazine Programme. Miriam also supports a large number of charitable causes throughout the year.

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Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Ann O’DeaCEO, Editor at Large, Silicon Republic

Ann O’Dea is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Republic, Ireland’s leading technology and innovation news service. She was also a co-founder, and previously served as editor-in-chief of Businessandleadership.com and Irish Director magazine. She spent many years in Italy and France as a writer, editor and consultant and, on her return, wrote and edited on a freelance basis for the Sunday Tribune, the Irish Independent, Business & Finance, IT’s Monday and Web Ireland, among others.

Ann is one of the driving forces behind Silicon Republic’s Women Invent Tomorrow campaign, launched on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2013, to champion women role models in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and to help tackle the gender gap in the knowledge industries. She earned her BA and master’s degrees from University College Dublin, and has a diploma in Fine Arts from the IAVI.

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Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


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Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Prof. Sinéad RyanProfessor of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

Sinéad has a B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc. from University College Cork and a Ph.D from the University of Edinburgh in theoretical particle physics. She worked as a Research Scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FermiLab) in the USA until 2000 and is now a professor in the School of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests are in theoretical particle physics. In particular - using numerical simulations of the strong nuclear force to understand the physics of the early Universe in the moments after the Big Bang and the nature of exotic forms of matter.

Sinéad has served on the Boards of Trinity College Dublin, the School of Theoretical Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and the Science Gallery as well as the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Mathematical Sciences. She is a member of the theory advisory group for the PANDA experiment in Germany and the judging panel for the International Wilson Award in Lattice Field Theory.

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Julie Sinnamon

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Keelin ShanleyJournalist, RTE

Three time IFTA award winner, Keelin Shanley works as a journalist in RTE presenting RTE’s daily news programme, Morning Edition. She also works on RTE Radio 1. She previously worked with RTE’s flagship current affairs television programme, Prime Time, making a number of landmark documentaries including investigations into sex trafficking, the cocaine trade and the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake. She has also worked for Radio France International and for CNN World Report.

She has covered stories in a number of developing countries including gang wars in Honduras, conflict in Liberia and the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony’s on-going war in Northern Uganda. Keelin has won a number of awards for her work including Science Journalist of the Year, Social and Campaigning journalist of the year, a Health Journalism award, a Law Society award and a Radharc award. Keelin is married with two young children.

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Prof. Orla Feely

Julie Feeney

Aideen Howard

Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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Julie SinnamonCEO, Enterprise Ireland

Julie Sinnamon is the recently appointed Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Ireland. Throughout her career in Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, Julie has gained considerable experience in a variety of industry sectors and international markets. The sector that she is most closely associated with is the food sector. She sits on the Harvest 2020 High Level Implementation Group chaired by Minister Simon Coveney TD and led the Enterprise Ireland team who have been working to attract food investments in Ireland, including the Global

Technology and Innovation Centre from Kerry Group and major investments from Glanbia, Danone and Dairygold. Most recently, she was Executive Director for Global Business Development in Enterprise Ireland. Julie has taken a specific interest in Enterprise Ireland’s Strategy for Female Entrepreneurship. Julie is from Co. Down. She graduated from Ulster University and has a Masters Degree in International Business from Fordham & IMI and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Programme.

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Julie Feeney

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Bríd Horan

Bill Liao


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Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

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Liz WatersCEO, An Cosán

Liz Waters has been actively involved in community education for over twenty-five years, nineteen of these with An Cosán, providing community-based adult education, educational childcare and enterprise to the community of Tallaght West. Liz managed An Cosán’s community education centre, before being appointed CEO in 2001. Liz’s particular area of expertise is in leadership studies, community development and community counselling.

Her passion for education sparked an interest in exploring how new digital technology can bring An Cosán’s social innovation in education to everyone who needs it in Ireland. Under her leadership and working with Accenture, An Cosán has embarked on a path to virtualise its curricula – from basic education to degree level and to share the knowledge created in Tallaght West with everyone.

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Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

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Young Leaders in STEMCiara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow

Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow won the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in January 2013, with their project titled ‘A Statistical Investigation of the Effects of Diazotroph Bacteria on Plant Germination.’ The girls used natural bacteria called Rhizobium to speed up the germination and subsequent growth of cereal crops. They succeeded in decreasing germination time by 40% and increasing crop yield by 20% with some results exceeding 50%.

Their discovery has significant implications for food crop production. They travelled to the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in September 2013 where they were awarded First Place. They have had the opportunity to visit various conferences around the country and will also be travelling to an EU Innovation event in Brussels and Oxford and Cambridge Universities as part of the London Youth International Science Forum. Later in the year they travel to Paris and are visiting CERN in Switzerland.

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Bríd Horan

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Marian Corcoran

Clara Halpin

Paula Neary


Prof. Sinéad Ryan

Keelin Shanley

Julie Sinnamon

Ann O’Dea

Liz Waters

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