Research Centres and Industry gather together to explore innovation,
learning how to collaborate to help grow businesses.
Mind Magician & Top 25 TED Talk
As the world’s leading TV hypnotist, mentalist and brain hacker, Keith Barry has been blazing a trail across the globe for many years. His mind-blowing skills have been showcased in over forty international television shows, including his most recent series, You’re Back in the Room.
One of Keith’s recent projects saw him working as chief mentalist and hypnotist consultant for the blockbuster movie, Now You See Me and grossed over $360M at the box office. His huge success in working extensively with Woody Harrelson, who plays a mentalist, ensured he was hired as chief magic and mentalist consultant for the sequel, Now You See Me – The Second Act.
Keith has written, produced and performed many of his own stage shows in the last fifteen years and has sold out venues across the world. He recently presented his keynote speech ‘Mind Magic’ at places such as The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, The Pendulum Summit and The Dublin Tech Summit. Keith’s TED Talk has been in the top twenty-five TED Talks since 2008 and it currently boasts over twenty-five million views.
In his keynote presentation ‘Mind Magic’ Keith reveals to the audience how to tap into their subconscious minds to break through barriers, disrupt unhealthy thought patterns and exceed expectations both in their business and personal lives. As a leading expert in influence and persuasion he will also share information on how to communicate ideas better using NLP strategies such as modelling, pacing, leading and yes-setting. Amazing and informative this keynote has something for everyone.
Global Head of Brand, Alltech
As Head of Brand, Ann Kehoe is responsible for the long term strategic development of the Alltech brand, in line with the needs of our target audience and the long and short term commercial objectives of the business.
Working with the senior management group, she helps drive the vision and direction to maintain and grow Alltech's status as an iconic brand around the world.
Her tenure at Alltech included serving as Global Design Manager, and Corporate Sponsorship Manager for Alltech’s 2014 World Equestrian Games title sponsorship, an experience that involved very little sleep for two years but much excitement.
In more recent years, Ann’s focus has moved to AgTech and The Pearse Lyons Accelerator, launched in 2017. She works directly with late stage start-ups who’s novel technologies are set to reshape the industry.
Technologist & Chief Technology Officer, Dell EMC
Marc is a passionate believer in Technology and how we can work together as an industry to better enhance and empower every person and organization in the world to achieve more.
Marc has nearly 20 years’ experience in Technology, starting his career at Dell in 1999 where he spent sixteen and a half years specializing in various Technology domains including Cloud, Data Analytics and High Performance Computing.
During his time at Dell Marc successfully lead the Cloud and Compute Specialist Practice for Dell Ireland, helping to architect, design and develop compute and Cloud solutions, while also notably contributing to Public Cloud build outs including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services as well as some of the most significant HPC and Supercomputing Clusters on the Ireland of Ireland. Marc is also a recognized leader within the Cloud and Grid communities and is a regular keynote speaker and contributor of articles on the subjects of Cloud, Analytics, IoT and HPC
Marc moved from Dell to EMC in October 2014 where he held the post of CTO, leading the Technology vision for the company’s operations in Ireland for three years. Within Dell EMC, Marc focused on driving innovation working predominantly with emerging Technologies and architecture in the Analytics and IoT space.
As CTO for the Dell Technologies organisation, Marc continues to architect, articulate and drive the Dell EMC technology vision and cross company technology strategy, working closely with the oCTO and Senior Leadership team within the Ireland business.
IoT Country Manager
Having joined Vodafone Ireland in 2014, Debbie Power was appointed regional manager for Enterprise, bringing 16 years’ experience in the ICT industry.
In this role, Debbie had responsibility for corporate growth across fixed and mobile solutions, including cloud-based platforms and IOT services.
Debbie was appointed IoT solutions sales manager in 2016, where she focused on expanding Vodafone’s customer base and partner ecosystem in the IoT sector.
In early 2018, sh became Country Manager for IOT. Leading a team of specialists, she manages Vodafone’s IOT services and solutions across Ireland, working with customers who have both international and local requirements.
Since its Irish launch in 2017, Debbie has overseen the roll out of Narrowband-IOT (NB-IoT). Debbie’s team give customers access to the NB-IoT network, which complements Vodafone’s existing suite of IoT services and technologies by providing customers and partners with multiple connectivity options to suit a variety of operational use cases.
