Bronagh is a business-focused Data & Analytics leader with a proven track record of driving an innovative analytics agenda to unlock business value.  In her current role, Bronagh leads on delivering Data & Analytics strategy and solutions for Primark, an international retailer in the value fashion, beauty and homeware section. Bronagh is a passionate Data & Analytics evangelist with 20 years of proven experience delivering solutions, and building and managing high performance teams across the fields of Data Management, Data Science, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence. Previous to joining Primark, Bronagh was Director of the Global Analytics Centre of Excellence for Deutsche Bank, Head of Data Science for CarTrawler, and additionally has a strong results-driven consulting background, assisting organisations to drive sales, improve profitability and enhance customer experience through the application of Data & Analytics solutions.  Bronagh has a BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Computing, an MSc in Statistics and is a strong proponent of continuous learning in order to further drive business value-add. https://www.linkedin.com/in/bronaghriordan/

Aidan Connolly is the founder and CEO of Idiro Analytics. Founded in 2003, Idiro specialises in the development and deployment of advanced analytical solutions for large B2C companies who seek to understand and serve their customers better. The company has carried out projects in over 30 countries and has worked with a roster of blue-chip companies such as Verizon Wireless (USA), AIB, Telefonica (Spain), Electric Ireland and Vodafone (Germany, Spain, Ireland, UK). Advancing the field of analytics has always been core to Aidan\'s vision for Idiro - it is how the company differentiates itself from its competitors, and innovation in analytics is core to the ethos of the business. In 2020, Idiro Analytics was recognised as the Analytics SME of the Year and Aidan was awarded the Analytics Leader of the Year by the Analytics Institute.

Anne-Marie has over 20 years’ experience in the global investment environment with IDA Ireland, working across a number of key roles in Ireland and abroad.    Anne-Marie took up her current position as Department Manager, Technology and Emerging Business, in October 2021. Prior to this role, she held positions as Department Manager, Regional Development, Director of Europe, based in Paris and Project Manager in the Technology Division.  Anne-Marie is a Law graduate and holds an MSc in International Marketing, as well as being an Associate Practitioner of the European Chartered Institute of Marketing.

John Byrne is founder and CEO of Corlytics, responsible for setting the company’s vision and strategy. He is a serial entrepreneur in the financial technology sector, John has built and sold a number of global technology-based enterprises. He co-founded one of the first campus companies in Ireland in 1985 in the energy technology sector and built Information Mosaic in 1997, a global player in the securities software industry which was sold to Markit in 2015. He set up Corlytics to provide real regularly risk intelligence. Following a tsunami of global regulation arrived for the financial markets in 2009, John realised there was no joined up intelligence and predictive analytics to help the banks, regulators and their advisors make informed decisions. Corlytics was formed in 2013 and today is the global leader in regulatory risk intelligence. John is a frequent speaker at industry events and has spoken at events such as SIBOS and NEMA. He has also spoken at many other conferences on operational and systemic risk and more recently at RegTech Summits in London and New York. John is a graduate of Stanford Business School and has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering.

Noelle Doody is a leader in Accenture’s Applied Intelligence practice in Ireland, with a particular focus on utilities and consumer goods. Noelle holds a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering and a MSc. In Business Analytics from UCD. Noelle has held a variety of roles both in Consulting and Industry including Head of Data and Analytics in SSE Airtricity and Senior Manager in Accenture’s Centre of Excellence for Fraud and Non-compliance analytics. Noelle has led analytics projects across a number of industries (utilities, public services, financial services, consumer goods) and subject areas (customer analytics, operational analytics, optimisation, forecasting and financial modelling).

Dr Allan Kearns is Head of Analytics within Financial Supervision in the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI).  He oversees the extraction of insights from regulatory reporting and market sources to enhance the Central Bank’s monitoring and risk assessment of regulated financial services firms.  Prior to this role, Allan has held a number of roles including Deputy Chief Risk Officer, International Relations and Economist.   Allan lectures on risk management topics domestically and internationally, including corporate governance and culture. He is board chair of the Asthma Society of Ireland.

Alessandra Sala Director of AI and Data Science at Shutterstock; Global President of Women in AI; Technology Advisory Board Member at CeADAR; Governance Committee Chair at the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning; A research and scientific leader in Artificial Intelligence, Alessandra is the Director of AI and Data Science at Shutterstock. Alessandra has over 10 years’ experience in research and innovation gained whilst working in academic and commercial environments. Alessandra is passionate in advanced analytics, machine learning, and computational models with the focus of transferring innovation from research to products. As Ambassador of Women in AI Ireland (a nonprofit do-tank working towards gender-inclusive AI that benefits global society) Alessandra is building a strong community of women and minorities in Ireland by providing means for growing knowledge and expertise in AI thanks to the strong support of  the government, academia and private enterprises. In her previous appointment Alessandra was Head of Analytics Research at Nokia Bell Labs where she was leading research teams in several locations and developing a successful strategy for the Data Analytics division while driving changes across different activities like her contributions to the Nokia AI Ethics Advisory Board.

Gurchand is currently the Chief Information Officer for the Department of Justice and Equality, responsible for the development of technology, analytics and research. Prior to this role, Gurchand established the Garda Síochána Analysis Service which provided strategic and operational analytics to support policing in Ireland. Gurchand arrived to this position from the UK, where he worked in the Home Office in a variety of roles, including Programme Director for Crime and Drugs Analysis and Research.

Declan McEvoy is CEO of FinTech start-up Coalface Capital. The mission is to apply AI to the Investment Management arena. He has spent his career in the Investment Banking FICC area, working in Sales & Trading at Chase, BarCap and UBS and holding management positions at Citigroup and Standard Chartered Bank. He holds a BBS from DCU and an MBA from London Business School.

John O’Gorman is Principal Technology Officer – Cybersecurity & Data Analytics with S3 Connected Health.   John has worked for Microsoft, Symantec, and multiple medtech companies over the years. Recently, his focus has been on technologies that will drive improvements in patient care.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/declan-mcgee-1489098/

Dr Ricardo Simon Carbajo is the Head of Innovation & Development at CeADAR. Ricardo leads the IDG group, composed of senior data scientists, which focuses on the development of bespoke advanced data analytics and AI solutions for SMEs and MNCs operating in a large range of verticals (energy, manufacturing, insurance, fintech, healthcare, telecoms, etc). He is also responsible for EU Research & Innovation and actively participates in European colloquiums and events to foster collaboration at EU level. Prior to this position, Ricardo was Adjunct Lecturer, Senior Research Fellow and Post-Doctoral Researcher in Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Dublin City University. Ricardo holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Leon (Spain), an M.Sc. in Networks and Distributed Systems and a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). His applied research background includes areas such as wireless networking, distributed systems, signal processing, sensor data fusion, real-time data analytics and advanced machine learning. Ricardo also has experience in entrepreneurship, as founder of a start-up company in the Industry 4.0 sector. LinkedIn: https://ie.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-simon-carbajo-7141464

Areas of expertise/interest:

Advanced Machine Learning, Wireless Networking, Distributed Systems, Signal Processing, Sensor Data Fusion, Real-time Data Analytics with application to multiple verticals.

Dr Oisín Boydell is Principal Data Scientist and Head of the Applied Research Group at CeADAR, Ireland’s centre for Applied AI at University College Dublin. His primary research interests include deep learning and machine learning, real-time analytics and blockchain technology. After working as a software developer in the UK, Oisín returned to UCD to undertake a PhD in Computer Science, researching novel approaches for personalized information retrieval. Prior to joining CeADAR he worked for a number of years in the research and innovation team at ChangingWorlds Ltd (subsequently acquired by Amdocs Ltd) where he developed big data analytics and machine learning solutions for the telecommunications industry. At CeADAR, Oisín leads industry focussed research projects in collaboration with industry partners across a broad range of technology areas including machine learning, deep learning, blockchain, recommender systems, data stream processing and real-time analytics.

Areas of expertise/interest:

Machine Learning, Blockchain, Realtime Analytics

Edward McDonnell is the Director of the National Centre for Applied Data Analytics & Machine Intelligence www.ceadar.ie The Centre which is funded by EI and the IDA has over 80 member companies across a wide span of industries. The Centre’s primary focus is on delivering industry prototypes, technology demonstrators and state-of-the-art reviews. The CeADAR Centre won i-Spaces accreditation from the EU’s BDVA in 2018 and the Dunn & Bradstreet award for best research group. CeADAR is a founder along with NextGeneration of the annual European Data Science Awards. Prior to being appointed Director of CeADAR, Edward was European Director of Innovation & Technology Research at Fidelity Investments. The role involved prospecting for FinTech technology and investment opportunities across Europe, understanding developments in the European innovation ecosystem, and directing technology trials. Edward has also held various technical and global senior management roles in the Office of Strategy and Technology at Hewlett-Packard Europe based in England. Edward has a PhD in Analytics and AI from the University of Edinburgh, is a Fellow of the IEE & ICS, and is the named inventor on 76 granted patents. He has been awarded several international prizes including the Scientific American top 50 technologies that demonstrate outstanding leadership, Grand Award and Overall Winner for Innovation, Popular Science (USA), Horizon Award “10 Cool Cutting Edge Technologies”, Computer World (USA).