Our MC for this event is Teresanne O’Reilly.

Teresanne is the Managing Director of The Forest, a website design and brand strategy company that works with businesses all over Ireland to help them sell more to their ideal customers. The Forest specialises in working with consumer businesses selling high quality products and services to end-user consumers, particularly in the interiors, lifestyle, health, wellness and food industries.

Before founding The Forest in 2019, Teresanne spent a decade in radio (Beat, WLR, Today FM and Spin 103.8) working both as an on air presenter, and behind the scenes leading teams in brand and digital transformation.

Speaker 1

Paul Delahunty

Paul is one of the country’s top Information Security experts. He is the Chief Security Officer at Stryve, a Carlow headquartered private cloud and cybersecurity company. Paul is this year's recipient of the CIO and IT Leaders Award title of Security Leader of the Year.

A certified CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) with over ten years of experience in information security, Paul started his career as an engineer with Ericsson before venturing into the start-up world as Operations Director with moQom. He later co-founded ThorsNet, a regulatory and compliance company. More recently, he worked as Information Security and Audit Manager for Hostelworld, before joining the rapidly expanding team at Stryve.

Paul works closely with Stryve’s growing clientele in Ireland, the UK and Europe, managing an international team to deliver tailor-made cybersecurity services supporting businesses, including Government contracts, in over 20 countries with a combined turnover of over €21 billion.

As a member of the Cyber Ireland SME Committee Paul shares his knowledge helping to build a cybersecurity community across the country which links with Cyber Ireland’s national activities. He is also an active member of ICTTF (International Cyber Threat Task Force).
He is a regular contributor to the national conversation on cybersecurity in print media, radio and television.

Speaker 2

Professor Niall McKeown

Niall McKeown is CEO of Ionology and creator of several of the world’s most advanced and widely used digital transformation and AI-In-Business frameworks and models.

Niall leads an International advisory and executive education business, called Ionology. Ionology has a 25-year track record of helping senior executives close the gap between the business capabilities of technology and corporate strategy. Ionology has partnerships and offices around the world that teach Ionology courses and implement their strategic frameworks.

Niall is a respected thought-leader. He makes frequent appearances on the company’s popular YouTube channel and is the author of several books on effective digital transformation and leveraging AI.

Niall is a visiting Professor at Ulster University and lecturer for the Møller Institute at University of Cambridge. He delivers keynote addresses regularly throughout the Middle East, Africia, Europe, and USA.

Niall combines his academic research with Ionology’s in-market experience to design and deliver leadership development programmes for senior executives and managers in global enterprises including JP Morgan, Accenture, Fujitsu, Oracle, Allianz, Bayer, Infosys as well as many less well known, accelerating growth organisations and government bodies.

Niall is a published author; his latest, co-authored book, ‘The Seven Principles of Digital Business Strategy’ was commissioned by Babson College, the number one college for entrepreneurship in the USA.

Speaker 3

Bryan Corden

Bryan is the founder of Deycom Computer Services, a leading IT Managed Services Company working with SME’s businesses throughout Ireland.
With a career spanning over three decades in the IT industry, Bryan has first-hand experience of the radical changes that have taken place in the technology sector and this experience has ensured that Deycom is consistently delivering the latest innovative solutions to meet the evolving needs of its clients.

Bryan believes that Artificial Intelligence is now set to surpass the impact that the Internet had on technology, fundamentally transforming that way we do business, and he is excited to see how AI will shape the way we use technology in the future.

Speaker 4

Steven Coyle

Steven is the Channel manager and sales specialist for Vodafone IOTs Automotive and IOT propositions. He has 4 years with Vodafone and prior to that 15 years experience in the automotive industry in Ireland.

Vodafone has been rated as a global leader in IoT by analysts who’ve done extensive research into IoT solutions. Vodafone connect over 150 million IoT devices in over 190 countries, and that number is growing daily as they are the largest global IoT provider.

To end the summit we will have a Case Study - Cyber Security in Action

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