Speakers
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Speakers TBA. To be considered for a speaking spot please email info@gdprsummit.ie
Dr Dennis M. Jennings – Chairman & Co-Chair, Irish GDPR Coalition
Dr. Dennis M. Jennings is an Irish physicist, IT Director, Pioneer in the Internet Society’s (ISOC) Internet Hall of Fame, and an early stage investor. In 1985–1986, he was responsible for the decisions that shaped the development of the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET), the network that became the US National Research and Education Network, and that evolved into the Internet. Dr. Jennings was the director of Computing Services at University College Dublin;the first Program Director for Networking at the US National Science Foundation; interim President of the Consortium for Scien...
Garry Connolly – Chairman of GconnTec, Founder of Host in Ireland, Founder and Co-Chair of the GDPR Awareness Coalition
Speaker Bio: Garry Connolly has over 20 years of both entrepreneurial and executive experience in assisting foreign direct investment companies to achieve global success. Garry currently serves as President and Founder of Host in Ireland, a strategic global initiative created to increase awareness of the benefits of hosting digital assets in Ireland, and winner of the Datacloud Europe 2016 award for Innovative Data Center Location. This initiative, established in 2014, is comprised of partner organizations throughout the Irish digital assets hosting industry and beyond who...
Aoife Sexton, Co-founder & Director, Frontier Privacy
Speaker Bio: Aoife is Principal at the law firm, Tech Law Services, and more recently Co-Founder and Director at Frontier Privacy. Frontier Privacy is an innovative consultancy offering a full range of data protection services, assisting companies to become compliant with existing data protection laws as well as the upcoming GDPR. Aoife is a Certified Data Protection Practitioner (PDP) as well as certified IAPP/E. She is a regular lecturer at the Law Society of Ireland on data protection and technology law and a regular conference speaker
Gordon Wade – Solicitor, KPMG Legal Services
Speaker Bio: Gordon is a solicitor with KPMG Legal Services. Gordon regularly advises domestic and international clients on their European-wide compliance obligations under data protection law. Gordon work closely with KPMG Risk and Consulting in assisting clients in devising data protection strategies in areas such as multi-jurisdictional data transfers, drafting privacy and data protection policies and GDPR readiness. Presentation title: What will EU Data Protection Reform mean for Start-up Companies?
Ian Lucey – CEO, PixAlert
Speaker Bio: Ian is the founder of the Lucey Fund, a Venture Technology firm that build, sell and finance products for early-stage startups. Previously Ian has been Sales Director with Relate Software, a Deloitte Fast50 company, managed the Accountants Division in Sage. Now he is CEO and founder of Lucey Fund and sits on board of numerous companies such as PixAlert, BoscaBox, StyleFinch, ISOgenie and MedXNote.
Linda Hynes – Head of Employment & Data Protection, Leman Solicitors
Speaker Bio: Linda heads up Leman Solicitors’ Employment & Data Protection Team and is a Certified Data Protection Practitioner with PDP Ireland with an in-house legal background. Linda advises a variety of clients from sports bodies to commercial enterprises on their data protection obligations includingadvice on getting ready for the new General Data Protection Regulation.
Brendan Dowling – Founder & CEO, Consumer Data Protection
Speaker Bio: Brendan Dowling is the Founder and CEO of Consumer Data Protection, the world’s first Consumer Data Protection (CDP) cloud technology, that allows Consumers take control of their personal data and relationships with Enterprise, while allowing Enterprise to freely engage with Consumers, across various communications channels, while being compliant with the latest Data Protection legislation (GDPR)
Keith O’Leary – Principal Consultant, SunGard Availability Services (Ireland) Limited
Speaker Bio: Keith O’Leary, Principal Consultant, SunGard Availability Services (Ireland) Limited Has worked with global organisations in managed IT, cloud and recovery services provider (Sungard Availability Services), consulting (TCS, ThruPoint, Accenture, PwC, PA Consulting), independent software vendors (Compuware and Progress Software), hardware vendors (UB Networks), end-user (Goldman Sachs) and fixed & mobile service provider (O2, eircom) sectors Keith has a B. Eng. (in Electronic Engineering & Telecommunications) and a M. En...
Bryan McCarthy- Ronan Daly Jermyn’s Cyber and Data Protection Group.
Speaker Bio: Bryan McCarthy leads Ronan Daly Jermyn’s Cyber and Data Protection Group, representing organisations on a broad range of data management issues including GDPR, data security breaches, data subject rights, international data transfers, employee data, due diligence in sales of corporate assets and compliance training
Mathieu Gorge – Security Subject Matter, PCI DSS expert, International Speaker, and Trainer on Security & Compliance, Networker, Entrepreneur, VigiTrust
Speaker Bio: Mathieu has been involved with the security industry for the last 15 years. In 2003 he identified a gap in the market to provide pro-active consultancy services around key legal aspects of corporate security such as compliance with international data protection legislation as well as industry security frameworks. He started VigiTrust, which enables organisations to achieve and maintain compliance PCI-DSS, PA-DSS, HIPAA and ISO 27001. Presentation Title: GDPR: A blessing or curse for Irish organizations? Synopsis: Th...
Hilary Treacy – Founder and MD, Barbican Data Protection Services
Speaker Bio: Hilary is a Data Protection expert and a qualified solicitor in Ireland, England and Wales. Hilary has almost 2 decades’ experience working across various industry sectors in Ireland, including telecoms and banking, and over the past 8 years has worked as Group Data Protection Officer for various large Irish based multinational companies. As a non-...
Cronan McNamara – Founder & CEO, Creme Global, Founder & Director, Predict Conference, Chair, Irish Software Association
Speaker Bio: Cronan’s passion is in applying data and predictive models to solve problems and to help people to make better decisions. His vision is a world where everyone makes better decisions, based on real data and expert models. Prior to founding Creme Global in 2005, Cronan worked in financial risk analysis and derivative option price modelling with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets Bank. Cronan then moved to Trinity College Dublin where he adapted the same mathematical methods to the food safety sector while developing the science and technology that underpins Creme G...
Mike Wegwermer – Co-founder & Director, Circular Data Solutions Ltd Northern Ireland
Speaker Bio: Industry veteran in data destruction services specialising in end of life data storage equipment and devices. Co-Founder of Circular Data Solutions Ltd based in Belfast, manufacturers and distributers of a range of new generation data destruction equipment for all types of commercial applications.
Paul Prior – Managing Director, FTI Consulting and Ireland, UK and US
Speaker Bio: Paul is an international innovator and blue-sky strategist chairing FTI Consulting’s Innovation Form. A vetern of 15 years working with global clients in Europe, the UK, South America and South Africa; this year he has been featured in the Sunday Business Post, Future CIO Magazine and the Times. Presentation Title: The Customer Journey starts in the Womb, not on your website Synopsis Conventional wisdom surrounding the proactive design of online experience and customer journey is flawed in its assumption that custom...
Jim Gregg – Professional Development Consultant, The Irish Computer Society
Speaker Bio: Jim is a Professional Development Consultant at the Irish Computer Society. He delivers Data Protection training and advises clients on how they can achieve and maintain compliance with Data Protection legislation. Jim is a founder member of the Association of Data Protection Officers.
Joan Mulvihill – Centre Director, Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) at DCU.
Speaker Bio: As Centre Director for the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) at DCU, Joan Mulvihill has been at the heart of the tech community in Ireland for the past decade, having served as IIA CEO for the previous 7 years. Working with the very best technology entrepreneurs and researchers across the spectrum of start-up and scaling indigenous business to established global operators, Joan is long-term champion of innovation and a recognised industry spokesperson. As a driving force for the delivery of the IIA NSAI Swift10 “Adopting the Cloud” decision...
Liam Lynch – Cyber Security Evangelist, L2 Cyber Security Solutions
Speaker Bio: Liam started his career as a Developer, moving onto being an IT Manager and Global Infrastructure Manager over the last nearly 30 years. However he finally broke free and started his own IT security business in 2016. Now he delivers simple information security advice to anyone that will listen. Presentation title: Personal Data Breaches under the GDPR Synopsis: Under the new General Data Protection Regulation, data breaches need to be reported to the Supervisory Authority (Data Protection Commissioner) within 72 hours of detect...
Des McHugh- Information Governance & Analytics, ZL Technologies
Speaker Bio: Des has 20 years’ experience working with technology and service providers assisting large enterprises manage their data and information governance strategies – most recently assisting organisations implement best practice information governance, managing their communications data for the purposes of information risk, compliance, ediscovery and analytics, and prior to that, in financial services implementing master data management for asset management products.
Paul Conaty – Principal Consultant, CWSI
Speaker Bio: Paul leads the enterprise mobile consulting arm of CWSI which provides strategic and tactical advisory services for public and private sector organisations in Ireland and the UK, as well as several multinationals. Specialising in security, governance, and business innovation using mobile technologies with over 16 years’ experience in ICT and security roles. Presentation Title: “GDPR impact on Enterprise Mobility” Synopsis: GDPR will impact on many if not all areas in EU organisations. While primarily a legal and com...
Brian Seidman-Managing Director at Seidman & Co. Limited
Speaker Bio: Highly experienced, innovative & well-networked FDI & early-stage advisor, consultant & EaaS/NED to foreign companies coming to or in Ireland and indigenous Irish early-stage & growth companies; Founder, strategist, CEO, senior executive, mentor & investor; Public and private business success spanning 25 years throughout the US and Europe.
John Cassidy – Global Head of Sales, Ground Labs
Speaker Bio: An expert in data security and technology, John has more than twenty years’ experience working at industry leading companies including Dell and isheriff who were acquired by Mimecast late last year. As global head of sales at Ground Labs, John is guiding the expanding company in the quickly developing data security software industry. Ground Labs' innovative data discovery software helps organisation to conduct risk assessments, and prepare for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Mojtaba Akbari – CEO, Grouper Technology
Speaker Bio: Mojtaba (AKA Moji) has 14 years’ experience in strategic leadership and ICT operation assurance framework development. He is CEO and co-founder of Grouper Technology, and has been advisor to boards of directors and executive teams within multiple industries including Telecom, Hospitality, Engineering, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Consumer Business, Retail, and Government. Mojtaba’s previous positions include Advisor to the Department of Expenditure and Reform, Actavo Group, British Telecom, CIÉ and IarnródÉireann. He has served in number of leadership positions...
Owen Sorensen – CEO, PlanetVerify
Speaker Bio: Owen is CEO of PlanetVerify, a company that assists lettings agents/ employers/professional services collect and verify documents/data from their clients.
Mark McEvoy -Head of Data, Dentsu Aegis Network Ireland
Speaker Bio: Responsibilities: Mark’s is responsible for constructing a group-wide data strategy that shapes industry leading data analytics capability. The focus will be sourcing and combining data from multiple sources to generate actionable insights that drive real business impact and deep data partnerships with our clients. Brand Experience: with Olivetti, Gateway Computers and most recently Microsoft Background: Mark is a seasoned multi-discipline professional with vast experience in marketing within the technol...
Robert Leslie -CEO, Sedicii Ireland
Speaker Bio: Rob is a co-founder of Kyckr (ASX:KYK) which is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Itprovides organisational identity services for KYC & AML to banks and other regulated financial institutions. He also foundedSedicii which is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. Rob has been invited to speak at Davos on Cybersecurity, Identity and other technology issues.
Elizabeth Fitzgerald – Freelance Technology Solicitor
Speaker Bio: Elizabeth is a freelance technology and commercial law solicitor, co-founder of Dublin Legal Hackers and member of the Technology Committee of the Law Society of Ireland. Elizabeth has extensive experience of advising on privacy, regulatory and commercial issues in the technology sector. Presentation Title: Nowhere to hide – Processors, GDPR means you’re about to hit the bigtime ...
Hugh Jones – Co-founder, Sytorus Ltd
Speaker Bio: Hugh Jones is a co-founder of Sytorus Ltd, a specialised provider of Data Protection training, consultancy and assessment services. With his colleagues, Hugh provides professional Data Protection guidance, and is a frequent speaker at Privacy and Data Management events in Ireland and overseas. Through Sytorus, Hugh offers both general and bespoke training to organisations in the areas of data management and regulatory compliance. Hugh is an experienced project manager, and works with a wide range of commercial, not-for-profit and public-sector organisatio...
Olga Gaffney – Senior Solicitor, AMOSS Solicitors
Speaker Bio: Olga is a Senior Solicitor in AMOSS Solicitors and is highly experienced in several key areas of law including commercial law, commercial and residential property, landlord and tenant law, and banking law. Olga is also a lecturer, tutor and examiner with the Law Society of Ireland and also lectured on the MA in Literature and Publishing, NUI Galway in the areas of “Intellectual Property Law” and “Technology Law”.
Michael McMorrow – Principal, MMM Data Perspectives.
Speaker Bio: Michael is Principal of MMM Data Perspectives, providing consultancy to businesses, and lecturing to business colleges, on common-sense approaches to organising, understanding and exploiting data. Prior to this Michael was Head of Information Solution Design at AIB Bank and the leading architect for the design, build and business use of the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Michael is past-chairman of the UK & Ireland Teradata User Group and has presented and published widely on data-centric topics including governance, modelling and analytics. Michael h...
Dave Ewing – SensorPro
Speaker Bio: Dave Ewing has been working in the marketing automation space for over 15 years with Limerick-based company Sensorpro. Global brands like IHG, WD40 and NFL trust Sensorpro for their email marketing and/or online survey requirements.
Emily O’Mahoney – Consultant , MASON HAYES & CURRAN
Speaker Bio: Emily is a consultant on our Commercial Team. Emily has multi-jurisdictional expertise on data protection, privacy, intellectual property and media law. She regularly advises domestic and international businesses in the information technology sector on technology agreements, IP licensing and commercial contracts. Emily has in-depth knowledge of international data protection law and data transfer strategies. Emily is also involved in the firm’s foreign direct investment (FDI) practice and advises global companies looking to do business in or through Ireland. ...
Sharon O’Reilly – Experienced Information Security, Data Protection, Quality and ISO Management Systems Consultant and Auditor, Sharon O’ Reilly Business
Speaker Bio: Sharon O’ Reilly is a highly experienced Information Security, Data Protection and Business Management Systems Consultant who has a verified track record of successfully leading Irish companies to implement and maintain Information Security Management Systems standards (ISO 27001) with a focus on robust Data Protection compliance within the standards requirements.
Barry Rudden – Director, Sigmar Recruitment Consultants Limited
Speaker Bio: Barry has more than 17 years’ recruitment industry experience. Part of the senior management team that completed an MBO in 2009, Barry has ownership of Contract & Temporary recruitment as well as Compliance across the Sigmar group. He has also been involved at national level driving the broader employment agenda.
Lorraine Higgins – Head of Public Affairs and Communications, Retail Excellence
Speaker Bio: Lorraine Higgins is Head of Public Affairs and Communications with Retail Excellence, the largest industry representative organization which supports Irish retailers to be the best they can be. Retail Excellence involves over 1650 leading retail companies who operate in the Irish market. We provide HR Advice, Market Insights, Representation, Learning and Events and eCommerce support to all of our members. Coming from a family who are generations in retail she is also a qualified barrister and a former Senator who served in the 24th Seanad followin...
Francis O’Haire – Director of Technology & Strategy, Data Solutions Ltd.
Speaker Bio: Francis is Director of Technology & Strategy at DataSolutions, a specialist distributor of disruptive new technologies in the UK and Irish markets. As one of DataSolutions founders, Francis has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry with extensive knowledge of topics including security, virtualisation, cloud, and data communications.
Geraldine Gibson-CEO, AQMetrics
Geraldine Gibson is the CEO of AQMetrics. In 2012, Geraldine left her then role as Head of Professional Services at BAE Systems and founded AQMetrics. Geraldine is a computer scientist with a MBA from the Michael Smurfit School of Business, Dublin.
Gerard Meaney-CEO & thought leader, Dandelion Innovation.
Gerard Meaney is the founder of Dandelion, a successful design and management consultancy, specialising in sustainability projects and policies across a number of sectors including customer information, energy management and data protection. Gerard also provides business innovation coaching on behalf of the European Commission H2020 programme. Gerard is a GDPR ambassador and member of Ireland’s GDPR coalition.
Pascal Derrien-Leadership, Managing Complexity, Governance, Change Management, Coaching & Mentoring, Directorships, Irish Executives Network
I am recognised as a high energy team builder with proven leadership competencies. I step-up, take control of challenges and opportunities and make things happen. As a senior manager & leader, I have a successful track record in implementation and change management. How others value my contribution: ….’absolutely open, honest and respectful. Especially in a multi-cultural environment, he understands and appreciates different approach and working style and treats everyone accordingly. Diversity and inclusion are not just a buzzword for him, he actually lives it…. …..he promoted ...
Gareth Davies- Data Protection Officer , Kerry Group
I have specialized in Data Protection for over a decade and have worked within or consulted in industries including, Telecommunications, Social Media, Transportation and Taste & Nutrition. In that time I have liaised regularly with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, seen new legislation introduced and contributed to cross industry working groups to lobby and publish guidance papers. I am currently the Data Protection Officer for the Kerry Group, responsible for compliance across the Group, worldwide.
Pat Moran- Head of Cybercrime & IT Forensics, PwC Dublin
I am partner in PwC Dublin with responsibility for Cybercrime and IT Forensics. I have worked for over 25 years in Ireland, across Europe and Asia Pacific performing cybercrime projects, information security assessments, IT forensics and fraud investigations. Throughout my career, I have experience of working with a broad range of clients from financial services, utilities and communication sectors. I have a BSc in Computer Science from Trinity College. I am a qualified Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and am a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA).
Barry Young – Senior Compliance and Privacy Specialist. CISSP Riot Games.
I’ve worked in the IT Industry for 16 Years. Prior to joining Riot Games, I worked in Government where typically,I wore many hats, but primarily focused on Security,Telecoms and Vendor management. As my role in Riot Games requires me to liaise with all disciplines, having both an understanding of Government Compliance and a technical background, has proven massively beneficial, especially when discussing such topics as privacy by design and raising awareness on GDPR requirements.
Shirley Finnerty -Windows and Devices Business Group Lead in Microsoft Ireland.
Shirley Finnerty is the Windows and Devices Business Group Lead in Microsoft Ireland. With a 25 year career in Telecoms and IT, she has experienced the evolution of mobility and productivity in the workplace. She is focused on IT security and how it can support Organisations in their GDPR journey to enable Digital Transformation.
Eoin Lambkin- Co-Founder, Circular Data Solutions Ltd.
Co-Founder of Circular Data Solutions Ltd provider of data destruction equipment and services. Based out of Catalyst Inc (formally known as Northern Ireland Science Park in Belfast) Eoin has had a long career in technology start-up companies including mobile wireless communications and internet security solutions. Currently holds the position of Entrepreneur in Residence supporting the Connect Programme at Catalyst Inc. Title: Chain of custody for ‘end of life data’ your responsibility