INFO AGENDA
Brenda O’Connell, Twitter
Technology has never been more gender inclusive with some of the world’s leading tech brands helmed by women, from Ginni Rometty, President and CEO of IBM, Amy Hood, CFO at Microsoft and Meg Whitman, CEO of HP Enterprise. Irish women aren’t left out of the loop with Kerrywoman Cora Creed currently serving as Vice
President of Digital Supply Chain Management at Universal Music Group. Una Fox has held a number of VP roles at The Walt Disney Company, from e-commerce to data. She is now VP Digital Marketing and CRM. Prior to that, she was Director of Publisher Channel Management where she was responsible for online media solutions to Yahoo’s largest partners. Brenda O’Connell is the Director of Business Development EMEA at Twitter with 15 years’ worth of experience in telecommunications, software, hardware and content industry sectors. Prior to that she held a directorship at Jolicloud, an OS oriented at users of cloud-based services. The cofounder of Skytek, Dr Sarah Bourke, meanwhile, is the creator of several software applications that help astronauts control and manage emergency situations on the International Space Station.
Dublin city Smart city
Dublin ranks third on a list of the most successful cities for innovation, liveability and capacity to reinvent, according to the City Momentum Index of innovation-oriented cities. Compiled by Jones Lang LaSalle, the index identifies the cities with the most dynamic urban economies and those who are adapting most rapidly to technological and infrastructural transformation.
Data king
State-of-the-art medical technology
Killala Bay, Co Mayo, site of the subsea cable
As of January, 2016, the America Europe Connect subsea fibre optic cable system is live. AEConnect features 130Gbps x 100Gbps per fibre pair – a major advance upon the first subsea cables built 12 years ago and will meet the exponential surge in bandwidth demand from carriers, global data centres, financial services companies, cloud and content providers.
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Medtech leader Stryker has opened its first Surgical Innovation Centre in Ireland. Located in Cork, the centre features state-of-the-art prototyping and test facilities, and a simulated operating room.
According to Ronan Harris, Ireland holds Europe’s data crown thanks to the number of data-focused companies operating here. The head of Google Ireland said in a recent interview, “There is a great opportunity for Ireland to capitalise on the fact that it is at the intersection of data for Europe and we can build on that and turn it into a strength. I often talk about our Dublin offices being the point where the rubber hits the road for our users, our publishers and our advertisers, right across EMEA. Because it is where all the data flows.” He went on to say, “We are just one company down in Silicon Docks. All of the largest ‘born-on-the-web’ companies that operate in a similar space have their operations here.” See our interview with Ronan on page 30.
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