World-class speaker, philanthropist, author of the book “Your Perfect Presentation,” Co-Founder of Cafemedia, and CEO & Founder of Own The Room, Bill Hoogterp has provided professional communication training and consultation to business leaders, politicians and celebrities around the world.

Wendy is a consulting leader in the Netherlands and part of the Joint Europe Advisory Leadership team and the Europe Consulting Leadership team. Before these roles, she was leading the People & Organisation competence group in Consulting from 2011 till 2016.

Nicola Whitton is Director of the Durham Centre for Academic Development and Professor of Education at Durham University. Her research focuses on play in adulthood, in particular games and learning in the context of Higher Education, and the potential of play in teaching, research, and academic practice.

Paul is the COO of DAQRI, a leader in the enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) space, and who specializes in the adoption of AR as a tool for workers in a wide range of industries. DAQRI offers a suite of AR based workforce tools called WORKSENSE which are optimized for use on the DAQRI Smart Glasses, their proprietary AR Wearables.

Kelly joined the department of Complex Genetics in 2014 to do her doctoral research in the field of consumer genetic testing. During this project she contributed to both research and business development, the latter resulting in establishment of the company MyBasePair. In September 2018 she completed this project and successfully defended her thesis.

Aidan is the host and founder of the Global Innovation Show, broadcast on RTE and the only English speaking show on Finland’s Business FM and writer of The Thursday Thought weekly blog. Aidan is a Change Consultant with Flow Consulting Group, where he works with organisations to improve how they engage with each other.

Dr Michelle Selinger is a Principal Consultant with the consultancy practice EdTech Ventures. Michelle’s academic career started as a schoolteacher and then as a lecturer and researcher at universities in the UK including the University of Cambridge, the UK Open University, and the University of Warwick.

Jonny has 20+ years‘ experience in digital media and learning technology and is a leading member of the learning technology industry in Ireland. He is Chair of the Learnovate Centre in Trinity College Dublin, one of Europe’s leading research centres in learning technologies.

Martyn is the COO of SoapBox Labs, the global leader in speech technology for children. Martyn has been a member of the Irish Government’s Data Forum since its inception in June 2015. He is an experienced public speaker on the future use of technology/AI and children, with a particular interest in privacy and education.

Learning Lead - Corporate & Adult learning at Learnovate since February 2017. Over 15 years of corporate experience in a variety of roles including learning design. MSc. in Digital Education from the University of Edinburgh. Interest in game-based learning and innovative learning solutions involving technology.

Belinda is an educator, management consultant and business leader. Her professional focus is on acquiring, optimising and developing high performance talent and culture in organisations. She has deep and global experience of digital and high growth organisations and in the Irish not-for-profit sector.

Gavin is a consultative digital learning professional and has cultivated over 14 years’ experience helping organisations with their learning and development challenges. Having worked on some of the largest digital learning projects globally, Gavin champions the positive effects that engaging, effective learning content can have on an organisation and its stakeholders.

Tracey Donnery is an Executive Director with Skillnet Ireland, the agency responsible for the promotion and facilitation of workforce development. She is an experienced executive in learning and development, organisation development and labour market policy.

Gavin Henrick is an experienced educational technology consultant, with over 15 years’ experience delivering education solutions with a focus around online and blended learning technologies, such as Moodle.

Natasha is Manager of Regional Skills Dublin, an initiative under the Department of Education focused on Training and Education while fostering engagement between industry and educational providers (both Further Ed & Higher Ed). She now works based on this role across various sectors in Dublin on activities of skills development, for example, Tourism & Hospitality, Retail, Biopharma, FINTECH, Construction, Logistics Transport and more.