Jamie Cudden, Dublin City Council
Jamie Cudden is Dublin City Council’s smart city programme manager. He is responsible for the development of a smart city strategy and framework to address priority challenges that the city faces. This includes transport, environment monitoring, dealing with extreme weather events, energy efficiency and engagement with cities.
Cudden has led major initiatives such as the Intel Sensing City project, IBM smarter cities collaboration and the Dublin Dashboard. He is also a member of Dublinked, which is Dublin’s internationally recognised open-data initiative.
Grainne Murphy, Analog Devices
The global head of internet of things marketing at Analog Devices is Irishwoman Grainne Murphy, who works with internal teams and external partners to further Analog’s internet of things ambitions.
US electronics giant Analog Devices makes chips that feature in everything from vehicles to consumer electronics gadgets. The company employs 9,600 people worldwide, including 1,100 people in the design and manufacture of semiconductors in Cork and Limerick.
Ken Finnegan, IDA Ireland
Ken Finnegan is internet of things lead at IDA Ireland’s technology division and is razor-focused on ensuring Ireland takes advantage of its prowess and talent in terms of data and machines.
Finnegan is a technologist with 14 years of experience working in the technology sector, including D&B, XS Solutions and Eircom. He believes Ireland is the logical choice as the home of the internet of things and is convinced that the country’s strong base of industry plus academic collaborations facilitated by national research centres can put Ireland on the world stage for IoT-related breakthroughs.
Niamh Townsend, Dell
Earlier this year, Niamh Townsend was named general manager of Dell in Ireland. In June, Dell had opened its first European internet of things lab in Limerick, where it will work on technology widely considered the internet’s future.
The company’s first IoT lab was opened in Santa Clara, California in November last year, but the Limerick lab’s opening came at a time when the company launched its first IoT product release. These gateways, as Dell calls them, will make up the framework of an interconnected IoT infrastructure with the small, wireless or connected devices being used to collect, help secure and process sensor data at the edge of a network.
Bob Savage, EMC
A highly regarded leader of the tech sector in Cork, Bob Savage, vice-president and managing director of EMC Centres of Excellence EMEA, believes Ireland is poised to take part in the internet of things revolution in a big way.
In recent months, EMC and Vodafone invested €2m in the new Infinite IoT industrial platform that will traverse Cork, and which will provide facilities for the testing and exploration of technologies like machine-to-machine communications.
The IoT Innovation platform is spread across three data centres in Cork: EMC, Vodafone, and data centre and cloud provider Cork Internet eXchange.
Dr Martin Serrano, Insight Centre for Data Analytics
One of the foremost minds around the internet of things in Ireland, Dr Martin Serrano is an NUI Galway adjunct lecturer and scientific co-ordinator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics.
At NUI Galway, the research centre investigates the convergence of software systems, the semantic web, the evolution of sensor technologies and unifying the physical and virtual worlds.
Brian Cahill, Nimbus Centre
Brian Cahill manages the Mallow Systems Innovation Centre (MSIC) at Cork Institute of Technology’s Nimbus Centre.
MSIC creates the conditions through which innovative industry projects can be trialled in the small smart ‘city’ of Mallow before they get commercialised – a unique collaboration between a local community and a third-level institution. Individuals, SMEs and large industries have found this resource invaluable, and it’s Cahill’s job to guide these companies through the process of Enterprise Ireland funding for zero-risk innovation research.
Prof Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University
Prof Rob Kitchin is an advanced investigator for the European Research Council-funded Programmable City Project at Maynooth University. Taking the approach that software is essential to the functioning of cities, this project examines future urban planning, services, utilities and the lives of citizens. In particular, it focuses on how software makes a difference to how social, spatial and economic life takes place.
–Siliconrepublic.com
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