Consider just how much the internet itself has changed our lives and businesses over the last 20 years.  And the Internet of Things is expected to have over 10 times the impact.  Imagine the enormity of change and opportunity when all things become smart?  

The Internet of Things and Smart Everything represents a fundamental tilt in the lens through which we view the world. The same way most of us would never want to go back to a phone that’s just a phone, soon we won’t be able to imagine going back to a world without smart cars, smart roads, smart infrastructure, smart homes, smart factories etc.  From yogurts, to manufacturing, to frying pans, to cities, to insurance, to cement, to health ….all sectors will see change.  There is expected to be 75 billion connected devices by 2020!

In other words: this could change everything and every business needs to consider its implications.

SPEAKERS

Damien English

Minister for Skills, Research & Innovation

Donal Tierney

Chairman, IRDG & Group CEO, Bimeda

John Barrett

Head of Academic Studies at the NIMBUS Centre for Embedded Systems Research

David Prendergast

Senior Researcher & Anthropologist, Intel

Claire Penny

Worldwide Solution Leader Internet of Things: BIM & Energy, IBM

Terry Landers

Director, Regional Standards Officer EMEA, Microsoft

Derek Roddy

CEO, Climote

Glenn Wintrich

Innovation Leader, Dell

Andrei Grigoriev

VP Emerging Technologies, SAP

Ciaran Black

Group Innovation Director, Coillte

Edmond Harty

CEO & Technical Director, Dairymaster

Ciara Clancy

CEO, Beats Medical

Jason Lynch

Director of IoT Strategy, Analog Devices

Brian Donnellan

Prof. of Information System Innovation, NUI Maynooth

Ken Finnegan

ICT Innovation, Research and Development Advisor & IoT Lead, IDA

Orla Coughlan

VP People & Communications, Cleverbug

Paul Conway

Head of Engineering EMEA, B+B Smartworx

David Moloney

CTO & Founder, Movidius

Julie Cummins

CTO, Keelings Solutions

Niall Dorr

Chief Innovation Officer, Netwatch

Brian Jordan

Product Specialist, Cisco

Enda Feeney

Digital Marketing Executive at Shimmer

Andrew Lynch

Chief Innovation & Network Officer - Advanced Manufacturing Ireland

Joe Hughes

Development Manager Direct Heating, Glen Dimplex

Maria Archer

Global IoT Lead, Ericsson

John Barton

Research Engineer & Team Leader Industry Projects, Tyndall National Institute

HOTEL ACCOMMODATION

IRDG has block booked a number of rooms at the Clayton Leopardstown Hotel (formerly Bewleys Hotel Leopardstown) for the night of Monday 16th November.  This is 5 mins from the racecourse.  Should you wish to reserve a room from this allocation, please contact the hotel directly on 01-2935000, mentioning IRDG.  The rate agreed is €99 B&B.

FUSEAMI - THE SMARTER NETWORKING & CONFERENCE APP

To improve business networking at the event, the IRDG annual conference is pleased to adopt the fuseami networking app.

fuseami is a revolutionary new mobile app to help you to business network smarter at conferences. Discover and connect with those other professionals that are most relevant to you and your business at this event.

Uses intelligent search and leverages your existing professional profile to recommend the most suitable business people for you to meet.

 Works instantly once you select the IRDG Annual conference. fuseami automatically suggests a list of professionals in your field for you to meet and allows you to start networking straight away.

Relevance– what makes fuseami special is it’s custom relevance engine. This intelligently searches for areas of relevance across profiles.

Control - fuseami puts you in control of your networking activity. Only connect and communicate with those that you want to.

Before, during and after the event – with fuseami, you can start networking with other attendees before the conference even starts and continue networking after the event ends.

Essential Conference Info - As well as providing advanced networking, view essential conference information, such as agenda, speakers details, maps, etc.

Simply – download, login with your LinkedIn account, choose IRDG annual conference and start networking with other delegates.

About fuseami

fuseami is an Irish company, and a spinout from TSSG, the research and innovation unit based in Waterford. It originates from EU funded research and has been supported by Enterprise Ireland funding. The service has been used successfully at over 40 conferences since May 2015 including prestigious events such as the ICT2015 conference in Lisbon. Upcoming events such as IEEE Globecom2015 are scheduled to use the service to support networking at their event in San Diego in December.

fuseami has recently received funding from FI-C3, an EU accelerator to continue the development and rollout of the service.

For more information on fuseami visit: fuseami.com