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This event occurred on
February 7, 2015
10:00am - 1:00pm GMT
(UTC +0hrs)
Dublin, Dublin
Ireland

Changing Lives, Challenging Perceptions

Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin, Dublin, D11
Ireland
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Adam Harris

Adam established AsIAm because of his own experiences growing up with Aspergers Syndrome, a condition on the Autism Spectrum. Adam spent 3 years of his education in a school for people with Autism, before being integrated into mainstream education in 2nd class. By the time he was 16, Adam felt he should do something to help others affected by Autism and was particularly frustrated at the lack of public awareness and understanding of the condition, and the lack of a voice for those with the condition and their families. He set up AspergersAdvice.org in response to this and it grew and expanded, becoming AsIAm.ie. Adam is passionate about building an Ireland where people with Autism can live and succeed “AsTheyAre”. Adam is also a member of the NCSE Consultative Forum and is a frequent commentator on Autism in media and at conferences, at home and overseas. He recently became a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Awardee. Follow Adam on twitter: @AdamPHarris

David Moloney

David Moloney is the Chief Technology Officer of Movidius and has a BEng in Electronic Engineering Dublin City University 1985 and PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2010 in the area of FPGA-based HPC for Computational Fluid Dynamics. David has worked in the semiconductor industry internationally for the past 28 years with Infineon in Germany, ST Microelectronics Italy, Parthus-Ceva (Ceva-DSP) and FrontierSilicon in Ireland, before founding Movidius in 2005 with Sean Mitchell. David has 31 granted patents and numerous publications. He acts as a reviewer for IEEE communications magazine and for the EU Commission on programs such as ARTEMIS. David is a member of the EU FP7 HiPEAC NoE and collaborates on the FP7 PHEPPER and EXCESS projects as well as the forthcoming Eyes of Things (EoT) Horizon 2020 project. Follow David on Twitter: @cto_movidius

Dearbhail McDonald

Dearbhail McDonald is Associate Editor and Legal Editor of the Irish Independent. A global Eisenhower Fellow, Dearbhail is also an author and broadcaster. Dearbhail is a volunteer with and serves on the board of Fighting Words, the national creative writing centre and is a member of the External Advisory Board of Maynooth University Department of Law. The Newry native published her first book Bust: How the Courts Have Exposed the Rotten Heart of the Irish Economy (Penguin Ireland) in 2010. Dearbhail holds an LL.B (Law) from Trinity College Dublin as well as a Masters Degree in Journalism from Dublin City University. A former news correspondent with The Sunday Times, Dearbhail has won a series of awards for her legal affairs coverage and is a former Young Irish Medical Journalist of the Year. Follow Dearbhail on twitter: @dearbhaildibs

Kate Irving

Kate is currently working in Dublin City University, where she is a senior lecturer in Mental Health Nursing and teaches a range modules. Previously she worked at University College Dublin as a lecturer. She completed her PhD in 2001 at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Her thesis was entitled: Case studies in restraint use. Kate is a partner on an Erasmus programme ‘Positive about Dementia’ to establish a European, multidisciplinary Masters in dementia. Kate is the Lead in Partnership with Mary Manning in the HSE partnership project Dementia Skills elevator which develops capacity to care for people with dementia in communities and workplaces. Kate is leading a national dementia training initiative: Dementia Skills Elevator, which aims to develop capacity in services and communities to better support people with dementia and their families. Follow Kate on Twitter: @dementiaelevate

Louise Bruton

Louise Bruton is a Dublin-based freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in The Irish Times, the Sunday Business Post, entertainment.ie, The Huffington Post and the Irish Independent. Primarily, Louise is a pop fan, avid tweeter and a music journalist but when she’s not writing about music and festivals, she is writing about access and life in a wheelchair on her blog Legless In Dublin. Since Legless started in 2013, Louise has appeared on Today FM, Spin 103.8, RTE Radio 1, 2FM and TV3’s Ireland AM to discuss disability and access in a straight-forward and honest way with the smallest dash of humour. She recently took part in TEDMED’s event in San Francisco and is delighted, as a DCU graduate, to take part in TEDxDCU. You can find her musings on access and being at crotch level with everyone on LeglessInDublin.blogspot.com.

Mary O'Connell

Dr Mary J O’Connell is a Fulbright Scholar, Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator of the Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution Group Leader at DCU’s School of Biotechnology. The group has two major research strands - understanding animal evolution and the diversity of life history traits from a molecular perspective, and early eukaryogenesis. Mary was awarded a PhD in 2005 for her research on the the role of positive selection in the evolution of human and mouse. Since joining DCU in 2006, Mary has established her own independent SFI-funded research team where she has continued to develop and expand her research interests in molecular evolution and genomics. Mary was part of a large international consortium involving DCU and Maynooth University which sequenced and analysed the genomes of multiple polar bears and their close relative, the brown bear. Their findings were published last year in the respected international research journal, Cell.

Niall Moyna

Niall Moyna is a Professor in the School of Health and Human Performance and a member of the Centre for Preventive Medicine at DCU. Niall’s research focusses on the effects of exercise on the vascular health of patients with coronary disease, the effects of endurance training on men and women, and the impact of high intensity interval training among Gaelic football players. Niall received his masters degree from Purdue University, Indiana, USA and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He completed a three year National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in immunology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He was Director of the Clinical Exercise Research Laboratory in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre and later moved to Connecticut to take a position as a Senior Research Scientist in Nuclear and Preventive Cardiology at Hartford Hospital. Follow Niall on twitter: @niallmoyna

Niamh Bushnell

Niamh Bushnell was recently appointed Dublin’s first Commissioner for Startups, a role created as a result of the Activating Dublin report spearheaded by Dublin Chamber of Commerce and Dublin City Council. The position has been funded privately through the DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurs. At the highest level, Niamh’s mission as Commissioner is to develop a voice, an image and a platform for Dublin as a great startup city, nationally and internationally. She will work in conjunction with Dublin City Council, Enterprise Ireland, Dublin’s universities and Local Enterprise Offices to promote and maximise the potential of the city’s startup ecosystem. Niamh is the co-founder of IDIRUS, a purpose-built peer to peer networking and mentor matching platform. Prior to her appointment as Startup Commissioner, Niamh was the Entrepreneur in Residence at Talent Tech Labs in New York City. She is also an angel investor and mentor at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator in New York (ERANYC).

Orlaith Carmody

Orlaith Carmody is Managing Director of Mediatraining.ie, a consultancy specialising in communications training and leadership development. Orlaith has addressed influential business people, networks and political groups on the subjects of professional development and corporate leadership in Ireland, Europe, the USA and Canada. She is an active media and business commentator, and contributes regularly to a variety of radio and TV programmes on entrepreneurship, women’s participation at board level and in public life, education and parenting. Orlaith has been variously a national broadcast journalist (RTÉ), producer, media and management consultant, educator and trainer. As a serial entrepreneur she has been actively involved with over a dozen start-ups. She is a Board member of RTE, HRM Recruit, and Ablevision Ireland, and is a founder member and President 2014/15 of the Irish chapter of EO, the international Entrepreneurs Organisation. Follow Orlaith on Twitter: @OrlaithCarmody

Sinead Kane

Sinead Kane is a full-time PhD researcher with the National Anti-Bullying Centre at DCU, a qualified solicitor, a certified m ediator, a writer for the Irish Criminal Law Journal, a motivational speaker and a director with Ablevision Ireland. Volunteering since an early age Sinead has worked with the ISPCC, NCBI, Irish Guide Dogs, CASA and Childvision . Having earned her BCL law degree and an LLM M asters in law from UCC , Sinead successfully lobbied for the introduction of a section of legislation in 2008 in relation to assistance for blind solicitors in court. The above achievements are admirable but even more so when one considers that Sinead only has 5% vision and is registered as legally blind since birth. Sinead has overcome many challenges throughout her life and now wants to help others to see that adversity can be overcome. Follow Sinead on Twitter: @KaneSinead

Organizing team

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