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Theme: Imagining the Next Century

This event occurred on
November 10, 2016
10:00am - 12:00pm GMT
(UTC +0hrs)
Dublin, Leinster
Ireland

Centenary events across Ireland have reflected on and commemorated what has taken place in Irish history over the last 100 years and how Ireland has evolved into today's dynamic, modern state.

As a young, innovative institution, Dublin City University has its focus firmly trained on the future of this country. Through its teaching, learning, research and innovation agenda, DCU seeks to transform lives and societies, at home and abroad.

TEDxDCU Imagining the Next Century projects into the future, exploring how the university, education, research, media, the arts and the next generation can shape an even better future for Irish citizens to come, making this world a better pace in which to live well. The globally-recognised TEDx platform allows the community and friends of DCU share their insights on the future of our young nation.

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Ann Power

Former European Court of Justice Judge; Adjunct Professor, DCU School of Law & Government
Ann Power graduated as Brooke Scholar from the King’s Inns and was called to the Bar in 1993. She practised extensively in Medical, Public and Constitutional law. Elected as a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in 2008, she contributed, through her separate opinions, to significant developments in the case law of the Court. She has lectured in Philosophy and in Jurisprudence and has published and presented papers on a wide range of topics, nationally and internationally. She is an International Speaker and Adviser in Human Rights Law and is an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, London. She is Senior Counsel at the Law Library, Dublin, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Law and Government at DCU.

Gerry Power

Chief Research Officer, M&C Saatchi World Services
Dr Gerry Power is Chief Research Officer with M&C Saatchi World Services where he leads a global communications research and insights practice. Prior to this appointment, Gerry served as COO of the UK Charity, InterMedia Research and Consulting Europe, part of the InterMedia Group, which he joined in 2010. From 2003 to 2010, as Director of Research and Learning at the BBC World Service Trust (now BBC Media Action), Gerry established an award winning global network of researchers spanning 14 countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He has taught at various universities including UCLA, UDLAP (Mexico), the University of Texas and the London School of Economics. He is co-editor of “Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change” (SAGE India, 2011) and of “U.S. Mexico Border Health: Implications for Regional and Migrant Populations" (SAGE, 1996). His work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Human Communication Research

Marina Carr

Playwright; Creative Director, DCU MA Theatre Studies
A member of Aosdána and Creative Director of DCU’s MA in Theatre Studies, Marina Carr is a celebrated playwright whose plays include The Cordelia Dream, Marble, 16 Possible Glimpses, Phaedra Backwards, On Raftery's Hill, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats, The Mai, Low In The Dark, Ullaloo, Ariel, and two plays for children, As Meat Is To Salt and The Giant Blue Hand. Her many accolades include Irish Times Playwright Award 1998, The Susan Smith Blackburn Award for Portia Coughlan, Best New Irish Play at Dublin Theatre Festival 1994, The EM Foster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American/ Ireland Fund Award, The Macaulay Fellowship and The Hennessy Award. Marina’s version of the Tolstoy classic, Anna Karenina, will run in the Abbey Theatre from 7th December 2016 to 28th January 2017.

Niamh Scanlon

EU Digital Girl 2015
Niamh Scanlon, aged 14, is EU Digital Girl of the Year 2015. She started coding at CoderDojo in Dublin City University when she was 9 and since the age of 10, she has been a mentor there. Niamh is developing apps to help the drivers of electric cars find public charge points in real time and to help journalists and interviewees to communicate using audio and video when they cannot talk in real time. Niamh's work has won awards at Coolest Projects and Eir Junior Spiders and she has spoken at numerous conferences, including Inspirefest, Accenture's International Women's Day event, Web Summit, GE Minds and Machines and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Niamh wants young people - and especially girls - to learn to code and increase their problem-solving abilities while using their imaginations to create. She is a member of the Digital Youth Council of Ireland and has written for several publications including the Irish Independent, The Huffington Post and Silicon Republic.

Paul Conneally

Head of Corporate Communications, ITU, the UN's specialised agency for information and communication technology
Paul is an expert in digital strategy and passionate about how ICTs can be leveraged for gender equality and socio-economic empowerment. In his current role with the ITU, he oversees all aspects of corporate communications. Paul worked as a journalist and producer before moving sectors to the International Committee of the Red Cross where he worked for 15 years in media and communications as well as partnerships, development and operations.

Professor Christine Loscher

Director, DCU Health Technologies Research & Enterprise Hub
Professor Christine Loscher is an Immunologist based in the School of Biotechnology at DCU. She leads the Immunomodulation Research Group which has a focus on translating how modulation of the immune response has health benefits. Her focus includes discovering new anti-inflammatory compounds and ingredients that can be used in the pharma and food industry. She has developed significant expertise in commercial research and industry engagement and has secured over €5m in external funding for her own research. In 2015 DCU appointed Christine as Academic Director of the Health Technologies Research & Enterprise Hub, where her role is to drive the strategic agenda for DCU in the area of Health. She also leads the CHAnge project, which is a DCU Campaign project aimed at raising €20M to realise DCU’s vision for healthy ageing. In 2014 she was named in Silicon Republic’s top 100 Women in STEM. Christine is passionate about communicating the importance of STEM to young girls.

Samantha Barry

Head of Social Media & Senior Director of Social News, CNN
Samantha Barry serves as CNN’s Head of Social Media & Senior Director of Social News, managing all of the company’s global social media teams. Her teams span publishing, news-gathering, digital and TV and are responsible for the largest social accounts of any news brand in the world. The path from Cork to New York has been a global one for Barry, who, after stints in RTE and Newstalk, travelled the world working for ABC Australia and the US State Department, training young journalists and most recently worked at BBC World News in London. Barry is also currently a Sulzberger Fellow at Colombia University and a guest-lecturer at Yale.

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