Agenda

Over the next 5 years, the adoption of digital technologies will have a profound impact on businesses, with as many as 1 in 3 jobs being disrupted as a result! As a leader in a digital age, it is therefore imperative to future-proof yourself, and during this session we will assess just how to go about this.

Key takeaways include:

• Undertaking life-long learning and continuous development to stay sharp
• The value of your network – How to make it a part of your personal value proposition
• How to become an agent of change

Traditional infrastructure in organisations is changing fast through the future of cloud. By operating and storing entirely in the cloud, the digital operating model will provide organisations the opportunity for speed and scale by removing the need for physical systems which can be costly to manage, repair and take up a lot of space! Join this presentation to discover the future of how tech departments will operate.

Key takeaways include:

• Learn how to transition securely from traditional systems
• Discover how a purely cloud-based operating model loud will allow teams to operate more efficiently

Robotic Process Automation is increasingly being implemented into organisations to relieve the workforce of menial tasks. However, as fear increases of job losses to the application of technology, how can organisations reap and educate on the benefits of RPA?

Key takeaways include:

• What does robotics mean for the future workforce?
• How will the usage of robotics relieve the workforce of menial tasks?
• What opportunities will come to reskill and redeploy the workforce?
• How can organisations justify the cost to implement robotics?

Fintech services are changing the way consumers view their finances to help solve many of society’s biggest issues such as financial inclusion and debt. By building a product with the customer in mind from the offset, how is fintech using technology to help consumers manage their money better?

Key takeaways include:

• Utilising technology as an opportunity to change consumer habits towards finance
• Understand how putting the customer first will have the potential to increase brand loyalty

As humans we are hardwired to focus on our weaknesses. In evolutionary terms, it helped us survive in the wild, and continues to feature strongly in our day to day lives. From our education - where teachers red pen highlights more errors than good work. Right through to the workplace where feedback is often focused on areas to improve on. As a result we are often very good at identifying threats, weaknesses and areas of improvement, but rarely can we clearly articulate and focus on our strengths. From this lens, it can be difficult to identify and reach for opportunities when you are more focused on why you’re not quite good enough. In this highly interactive workshop, go through the steps to help you identify your strengths and start to look at opportunities to better utilise them, for your career, your business, and even in your personal life.

Key takeaways include:

• Clear understanding of why identifying your strengths works to your advantage
• Identify and articulate your own strengths
• Explore the opportunities this presents for you

The next time you apply for a job, the fate of your application may not be in human hands; instead, an algorithm could determine whether or not you make the cut. AI could provide an opportunity to cut bias but how can business ensure they can trust the technology? What data is being processed to understand its decision?

Key takeaways include:

• How predictive algorithms work at each step of the hiring process
• Where and how bias can enter into the process

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As homes become more connected to an open world, cyber criminals have more opportunities to penetrate devices and access personal information. As remote working becomes a widely accepted employee initiative, this could pose a threat to businesses and customer data. With cyber insurance projected to be valued at $3.5 billion by 2025, it is soon likely to be included with any home and business insurance.

Key takeaways include:

• Understand the threats associated with flexible working and how this can affect customer data
• Learn what steps businesses can take to better protect themselves

The world is awash with the continuous emergence of the next best technology; the panacea to our current woes. How do we know if the next wave of cutting edge technology is the solution or if it is just another rebrand of an existing idea? What is the business case for investing in emerging technology? Join this presentation to take a deeper look at some of the most recent technologies to hit mainstream industry and critically analyse their user cases.

Key takeaways include:

• Learn about the biggest technologies impacting businesses and their commercial impact
• Understand if your business is prepared and suited to adoption

Human activity should not compromise the long-term balance between the economic, environmental and social pillars. The evaluation of technology impact is a necessary part of all research and innovation (R&I) and attempts to improve the relationship between technology and society. Emerging technologies have the potential to deliver benefits. However, such technologies are inherently uncertain. Technology designers must examine the ethical implications of things which may not yet exist, or things which may have impacts we cannot predict. In so doing, they must deal with uncertainty. Non-ethicists (such as Designers, Product Managers, Engineers and Software Developers) can and should engage in ethical issues pertaining to the design and assessment of emerging technologies. Join this discussion to discover how this can be achieved using the Human Factors & Ethics Canvas (HFEC).

Key takeaways include:

• Learn how people still play an integral role to implementation and development of RPA
• Understand the importance of ethics when designing and implementing new technology and what impact it can have

Digital business transformation is happening on a scale and at a speed that managers find both threatening and promising. It is therefore crucial for any modern-day leader to understand where their organisation is on their digitalisation journey, how to navigate change and therefore realise your company’s digital transformation plan’s full potential.

Key takeaways include:

• Understanding the broad spectrum of current technological innovation: Analytics tools and applications, mobile tools and applications, social media and non-proprietary platforms for improved digital sharing
• Looking beyond the tech – understanding organisational change and its impacts as a leader
• Understanding how in the context of digital transformation to cascade information as a business leader

News media, whether 'traditional' or 'new', remain the primary means through which public conversation is conducted. The representation of women's voices in that conversation has long been a challenge, but as artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly pervade news publishing, new ones have arisen, around bias and transparency in particular. At the same time, AI also affords opportunity to redress some of these longstanding problems, through better measurement or the use of well-designed tools to nudge good decision making, amongst publishers and others. Join this talk to discover how AI can be utilised to reduce the risk of publishing harmful and defamatory material.

Key takeaways include:

• Learn why the time to ensure that AI systems are designed and optimised for values, such as equality, is now
• Discover how technology designed through collaboration between computer scientists and public speech experts is crucial to achieving this
• Understand the difference between 'toxic' speech and unpopular opinion

Join this presentation to discover how the constant development of employees to be skilled for new technologies is critical for organisations to retain talent and encourage innovation.

Key takeaways include:

• Investing in employee training and reskills to ensure they are equipped with new technologies
• Identifying the skills gap in your organisation to prepare for the future

Artificial intelligence has the opportunity to transform the financial services and automate decision making services based on data input. However if not implemented properly in line with pre-existing systems and in line with regulation, AI may cause more harm to the customer than good.

Key takeaways include:

• Understand the safe and secure routes to implementing AI
• Learn what data is required for fair and accurate responses

Success when leading a business doesn’t come easy but as the organisation grows, so does responsibility and teams. Stakeholder management becomes critical to communication across teams to ensure the delivery of projects is kept to a high standard, but how can leaders keep a high level overview of teams as offices disperse to regionalised locations.

Key takeaways include:

• Learn how to manage stakeholder relationships across different regions
• How can technology support the growth, communication and management of teams?

As with many other STEM areas, Technical Support has traditionally been seen as an exclusively male preserve, with a heavy emphasis on technical proficiency. As organizations mature, they develop an understanding of the need for an approach that is customer-focused, not problem-focused, shifting the required skill set towards a better balance between hard and soft skills. Join this presentation to learn how to successfully recruit and manage women in Technical Support roles, and why this is a good thing to do.

Key takeaways include:

• Understand the importance of langauge in job descriptions and advertisements
• Learn how to develop and retain women in Technical roles

As expectations of the tech community and tech founders increases to create bigger & better ideas, we believe it is critical to ensure that all new tech is based in real human insight, and future proofed using emerging trends. During this workshop, we will share easy to apply tips to connect human + technical + trend insights, creating transformative ideas and experiences.

Key takeaways include:

• Identify your hero/ine and unearth real world, human needs they don’t even know they have
• Learn how to approach inventing, developing & optimising your tech to target these human needs
• Understand how to future proofing your tech to transform it into a pipeline of resilient ideas for years to come

Navigating through the workplace as a woman comes with various challenges however through constant development and support, organisations can find opportunities for employees to rise through the ranks and become leaders in their own right. Join this presentation to learn how to advance in the tech sector as a woman and how to overcome challenges as you reach new levels.

Key takeaways include:

• Developing and constantly assessing the skills required to progress and move upwards
• Identifying mentors in the workplace to help advance your career
• Tips to help you navigate the industry

Deep technologies have the potential to deliver dramatic improvements to society's biggest issues. However as they require massive investment and considerable time through research and development, it could be a considerable amount of time before these technologies are brought from lab to market.

Key takeaways include:

• Discover how DeepTech is being utilised some of societies biggest challenges
• How can the industry work to speed up progress?

Like so many well intended efforts the diversity agenda is at risk of doing nothing more than positing that bringing women together to discuss perceived roadblocks to career or societal inequality, engaging in catchy social media campaigns, gender quotas or indeed bringing to the fore female mentoring programs will deliver on the promise of equality. Research shows that many of these ever populist initiatives do little or nothing to progress the goal of equality, and may unintentionally be creating a situation where we merely swap one excluded group with another. The role of the organisation shapes how we architect it and intentionally create opportunities for everyone to contribute, belong, impact and grow, can in fact be the catalyst that creates a truly inclusive workforce.

Key takeaways include:

• Learn how to gain the full commitment of the entire organisation to drive inclusion
• Understand how tying inclusion to business growth will ensure leaders realise the value of diverse organisations

Gen Z have grown up in a virtually cashless world where the rise of virtual banking has taken them beyond the bricks and mortar. As financial institutions lean more on technological advances to close the gap on financial inclusion, are they in danger of excluding older generations? How can engineers ensure that built products are fit for purpose across generations?

Key takeaways include:

• Understand how to make fintech attractive across several generations without alienating users
• What the future holds for traditional brick and mortar finance institutions in a cashless world

How do you build businesses that adequately reflect what the people need? The customer, user or patient is more empowered, knowledgable and involved than ever before, and this session will highlight what tech companies can do to democratise their business models.

Key takeaways include:

• Hear about the latest developments that are making business more user centric
• Learn which industries are leading the way in terms of business democratisation
• Explore success stories and how they made it work for them

The future of AI relies on advances in the underlying machine learning technology, and an effective machine learning architecture for computing at the edge. However, before getting a pure tech conversation, we also need to consider if advancing AI and related technology systems are indeed going to enhance and empower our human capacities?

Key takeaways include:

• Understand the ethics of AI and the importance of matching technology to human values
• Uncover AI’s capacity for making the world a better or worse place
• Understand the changes needed at a political economy level: Data governance regimes

As organisations grow, emerging technology offers an opportunity to innovate and build on collaborative projects across teams and regions. Breaking the chains of individually siloed teams, it allows an opportunity for employees to communicate faster and collaborate easly to fasten innovation. Join this presentation to understand the opportunities facing organistion collaboration through technology.

Key takeaways include:

• Learn how emerging technology is changing the way employees collaborate
• Discover how building cross-functional networks can unlock innovation across dispersed teams

Set out by the UN, the Principles of Responsible Banking provides the framework for financial institutions of any size to demonstrate how their products are contributing to solving one of society’s biggest threats. With growing consumer pressure on CEOs of the largest corporations to address their ESG criteria, how can the financial services contribute to slowing the effects of climate change?

Key takeaways include:

• Understand the benefits of green bonds and learn how to gain stakeholder buy-in
• Learn how fintech and legacy corporations can engage with consumers to consider their climate footprint

Business culture is typically thought of as fundamentally extroverted, meaning that introverts can feel excluded, overlooked, or misunderstood. But being an introvert doesn't mean you can't be a great leader. There are examples everywhere of highly successful introvert leaders like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett! During this session we will consider how being an introvert shouldn’t put you off leadership, and in fact how you can build on your quiet strength to make it a source of great power

Key takeaways include:

• Assessing the common challenges introverts face in the workplace: Stress, invisibility, perception gaps
• Understanding the balance and need in the business for extrovert and introverted leaders
• Examine how to communicate with extroverts

When we are building and growing our teams, we always want to find the “right person” for the job but how do we think about what “right” means? How do we design a process that removes our biases as much as possible, how do we help those in the hiring process understand what a bias is, recognise their own biases and get comfortable with a potentially an adjusted/new way of recruiting for your team.

While it may sound like this talk is primarily for recruitment departments, my aim is to connect with hiring managers as the process for building a team starts with them. How we write job descriptions, how we review resumes, who we ask to sit on the interview panel, how we construct the interviews themselves.

Key takeaways include:

Understand what bias in the recruiting process looks like.

How you can help yourself and your team understand biases

A guideline for designing a process that removes or at least reduces them.

Great planning often means the difference between success and failure. Where your entrepreneurial dreams are concerned, you should do everything possible to set the stage for success. And that's why a great business plan is one that helps you succeed. During this presentation we’ll consider what makes a great business plan.

Key takeaways include:

• Understanding exactly who it is that you’re trying to convince with a business plan
• Understanding how to write and overview of both your business and objectives
• Researching your market opportunities: How to cover all the bases

In an ever changing political climate, an exciting opportunity to build a new tech hub in Ireland emerges. With a large tech entrepreneurship scene and a growing presence of large tech enterprises, what can be done to sustain this growth and maximise on opportunity?

Key takeaways include:

• Learn what opportunities for growth are facing Ireland's technology landscape
• Understand the role of women in Ireland's tech growth

The world’s population is aging rapidly, which is leading to increased demand for healthcare and living-support services. According to projections from the World Health Organisation, there will be a projected shortage of 18 million health workers in the next two decades. Artificial intelligence, combined with robotics, can make a significant contribution to solving this crisis. Assisted living robots are being deployed in nursing homes and retirement communities with the goals of improving care outcomes for older adults and empowering care staff to spend more and better-quality time with residents. Niamh Donnelly is responsible for the development of AI and machine learning functionalities, which enable Stevie to better perceive and interact with people in its environment.

Key takeaways include:

• Discover findings from two international beta pilots
• Understand the major ethical considerations within robotics
• Learn how robots uses machine learning and AI to learn and adapt

Software Testing and Quality Assurance has today evolved from being an activity at the end of the development cycle to a strategy that will decide the fate of the application/software. With the need for digital transformation, software testing has taken a new spin. Today, organisations are increasingly considering approaches such as DevOps and Agile, which encourage collaboration between development teams and testing teams. During this presentation we will assess how to position yourself and your testing environments, with the top software testing trends for 2020.

Key takeaways include:

• How to test big data for effective decision-making
• A look into digital testing for digital transformation
• Understanding performance testing for performance engineering

The future of blockchain in financial services has the capacity to unlock a $1.5 trillion global trading gap in finance. However, as pride over ownership and intellectual property overtakes implementation, there’s a growing need for a global standard and regulation to operate with trust and transparency.

Key takeaways include:

• Understand the opportunities to transform the financial supply chain through blockchain
• How regulatory bodies can keep up with technological demand and move with the industry

In this workshop, set your career trajectory by analysing your current levels of commitment, capability and confidence in achieving career progression. This workshop will enable you to take stock of your career to date, assess your current strengths and achievements, your talents & abilities and create a targeted action plan for career advancement.

Key takeaways include:

• A different way of looking at career success
• Ways to build your confidence in your strengths
• A high impact plan for your career

Diverse professionals are being driven away from the tech industry citing racism, sexism and a toxic work environment as reasons why they left. With homogenous software teams made up of primarily white men, women and minority groups are largely underrepresented. More than 43% of ethnic minority workers said they did not report discrimination to their employers, and 38% did not report bullying and harassment. Join us in this talk as we discuss all businesses should adopt a clear policy of zero tolerance, regardless of who the perpetrator is.

Key takeaways include:

• How to work with staff to build a culture that ensures people feel confident to speak out
• How can companies better measure problems?
• How to identify sexism, racism and bullying in the workforce

Workshop details coming soon...

We live in a world that is evolving quickly and we are witnessing the ramifications of capitalism on the planet and it's consequential socio-economic implications. We can leverage technology for good in solving these big world problems. There are emerging developments where we are seeing existing technology be deployed to respond to such problems. Let’s explore what that is, what that means, and what more we can do.

Key takeaways include:

• Understanding the existing tech tools shaping our world
• Be informed of the implications of leveraging such technologies
• Be inspired on transformational projects in tech

When women are not fully represented within the tech landscape, it's not only damaging for ourselves, it's damaging for society as a whole. Without active participation in tech, we are in danger of writing ourselves out of history. As women in tech, how do we build the world we want to live in? Join this talk for a focus on AI and its impact on society, and how women need to include themselves in this revolution.

Key takeaways include:

• An understanding of how and why society will be held back if women do not play key roles in the technology revolution
• Inspirational examples showing the benefits of women's active involvement in the tech revolution
• Practical advice on how to ensure we as women are part of this revolution

The focus on big data helps organizations gauge customer needs and satisfaction as well as the ability to provide an increased personalized experience and accuracy of lending. However, when the data being sorted is run through algorithms that could be rooted in unconscious bias, what impact will this have on the customer? In some cases, data such as postcode can affect customers based on their socioeconomic status as well as how many car accidents occur in their area.

Key takeaways include:

• The importance of having diverse teams build products that are fit for diverse world
• How much weight should algorithms put on affinity data
• Explore if the focus on big data is doing more harm than good

Presentation details coming soon...

Trust is the foundation in everything we do. Without trust, there would be no family, no houses, no markets, no religion, no politics, no rocket science. It is the social glue that enables humankind to progress through interaction with each other and the environment, including technology. But what if trust is broken? Join us in this session as we discuss how we can rebuild trust in the systems our society is increasingly becoming dependant on.

Key takeaways include:

• How authenticity, logic and empath can power trust
• How leaders can demonstrate why and how their work benefits society
• How to establish a global market that thrives well into the 22nd century

During this presentation we will address some of the common challenges that companies face when making the move to an agile work environment, as well as tips for overcoming those hurdles to ensure you achieve your goals.

Key takeaways include:

• How to ease an employee’s anxiety and resistance for successful implementation
• Tips to driving cultural change with good workplace design
• Managing the impact on employee’s health and wellbeing

Payment technology is changing rapidly and companies need to be able to adapt. A panel of payment experts discuss how payments are changing rapidly and how our organizations are creating innovative ways for consumers to pay and move money faster.

Key takeaways include:

• Learn about how the payments landscape is changing with new ways to pay
• Learn how changing technology will affect you and your organisation
• Learn what these changes will mean for future cost and security

Career patterns and paths have changed over the last couple of decades, becoming more flexible and non-linear. How to plan your career in the modern ever-changing world especially in the tech industry? What tools and approaches can help you? How to build an action plan and what activities it should include? The webinar is designed as a mini-coaching session, so everyone will walk out with a different but actionable outcome.

Key takeaways include:

• Identifying your career path and what it means for your next steps
• Tools and exercises to brainstorm on and align to your professional values
• Cases and anecdotes from the speaker's career coaching practice

The increasing usage of returnship programmes is embracing workers who have been subject to a career change whether that decision be driven by family or health. By trialing returned workers in different departments, it not only provides an opportunity for a more inclusive workforce but can portray organisations as progressive in their approach to women and health.

Key takeaways include:

• Identifying where return workers are best suitable in the organisation
• What are the best routes to attract applicants?

Like any career, being a founder requires some specific skills and the right preparation is therefore essential! During this presentation we’ll hear from people that have already made the leap to becoming founders, and the advice and guidance that they would give to aspiring founders.

Key takeaways include:

• How to create a founder network to source experience through internship or work experience
• Steps to finding yourself a mentor or maybe even two
• How to take advantage of either free or taught classes on entrepreneurship

Presentation details coming soon...

There are many challenges in the collection of data for research purposes. This presentation will outline the shifting data governance landscape that had led to a review of current data collection practices. Several key elements will be explored including data security, data privacy, data standards, regulation, technology innovations and changing end user expectations.

Key takeaways include:-

• An understanding of data security & privacy
• Applicability of data standards and technology innovations
• Technology innovations and the changing end user expectations

Diversity and inclusivity in the workplace is a hot topic for multinational corporations and start-ups alike. Today, it’s well-accepted that employers and employees benefit from a diverse workplace. But what does this mean in the technical world? In short, it means innovation. Diversity has been identified as a key driver of creativity and is a critical component of being successful on a global scale. Join this presentation to learn how invigorating workflow with developers and engineers of all backgrounds can increase innovation.

Key takeaways include:

• Understand how embracing diversity of thought within technical teams can overcome design challenges
• Why it’s more important to focus on the common goal, than what makes us different

Research shows vulnerability is the key driver in human trust and connection - it’s the birthplace of innovation, change and risk. Join us in this talk as we explore authenticity in the workplace.

Key takeaways include:

• How authenticity can unlock greater creativity, connection and performance
• Understand how creating a sense of belonging in the workplace will help retention and development

Cloud is quickly becoming an industry standard way of running IT within an organisation. However, trying to understand and then articulate the differences between the 3 main cloud models of public, private or hybrid can be a challenge for even the most experienced tech professional! Here we examine the models and what it really means to work in multi-cloud environments.

Key takeaways include:

• Understand how to get the perfect mix between public, private and hybrid cloud in your organisation
• Beyond SaaS - Highlighting what today’s public cloud offering includes
• Identify your core requirements in your business and how this will affect your cloud needs
• Simplify what ‘hybrid cloud’ actually means and how it might benefit your organisation

How will new technology will bring the benefits of city life to the comfort of the countryside? Will we soon be able to enjoy the benefits of city life from anywhere? During this presentation we'll share the technology we are using to create city life everywhere.

Key takeaways include:

• A deep dive into the latest technology assisting in city planning
• The do's and don't when it comes to expectations of our tech
• How to ensure you are investing wisely in property in the next 10 years

Mobile-first banks and cryptocurrencies are becoming the driving force behind the move towards a completely cashless society, but historically, regulators and policymakers are slow to respond to new innovation. As the new regulation moves to enforce Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF) how can financial services prevent criminal activity while protecting their customers privacy?

Key takeaways include:

• Understand the benefits of a Central Bank for Digital Currency
• How new regulation will impact the privacy of consumers

Having come through some of the most challenging months the world has ever experienced, businesses across the world now need to align, adapt and innovate faster than ever to survive. But many companies don’t have the knowledge or expertise to transform their strategies, business models, finances or workforces. Louise shares her experience and practical advice on how companies can adapt and embrace the digital landscape in which they now operate.

Key takeaways include:

• Better understanding of what digital transformation is and what is required
• Understand the benefits of digital transformation for businesses now more than ever
• Practical examples of companies that successfully turned their business around

While there is no quick training that anyone can do to “fix” their unconscious bias, opening your eyes to the biases you have that you are not aware of – and their unintended consequences, particularly in the workplace – is incredibly valuable. But what can you do on a practical basis to avoid unintended consequences of unconscious bias in your organisation?

Key takeaways include:

• Getting yourself educated – From Board level down!
• Review your corporate strategy to check if diversity can be found across your network at every dimension possible
• Ensuring your job descriptions, promotion criteria, and processes are stripped of bias
• Embracing a culture of calling-out unconscious bias when we see it in the workplace, without fear

It's a common misconception among entrepreneurs that security can wait until the expansion stage, or B round. Today, this thinking simply isn't cutting it. With cybercriminals more active than ever, VCs and large companies you hope to sell to are now demanding a proactive, robust approach to security from the start. During this presentation we'll summarise the key security topics that every technology entrepreneur needs to understand and evaluate how cyber security supports the unique needs of fast-growing businesses like yours.

Key takeaways include:

• Establishing a culture of security within your organisation
• Understanding what a strong and secure platform looks like
• Understanding that your website is your front door
• Ensuring to not forget about the role of physical security at the office

When it comes to an issue such as gender disparity, progress can only be made when everyone is engaged in the conversation however some men may feel like they are often excluded when in fact they have a big part to play. Join this presentation to understand the role men have to play in gender equality and how to engage and encourage male allyship.

Key takeaways include:

• Identify what makes a male ally and how to encourage participation
• Understand why doing good for diversity is good for business