FRIDAY 8TH JUNE 2018 - Southern Regional Assembly
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EU Funding fostering and supporting collaboration between science and industry in our region ArcLabs, WIT, West Campus, Carriganore, Waterford FRIDAY 8TH JUNE 2018 MASTER OF CEREMONIES Mr. Damien Tiernan - RTÉ South-East Correspondent The Event is free of charge, but registration is necessary.
WELCOME The Southern Regional Assembly in association with the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) is hosting the event When Science met Business. This event has been organised to showcase exemplar projects co- funded under the ERDF Southern and Eastern Regional Programme 2014-2020 and to provide a forum for researchers and industry to explore potential mutually beneficial collaborations. The Southern Regional Assembly manages a €500 million regional investment programme running from 2014 to 2020. The programme is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Irish Exchequer with Sustainable Urban Development co-funded by Local Authorities. A core objective of the ERDF programme is to strengthen the innovation dividend for the region. Fostering and supporting collaboration between science and industry is key to improving our innovation standing among the regions of Europe and Internationally. Past programmes supported the provision of infrastructure and the increase in the numbers of R&DI third level sector researchers. The primary focus under this programme is to improve the competitiveness of the regional economy. This is achieved through a number of routes, including Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) Research Centres. SFI’s Research Centres provide platforms for scientists and engineers to forge partnerships across academia and industry to help address crucial research questions. Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation Fund (CF) and Innovation Partnership (IP) programmes play crucial roles. The programmes support the creation of technology-based start-up companies and the transfer of innovations, developed in Higher Education Institutes and Research Performing Organisations, to industry in the region. Additionally they propel the use of key technologies by Irish companies by encouraging them to work with Irish research institutes resulting in mutually beneficial co-operation and interaction. This event is one of our #EU in My Region events for 2018. When Science met Business is held in association with the 38th Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), which is co-sponsored by Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) School of Business, Centre for Enterprise Development and Regional Economy (CEDRE), and the Irish Network for Teachers and Researchers of Entrepreneurship (INTRE). The BCERC takes place in Waterford from June 6-9, 2018. This event is held in association with the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
PROGRAMME
SESSION 1
9.30 – 10.00 am Arrival and Registration
10.00 am Opening Remarks - Cathaoirleach Cllr. Larry O’Brien
10.15 am Introduction to the programme by MC Mr. Damien Tiernan, RTÉ South-East Correspondent
10.25 am Supporting Research and Innovation, MC Mr. Damien Tiernan
Dr. Alan Davy
Research Unit Manager, TSSG, SmartHerd, a collaborative project together with IBM and
local farmers in Waterford
Dr. Brendan Jennings
Principal Investigator CONNECT, Head of Graduate Studies TSSG, Intelligent Transport Systems,
a project together with a CONNECT industry partner.
Dr. Steven Davy
Founder of LiquidEdge a business analytics platform, a spinout from TSSG.
Mr. Javier Torres Sanchez
Senior Embedded Systems Engineer, Tyndall National Institute
VR Glove: A 3D Hand Motion Capture Device with Haptic Feedback for Virtual Reality Applications
Theme reflection
Stephen Blair, Director, Southern Regional Assembly
Q&A Session
11.15 am Coffee Break
11.40 am Professor Andrew Zacharakis, Key Note Speaker
Nurturing the cradle of innovation and wealth creation, forging strong collaborative
engagements between Higher Education Institutes and industry
SESSION 2
12.00 pm Partnerships and Commercialisation
Ms. Leona O’Brien
Senior Legal Researcher, Software as a service solution for Banking, Regulatory, Compliance
and Risk, University College Cork
Ms. Finola Cliffe
COO of Hooke Bio Ltd, a biotech spin-out from University of Limerick
Dr. Barry Murphy
CEO of Electrical Analytics Technology Ltd, Applied Physics Research Group in Trinity College
Dublin
Dr. Fergus Quilligan
Principal Investigator, Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) - Industrial Data Analytics Framework
(IDAF)
Dr. Ramesh Raghavendra
SEAM Centre Director & Technology Gateway Manager - Optimised 3D printed metal
components
Theme Reflection
Professor Willie Donnelly, President, Waterford Institute of Technology
Q&A Session
1.00pm Lunch at WIT Arena
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Mr. Damien Tiernan
47-year-old Damien has been South-East Correspondent for 21 years
now (the second youngest ever correspondent when appointed)
and has covered all types of news, sports, arts, science and features
across the region. He made an award-winning documentary “Souls
of the Sea” in 2008 after publishing his first book. His second book “The
Ecstasy and the Agony” was shortlisted for Sports Book of the Year. He
currently works out of the RTE studios at Carriganore House, WIT.
OPENING REMARKS
Cllr. Larry O’Brien, Cathaoirleach of the Southern Regional Assembly
Cllr. Larry O’Brien represents Wexford County Council on the Southern
Regional Assembly. Elected to Wexford County Council in 1991, he
served as Cathaoirleach of the Council on two occasions in 2007 and
2009. He is currently the Chairperson of the Roads Strategic Policy
Committee (SPC) in Wexford County Council. Cllr. O’Brien is a former
member of the South-East Regional Authority where he also served
as Cathaoirleach during his time with the Authority and is currently a
member of the Southern Regional Assembly since its establishment in
2015. A full-time public representative, Cllr. O’Brien is a member of the
Fine Gael party.
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Professor Andrew Zacharakis
Andrew Zacharakis is The John H. Muller, Jr. Chair in Entrepreneurship
at Babson College, Wellesley, MA. He is the Director of the Babson
College Entrepreneurship Research Conference and past president
of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management.
He is also a past chair of the Entrepreneurship Department at
Babson College and a past Director of the Arthur M. Blank Center for
Entrepreneurship at Babson. His writings and research focus on two
major areas of entrepreneurship: the venture capital decision-making
process and entrepreneurial growth strategies.
THEME REFLECTIONS BY
Mr. Stephen Blair, Director, Southern Regional Assembly
Stephen was appointed inaugural Director of the Southern & Eastern
Regional Assembly when it was established in 2000. He has been
responsible for managing Structural Funds Regional Operational
Programmes for successive programming periods 2000-2006 and
2007-13 and he acted as chair of the Monitoring Committees for these
programmes. Stephen represents Ireland on a number of Monitoring
Committees for European Territorial Co-operation Programmes. The
Assembly is also the designated Managing & Certification Authority
for the maritime cross-border programme with Wales. Prior to taking
up his current post, Stephen worked for many years in the Planning
Service in Local Government in Ireland, including during the 1990’s
as Waterford City Planning Officer. A graduate of both Trinity College
Dublin and University College Dublin, Stephen holds Masters Degrees
in both Planning and Public Management.
Professor Willie Donnelly, President, Waterford Institute of Technology
Professor Donnelly was appointed President of Waterford Institute of
Technology (WIT) in April 2015, having held the position of Head of
Research and Innovation at the Institute for the previous 10 years. He
is founder of the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group
(TSSG) which carries out research into mobile services, internet of
things and communications management research centre. Prior to
entering academia, he worked for 15 years in the telecommunications
and utilities industries. His main area of academic research interest is
the management of next generation networks. He has extended his
work in this area to focus on smart agriculture and in particular the
development of integrated communications management solutions
and decision support systems for secure food production.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Alan Davy, TSSG
Alan Davy was awarded BSc (with honours) in Applied Computing
and PhD degrees from Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford,
Ireland in 2002 and 2008 respectively. He has worked at TSSG, originally
as a student, since 2002 and became a PostDoc Researcher in 2008.
In 2010, he worked at IIT Madras in India as an Assistant Professor
lecturing in Network Management Systems. He received a Marie
Curie International Mobility fellowship in 2010, which brought him to
work at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for 2 years. He is now
a Senior Research Fellow and Research Unit Manager of the Emerging
Networks Laboratory at TSSG. Dr. Davy is the coordinator of the EU
H2020 FETOpen project CIRCLE: Coordinating European Research on
Molecular Communications.
Dr. Brendan Jennings
Dr. Jennings is a Principal Investigator at CONNECT in Waterford Institute
of Technology. He received BEng and PhD degrees from Dublin City
University in 1993 and 2001 respectively. He is Head of Graduate
Studies for Waterford Institute of Technology, where he is also active
as a senior researcher within the Emerging Networks Laboratory in
the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG). With
TSSG since 2003, he became the group’s first Director of Research in
2013. During that time he contributed to a number of national and
international research projects, including the FAME strategic research
cluster, where he coordinated a number of collaborative projects
with the Irish R&D labs of IBM and Cisco.
Dr. Steven Davy, LiquidEdge
Steven received his B.A. (Mod) and PhD from Trinity College Dublin
(2003) and Waterford Institute of Technology (2008) in the field of
Computer Science. His research interests include network and service
management, policy-based management, and virtual network
resource planning and deployment. More recently, he is researching
into applying his expertise in telecommunications systems in areas
that include Intelligent Transport Systems and Remote Healthcare.
Mr. Javier Torres Sanchez
Javier Torres Sanchez graduated in Physics in 2003 and in Electronic
Engineering in 2007 from the University of Granada (Spain). His particular
area of expertise is in embedded systems design (hardware-software
co-design) from concept definition, specification and design through
to manufacture and test. He joined the Tyndall National Institute in
2006, where he currently works as an embedded systems engineer
in the Wireless Sensor Network Group. He specialises in the field of
wireless sensing system research across a wide range of applications
including wearable, health and fitness and environmental monitoring.
Ms. Leona O’Brien, SmaRT project, University College Cork
The SmaRT project, led by Tom Butler and Leona O’Brien is developing
a software platform to unpack and capture the complexity of
regulations in finance and banking. The SmaRT software platform,
though not yet completed is already gaining attention in RegTech
circles and is viewed internationally as an innovative, potentially
disruptive technology. It is currently being evaluated by the Financial
Conduct Authority UK FCA in order to make its Regulatory Handbook
machine readable. A pilot deployment by a major law firm and a
proof of concept at a systemically important international financial
institution has commenced.
Ms. Finola Cliffe, COO of Hooke Bio Ltd, a biotech spin-out from the University of Limerick.
Hooke Bio consists of a multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists
whose aim is commercialisation of Hooke’s microfluidic technology,
Enigma. The Engima system is a disruptive technology that can address
the high throughput screening need in the pharma industry (e.g.
disease modelling, personalised medicine, drug repurposing, toxicity
testing, microbial screening etc...). The development of Hooke Bio’s
microfluidic technology has been supported by two grants from EI’s
Commercialisation Fund Programme. Enigma can be integrated into
existing robotic testing facilities or act as a stand-alone system.
Dr. Barry Murphy, CEO, Electrical Analytics Technology Ltd.
Dr. Barry Murphy, CEO of Electrical Analytics Technology Ltd. a new
spinout from the Applied Physics Research Group in Trinity College
Dublin. Since completing his PhD in Physics in 2013, Barry has been
working on applied projects to solve technological problems in the
energy sector. Support from Enterprise Ireland’s Commercialisation
Fund has enabled him to apply his knowledge of data science to the
problems being faced by electrical distribution grid operators, such as
ESB Networks. He managed and contributed to the Commercialisation
Fund project from the initial idea through to real-world trials on ESB
Networks assets around Ireland.
Dr. Fergus Quilligan, Principal Investigator, Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR)
Fergus is Principal Investigator for Analytics in IMR. Fergus received a
PhD on the application of data processing and feature extraction to
astrophysical datasets. He worked onsite with NASA and ESA before
moving to Intel where he led an analytics team providing skills in
root cause analysis, advanced SPC, data mining, yield modelling,
predictive analytics etc. with Fergus leading the worldwide quality
improvement roadmap. Since moving to IMR Fergus has worked on
projects involving real time data analysis from IoT sensors, optimised
scheduling, human computer interaction and cyber physical systems.
During his 15 years in industry, Fergus has worked on a broad range of
analytical projects across any sectors; his current focus is on enabling
analytics solutions to be more easily deployed within industry.
Dr. Ramesh Raghavendra, SEAM Centre Director & Technology Gateway Manager
Dr. Ramesh Raghavendra’s research background is in the areas of
functional ceramics, glass and glass-ceramics, sintering of powder
materials and more recently his research interests are directed
towards Metal Additive Manufacturing. He holds patents in microwave
processing of ceramic materials and in cofiring of ceramics. He has
authored/co-authored more than 60 refereed journal publications.
Within seven years of launching of SEAM, Ramesh has been instrumental
in establishing collaborations with over 120 Irish based industries and
successfully managed to deliver over 950 directly funded Industrial
projects (short, medium and long term). Through these and state
supported projects, Ramesh has secured over €8m in funding for
SEAM. Furthermore, he successfully coordinated an EU funded FP7-
SME project that concluded in December 2015. For his contribution
to Industrial services, Ramesh received the KTI Award 2015 under the
industrial consultancy impact category.
EVENT LOCATION ArcLabs, Research and Innovation Centre, WIT West Campus, Carriganore, Waterford. Importance Notice: Parking is available at the WIT Arena only, please arrive before 9.15 am to avail of a shuttle bus which will take you to the venue. WIT Arena is 800 metres from ArcLabs, which is approximately an 11-minute walk. Attendees will have an opportunity to meet with the speakers in our market place. Booking Form Name of delegate(s): Name and address of company/organisation: Telephone: Email: Where did you hear about the conference: No. of delegate(s) attending lunch: (The conference is free of charge, lunch will be provided. Please advise if vegetarian option required) (Tea/coffee will be provided at registration) Booking is open until Friday 1st June. You can make your booking on www.eventbrite.ie or by email to ycooney@southernassembly.ie or info@southernassembly.ie For enquiries please contact: Yvonne Cooney + 353 (0) 51 860 700
Southern Regional Assembly, Assembly House, Waterford,Ireland. EIRCODE: X91 F8PC TELEPHONE: +353 (0) 51 860700 info@southernassembly.ie www.southernassembly.ie
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