Our speaker line up features trailblazers at the top of their game.

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Claire has spent +15 years in the marketing and media industries in digital roles at publishers, agencies, brands and as global marketing director. As a seasoned digital marketing specialist she has a strong understanding of innovative storytelling coupled with consumers adoption of new tools and technologies.

• @clairelcarroll
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairecarroll

Richard has spent +15 years in the financial services industry working in a range of roles focusing on bringing change to established business models and processes.

• @mcattack78
• https://ie.linkedin.com/in/richard-mcniff-9552925

Commpany URL: https://www.accenture.com

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Web Development is an ever changing environment. In this presentation I will discuss the challenges in picking the right tools & technologies, and keeping up with this fast-paced industry.

Speaker Bio

UI Team Lead with Aer Lingus. Have over 10 years’ experience in Web Development, primarily in Front-end/UI/UX.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrymckillen/

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Diarmuid is a Software Development Manager and Technical Architect with BearingPoint and he is currently leading a distributed, agile product development team between Dublin and Geneva. He holds a BA(Mod) in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin. He has a keen interest in web-based, frontend technologies and agile methodologies and in his spare time, he is developing a multiplayer tabletop game platform.

https://www.bearingpoint.com/en-ie/

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Bobby will talk about how CarTrawler currently processes over 3,000 searches a second on it’s low cost LINUX boxes, and what techniques and tech culture they used to achieve that. CarTrawler operate complex inventory and machine learning based (real-time) pricing to close to 1 billion active customers a year through the 100 or so airlines it powers. CarTrawler is mainly a Java shop on the backend and AngularJS and ReactNative on the frontend.

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Experienced inventor, investor and technology entrepreneur specialising in travel technology. Joined CarTrawler in 2005 via MBI, having begun a career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, founded Eland Technologies which was later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained as CTO until 2005.

CarTrawler is exclusively used by over 100 international airlines to power their online businesses and has been through two successful MBOs since Bobby joined.

Still an avid computer programmer and a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry and further afield.

• @bhealy_ireland
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhealy

Recently joined Fenergo as our Director of Engineering in the R&D team within Fenergo. Philip is a highly experienced Software Development Professional with over 20 years Software Development and Project Management experience. Previously Roles include Senior Development & Engineering Managers positions at Dun & Bradstreet & Citi Bank, with a MBA in Innovation, Strategy, IT Project Management, Financial Accounting, General Management Theory.

He has I have setup, grown and challenged teams to focus their strengths on delivering on project goals that aligned with business needs. He has been an enthusiast and driving force for adopting Lean Software methodologies in multiple companies over the last nine years. He is currently working to grow his development group in R&D to proactively drive strategic design, better technologies and agile processes to meet customer needs within Fenergo.

https://www.fenergo.com/

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In this talk Roland will quickly talk about his experience building and running Micro-Services Architectures and will specifically talk about the journey of Nitro with a focus on building a Shared-Nothing Micro-Services Architecture. He will talk about the concepts and the challenges and the lessons learned and all the *fun* we had so far. He will also give a glympse of the future (what in gods name is a Smart-Document Management Platform).

Speaker Bio

Roland is the VP Engineering at Nitro and is currently working to build the engineering team in Dublin and San Francisco, that will build Nitro's next-generation Smart-Document Management Platform. He is interested in everything that got to do with computer science and that makes delivering valuable/useful solutions/systems better and easier. Right now, he learns Haskell and invests a lot of time to figure out how Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing can help to deliver the Smart-Document Management Platform.

• http://www.tritsch.org/about/

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Pivotal is transforming how the world builds software and our team in Dublin works on many of our open source projects. In this talk you will hear about our work on Spring, RabbitMQ, Cloud Foundry and new projects like Kubo, our Kubernetes lifecycle management tool, built with Google. You will also learn about our strong opinions on how to build great software at scale.

Speaker Short Bio

Ian Huston is the Associate Director of Pivotal Labs in Dublin. As a data scientist Ian has worked with global companies and household brands to transform how they make use of data in their business. He was previously a university researcher in cosmology, creating and then destroying baby universes inside large scale numerical simulations.

• @ianhuston
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ihuston

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In Pramerica we are changing the way we work and how we build solutions. In this talk you will hear about our teams transformation to Agile, introducing DevOps and UX roles. Janine will share her experiences and challenges of the new automated provisioning engine built on ServiceNow, SharePoint and Azure.

Short Bio

Janine is Development Manager at Pramerica Systems Ireland Limited and is currently transforming her Lotus Notes development team into SharePoint/Azure and ServiceNow developers while adopting Agile. Janine has over 10 years of web development experience.

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/janine-crosbie-59964757/

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Meet Robert Healy and Agilistas & Entrepreneurs at 404.

This Meetup group is for Agilistas, startups and innovators, who are interested in discussing how to fuse Agile with Entrepreneurship.

Come along to learn from top guest speakers, network, pitch for new job opportunities, have a beer and have some fun along the way.

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Coding Grace are a group of developers based in Ireland who love to code and do other geeky and not necessarily crafty activities. Some of us code full-time, or just for fun (or both). We have people who are part of other technical user groups such as Dublin ALT.NET, GameCraft, Python Ireland, Ruby Ireland and more…

We provide female-friendly workshops and events in an environment for developers and aspiring developers mentored by diverse instructors from the industry.

Where many events tend to have more males than females, we aim to encourage many females to come along to our workshops and learn to code and more. We also encourage any females who want to mentor technical material to help out, it’s not that scary after all.

It doesn’t matter if you are learning or mentoring, gaining confidence to ask questions, helping others, which results in everyone learning from each other gives females in this field the encouragement to further their careers, attend technical conferences, or even give a technical talk at one.

We aim to provide a support network for people from all backgrounds and hope our outreach will help bring those who are interested in code development together and learn from one another.

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Customer Analytics is about using data to build better products, to provide an excellent customer experience and to grow your business. It’s about making high quality decisions - knowing when to double down or knowing when it’s time to course-correct.

Whether you're a startup founder, an industry professional or a research academic, it is the key to finding the right customers, validating whether a problem is real, deciding what to build and how to monetize it. The Customer Analytics Dublin Meetup brings together industry and academic experts that focus their efforts on the analysis and understanding of customer behaviour on different channels (web, transactional, CRM, etc) in order to improve customer experience, retention and monetization.

At each event we host 2 to 3 key speakers to share their experience and knowledge on one or more of the following topics:

• Predictive customer analytics
• Customer understanding, retention and churn
• Web analytics
• Big data & machine learning
• Customer clustering & segmentation
• Customer data monetisation and data leverage
• Marketing & attribution models

The Customer Analytics Meetup take place in Dublin City Centre every 1 / 2 months. Join us to hear from some inspiring speakers, learn how Customer Analytics makes an impact and meet with like minded people. There will be some snacks, drinks and plenty of opportunity for networking.

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Dublin Tech Talks" brings the best folks around to talk and share their learnings. We would like to build a tech group who will share their learnings of upcoming technologies, demonstrate their innovations, and provide advice from their expertise.

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Fancy meeting other women for a good old natter about UX and life in general? Then Ladies that UX is for you. Not got UX in your job title? No problem. If you’re inquisitive, enthusiastic and interested in making the world a better place for users, you’re one of us.

Ladies that UX is a monthly meet up that creates a welcoming, transparent community of women that work in UX, who positively promote and teach each other.

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This is a last-Monday-of-the-month meetup group open to professionals and students interested in Machine Learning in any of its forms. There are presentations by selected guest speakers on different topics, and networking.

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We want to create a strong, diverse and fun community of people passionate about testing. We are an inclusive bunch, we love to hear from all different schools of thought, don't be shy.

We want to organise events with a mix of formats:

• Talks given by known testers from Ireland and beyond
• Open conversations
• Other formats that the community will choose

And most importantly, we want to have a lot of FUN while learning, come join us!

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Dublin's premier PHP meetup group. We offer a place for passionate PHP developers to meet, talk shop, enjoy speakers and presentations, and just generally chat about software development. If you're working with PHP and you want to get better, then why not visit our next meetup and see what we can do for you.

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We are the first Irish group of the international PyLadies. Our focus is to help more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community. PyLadies Dublin also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate!

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Python Ireland is the Irish organisation representing the various chapters of Python users. We organise meet ups and events for software developers, students, academics and anyone who wants to learn the language. One of our aims is to help grow and diversify the Python community in Ireland. We also develop and foster links with other Python based communities overseas.

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PyData provides a forum for the international community of users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. The global PyData network promotes discussion of best practices, new approaches, and emerging technologies for data management, processing, analytics, and visualisation. PyData communities approach data science using many languages, including (but not limited to) Python, Julia, and R.

PyData Dubin is supported by an educational program of NumFOCUS, a non-profit organisation whose focus is to support and promote sustainable high-level programming languages, open code development, and reproducible scientific research.

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ReactJS Dublin is a meetup for those interested in learning about Facebook's React JavaScript library, a tool which helps you build high-class front-end applications with ease (focusing on the V in MVC).

We'll also look to cover accompanying libraries/architectures such as Flux, Redux and Relay. First meetup will be on November 25th, focusing on an introduction to React.

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Ruby Ireland is a developer group for anyone interested in Ruby or Rails in Ireland of all levels. We'll look to organise some fun meetups for 2013 around this awesome language and community!

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Scala is a type-safe, object-functional programming language that has grown increasingly popular in the last few years thanks to its versatility and elegance. Organized by technologists from Gilt--an enthusiastic user of Scala since 2011--the Dublin Scala Users Group hosts technical presentations and workshops on the Typesafe platform (Scala, the Play framework, and Akka), functional programming, and other relevant topics. Join us for beer, networking, and talks on this fantastic (and fun!) language.

For articles on Scala, check out our tech blog: http://tech.gilt.com/

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A group of actors, writers, directors, animators, technologists, psychologists, filmmakers, sound engineers, academics and VR enthusiasts who meet once a month to explore the new storytelling possibilities presented by Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

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Women in Technology and Science (WITS) is an independent voluntary membership organisation supporting women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to reach their full potential.

Since 1990 WITS has a proven track record in delivering initiatives that improve the recruitment and retention of women in STEM roles.

Members come from a broad range of backgrounds within STEM. WITS members range in age and experience from third level students to some of the country’s most eminent senior academics and business people including those who have retired from the workforce. Individual membership is open to women and men throughout Ireland who are involved in any aspect of science, engineering or technology. Affiliate membership is available to students. We also have corporate members.

WITS is proud to have Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland as Patron.

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Supporting Women in Tech Across Africa to Positively to Support their Communities Positively Women in Tech Africa mission is 3 fold

• Creating today’s female leaders and role Models for tomorrow’s Women
• Showing the world what a strong African woman in capable of achieving
• Support African growth through technology

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If you're interested in being a speaker, please let the Belfast Leadership Team know or email belfast@womenwhocode.com. We're always interested in bringing something new to our coders.

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Women Who Code is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers by creating a global, connected community of women in technology. The organization tripled in 2013 and has grown to be one of the largest communities of women engineers in the world.

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Women Who code is a professional community for women in tech. We provide an avenue for women to pursue a career in technology, help them gain new skills and hone existing skills for professional advancement, and foster environments where networking and mentorship are valued.

Key Initiatives:

• Free technical study groups
• Events featuring influential tech industry experts and investors
• Hack events
• Career and leadership development

Current and aspiring coders are welcome.

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Mission:

Women Who Code is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers by creating a global, connected community of women in technology. The organization tripled in 2013 and has grown to be one of the largest communities of women engineers in the world.

Empowerment:

Women Who code is a professional community for women in tech. We provide an avenue for women to pursue a career in technology, help them gain new skills and hone existing skills for professional advancement, and foster environments where networking and mentorship are valued.

Key Initiatives:

• Free technical study groups
• Events featuring influential tech industry experts and investors
• Hack events
• Career and leadership development
• Current and aspiring coders are welcome.
• Bring your laptop and a friend!

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Tech for Good Dublin brings together people who are enthusiastic about using technology for positive impact. This group is co-ordinated on a voluntary basis by Máirin Murray (Digital Doddle) and Ellen Ward (Concern Worldwide). We believe that digital technology is a powerful tool that can be harnessed to tackle social and environmental challenges and bring about change. We welcome techies and non-techies, non-profit sector worker and volunteers, activists, campaigners, social entrepreneurs and everyone enthusiastic about #TechForGood. At our (free) events you will get ideas and inspiration from guest speakers, take part in discussions and meet others with similar interests.

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Xcake, incorporating Xcake:labs, is a regular Dublin-based meetup for all who are interested in mobile app development, with a particular bias towards iOS-based apps and their development ecosystem. We do talks on development of apps, new technology services and tools, the design considerations for making apps and interactive books and up-to-date opinion pieces on how to win at app development. Our Xcake:labs feature is an irregular hands-on programming event targeted at developers, involving a live coding exploration of a particular approach to specific problems, designed to allow developers to share their experience and inform the audience on practice.

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Irish Network Operators Group

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XX+Data is a group for women who work with and love data. Our goal is to bring together women who work with data or who would like work in data - to support one another, share experiences and talk data - big or small! We want to connect and inspire amazing data women with diverse expertise and experience. So if you’re an artist, analyst, scientist, student, developer, researcher, designer, journalist, leader or entrepreneur, this group is for you. XX+Data is a space where everyone can share their stories and develop. Our events simple and informal. There will be great content, laughter and a room full of data women from various backgrounds.

If you are interested in giving a lightning (~10 min) talk about your career in data, reach out, we'd love to hear from you. And feel free to help us spread the word and invite other data ladies to our community! And if there are specific topics that you would like to see discussed then please let us know. We are always happy to explore new ideas :)

Note: Our community and our events are open to women or anyone who identifies as female.

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