Amy and Anna interviewed Tom Heerey, a lawyer with Microsoft. Tom shared his views on the Data Summit with us.
Anna and Amy
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Interview with Dr TJ McIntyre @ Data Summit 2017
Cara and Denis interviewed Dr TJ McIntyre at Data Summit in Dublin 2017.
Dr TJ McIntyre is Lecturer in Law, University College Dublin where he specialises in issues involving information technology law and civil liberties. He holds a BCL from University College Dublin (First Class Honours), an LLM from University College London and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral thesis was on the topic of internet filtering law and governance.
Dr. McIntyre told us about why he thinks data protection is important and why we need to have events like today’s Data Summit.
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Cara and Denis
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Interview with Cathal Ryan @ Data Summit 2017
Cathal Ryan is an Assistant Commissioner with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner Ireland. A qualified lawyer with significant commercial and regulatory experience Cathal heads up the Office’s Public Sector and Health Consultation Section. This Section is responsible for overseeing the Office’s function of proactively providing data protection awareness and best practice guidance to all public sector and health bodies to ensure their activities are carried out in compliance with data protection law.
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Interview with Prof. Orla Feely @ Data Summit 2017
Professor Feely is Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact and a Professor of Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin. She holds a BE degree from University College Dublin and MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where her PhD thesis won the DJ Sakrison Memorial Prize for outstanding and innovative research. While at UC Berkeley, she also won the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. She leads a research group in nonlinear circuits and has been awarded research grants and prizes from a number of national, international and industry sources.
Interview with Helen Dixon @ Data Summit 2017
Helen Dixon was appointed as Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland in September 2014. She had previously held the role of the Irish Registrar of Companies from November 2009. Prior to that, she held senior civil service roles in the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in the areas of economic migration policy and, formerly , science , technology and innovation policy.
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Interviews with CONNECT Research programmes @ Data Summit 2017
CONNECT is the Science Foundation Ireland Research Center for future Networks and Communications. Its mission is to research ad develop innovative solutions for the communications challenges facing society today. The internet of things, 5G networks and new broadband architectures are the Center’s main areas of focus.
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Interview with John Frank from Microsoft @ Data Summit 2017
Denis and Cara interviewed John Frank at #DataSummitDublin
John Frank is Microsoft’s Vice President, EU Government Affairs. In the role, John leads Microsoft’s government affairs teams in Brussels and European national capitals on EU issues. John was previously Vice President, Deputy General Council and Chief of staff for Microsoft president and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith
Denis and Cara
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Interview with Jelena Radakovic
On our trip to the European Parliament in Brussels last week, Amy and Roisin interviewd Jelena Radkovic, Parliamentary Assistant to Sean Kelly MEP. Jelena told us how being a Serbian camogie player led to her working with the former President of the GAA, Sean Kelly MEP! She spoke about her job in the Parliament and her deep affection for and great kndge of the issue affecting Ireland.
Amy and Roisin
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Interview with Henry Wasung
Lorcan and Amy interviewed Henry Wasung from the Visitor’s Centre in the European Parliament. Henry had spent some time with our group early in the morning to get an idea of the areas of EU policy that we were interested in, such as opportunities for study and working in the EU. Everyone was also very interested in the potential impact of Brexit, especially on Ireland. Henry met us again after our visit to the plenary room of the parliament and gave a presentation about the areas of interest that we had identified. Amy and Lorcan asked him about his work in the EU and also about his interesting situation as a citizen of the UK working in the Eu parliament.
Lorcan and Amy
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Interview with Sean Kelly MEP
Caitlin and Lorcan interviewed Sean Kelly MEP in the European Parliament. Sean invited the team over to Brussels and we were very fortunate to interview him during our visit.
Sean spoke to us about his work and the successes and challenges that come with it. He also told us how important it is for us to follow the work of the parliament and the work and study facilities they provide. We also asked him about Brexit and how it will effect rural Ireland but also us, young people.
Thanks so much to Sean for giving us the chance to learn about how the parliament works as well as exploring Brussels and the surrounding regions.
Caitlin and Lorcan
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