Presentations from 'Starting Up with Open Innovation' Event

Gary Ledyen - Business Canvas Model Workshop 

Director, NDRC's LaunchPad

Gary has a passion for the technology start-up, with a focus on creating value propositions that contribute to building repeatable and scalable business models. He has successfully founded two companies in the last ten years – Computer Gym and Vrising- and has advised numerous others in a personal capacity and as a member of the Enterprise Ireland Mentor Network since 2005. With over 20 years experience in the ICT sector, Gary brings a strong customer focus to the organisations’ with whom he works, aligning technical solutions with customer problems. He is a graduate of Trinity College and holds an MBA from the Smurfit Graduate School of Business, UCD. 

John Shaw - "Open Innovation @ Mainstream'

CIO & Head of Information Services, Mainstream Renewable Power, Ireland

John Shaw is CIO and Head of Information Services, based at Mainstream’s Global Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. John joined Mainstream in September 2008 to lead the company’s Business Technology Strategy. A Chartered Engineer (C Eng MIEI) and a registered European Professional Engineer (Eur Ing) with 20+ years experience. John holds an MBA in Technology Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineer from University College Dublin. A senior member of the IEEE (SMIEEE), joined Mainstream from Pfizer where he was Director of Information Services at one of Pfizer’s largest manufacturing facilities, having previously held senior IS executive positions in Accenture and General Electric. John is an active member of technical institutes, including The International Society of Automation, The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology and The Innovation Value Institute which researches and develops unifying frameworks to create more value from Business Technology innovation.

Dr. Brian Vaughan - " Open Innovation in a centralised system: challenges & perspectives"

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Science Foundation Ireland funded FASTNET Project, Trinity College Dublin

Principle Investigator, Enterprise Ireland Commericalisation Project

Dr. Brian Vaughan has a strong background in speech corpus development and emotional speech analysis, having worked on the FP7 SALERO (Sematic Audio VisuaL Entertainment Reuseable Objects) project (http://www.salero.eu ) while completing his PhD in the digital media domain, having lectured on a number of third level institutions in Ireland (Dublin City University, Dublin Institute of Technology, Griffith College, Digital Skills Academy, Dublin Institute of Design). Brian is currently employed as a postdoctoral research fellow on the Science Foundation Ireland funded FASTNET project (Focus on Actions in Social Talk: Networking-Enabling Technology) at the Speech Communication Lab at Trinity College Dublin. He is currently investigating non-verbal behaviour in the speech modality and is Principle Investigator on an Enterprise Ireland funded commericalisation project. He is particularly interested in applying his research in a number of diverse domains. 

Prof. Martin G. Curley - " Open Innovation 2.0 Outlook"

Vice President, Intel Labs
Director, Intel Labs Europe and Senior Principal Engineer

Intel Corporation

Professor of Technology and Business Innovation

Co-Director, Innovation Value Institute

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Martin Curley is a vice president at Intel Corporation and director of Intel Labs Europe, the company's network of more than 25 research labs, development centers and open innovation collaborations spanning the European region. He also serves as a senior principal engineer at Intel Labs Europe, which is charged with helping to advance both Intel research and Europe's ability to compete in the global society. Curley leads Intel's research and innovation engagement with the European Commission and the broader European Union research ecosystem. He is also a co-director of the Innovation Value Institute, an industry-academic open innovation consortium that strives to promote structural change in the way companies and governments achieve value through information technology.

Before assuming his current position in 2009, Curley was global director of IT innovation at Intel. Earlier in his Intel career, he held a number of senior IT management and automation positions for Intel in the United States and Europe. Before joining Intel in 1992, he held management and research positions at General Electric in Ireland and at Philips Electronics in the Netherlands.

Curley is the author or co-author of three books on technology management for value, innovation and entrepreneurship and has published more than 20 papers in the area of IT, entrepreneurship and innovation management. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, the British Computer Society, the Irish Computer Society and the Irish Academy of Engineering. He currently chairs the European Union Open Innovation Strategy and Policy group, an industry-led group advising on strategic priorities for open and service innovation.

Curley has a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering and a master's degree in business studies, both from University College Dublin, Ireland. He earned his Ph.D. in information systems from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.