Emer is Northern Ireland's brightest comedy star. As a qualified and practicing Speech and Language Therapist, Emer loves communicating in any way she can. She is an international award-winning science communicator, a four-time TEDx speaker and a musical comedian with a sold out Edinburgh Fringe run under her belt.
Deepa Mann-Kler is an exceptionally experienced public, private and charity sector Chair and Non-Executive Director. As Chief Executive of Neon and Visiting Professor for Immersive Futures with Ulster University, she specialises in use of immersive technologies for health. As a TEDx speaker and thought leader she regularly keynotes on the intersection of digital transformation, technical innovation, inclusion, ethics, bias, data and AI. Deepa is author of the first report on race discrimination with policy recommendations for the public sector in Northern Ireland "Out Of The Shadows."
Now working out of the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, Dr. Niamh Shaw is an academic and ‘space communicator’ who is on a mission to see the Earth from space in order to share a totally new perspective of our planet and of ourselves. As a hugely popular speaker she shares innovative approaches to problem solving, collaboration and the personal steps she has learned that allowed her to dream big, develop a bigger social responsibility and fulfil her life’s ambitions.
Sonya is passionate about innovation and technology and has spent most of her career showcasing the talent and products/services that Northern Ireland has to offer. She has a “can do” attitude that helped her build an award-winning marketing team for one of the largest technology companies in Northern Ireland and she is now doing it again with one of Northern Ireland’s most innovative net zero companies - CATAGEN. She is passionate about using her knowledge and network to help indigenous tech companies to grow and scale and to encourage young people into STEM or net zero careers.
Here's what we got up to last year...