Archives: Speakers

Nabeel Mahmood

Nabeel Mahmood is a Technologist, Futurist, and a Keynote Speaker. His career is driven by one question – what’s next? He is passionate about the power of technology to deliver competitive and transformational change and develop digital leadership that will create the enterprise of the future. Nabeel is a strategic CIO identifying opportunities that are being underpinned… Read more »

Denver Blemings

Denver Blemings cut his teeth in the renewables sector almost a decade ago. His excellent knowledge of the energy transition and its effects on Irish businesses, particularly the challenges faced by data centres, is second-to-none. His friendly, consultative approach has meant he’s one of our client’s go-to experts when it comes to demand side response… Read more »

Michael Phelan

Michael has over 20 years of experience working in and with the energy sector. When Michael founded GridBeyond back on 2007, the market was a very different place. Having seen its evolution, Michael has led the development of the technology, evolving from wireless sensors and meters, to the machine learning algorithms in place today, and… Read more »

Gary Watson

With over 25 years’ experience of working across the telecoms, data centre, managed services and cloud sector across Europe, Gary Watson was appointed as the Country Manager in 2016 for Keppel Data Centre REIT in Ireland. Keppel DC REIT is the first data centre real estate investment trust (DC REIT) to be listed in Asia… Read more »

John Curley

John Curley is the General Manager of Clarke Energy’s Irish operations. Clarke Energy is a specialist, and leader, in decentralised gas engine power generation including combined heat and power utilising natural gas; biogas; biomethane; syngas. Clarke Energy established an Irish business 15 years ago. John qualified as a Marine Engineer and has over 30 years’… Read more »

Séamus Dunne

Séamus joined Interxion in July 2019 with considerable expertise in the IT industry and a depth of understanding of how hybrid cloud transformation is affecting business, informing IT strategy and impacting commercial decisions.  As Managing Director, Séamus leads Interxion Ireland with a focus on delivering growth and enabling businesses to manage digital transformation. Before joining… Read more »

Dr Rory Monaghan

Rory Monaghan is the Lecturer of Energy Systems Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). His research interests include advanced simulation of thermal-fluid systems, including combustion, gasification and thermal performance of buildings in particular. He teaches courses in Mechanical Engineering and the newly-created Energy Systems Engineering Degree and Masters programmes… Read more »

Paul Besley

Paul started working in telecoms industry sales in the 1980s selling trading turrets to the London finance community and grew to sales director positions in COLT and Thus. He has also worked in the banking industry as a corporate finance director for ABN AMRO Hoare Govett in the early 2000’s before returning to lead sales… Read more »

Peter Hendrick

Peter Hendrick is the CEO of NBI, taking charge of one of the most ambitious telecoms projects in the world, ending the digital divide in Ireland. Having worked on the project since 2015, Peter successfully led NBI through the competitive bid for the National Broadband Plan as the Managing Bid Director, heading up a team… Read more »