Alan Miller is a Professor of Physics and Deputy Principal for Research and KT at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Formerly Vice Principal for Research at the University of St Andrews (2003-2008), Alan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the Optical Society of America. He has held two professorial appointments in the USA (North Texas; Central Florida), and worked as a senior researcher position at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, England. A Director of four NATO International Summer Schools
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Dr Anil Kokaram is a professor at Trinity College and Entrepreneur. He founded Sigmedia, a company specialising in work with digital cinema and multimedia information retrieval and video over wireless. He won an Oscar at the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards in 2007 for his work on visual effects.
Vice President for Research and Innovation, University College Cork, Ireland
Professor Anita Maguire commenced as Vice President for Research and Innovation in UCC in January 2011.Over the past twenty years at UCC she has led an active research team focusing on synthetic organic and pharmaceutical chemistry, which interacts extensively with the pharmaceutical sector in Ireland and internationally. She is Director of the interdisciplinary research centre, the Analytical and Biological Chemistry Research Facility and has served as Head of the Department of Chemistry (2005-7) and Head of the School of Pharmacy (since 2009). She was elected to the Governing Body of University
... Read moreA consultant whose company focuses on supporting universities, research organisations and governments in designing, implementing and evaluating concepts and strategies for research career development and international research collaboration. Scholz focuses on doctoral education programmes in particular. From 1997 until 2008, she worked for Germany’s central research funding organisation, the DFG.
Director of Future Casting, Intel Corporation
The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2020. His work is called “future casting” – using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data and even science fiction to provide Intel with a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Along with reinventing TV, Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and using science fiction as a design tool. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Brian Donnellan is Co-Director of the Innovation Value Institute (www.ivi.ie) . Prior to joining the IVI, Prof. Donnellan was a faculty member in the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has spent 20 years working in the ICT industry where he was responsible for the provision of IS to support Product Development. He is an expert evaluator for the European Commission and has been guest and associate editor of several leading IS journals including Journal of IT, Journal of Strategic Information Systems and MIS Quarterly.
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