Get Digital took place in The Helix in DCU in Dublin on March 14th 2015. This was the final mini conference of the year. In attendance were DCU’s first year DICE students and several other business men and women.
Read more "Get Digital 2015"The first speaker of this short conference was Mary Maloney who is the Global CEO for a company called CoderDojo.
Read more "Speaker 1 – Mary Maloney"Get Mobile took place in The Helix at DCU in Dublin on the 11th of November 2014. It was the second of the four mini conferences that will be taking place over the coming academic year. In attendance were DCU’s first year DICE students and several other business men and women. The conference consisted of […]
Read more "Get Mobile 2014"A familiar face, Dr. Theo Lynn, who was present at the Get Social conference back in October, joined us again. Dr. Theo Lynn is a senior lecturer at DCU and the chairperson of the DCU Digital Marketing programme. This time round, Dr. Lynn spoke about ‘The Role of Mobile in Digital Marketing.’ He began by […]
Read more "Speaker 1 – Dr. Theo Lynn"Following Dr. Theo Lynn on stage was Dr. Mark Hughes who is the CEO/Chief Technical Officer at a company called Digifeye. According to Dr. Hughes, Digifeye ‘focuses on merging computer vision and machine learning technology to convert visual content into shopable products’ by working with the world’s leading publishing and retail companies. First off, we […]
Read more "Speaker 2 – Dr. Mark Hughes"The third speaker of the afternoon was Dr. Cathal Gurrin who is a lecturer in the school of computing at DCU and an investigator in the insight centre for Data Analytics. Did you know? The iPhone 5 is 60,000 times more powerful than the computer that guided the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon. In […]
Read more "Speaker 3 – Dr. Cathal Gurrin"The next speaker on stage was Eoin Cruise who is the Market Lead and head of Microsoft Mobile Devices in Ireland. Eoin joined Nokia in 2004 and was there for 10 years before moving to Microsoft and has been working in mobile for 20 years. Eoin Cruise spoke about Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia in which […]
Read more "Speaker 4 – Eoin Cruise"Paul Davey was next up. Mr. Davey is a mobile technology consultant and a mobile leader for a company called IBM (International Business Machines) in Ireland. IBM has over 400,000 employees around the world and is the inventor of the ATM and swipe card. It has been in Ireland for 50 years, employing over 4000 […]
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