Paul Quigley is co-founder and CEO of NewsWhip, a platform that monitors news engagement and predicts which stories will win audience attention. NewsWhip is used by journalists and communicators around the world to spot breaking news, unpack crises and issues, and better understand which stories engage people. Paul is deeply interested in story virality, political identity, and misinformation. In 2016, he shared victory in the EY Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Before founding NewsWhip...
Liz Carolan is the Executive Director of Digital Action, which works to counter digital threats to democracy. In 2018 she set up and ran the Transparent Referendum Initiative, a project to enable scrutiny of online activity during the Irish referendum on the 8th Amendment. She has spent the last 10 years working on governance, transparency and data issues, at the Institute for Government, the Africa Governance Initiative and Open Data Institute....
Donie O’Sullivan is a CNN reporter covering the intersection of technology and politics. He is part of the CNN Business team and works closely with CNN’s investigative unit tracking and identifying online disinformation campaigns targeting the American electorate. He also covers how social media platforms, Congress, and the American intelligence community are responding to the threat of disinformation and troll campaigns. O’Sullivan was part of a team that uncovered several major Russian ...
Mark Little, media entrepreneur and technology leader. Mark is an innovator in the field of online trust and safety. He co-founded Kinzen, which used artificial intelligence and human expertise to detect dangerous misinformation and hate speech. Kinzen was acquired by Spotify in 2022. He also founded Storyful, which pioneered the verification of online content for news publishers and tech platforms, and was acquired by NewsCorp in 2013. Mark was also a senior executive at Twitter, where he was ...
John Mulholland is an Irish journalist who is the editor of the British Sunday newspaper The Observer and assistant editor of The Guardian. He has worked for most of his career with the Guardian Media Group. John is a DCU graduate, having received a degree in Communications in 1983....
Stephen Rae is Group Editor-in-Chief of INM, Ireland’s largest media group. INM is the market leader in online news and in the daily, Sunday and regional newspaper sectors. Stephen has led the group’s online transition, building a seven day “Digital First” newsroom, which has made Independent.ie the largest and fastest growing news source in Ireland. Stephen designed the central editorial hub which produces content for all the group’s news, sport and entertainment platforms – onlin...
Samantha Barry is a world-renowned social media expert, with more than a decade of experience as a broadcast journalist. As CNN’s senior director of social news, Barry manages the social teams at all of the CNN bureaus and works closely with the CNN Digital leadership in their editorial strategy. Barry joined CNN from BBC World News in London, where she served as a social media producer and journalist, focusing on using social media as a tool for both newsgathering and audience building. Her ...
Ciaran Cunningham is CEO of Carat Ireland, which is the largest agency in Ireland and was voted Irish Media Agency of the Year in 2016. He has worked with a wide range of advertisers including Diageo, Mondelez, Kellogg’s, GSK, Unilever, adidas, Vodafone, Bank of Ireland, Glanbia and Dunnes Stores amongst many others. Previously, Ciaran worked in Initiative Media and RTE. Ciaran has set on many industry boards including TAM, JNLR and IAPI Media Committee....
Noel Curran is a radio and television producer and current Director General of RTÉ. He joined RTÉ) as an investigative reporter in 1992 after a period working as a business journalist for Business & Finance magazine. While working at ‘Business & Finance’ Curran was involved in several prominent investigations, most notably into the controversial collapse of Ballybay Meats. He became Deputy Editor of Business & Finance before leaving for RTE. He joined Current Affairs as a fina...
Susan Daly is Editor of TheJournal.ie, Ireland’s first national-focused digital-only seven-day news publication. Since its inception in 2010, Journal Media has expanded its publications into the business sector (Fora.ie), entertainment (DailyEdge.ie) and sport (The42.ie). Daly leads a newsroom of over 20 journalists, spearheads content strategy and innovations in storytelling, focusing also on the overall company goal of creating a sustainable business model around online news consumption. ...
Clare Duignan is a Non-Executive Director at Irish Times Ltd. and an Independent Board Director for The Digital Hub Development Agency, an incubation space for digital content and technology enterprises, located on a state-of-the-art campus in the heart of Dublin City. Claire is former managing director of RTÉ Radio, holding the role from 2009 until 2013. During her time at RTE, Clare led the development of RTÉ Television’s independent production unit and served as director of programmes i...
Matt Cooke is the Google News Lab lead for the UK, Ireland and Nordics. The Google News Lab team is dedicated to working with publishers to provide training, discuss innovative partnerships and conduct experiments. Matt has been at Google for four years and recently led Google’s UK election project and launched Europe’s first News Lab Fellowship scheme. Before working with Google, Matt spent eight years as a television reporter and producer at BBC News where he covered a range of storie...
Sebastian Hamilton is Group Editor of Irish Mail Newspapers, the country’s fastest-growing media group. As well as editing the Irish Daily Mail, he oversees group editorial strategy and works with MailOnline, the world’s biggest English-language news website. He is a director of DMG Media Ireland, a subsidiary of DMGT. Sebastian was educated at Cambridge University and has 20 years’ experience on national newspapers in Ireland and the UK. A former political journalist at The Sunday Times...
Áine Kerr is co-founder and COO of Kinzen, a new Irish start-up developing solutions for people who want conscious control of their news experience. She was recently awarded Woman of the Year in Media 2018 by Irish Tatler Magazine at their annual awards ceremony. Previously, Áine led global journalism partnerships at (Facebook) Meta, overseeing a team in New York focused on building products, tools and services for journalists and also working to improve news literacy for news consumers. Sh...
Working in journalism for over twenty years, Karlin is a technology journalist with the Irish Times. She has a particular interest in how technology intersects with society, culture, the arts, politics, the sciences, as reflected in her weekly column. She has been a contributor to a wide range of Irish and international publications, including The Guardian, New Scientist, Wired.com, Salon.com, Red Herring, The Scientist and The Sunday Times. She holds a PhD from Trinity College. From Feb 2009 ...
As an independent board director for FuJo. Padraig McKeon comes from ten years serving as managing director of PR and communications consulting company Drury Communications. Padraig is currently interim director of alumni relations at Dublin City University where he works to develop, resource and implement a new approach to alumni relations at the university. Padraig is also a reputation and business management consultant currently working with the PRII Education Review Group to review the qual...
Kevin O’Sullivan is the Environment, Agriculture and Science editor for The Irish Times. Kevin was Editor of The Irish Times and the Director of The Irish Times Limited from 2011 to 2017. Kevin has a Bachelor of Science degree from University College Dublin and a diploma in Journalism from Dublin City University. Prior to joining The Irish Times in 1997 he worked at the Connacht Tribune and the Tuam Herald. He was news editor at the The Irish Times from 2006 to 2011 and previously held the ...
Gervaise Slowey is a non-executive director of Eason & Son Ltd. Previously, she was Chief Executive Officer and Director of Communicorp Group Ltd., one of the largest independent media groups in Ireland, UK and Eastern Europe. Prior to that she was Global Client Director for Ogilvy Worldwide, a leading communication services agency with over 25,000 employees where she managed one of their key businesses across Europe, Asia, and Africa. Gervaise began her career in 1990 with CPC Foods Ire...