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Keynote Speaker

Prof. Martin Curley

Martin Curley is Director of Intel Labs Europe and a senior principal engineer at Intel Corporation. Most recently Martin was Global Director of IT Innovation at Intel Corporation. Previously Martin has held a number of senior IT Management and Automation positions for Intel in both the US and Europe and held management and research positions at General Electric (Ireland) and Philips (Netherlands). Martin has a degree in Electronic Engineering, a Masters in Business Studies from University College Dublin, Ireland, and a PhD in Information Systems from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Martin is author or co-author of three books on technology management for value, innovation and entrepreneurship. Martin is also Professor of Technology and Business Innovation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and co-founder/ Director of the Innovation Value Institute, helping lead a unique industry-academic open innovation consortium to advance IT management and innovation. Martin is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, the British Computer Society, the Irish Computer Society, the Irish Academy of Engineering and has been a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan. Martin is currently chair of the EU Open Innovation Strategy and Policy group, an industry led group advising on strategic priorities for Open and Service Innovation as well as being a member of the EU High Level Panel on Innovation Measurement.