8am Registration and Networking

8:30am Conference Opens

Keynote Address by:

Minister Simon Coveney, TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Fireside Chat One:

Elaine Murphy, AmCham 2024 President and Site Lead and VP with Signify Ireland Technology, Liz Cunningham, AmCham 2024 Vice President and VP with Google Ireland with Minister Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Discussion Panel One: Ireland's Global Role in Supporting Business & FDI              

Speakers: Michael Lohan, CEO, IDA Ireland,  Leo Clancy, CEO, Enterprise Ireland, Ruth Cotter, Senior VP, AMD and Marjorie Chorlins, Senior VP, Europe, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

10:15am Networking Break

Discussion Panel Two: The Climate Crisis and Ireland’s Place in the Global Response                                                    

Speakers: Kay Hope, Managing Director, Head of ESG for Global Fixed Income Research, Bank of America, Vincent Goggin, Manufacturing Director, PepsiCo and Dr Paul Deane, Senior Lecturer in Clean Energy Futures at University College Cork

Fireside Chat Two:

James O'Connor, Vice President of the Microsoft Global Operations Service Center and Site Lead, Microsoft Ireland and Professor Eeva Leinonen, President of Maynooth University

11:55am Lunch

Discussion Panel Three: Leading Global Teams from Ireland in a Hybrid World                            

Speakers: Hilary O’Meara, Country Managing Director for Ireland and Accenture and Christina Daly Global Flex Work Director, LinkedIn

Keynote Address by:

Feargal O'Rourke, Chair IDA Ireland

Keynote Address by:

Haim Israel, Global Head of Thematic Investing Research, BofA Global Research Economist, Bank of America

Discussion Panel Four: The 2024 Elections in the United States and Europe

Speakers: Martin Wall, Former Washington Correspondent, The Irish Times and Paul Cunningham, Political Correspondent, RTÉ News                                                         

Discussion Panel Five: Ireland as a Global Centre for Digital and AI excellence

Speakers: Jason Ward, VP Global Alliances EMEA, Dell Technologies, Mark Cockerill, VP of Legal - Corporate, Securities, M&A and International Development, ServiceNow and Neil Morris AWS Country Lead for Ireland

4pm Conference Closes         

* Agenda subject to change