'This event is now closed, please contact Dr Tim Yeomans, Shannon ABC Centre Manager (Tim.Yeomans[at]staff.ittralee.ie) if you require further information Program
Please see below outline Program for Shannon ABC's Open Innovation Conference 2012. This page will be regularly updated to include speakers as they are selected.
4th April
- 8.30 am Registration
- 9.30am Welcome address
- Dr Maria Hinfelaar (LIT President)
- Mr Brian Hayes (TD, Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform)
- Dr Tim Yeomans (Shanon ABC Centre Manager)
- Session 1
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Chairperson - Dr Shane O'Connell (Shannon ABC Strand Leader IT Tralee)
- 9.55am Keynote Presentation - Open Innovation in the Life Sciences - Realising the value of knowledge assets
 Dr Iain Gillespie Visiting Professor, Innogen Centre, Science, Technology & Information Studies, University of Edinburgh
- 10.40am Open Innovation: Benefits for Combination Product Development
- Dr Hilda Mulvihill, Business & Process Development Project Manager Advanced Operations, Stryker Orthopaedics
- 11.10am Coffee/Networking
- 11.40am Open Innovation & Sustainability in the Pharmaceutical Sector
- Kevin O’Keeffe, Sustainability Leader within Global Manufacturing & Supply, GSK
- 12.05pm Building third-level networks to develop market-driven research innovation – a perspective
- Cecil Ryan – OCS Canon Hygiene Services (Regional Managing Director Europe)
- 12.30pm HIPODERM – An Open Innovation Project Funded by the Marie Curie Industry Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) programme
- Dr Marc Kelly, Marie Curie Research Fellow, EirGen Pharma Ltd, Waterford
- Dr Niall O'Reilly, Centre Manager, PMBRC, Waterford Institute of Technology
- 12.55pm Lunch
- Session 2
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Chairperson - Dr Patrick Murray (Shannon ABC Strand Leader Limerick IT)
- 1.55pm Investing in Open Innovation
- Round Table Discussion on sources of funding for research, development and innovation
- Enterprise Ireland
- SFI
- Framework 7 Funding - Liam Brown (National Contact Point for SME funding)
- Framework 7 Funding - Pamela Byrne (National Contact Point for KBBE funding)
- IRCSET- Derek O'Brien, Programme Leader, Enterprise Partnership Scheme
- Tax Credits for R&D - Gianmario Pala, Senior Technical Consultant, Leyton
- Venture Capital Funding - Brian Caulfield, Partner at DFJ Esprit
- 3.15pm Coffee/Networking
- 3.45pm Ireland's Ocean Wealth - Development of Novel Plant Biostimulants from Marine Natural Resources
- Dr Henry Lyons, Technical Director, Brandon Products
- 4.15pm CyberColloids, 10 years in Food Innovation open or otherwise
- Mr Ross Campbell, Business Director, Cybercolloids
- 4.40pm Title to be announced
- Breda Kennedy, R&D Director, PepsiCo Ireland
- 5.05pm Poster Viewing/Networking
5th April
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Chairpersons: Dr Michael Hall, Registrar IT Tralee, Dr Siobhan Moane, Head of Research and Technology Transfer, Limerick IT, Dr Tim Yeomans (Shannon ABC, Centre Manager)
- 9.15am Management of Intellectual Property in CIT's MEDIC Centre
- Mr Charles Daly, MEDIC, Cork Institute of Technology
- 9.45am Identification of high-value compounds by LC-MS-MS
- Mr Jer Hayes, Research Assistant, Shannon ABC, Limerick Institute of Technology
- 10.05am From Sea to the Field - Monitoring the effect of Seasonality and Industrial Extraction on a final Seaweed product
- Mr Patrick Quille, Research Assistant, Shannon ABC, Institute of Technology, Tralee
- 10.25am An Investigation of Novel Biocompatible materials
- Mr Swarna Jaiswal, Postgraduate student, CREST, Dublin Institute of Technology
- 10.45am Spectral enhancement of the phytonutrient content of lettuce crops using light emitting diodes
- Mr Tony Skerritt, Postgraduate student, CELLS Research Group, Limerick Institute of Technology
- 11.05am Coffee/Networking
- 11.35am Bringing an automated heat detection system to the parlour.
- Ms Felicity Bentley, Research Assistant, Shannon ABC, Institute of Technology, Tralee
- 11.55am Unique fungal sources of industrial catalysts
- Ms Katrina McPhillips, Postgraduate student, Shannon ABC, Limerick Institute of Technology
- 12.15am Ragwort: A possible economic commodity?
- Ms Catherina O'Keefe, CELLS Research Group, Limerick Institute of Technology
- 12.35am Establishment of clinically relevant ‘Human Whole Blood Assay’ for automated screening of Immunomodulatory natural biomolecules
- Nahidul Islam, Postgraduate student, Shannon ABC, Insitute of Technology, Tralee
- 12.55pm Lunch
- 2.00pm Intellectual Property Workshop
- 4.00pm Conference Closes
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