MIT Labs, Snowflake, Women in AI: Dublin Tech Summit announces new speakers

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Dublin Tech Summit 2025 has announced a new line-up of speakers. The Summit takes place during Dublin Tech Week, on 28-29 May. Early Bird ends 1st March, tickets available here.

Dublin Tech Summit has announced a new line-up of speakers due to appear at the conference, taking place 28-29 May.

The announcement includes:

Hiroshi Ishii

Hiroshi Ishii is the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. He was named Media Lab Associate Director in May 2008. He is the director of the Tangible Media Group which he founded in 1995 to pursue new visions in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): “Tangible Bits” and “Radical Atoms.” Ishii and his team have presented their research at a variety of scientific, design, and artistic venues (including ACM SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Milan Design Week, Cannes Lions Festival, Aspen Ideas Festival, Industrial Design Society of America, AIGA, Ars Electronica, Centre Pompidou, Victoria and Albert Museum and NTT ICC) emphasizing that the development of a vision requires the rigors of both scientific and artistic review. In 2006 Ishii was elected to the CHI Academy by ACM SIGCHI, and received the SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award in 2019. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2022 for his contributions to Tangible User Interfaces and to Human-Computer Interaction.

Prior to joining the MIT Media Lab, from 1988-1994, Ishii led the CSCW research group at NTT Human Interface Laboratories Japan, where he and his team invented TeamWorkStation and ClearBoard.

Fawad A. Qureshi

Fawad is a strategic technology leader with more than two decades of international industry project experience involving consulting on enterprise data warehouses, big data analytics, and cloud solution architectures. He has worked across all stages of the technology life cycle starting from engineering, professional services, pre-sales, and business development. In his current role he works as Global Industry Field CTO, helping customers in multiple industries across the globe. He is passionate about sustainability and helps his clients in achieving their sustainability goals through the use of data and analytics.

Dr. Alessandra Sala

A research and scientific leader in Artificial Intelligence, Alessandra is the Sr. Director of AI and Data Science at Shutterstock. Alessandra has over 18 years’ experience in research and innovation gained whilst working in academic and commercial environments. Alessandra is passionate in advanced analytics, machine learning, and computational models with the focus of transferring innovation from research to products.

Alessandra chairs the AI and Multimedia Authenticity Collaboration, which brings together IEC, ISO, ITU and other standards organizations to foster a unified response to deepfake technology, addressing risks while harnessing the benefits of generative AI.

As Co-chair of the UNESCO Women for Ethical AI Platform, Alessandra is working with a strong community of women to foster diversity, inclusion and equality for women and minorities while encouraging a global ethical approach in AI. As Global President of Women in AI (a non-profit do-tank working towards gender-inclusive AI that benefits global society) Alessandra leads a community of women from 171 countries that empowers women and minorities to become AI & Data experts, innovators and leaders. In an advisory capacity, Alessandra also serves as the Governance Committee Chair at the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning.

Among several awards, Alessandra won the 2024 Grace Hopper and the 2021 XV International Prize “Le Tecno-visionarie” in the AI – Industrial Research category.

In her previous appointment Alessandra was Head of Analytics Research at Nokia Bell Labs where she was leading research teams in several locations and developing a successful strategy for the Data Analytics division while driving changes across different activities like her contributions to the Nokia AI Ethics Advisory Board.

Dublin Tech Summit

Dublin Tech Summit will bring together influential leaders from across the world to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the world today, from AI and quantum computing to the climate crisis and defence.

Dublin Tech Summit will take place during the first-ever Dublin Tech Week, a week-long celebration of innovation, community and collaboration running from 23 – 30 May. The confirmed keynote speakers include Sarah Friar, CFO of Open AI and UK serial entrepreneur, changemaker and digital broadcaster; Grace Beverley.

The conference will also feature the return of the Tech Hive stage, which has evolved into a cornerstone of technical innovation at Dublin Tech Summit.

Using a unique silent-disco format, the Tech Hive will showcase deep technical content including Ben Colman, CEO and Co-Founder of Reality Defender, who will address the critical challenge of using AI to combat deepfakes across financial services and other key sectors, and Brendan Barry, CTO of Equal 1, who will explore the current state and future potential of quantum computing.

To view a full list of speakers, click here.

Dublin Tech Summit 2025 takes place on 28-29 May. Early Bird ends 1st March, tickets available here.

A full listing of events and experiences will be available on the Dublin Tech Week website in the coming months. To submit an event or find out how to get involved, visit DublinTechWeek.com or email info@dublintechweek.com

Dublin to host first-ever Tech Week in May 2025

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