Aoife Quinn is the Co-Founder of Eco Lens Marketing, a Dubai-based social media agency that helps purpose-driven brands grow through strategic content and influencer marketing. A University of Limerick graduate who relocated from Ireland to the UAE, she has built a reputation for actionable marketing frameworks - from her 10-step TikTok Shop launch strategy to her content mix model - and was selected as a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2025 awards.
Liam Casey is the Irish founder and CEO of PCH International, the supply chain orchestration company he named after California's Pacific Coast Highway. Built from a Cork dairy farm upbringing and a decade in European fashion, PCH became a billion-dollar operation linking Silicon Valley's most ambitious hardware companies to a network of over 1,200 Chinese factories. Known as 'Mr China' in tech circles, Casey is renowned for carrying three phones, living out of hotels across two continents per week, and never once learning Mandarin — a deliberate vulnerability he credits for building deeper factory relationships than any fluent speaker could.
Adaire Fox-Martin is CEO and President of Equinix, the world's largest data-center company. A Trinity College Dublin graduate who once taught school in Ireland, she spent 18 years at Oracle, 14 at SAP, and three at Google Cloud before taking the top job at Equinix in 2024. She runs 280 data centers across 77 markets and calls the internet 'the fourth utility'.
Nessan Bermingham, Ph.D., is a serial biotech entrepreneur and Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures who has co-founded eight biotechnology companies including Intellia Therapeutics - one of the first public CRISPR gene editing companies - which he built from concept to IPO in under two years. A child of an Irish Army officer raised on a military base in Co. Kildare, he traded academia for Wall Street, Wall Street for venture capital, and venture capital for founding the companies reshaping genetic medicine. Today he shepherds a portfolio of cutting-edge biotech companies at Khosla Ventures while pursuing 155-mile ultra-marathons and aspiring to race at Dakar.
John Collison is the President and co-founder of Stripe, the Irish-American payments giant he built with his brother Patrick from their rural Tipperary roots into a $159 billion fintech colossus processing $1.9 trillion annually. He sold his first company at 17, dropped out of Harvard at 19, and by 26 was the world's youngest self-made billionaire - all while maintaining the understated disposition of someone who grew up in a village of a few hundred people on Lough Derg.
MOIO (Moyo Mobolaji) is a Nigerian-Irish singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer from Dublin whose 2023 single 'Moments' went viral in late 2024 - racking up 19M+ Spotify streams and hitting #1 on Spotify's Viral 50 in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Denmark, and New Zealand. His debut EP 'Earthday' (October 2025) announced him as one of Ireland's most compelling new artists, blending R&B warmth with indie introspection and self-produced bedroom-pop textures. A co-founder of the Chamomile Club collective in Dublin, he now performs internationally and is signed to Republic Records.
Addy Osmani is an Irish software engineer and engineering leader who spent nearly 14 years shaping the modern web at Google Chrome - leading the teams behind Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, Chrome DevTools, Puppeteer, and PageSpeed Insights. Now Director at Google Cloud AI, he bridges Gemini, Vertex AI, and the Agent Development Kit for millions of developers worldwide. Author of multiple O'Reilly books and curator of the Elevate newsletter, Osmani's work has touched over 20 million developers and his open-source projects have become industry standards.
Laura Nolan is a Principal Engineer at Stanza Systems, a veteran Site Reliability Engineer, and one of tech's most credible voices on autonomous weapons ethics. After five years at Google - where she contributed to the seminal O'Reilly SRE book and resigned over Project Maven - and seven years at Slack as Senior Staff Engineer, she brings deep technical authority to both the reliability engineering world and the global debate over killer robots. Based in rural Ireland, she speaks at SREcon, QCon, and TED stages alike, writes the Responsible Computing newsletter on Substack, and holds seats on the USENIX Board and the SREcon Steering Committee.