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Stephen O'Shaughnessy
Stephen O'Shaughnessy is the founder and CEO of VideoElephant, a Dublin- and New York-based company that aggregates millions of professionally produced video clips from providers like Reuters, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera and licenses them to publishers, broadcasters and ad-tech platforms. He started the company in 2012 after shooting 500 travel videos of his own and finding there was no single marketplace to sell them. He has spent roughly 25 years building businesses in music, digital publishing, digital advertising and video production, and raised a EUR 5.5m Series A in 2019 led by Act Venture Capital to chase his stated goal of running the biggest video library in the world.
Des Traynor
Des Traynor is the Irish co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Intercom, the customer messaging platform that became one of Ireland's most iconic tech exports. A systems thinker who grew up as the youngest of seven children in Dublin, Traynor traces his entire career back to an Amiga 500 his single mother bought him at age five. Today he oversees Intercom's R&D - product, engineering, and design - while steering the company's all-in bet on Fin, its AI customer service agent powered by Anthropic's Claude. A prolific speaker, essayist, and accidental philosopher who moonlights as a Phoenix Park runner, Traynor has become one of the most trusted voices in B2B product strategy.