Ann O'Dea

Ann O'Dea is an Irish businesswoman, the co-founder and CEO of Silicon Republic and the CEO of Inspirefest.

Life

O'Dea co-founded the Silicon Republic online newspaper for science, business and technology with Darren McAuliffe in 2001.[1] She is a champion of diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and set up the international Inspirefest conference to address inclusion at technology conferences.[2]

2019 saw the fifth and final Inspirefest, with the event O'Dea curates being relaunched as Future Human in May 2020, with speakers already announced including US astronaut Joan Higgenbotham, and Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, Brittany Kaiser.

She was awarded a fellowship of the Irish Computer Society for her work promoting women in the technology sector.[3] [4] She was co-inducted into the Irish Internet Association Hall of Fame with Darren McAuliffe.[5] She was awarded Media Woman of the Year by Irish Tatler in 2014.

Opening the 2018 Inspirefest, the fourth year of the conference founded by Ann O'Dea, Ireland's Minister for Health Simon Harris "emphasised the role of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and said that the future was being invented by people like those at this event" in Dublin [6]

References
  1. Walker, Meg. "Inspirefest's Ann O'Dea on being an introvert and a good leader | IMAGE.ie". IMAGE.ie. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  2. "Ann O'Dea: 'If you copy other events you end up with 90 per cent male panellists'". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  3. Ravanona, Anne (2017-04-13). "Trailblazing Women: Ann O'Dea, CEO & Co-Founder Silicon Republic, CEO Inspirefest". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  4. "Fellowships awarded to Minister Richard Bruton, Ann O'Dea and Anne Heraty by Irish Computer Society". www.ics.ie. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
  5. "IIA Hall Of Fame". Net Visionary Awards 2017. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  6. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/divide-between-art-and-science-is-disappearing-inspirefest-told-1.3539263 Divide between art and science is disappearing, Inspirefest told
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