MIDAS IRELAND CONFERENCE & GALA DINNER

The MIDAS Ireland Conference and Gala dinner, which is now entering its 5th year, has become the major event for microelectronics industry in Ireland.

This year's event will be held at Dunboyne Castle Hotel in Co Meath on November 18th. We very much look forward to meeting our colleagues for the first time in many months at the Dunboyne venue and there also be an option to attend online.

The theme of the Conference will be "Digital transformation enabling a sustainable world "and we also look forward to celebrating 21 years of MIDAS Ireland at our gala dinner that evening.

We are delighted to say that we have a strong line up of Speakers again this year including: -

Dr. Cara Augustenborg, research fellow at UCD and broadcaster on Newstalk

Mr. Sudarshan Iyengar, Vice President, Ireland Development Centre at Microchip

Dr. Ruoyi Zhou, Director of IBM Research

Dr. Colette Maloney, Head of Unit, Microelectronics and Photonics, DG Connect, EU Commission

Professor Lorraine Leeson, Professor in Deaf Studies at TCD

Mr. John Rayfield, VP & GM VPU IP at Intel

Industry veteran, Professor JP Colinge

This year we will also be including a Panel Discussion on the topic "Women in Tech, a roadmap for Microelectronics” which will moderated by Siobhan Dolan Clancy, Managing Director, SDC Business Consulting Ltd and feature contributions from Prof Orla Feely, VP Research, Innovation and Impact, UCD, Brendan Farley, Vice President Wireless Engineering, Managing Director EMEA at Xilinx, Jennifer Hoffman Senior Director, People & Culture, Integration Management at Analog Devices and Neil Philip, Factory Manager at Intel Ireland.

We would like to acknowledge the generous sponsorship from the IDA and Enterprise Ireland, as well as from our industry partners Analog Devices, Qualcomm, Infineon, onsemi, Cadence, Midas Skillnet, Intel, Microchip and Xilinx.

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Limited accommodation is available at the Dunboyne Castle Hotel on the 18th of November at a discounted rate - €110.00 B&B Single Occupancy Double Room.

BOOK DIRECT TO AVAIL – limited number of rooms available at this rate. email: reservations@dunboynecastlehotel.com or Tel:+353 (0)1 6816531 - Please quote “Midas Conference” at time of booking.

For further information please contact siobhan.walsh@midasireland.ie

Conference 9.15am to 5.30pm - Gala Dinner 7pm till late