Programme
Wednesday 4th November 2026
| Parallel A | Great Room | Parallel B | Auditorium | Parallel C | Silent Presentation Area | Parallel D | Writer's Room | Parallel E | Victorian Room | Parallel F | Asiera Showcase - Fredericks Room | |
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| 07:00 | 5k FUN RUN Meet at hotel reception | |||||
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome & Introductions | |||||
| 09:05 - 09:15 | Asiera Chairperson Address Professor Mike Murphy | Chairperson, Asiera | |||||
| 09:15 - 09:35 | Asiera CEO Address Ronan Byrne | CEO, Asiera | |||||
| 09:35 - 09:40 | Platinum Sponsor Address #1 | |||||
| 09:40 - 10:25 | Plenary 1: Opening Plenary Cyber Attack 2023 Jonathan McCarthy - MTU - Head of IT | |||||
| 10:25 - 10:30 | Platinum Sponsor Address #2 | |||||
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Meet our exhibitors and sponsors 30 second pitch on stage | 10:30 - 11:00 Silent Presentation 1 | 10:30 - 11:00 Asiera 1 Daniella Vendramini Cybersecurity Standards: Which One Is Right for Our Sector? | |||
| 10:45 - 11.30 | Morning tea/coffee break Tour exhibition stands | N/A | WRIGGLE Workshop | N/A | ||
| N/A | 11:00 - 11:30 Silent Presentation 2 | 11:00 - 11:30 Asiera 2 Lisa Deery A Dungeon Mixter’s Guide to Business ContinuitySubtitle: Building Business Continuity Exercises Through the Lens of Dungeons & Dragons | ||||
| 11:30-12:00 | Iain Maclaren | UofG Artificial Intelligence or Augmented Ignorance? Learning in a digital age. | Elaine Kennedy | UL The myUL App -Delivering a Connected Student Journey—In Every Pocket | N/A | N/A | 11:30 - 12:30: Michael O'Brien, MTU Munster Technological University Workshop: Our Cybersecurity Escape Room | 11:30 - 12:00 Asiera 3 Brokerage Drop-in Ask Us Anything Session |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Lindsay Dowling | TU Dublin EOSC Ireland: Developing the National Node | Colm Browning | Smart Docklands SmartScape: Sensing Dublin Through Its Fibre-Optic Veins | 12:00 - 12:30 Asiera 4 Andy Byrne Turning Networks Green | |||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Garden Dining Room | |||||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Tea, Coffee and Networking Exhibition Space | Silent Vendor Presentation 3 FORTINET | 13:30-14:15 Vendor Workshop 2 | |||
| 14:00 - 14:03 | Gold Sponsor Address #1 | |||||
| 14:03 - 14:45 | Plenary 2: Dr Rachel Farrell | UCD Building Ireland's Cyber Citizens: Creating a National Pipeline from Early Cyber Literacy to Cybersecurity Research and Careers | |||||
| 14:45 - 14:47 | Gold Sponsor Address #2 | |||||
| 14:47 - 15:00 | Session break | 14:45-15:15 Vendor Workshop 3 | N/A | |||
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Chris McElligott | UCC The Agentic Turn in Higher Education: Ambition, Cost, and the Reality of Enterprise AI at UCC | Lightning Talks 1- 5 | N/A | N/A | 15:00 - 15:45 Asiera 5 - Workshop: Nathan Duffy & Jordan Dunne, Asiera Inside the Hacker's Toolkit: Tools, Tactics, and Real-World Attacks | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Stephanie Ronan | Marine Institute Controlled AI Adoption: Building on Existing Governance at the Marine Institute | James Sweeney | Mary Immaculate College Digital transformation in Irish Higher Education Professional Services | 16:15 - 16:45 Silent Presentation 4 | 16:00 - 16:45 Vendor Workshop 4 | 15:45 - 16:15 TBC | |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Tea Coffee Break | 15:45 - 16:15 Silent Presentation 5 FOX IT | N/A | N/A | ||
| 16:45 - 16:47 | Keynote Sponsor Introduction Apogee | |||||
| 16:47 - 17:30 | Keynote Speaker Mark Little Sponsored by Apogee | |||||
| 17:30 | Day One - Close | 17:45 - 18:15 Yoga (Fredericks) | ||||
| 19:30 | Pre-dinner Drinks and Gala Dinner Sponsored by Aurora Telecom | |||||
| 20:00 | Welcome Address: David O'Halloran, Aurora Telecom | |||||