Engineering a Sustainable Future with Conall Laverty - Wia

Digital Irish Podcast

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• Conall Laverty, is the Founder & CEO of Wia, an Irish startup that provides sustainability companies with cloud infrastructure to utilise the Internet of Things. He is a key figure in the global Internet of Things ecosystem and was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 for Europe. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he co-founded OSV, one of the fastest growing hardware movements to develop open source ventilators with over 7,000 engineers, designers and medical professionals.

• From County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Conall was previously CTO of Big Motive, a creative technology company based in London and Belfast. There he architected and developed products for BBC, Net-a-Porter and Channel 4. He was also Technical Director of Woogie, an innovation consultancy who has worked with Cambridge Silicon Radio, Deezer and startups throughout Ireland. He attained a First Class Honours Masters from Queen’s University Belfast in Computer Games Development.

• Speaker engagements include Mobile World Congress, Dublin Tech Summit, RIOT, Web Summit, TechConnect, ICONs Festival, Google, Facebook.

• Publications include Bloomberg, Forbes, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, Irish Times, Fora, Silicon Republic, Sunday Business Post, Business World

• Awards and Accolades

• Nominated for Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Awards 2020

• JCI Outstanding Young People Awards for 2020

• Forbes 30 Under 30 2019

• Blackbox Connect 23 2018

• Sunday Business Post 30 Under 30 2018

• Digital DNA Young Person of the Year 2017

• IIA Startup of the Year 2017

• NDRC Launchpad Winner 2016

• This episode is hosted by⁠ ⁠⁠Dave Byrne⁠