Conall Laverty (28) is the Founder & CEO of Wia, one of the world’s leading Internet of Things cloud platforms. Wia provides a simple way for people and things to talk to each other with just a few lines of code. The platform is now being used by developers in more than 85 countries and has attracted over €1m in venture capital funding with backers including Suir Valley Ventures, Enterprise Ireland and NDRC. He is a key figure in the Irish Internet of Things ecosystem.
Previously Conall was CTO of Big Motive, a creative technology company based in London and Belfast. There he architected and developed products for BBC, Net-a-Porter, Channel 4 and Nokia. He is 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 Honourary Masters from Queen’s University Belfast in Computer Games Development.
Speaker engagements include Mobile World Congress, RIOT, Web Summit, TechConnect, ICONs Festival, French ConneXions.
Publications include TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, Irish Times, Fora, Silicon Republic, Sunday Business Post, Business World.
Articles:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/02/wia/
https://fora.ie/wia-conall-laverty-3676020-Nov2017/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/visa-launch-first-everywhere-initiative-050000061.html
http://irishtechnews.ie/wia-founder-conall-laverty-and-ndrc-ceo-ben-hurley-appear-on-the-this-episode-of-the-irish-tech-news-podcast/
Talk Title-
| Building the IoT Platform of the Future |
