KiniaTalks

Louise Cantallúin – SPIN 1038
Louise is a freelance TV and radio presenter. Currently presenting SPIN NOW, HIT 30 na hÉireann and SPIN Ar Scoil on SPIN South West and SPIN 1038. Louise has a debut TV series coming to TG4 in the Autumn of 2021. Louise is a three time IMRO radio award nominee and a proud Gaeilgeoir. Louise has over 8 years experience in Irish radio, as a journalist, presenter, producer and reporter. Amongst other things, Louise is also a freelance news reporter on Classic Hits 4FM and Radio Nova, a columnist for the Limerick Leader, an experienced MC/VO and content creator – as Gaeilge agus Béarla, and a qualified secondary school teacher.

Sean Price – Singer/Songwriter
Sean is a famous pop singer, who was born in 1999 in Ireland. Sean rocketed to fame alongside his brother Conor while competing on the fourteenth series of The X Factor in 2017. Sean and Conor got their start performing through busking, where they performed both covers and original songs. In 2016, Sean and Conor released the EP Change on iTunes.

Valerie Wheeler – RTÉ
Is craoltóir spóirt agus láithreoir raidió í Valerie a bhfuil stair léirithe aici ag obair i dtionscal na siamsaíochta. Is gairmí láidir meán cumarsáide agus cumarsáide í le fócas ar na meáin chraolta raidió sa raidió agus sa teilifís ó Institiúid Teicneolaíochta Chorcaí.

Colleen Graves – Joylabz (Makey Makey)
Colleen is a school librarian, obsessed with Learning Commons transformations, Makerspaces, technology education, and making stuff. She is also obsessed with Makey Makey and Invention Literacy. Colleen has received many honours such as the School Library Journal (SLJ) School Librarian of the Year Co-finalist Award in 2014 and Library Journal Mover and Shaker class of 2016 “Innovator” amongst many others!

Eoin McCauley - Pulse College
Thosaigh Eoin le huirlisí ceoil ríomhaireachta nuair a bhí sé óg go leor. Ó aois an-óg bhí a fhios ag Eoin gurbh é sin an réimse a raibh sé ag iarraidh oibriú ann, agus mar sin faoin am a d’fhág Eoin an scoil, thosaigh sé láithreach ag déanamh staidéir ar theicneolaíocht an cheoil sa choláiste. Ón bpointe sin, d’fhan Eoin ar thaobh an oideachais de rudaí ar feadh tréimhse fada ama, ar deireadh thiar ag fáil PhD ó Ollscoil Mhá Nuad in 2012. Faoi láthair tá Eoin ina Cheann Clár don BA (Onóracha) i dTeicneolaíocht Fuaime & Cheoil ag Coláiste Pulse.

Eoin Smith – Pulse College
Eoin is CA Officer in the Springboard Animation Course at Pulse College. His extensive skills, enthusiasm and real-word expertise make him a very popular lecturer indeed! Eoin’s background is comic book publishing and he runs his own independent comic book press, Lightning Strike Comics. He currently lectures on the business and entrepreneurship modules for the Game Development and Animation programmes.

Nicole Loughlin – TD Securities
Nicole is currently working as a Quantitative Modelling and Analytics Associate at TD Securities. She completed her masters in University College Dublin – Master of Science – MS Field Of Study Data and Computational Science. Prior to this Nicole completed an undergrad in NUIG and was a secondary school teacher.

Edin Omerdic – Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Edin is currently employed by the University of Limerick as a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. He is engaged in numerous research projects funded by the Higher Education Authority and the Marine Institute in the area of submersible robotics. He is also the main developer and designer of OceanRINGS concept & software suite, including design of state-of-the-art control architecture for ROV LATIS.

Eoin Davey – Google
Eoin is a graduate with a first-class honours BSc In Computational Thinking (Mathematics, Computer Science and Philosophy) from Maynooth University. His strengths lie mainly in software development, applied problem solving and mathematics. Eoin works as a Software Engineer currently. Eoin began his journey as an intern in Google and progressed to his current position as Software Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering.

Niamh Shaw – Eolaíocht Spáis
Tá obair Niamh fréamhaithe sa rún is fearr ar domhan a roinnt – go dtugann Spás léargas iomlán nua ar ár bpláinéad. Nuair a bhreathnaíonn muid ar an bpláinéad ón Spáis is fusa dúinn go léir a thuiscint gur linne an pláinéad seo agus go bhfuil freagracht aonair agus chomhchoiteann orainn a bheith ina n-úinéir air – é a chothú agus aire a thabhairt dó. Is taibheoir, scríbhneoir & cumarsáidí í Niamh le dhá chéim san innealtóireacht & PhD san eolaíocht agus tá sí ag déanamh oibre don phobal le breis agus 10 mbliana trí phodchraoltaí, físeáin, cainteanna poiblí, imeachtaí teaghlaigh, ceardlanna, na meáin shóisialta, agus comhrá ar an teilifís agus ar an raidió. Tá a céad leabhar ‘Dream Big’ ó Mercier Press díreach foilsithe ag Niamh faoina spéis sa spás.

Rory O'Connor – Scéalta Ruairí
Níor cheap aon duine go ndéanfadh Rory é – ainmnithe é mar ‘tiubh’ ar scoil, bhí sé ag streachailt le slí bheatha a aimsiú a bhraith sé go n-éireodh leis. Nuair a d’eascair bua ar na capaill de bharr nod ba é an tús le bís chontúirteach isteach in andúil chearrbhachais a chuaigh i gcion ar a fhéinmheas. Conas a d’éirigh leis an bhfear a cheap nach raibh aon rud le maireachtáil aige le bheith ina fhear grinn, ag díol ionaid ar fud na hÉireann agus ag sroicheadh ​​800,000 duine trína ardáin meáin shóisialta?

Baz Ashmawy
Bazil Ashmawy, commonly known as Baz Ashmawy, is an Irish radio and television personality, whose TV show 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy won the International Emmy Award for Best Non-Scripted Entertainment. In summer 2017, he hosted That Baz Thing on RTÉ Radio One. Ashmawy co-hosted Weekend Breakfast with Baz & Lucy on RTÉ 2FM in 2010, and co-presented the 2008 reality show Fáilte Towers on RTÉ One, as well as the popular travel show How Low Can You Go on RTÉ2. In 2018 he began presenting ITV’s new singing show – Change Your Tune.

James Patrice
Tá James ar dhuine de na réaltaí meán sóisialta is fearr in Éirinn. Le beagnach 150,000 ar gach ardán dá chuid, tá sé ar dhuine de na daoine is mó a bhfuil tionchar acu ar líne agus ar phearsana teilifíse le blianta beaga anuas. Rinne an duine 30 bliain d’aois as Tuaisceart Chontae Bhaile Átha Cliath a ainm ar Snapchat agus níorbh fhada go raibh sé ar ár scáileáin teilifíse, cibé acu ag stíliú ar Ireland AM nó ag tabhairt an nuacht ar fad taobh thiar den radharc dúinn ar Dancing with the Stars agus The Rose of Tralee.