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
Valerie is a sports broadcaster and radio presenter with a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment industry. She is a strong media and communication professional with a radio broadcast media focus in radio and television from Cork Institute of Technology.

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
Eoin started with computer music tools when he was quite young. From a really early age Eoin knew that was the area he wanted to work in, so by the time Eoin left school, he immediately began studying music technology in college. From that point, Eoin remained on the education side of things for a long period of time, eventually earning a PhD from Maynooth University in 2012. Eoin is currently the Head of Programme for the BA (Hons.) in Audio & Music Technology at Pulse College..

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 – Space Science
Niamh’s work is rooted in sharing the world’s best kept secret – that Space offers a totally new perspective of our planet. Looking at the planet from Space makes it so much easier for us all to understand that this planet is ours and that we have an individual and collective responsibility to own it – to nurture it and care for it. Niamh is a performer, writer & communicator with two degrees in engineering & a PhD in science and has been making work for the public for over 10 years through podcasts, videos, public talks, family events, workshops, social media, and chatting on TV and the radio. Niamh has just published her first book ‘Dream Big’ from Mercier Press about her fascination in space.

Rory O’Connor – Rory’s Stories
Nobody thought Rory would make it – written off as ‘thick’ at school, he struggled to find a career he felt he could succeed in. When a hot tip led to a win on the horses it was the beginning of a dangerous spiral into a gambling addiction that gnawed away at his self-esteem even further. How did the man who thought he had nothing to live for go on to become a stand-up comedian, selling out venues around Ireland and reaching 800,000 people through his social media platforms?

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
James is easily one of Ireland’s top social media stars. With a following of nearly 150,000 across all of his platforms, he is one of the most loved online influencers and TV personalities of the last few years. The 30-year-old from North County Dublin made his name on Snapchat and it was not long before he was on our TV screens, whether styling on Ireland AM or bringing us all of the behind the scenes news on Dancing with the Stars and The Rose of Tralee.