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IVI Webinar Series 2021 Digitally Transforming Food Value Chains

Date TBC 21Q2 - 14:00 - 15:30 GMT (UTC+00:00)

Food Value Chains

Current Food Value Chains (FVC) are oriented on low-cost and mass production with major negative environmental, health & socio-economic impacts. Underpinned by the EU Sustainable Development Goals a fundamental change is required in our food culture. This webinar addresses how value chains can be measured and improved in terms of efficiency, innovation, and the capability to shift food consumption and change practices towards more sustainable and transparent Value Chains.

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The Contributors

Digitalisation Lead, Siemens Ireland

Facilitator: Joan Mulvihill

Dr Shane McLoughlin

Kieran Flynn
Director

Professor Markus Helfert

Digitalisation Lead, Siemens Ireland

Facilitator: Joan Mulvihill

As the Digitalisation Lead for Siemens in Ireland, Joan Mulvihill continues to be at the forefront of driving technology adoption in Ireland. Having held the position of CEO of the Irish Internet Association for 7 years, followed by 2 years as the Centre Director for the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce, her role at Siemens builds on Siemens’ and her deep commitment to and understanding of the needs of Irish business for their digital transformation. Digitalisation means working differently. Siemens will always work with their clients to meet their operational technology needs with world class products and services and now through Digitalisation, Siemens leverages its domain expertise with clients to transform and create the businesses of their future.

Dr Shane McLoughlin

Dr Shane McLoughlin is an SFI & Dell EMC funded Post-Doctoral Researcher at LERO, NUI Maynooth. Shane examines innovation, adoption and scaling of disruptive social innovations, e.g. urban IoT, smart farming, and AVs. Shane’s completed his PhD in UCD where he examined the emerging role of ICT in social aspects to human information behaviour, in Ireland’s first eco-community. This work drew on social capital theory and found that affordances of ICT’s helped augment community member’s access and use of social capital. His current research in collaboration with Dell Technologies investigates how digital transformation of the agri-food chain can help achieve Climate Smart Agriculture in order to meet UN SDG goals. Shane is furthermore a collaborator on the SFI SPRING project concerning grant funding (award: ‘17/SPR/5319’) of industry-academic collaborations. He employs a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods in his research and has lectured on socio-cultural and economic aspects of ICT, Human Information Behaviour, HCI, Social Computing & more recently Innovation theory and methodologies.

Kieran Flynn

Kieran Flynn is Business Development Manager with the ADAPT Research Centre. He has worked in intellectual property licencing, commercialisation of research and industry-academia partnership roles for over 20 years with organisations such as the Fraunhofer Project Centre and the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute at DCU and the Tyndall National Institute, UCC.

Director

Professor Markus Helfert

Markus Helfert is the Director of IVI and Professor of Digital Service Innovation at Maynooth University. He is also Director of the Business Informatics Group at Maynooth University. He is a Principle Investigator at Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre and at the Adapt Research Centre. His research is centred on Digital Service Innovation, Smart Cities and IoT based Smart Environments and includes research areas such as Service Innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Services, Building Information Management, FinTech, Data Value, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Adoption, Analytics, Business Process Managem ent. Prof. Helfert is an expert in Data Governance Standards and is involved in European Standardisation initiatives. Markus Helfert has authored more than 200+ academic articles, journal and book contributions and has presented his work at international conferences. Helfert has received national and international grants from agencies such as European Union (FP7; H2020), Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, was project coordinator on EU projects, and is the Project coordinator of the H2020 Projects: PERFORM on Digital Retail.

Email:Markus.Helfert@mu.ie

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