Zoe Ryan

Having graduated top of her class with a 1.1 BA in Communication Studies from DCU, Zoe went on to complete an MA in Radio & Television Broadcast Production at IADT to expand her skills and knowledge in the broadcast industry. She started out her broadcasting career in radio as a Reporter with her local station, Midlands 103, then joined their newsroom team upon completing her undergraduate degree. In between college courses, she worked with them as a Newsreader, Researcher and Assistant Producer on their main morning current affairs talk show Midlands Today. After working part-time with RTÉ throughout her master’s year, she was offered a full-time position with the national broadcaster upon completing her thesis. She currently works as a Streaming Coordinator with them, overseeing the output of content across the GAAGO and URC TV online streaming platforms. She says live streaming is an especially exciting sector to work in, namely due to the volume of live content they can deliver at a given time. “With traditional, linear broadcasting, you can only put one event out on a certain TV channel at a time but with online streaming, in theory, we can put out an infinite amount of live events simultaneously, something the linear broadcasters just don’t have the capacity to do.”
Outside of that, in 2021, Zoe founded the psoriasis awareness platform Itching To Tell You. She wanted to utilise the resources available to her through her profession to create an easily accessible resource to help those living with the condition, which she herself has, better treat, manage and live with it. Her advocacy work has led to her involvement in campaigns such as IPHA’s Innovate For Life, on-air and on-screen appearances including Today with Claire Byrne and Ireland AM, her speaking at events like UCC’s DermDay Conference and writing articles for a host of national and international publications.

Heikki Moilanen

Heikki Moilanen is an expert in the circular economy and low-carbon solutions for the built environment. He has a background in architecture and extensive industry connections and experience in project work, strategic planning, and content production. Heikki is currently working as a project manager in Circular Pirkanmaa a new regional development centre for Circular Economy operating in Greater Tampere region in Finland. Circular Pirkanmaa focuses particularly in developing the role of public sector / municipalities in ensuring circular economy in the built sector, and creating tools for municipalities to accelerate this systematic change.

Dr Priyadharshini Perumal

Priyadharshini Perumal holds the position of Chief Scientific Officer at C2CA Technology B.V in the Netherlands, where she actively contributes to the research and development endeavors in concrete recycling. Additionally, she leads a research group focusing on “Sustainable Concrete Materials (Mining and Urban Mining Streams)” at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her work has been supported by multiple grants from the European Union, specifically for projects centered around the efficient utilization and management of mining residues, municipal solid waste, and construction-demolition waste as secondary resources in the construction industry. Notably, Dr. Perumal received the prestigious Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship in 2020 for her project titled “Waste to Wealth.”

Link: https://www.oulu.fi/en/research-groups/sustainable-construction-materials-and-applications

Conall Boland

Conall Boland is the senior consultant in the RPS sustainability team, specialising in sustainability and innovation for the built environment. Conall is a member of the Centre Steering Group for Construct Innovate, Ireland’s National Centre for Construction Innovation. Conall also lectures to MSc students in Technological University Dublin. A Chartered Engineer and Planner, Conall served as a Board Member and Deputy Chairperson of An Bord Pleanála from 2007-2018.  Before that, he spent a decade leading the development of waste management planning in Ireland at national and regional level.

Georg Vogt

Georg Vogt is Head of ICT Innovation for Energy and Circularity. He designs, develops and coordinates innovation procurements with a focus on applying and combining novel ICT concepts and solutions in the context of multifaceted  horizontal challenges, such as AI and platform solutions for circular economy in cities (CircularPSP) and active building retrofits to defossilise the building stock (procuRE). For this purpose he builds multi-stakeholder coalitions and consolidates opinions on complex roadmaps. He enables energy agencies to apply the Better Regulation Guideline methodology to develop better policies for EPC and SRI. He carries out studies for the European Commission, including impact assessments (asbestos screening for DG GROW), evaluations (SET Plan for DG RTD) and EU-wide guidelines for sub-metering (DG ENER). He has degrees in economics and European studies.