IVI Webinar Series: Standards – Navigating the Current and Future Landscape

Joan Mulvihill

Joan Mulvihill is a Digitalization and Creativity Evangelist for Siemens who spends her days turning chaos into creativity.  On meeting her you immediately sense that this is a woman who has found her purpose and she is pursuing it relentlessly.

When she’s not busy revolutionizing industries by helping organizations embrace digitalisation,  Joan is on quest to rehumanise organisations.    Admittedly, embracing technology and rehumanising organisations sound like strange bedfellows but when you hear this futurist speak it all starts to make sense.   As a keynote speaker,  this “artist-leader” knows the qualities of light and dark, the values of colour and tone are not just descriptors for art but for life.   She spends her days asking tough questions of herself and of industry.   She is arresting in her honesty and in her own words is “a practitioner of extreme vulnerability”. 

She is an artist who paints commentary on how technology, society, and human creativity collide in the most unexpected, delightful and sometimes dark ways.  This new series of work, “The Perspectives of a Woman in Tech – Sometimes She’s Angry” is far removed from any corporate slide-deck on digitalisation you’ve seen.    This is digitalisation unplugged.   This is the start of humanity rewired.

Barry Smith

Barry Smith joined NSAI in 1993. Since 2004 he has worked in the Standards Division where his current role is primarily in the field of ICT standardization including providing the secretariat to the Irish national mirror committee to ISO/IEC JTC 1 “ICT Standardization” ,where he engages with key stakeholders and experts to support national participation in European and International standardization projects.  In the past Barry has had leading roles in construction industry and energy management standardization where he led standards development projects required for the national implementation of the European standards for structural design (Eurocodes) and for Irish standards on energy management systems and energy efficient design management.

Prior to 2004, Barry worked for NSAI Certification where he was an ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems lead assessor and an ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems assessor.

Barry has been an NSAI Board member since 2018.

Brian McAuliffe

Brian leads HP’s Industry Standards team and has been with HP since 2016. Based in Ireland, Brian represents HP on IEC/ISO JTC1 and is Chair of NSAI’s ICT Standards Consultative Committee. Additionally Brian manages HP’s efforts on standardisation policy in the EU via his participation on DigitalEurope’s standards policy working group. Before joining HP, he has worked with standards and the standardisation process fulfilling a variety of roles across government, SME, large multinationals, and self-employment since his first engagement with standards in 1991. Brian holds a B.Sc. in Computer Applications, an M.Sc. in Health Informatics and is a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society. He also holds certifications for auditing against ISO 9001 and ISO 17025 (laboratory accreditation).

Dr Silvana Togneri Mac Mahon

Dr Silvana Togneri Mac Mahon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing in DCU, a member of Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre. Silvana’s research to date has involved the development of a framework to allow Healthcare Delivery Organisations (HDO) to self-assess against the requirements of IEC 80001-1, a standard aimed at the risk management of medical IT networks. This work was published as a technical report, ISO TR 80001-2-7, on which Silvana acted as international project leader, author and editor.

Silvana is a member of the ISO TC215 IEC SC62A JWG7 Leadership Team and acts as the Chair of the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) Health Informatics Standards Committee and is a member of the Top Team for AI standards. She was the recipient of the NSAI 1997 award for contribution to standard development and the DkIT President’s Award for Early Career Researcher both in 2018.

Marta Janczarski

Accomplished public speaker and subject matter expert in data and AI governance, standards and innovation. Strategist with expertise in AI governance and management frameworks. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial Intelligence Canadian Committee member. Past advisor to Canadian AI innovators, as well as Canadian federal government working groups.

Senior program manager and regulatory affairs specialist with significant professional experience in corporate and government affairs, leading and creating multi-functional strategies for worldwide business development in emerging technologies. Extensive stakeholder engagement, organization representation at international forums and speaking engagements.

Master of Sciences graduate specialized in merging technical scientific topics in communication and public engagement.