IET Ireland Network - Can the Irish telecommunications industry support our aspiration to be a smart economy?
Pat Kidney
What is a smart economy and what are its telecommunications requirements? What needs to be done to ensure that the Irish telecommunications industry is a key enabler of our smart economy?
In this talk, Pat Kidney explores what becoming a smart economy actually means and how this could manifest itself in Ireland through the development of the smart electricity infrastructure, cloud computing applications and services, media and content initiatives, electric vehicles, connected health and other applications.
He considers the telecommunications requirements of a smart economy and examines if the Irish telecommunications infrastructure meets these requirements today. He goes on to examine the policy and market challenges which will need to be addressed if the Irish wired and wireless infrastructure is to support Ireland’s ambition to become a smart economy.
14 October 2010 Communications channel
>> Play webcastIET Ireland has planned for 2010/2011 over 29 events planned:
* 19 in Dublin area
* Cork, Belfast, Limerick, Carlow
* Other areas?
* Industry and Academia
* Joint with EI (2 events) and IET NI (1 event)
Pat Kidney is the head of Analysys Mason’s Irish operations, with overall responsibility for Analysys Mason’s business in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. He is an experienced telecoms expert, who has worked extensively in the design, implementation and project/programme management of telecoms systems across a range of voice and data technologies. Working for major government departments, and public and private sector organisations, he has provided consultancy services offering strategic direction, business planning, programme management, network design and rollout, and procurement for a range of fixed and mobile technologies around the world. Prior to joining Analysys Mason, Pat spent 12 years in the Irish Defence Forces as an officer, telecoms engineer and project manager.