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Tech Hive Stage 2025

As a valued registrant, we’re thrilled to offer you an exclusive preview of what’s coming to the Tech Hive Stage in 2025.
This year, we’re raising the bar with a series of cutting-edge talks from some of the most innovative minds in technology. Get ready for a deep dive into the future of AI, neural networks, quantum computing, and much more.
Stay ahead of the curve with these upcoming sessions designed for those who live and breathe technology. Keep reading to discover the exceptional speakers and the groundbreaking topics they’ll be tackling in 2025.

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Using AI to Fight Deepfakes

Ben Colman, CEO and Co-Founder, Reality Defender
With AI enabling the creation of highly realistic fake videos, images, and audio, deepfakes are becoming a significant threat leading to disinformation, fraud, and privacy invasions. Having developed essential AI tools that detect and analyze media for manipulation in real time, Ben discusses how key industries, including those across financial services, can effectively mitigate risks associated with digital fraud. He’ll speak to the importance of leveraging AI to create and invest in solutions that can detect and combat deepfakes, ensuring that the technology’s benefits outweigh its potential harms.

Staying Ahead in the Rapidly Evolving Tech Landscape: Diving into Blockchain

Efua Akumanyi, Co-CTO, Coding Black Females
This talk will delve into the world of Blockchain technology, exploring its core concepts and the potential impact on various industries. It will cover the opportunities presented by Blockchain, the key technologies, development methodologies and challenges involved in building on blockchain platforms, emphasising the importance of continuous learning to navigate this transformative technology.

Navigating the road to Useful Quantum Computers: Are we there yet?

Brendan Barry, CTO, Equal 1
Quantum computers have been promising to revolutionize industries with their unparalleled computing power. But while the headlines often shout about quantum supremacy and futuristic breakthroughs, the reality is more nuanced. The journey to building useful quantum computers – machines that solve real-world problems better than classical ones – has been a winding road filled with challenges, milestones, and moments of awe. So, where exactly are we on this path? Are we nearing the destination, or is it still a distant horizon? In this talk, we’ll explore the twists, turns, and occasional potholes on the road to quantum usefulness and see just how far we’ve come (and how far we still have to go)

Reimagining NLP systems with GenAI

Nabanita Roy, Senior Manager – Data Science, EY + Education Lead, Women in AI Ireland
Building NLP-based applications comes with its own set of challenges, many of which are being redefined by the emergence of Generative AI. GenAI is transforming the way we build NLP systems across industries by streamlining complex and laborious tasks such as generating synthetic text data, automating text tagging, and deriving actionable insights from text, especially from public forums and social media where text can come with all sorts of emojis and lexicons! In this session, we’ll dive into how GenAI is reshaping traditional NLP methods, from text classification to sophisticated conversational agents. In this session, I will also uncover industrial insights from practical experience, including evaluation strategies to harness GenAI for building smarter, more efficient NLP solutions.

Production-Ready AI: Evaluation Methods for Scalable AI Applications


Richard Skinner, CEO, Phased AI
Building AI solutions that scale requires robust evaluation and testing frameworks but this is very challenging with Generative AI. This session focuses on applying software engineering principles like automated testing and CI/CD pipelines to AI applications using new methods. How does this work with Non-Deterministic data output? Gain insights into assessing applications for hallucination, model performance, ensuring reliability, and delivering real-world business value in a production.

Beyond the Hype: Research on how Cyber Criminals are Really Using GenAI

Robert McArdle, EMEA Director, Senior Threat Researcher, Trend Micro
There is a lot of speculation around how cybercriminals will use generative artificial intelligence (AI). Hear recent findings from our research on the cybercriminal underground to determine where the real threats are. We will delve into discussions in criminal forums, the state of AI malicious services on underground sites, whether deepfakes are a real threat and how cybercriminals are using ChatGPT.

The Neuroscience of Manifesting: Turning Vision into Reality

Dr Sabina Brennan, Author of 3 Irish Times best-sellers. Health Psychologist, Neuroscientist, Adjunct Professor – Adapt Center
Manifesting is not wishful thinking—it’s an active, deliberate process grounded in science. In this talk, based on my Irish Times bestseller ‘The Neuroscience of Manifesting’, you’ll discover how to unlock the power of your brain to shape your future. Treating yourself with COMPASSION and building a CONNECTION with and understanding of your true self are foundational. Manifesting is fundamentally about taking action to CHANGE. To manifest your desires, your brain needs CLARITY about what you want and COHERENCE between your vision, your values and how you think, feel and act, only then can you CREATE your best life using scientifically grounded techniques. The power to manifest lies within you, within your brain. Join me to discover how to manifest your best life, one step at a time.