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John Whelan

@offportal

Founder of 4 startups but nay exit. Set up and ran bothLaunchbox & Launchpad at Trinity College. Now commercialising IT research at TCD . Personal Views Here.

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Irish Startup Funding dropped 35% in 2023 as Growth Capital Slowed according to TechIreland However there was a 44% increase in the number of deals to 403. The increase in the number of rounds was due to the large number of early stage investments. techireland.org

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On the sad news of the death of Tony O'Reilly we are reminded of his philanthropic support to Trinity College Dublin and in particular the O'Reilly institute where our office Trinity Innovation KnEx was based for almost 20 years. Ar dheis DĂ© go raibh a anam.

On the sad news of the death of Tony O'Reilly we are reminded of his philanthropic support to <a href="/tcddublin/">Trinity College Dublin</a> and in particular the O'Reilly institute where our office <a href="/TCD_Innovation/">Trinity Innovation KnEx</a> was based for almost 20 years. Ar dheis DĂ© go raibh a anam.
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The inaugural Engineering Design Day from the Trinity School of Engineering Discipline of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering on Tuesday, 28th May from 2pm - 5pm. Trinity Engineering tcd.ie/engineering/de…

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Limerick going for 6 Munsters in a row , never been done in the history of the game. #LuimneachAbú . Although I do like to see Clare win as parents are from Ogonelloe and Killaloe en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munster_S…

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📢 It's been 2 exciting months for our friend Niall Comerford who has since we last spoke become an Olympian! Fresh out of Paris, he talks to us and shares his Olympic adventure👉 thepanel.com/2024/08/21/rep… #irishrugby #supportingtalent #OLY Irish Rugby Team Ireland LW Pearl

📢 It's been 2 exciting months for our friend Niall Comerford who has since we last spoke become an Olympian!

Fresh out of Paris, he talks to us and shares his Olympic adventure👉 thepanel.com/2024/08/21/rep…

#irishrugby #supportingtalent #OLY <a href="/IrishRugby/">Irish Rugby</a> <a href="/TeamIreland/">Team Ireland</a> LW Pearl
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At #opensource summit in Vienna today this report was cited on the automotive panel: Every industry codebase scanned contained open source—most at percentages from 99% to 100%. Software is eating the world but open source is eating software. synopsys.com/blogs/software…

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#badnanny The Financial Times have deleted her essay that won the Bodley Head/FT prize but you can see a reference to it on their site: ft.com/content/55f264…

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Ronan Cunningham Director of DCU Invent opens the Irish Knowledge Transfer Association Conference on #AI . Takeaway: GenAI adoption is driven more by people rather than policy .

Ronan Cunningham Director of DCU Invent opens the Irish Knowledge Transfer Association Conference on #AI . Takeaway:  GenAI adoption is driven more  by people rather than policy .
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It is now possible to detect the first signs of brain decline before symptoms appear by using a wearable device that monitors heartbeat in sleep. The research was conducted by a team including Agustin Ibanez, professor in global brain health at Trinity. m.independent.ie/irish-news/wea…

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Last Friday at Dublin City University , I had the opportunity to present at the IKTA Conference 2025: AI Enabled Knowledge Transfer. My talk, "Beyond AI Chatbots", explored how generative AI is already reshaping not just communication, but data generation, decision-making & the structure of work

Last Friday at <a href="/DCU/">Dublin City University</a> , I had the opportunity to present at the IKTA Conference 2025: AI Enabled Knowledge Transfer. My talk, "Beyond AI Chatbots", explored how generative AI is already reshaping not just communication, but data generation, decision-making &amp; the structure of work