Ballygarry Estate Hotel & Spa
February 13th 2025. Tech Industry Alliance Skillnet is proud to be a sponsor of this event
●Cantillon 2025 will focus on businesses learning from those who lead from the front on the world stage of medicine, defence and media, exploring innovative solutions and strategies for building resilient futures through engaging presentations, panel discussions, and networking opportunities.
●Cantillon 2025 will demonstrate how we can learn to rewire our brains supporting a healthy brain as we lead through change as individuals, employers, employees and future thinking citizens.
●The one-day thought leadership conference in Co Kerry will give businesses the opportunity to learn from cross sectoral leaders and how they use their expertise to be creative and proactive.
In an era marked by unprecedented challenges and global imperatives, industries and businesses worldwide are at the crossroads of transformation.
Cantillon 2025: Leadership Rewired brings together industry leaders, policymakers, academics, and innovators to explore innovative solutions and strategies for building a resilient future for business, as we rethink and rewire our brain.
The conference, led again this year by journalist and presenter Grett O’Connor, will feature a series of engaging presentations, interactive panel discussions, and networking opportunities, providing a platform for collaboration and knowledge exchange.
National and international thought leaders including John Fahey, Senior Economist at AIB, Professor Felicity Kelliher at SETU, Major General Maureen O’Brien and Professor Mary Horgan, Ireland’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Saranna Fanning, Assistant Professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School; together with the exciting panellists will present the need to embrace change and challenge our logic and creativity as we actively require our brain and challenge it regularly to allows us as humans to stay ahead of technology. Our speakers on the day will share insights, debate, and discuss how the private and public sector can learn from transformational leadership.
This one-day conference is aimed at companies and businesses of all sizes and structures across multiple sectors; from start-ups, to scaling and international competing businesses across the region. Cantillon 2025 is the ideal opportunity for a business away day to listen, learn and network.
Now in its eleventh year, the groundbreaking conference is named in honour of Ballyheigue native Richard Cantillon, a pioneering economist credited with the origin of the term entrepreneur. The annual event brings together a host of national and international industry leaders, economists, journalists, academics and entrepreneurs to examine and explore key technology-related topics.
SESSION ONE: POWERING UP: CHASING THE CURRENT
This session will set the scene for the conference presenting a view
of the global economy, its trends, opportunities and challenges. We will hear of the growing representation of international cultures in the workplace and how we need to embrace this and grow with it. Being aware of these changes is a starting point – we need to act on the change. We will learn how we can do this and how we can actively lead through these unprecedented times of transformation as we rethink and rewire our brain!
9.15 – 9.30AM Lighting Up the Horizon: A Global Economic Outlook
Mr. John Fahey – Senior Economist AIB
9.35 – 9.50AM An Integrated Circuit: Integrating an International Culture
Dr. Brian Kelly, CEO, Murasaki
9.55- 10.10AM Power Connected: Take Action!
Professor Felicity Kelliher - Professor of Management Practice, South East Technological University
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Powering Up: Brain Challenge
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10.40AM COFFEE & NETWORKING
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11.20AM SESSION TWO: POWER AHEAD: ALIGNING POWER SOURCES
Times are changing. Business Models are innovating. Supply chains are favouring sustainability. Organisations – private and public are powering ahead. At its core of progression – are people. During this session we will hear from those who have taken the first mover advantage, from those who lead day in day out – in an everyday that is a new day; in an everyday where all that is known is to be prepared for the unknown. Be on watch! Be prepared! Be strategic! – Nothing new for those in Media- Medicine and Military who lead at the edge. We will learn from those at the front line who despite their best planning need to think on their feet creatively, innovatively, proactively but in collaboration with a powerful team of colleagues – a team deliberately aligned for success – a team that lives by the rewiring experience.
11.20 – 11.35AM Resetting the Frequency – Frequently!
Ms. Fiona Stack, General Manager, Radio Kerry
11.40 – 11.55PM Generating Electrical Energy
Professor Mary Horgan, Chief Medical Officer, Ireland
12.00 – 12.15PM True Power – Knowing its Potential
Major General (Retired) Maureen O Brien
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Powering Up: Brain Challenge – A task we can do at the desk.
12.40 -12.55PM SESSION THREE: SUSTAINABLE CENTRAL POWERING
By encouraging you to act. We will learn how to rewire our brain with a very practical 10 minutes Pilates challenge at the desk towards the support of a healthy brain as we lead through change as individuals, employers, employees and future thinking citizens.
Volt Up!
Ms. Charlotte Hughes, Pilates Instructor
10 Minutes Pilates Brain Health from the Desk!
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1.00PM SESSION FOUR: CENTRAL POWER SUPPLY: BATTERY FULLY CHARGED
This session will show us that acting on change and with the right people in place in not enough for us to stay ahead. We need personal ownership. We each need to buy in. We need to make sure our brains are healthy and well – challenging our logic and our creativity - frequently. During this session we will learn of innovative ways in understanding brain health and how we can physically, nutritionally and mentally power our key asset – the brain! As we lead through these opportunistic times of transformation, we need to actively rewire the brain and challenge it regularly to allow us as humans to stay ahead of technology.
1.00-1.15PM Thinking differently about the complexity of neurodegenerative diseases in the brain
Dr Saranna Fanning, Assistant Professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital
1.20-1.35PM Balancing the Wattage: Reconnecting and Re-energising the workplace through exercise, common goals and smart technology.
Mr. John Barron, CEO and founder of GoChallenge
Book your ticket today at: https://events.mtu.ie and search “Cantillon”
