Galway Chamber are delighted to host a virtual lunch event to celebrate International Women’s Day, kindly sponsored by MJ Conroy.

The theme for International Women's Day 2021 is #ChooseToChallenge. The aim is to open a conversation about what each of us can do to challenge the status quo to ensure gender-balance across all aspects of society, from government to the media, boardrooms to the sports field.

Date: Monday 8th March
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Format: Online

Panellists:
Dr. Orla Flynn, President of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT)
Anne Graham, CEO of the National Transport Authority
Dorothy Creaven, Vice President, Managing Director and Site Lead at Rent the Runway

This virtual event will be moderated by Chamber Council Member, Marilyn Gaughan Reddan (Head of Programme, Galway 2020)

Marilyn Gaughan Reddan

Marilyn Gaughan Reddan is an experienced Cultural Programme Manager, with over 20 years-experience in arts and cultural management, European programmes and in programme design and delivery.

She is an advisor to many organisations in the area of European programmes, policy, planning and strategic organisational development and sits on numerous boards. She has been involved in several European designations for Galway including the European Capital of Culture and UNESCO City of Film designations. She is a member of the EMPOWER advisory board and is passionate about supporting women in every way.

Panellists:

Anne Graham
Anne is Chief Executive Officer with the National Transport Authority. The Authority is responsible for the provision, regulation and integration of public transport services, the provision of supporting infrastructure for sustainable transport and for driving the greater use of sustainable transport as a mode of choice. She previously worked with the Authority as Director of Public Transport Services on the regulation and provision of public transport services nationally. Prior to joining the NTA, she worked in the Dublin local authorities as a chartered civil engineer in the drainage, roads and traffic divisions; as a project manager on the redevelopment of Dublin’s O’Connell Street area and as an Area Manager in the South West area of the city.

Dr. Orla Flynn
Dr. Orla Flynn took up the role of President of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) in March 2020, having been Vice President for External Affairs at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) for the previous six years.
Earlier management roles in CIT included Head of CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Head of School of Humanities and Head of Department of Media Communications. She was a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Computing for 13 years prior to that. Dr Flynn served as a Director on the board of Cork Chamber of Commerce for four years and has a keen interest in driving strong relationships between GMIT and industry/business.

Dorothy Creaven
Dorothy Creaven is Vice President, Managing Director and site lead at Rent the Runway's European software engineering headquarters in the Claddagh area of Galway City. Specialising in scaling companies from rapid-growth greenfield sites to global technology and software delivery organisations, Dorothy is an Electronic Engineering graduate from NUI Galway, and has 20 years experience in enterprise software, technology startups, digital transformation, management and leadership for SMEs and multinationals alike.

Listed as one of Ireland's top 25 women in engineering, Dorothy also co-founded her own multi-award winning technology startup - an enterprise marketing automation company, Element Wave, successfully operating from Galway between 2010 and 2017 with an international customer base. Her extensive corporate background also includes international giants Google, Abbott Vascular, as well as EPAM Systems, a US publicly-listed Forbes Fast 25 Tech company.

This event is free of charge. Please register below to attend. 

You will receive an email with a link to join the online event closer to the event date. 

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