I Wish 2024 Watch Party

I Wish 2024 Watch Party, features some of our guest speakers and students including Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson.

I Wish 2023 Hybrid Event
Session A

I Wish 2023 STEM Showcase Session A featuring some incredible role models from Deloitte, Arup, Xelda, Alexion, AWS, VMware. Stripe and many more.

Remember, this is a recording so unfortunately you can’t enter the competitions. Just sit back and enjoy! 

I Wish 2023 Hybrid Event
Session C

I Wish 2023 Session C featuring leading STEM role models from Stryker, Johnson & Johnson, Stripe, Merck, Colgate, Cork City Council, Linesight, Qualcomm, Cadence, Arup and many more

Remember, this is a recording so unfortunately you can’t enter the competitions. Just sit back and enjoy! 

I Wish 2022 Virtual Event
Session B

In Session B you will hear incredible Women in STEM from Merck, Deloitte, and Amazon.  Learn what “Life at Stripe” is like and all about “Career Journeys” in ARUP. We were honoured with some wise and touching words from the former president of Ireland and prominent climate action campaigner Mary Robinson.

Remember, this is a recording so unfortunately you can’t enter the competitions or take part in the polls.  Just sit back and enjoy! 

I Wish 2022 Virtual Event
Session D

Session D features Johnson & Johnson’s TY Pilot programme and a chance to meet some of the girls on our Deloitte Mentorship programme.  We also showcase amazing women in STEM from Dell Technologies, Coillte, Qualcomm, Linesight, and Dassault, along with our own inspiring I Wish Co-founders.

Remember, this is a recording so unfortunately you can’t enter the competitions or take part in the polls.  Just sit back and enjoy! 

I Wish 2021 Virtual Event
Session A

This session includes an introduction from An Taoiseach, trailblazing women in STEM from ARUP, Dell Technologies, Vodafone and Colgate Palmolive.  Plus, a special appearance from Ireland’s first female president, Mary Robinson.

Remember, this is a recording so unfortunately you can’t enter the competitions or take part in the polls.  Just sit back and enjoy! 

I Wish 2021 Virtual Event
Session C

This session includes a panel of graduates working in J&J,  and food for thought from our founder Gillian Keating.  You’ll hear from inspiring women in STEM from Guidewire, Jacobs, Vodafone, Google, Gas Networks, Irish Water, Qualcomm and Stryker. Our special guest is the award winning game designer and all round legend, Brenda Romero.

Remember, this is a recording so unfortunately you can’t enter the competitions or take part in the polls.  Just sit back and enjoy!

I Wish 2021 Virtual Event
Session E

The International Session is opened by London N Breed, Mayor of San Francisco.

Our trailblazing women in STEM come from Google, Facebook, Guidewire, Arup and J&J and the guest speaker is Marion Buchet a French Fighter Pilot and Flying Instructor.

Remember, this is a recording so unfortunately you can’t enter the competitions or take part in the polls.  Just sit back and enjoy!

Gillian Keating
I Wish Co Founder

I Wish Co-Founder & Partner Ronan Daly Jermyn

Gillian Keating leads Ronan Daly Jermyn’s Corporate and Commercial Department and the firm’s Technology and Life Sciences Groups.

Gillian is a Co-founder of I WISH and is passionate about the next generation of young females. Gillian is very focused on how we as a society need to fully enable young women to participate in the economy of the future.

Claire FitzGerald
Arup

Senior Consultant in Arup’s Advanced Digital Engineering team.

Claire is an expert in geospatial data analytics, i.e. turning data into meaningful insights that people working in government and businesses use to inform decision making.

Noelle Maguire
Stryker

Associate Manager for Biomaterials Research & Development Team

Noelle is an Associate Manager for the Biomaterials Research & Development Team in Stryker. In this position in the Craniomaxillofacial (CMF) division, Noelle is responsible for leading a team of scientists in the launch of new biomaterial products, sustaining products currently in the biomaterial portfolio as well as also being involved in the biomaterial product pipeline development for CMF. . Noelle studied Pharmaceutical and Forensic Analysis at Limerick Institute of Technology and is currently completing an Executive Masters in Business Administration at the University of Limerick

Tricia Smith
Dell Technologies

Head of Diversity & Inclusion Dell Technologies

Tricia Smyth is Head of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) for Dell Technologies in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Tricia works with business leadership teams to drive a business driven culture of diversity inclusion, and to ensure Dell remains an employer of choice for all. Tricia is also responsible for driving leadership commitment, engagement of customers and team members in the D&I agenda, and promoting partnerships and engagements with global companies and advocates. Based in Cork, Ireland, Tricia brings a wealth of international experience across her +15 years’ of passionately driving D&I initiatives and employee engagement in her previous roles.

Kathy Chou
VMWare

Vice President of Research & Development Operations & Central Services VMware

Kathy Chou is VP of Research & Development Operations and Central Services for VMware. Chou has more than 25 years of operations and management experience in the high-tech industry.Previously, she has served as SVP of Sales Strategy and Operations for Informatica, VP of Sales Operations and Strategy at Intuit and spent 18 years at HP in various management roles.  While at HP, Chou led the team that won the 2009 Franz Edelman award for outstanding achievement in applied operations research, awarded by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. 

Medb Corcoran

Lead for Accenture Labs

Medb Corcoran is the  lead for ‘Accenture Labs’ in Ireland, one of Accenture’s seven key research hubs around the world. Based in Accenture’s The Dock, Medb incubates and prototypes new concepts through applied R&D projects that are expected to have a significant strategic impact on Accenture and its clients. Medb also drives the Artificial Intelligence R&D work for Accenture Labs in Ireland. This involves exploring new ways of addressing critical business problems by applying leading-edge AI techniques, including machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning.