TEDxDublin Salon

Speakers

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• Aidan Larkin

  Co-founder and CEO

  Aidan spent over a decade as a criminal investigator with UK tax authority HMRC and as a seized asset manager for UK and EU government agencies, where he led some of the world's first public auctions of seized cryptocurrency. He is co-founder and CEO of Asset Reality, which builds the infrastructure governments and regulated organizations use to manage, recover, and take the profits out of crime. Aidan is also an Associate Fellow at RUSI, the world's oldest defense and security think tank, where he advises governments and regulators on the future of financial crime and asset recovery in a digital-asset world.

• Declan Murray

  CEO

  Declan Murray is the founder of EuVibe — Europe's first Social Partnership Platform. With a background spanning business and technology, Declan has spent his career building connections between people, organisations, and ideas. He founded EuVibe from a simple conviction: that Europe's communities deserve a trusted digital home that reflects their values, protects their data, and gives them a genuine voice. Based in Ireland, Declan is passionate about European digital sovereignty, ethical AI, and the power of community to change the world. He believes technology should serve people, not exploit them.

• Katie Ferriter

  Head of Digital Assets Infrastructure Delivery

  "Katie Ferriter is the Head of Digital Assets Infrastructure Delivery at Northern Trust. She is responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of infrastructure capabilities that enable Digital Assets, and broader innovation initiatives across Northern Trust. Katie has spent 12 years working in the financial services industry between North America and EMEA with roles spanning technology delivery, technology research and innovation, Digital Asset Product and Digital Asset Risk. In operation for more than 130 years Northern Trust has more than 23,000 employees around the globe and manages more than $1.8 trillion (as of December 31, 2025) in assets for our clients.

• Kevin Dowling

  Lead EMEA Solutions Architecture

  Kevin Dowling leads the EMEA Solutions Architecture team at Stripe, helping businesses turn complex ideas into practical, scalable solutions. He is passionate about technology, innovation, and making the complicated feel simple.

• Myles Clarke

  Managing Director, Ireland

  Myles Clarke joined CBRE in 2018 as Managing Director for the Irish business, based in Dublin. Previously, Myles worked for 20 years in investment banking in London in a variety of capital markets roles at RBS, Citibank and Greenwich capital. Combining a background in monetary economics with financial markets, Myles champions the positive role that tokenisation can play in making investments more accessible.

• Paddy Connolly

  Researcher

  "Patrick leads Accenture's AI Trust Research globally, residing in Accenture's flagship Innovation Center in Dublin. He is primarily focused on the practical application of cutting edge research in enterprise solutions for AI governance frameworks, agentic trust, global AI policy/EU AI regulation, AI sustainability and Human+AI design, collaborating with WEF, Openloop, Stanford, MIT, UCL and the Turing Institute. Working with university partners and clients, his current research focuses on the development of new Agentic AI Trust Architectures, which represents a major departure from traditional AI governance, focusing on dynamic risk managed, persistent AI trust scores, adaptive governance, human-AI design at scale and the development of new operating models for increasingly AI-enabled organizations. With 10 years experience in the field, he also lectures regularly in Ireland, UK and US on the history of Responsible AI and potential future paths."

• Richard Murphy

  Head of FCAT Europe

  "Richard Murphy is Head of FCAT Europe at Fidelity Investments, where he leads the firm’s Innovation Ecosystem globally, exploring how emerging technologies, new business models and unconventional ideas can create meaningful new value. His career has been spent at the intersection of invention and execution. He has built new companies, products and services, led large-scale transformation, and worked across the US, Europe, Africa and Asia. His experience spans both sides of the innovation divide: from being part of a startup founding team to leading innovation teams inside one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Richard works extensively with entrepreneurs, researchers, universities, government agencies and business leaders to explore technologies and ideas that could reshape industries over the coming decade.

• Sean Penrith

  CEO

  Sean Penrith is the founder and CEO of Gordian Knot Strategies, a global climate finance consultancy building mechanisms for regenerative investment. His proprietary frameworks, TRARO®, KIMAZO®, and CEFAR, show how projects earn trust and how capital flows to what matters most: nature, communities, and resilience. Over two decades, Sean has helped mobilize more than $1.57 billion in climate capital, guiding foundations, investors, project developers, and policymakers toward finance models that align profit with planetary health. A lifelong mariner and systems thinker, he believes the next era of prosperity will come from trust made visible, through markets that value the Earth itself.