TEDxDublin Salon

Speakers

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• 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.

• 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."

• 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.