Darío Javier Cravero is CTO and co-founder at Content Kingdom in Galway. He previously was Web Innovator & Co-Founder at UXtemple, CTO at Ex-Ordo, CTO at Starlight Solutions. He is core contributor to the Padrino Web Framework which is one of the most popular Ruby frameworks. He won the awards titled Best New Web Application/Service and Best Practices at the Irish Web Awards in 2011. He is also a volunteer coach for Rails Girls Galway 2014.

Dorothy Creaven is co-founder and CEO of Element Software in Galway. In a short time, she has piloted the company from being a small start-up to winning Ireland's largest business competition (Seedcorn), winning public tender contracts, and signing significant deals with multinational customers, such as Sage and Ericsson. She is an electronic engineering graduate of NUIG and has worked for big names, such as Google and Abbott Vascular. Included in the Top 100 women in STEM list by SiliconRepublic and in the Ireland’s Technology Women: Yet Another Talented 38 list by Technology Voice.

Catherine Cronin is Academic Coordinator of online IT programmes at the National University of Ireland, Galway, as well as a lecturer and online facilitator in both BSc and MSc programmes. Her work is focused on online and open education, digital literacies and social media in education.

Alanna Kelly is an experienced software engineer. She worked for over 6 years in the top tier game development studio "PopCap Games". She is currently a Research Assistant at INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, NUIG working on Gambas, a Generic Adaptive Middleware for Behavior-driven Autonomous Services. She is also an electronics hacker and railway modeler. As a stable member and advocacate of the Galway-based 091labs hackerspace she run several programming and electronic-related workshops. She is the organizer of the popular Galway Game Jam and a volunteer coach at both Rails Girls Galway 2013 and 2014.