ITLG Upcoming Events
Silicon Valley Global Awards MARCH 30, 2023
The Silicon Valley Global Awards brings together the most entrepreneurial minds in Silicon Valley and beyond to honor fifty top Irish and Irish-American executives making a significant impact in their field. The event generates rich networking opportunities, and showcases experts and innovators from the ITLG community advancing technology today.
This years event will feature a panel discussion with representatives of Irish Rugby.
Paul O’Connell (Ireland Forwards Coach and former Irish Rugby Captain) will share insights on Ireland’s Six Nations campaign, discuss preparations for Rugby World Cup 2023, and will talk about his journey from player to coach.
Vinny Hammond (IRFU Head of Innovation & Analytics for Irish Rugby) will discuss the use of technology in rugby, and how IRFU use technology to gain insights and support the team.
Garrett Tubridy (IRFU Head of Corporate and International Affairs) will outline Irish Rugby’s plans for deeper engagement with the US, following the success of the Ireland v New Zealand match in Chicago in 2016, and in the build-up to USA hosting the Men’s Rugby World Cup in 2031 and the Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2023.
There will also be discussion on the role of US companies with Irish connections and how they can support the Irish Rugby Teams, particularly around the Women’s Game.
Date: March 30, 2023
Location: Stanford Faculty Club, Stanford University, California
Ruth Cotter
Distinguished Leadership Award Recipient
Ruth Cotter is senior vice president at AMD where she oversees Marketing, Human Resources, Investor Relations and Executive Protection. In this unique role, Ruth is responsible for unifying and aligning AMD’s brand and people for success. With more than 25 years of experience, Ruth’s leadership has been instrumental in helping the company scale during hypergrowth and is guided by thoughtful policy and planning.
Under Ruth’s leadership, the IR team led a proactive investor outreach campaign that resulted in AMD being among the best performing stocks on the S&P 500 from 2018-2020. With industry-leading revenue growth of nearly 3x over the past five years, she supported the worldwide marketing team scaling marketing programs while continuing to increase brand awareness. In that same timeframe, she led the HR team through doubling the workforce size and supported onboarding those employees with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion through improved company policies, benefits and community engagement. This focus on inclusion established AMD’s Multi-Voice culture – an inclusive, learning and innovative workplace culture – that is at the heart of what makes AMD stand out from its competition. This effort has landed AMD on Bloomberg’s 2022 Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index and 2021 Forbes Magazine’s list of America’s Most JUST Companies.
Ruth’s most recently led AMD’s Integration Planning Office as the company successfully completed its acquisition of Xilinx. Her responsibility included end-to-end planning and seamless Day One experience to ensure integration occurred as smoothly and efficiently as possible while maintaining the significant growth trajectories of both AMD and Xilinx.
Since 2020, she’s led a multi-disciplinary COVID-19 team tasked with ensuring safety and productivity while providing additional support to AMD’s global employees facing business and personal disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Ruth is the recipient of Technology Magazine's Top 100 Women in Technology recognition in 2021 and the National Diversity Council’s 2020 Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech award. Ruth has been honored as an Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) Hall of Fame Inductee, received a Women Worth Watching Award® from Profiles of Diversity Journal and was named a Top 10 Champion of Global Diversity by Diversity Global Magazine.
Paul O’Connell
Former Ireland captain Paul O’Connell joined the Ireland national coaching group in January 2021 as forwards coach.
Paul was capped 108 times by Ireland and captained the team to Six Nations success in 2014. O’Connell’s distinguished playing career also included seven Test match appearances for the British & Ireland Lions across three tours and two Heineken Cup titles with Munster.
Since retiring from playing in 2015, Paul has held coaching positions with the Munster Academy, Ireland Under-20s and Top 14 side Stade Francais.
Vinny Hammond
Vinny is the Head of Analytics and Innovation for the IRFU, focussing on the preparation of Irish teams through the use of actionable analytics and usage of technology to maximise on-field performance.
He joined the IRFU in 2008, and has been with the senior team management since 2013. Vinny now leads the team of 8 full time analysts across all programmes. He has been selected on the British and Irish Lions management teams in both 2017 and 2021.
Vinny also sits on the Board of Directors for Golf Ireland, and is in the final stages of a PhD in Analytics in University College Dublin.
GARRETT TUBRIDY
Head of International & Corporate Affairs for the IRFU. He was previously the IRFU’s Tournament Director for the Women’s Rugby World Cup (2017).
Kingsley Aikins
Kingsley Aikins is the founder and CEO of The Networking Institute, a Dublin based organization whose mission is to help individuals and organizations achieve their goals through Networking. He is a recognized expert on the topic and has written and spoken extensively on the benefits of Networking. To date, he has trained over 10,000 people in more than 100 organizations in 22 countries.
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