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DICE 2025 – Explores Innovation in the Hybrid Working Era
The DICE annual conference took place recently at ATU, bringing together industry leaders, academics, and innovators to its Letterkenny campus.
The Design, Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (DICE) annual conference took place recently at ATU, bringing together industry leaders, academics, and innovators to its Letterkenny campus for a series of keynote speeches and interactive panel discussions. This year’s event focused on the evolving landscape of hybrid work, offering insights into its impact on businesses, employees, and the future of the workplace.
Sessions included ‘How to make innovation work in a hybrid environment’ and ‘Creativity in a hybrid environment’, which discussed the shift to flexible, remote, and in-office work models that are rapidly transforming industries worldwide today. A ‘Doctoral Research Symposium’ session was later hosted which featured the latest research from doctoral students in relevant fields.
Speaking at the conference, Joe Dunleavy, European CTO at Endava highlighted the benefits of hybrid working, “many people can work on the same thing from many parts of the world, the best creativity often comes when we are together, but it doesn’t mean we always have to be in the one place all of the time.”
Dr Lorna Ross, Head of Department of Design and Creative Media at ATU Donegal and keynote speaker at DICE 2025, shared insights on the potential of design driving human-centred innovation. During the ‘Creativity in a hybrid environment’ session, Lorna stated, “The human-machine relationship is a story deeply connected to our evolution and there’s a need for balance between technological investments and human capital to ensure sustainable progress.”
Michael Margey, Head of the Faculty of Business at ATU Donegal concluded, “It was tremendous to see such a highly engaged panel and audience, it was definitely one of the most impactful DICE conferences with key areas such as AI and remote working attracting a lot of attention, reflecting the rate and scale of change we are facing.”
For information regarding DICE, please see https://www.dicelabs.ie/dice2025
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Photo 1: Joe Dunleavy, European CTO and Global SVP, Head of Dava.X AI group, Endava
Photo 2: Panel discussion members (L-R) : Stephen Carolan, National Hubs Network Manager at the Western Development Commission, Shane Grant, Innovation and Facilities Director PGIM Ireland, Joe Dunleavy, European CTO and Global SVP, Head of Dava.X AI group, Endava, Dr Valerie Mc Taggart, Academic Lecturer & Researcher with Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Sligo Campus, Dr Brónagh Heverin, Head of Department of Law, Public Service and Education ATU Donegal
Photo 3: Dr. Lorna Ross, Head of Department, Design & Creative Media, ATU Donegal
Photo 4: Attendees at DICE 2025
