“International Women’s Day 2024: An opportunity for inspiration and networking!"
Date and Time: Thursday 7th March 17.30-21.00
Venue: The Round Room, The Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2
Dublin Chamber, TrailblazHER and The Local Enterprise Office are delighted to welcome you along to celebrate International Women's Day on Thursday 7th March 2024 at the Round Room at the Mansion House. At this event you will get the chance to network with over 250 business leaders along with learning from a panel of inspiring female leaders and entrepreneurs.
Our speaker lineup this year includes:
Siobhan O’Shea, Director Indeed.com (Keynote Speaker)
Siobhán Dunphy, Founder, Bon+Berg https://www.bonandberg.com (Panel Speaker)
Niamh Tallon, Founder, Her Sport https://www.hersport.ie (Panel Speaker)
Alice Tevlin, Founder, Rua Foods https://ruafood.com (Panel Speaker)
Mary Mac Sweeney – Executive Manager Acting, Culture Recreation and Economic Services
Department, Dublin City Council (Event Partner)
Claire Mac Namee, TrailblazHER, TU Dublin (Sponsor)
Broadcaster Ruth Scott will be the MC for the night. This event will be attended by over 250 women in business. The talks will be followed by networking over wine and finger food.
This is a member only event so please book your place through one of the participating organisations or email leodcwomeninbusiness@gmail.com for more information.
Speaker Profiles
Siobhan O'Shea, Director, Indeed.com
Siobhan O’Shea is the 135th President of Dublin Chamber in 2024 and is Director of Scaled Business Success (EMEA/APAC) for U.S. multinational Indeed, the world's number 1 job site with 300m unique visitors every month. Siobhan has served on Council since her election in 2018 before joining the Board of Directors in 2019. She sits on the Audit & Risk and Remuneration Sub-committees and has chaired the Chamber’s Labour Taskforce. Siobhan is also a Board Member of State Agency SOLAS, the Further Education & Training Authority in Ireland. She previously served as Vice President and Board Member of the Employment & Recruitment Federation and Non-Executive Director of Chambers Ireland, the Open Doors Initiative and Teenline (now merged into ISPCC). Siobhan's leadership track record spans 25 years in the United States & Ireland including recent senior roles with global organisations Cpl and Morgan McKinley. She is a frequent speaker and brand ambassador on workplace & labour market trends, the future of work and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Siobhan is a qualified Chartered Director and Executive Coach, having graduated from UCD with a Bachelor of Commerce.
Niamh Tallon, Founder, Her Sport
Niamh Tallon is the founder of Her Sport - Ireland's only media organisation solely dedicated to women in sport. Her Sport is tackling gender inequality through sport, through media and education strategies. Niamh has led the Her Sport team in building a digital community of over 200,000 people, spotlighting female athletes and women's sport, working with some of the largest brands nationally and internationally. Her Sport delivers educational workshops on the landscape of women's sport, creating tangible change at local level. The business continues to grow year on year in terms of team size, revenue and ambition, and are proud to be supported by LEO.
Siobhán Dunphy, Founder, Bon+Berg
Siobhán Dunphy is the founder behind Bon+Berg, an environmentally conscious lingerie brand established in 2021. After spending over seven years in academic research, including postdoctoral positions at prestigious institutions like the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College Dublin, she decided to venture on a different path.
Motivated by the fashion industry's alarming environmental and social impacts, the former engineer turned designer embarked on a mission to create a better alternative, focusing her efforts on intimate apparel. For Siobhán, our undergarments hold significant power: as the first thing we put on in the morning, they should instil confidence not just in our bodies but in the choices we make.
Siobhán envisions Bon+Berg as a catalyst for change, as a platform to raise awareness about the harmful consequences of fast fashion on both humanity and the environment. Embracing a slow fashion philosophy, she rejects the industry's relentless pursuit of trends, opting instead for a more sustainable approach through mindful design and thoughtful iteration.
Inspired by nature and made from responsibly sourced beech tree fibres, each carefully crafted piece in the collection embodies softness, comfort, and elegance without compromise, and underscores Siobhán’s dedication to quality and sustainability.
Bon+Berg has been featured in the Irish Times Magazine, Irish Tatler, Irish Business Post, Irish Daily Mail, and Image.ie.
Alice Tevlin, Rua Food
Alice Tevlin began her journey as a freelance chef in 2018, focusing on healthy meals. Adapting to lockdown, she crafted treats for local cafes, leading to Rua's weekly expansion to 50+ retailers. Rua's newest product is breastfeeding support. Amidst early motherhood, Alice noticed a gap in Ireland's lactation cookie market, inspiring Rua's Chocolate Oatmeal 'Lactation' Cookies to address breastfeeding needs. Rua's products are free from gluten and mostly plant-based.
Mary Mac Sweeney – Executive Manager Acting, Culture Recreation and Economic Services
Department, Dublin City Council
Mary Mac Sweeney has worked in a variety of roles since joining Dublin City Council in 1986. In her
role as Executive Manager Acting, Culture, Recreation and Economic Services (CRES) Department she
works with Councillors and a dedicated team of staff to deliver positive impact for locals and visitors
to Dublin. Through policy, strategy and programming work is on-going designed to make Dublin an
attractive place for events, cultural engagement, physical activity and social connection which
enhances our quality of life. Mary contributes to building a strong cultural, social and circular
economic and enterprise eco system in Dublin city, in partnership with internal and external
stakeholders. Mary enjoys working on innovative and collaborative projects designed to promote
Dublin as a great place to live, work, study, visit and invest, and supports the work of the Dublin
Belfast Economic Corridor, the Dublin Place Brand, the Dublin Economic Monitor, the Dublin Regional
Enterprise Plan, the Your Dublin Your Voice survey panel and the programming for Dublin as
European Capital of Smart Tourism 2024.
Claire Mac Namee, TrailblazHER, TU Dublin
As Head of Enterprise Engagement at Technological University Dublin Claire leads the University’s enterprise support team. TU Dublin is home to over 100 start-up and scale-up companies, located across 80,000 sq. ft. of University enterprise space, in City West, Tallaght, Blanchardstown and Grangegorman. Through these centres and their supports ideas are transformed into commercial enterprises that generate wealth and employment across the Dublin Region. The team also deliver Enterprise Ireland’s New Frontiers Programme across three Dublin locations and have supported over 1,000 companies since the progamme originated. TU Dublin are proud to deliver record-winning numbers of conversions of New Frontiers participants into Enterprise Irelands HPSU investment pipeline, through our custodianship of this programme in the region. In 2020 Claire led the TU Dublin bid for funding within the Regional Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) and secured €2.15m of funding to deliver a centre of excellence in cyber security, The Collaboratory, located on the Blanchardstown Campus of the University. The centre is home to Ireland’s first training security operations centre (SOC) as well as a host of other facilities that support Irish start-ups, SMEs and MNCs with their training, consultancy and research and development needs. In 2022, whilst working on concept ideas designed to increase the number of female-led founders supported by the University, the process revealed that in order to fulfil the objective, that knowledge, exposure and inspiration at a much earlier stage, were key factors in influencing future pathways for women. Further research revealed that the same was true across many areas of female underrepresentation. From this discovery Claire developed the concept for TrailblazHER. The concept has since been advanced, trademarked and has raised over €1m in support from corporate partners, who share the same commitment to advancing gender equality. Future goals include raising another €1m for TrailblazHER, developing further partnerships with companies who share our passion and vision and ultimately, positively influencing the lives of thousands of Irish girls and women over the coming three years.
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Participating Organisations:
Dublin Chamber of Commerce www.dublinchamber.ie/
Local Enterprise Office Dublin City https://www.localenterprise.ie/DublinCity
TU TrailblazHER https://www.tudublin.ie/explore/about-the-university/equality-and-diversity/edi-initiatives-in-tu-dublin/trailblazher/
