Talks, conferences and travel
2021
2021-05-26. Invited lecture. Software Reliability and Wind Turbines, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science.
2020
No travel this year; see, the global coronavirus pandemic.
2019
2019-12-04. Invited delegate on a business opportunity mission Adlershof Technology Park in Berlin. Simpitiko joined other technology companies from the Newry/Mourne/Down/Louth/Meath transfrontier region. Organised and mostly funded by the Meath Local Enterprise Office.
Berlin, 2019.
2018, 2017
Limited professional travel, focussing on start-up.
2016
2016-12-01. Invited speaker. Proposed IEA Wind Task on Quiet Wind Turbine Technology, IEA Wind ExCo 78, European Commission, Brussels. Partially funded by SEAI.
2016-11-18. Speaker. New IEA Wind Task on Quiet Wind Turbine Technology, Wind Turbine Sound 2016, Gdańsk. (This became IEA Wind Task 39.) Partially funded by SEAI.
Hamburg, 2016.
2016-09-27. Invited guest of Wind Europe. For proposed research outline, Repowered Repowering: a Blue-print for Artificial Intelligence and Repowering. Wind Europe Summit, Hamburg. Funded by the Wind Europe.
Vienna, 2016.
2016-09-16. Invited speaker. The Small Wind Boom and Bust of the Early 21st Century. Challenges and Opportunities for the Future, 2. Internationale Kleinwindtagung / Small Wind Turbines 2016, 2nd International Congress, Fachhochschule Technikum Wien, Vienna. Funded by the conference.
2016-09-15. Invited speaker. Reducing Mechanical Complexity with an AI-inspired Control System, 2. Internationale Kleinwindtagung / Small Wind Turbines 2016, 2nd International Congress, Fachhochschule Technikum Wien, Vienna. Funded by the conference.
2016-05-18. Observer. SWIP Project Steering Committee Meeting, Dublin.
2016-05-11. Ireland deputy representative. New IEA Task 3X update. IEA Wind ExCo, Lisbon.
Lisbon, 2016.
2016-04-07. Invited speaker. New Tools for the SEAI Wind Mapping System, Energy Show, Dublin.
2016-04-06. Invited speaker. New IEA Wind Task on Quiet Wind Turbine Technology, Energy Show, Dublin.
2015
2015-11-19 -- 2015-11-20. Observer. SWIP Project Steering Committee Meeting, Darmstadt. Funded by the SWIP project.
2015-10-07. Invited speaker. New Task Proposal, IEA Wind ExCo, Paris. Partially funded by SEAI.
2015-06-17. Speaker. Lessons from a Small Wind Trial in Ireland. Small Wind Conference 2015, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Funded by benefactor.
2015-05-20. Observer. SWIP Project Steering Committee Meeting, Stockholm. Funded by the SWIP project.
2015-01-23. Invited delegate. RUK Medium Wind Standards Committee, DNV-GL, Glasgow.
Selected Older
2012-07-27. Invited speaker. Seminar on Household and Commercial Wind. Hong Kong Productivity Council, Kowloon.
2012-04. Speaker. A Design Platform for Small- and Medium-Sized Turbines. RUK Intl. Small & Medium Wind Conference, Glasgow.
2010-04. Speaker. Blade-Integrated Overspeed Protection for Small Wind Turbines. RUK Intl. Small Wind Conference, Glasgow.
Misc
2015-10-21. Invited speaker. Applied Maths in Wind Turbine Design, UCD, Dublin.