Niall McMahon

Talks

Lectures, talks, meetings and so on.

These are selected talks and meetings outside of regular lectures - I was mostly working on startup and software development from 2017 and then the global coronavirus pandemic happened.

Lectures

Feb/Mar 2022. Invited lecturer. A Sustainable Future. NUIG. MSc Consumer Psychology.
I helped structure a module about sustainable consumption.
May 2021. Invited lecturer. Software Reliability and Wind Turbines, NUIM, Computer Science.

Meetings

Dec 2019. 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.
Sep 2016. 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.
Nov 2015. Observer. SWIP Project Steering Committee Meeting, Darmstadt. Funded by the SWIP project.
May 2015. Observer. SWIP Project Steering Committee Meeting, Stockholm. Funded by the SWIP project.
Jan 2015. Invited delegate. RUK Medium Wind Standards Committee, DNV-GL, Glasgow.

Talks

Dec 2016. Invited speaker. Proposed IEA Wind Task on Quiet Wind Turbine Technology, IEA Wind ExCo 78, European Commission, Brussels. Partially funded by SEAI.
Nov 2016. 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.
Sep 2016. 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.
Sep 2016. 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.
May 2016. Ireland deputy representative. New IEA Task 3X update. IEA Wind ExCo, Lisbon.
Apr 2016. Invited speaker. New Tools for the SEAI Wind Mapping System, Energy Show, Dublin.
Apr 2016. Invited speaker. New IEA Wind Task on Quiet Wind Turbine Technology, Energy Show, Dublin.
Oct 2015. Invited speaker. New Task Proposal, IEA Wind ExCo, Paris. Partially funded by SEAI.
Jun 2015. Speaker. Lessons from a Small Wind Trial in Ireland. Small Wind Conference 2015, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Funded by benefactor.
Jul 2012. Invited speaker. Seminar on Household and Commercial Wind. Hong Kong Productivity Council, Kowloon.
Apr 2012. Speaker. A Design Platform for Small- and Medium-Sized Turbines. RUK Intl. Small & Medium Wind Conference, Glasgow.
Apr 2010. Speaker. Blade-Integrated Overspeed Protection for Small Wind Turbines. RUK Intl. Small Wind Conference, Glasgow.

Visits

Jul/Aug 2012. Several week visit to the Institute for Renewable Energy (IEO) in Warsaw.