Martin Curley Keynote Speaker

Professor Martin Curley is an experienced tech and healthcare leader and executive, working for major organisations.

He is  a Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University, leading research into digital health capability maturity frameworks with clinicians and executives from companies such as Medtronic, Roche, Huawei, and Cisco. In this role, Martin co-founded the Innovation Value Institute.   This institute developed the IT Capability Maturity Framework, adopted by more than 700 organisations globally.

Martin has had a diverse global career in industry and academia, which has spanned the globe. He has lectured and spoken at many global universities and conferences and been in boardrooms worldwide.

In 2024, he awarded as ‘Digital Transformation Leader’  by a group of industry leaders in the annual Digital Transformation Awards show. Maynooth University received an award for the Best Digital Transformation in Healthcare.

As an industry executive, he has worked in the Netherlands and multiple locations in the USA and spent time at MIT as a visiting scholar. He was the Director of Digital Transformation and Open Innovation at Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE). Martin selected the challenge of trying to transform healthcare using digital technology and data by the innovation paradigm he created and termed as ‘Open Innovation 2.0.’

Martin is the chair and convenor of the annual Digital Health Symposium at the United Nations General Assembly whereby the global leaders in health, tech and pharma come together in an intellectual supercollider to create plans accelerate the digital transition of healthcare. The 4th UNGA Digital Health Symposium – Innovation Value Institute (ivi.ie)

Prior to working as a healthcare executive, Martin was Senior Vice President and group head for Global Digital Practice at Mastercard.   Martin was also vice president at Intel Corporation and Director/GM of Intel Labs Europe, Intel’s network of more than 50 research labs which he helped grow across the European region. He also served as a senior principal engineer at Intel Labs Europe leading Intel’s research and innovation engagement with the European Commission and the broader European Union research ecosystem. Previously, he was Global Director of IT Innovation and Director of IT Strategy and Technology at Intel. Earlier in his Intel career, he held a number of senior positions for Intel in the United States and Europe. He also worked in research and management positions at GE in Ireland and Philips in the Netherlands.

No stranger to political institutions such as the UN, European Parliament, 10 Downing Street, and the White House, Martin has published nine books and many papers on digital, IT, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Curley has applied digital technologies to many sectors including smart cities, education, manufacturing, and the energy sector.