Kathryn Cormican (PhD) is Director of the Enterprise Research Centre in the School of Engineering at NUI Galway and a member of Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre. She leads a large multidisciplinary research team working in the area of technology innovation management. This involves the design, development, validation of novel processes and information systems to enable the creation of smarter user-centred solutions. She is internationally recognized for her contribution to research and has won many prestigious best paper awards. Kathryn collaborates with senior industrial partners and has published extensively in high impact journals in her field.