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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

11.45 to 12.15 Registration

12.15 to 13.00 Pre-conference lunch

13.15 to 13.50 Welcome and Introduction to conference

Session 1 – Innovation for Convergence

13.50 to 15.00

Presentation: ‘’Aligning agendas within a crowded operating landscape’’, Dr. Stephanie O’Keeffe,

National Director of Health and Wellbeing, HSE

Panel discussion; Panel members to make a 3 minute opening statement ahead of moderated Q&A

Questions & Answer Session (c. 35mins)

Moderator: Speaker:

Panel Members:

Paul Reid

Chief Executive

Fingal County

Council

Conn Murray

Chief Executive

Limerick City and

County Council

Furio Honsell

Mayor, Comune di

Udine

President of the

European Covenant

on Demographic

Change

Professor Geoff Green

Emeritus Professor of Urban

Policy Centre for Health &

Social Care Research,

Sheffield Hallam University

Dr. Stephanie O’Keeffe

National Director of Health

and Wellbeing, Health

Service Executive (HSE)

Joan Martin

Chief Executive,

Louth County Council

Joan Devlin

Chief Executive

Belfast Healthy Cities

Furio Honsell

Mayor, Comune di

Udine

Dr Alexander Peine

Faculty of Geosciences,

Utrecht University, Utrecht

Innovation for Convergence: What are the links and synergies between ‘Age Friendly’, ‘Healthy’, ‘Smart’ and ‘Sustainable’ Cities? Can wider stakeholder coalitions be made and sustained to support effective focus on active and healthy ageing? How do we capitalise on these synergies and sustain the overlapping

agendas simultaneously? Is there a danger that some groups may be prioritised at the expense of others

In the pursuit of sustainable development and growth, many regions, cities, counties and municipalities are

facing the challenge of how to achieve their social, economic and environmental goals in a balanced and

integrated fashion. In the pursuit of improved quality of life for citizens, greener and more accessible

environments, greater service effectiveness and increased economic competitiveness and employment,

cities and local governments are faced with an array of policies and programmes that offer particular

approaches from domain perspectives. Today many city administrations may be facing the need to deliver

parallel, yet overlapping, programmes addressing age-friendly environments, healthy cities, smart cities,

sustainable communities, child friendly cities, and dementia friendly communities, to name but a few.

Framing this complex and interwoven agenda requires a cohesive and coherent approach to inter-

generational dynamics, citizen empowerment, inclusivity and diversity. It requires a common vision and

direction, an inclusive language to mobilise, activate, communicate and sustain cooperation and

collaboration, and a common information base to monitor improvement within, and across programmes.

In this session, stakeholders involved in two or more of the age-friendly cities, healthy cities, smart cities

and sustainable cities movements will describe their experiences in framing integrated approaches to

converging multi-domain programmes in their cities, and as a panel, will jointly discuss and explore critical

success criteria that underpin their achievements.

15 to 15.25 Tea/Coffee Break

Session 2: Implementing Innovation for Age-friendly Environments

15.30 to 16.45

Presentation: ‘’Implementing with fidelity matters?’’, Nuala Doherty, Director, Centre for Effective

Services

Panel discussion; Panel members to make a 3 minute opening statement ahead of moderated Q&A

Questions & Answer Session (c. 35mins)

Moderator: Speaker:

Menno Hinkema

Senior Researcher at TNO,

the Netherlands

Organisation for Applied

Scientific Research

Nuala Doherty

Director, Centre for

Effective Services

Panel Members:

Implementing Innovation for Age-Friendly Environments; How do we embed the pioneering and

innovative work of recent years in the mainstream? How do we now scale up local models of good practice

into the consistent application of proven age friendly initiatives across a wider network of Age Friendly

Cities, Counties and Communities? Can we support collaboration without sacrificing autonomy? What roles

do ‘communications,’ ‘leadership’ and ‘culture change’ have to play?

As we develop evidence on the efficacy and impact of new or improved products, services and practices

supporting active and healthy ageing, whether in, or across the social, health, environmental or

technological spheres, we are increasingly faced with the challenge of wider implementation and take-up.

The adoption and/or adaption of innovative solutions to different operating contexts and cultures, at scales

that can support sustainability and growth, and with fidelity to under-pinning principles and values

represents a vital dimension to channeling concepts, models and policy experimentation, into widely

available ‘on-the-ground’ improvements that can make a difference to the lives of many. Implementation

science can provide a systematic and programmatic approach to the design, replication and scaling of

innovation to meet the emerging needs of our counter ageing societies. Along with the policies, practices,

tools and guidelines, successful implementation requires organisational readiness, competence and

capacity development, an outcome orientation, sound information base, and most of all – adaptive

leadership to foster a culture and commitment to long-term change and risk engagement. This needs to

span within and across organisational boundaries and encompass empowered older citizens as active

partners rather than passive recipients.

In this session, participants driving innovation in the areas of active and healthy ageing will explain their

experiences in replicating, scaling a wider take-up of their solutions, and as a panel, will together explore

some of the strategies and techniques that they see as vital in overcoming barriers to broader adoption,

and achieving greater sustainability, growth and impact.

Maurice O’Connell

Coordinator,

Active Ageing in

Partnership

Horst Kramer

DG Connect,

European

Commission

Carina Dantas

Director of the Innovation

Department of Cáritas

Coimbra Portugal

Sergio Murillo

Department for Social

Development,

Government of Biscay,

Basque Country

Conference Dinner

Tuesday, October 25th 2016 the conference dinner will take place in the Grand Hotel Malahide

7pm: Pre-dinner Reception

7.30pm: Welcome address, Mayor Cllr Darragh Butler

7.35pm: Joint Keynote Dinner Address

8pm: Dinner

Helen McEntee TD,

Minister of State for

Mental Health and

Older People

Damien English TD,

Minister of State for

Housing and Urban

Renewal

Cllr Darragh Butler,

Mayor of Fingal

County Council

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

08.45 to 09.15 Registration

9.15am Welcome and introduction – Nora Owen

Session 3: Measurement and Monitoring to inform effective decision making

and optimization of scarce resources

09.30 to 10.45

Presentation: ‘’Good data makes for good decisions’’, Sinead Shannon, Research Manager, Age

Friendly Ireland and Project Manager, Healthy and Positive Ageing Initiative (HaPAI)

Panel discussion; Panel members to make a 3 minute opening statement ahead of moderated Q&A

Questions & Answer Session (c. 35mins)

Moderator: Speaker:

Panel Members:

Nora Owen

Chair, Fingal Age

Friendly Alliance.

Dr Christine McGarrigle,

Research Director, TILDA

Sinead Shannon

Research Manager, Age

Friendly Ireland and Project

Manager, Healthy &

Positive Ageing Initiative

(HaPAI)

Dr Sean O’Riordan

Chairman of the

Public Policy

Advisors Network

Dr Mark Morgan

Cregan Professor of

Education and

Psychology, St. Patrick’s

College. Former co-

director of Growing Up in

Ireland

Dr Teresa Maguire

Principal Officer,

Research &

Development and Health

Analytics Division

Department of Health

Prof Geoff Green

Emeritus Professor of

Urban Policy Centre for

Health & Social Care

Research, Sheffield

Hallam University

Measurement and monitoring to inform effective decision making and optimisation of scarce

resources; How can we use data to improve the quality of our environments to make them safer, healthier

and more sustainable? How can data help us to determine priorities and monitor progress at the local level?

What role do measures and indicators have to play in promoting and sustaining political and social

commitment to active and healthy ageing?

The availability of data at regional or local level can be used to determine priorities, monitor progress or

guide the decision-making processes of local policy makers. Indicators can be instrumental in establishing a

common understanding among stakeholders about the dimensions of age-friendliness that are valued and

set goals and objectives in relation to them. Local indicators can also be used to promote and sustain

political and social commitment and to help identify areas for action in Age Friendly City and Community

programmes.

The Department of Health (Ireland) is leading a joint national programme (the Healthy and Positive Ageing

Initiative) together with the Health Service Executive and Age Friendly Ireland to develop indicators to

measure progress towards the objective of making Ireland a great place in which to grow old. In this session

an overview will be provided on recent national positive ageing research in which the focus is on how

people experience places and how these experiences influence their quality of life and well -being.

This session will explore innovative and practical ways of providing knowledge support for the

implementation of public health and ageing frameworks. Geographical variation and inequalities in the age

friendliness of communities will be explored under each of the WHO’s three pillars of Participation, Health

and Security. Processes for translation of data into actions at local level will be examined, with a view to the

development of a greater understanding of the integral part that data can play in promoting age-friendliness

at local level.

10.45 to 11.10 Tea/Coffee Break

Session 4: Risks and rewards: Preparing ourselves for the challenges

that lie ahead

11.15 to 12.30

Presentation: ‘Synthesising the key themes’’, Rodd Bond, Director, Netwell Centre, Dundalk Institute of

Technology

Panel discussion; Panel members to make a 3 minute opening statement ahead of moderated Q&A

Questions & Answer Session (c. 35mins)

Moderator: Speaker:

Diane Wu, MD, MPH

Technical Officer, World

Health Organization

(WHO) Department of

Ageing and Life Course

Rodd Bond,

Director, Netwell Centre,

Dundalk Institute of

Technology

Panel Members:

Risks and rewards: Preparing ourselves for the challenges that lie ahead; We invite a number of policy

makers and programme leaders to make sense of what we’ve heard across the two days, the trends that

matter and the developments that will make a difference. There are understandable concerns, but we must

also look ahead; Can we really work in an open space where there are no silo’s? What economic

opportunities will there be in the future? Are we capable of changing tack? What will the ac tive and healthy

agenda look like in 10 and 20 years’ time?

Making our cities, towns and neighborhoods places which support active and healthy ageing across the life-

course requires good cooperation across a wide range of sectors. We are being challenged to find new

urban and rural strategies which are flexible enough to adapt to rapidly evolving populations, addressing not

only the needs and expectations of today’s older generations, but taking a longer perspective and a life

course approach. Today the challenge is to identify how to break traditional barriers and inspire

collaborative and innovative efforts.

Tools such as the Covenant on Demographic Change and the new Age Friendly Environments in Europe

(AFEE) publications, adapted to the European context, can provide practical help for local and regional

authorities in identifying priority areas of action, designing local action plans and planning evaluation and

monitoring of age-friendly policies.

The WHO Health 2020 European policy framework provides a platform for posing serious questions

including; What are the challenges that threaten to slow the momentum and the opportunities for action?

Are the agendas of ‘health’, ‘ageing’, ‘sustainable development’ and ‘smart technologies’ really aligned and

if so how do we manage any required convergence while ‘keeping’ the relevant leaders at the table’? If we

become too broad or holistic in our approach is there a danger of ‘watering it down’ to something that is

ineffectual?

12.30 to 12.45 - Followed by Lunch at 1pm

Closing Remarks:

Paul Reid

Chief Executive

Fingal County

Council

Manfred Huber

Coordinator, Healthy

Ageing, Disability and

Long-term Care,

WHO regional Office

for Europe

Robert McCarthy

Program Director -

Innovation, Business

Development and

Operations – IBM

Ireland Lab

Bob Gilbert

Chair, National

Network of Older

People’s Councils

Brendan Kenny

Director, Age Friendly

Ireland and Deputy Chief

Executive, Dublin City

Council

Margaret Geraghty,

Director of Services,

Housing and Community

Department, Fingal

County Council

Profiles for Moderators, Speakers and Panelists

Paul Reid Chief Executive Fingal County Council

Paul was appointed as the Chief Executive of Fingal County Council in April 2014. He was the first

appointment at this level not to have previously worked in the Local Government sector. He leads the

executive team in Fingal together with the newly elected councillors and Mayor in driving a process of

change in Local Government, enabled by the Local Government Reform Act, 2014.

Between 2011 and 2014, Paul worked as the Chief Operations Officer in the Department of Public

Expenditure & Reform. He was responsible for leading a whole set of reforms across the public service. In

this role he negotiated the Haddington Road Agreement, with the 26 Public Service Trade Unions, to reduce

the public service pay bill by €1BN.

From 2010 to 2011, Paul worked as Head of Corporate Affairs with Trócaire, the Irish International Aid

Agency. Whilst there, he worked on an agenda to strengthen the overall governance of the organisation

and on the implementation of best practice in HR, Finance, Risk Management and Communications.

Paul’s previous career was as the Executive Director of Networks & Operations with Eircom, the leading

Irish telco organisation. He carried out a number of other roles within Eircom in Sales, Marketing and

Contact Centre Management. Paul holds a Masters in Business Administration from Trinity College and a

BA in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the National College Ireland.

Conn Murray, M.A. (Local Government) Chief Executive Limerick City and County Council

My career commenced 34 years ago in my native County of Meath. I have since worked in a number of

Authorities including Tipperary, Limerick, and Cork and was appointed City Manager in Waterford in

September 2003. Subsequent to that I was appointed Manager of Louth County Council in September

2007. In August 2012 I was appointed Dual Manager of both Limerick County and Limerick City Council. In

June 2014 I took over as Chief Executive of the new Limerick City & County Council.

I am a member of the County & City Management Association. I currently serve on the National Fire

Directorate and the Board of Local Government Management Agency. I chair the Change Management

Committee of the Local Government Management Agency and serve on the Local Authority National

Council, the Oversight Group on Haddington Road and the Performance Management and Monitoring

Group.

Furio Honsell Mayor, Comune di Udine, President of the European Covenant on Demographic Change Professor of Informatics at the University of Udine

Furio Honsell born in Genoa (ITALY) in 1958, is full professor of Informatics at the University of Udine

(ITALY) since 1990. There he served first as Head of the Mathematics and Computing Dept. and later as

Dean of the Faculty of Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences. From 2001 to 2008 he was Rector of

Udine University. Honsell was President of the Science and Technology Park of Udine and vice-president

of the National Association for the Promotion of European Research. Besides having written a large number

of scientific publications Honsell has carried out also a very intense activity for popularisation of Sc ience,

also on the Italian National Television. In 2008 Honsell was elected Mayor of Udine (pop 100,000) with a

centre-left coalition. In May 2013 he was re-elected for another five year term. In 2009, he joined the

Covenant of Mayors 202020 and recently the Mayors Adapt for Climate and Energy. He is vice-president of

the Italian W.H.O. “Healthy Cities” Network which promotes health and well-being for all citizens. He is

strongly committed to implementing policies for health and energy efficiency, combating climate change and

inequities, as well as promoting co-operation and networking at European and international level. In 2015

he was elected President of the EU Covenant on Demographic Change. He is also President of “Giona”,

the Italian National Association of "playful municipalities" which promote public toy libraries and games. He

has been visiting professor at Stanford University, École Normale Supérieure of Paris, Scuola Normale

Superiore of Pisa, Edinburgh University, and coordinator for many European scientific and cooperation

projects with cultural institutions in Europe and India.

Geoff Green Emeritus Professor of urban Policy at the Centre for Health and Social Care Research, Sheffield Hallam University and Chair of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group on Global Age Friendly Cities and Communities.

Geoff Green is professor emeritus of urban policy at the Centre for Health and Social Care Research,

Sheffield Hallam University in the UK and chair of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group on Global Age

Friendly Cities and Communities. He has coordinated evaluation of the WHO European Healthy Cities

Network and advises WHO on Age-Friendly cities and city health development planning.

His professional life is at the interface of local government and academia, working strategically in the Chief

Executive Departments of four cities of the United Kingdom and for the universities of Sheffield, Oxford,

Birmingham and now Sheffield Hallam. He coordinated 20 university research programmes on the

‘upstream’ determinants of public health for local governments, health authorities and the UK Government.

Dr. Stephanie O’Keeffe National Director of Health and Wellbeing in the Health Service Executive

Dr. Stephanie O’Keeffe is National Director of Health and Wellbeing in the HSE. Dr Stephanie O’Keeffe is a

social psychologist and has worked for the past 14 years in the health service. She has specific expertise in

national health strategy development, implementation and evaluation.

Dr. O’Keeffe previously was the first Director of the new Health and Wellbeing Programme in the

Department of Health where she led out on the development of Ireland’s first intersectoral population health

framework, Healthy Ireland. Dr. O’Keeffe is a former Director of the Crisis Pregnancy Programme where she

worked for ten years. Dr. O’Keeffe has a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin, an

MSc in Psychological Research Methods and Assessment and a PhD in Psychology from the University of

Surrey in the UK.

Joan Martin Joan Martin Chief Executive, Louth County Council

Joan Martin, Chief Executive, Louth County Council, Ireland, has worked in the Irish Public Service for 39

years, mainly in Local Government. She holds a Degree in Public Administration as well as a Masters in

Business (MBA) and has very wide-ranging experience across a variety of fields including Transportation,

Planning, Environment, Town Management and Rural Development. Joan was appointed as Chief Executive

in Louth in September 2014.

Joan’s key interests in recent years include both Cross -Border Co-Operation and the Age Friendly Agenda.

Louth was Ireland’s first Age Friendly County and Joan has been a member of the Louth Age Friendly

Alliance for some years now. She is keen to continue to develop the Age Friendly and Demographic

Change Agendas at Local, Regional, National and European levels. To this end she has taken a close

interest in both the D4 EIPAHA project and the AFE INNOVNET project .

Joan Devlin

Chief Executive, Belfast Healthy Cities

Joan Devlin is Chief Executive of Belfast Healthy Cities, where she has overall strategic

responsibility for delivering programmes on behalf of the city of Belfast to meet the World

Health Organisation (WHO) healthy city requirements. She has served as elected chair of

the WHO European Healthy Cities Advisory Committee, and has acted as a WHO Adviser

contributing to the development of Healthy Cities’ within a number of European countries

and presenting on behalf of WHO at international Conferences. She has also served as

chair of the WHO European Sub network on Health Impact Assessment. Joan was

responsible for pioneering the concept of healthy ageing in Northern Ireland and has

contributed to the development of work on Age friendly cities at WHO Europe.

In 2009 Belfast Healthy Cities was appointed as WHO Secretariat of the WHO European

Healthy Cities Networks. Joan has responsibility for leading the Secretariat, working directly

with WHO Regional Office for Europe, which provides the opportunity to share with Belfast

the expertise and innovation from WHO Europe on relevant subjects.

Joan is one of the most experienced intersectoral public health practitioners in Northern

Ireland, working on the determinants of health and health inequalities. Prior to working for

Healthy Cities, Joan was employed by Save the Children and worked locally and nationally

in the areas of childcare; family work; community development & health and evaluation. Joan

is a founder member and chair of CDHN (Community Development & Health Network), is an

associate member of the national network of Healthy Cities Ireland and contributes locally &

European wide to building capacity & to developing innovative projects on key health

determinants.

Dr Alexander Peine Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht OR Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STI-Studies) at Utrecht University

Alexander Peine holds a tenured position as Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation

Studies (STI-Studies) at Utrecht University. He also serves as a Vice President for the European

Construction Technology Platform (ECTP), where he chairs the Active Ageing & Design committee, and is

on the societal advisory board of the Joint Programming Initiative “More Years, Better Lives” (JPI-

MYBL). Before joining Utrecht University, Alexander was the laureate of a prestigious Max Weber post -

doctoral fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, and a Principal Investigator at the

Centre for Technology and Society at Berlin University of Technology. Alexander’s research analyses

innovation dynamics in the ICT sectors and the built environment, covering topics like Internet of Things,

Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living. In this context, he is particularly interested in how new

technologies can best serve the quality of life, social engagement and evolving needs of older persons

(“Gerontechnology”).

Menno Hinkema Menno Hinkema Senior researcher at TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

Menno Hinkema is a Senior researcher at TNO, the Netherlands’s largest research and technology

organisation. Originally trained as a linguist, Menno has spent his professional career in health care

research and consultancy specializing in strategic demand prognoses, services organization, functional

design of health facilities and integrated business case analysis. The result of a broadening of interests to

include strategic responses to societal changes posed by demographic change, Menno has for the past five

years been a leading participant in TNO’s research programme on age-friendly environments. He is a

coordinating partner in the D4 Action Group of the EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing and represents TNO in

the Active Ageing and Design Committee of the European Construction Technology Platform. The main

focus of his current work in age-friendly environments is in technologies and innovation strategies to support

scaling up of sensible investment in resilient age-friendly homes and living environments.

Nuala Doherty Director

Nuala is the Director of the Centre for Effective Services. The Centre for Effective Services (CES) is a not

for profit, intermediary organisation, established in 2008 with offices in Dublin and Belfast. We connect

policy, practice and research, helping to ensure the implementation of effective services, to improve the

lives of people living across the island of Ireland.

Nuala leads the staff team of 40 staff and provides overall project direction in a number of areas, including

prevention and early intervention; whole of government work; and projects with key statutory agencies in

health, education and children. Nuala has an interest in evidence informed practice and its application in

the delivery of frontline services.

She previously held senior leadership roles in national state organisations in Health and Education. A

Clinical Psychologist by background, she worked as a clinician and a senior manager to bring change at an

individual, organisation and systems level. She has held Directorships and chaired a number of National

Boards and is currently the chair of the Board of National Advocacy Service.

Maurice O’Connell

Coordinator, Active Ageing in Partnership

Maurice is the Coordinator of Active Ageing Partnership, a collaboration of three NGOs to advance civic

engagement of older people, their human rights and influence government policy. He is a member of the

Irish Dementia Strategy Monitoring Group. He was CEO of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland from 1998 to

2013. A non-executive director and past chair of Alzheimer Europe 2000 – 2014.

He is co-founder and non-executive director of Acquired Brain Injury Ireland. He is chair of the steering

group to develop Housing with Care for older people. One of the five pilots for the Government’s Policy

“Action on Housing and Homelessness”. He is a board member of Age Friendly Ireland. He Chairs Age

Friendly Cities and Counties NGO Forum.

He is on the oversight board of TILDA (longitudinal study of ageing in Ireland) and HaPAI (Healthy and

Positive Ageing Initiative). He is a Management Consultant and holds a Masters in Psychology

Horst Krämer Programme Officer at the European Commission's Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT).

Horst Krämer is a Programme Officer at the European Commission's Directorate General for

Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT). His portfolio covers res earch and

innovation projects as well as Horizon 2020 topic coordination in ICT for Ageing and Digital Social

Platforms. Mr Krämer is a member of the DG's network on Social Sciences and Humanities and the

"Innovation Radar" task force. He is the Commission's correspondent for the Joint Programming Initiative

"More Years, Better Lives", a collaboration network for the alignment of national research programmes on

demographic change. In the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, he follows the

Action Group on Age-friendly Buildings, Cities and Environments. Before joining the Commission, Mr

Krämer worked as an editor, project manager and account manager in the field of public affairs, digital

communication and e-Government. He holds a Masters Degrees from the Universities of Bath

(Contemporary European Studies) and the University of Frankfurt (Cultural Anthropology, Business and

Linguistics).

Carina Dantas (http://www.carinadantas.ml) has a degree in Law, post graduate studies in

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, graduate in Addictions Intervention by SICAD and is a certified trainer

by the EVT National Institute. She is Director of the Innovation Department of Cáritas Coimbra

(Portugal) since 2011, a non-profit organisation that supports more than 25.000 persons/year, with

about 950 employees and 150 volunteers. In Cáritas she is responsible for strategic planning; projects

- creating, supervising and implementing national and international projects; research – internal and

in collaboration with academia; and communication areas - media, digital platforms, internal

communication, partnerships and networking. She is currently Caritas project manager of

GrowMeUp (H2020 – www.growmeup.eu); Project Reduz Internal Evaluator; Member of technical and pedagogical council of CEARTE – EVT centre.

Since January 2016 she has been elected Vice-President of the European Covenant on Demographic

Change, an organisation that aims to gather local, regional and national authorities as well as other

stakeholders in order to cooperate and implement evidence-based solutions to support active and

healthy ageing. She’s also Main Coordinator of the Collaborative Work “Connect and leverage local

and regional age-friendly environments” – group D4 – of the European Innovation Partnership on

Active and Healthy Ageing. She participated as speaker in many national and international events

and has produced documents and articles - recent publications e.g. Analysis of Elderly Users’

Preferences and Expectations on Service Robot’s Appearance, Personality and Interaction; recent

events: International Conference Building the Future of Health – Groningen, Netherlands.

Sergio Murillo Corzo

Director-General for the Promotion of Personal Autonomy, in the Social Development Department, Government of Biscay.

Sergio Murillo Corzo is Member of the Expert group on Active Ageing Index, promoted by the European

Commission DG EMPL and Population Unit of United Nations-ECE. Treasurer and member of the Board of

Directors of the European Covenant on Demographic Change.

Active and Assisted Living Joint Programme appointed representative for the Government of Biscay. Leader

of “Age-friendly Biscay” strategy and involved in the Basque Reference Site on the European Innovation

Partnership for Active and Healthy Ageing.

Sergio Murillo holds a Bachelor in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Deusto

(Bilbao), MSc in Management Development. He led Orue Foundation from 2006 to 2011, a neighbourhood

that combines a nursing home, sheltered cottages, Vocational Education School, Conference center,

Restaurant... resulting in an all ages reference centre in Amorebieta (Biscay).

Nora Owen Chair, Fingal Age Friendly Alliance

Nora Owen is a former Irish Fine Gael politician. Nora was first elected to Dublin County Council in 1979 for

the Malahide local electoral area. She was later elected as a Fine Gael TD for the first time in 1981, serving

until the 1987. She returned to Dáil Éireann in 1989, becoming Deputy Leader of Fine Gael in 1993. The

following year she became Minister for Justice, remaining in that post until 1997. In the aftermath of the

murder of journalist Veronica Guerin in 1996, Owen introduced the highly successful Criminal Assets Bureau

to crack down on organised crime

Nora is Vice-Chair of the Board of Concern Worldwide and Chair of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee

in the Institute of International and European Affairs (I.I.E.A.) Nora has also presented Mastermind and

Midweek on TV3

Nora is currently the Chair of the Fingal Age Friendly Alliance, a role she embraced in 2013, six months after

the launch of the Fingal Age Friendly County Strategy.

Dr. Christine McGarrigle Research Director, TILDA

Dr. Christine McGarrigle joined TILDA as a Social Epidemiology Research Fellow in 2012 and became

Research Director in 2015. As part of the TILDA team her research is currently focused on intergenerational

transfers, and the demographic, social and health factors associated with transfers between the

generations. Prior to joining TILDA, Christine worked at the Health Protection Agency in London where she

was the lead scientist for behavioural surveillance, and was an honorary research fellow at the Department

of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University of London.

She worked on a number of national surveillance and research programmes which included behavioural

surveys, recruiting from both clinical settings and community settings using participatory research methods,

which informed health promotion and disease control. Christine also worked on national programmes for

establishing and developing unlinked anonymous surveys in clinical settings to estimate population

prevalence of HIV infection. She led research focused on developing novel methods of estimating

undiagnosed HIV prevalence and incidence using behavioural surveillance data. She received her BSc in

Chemistry from University College Dublin, and her MSc and PhD in Epidemiology from the London School

of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.

Sinead Shannon Research Manager, Age Friendly Ireland and Project Manager for the Healthy and Positive Ageing Initiative (HaPAI)

Sinead Shannon is the Project Manager for the Healthy and Positive Ageing Initiative in Ireland (HaPAI).

The HaPAI is a joint collaboration between the Department of Health, the Health Service Executive, and

Age Friendly Ireland which constitutes the research and evaluation pillar of the National Positive Ageing

Strategy. Sinead is also a Research Manager at Age Friendly Ireland and has previously worked on the

development of an Outcomes Framework for Healthy Ireland (the National Health St rategy in Ireland) with

the Department of Health. Her publications on aging include “The Demography of Aging” with David E

Bloom, in Molecular Aspects of Aging: Understanding Lung Aging (Edited by Mauricio Rojas, Silke Meiners

and Claude Jourdan Le Saux) (2014) and “Ireland’s Age Friendly Cities and Counties: The Development of

a National Program” (with Hugh O’Connor) in International Perspectives on Age-Friendly Cities

(forthcoming, 2016)

Dr Mark Morgan Cregan Professor of Education and Psychology at St. Patrick's College, DCU and former co-director of Growing Up in Ireland

Dr. Mark Morgan is Cregan Professor of Education and Psychology at St. Patrick's College, DCU and has

just completed a term as co-director of Growing Up in Ireland. He is a graduate of the London School of

Economics and a post-doctoral Fellow of Stanford University. He has been Head of Education, Dean of

Education at St Patrick's college, DCU. His research has mainly been in areas of motivation, literacy,

evaluation of prevention programmes, and educational disadvantage. More recently, his research has

focused factors associated with successful aging. He is a member of steering group of the Age Friendly

University and in 2010, he was awarded the President's prize for research by Dublin City University.

Dr. Seán O'Riordáin is one of Ireland's leading advisors to government, the private sector and the voluntary

sector in local government and local development. He has extensive experience undertaking policy and

organisation reviews for the local government sector, the local and community development sector and

national departments in Ireland and internationally. He has led project teams addressing t he sustainable

development of both rural and urban areas. In addition, Seán has contributed to the development of planning

policy across several local authorities and has made inputs into the development of policy at national level.

Seán has considerable experience in completing strategic exercises, most notably the integration of policy

process and objectives of government.

Seán has advised both public and private clients on major policy initiatives and strategies, investment

proposals and has provided project management services for several major projects in Ireland. He also brings

a strong understanding of the policy drivers in the local and national government sectors. Seán is currently

contributing to several national, policy developments including the reform of local government and local

development.

Seán is chairman of the Public Policy Advisors Network, the only full service policy advice resource for the

Government and Foreign Direct Investment Sector in Ireland.. Seán contributes to education and training

programmes at the Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, the University of Limerick, University College

Dublin and the University of Ulster. He also has provided external peer review of education programmes on

local government and local development.

Diane Wu, MD, MPH Technical Officer, World Health Organization Department of Ageing and Life Course

Diane Wu is a technical officer with the World Health Organization Department of Ageing and Life Course.

She is responsible for managing strategic WHO partnerships, communications, and network activities

including the Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities. She has held prior responsibilities with

the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, the University of Toronto, and Global Affairs Canada,

in addition to prior work as a Senior Consultant for Strategy and Operations for Deloitte. Diane is board

certified in Family Medicine in Canada. She has worked in medicine and public health in China, Laos, Bosnia-

Herzegovina, England, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. She holds an MD from the University of

British Columbia and an MPH from Harvard University.

Dr Sean O’Riordan

Chairman of the Public

Policy Advisors

Network

Rodd Bond Founder and director of NetwellCASALA, Dundalk Institute of Technology

Rodd is the founder and director of NetwellCASALA and an architect by background. Rodd has a wide range

of interests including creating and sustaining healthy communities and homes; the inter-relationship between

environment and peoples’ health and wellbeing; organic design methods and community decision-making

frameworks. Rodd is past President of Dundalk Chamber of Commerce and continues to hold a strong interest

in local policy and business. Rodd has secured over €10m funding for NetwellCASALA since 2006. Away

from the office, Rodd is known to enjoy a game of golf.

Manfred Huber, PhD Coordinator, Healthy Ageing, Disability and Long-term Care World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen

Manfred Huber has joined WHO in 2009, where he provides advice to Member States in Europe on health

and social care reform for healthy ageing, better coordination of care, long-term care, disability and

rehabilitation. Prior to this, he has been Director Health and Care with the European Centre for Social Welfare

Policy and Research in Vienna. Moreover, he worked for ten years with the OECD in Paris, where he was in

charge of ageing and health, health indicators and health accounting. Manfred Huber is the author of a number

of books on health and social services for ageing populations. He has over 20 years of experience with

international comparisons of health and social policy.

Manfred Huber graduated from the University of Munich with a Master of Science in Mathematics and holds

a PhD in Economics.

Robert J McCarthy

Program Director - Innovation, Business Development and Operations – IBM Ireland Lab.

For over Sixteen years Robert McCarthy has worked at the leading edge of IBM's software business. He

has during his time held various positions in Business Development, Transformation, Research and

Analytics. Robert was a key member of the team that transformed IBM’s operations in Ireland. Today,

operating from IBM’s Ireland Lab, he established and leads IBM’s Innovation Exchange, a team focused at

the bleeding edge of IBM’s innovation which acts as a hub for collaboration on applied research and

development projects, working closely with academia and SME’s to drive value and impact. Areas of

interest are Health, Cognitive Solutions, Collaboration, IOT and Security.

Bob Gilbert

Chair, National Network of Older People’s Councils

Bob Gilbert has spent considerable years and time involved within the with Community and Voluntary

sector. In 2016 Bob was elected as Chair of the national Network of Older People’s Councils. In recent

years Bob has held a variety of volunteer roles in Cavan. These include; Funder member Cavan Over 50’s

Network 2006, Chair Cavan Over 50’s Network 2006 – 2012, Chair Cavan Older Persons Council 2013,

Cavan Active Age Person of the year 2013. Bob has presented at the Signing of the Dublin Declaration on

Age Friendly Cities and Communities, the 2015 Age Friendly Awards ceremony and at the National

Convening of older Peoples’ Councils in Fingal 2015

In addition Bob has played an active role at community level as Cavan Public Participation Network CLG –

Chair Board of Directors 2013, Committee Member - Local Community Development Committee, LCDC

Monitoring Committee, Joint Policing Committee, Community and Housing SPC, Social Inclusion Measures

Committee. He is also a former member Board of Breffni Integrated Limited. (Partnership Co)

He is a Founder Member and artistic director of the Swords Drama Group. Winner of Best Actor and Best

Director awards.

Brendan Kenny Director, Age Friendly Ireland and Deputy Chief Executive, Dublin City Council

Brendan Kenny is Deputy Chief Executive for Dublin City Council. He has management responsibility for

Housing, Community and the Dublin Fire Brigade/Emergency Ambulance Service. He took up this area of

responsibility in September 2016 but he had worked previously in Housing for many years.

Prior to this, as Assistant Chief Executive he had responsibility for Culture, Community, Economic and

Emergency Services in the City (2012-2016). From 2007 to 2012 he worked as the Chief Executive of the

Limerick Regeneration Project.

Brendan currently has other roles including CEO of the Temple Bar Cultural Trust and Director of the

Parnell Square Foundation, the Hugh Lane Gallery Trust and the Docklands Trust.

Ms Margaret Geraghty

Director of Services, Fingal County Council

Margaret Geraghty is Director of Services, Housing and Community Department, Fingal County Council.

Fingal is Ireland’s fastest growing county both in economic and population terms, located in north Dublin.

As Director of Services in the Housing and Community Department, Margaret is a key member of the

Council’s Management Team, responsible for Housing Strategy, Housing Needs Assessment and the

management of the Council’s 4,500 social housing units. Margaret is also responsible for libraries,

community development and facilities, arts, culture and sports.

Margaret has over 30 years of experience working with Local Government in key leadership roles including

Housing, Tourism and HR in Dublin City. Margaret is also a member of a number of Sub Committees of the

Local Government Management Agency and the Dublin Social Housing Delivery Task Force. She also

participates in the Dublin Housing Directors Forum and the National Local Authority Housing Directors

Forum.

Conference Dinner

Tuesday, October 25th 2016 the conference dinner will take place in the Grand Hotel Malahide

Cllr Darragh Butler, Mayor of Fingal County Council

Darragh Butler was co-opted to Fingal County Council in June 2007 before winning re-election in June 2009

and May 2014. He is currently the Mayor of Fingal for 2016/17 and previously served on the Fingal County

Enterprise Board between 2007 and 2010. Darragh holds a B.A. (Hons) Business Studies Degree (1993)

amongst other qualifications and has worked within the Irish Funds industry since 1994 with over 20 years

Fund Administration / Transfer Agency experience.

Joint Keynote Dinner Address

Helen McEntee TD Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People

Helen McEntee TD was elected to Dáil Éireann in a By-Election in March 2013, and re-elected in the February 2016 General Election. Deputy McEntee was appointed by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D. to be Minister for Mental Health and Older People at the Department of Health in May 2016 as part of the new Partnership Government.

She previously served on the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications, and was also a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht.

Damien English TD Minister of State for Housing and Urban Renewal

Aged 38, Damien English T.D. is a native of County Meath. He is the Minister for Housing and Urban

Renewal based at the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. He works

closely with his Fine Gael colleague Minister Simon Coveney T.D. in providing political leadership on

improving the supply of quality affordable homes for families, ending the homelessness crisis and

regenerating communities.

He was previously Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation from 2014 to 2016, working in the

Department of Education and Skills & the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. This role involved

developing Governments Science Strategy, ‘Innovation 2020’, which will keep Ireland at the forefront of

R&D, drive innovation to 2025 and in the process build a pool of world class highly skilled researchers in

Ireland. He was also involved in the expansion of the Apprenticeship system in Ireland and oversaw the

publication of the National Skills Strategy.

An experienced member of Dáil Éireann, he is a former Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee for

Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, and its predecessor the Oireachtas Committee for Jobs, Soc ial Protection

and Education. Damien was first elected to Dáil Éireann for Co. Meath in 2002, becoming its youngest

member, and again for Meath West in 2007, 2011 and 2016. He was a member of Meath County Council

from 1999 to 2004.

A Flavour of Fingal – Afternoon of Wednesday, 26th October

(Please book in advance by emailing conference2016@agefriendlyireland.ie and

stating your preference)

Fingal County Council is delighted to invite you to join us in any of the following:

Take a tour of Malahide Castle, one of the jewels in the crown of the county or take a visit

to Skerries our Age Friendly Town and National Tidy Towns Award winner for 2016

1: Skerries Age Friendly Town

“An Age Friendly Town is a town where the community understands and responds to the needs of older people.”

It is created by consulting, building and

implementing a plan with the community

to make their town age friendly. It uses

the methodologies of the Age Friendly

County programme, focusing on the

selected town, to significantly improve

the quality of life of older adults living in

the area and to engage them in shaping

and enhancing their own communities.

The Age Friendly Town Initiative was embraced by the Skerries Community Development

Association and the Skerries Liaison Committee which has ensured the success of the

project in the town.

The Skerries Age Friendly Working Group will talk about the process undertaken to

achieve Age Friendly status and show you some of initiatives that have been rolled out in

the town that make it a great place in which to live work and grow old.

Guided Tour of the Town from 2.30pm – 3.30pm

2: Malahide Castle – A Tour of the Castle

This picturesque castle looks like

something out of a fairytale. The castle

estate covers 1.1km² and is located just

14km from Dublin. The castle and

gardens have been home to the Talbot

family for more than 800 years (1185-

1975); it is one of the oldest castles in the

country.

There is an interactive exhibition on the

ground floor of the castle which covers

the history of the Talbot family including

the Talbot ghosts that haunt the castle! After taking a look at the exhibition visitors are

given a guided tour of the castle's reception rooms. On the tour you can see the Oak

Room with its wood panelling and large wooden roof beams; the Small and Great

Drawing Rooms with beautiful rococo and neoclassical decoration and the Great Hall

which retains its architectural features from renovations in 1825.

Guided Tour of the Castle 2.30pm – 3.30pm