29th April 2026 | The Round Room at the Mansion House, Dublin
Esri Ireland
Rachel Abernethy is a Services Engagement Manager within Esri Ireland’s Professional Services team, who has been working in the GIS industry for ten years. As one of two hosts at the Esri Ireland Conference 26, she will be introducing our fantastic customer speakers, technology experts, panellists and special guests as they take to the stage.
Esri Ireland
Our second host is Kiera O’Sullivan, an Account Manager at Esri Ireland who mostly works with government and environmental sector clients to help them maximise the value of GIS. She has a strong interest in how geospatial technology can inform environmental stewardship and looks forward to welcoming attendees to the Esri Ireland Conference 26.
Esri Ireland
Esri Ireland’s Managing Director Paul Synnott looks forward to sharing his passion for geographic information systems (GIS) technology at the inaugural Esri Ireland Conference 26. Having held senior roles at Esri Ireland for over twenty years, he has seen, first-hand, how organisations can harness the full potential GIS to transform processes for designing, building and maintaining critical infrastructure across the island of Ireland.
Esri Ireland
As Head of Technology at Esri Ireland, Rob Morrison provides strategic leadership, mentorship and technical oversight to both Esri Ireland’s internal teams and its customer technical communities. Speaking at the Esri Ireland Conference 26, he will share his vision for the future of GIS and demonstrate how GIS can address real-world challenges, drawing on nearly four decades of experience in the geospatial industry.
Esri Ireland
Senior GIS Consultant Margaret Browne will be sharing her wisdom about artificial intelligence and providing an insight into how spatial AI solutions can transform workflows and decision making. Working within Esri Ireland’s Professional Services team, she has 18 years’ experience of optimising the use of GIS technology across public sector, industry, consultancy and academia.
Esri Ireland
Joining Margaret at the podium, Shane Carey will help to demonstrate how organisations can harness artificial intelligence in a constructive way and unlock deeper insights from complex datasets. A GIS Consultant at Esri Ireland, he has particular expertise in ArcGIS Utility Network migrations and 3D LiDAR modelling, and previously worked within the geological sector.
Esri Ireland
An enthusiastic advocate of the benefits of mobile working, GIS Consultant Darragh Duffy designs intuitive, end-to-end mobile workflows for Esri Ireland’s customers. He looks forward to sharing his insight into the value that organisations can gain by simplifying their field operations and streamlining the flow of consistent, high-quality data back to decision-makers.
Esri Ireland
GIS Consultant Kate Hynes has amassed seven years’ experience working with a range of public and private sector organisations, in particular organisations in the public safety field. As the co-presenter of the Tech Talk about mobile workflows, she will be sharing her knowledge of how modern mobile solutions support more efficient, reliable processes in real world settings.
Esri Ireland
Recently promoted to the role of GIS Consultant within Esri Ireland’s Professional Services team, Cáemnat Moore builds a wide range of GIS solutions for customers across sectors including transport, commercial, AEC and government. At the conference, she will explain why Esri’s cloud-based ArcGIS GeoBIM product is such an innovative and powerful solution, and also co-host the Map to Model demonstration.
Esri Ireland
Cansu Gunaydin is a GIS Consultant at Esri Ireland who specialises in the utility sector and has broad experience of supporting electricity and gas network projects. In a Tech Talk session, she will demonstrate how the integration of GIS and BIM enhances data consistency, strengthens analytical capabilities and enables more informed decision-making in the management of complex utility assets.
Esri Inc
Joining us from Norway, Arkadiusz Szadkowski is one of the world’s foremost experts in the exciting field of reality mapping. He is currently Head of Global Business Development & Sales for Reality Mapping at Esri Inc, a role that involves working closely with Esri's product development teams and customers to guide the evolution of ArcGIS Reality products in line with market demands and technological advancements.
Esri Ireland
As a Technical Pre-Sales Consultant at Esri Ireland, Aaron Taggart focuses on helping organisations to get the most from their investment in ArcGIS technology, by leading onboarding, demos and proof-of-concept sessions. At the Esri Ireland Conference 26, he will present a session on the power of digital twins in ArcGIS, highlighting how they link physical and digital worlds to improve infrastructure resilience, decision-making and planning.
Esri Ireland
Morgan Stewart works closely with customers to help them adopt innovative, future‑focused GIS solutions in his role as an Account Manager at Esri Ireland. Passionate about the real‑world impact of geospatial technology, he will co-present the ‘Map to Model’ session and demonstrate how digital twins can help to make infrastructure more robust, support improved planning and enable smarter, more informed decisions.