Month: September 2025

Registrations Now Open for Smart D8 Showcase 2025

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Registrations Now Open for Smart D8 Showcase 2025

 

Registration is now open for Smart D8’s annual Showcase Event, scheduled for Thu 30th October 2025 at the Digital Depot at The Digital Hub (Bay 01), Dublin 8! Join us for a morning filled with innovative talks, inspiring roundtable and networking opportunities. Discover the latest advancements in population health and wellbeing and how they are shaping the future. Whether you’re an industry professional, entrepreneur, researcher, healthy communities advocate or simply a health enthusiast curious about what’s next, this event is perfect for you. Get ready to be witness what the future holds at the Smart D8 Showcase 2025.

The Smart D8 Showcase is an in-person event; to hear more about the latest Smart D8 pilot projects’ innovations in population health and wellbeing, ranging across themes including (but not limited to) heart health, men’s health, and early-stage cancer detection. The showcase will give attendees an opportunity to:

  • Learn about the collaboration from across 12 different public-facing organisations as part of the Smart D8 consortium.
  • Experience the innovations happening through presentations from 2024 and 2025 Smart D8 pilot representatives.
  • Meet Smart D8’s networks and collaborators, and explore future collaboration opportunities.

Panel 1 : Piloting Next-Generation Population Health (2025)
[ Format : Presentation + Q&A ]

  • A: Early-Stage Cancer Detection, by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences | Speakers: Catherine Devereux, Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist and Dr. Conor Murphy, General Practitioner and Aspire Clinical Research Fellow at RCSI University of Medicine & Health Sciences
  • B: Smart Heart, by PatientMPower in collaboration with St James’s Hospital | Speaker: Eimear Kelly, Digital Health Solutions Specialist at patientMpower
  • C: D8 Astro Football, by Football Cooperative CLG | Speaker: Steven O’Connell, CEO and Founder at Football Cooperative CLG
  • D: Smart D8 Community Engagement, by Smart D8 and collaborators incl. The Liberties Community Project (TLCP) | Speaker: Ana Coughlan, Community Coordinator at Smart D8
  • Group Panel Q&A

Panel 2 : Beyond Pilots – Scaling Outcomes, Lessons and Learnings (2024)
[ Format : Roundtable // Shared Q&A ]

  • A: Kids Speech Labs, by Kids Speech Labs Ltd. | Speaker: Dr. Shona D’Arcy, Founder at Kids Speech Labs
  • B: Digital Medication Management System, by Dublin Simon Community | Speaker: Samantha Makiwa, Senior Manager in Clinical Governance & Therapeutic Services at Dublin Simon Community
  • C: Access Information Map, by CP-Life Research Centre at RCSI | Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Fortune, Senior Research Fellow & Research Programme Lead at CP-Life Research Centre at RCSI 
  • D: Brain Health, by Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI)/Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with Outlandish Theatre (OT) Platform | Speaker: Maud Hendricks, Artist and Co-Director at Outlandish Theatre (OT) Platform

The event will include presentations from Smart D8 partners and the latest cohorts of pilots, panel roundtable discussions and Q&A, and conclude with on-site networking opportunities.

Register via Eventbrite Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/smart-d8-showcase-2025-tickets-1737599449729

See some of our 2023 Showcase Event below!

Smart D8 x MoveAhead Overall Citizen Engagement Winner at eGovernment Awards 2025

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Smart D8, in collaboration with MoveAhead, were nationally recognised as overall Citizen Engagement winner at the Ireland eGovernment Awards 2025.

Led by Jamie McGann and Johann Issartel, MoveAhead is the world’s first AI-powered and movement analytics platform built specifically for children. One of four Smart D8 pilots from 2023 and an ADAPT-DCU spin-out, MoveAhead brought its movement-based app and games to schools and after-schools in the Dublin 8 community to co-design a “Smart Moves” curriculum, to tackle the sedentary crisis in childhood in the digital age. Through the Smart D8 pilot, MoveAhead’s community outreach was able to engage a range of local schools and after schools partnerships in Dublin 8 such as The Liberties Community Project (TLCP — formerly SICCDA; South Inner City Community Development Association) to co-design and deliver a movement curriculum for children’s motor skills. In doing so, MoveAhead identified an underutilised space for engaging with citizens to achieve health and social impacts outside of traditional healthcare settings, it equipped teachers and carers with the tools to measure childhood movement, and it empowered over 500 children and their families to co-develop their own movement curriculum which led to measurable improvement in their movement skills to improve their health and wellbeing.

Findings and teacher feedback demonstrated that consistent delivery of the physical literacy programme can drive lasting improvements in children’s motor skills. In terms of health, it delivered measurable improvements in children’s motor competence and boosted confidence in physical activity. The programme advanced equity by reaching underserved communities through Smart D8, The Digital Hub pilot champion, and trusted local partners such as The Liberties Community Project. It promoted digital inclusion with GDPR- and KidSafe-compliant tools that encouraged active, not passive, screen use — with raw data of movement anonymised by default; setting a new precedent for responsible data management. The project also proved highly scalable, continuing to grow through subsequent partnerships and stakeholders in the education sector: https://libertiesdublin.ie/d8-kids-moving-ahead

The awards ceremony took place on Thursday 18th September at UCD O’Reilly Hall, Belfield. The guest of honour at the Awards ceremony was Minister Jack Chambers TD, Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Services, Reform and Digitalisation, who joined on behalf of An Taoiseach.