Prof. Barry Smyth is the Digital Chair of Computer Science in the of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin. He is also the Director of CLARITY, the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, a Science Foundation Ireland funded research centre that employees 100+ researchers. Barry’s research interests include artificial intelligence and recommender systems. He has published over 350 scientific papers in leading journals and conferences and received numerous awards for his research. Barry is also an experienced entrepreneur, having co-founded ChangingWorlds (acquired by Amdocs Inc, 2008) and a new social search company, HeyStaks, which recently secured €1m in venture capital funding.