Alison Fanagan of A&L Goodbody has over 30 years’ experience as an environmental and planning lawyer, with a particular interest in the waste sector. She advises generally on waste facility and collection licence compliance, licence/permit transfer and surrender,...
Kevin Swift, Regional Waste Coordinator – Connacht Ulster Waste Region Kevin Swift is a Civil Engineer and has worked in the private sector and local government for over twenty five years. Following a five year period in consultancy he worked for Donegal County...
Ciaran Foley, Chief Executive Officer Ciaran Foley joined Re-turn as Chief Executive in October 2024, with over 30 years’ industry experience as a senior executive. Since joining Re-turn, Ciaran has launched Ireland’s Deposit Return Scheme which will help position...
Victor Dewulf, Founder and CEO of Recycleye. Recycleye is Europe’s leading company in AI optical and robotic sorting, the company was founded 7 years ago and now has hundreds of units deployed across Ireland, the UK, Europe, and the US. Prior to Recycleye Victor...
Martina Hennessy is the Assistant Secretary for Circular Economy & Resource Efficiency in the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment (DCEE). Martina joined DCEE in 2019 and has led the development of policy in a number of areas since then and also...
Neill is the CEO of Greyhound. His focus has always been, and is always on, the customer. He believes making things simpler, easier, understandable and relevant to them, through technology or otherwise, will lead to success. This customer led approach is key to the...
An experienced environmental professional, David is the Circular Economy and Sustainability Director, Beauparc Utilities. He is a graduate in Environmental Sciences from both Coventry University and University of Bath, with primary interests in the circular economy,...
Ciaran Hope joined Re-turn as Chief Operations Officer in May 2025, bringing over 25 years of executive experience in operations, strategy, and innovation across multiple sectors. Since joining Re-turn, Ciaran has focused on enhancing customer experience for...
Alban Forster MSc (DIC) is a Director for SLR leading the company’s Infrastructure Sector across Europe. He has 30 years professional experience in the field of commercial, technical and environmental due diligence across principally the waste and energy sectors....
Alan Dillon TD is Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with special responsibility for Small Businesses and Retail and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications with special responsibility for Circular Economy. He...
For Delegate Bookings, Group Discounts, Sponsorship or Exhibition Packages please contact the Conference Director. Adrian Hopkins, 01 2811111, 087 6811830 or info@wasteconference.ie
Testimonials
Testimonial 1
“The Irish Waste Management Conference 2017 was definitely one of the better conferences over the years”.
Gary Brady
Managing Director, Thornton’s Recycling
Testimonial 2
“Thank you for the link to the presentations from an excellent worthwhile conference which is much appreciated and for the advance notice for next year’s event”.
Margaret Coles
Dun Laoghaire – Rathdown County Council
Testimonial 3
“I did enjoy the event and many thanks for the link. Excellent content and well run this year”.
Robert Edge
Senior Accounts Manager, Greenstar
Testimonial 4
“I heard the waste conference was a huge success this year from my colleague who attended as a delegate and therefore, we would like to book an exhibition package now for 2018”.
Susanne McCabe
International Sales & Marketing Manager, Open Sky Data
