{"id":26333,"date":"2024-12-10T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midasireland.ie\/?p=26333"},"modified":"2024-12-10T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:13:40","slug":"congratulations-to-midas-ireland-2024-outstanding-award-winner-liam-madden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midasireland.ie\/blog\/congratulations-to-midas-ireland-2024-outstanding-award-winner-liam-madden\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to MIDAS Ireland 2024 Outstanding Award Winner, Liam Madden"},"content":{"rendered":"

At our Annual Gala Dinner on 5th Dec 2024, MIDAS Ireland honoured<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/a>Liam Madden<\/a> <\/span>with an Outstanding Achievement Award. Liam is an Engineering Graduate from<\/span> <\/span>University College Dublin<\/span><\/a> <\/span>with a Master of Engineering from<\/span> <\/span>Cornell University<\/span><\/a>. He worked for much of his career in senior technology leadership roles with industry leaders including<\/span> <\/span>Microsoft<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> <\/span>AMD<\/span><\/a> <\/span>and Xilinx, and since his retirement from industry he has most recently been an Adjunct Professor at<\/span> <\/span>Stanford University<\/span><\/a>. Even though Liam spent much of his career abroad, he maintained strong links with Ireland and has regularly contributed to Irish technology initiatives including a number of MIDAS events.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before the award presentation, AMD Ireland MD, Brendan Farley (and Liam hire!) introduced the attendees to Liam with a very warm and appreciative speech on Liam’s contribution to Xilinx, AMD and his own career. Liam then gave a very enlightening and entertaining talk on his great career and journey through the Semiconductor industry to a captive audience.<\/p>\n\n\t\t