Phil Bourke, Tipperary Institute
Philip Bourke is an ICT Specialist with Tipperary Institute with responsibility for academic delivery and services provisioning. Philip has over 21 years industry experience in developing products for worldwide organisations in security, industrial control, banking and financial services sectors. He is a keen advocate for the adoption and use of technology in industry and education and has organised a number of conferences and events to encourage industrialist and educators to maximise the benefits from selection and application of appropriate technologies. He recently spoke at the UAE 2015 Challenges Conference series on ICT based collaboration and world class ICT sourcing. He has also presented at the Develop Conference on Emerging Issues in Game Design, at the IMTC Conference on opportunities for Independent Game Developers.
Philip is an advocate for using gaming technologies in education. He is founder of the computer games festival, Games Fleadh, which includes games design and programming events such as Robocode Ireland, SchoolBots and the XNA Ireland Challenge. The XNA Ireland Challenge has celebrated the 30th Anniversary of SPACE INVADERS © Taito Corporation 1978, 2009 and Asteroids © Atari Interactive Inc. 1979, 2009. Philip has won the N-Gage Challenge mobile game design contest. He is also course coordinator for Tipperary Institute’s Computer Science Degree (Honors) in Games Design and Development. He received Microsoft’s XNA/DirectX Most Valuable Professional award for July 2008/2009.
Philip is a Computer Science graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and holds a Masters in Software Engineering from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
