Master Class with Michael O'Leary at the Innovation Convention 2011 - Brussels
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2011
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The first edition of the Innovation Convention took place one year after the adoption of the Innovation Union flagship initiative, the EU's roadmap to turn Europe into a more innovation-friendly and competitive continent.
Research and innovation are the main motors for sustainable job creation and the only way to achieve a sustainable exit from the current economic crisis. This conference brought together world leading experts in research and innovation to share their views on building a global innovation economy.
Speakers included Don Tapscott, Chairman of Moxie Insight (Canada), and co-author of 'Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World', Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google (USA), Claudie Haigneré, former astronaut and President of Universcience (FR), Professor Henry Chesbrough, Centre for Open Innovation (USA), Sam Pitroda, entrepreneur and advisor to the Prime Minister of India on innovation, Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, former Professor of the Public Understanding of Science and author of several books, including ' The God Delusion' (UK), Silvia Venturini Fendi, fashion designer (IT) and Michael O'Leary, CEO, Ryanair (IE) 
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Gotta love O'Leary
Its so refresing to have frank talking. No wonder they do not like him. I thought he was great.
funny the way no one stopped any one standing at the back of a church;-) or in front of a firing line;-)
2Phast4Rocket I know you posted the comment about 2 years ago and I'm only replying now but I should respond to some of what you said I think. :-)
Firstly, Michael O'Leary is not exactly anti-EU at all, not even close. For example in 2009 he vocally advocated for a Yes vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum in Ireland. If you take a look at Ryanair, it's a European airline and operates within the deregulated air travel market (process that started in 1997) within the EU and the wider European Economic Area. It doesn't typically operate outside this area for this, and for other reasons (I know O Leary wants to start some transatlanic operations if Ryanair can actually manage to get some orders for larger long-haul Boeing or Airbus aircraft).
BTW, as a side note, there is NO President of the EU. The position that bares that title is actually not the position of a President at all, it is a chairman, and its of the council. So the first President of the European Council was Herman von Rompuy (probably spelled that wrong) but his job is essentially to chair meetings of the European Council (the gathering of leaders of all EU states), set meeting agendas and attempt to reach consensus or as close as possible that compromise will allow. Even though the UK media reported he was the new President of the EU, that's actually bollocks. The EU has no President and the EU needs no President.
On a wider note, I think O'Leary as a business man just sees a lot of the European Commission's actions as counter-productive, particularly in his area of air travel. The Commission is a collection of commissioners - one from each state so now 28 I assume since Croatia joined the Union - who essentially act as regulators of the single market more than much else. So for example, the major agenda now is to turn the EU's fragmented and inconsistent telecoms market into a single market and in the process get rid of annoying shit like roaming charges or data charge hikes and so on. In doing so, the commission will find itself at odds with PLENTY of telecommunications companies in the EU but from the perspective of a citizen of an EU member state, these are good changes for the most part.
I think the biggest problem with the EU is citizen indifference to its actions. Let's be honest, most EU citizens probably couldn't name the primary EU institutions let alone describe what they do, but at the same time most could describe their national political systems to some degree of accuracy. As a result, we tend (all of us..) to send quite a lot of our sub-par and "odd" politicians to the European Parliament..... the directly elected Parliament which has a say on the European Commission and to which the Commission has to answer to. So if we don't send our best and brightest there to be on guard... what do we get as a result???
Personally, there are things I like about the EU and things I really don't like about it, but I know one thing for sure, Europe is better off with the EU or something like it than without it. Maybe one day more people will recognize the importance of our representation at the EU level and stop sending so many crackpots and bores to the Parliament. Then, Brussels would be a lot more respectable.
As you can see, o'leary talks a good game but plays dirty...He started by saying 7000 crew in 30 mins it went up to 8000 crew...miss hunter from cambridge university asked about union and taking care of ryanair workforce...4000 cabin crew at Ryanair are on probationary cabin crew contracts.A flight from Dublin to Liverpool,these probationary cabin crew are paid 10 euro after tax by Ryanair,if this flight is delay 2 hours the pay is still 10 euro....Ryanair are the lowest paid and most exploited
He does make some reasonable points in places, as he says, its great to have a choice, and I have chosen to never fly with Ryan Air ever again. I did it a few times; the staff (cabin and ground) were miserable, the service was crap and the plane was extremely cramped. As for standing on an airplane? The guy is a nutjob who loves the sound of his own voice.
why is he so disrespectful - i mean you gotta agree but - wtf?!