Master Class with Michael O'Leary at the Innovation Convention 2011 - Brussels

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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)

[@myztic123]

Gotta love O'Leary

[@JohnnyNorfolk]

Its so refresing to have frank talking. No wonder they do not like him. I thought he was great.

[@butsy1818]

funny the way no one stopped any one standing at the back of a church;-) or in front of a firing line;-)

[@JohnRyanairdontcare]

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

[@whirlygigster]

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.

[@4gs8vh4gs8vh]

why is he so disrespectful - i mean you gotta agree but - wtf?!