Save the Date – HSE Spark Summit 2026 – 16 June 2026

Spark Summit 2026

🔔 Save the Date: 16 June 2026

📍 Royal Convention Centre, Dublin

The HSE Spark Innovation Programme has announced the return of Spark Summit 2026 – an inspiring national event bringing together Ireland’s most innovative healthcare thinkers, leaders, and change-makers.

Spark Summit is the annual gathering place for clinicians, innovators, designers, and system leaders who are passionate about improving healthcare and transforming services through creativity and collaboration.

Whether you are an Advanced Nurse or Midwife Practitioner with an interest in innovation, or a leader driving change within your organisation, this event offers a valuable opportunity to connect, learn, and be inspired.

What to expect at Spark Summit 2026:

  • Showcasing groundbreaking innovations transforming Irish healthcare

  • Frontline-led solutions improving patient care

  • Real-world demonstrations of human-centred design in clinical practice

  • Stories of impact from teams turning challenges into opportunities

  • Opportunities to connect with a vibrant community of innovators

  • Practical tools and ideas to bring back to your own service

Further details on speakers, agenda highlights, and registration will be shared in the coming months.

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Mr. David Delaney
David is the newly elected Secretary. He currently works in the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick. David graduated from the University of Tasmania in Australia and started his career in cardiac care. From there he worked in the Intensive care units of the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania, the Royal Prince Alfred, Sydney, St. James Hospital, Dublin and University Hospital Limerick. He is currently a Clinical Skills Facilitator in the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick. He has previously studied a postgraduate diploma in Intensive Care Nursing with NUI Galway and is currently in his dissertation year of this Masters in Advanced Nursing Care also with NUI Galway. David will be a registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner once his MSc is complete. David also holds a position on the student subgroup of the International Council of Nurses NP/APN network.