Dr. Shona D’Arcy is an electronic engineer and digital-health innovator who founded Kids Speech Labs in 2018—creating AI-driven tools to streamline speech and language therapy for children and help reduce healthcare system waitlists
She currently serves as Entrepreneurship Lead at EIT Health Ireland–UK, where she supports early-stage health-tech startups in scaling across Ireland, the UK, and Europe
She holds a Ph.D. in speech recognition—with a dissertation on accents and children’s speech—and has a strong research background in speech-tech and medical devices
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