Harry McCann

FOUNDER OF KID TECH, LETS TEACH CODE

Harry McCann is an eighteen-year-old entrepreneur from Kildare in Ireland. In 2013 when he was just fifteen years old he founded his first business, Kid Tech.  Over the space of sixteen months he went on to teach over eight hundred kids to code all around Ireland, and also received the support and backing of Blackberry, Irish entrepreneur, Norah Casey, and British Actor Stephen Fry. Then in May of 2014 he went on to found the first Digital Youth Council in the World, which he is currently Director of and since 2013 has been working with government and industry to make sure young people are influencing the future of the STEM sector in Ireland and Europe. The Digital Youth Council model has gone on to be replicated in other countries such as the UK. He spent the last two years working on several startup ideas and taking on advisory/board roles in the Irish