Waterford tech wizard, 13, heads to Silicon Valley

Last year he was the youngest person in Europe to develop an app for the Apple store. Now a Waterford schoolboy is about to become the youngest speaker at the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs, being held in Silicon Valley.

The rise of the young tech wizard is one of Ireland’s latest success stories and 13-year-old De La Salle first-year student Jordan Casey will be representing this up-and-coming cohort at the annual TiEcon conference in California, joining representatives of the likes of Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon and LinkedIn on the guest list.

Jordan featured last week on Junior Dragons’ Den on RTÉ television, thanks to the success of his Casey Games venture, and has attracted support from Enterprise Ireland, Waterford City Council and City Enterprise Board for his trip across the Atlantic in a fortnight, such is the faith in him by those in the know.