Part 1: The video review of the Long Debate – John Collins (Speaker)

by malte on November 14th, 2010

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John Collins

John Collins

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Kevin Myers

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A short extract from the Long Debate with John Handelaar in action

John Handelaar

Final Call: the Long Debate and our speakers – register now!

by malte on November 8th, 2010

In the last week we gave a short introduction to our interesting scholars & speakers who will share their experience, knowledge and expertise about innovation in Ireland at The Long Debate.Speakers from academia, business, politics and media will give their input at this very special Innovation Dublin Festival event. We have 18 speakers and a top moderator in Kevin Myers. Understandably, such profound contributors with this kind of experience are hard to summarize into a short profile so we encourage you to come out and see & meet them for yourself! Register here!

The Speakers:

• Keith Finglas
  Managing Director at Innovation Delivery Limited

• Dr. Mike Wilson
  Mick Wilson is a research leader, educator, artist and writer, and currently the Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Dublin, Ireland

• Jean Byrne
  Entrepreneur and member of the taskforce

• Dan Crowley Head of Commercial Operations at NDRC (National Digital Research Centre)

• Frederic Herrera
  Enterprise Development Executive & Enterprise Platform Programme Manager at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Arts, Design, and Technology

• Lorna Maxwell
  Senior Executive Officer of the Economic Development Unit in Dublin City Council

• Andrew Mclaughlin
  Programme director for the TCD/IMI Masters in Organizational Behavior

• Theo Lynn
  Director, Industry Engagement at DCU Business School

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Connector Brainstorm @ Science Gallery, 6pm, Thurs 25th Nov

by graeme on November 7th, 2010

WHO : www.connector.ie – organising “social networking social events” where we bring together diverse on-line & off-line communities to make new social, commercial & business connections.

WHAT : Four great opportunities for you to participate in our NEW event format called Connector Brainstorm :

1. BRAINSTORM : REGISTER TODAY to join in the Connector Brainstorm which is for members of Connector.

6 tables, 6 topics, 8 to 10 participants per table
3 brainstorming sessions lasting 40 minutes per session
With each table chaired by a moderator, using different brainstorming techniques
Awards for each moderator’s  selected “Most Valuable Ideas” and for the Brainstorm’s “Most Valued Players” of the evening

2. CONNECT : Meet & make new business & social contacts across a diverse range of businesses and services in Dublin.

3. LEARN : We have draft outline of 6 topics for discussion but you have the opportunity to sponsor  your own topic of discussion. Use the Connector Brainstorm event to make new connections & generate new ideas for your chosen topic.

4. SHOWCASE : Promote, advertise, market and sell your new business idea, product or service by sponsoring one of our 6 tables and brainstorm a topic specific to your business.

WHY : an excellent, cost-effective opportunity to promote & leverage your brand, product or service during & after the Connector Brainstorm event. It’s not always what you know, but rather who you know that will open new doors of opportunity.

WHEN : Thursday 25th November at 6pm

WHERE : Science Gallery, The Naughton Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Pearse Street, Dublin 2

HOW :  To participate in the Connector Brainstorm event, REGISTER NOW to secure your place.

For more information on sponsoring a topic or table at this event, please contact Conor Lynch at 86 8118833 or via email at conor@connector.ie

The Long Debate: Speakers (16-18) out now – expertise at hand! – Jean Byrne, Kevin Thompstone & Cairín O’Connor

by malte on November 5th, 2010

We invite you to this very special discussion The Long Debate which will take place as part of the Inventorium project, during Dublin Innovation Festival. Register, here!

Jean Byrne

An entrepreneur with an Economics Degree from Trinity College, Dublin,Jean ran her own fashion business for ten years designing, manufacturing and exporting clothing all over the world. After the sale of the business she became involved in the strategic planning and development of An Cosan (formerly the Shanty Educational Project) whose mission statement was and is ‘use education to eradicate poverty’. An Cosan is now regarded as one of the best models of Community Education in Ireland. During this period Jean mentored on the MSc in Marketing Practice in The Michael Smurfit School of Business and Enterprise Ireland. Jean also served on the Government Small Business Task Force Forum and was also appointed by the Government to the Board of The Crafts Council of Ireland where she is currently a non-executive director.

The combination of her entrepreneurial and her involvement with these models of learning radically changed Jean’s view of education and how people learn to learn. Her passion is to facilitate the delivery of a new model of learning for entrepreneurs – ‘Learning to Learn’. This model would provide the tools required to learn Design, Thinking, communication skills, team work and conflict resolution. Jean believes all these skills can be learnt through project based learning using the needs of the city of Dublin to provide the learning laboratory.

In 2008 Jean established Design Twentyfirst Century with Jim Dunne – a fellow Craft Council Director.

Jean Byrne

Kevin Thompstone

Kevin Thompstone is an experienced economic development practitioner and consultant (www.thompstonegroup.com) and has successfully conducted assignments in countries such as Armenia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Jordan, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Uganda and the UAE. He served as CEO of Shannon Development, the regional economic development company for Ireland’s Shannon Region, from 2000 to 2008, where he worked for 23 years and served in key senior management roles.

He has been responsible for developing and realising strategies that have delivered a regional network of technology parks, business incubators, economic zones and broadband infrastructure. He has also led initiatives designed to promote economic activity in less developed areas – e.g. live-work solutions for rural towns/villages, tourism initiatives built on local comparative advantage, supports for SME’s.

His experience in corporate leadership, planning and delivery of a complex range of projects and investment transactions provides a unique mix of policy and practice in the economic development field.

He has recently been advising government, investment agency and commercial clients on business park, technocity and special economic zone projects in Armenia, Uganda and the United Arab Emirates.

Kevin Thompstone

Cairín O’Connor

Cairin O’Connor is the Development Director of the Bolton Trust & Docklands Innovation Park. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and an entrepreneur who advises start-ups on the areas of attracting investment & sources of finance. Cairin is a founding board member of Eurocloud Ireland and a consultant with the European Bank for Recovery & Development.

Cairin O'Connor

A unique format and networking opportunity

As part of the Inventorium project, The Long Debate will take place on the 11 Nov during the festival, at NDRC. An evening of lively discussion and networking, Inventorium have devised a special debate format, 18 of Ireland’s key contributors and commentators have been invited to give their views and opinions. Each speaker will present his or her viewpoint for five minutes, the emerging conversations will be documented and presented on the Inventorium website.

Make The Long Debate your key event in Dublin Innovation Festival

When?

The Long Debate, Inventorium,

part of Dublin Innovation Festival

11 Nov

Doors open 18.00

Debate: 19.00-22.00

NDRC, Crane St, Digital Hub, Dublin 8

Registration for this event is essential, click here!

The Long Debate: Speakers (13-15) out now – expertise at hand! – Ron Immink, Theo Lynn & John Collins

by malte on November 4th, 2010

The Long Debate is at hand:

Check out now the next three scholars, that will bring their expertise to the exciting debate on 11. Nov. We strongly recommend to register now, click here

Did you know: The “Long Debate” is an evening full of lively discussion and networking. Inventorium has devised a special debate format, 18 of Ireland’s key contributors and commentators have been invited to give their views and opinions. Each speaker will present his or her viewpoint for five minutes, the emerging conversations will be documented and presented on the Inventorium website.

Ron Immink

Ron is a serial entrepreneur and author of a number of best selling business books. He has started several, grown a few and sold one company. Ron has worked in entrepreneurship, training, consultancy, publishing, education, innovation and tech transfer.

In 2007, following his passion for books, new learning and entrepreneurship he started Bookbuzzâ„¢, a company that has developed an innovative, proven and highly effective learning and consultancy methodology that harnesses the collective wisdom of the organisation, using inspiring business books to stimulate ideas, design innovative strategies, improve decision making and boost fresh thinking. Clients of Bookbuzz include some leading multinationals in Europe and the USA.

At the same time he co-founded www.smallbusinesscan.com in partnership with Ulster Bank. A free and open platform where owner managers can create and share the business knowledge, the insights, the experience and the contact networks needed to generate new growth for their own business and create a new beginning for the economy. Smallbusinesscan is now the fastes growing business support website in the UK and Ireland.

His expertise is around entrepreneurship, story telling, narrative, dialogue learning, social learning, social media and collective wisdom.

Ron Immink

John Collins

John Collins is assistant business editor with The Irish Times. A journalist for 16 years he specialises in technology, business and internet issues. He has been contributing to the paper’s popular technology pages since 2005 and has been on staff since early 2007.
He was the Irish Internet Association’s Net Visionary Technology Journalist of the Year in 2006. Prior to joining The Irish Times he was a freelance journalist contributing to publications including The Sunday Business Post, Computerscope, Business Plus, Ireland.com and Smart Company.

John was editor of PC Live! Ireland’s best selling computer and Internet magazine for five years. He has been online since 1995, and has written for a range of Irish and international publications including The Irish Independent, Silicon Republic, Business & Finance, TVB Europe, The Web Magazine, i-D, Hot Press and Apple Report.
John has commented on technology and business issues for a range of radio and TV programmes for both RTÉ and independent stations, as well as co-presenting the RTÉ2 series, TechTV.

John Collins

Theo Lynn

Theo Lynn is a lecturer in Management in the Dublin City University Business School where he teaches at postgraduate level on Strategic Management. Theo holds a Ph.D. in Law from University College Dublin and the title of his thesis was “The Irish Corporate Governance System and the Role of Irish Occupational Pension Funds as Institutional Monitors”. He is the Programme Chairperson for the MSc in Business Management, is Deputy Director (Technology) of the Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre (www.link.dcu.ie) and is Principal Investigator on the Global Grid for Learning project (www.globalgridforlearning.org).

Theo Lynn

A unique format and networking opportunity: We invite you to this very special discussion The Long Debate which will take place as part of the Inventorium project, during Dublin Innovation Festival. Make The Long Debate your key event in Dublin Innovation Festival

When?

The Long Debate, Inventorium,

part of Dublin Innovation Festival

11 Nov

Doors open 18.00

Debate: 19.00-22.00

NDRC, Crane St, Digital Hub, Dublin 8

Registration for this event is essential

The Long Debate – get involved now: A unique format and networking opportunity.

by malte on November 4th, 2010

A unique format and networking opportunity

As part of the Inventorium project, The Long Debate will take place on the 11 Nov during the festival, at NDRC. An evening of lively discussion and networking, Inventorium have devised a special debate format, 18 of Ireland’s key contributors and commentators have been invited to give their views and opinions. Each speaker will present his or her viewpoint for five minutes, the emerging conversations will be documented and presented on the Inventorium website.

Make The Long Debate your key event in Dublin Innovation Festival

When?

The Long Debate, Inventorium,

part of Dublin Innovation Festival

11 Nov

Doors open 18.00

Debate: 19.00-22.00

NDRC, Crane St, Digital Hub, Dublin 8

Registration for this event is essential

Speakers (10-12) for The Long Debate: Alan Costello, John Handelaar & Steve Gotz

by malte on November 1st, 2010

Speakers (10-12) for The Long Debate: Alan Costello, John Handelaar,  Steve Gotz

Make The Long Debate your key event in Dublin Innovation Festival

Alan Costello

Alan Costello, BSc, MBA, Managing Director of Ruby Consulting.  Ruby Consulting current focus is on supporting start-ups in commercialisation and assisting them with funding from angel/family funds and VCs.  Alan has worked extensively with 3rd level Institutions & Entrepreneur programmes as VC/commercialisation advisor and business plan judging.  He is also Commercial Development Manager on www.spiritofireland.org, a €multi billion renewable energy project in Ireland.  Alan’s background is in Blue Chip Pharmaceutical companies covering traditional Pharma, Biopharma, Medical Devices and Generics, spanning areas from R&D to product marketing.

John Handelaar

Founder Kildarestreet.com and Broadcast Media Professional.

Steve Gotz

Commercial Development Manager at the Centre for Next Generation Localisation.

We invite you to this very special discussion The Long Debate which will take place as part of the Inventorium project, during Dublin Innovation Festival.

When?

The Long Debate, Inventorium,

part of Dublin Innovation Festival

11 Nov

Doors open 18.00

Debate: 19.00-22.00

NDRC, Crane St, Digital Hub, Dublin 8

Registration for this event is essential

Speakers (7-9) for The Long Debate:Marie Walsh, Frédéric Herrera & Gordon McConnell

by malte on November 1st, 2010

Marie Walsh, Chartered and European Patent Attorney

Marie Walsh has been advising entrepreneurs on their intellectual property rights and particularly, on patents and trademarks for the past 20 years.  Marie graduated from the University of Limerick in 1987 with an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Chemistry. Marie is a qualified Irish and European Patent Attorney and is also qualified as a UK Chartered Patent Attorney. She is also qualified as a Community Trade Mark Attorney. Marie has an MBA from Open University Business School and is an active alumni member.

Marie has provided training seminars on Intellectual Property to innovators at various seminars and conferences.  Marie is also a lecturer on the IP Diploma course of The Law Society of Ireland.

Frédéric Herrera

Enterprise Development Executive & Enterprise Platform Programme Manager at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Arts, Design, and Technology. Frédéric Herrera’s Specialties: Digital Libraries and currently managing a gvt-funded programme for 50 start-ups operating in the digital media sector.

Gordon McConnell

Gordon McConnell is Deputy-CEO and Director of Business Development for the DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship. From 2005 he was as Head of Strategy and Administration in the President’s Office in Dublin City University, and from 2009-2010 was Director of Programmes for the Ryan Academy.

Gordon has a background in industry, venture capital, strategic consulting and start-ups. He was part of the founding group for two start-ups; the first was a dotcom Business-to-Business site that was established in 1998, while the other was the HotOrigin early stage venture capital company in 2000, which invested in early stage software companies.

Gordon has worked with a range of corporate clients in strategy, while consulting in Andersen Consulting (Accenture). He has also advised several technology start-ups since he left HotOrigin. Gordon has taught a number of subjects at graduate level including entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and organisational management in a number of higher education organisations including All Hallows College, Dublin City University, and Dublin Institute of Technology. He has also produced research on a number of areas including the development of high technology clusters, innovation in social entrepreneurship and the digital media sector in Dublin. He also authors the Ryan Academy blogs.

Make The Long Debate your key event in Dublin Innovation Festival

When?

The Long Debate, Inventorium,

part of Dublin Innovation Festival

11 Nov

Doors open 18.00

Debate: 19.00-22.00

NDRC, Crane St, Digital Hub, Dublin 8

Registration for this event is essential

How to create a Social Media Strategy in 10 steps

by Connector on October 29th, 2010

Connector Brainstorm @ Science Gallery!

by graeme on October 28th, 2010