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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 Bookbuzz™, 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
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
Innovative connections @ “The Long Debate” during the Dublin Innovation Festival.
by malte on October 12th, 2010
Invitation to The Long Debate
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 >>
What is it about?
The debate draws on the Innovation Taskforce report. Launched in March 2010, the report sets out recommendations for developing Ireland into an International Innovation Hub, through developing the country’s creative and smart economy.
We invite members of the Taskforce, including some of Ireland’s leading economic commenter’s, industry and government members, academics, creative’s and entrepreneurs to discuss the nature of innovation within Ireland. Attention will be paid to how the report impacts on the development of digital enterprise within health, public services, education, leisure, tourism, culture, entertainment, environment and transport.
A unique format and networking opportunity
An evening of lively discussion and networking, not to be missed! Inventorium has devised a special debate format; eighteen 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. Audience members will be able to contribute to the emerging conversations, which will be documented and presented on the Inventorium website.
Agenda
18.00 – 19.00 Networking
19.00 – 19.45 Speakers 1-9
19.45 – 20.15 Networking
20.15 – 21.00 Speakers 10-18
21.00 – 22.00 Networking
Refreshments including finger food will be served
Make The Long Debate your key event in Dublin Innovation Festival
Partners
Inventorium is a three-year programme taking place across southeast Ireland and northwest Wales. Inventorium is designed to bring together people who would not normally meet – people who each have a part but not the whole of an innovation. The project aims to establish a sustainable distributed mechanism for the generation of new ideas, which will lead to the formation of new businesses or contribute to sustaining existing businesses. The focus of Inventorium is on digital technologies for health, public services, education, leisure, tourism, culture, entertainment, environment and transport. Inventorium is a partnership between CAST Ltd in Bangor and NDRC in Dublin and supported by the European Union’s Ireland Wales Interreg IV Programme. www.inventorium.org
Innovation Dublin Festival was launched to promote innovation and creativity in the city. Conceived by the Creative Dublin Alliance and coordinated by Dublin City Council, the project aims to provide Dubliners – whether they’re entrepreneurs, students, researchers, artists or large corporations – with an opportunity to discuss, promote and celebrate innovation in the city. Organised by a multidisciplinary steering committee made up of the Dublin local authorities, third level institutions, state agencies, businesses and the not-for-profit sector, the festival will take place from November 10th-21st. www.inventorium.org
When
The Long Debate, Inventorium, as part of Dublin Innovation Festival
11 Nov
Doors open: 18.00
Debate and networking: 19.00-22.00
NDRC, Crane St, Digital Hub, Dublin 8
Registration for this event is essential
Connector Intern Event 2010 Review
by Shelsea Rawson on July 29th, 2010
When I plan events, it’s always more fun if it is planned for a good cause. There is something to be said for doing an event with the purpose to help another. With this intern event, Barnardos was our charity partner. Barnardos mission is to challenge and support families, communities, society and government to make Ireland the best place in the world to be a child.
To help this intern charity event come together we received sponsorship from The Church, Jameson and Shamrocker Tours. The Church allowed us to invade their club downstairs while providing us with welcome food and a free glass of wine or beer. Shamrocker donated a trip for three days around Ireland, a chance for an intern to see other parts of the country. Jameson graciously donated several bottles of their famous whiskey, along with a lunch for four, and an 18 year old bottle all for us to raffle off; along with providing our guest speakers a bottle of their gold whiskey.
Our speakers for the night were Orla Tighe and Neil Leyden.
Orla Tighe is the fundraising manager for Barnardos. She told a moving story about a little boy she had met that is in programs at Barnardos, she talked to the struggles that he has in his life and how Barnardos helped this boy and his family move towards a better life.
Neil Leyden is the project manager at Gateway Ireland. He spoke to what Gateway Ireland is striving to do. They are focusing on promoting Ireland to the world and harnessing the vast majority of people in the world with an Irish connection. He focused on people with an Irish connection around the world and how they can bring these people together for a common purpose through various social media outlets.
The event all in all was a success; we talked, mingled, danced, enjoyed ourselves, and most of all did it for a great cause. We learned about the cause and we learned about how vast the Irish culture is spread no matter where you are in the world.
We would like to give a big thank you to all of our sponsors and our speakers for coming out last night. It was a great time and we could not have done it without you.
And thanks also to Jason Roe from BTW who kindly helped us raise more money for Barnardos at his event also in The Church. Their collection brought in approx €250 which is brilliant for a meetup and much appreciated by us and Barnardos.
Connector Intern Dublin Event featuring Bobby Kerr from Dragons’ Den
by Andrew Sides on July 15th, 2010
There are many intern groups here in Dublin this summer and the interns here at Connector have been hard at work planning an intern event for all them. We wanted to create a night that brought everyone together, is fun, educational, and for a good cause. Check it out here on Facebook.
The intern event will be benefitting the not-for-profit Barnardos, a local Dublin charity that serves the people of Dublin. The event will be on July 28th from 6pm – 10pm at The Church. There is a suggested donation of €4 and every cent will go towards Barnardos. The Church has kindly donated a free welcome drink and finger food to all the interns that come and show their support for Barbardos.
We will also have several speakers for the night; a representative from Barnardos to talk about the work that they do, Bobby Kerr an entrepreneur that started the largest coffee company in Ireland, and Neil Leyden from the exciting new Irish global marketing project called Gateway Ireland.
We will be raffling off great prizes as well, including but not limited to a great 3 day trip around Ireland courtesy of Shamrocker Irish Adventures, 1 Bottle of Premium 18 year old Jameson Whiskey and much more! We hope to see all the interns that are here in Dublin out for this special night of fun, community, and excitement.
You will receive a raffle ticket for every €3 donation or two raffle tickets for €5.
Andrew and Shelsea will be the MCs of the event for the evening and can’t wait to see you all there.
Sponsor a Tribe
by Conor on February 11th, 2010
This is a great book by Seth Godin. Tribes is a great way of expressing the phenomenon of online/offline groups/communities.
We are looking for sponsors for food/drink/prizes for our Connector Tribes event in the Science Gallery. So if you are a brand wondering how you can credibly get into social media, this could be your chance! If you connect us to a sponsor, you will win yourself a brand new unsigned copy of the Tribal Bible ;-0
Please contact Conor on 086 811 8833 or email conor [at] connector.ie for more information.
Connector No. 18 Review
by Mallory McSweeney on February 7th, 2010
The Champagne Bar in Ron Black’s on Dawson Street was buzzing with the sounds of new connections being made last Thursday evening as Connector No. 18 brought together dozens of people for a few drinks, a few laughs, and of course plenty of social networking! To check out the photos, click here >>
January’s event featured several rounds of speed networking for those interested in making several connections in a short amount of time as well as a few tables of Connect 4 for more casual connecting. I think there was a record number of business cards exchanged at our eighteenth event!
Connector also raised (money) for Haiti at this free event, which will be donated through Adrian Garry’s trip to Haiti. And of course thanks to our great volunteers from DIT Event management (1st years) who helped us on the night.
Connect with Dublin Facebook users
by Sarai Fernandez on January 27th, 2010
A year after the great success of the First Dublin Facebook Megaparty, the second edition is coming. It will be this Saturday, January 30th, at The Purty Kitcken in Temple Bar. The party will start at 7.00, and the entrance will be free till 11.00. After that there will be a 10€ fee including a free drink.
Last year this party got to gather +1.000 people, and at the moment there are more than 300 people confirmed for the event at the Facebook group. Some of you could have noticed, it’s at the same time as Tradfest, and wonder: why? Well, because this is an international party, and proof of that is that the same event will be run in Rome and New York the same day.
DJ’s Eoin Long & Justin Walsh will perform at the party, and photos of Facebook users will be showed through a video loop. If you want your photo to appear there, you have to email it in advance as an attachment to megaparty@vivadublino.com.
Weekly Connector – 25 Jan 2010
by Conor on January 25th, 2010
By Conor Lynch & Sarai Fernandez
It’s not easy being a Connector and last week was particularly busy with long group meetings & training. I had seperate meetings with ‘The Board’ in NCIRL, an ‘Anonymous Group’ in Ranelagh & the annual meeting of the Chairs of the iia Working Groups in the Digital Hub.
I received a card from the Guinness Storehouse ‘honouring’ me with the title of ‘Ambassador’ for their 10th birthday year. I can get in free only if I bring down friends who can then get 10% off the entry ticket. That’s not very much at all for an ‘Ambassador’ to SHOUT about – a better idea might have been to invite down the Connector group for one of our monthly events & generate conversation that way ?
Events Calendar
Every week Dublin hosts so many events that it can be hard to choose. And at Connector we want all you to keep connected with the coolest events, conferences, seminars, workshops and more that are being held in the city. That’s why we will now start to issue a weekly blogpost including all the interesting stuff we have been connected with, so keep an eye out for them every week.
Dublin Midweek Movie Club
The Dublin Midweek Movie Club will be meeting on wednesday 27th to watch “Brothers” by Irish director Jim Sheridan and starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman. After the film the group will go to The Church to discuss the movie over a drink.
As you know, we are hosting our Connector Nº 18 at Ron Blacks next Thursday January 28th. For those interested, you can take part in our second time to have ‘Speed Connector’. This is like speed dating or speed networking & you’ll have 3 minutes to connect with somebody else and then … move on! Don’t forget to bring your business cards and prepare your elevator pitch … there’s no time to waste. we will also have a ‘Connect 4 Contest’. You can register here.
Dublin Facebook Megaparty
Fun will continue on the 30th during the Second Dublin Facebook Megaparty, at the Purty Kitchen from 7.00. For more details, join the Facebook Group!
February Events
Those are the must-be in January, but you can start booking some events for February now – Connector ‘Tribal Love’ is on the 25th & is in the Science Gallery. The Dublin Web Summit is on the 4th or the Brainfood Store the 24th. Both are conferences for the digital sector and both of them will have a very interesting networking after-party with Connector.
March Events
Want more? On March 4th the Irish Internet Association Social Media Group will have a half day event. Keep an eye in our blog for future details … have you any ideas for Connector Events? We’d love to hear from you!
Connector ‘Tribal Love’
by Diarmuid ORiordan on January 24th, 2010
Connector ‘Tribal Love’ – Thurs Feb 25 @ The Science Gallery, Trinity College
Connector and The Science Gallery are connecting to bring you ‘Tribal Love’. It will be an event themed around Tribal attraction in the digital age. As well as some prominent guest speakers, we will showcase some of the top Tribes from Dublin.
It’s really exciting to be connecting at this great venue. The Science Gallery ‘Love Labs: Science of Desire’ exhibition, runs from the 11th of Feb to the 12th of March 2010, and as part of this Connector ‘Tribal Love’ will look at the science of ‘group chemistry’.
Tribes are communities of connected people with shared interests & ideas. Whether its 5,000 Shamrock Rovers fans turning out to a windswept Tallaght Stadium for an Eircom League game, or 44,000 people joining a facebook group called ‘I want John Joe from the Late Late Toy Show to fix my clock’: its a human condition; to be connected to an idea; to a movement.
It promises to be one of our best events with a great mix of Tribes from the online and offline worlds featuring. Some of our old friends will be back, along with new tribes with passions for the likes of music, film, fashion and sports.
Please Click through to view our presentation and check back for more details before the event…
