What is it about?

The debate draws on the Innovation Taskforce report. Launched on the 11 March 2010, by An Taoiseach, Mr. Brian Cowen, the report sets out recommendations for developing Ireland into an International Innovation Hub, through developing the country’s creative and smart economy.

Nine months after the release for this report 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, and to give their views and opinions on the current-state-of-play. Attention will be paid to how the report impacts on the development of digital enterprise within Ireland, particularly in relation to Inventorium sector areas – health, public services, education, leisure, tourism, culture, entertainment, environment and transport.

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

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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

Registration for this event is essential

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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

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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

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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

Register @ Inventorium

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Connector and Booze `n´Schmooze are partnering to organise Connector Nº20, an event themed around Online PR, with guest speakers who will talk briefly about how social media and new technologies are impacting in business today.

Booze `n´ Schmooze is a new free monthly networking event for  journalists, PRs and other media workers, which takes place every month at d|two Bar.  As usual, Connector is a monthly event for connecting people in Dublin and all are welcome to this event.

So register to the event  and join us to have fun, learn a little bit about Online PR and make connections next March 25th @ 6.30 pm.

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Are you interested in Digital Media, Social Media, PR, Marketing, or Event Management? Would you like to gain work experience?

Connector is looking for volunteers willing to gain work experience contributing to Connector.ie content and assist in our offline events.

The areas of activity would be digital and social media marketing, blogging, digital video/ web TV production, contact database and eCRM management, PR and advertising, mobile marketing, sponsorships, attending events, networking & administration.

So if you have excellent communication skills, have  IT skills & experience using the Microsoft Office suite, the ability to work in a team environment, good attention to detail & accuracy and enthusiasm in emerging technologies, send a cover letter and CV to conor@connector.ie.

You can get more info about Connector Campus, which shows the work we have done up to now within the colleges.

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Yesterday our 10 contest winners, Conor and I went to see Des Bishop at The Button Factory, sponsored by ESB Customer Supply. The gig was excellent, where Des Bishop talked about many things, among others his father’s illness, with his unique style making hilarious things that other people could find uncomfortable to talk about.

After the gig we have the opportunity to do a short interview to Des, who told us some tips for young comedians on why they should engage in social media. The video of the interview is coming soon, but for the moment here are the photographs we took with him.

This event was the final point in the campaign Des Bishop and Jim have run to encourage people to save energy during the last 6 months. We want to thank Des for his time which we enjoyed, to ESB Customer Supply and McConnells for the tickets and Eleanor for a wonderful warm-up at the event.

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