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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

Enjoyed the short presentation, then register now?! Click here

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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

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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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This evening at 10pm I am going to join a panel discussion on Newstalk about the Mashable ‘Social Good Day‘.

I will be joining presenter Fionn Davenport and the following impressive panel -

Vadim Lavrusik – Community Manager – Mashable.com
Darragh Doyle – Communications Manager – Boards.ie
Manchan Magan – Writer and Documentary maker – Manchan.com

We are to talk about whether social media going to be a catalyst for social change for good?  I truly hope so and here are videos of very interesting books I have recently skimmed!  In these books Clay Shirky, Daniel Pink and Brafman & Beckstrom are talking about what motivates individuals and organisations.

It is this underlying human spirit to do the right thing and get amazing things done that is most encouraging for the cause of social good.  What do you think?

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Irish culture is very rich in their sporting activities, as are many cultures. But when it comes to addressing these sporting events, the difference can be a bit confusing. In the US we have football, or as the rest of the world would address it, American football. Then we have soccer or what the rest of the world calls fútbol. But in Ireland, they have Gaelic football, so they call ‘fútbol’ soccer, like we do in the states.

When arriving here we were a bit naïve in assuming that everyone in Europe called soccer, fútbol. In the almost two weeks we have been here in Ireland we have noticed that fútbol is not the term for soccer in Ireland, it is soccer. We were going around the city saying ‘We can’t wait for the fútbol match today!’ The Irish people just smile and nod. It wasn’t until recently we figured out it was actually called soccer by the Irish. And all this time we were trying to not look like the ignorant Americans and it back fired.

Americans are known for having a distance from the largest sporting event in the world, but we the interns do not know what that is like. We are avid soccer fans, so we decided to ask Conor if we could leave early from work to go enjoy the game at a local pub in Temple Bar. He was excited to see that we enjoyed soccer (as if he couldn’t tell from the USA jersey Andy was wearing) and let us excuse ourselves. We wandered down to the Hard Rock Café where we met some of Andy’s friends, grabbed a few Guinness’ and attempted to find seats.

Since Shelsea is not as avid of a US fan as Andy, she gave up looking for seats and decided to go home. Andy, like a true fan, stood around for all ninety plus minutes hanging on every moment (and watching another disallowed goal that was perfectly legit). Finally when almost all hope was lost, Landon Donovan scored in the 91+ minute. It was a special moment of pure joy watching the US win the game and their group in the World Cup in a foreign country.

We have heard news from back in the United States and it sounds like soccer is gaining a good foothold with all the great news of the US doing well in South Africa. We can only hope that eventually people in the United States will become as passionate about soccer as we do. But for now, we will settle with living in a country that loves the beautiful game like we do.

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Connector showcased its new training courses and connecting philosophy at this year’s Entrepreneur Event, Friday 23^rd to Saturday 24^th April.

Connector’s team helped man the stand for the weekend, making loads of new connections and spreading knowledge of the 10 C’s.

A huge part of the show this year were the bright and lively discussions that took place in the “Think Tank” and “Invest Test”  auditoriums which Conor helped chair as well as take part in.

One of the highlights of the show was hearing some of the Irish and UK dragons take part in these discussions. The connector team also had the pleasure of meeting Sean Gallagher who had his photo taken with them at the Connector stand.

Connector’s bright and inviting stand design, along with its engaging video content was down to the planning and hard work of new recruit David Dungan who has taken to his role with enthusiasm and gusto, as well as Sarai Fernández hard work managing the connector team and Connector’s Entrepeneur Networking Event at Lillies on Friday night.

Overall it was a busy but rewarding weekend at the stand for the Connector team and it will be a busy week again following the amount of interest shown at the show.

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On the 22^nd April 2010 the IIAs Social Media Working Group held an event entitled Audio Video Culture: Behind the scenes of audio & video content online.  Conor the current Chair of Social Media Working Group at the IIA was the chariman for this event.

Speakers from RTE, RaboDirect, Channelship, Mason Hayes and Curran, CEUD NDA, Google Ireland and YouTube all spoke at the event and helped to make it a great success.  Pictured is Sebastian Missoffe from YouTube in action from Conor at the top table!

There was very positive feedback with most feeling they learned a great deal about  audio and video content online.

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Connector Meetup No. 21 will be held at Lillie’s Bordello on Friday April 23rd from 7pm-11pm. We are partnering up with The Entrepreneur show to offer the delegates a social networking night out in one of the best clubs in Dublin.

Check out & register for the event on Facebook!

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I’m a little scared.  I have been receiving messages on Facebook from lots of really nice scary people asking me to vote for Mariana on RTE Storyland.   As I am from the Lynch family which has notoriously tasty blood, I’m gonna do what they say! And I advise you to do so too if you are afraid of vampires!

Well done to the team especially Steven and our good friend Natalia plus other talented Facebook connections including RTE’s Leigh Arnold, Chris Newman, Aoibheann McCaul, Vanessa Fahy & Kellie Baise. 

Pease VOTE MARIANA!

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