Enterprise Ireland would like to extend the following invitation from Hauste Group for a breakfast briefing on Wednesday the 23rd May 2012.

Hauste Group (www.hauste.com) is hosting the breakfast meeting in the Red Cow Moran Hotel 2012 at 7.30 am on the 23rd which offers you the opportunity to meet and network with fellow business professionals in the Dublin area, as well as learn more about the benefits and practical applications of adopting a smart EDI system that can be custom built to fit your business needs, no matter the size of your organisation.

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If so, then the two forthcoming InterTradeIreland “Upping Your Game” tendering events are for you.  These free half-day events will highlight the new public procurement opportunities for SMEs in a changing economic environment.  Companies will also benefit from practical advice and support from buyers and procurement experts on how to ‘up their game’ to win public sector contracts.
 
This is the first time that all the procurement and development agencies North and South will come together to make SMEs aware of the public procurement opportunities on the island.
 
Why should you attend?

• Learn about public sector business opportunities from key buying organisations both North and South
• Refine your tendering skills on the day – take part in interactive workshops and hear from other companies and their experiences.  Find about the practical supports available from agencies across the island for companies seeking to win public sector contracts.

Register for event at:

http://www.gototender.com/news/5-upping-your-game

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We in the Software team in Enterprise Ireland are delighted to organise the upcoming Business Transition to the Cloud workshop on Thursday the 17th May.

As the Cloud model is continuing to prove its commercial worth for consumers of software and vendors, many challenges still exist in how to best capitalize on the market opportunity. This workshop is focused on assisting software vendors to investigate the commercial impact of Cloud computing on their market and their business as well as how to best optimise the commercial approach.

We have only a few remaining places available on the workshop for the 17th. If interested, please use the following link for more information and to register.

http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/Events/OurEvents/Excel-at-Export-Selling-Series-/Business-Transition-to-the-Cloud-ID446.html

If you have any questions, please contact Andrew Peet (andrew.peet@enterprise-ireland.com).

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In recognition of the importance of the online market to export development for Irish SME’s, Enterprise Ireland is delighted to be associated with the IIA conference as headline sponsors.

The Irish Internet Association’s Annual Conference takes place next Thursday the 10^th of May in the Aviva Stadium.  This year’s theme is “Building BRICS” and will cover three key elements for international business expansion in the online space – Social Media, Mobile and Localisation.

The following blog post from Joan Mulvihill CEO of the IIA gives us an insight to the focus and some highlights of this years gathering.

The IIA Annual Conference “Building BRICS” is really for everyone selling into international markets and particularly the BRIC countries. Unlike other web events, this conference is the not the preserve of the tech community. It has deliberately been designed to suit anyone looking to expand their business. For many, this will start with growing their online presence and using technology to facilitate that growth. It’s a perfectly engineered networking forum as its one of those rare opportunities where the providers and the consumers of the technology actually get to meet and exchange.

This full day conference is packed with the best in strategic industry issues and practical workshops, case studies and business guides.

The 2012 IIA Annual Conference takes place on May 10th at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin.

Here is the link to www.iia.ie/annualconf2012 for the full conference overview and all the details to book now.

We are delighted to welcome our guest of honour An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD who will address delegates on the valuable opportunities for businesses working across the BRIC markets. Other speakers include Sean O’Sullivan (Avego and Dragons Den), Sharon Walsh, Marketing Director of Heineken Ireland, Neil Leyden founder of the International Digital Services Centre and Deborah Lynch of PayPal.

And all the other reasons you should be there:

• Come along and find out all the latest on the Open Ireland campaign – the skills challenge affects all businesses.
• Hear all the latest on mobile advertising and payments – from PayPal, Ad2One and Yappy
• Find out how a global brand, Heineken have used social media and mobile for the Champions League campaign
• Learn how to manage Online PR and Social Media Brand Management through a dedicated workshop from global experts, FleishmanHillard
• Learn everything you need to know to get started in internationalising your business – regulatory and business advice to enter new markets
• Attend a masterclass on Digital Advertising, a full overview on metrics and managment of your advertising spend
• Go to the masterclass on Social Search from Arekibo and find out the importance of social for search.
• Challenge our favourite industry economist Constantin Gurdgiev, on the BRIC countries discussion panel
• Find out exactly what it’s like to build your business in a BRIC country from people who are doing it – two brilliant case studies of guys operating fromBraziltoMalaysia, Middle East andRussia
• Listen to the experiences of someone who has worked on the ground inChinafor two years as Denise McQuaid talks through her experience of working for Saongroup over there.

So as you can see this conference is relevant to anyone who’s selling anything anywhere. The internet is not just for technology businesses, it’s for all businesses who want to use the internet to optimise their business growth.

Joan Mulvihill – IIA

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You can visit Digital WPC to find everything you need to know about the event.

Twelve to Fifteen Enterprise Ireland client companies are being offered the opportunity to participate in an ‘Ireland @ WPC’ stand at Microsoft WPC 2012. This is the second Enterprise Ireland participation at WPC and we are keen to build on last year’s success.

The Enterprise Ireland subsidised cost of participation at Microsoft WPC 2012 is €2,450 + 23% VAT per company.

Registration includes;

• 1 Full Conference Pass (access to all areas) & Access to Microsoft Connect,
• Stand Participation: Logos on backdrop, flyers on stand, Use of stand & EI PR,
• Channel Partnering Workshop, 7^th July
• How to sell to Channel partners
• How to better partner with Microsoft
• Networking Reception for clients, partners and prospects. Monday 9th
• Pre & Post Event Marketing to Press and Attendees
• Advance Assessments (To be completed in April/May):
• International Expansion Readiness Assessment
• Partner Channel Building Readiness Assessment
• Ideal Partner Profile definition template
• Partner Value Propositions definition template
• Competitive SWOT & differentiator’s analysis template

The competition for space on the Ireland Stand at this show will be intense so early registration is advised.  Places will be allocated to qualified client companies on a first come, first served basis.

You can register at; https://www.eventsforce.net/enterpriseireland/444/register or get in touch with me at  william.corcoran@enterprise-ireland.com

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The ISA Software Skillnet in association with Dublin Institute of Technology and the Irish Software Association would like to invite you to the launch and information evening on

Enhancing Talent in Software Product Management

The evening will announce new opportunities for Software Professionals to develop high level product management qualifications and practice

• Postgraduate Diploma in Product Management
• Masters of Science in Product Management
• Product Camp Dublin

The special guest speaker for the evening will be

Sean O’Sullivan CEO Avego & Dragons Den Judge

6.30 pm, Wednesday 2nd May, 2012

Radisson Blu Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8

RSVP: susan@isa-skillnet.com, 086-806-7200

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Some of the key companies of the 16 exhibiting on the Enterprise Ireland stand also included:

Accuris Networks,  Wi-Fi Offload and Roaming Inter-Working solutions not just for data offload but voice and messaging also.

Brite;bill, provides latest generation EBPP (electronic bill presentment) capabilities to Telecommunications companies to achieve the three goals of reducing cost to serve, improved upsell and cross sell and reducing churn.

Feedhenrycloud-based Mobile Application Platform solutions that enable the development, deployment, integration and management of mobile apps.

Socowave is launching its UMTS-based active antenna with horizontal /vertical beamforming system at this year’s MWC.

A number of Enterprise clients will also be exhibiting on their own stands including Ezetop, Adaptive Mobile and Openet.

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BDO has worked with many EI Clients as part of their fundraising efforts. We’re hosting our 2012 Technology Breakfast Briefing on Tuesday 24th April. The briefing is specifically aimed at scaling companies aiming for growth within the technology sector

We  (in conjunction with UCD Smurfit Business School) recently conducted a survey of over 100 technology firms. The survey (which will be launched at the briefing) includes information on Growth & Emerging Markets, Risks, Funding and Exit Strategies. (link to invitation – pdf)

Guest speakers giving real life and practical insights on the day include;

• Maurice Mortell, Telecity Group
• Maurice Roache, Delta Partners &
• Conor O’Reilly, Magnet Networks

The event will be held on the morning of Tuesday 24th April at BDO, Beaux Lane House, Mercer Street Lower, Dublin 2. There will be breakfast and networking from 7.30am until 8.00am and then presentations with Q&A until 9.30am.

The event is free of charge, however, access to this event is strictly based on pre-registration, space is limited with priority given tosenior management in companies operating in the technology sector. Please be sure to RSVP to Gillian Murtagh by email at gmurtagh@bdo.ie or by phone at (01) 470 0505, if you wish to attend.

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More information and registration for the event is on EventBrite. Places are limited to 50 participants per workshop.   Thousands seeds also share their knowledge on their blog.

This in-depth, hands-on workshop is designed for entrepreneurs, corporates and SME’s who want to be customer-centric and to raise their odds for building successful products, OR CEO’s, CTO’s and consultants who work with getting products to market. As well as including a pdf copy of Brant’s book, the workshop  will cover

• Learn how to Get Started
• The difference between listening to customers and doing what they say
• How Customer Development fits into the Build -> Measure -> Learn framework
• The Stages of Customer Development
• When NOT to do Customer Development

Praise for Brandt , the workshop host, from a previous Thousand Seeds Speaker;

“Brant is one of the foremost experts in the emerging science of entrepreneurship. I’ve seen him teach about customer development and it’s practical, action-oriented, and persuasive. I’ve had the pleasure of hosting Brant at several conferences, and he always delivers.”

- Eric Ries, Author, The Lean Startup

More information on EI’s Lean Engagement for Software Companies on BestConnected.

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The introduction of the iPhone, along with the ability to create applications to run on the device is said to have created a whole new industry.  Ireland has been no exception, with a number of new companies sprouting up offering app development services, or creating their own unique apps over the last couple of years.

With such an interest in app development, and with so many new exciting app companies here in Ireland developing for Apple’s iPhone and iPad we realised that there’s enough interest to hold a world-class conference for the app community right on our own doorstep.

Our discussions took us to consider what would make such a conference unique?  We wanted to reflect the passion that developers bring to their apps and to do so, we recognised that excellence is what would tie it together.  We wanted to ensure that every aspect of the conference would exude this excellence.

There are three important aspects when organising a conference such as this:

The venue - We wanted to ensure that the venue would impress; Historic in nature, centrally located and well appointed for conferences .

The content – People come for the talks.  We contacted the very best speakers; world-renowned in their circles of iOS development, Mac Development and Design.

The experience – we’re attracting an audience from all over the world; we feel their needs should be considered – We’ve picked local entertainment on Friday evening, and have engaged Ross Lewis, of Chapter One to design the menu for our gala banquet.

The result ?

Úll is a conference for iOS / OSX / mobile web developers and designers. The three day event will include workshops, keynotes, talks and in-depth presentations on all the aspects of building, designing and marketing your apps; It will be held in Dublin on April 27th-29th in the Coach House, Dublin Castle. See http://www.ull.ie for more information.

There are a limited number of discounted tickets offered on a first come, first served basis for Enterprise Ireland Client companies. Please contact Ruarí Ó hAilín on Ruairi.OhAilin(AT)enterprise-ireland(DOT)com for details.

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