Launching today is a new online resource directory for tech companies entering the US market. TechResources.us provides Irish technology companies doing business in the US with trusted and up-to-date information and connections to essential in-market resources, services and supports. These include accelerators, professional services providers, networking groups, investors, co-working spaces, conferences, online resources and academic research centres.
At the launch Nick Marmion, Head of Software with Enterprise Ireland’s Americas team said:
It can be challenging for Irish companies to find relevant and trusted resources using an online search so we’re offering clients this tailored directory as a starting point. The aim of the directory is to help Irish companies to understand and connect with the market before they even leave Ireland.
From there, Enterprise Ireland’s team in America can help clients to hone their market entry strategy and introduce them to the decision makers and relationships they’ll need to accelerate their growth over time”.
The directory was developed by MarketSprint, a market entry consulting firm based in New York and has been customised specifically to the needs of Irish technology exporters.
There are currently over 1,600 qualified resources in the TechResources directory and users can search by location, vertical market or resource type and refine their search using keywords. Directory entries are enhanced with one-click connections to key people or communities via Linkedin, Twitter, phone or email.
In addition to offering clients quick access to market knowledge, the TechResources directory encourages Irish tech companies to share their knowledge and expertise with each other.
As Nick explains:
Clients can use the directory to share their own favourite US resources, and they’ll get credit for doing so. This is an opportunity to create a community of Irish knowledge around the practical resources needed for US market entry.
Access to the directory requires a sponsor code. To get yours please email Request@TechResources.US using your company email address.
Enterprise Ireland recognises that market-led innovation is critical to any company’s future success.
Product Management is a key organisational function implemented by highly successful companies to maximise their profitability by managing their products from idea generation to end of life.
Following a product management process ensures that a company:
- Identifies the right market
- Identifies the right customer
- Builds the right product
- Clearly articulates the business value of this product to the target market
- Delivers the product to the market through the most effective channels and business models
Product Innovator Ltd provides training, tools and consultancy in Product Management. Irish and international clients include Government Agencies, Universities, Technology Incubation Centres, and both established and early stage companies.
Product Innovator’s next 2-day Product Management Training course in Dublin is 12th – 13th June at The Gibson Hotel, Point Village.
The Product Innovator approach is hands-on and practical. Practical exercises and discussions are based around the needs of the participants, backed up with templates and examples, so expect to return to your office armed with tools, skills and concepts that will have an immediate impact on your business.
To learn more and to register for the 2 day course, please use the following link:
http://www.productinnovator.com/training/product-management/dublin/
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Business Mobile provider Blueface has launched a competition for business start-ups: Blueface Elevator 2012. Entrepreneurs throughout Ireland are invited to pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges and the winning pitch will receive the hugely beneficial prize of top level telecommunications, advertising, public relations and legal advice to the value of €50,000.
Starting mid-May and running at Carphone Warehouse stores nationwide, the competition is open to all sectors and looks to attract innovative and original ideas with strong commercial potential. For more details and information on how to apply, visit http://blog.blueface.ie/ or email elevator@blueface.ie
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The International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) comes to Ireland for the first time, bringing with it keynote speakers from Google, Twitter, the University of Oxford and other top research groups from around the globe. As part of the conference, ICWSM will host an industry and commercialisation event designed to bring delegates from local and international industry and academia together.
Ireland’s indigenous social media industries consistently demonstrate novelty and innovation in a competitive global market. At the same time, Ireland has also become a home to many of the largest companies operating in the Web and social media space. ICWSM will provide an opportunity to engage with the top international industrial and academic researchers in social media and to consolidate the view that Ireland is now a hub in which to do business and research in social media.
The event will consist of two focussed discussion panels interleaved with a coffee and stands session where industrial delegates can present their business or service, seek business and recruitment opportunities and exchange ideas with a national and international audience.
The first panel on business networking and enterprise collaboration will be entitled “I Want to (Net)work with You, But I Don’t Know What/Where/Who You Are”. Speakers include Connor Murphy, CEO and co-founder of Datahug (Datahug unlocks, measures and manages the hidden network of ‘who knows who’ within every organisation, automatically and within 2 minutes), Stuart McRae, Executive Collaboration and Social Business Evangelist with IBM, and Keith Griffin, Principal Engineer in Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group.
The second panel on news and social media will focus on “News Generation and Consumption Through Social Media”. Speakers include Howard Mortman, Communications Director and member of the executive leadership team at C-SPAN (an American public cable television network that covers federal government proceedings and other political events), Gavin Sheridan, innovation director with Storyful (a team of journalists that separates actionable news from the noise of the real-time web), Paul Quigley, founder of NewsWhip (a site that shows the news that’s spreading fastest through social networks), Hugh Linehan, Online Editor of The Irish Times, and Hannah Waldram, Community Coordinator with the Guardian.
ICWSM runs from 4-7 June and will be attended by 300 of the world’s top social media researchers. It will feature a series of workshops, tutorials, invited talks and top accepted research papers from an interdisciplinary mix of computer science and social science research. You can register for individual workshops or tutorials on topics including sentiment mining, massive social data analysis, social media for the news industry and real-time analysis of social streams.
The ICWSM Industry Event will be held at Trinity College Dublin on the afternoon of June 6. There are just 100 tickets available for this event at €50 each. Register at http://icwsm.org/. There will be a limited number of stands for exhibitors for a fee of < €100 – for more information contact icwsm12@aaai.org
EI are delighted to say that we have two complimentary tickets to attend the ICWSM 2012 Industry Event for readers of BestConnected. To be in with a chance to win these tickets, just leave a comment below – don’t forget to include a valid email address so we can contact you if you win! We’ll pick two names randomly and announce the winners here on the blog on Friday the 1st of June.
UPDATE: Delighted to announce the winners of the tickets to the ICWSM 2012 Industry Event are Sheila Fogarty of Yellowstone Communications Design, and Elaine Larkin of Web Content Partners. Congratulations!
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.
With just over a week to go until the event, companies are still signing up, and expressing an interest, and we don’t want you to miss out!
The good news is, that there will be 2 leading researchers in the field of EDI technology giving an unbiased presentation on the day on the commercial applications and business drivers behind implementation to many of the businesses they have studied, and on the different solution packages and providers they have worked with.
Shane Ward from UCD, and Ultan McCarthy from the University of South Florida Research Centre will both be there on the day to share their experience and knowledge.
Also, don’t forget that by attending the event, you will be entered into our draw to win a free EDI project to the value of €50,000!
More information on the event as well as the sign-up form can be found here.
If you have any questions, or want to get in touch, please contact Cíara Nic Liam, Marketing Manager ( ciaranicliam@hauste.com]
Do you want to increase your tender win rates and win government contracts?
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
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).
Excel @ Export Selling
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 10th 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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