Product Camp Dublin is a free un-conference for Product Managers and Product Marketers.

In the spirit of BarCamp, Product Camp Dublin is a collaborative, user organized unconference, focused on Product Management and Marketing topics.

At Product Camp Dublin there are no “attendees,” since everyone participates in some manner: This means you get to present, lead a roundtable discussion, share your experiences, help with logistics, help secure sponsorships, or volunteer.

Product Camp Dublin is a great opportunity for you to learn from, teach to, and network with professionals involved in the Product Management, Marketing, and Development process!

This year Product Camp Dublin will be held on 13th June 2013 in DIT Aungier Street.

You can register here to attend and to keep up to date with progress on our plans.

Follow us @ProductCampDub on Twitter

www.ProductCampDublin.com

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The Second National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce (NC4) is a free national conference on cloud computing and commerce taking place on Tuesday, 16^th April at Dublin City University. The conference comprises three sessions, 8 tracks and a plenary featuring presentations and panel discussions from over 30 business leaders and experts on cloud computing. Attendees are welcome to register for individual tracks and/or the plenary.

The conference is organised by Techspectations  and the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce both located at DCU Business School. The event brings together industry and academic experts to discuss how cloud technologies can address business problems and drive value. NC4 is designed to raise further awareness of the role that cloud computing can play in helping to drive economic growth, support job creation and to deliver savings and efficiencies in the public and private sector in Ireland.

For more information and to register, please go to: http://www.nc4.ie/conference/nc4-conference/

Session 1 (0930 – 1050)

Track 1: Scaling the Cloud
Track 2: Towards a Dependable Cloud

Session 2 (1115 – 1245)
Track 3: Interoperability in Cloud Computing

Track 4: Data Security and Authentication in the Cloud

Session 3 (1400 – 1530)
Track 5: Getting Started in the Cloud
Track 6: Enterprise Mobility
Track 7: Selling the Cloud
Track 8: Cloud as a Competitive Advantage

Plenary (1600 – 1800, Mahony Hall, The Helix)

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Enterprise Ireland is introducing two new Cloud focussed workshops within the Excel @ Export Selling Series. 

Cloud Sales & Marketing, Wednesday 17 April 

Cloud Computing is continuing to build massive momentum in global marketplaces. It brings many benefits but also brings new and different business and operational models that need to be implemented for a Cloud company to be successful. This one day Workshop with follow up implementation sessions will enable software and Cloud Computing companies to understand and implement the optimal Cloud Sales and Marketing functions for their business. 

For more information and to register, please go to: 

Cloud Sales & Marketing Workshop

Cloud Financial Metrics, Tuesday 30 April

Designed for the CEO, the CFO and optionally the Head of Sales & Marketing functions, companies will be brought up to speed with current best practices and practical examples of how Cloud Financial Metrics should be built and operated in Cloud companies, and how they differ from historic financial metrics and measurement. Participants will be provided with the tools and support needed to ensure that the can implement the optimal Financial Metrics and measurement systems for strategically and tactically operating their business. 

For more information and to register, please go to: 

Cloud Financial Metrics Workshop

With any additional queries, please contact Andrew Peet: andrew.peet@enterprise-ireland.com

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The ISA Software Skillnet in association with the ISA and Dublin Institute of Technology  and is open to all Technology Product Managers and Executives leading the product management function.

INFORMATION SEMINAR

for the

Postgraduate Diploma and MSc in Product Management 2013

Thursday 7th March 2013

6.30pm – 8.00pm

IBEC, 84-86 Lwr Baggot Street, Dublin 2

 These qualifications are designed by software sector companies under the academic leadership of DIT and 40 indigenous and MNC technology and software companies are already involved. We are now open for applications on the 2013 programme.

What the information seminar will cover:

• Why companies in the sector developed the programme
• The programme content and structure
• The experience of previous participants on the programme
• The companies who have taken part and the impact on their product management function
• Grant-aid available from the ISA Software Skillnet to companies to participate
• Information on how to apply for a place on the programme
• An overview of how to embed learning and practice in your company

At the information evening you will meet past participants, companies, DIT staff and members of the ISA Product Management Working group for the sector.

To book a place at the information evening

email susan@isa-skillnet.com

For further information  on the programme and how to apply is available on  [ http://isa-skillnet.com/Post_Graduate_Diploma_in_Product_Management/246 ]

To date  40 tech companies have taken part in the Postgraduate Diploma and Maters Programmes (as listed below)

We are finding that the companies which send a number of people on the programme can gain maximum company impact and very quickly see the returns on the success of their  product management activities in the marketplace. Therefore this year we are offering discounts to companies which send 3 people or more of the programme.

Information on this year’s programme and brochures which can be downloaded are on the ISA Software Skillnet website at  http://isa-skillnet.com/Post_Graduate_Diploma_in_Product_Management/246

The information evening is open to everyone.  It would also be great if you could send an to your client companies.

With best regards – see you tonight!

Maire

ISA Software Skillnet

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A Morning Seminar: Cloud Metrics – The Key KPIs for Scalable and Profitable Success

Time: 8.30 am to 13.30 pm, Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Venue: Gibson Hotel, Point Village, Dublin 1

The continued forecast growth of the IT global market presents a very significant opportunity for the Irish Software Industry. The advent and take-up of Cloud Computing in particular, changes the landscape for software delivery in the future and opens up global potential for Irish companies. The challenge will be how companies respond to the market drivers, identify and quantify opportunities and develop technologies and business models to exploit them to the full.

The focus of this seminar is on how Cloud based software companies need to embed the best practise financial metrics on both a day-to-day and Board level to ensure long term growth and scale.

Cash strapped software companies will only have one real chance to get it right when they go to market with their Cloud products. Having a detailed understanding of these metrics, starting with Cost of Customer Acquisition, is fundamental if there is to be any chance of success.

Enterprise Ireland invites you to participate in a seminar in Dublin on Tuesday the 5th March 2013 from 8.30 am to 12.30 pm to understand more about the financial metrics for the Cloud business model. 

The Speakers for the event include:

Jeffrey Kaplan, MD of THINKStrategies, Think Strategies, LinkedIN Profile

Jeffrey Kaplan is the Founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, a strategic consulting firm that helps IT enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their marketing strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies.

Jeffrey the founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace, the largest vendor-independent directory of Cloud solutions; and the host of the Cloud Innovators Summits which bring together business executives to examine Cloud analytics and channel opportunities and challenges.

Evanegelos Simoudis, Senior Managing Director, Trident Capital, Trident Capital, LinkedIN Profile

Evangelos Simoudis is a Sr. Managing Director of Trident which has been investing in SaaS companies since 1999. Evangelos joined Trident Capital in 2005. Evangelos focuses on investments in Internet and software businesses.

Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. His experience as a technology executive includes serving as President and CEO of Customer Analytics, a Trident-backed, eCRM company acquired by Xchange, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXAP), and as Vice President of Business Intelligence Solutions at IBM

Brian Caulfield, Partner, DFJ Esprit, DFJ Esprit, LinkedIN Profile

Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a Partner at DFJ Esprit and based in Dublin, Ireland.

Prior to joining DFJ Esprit, Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital where he sat on the boards of or led investments in AePONA, ChangingWorlds (sold to Amdocs – NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (sold to Compuware – NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (acquired by CSR – LSE:CSR.L).

 Fergus Gloster, Managing Director Marketo International, EMEA, Marketo, LinkedIn Profile

Fergus is a seasoned IT executive and has worked in development, marketing and sales for many of the world’s leading high tech firms. As managing director of Marketo International, Fergus is responsible for all revenue generation activities for Marketo outside of the Americas, including sales, marketing, customer success, and renewals.

Prior to joining Marketo, he was a founding director of salesforce.com’s European business in 2000 and spent nine years building the corporate sales model, which is fundamental to the operation of any successful SaaS company. Before salesforce.com, Fergus was technology director in Oracle, Ireland and also held senior positions in Andersen Consulting and Wang.

Registration

Space is limited so don’t delay!
To register please click on this link :

https://www.eventsforce.net/enterpriseireland/680/register

You will be asked for the following mandatory details during registration: Delegate contact details & Credit card details for payment

A non refundable fee of €75 is due by credit card upon registration in order to secure your place.  An invoice will be issued after the event.

We certainly hope you can join us on Tuesday the 5th!

Andrew Peet

Enterprise Software Solutions, EnterpriseIreland

Andrew.peet@enterprise-ireland.com

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ENTERPRISE IRELAND and Mobile Monday

present

OPPORTUNITIES IN M-HEALTH

SCIENCE GALLERY TRINITY 2 – 5 FEBRUARY 11th

Aim:

To outline the opportunities in the market to

1. IT for Health companies with a view to mobilising their existing offering
2. Mobile Co’s with a view to using their capabilities to offer m-health solutions either alone or in cooperation with IT for Healthcare Co’s

Speakers from Vodafone, Shimmer, UCD, Feedhenry and Epposi.org

Please click her for Registration which is free but required

The invite page is now live at http://momodub-mhealth.eventbrite.com

Further information at  www.enterprise-ireland.com/mhealth

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The Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce is a government funded research centre based in DCU Business School, in collaboration with AIT & UCC, the centre has been established to support Irish companies operating or intending to operate in the cloud domain.

As part of the centre’s work we are conducting a short survey around Cloud Readiness of Irish companies.

A summary of the survey outputs & analysis will be made available to all participants, against which you may be able to benchmark your organisation.  We would greatly welcome your participation in the survey using the following link.

 https://www.research.net/s/cloud_readiness

For further information on the survey please contact noel.carroll@dcu.ie

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At the start of the year the Government launched the ICT Action Plan aimed at addressing the gap in high-level skills in the IT sector. It saw the introduction of full time conversion courses allowing people to reskill to gain ICT qualifications.  The National College of Ireland are offering two courses under this initiative; a Higher Diploma in Computing in Software Development and a Higher Diploma in Web Technologies.  The students are about to enter semester two of this exciting inaugural year. These courses are aimed at having students “Industry Ready” and as such a work placement is an integral part of the courses.  We are looking for industry partners who are open to discussing taking a student on a work placement from the end of January of next year.  Regardless of the size, structure or location of your company we are interested in hearing from you.

What is the benefit for you?

• Many of these students have been in the workforce already and so bring with them a breadth of work experience across a variety of disciplines
• The students are extremely motivated and eager – and as the students will have completed their academics by the time the work placement starts, there is an opportunity to extend the work placement beyond the minimum of 3 months. This potential is unlimited.
• Fantastic opportunity to trial a ‘potential’ recruit
• Placements  can provide the ideal opportunity to foster links with the National College of Ireland
• Your team can benefit from skilled assistance for specific project work at lower cost
• Placements can also provide your staff with valuable people management and mentor experience

What are the backgrounds of the students?

The students are from a diverse range of backgrounds. There are recent graduates from Analytical Science and Music technology, experienced CAD Designers, Engineers, Maths Teachers, instructional designers together with those who have no technical experience keen to kick-start a career within IT.

Where might a student fit in within your organisation?

• IT development projects
• IT support
• Network administration
• Software development
• Software programming
• Testing
• Web design and development
• Database development

The placements start in January 2013 and I would be very happy to discuss how your company may get involved.  E-mail me at kate.coughlan@ncirl.ie or phone me (Kate Coughlan) directly on 01-4498586.

Testimonials

Datalex

“At Datalex we are a world class provider of travel ecommerce. We bring those standards to our search for top talent.

We were delighted therefore to participate in the Student Work Placement Programme at the National College of Ireland. Our experience both of the student and the support from the college itself has been excellent. We would have no hesitation in recommending The National College of Ireland’s Work Placement Programme and look forward to partnering with them in the future”.

AMT Sybex

“The NCI Student Placement Programme has assisted AMT-SYBEX by allowing such activities as internal software development, research, testing, analysis and release preparation to be ably carried out by our NCI placement student.  In general it opens companies up to fresh ideas, new perspectives and approaches to particular areas, increasing awareness in the relevant discipline, and also provides a fast track link for the employer to a future workforce.

The NCI Student Placement Programme establishes a good link back to third level to provide the student with exposure to the workplace, to various work related skills, allowing them to put academic theory to practice and assist with personal and professional growth.”

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This year Dublin Web Summit will take place on Wednesday 17^th and Thursday 18^th October.  Enterprise Ireland has teamed up with Dublin Web Summit to offer a significant discount to Enterprise Ireland client start-up companies.

This year’s Dublin Web Summit is set to be the biggest yet. Numbers have already surpassed the 1,500 who attended last year. Over 3,000 attendees from 45 different countries are expected across two days and more than five stages in Dublin’s RDS. Over 120 international startups have already signed up for the event. Keynote speakers include Kevin Rose of Google Ventures and Digg, the CEO of Mozilla, founders of Yandex, Flipboard, Moshi Monsters and many more.

STARTUP EXHIBITION

Please note: The Start Exhibition area is now full and cannot accommodate any further Stand applicants.

The Startup Village will feature over 150 leading startups from around the world, with a big emphasis on the Europe’s most disruptive emerging companies.

The Enterprise Ireland discount will entitle startups to two tickets and an Exhibition Stand for just €750+VAT.

If you are a start-up company and interested in taking a stand, please email linda.coyle@enterprise-ireland.com by return email and the Startup Exhibitor Discount Code will be forwarded to you.

Applications will close on Friday September 14th

ELECTRIC IRELAND SPARK OF GENIUS – WIN OVER €100K
The startup competition Electric Ireland Spark of Genius where 50 startups from across the world will compete to pitch from the main stage on the final afternoon. Further details including entry criteria and the application deadline are available http://www.websummit.net/startups-info/
Applications will close on Friday September 14th

START – BY INVITATION ONLY
Taking a leaf out of the F.ounders playbook, Dublin Web Summit have created an invite only event that will bring together 100 of the world’s leading early stage startups, investors and media for a private invitation-only gathering called START. If you would like to be considered for an invitation, please email paul@websummit.net

Further details can be found at www.websummit.net/why-attend.pdf

MEET The VC’s 
From Kleiner Perkins to Atomico, Greylock to Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz to Accel, many of the top VC’s will be represented at Dublin Web Summit and they’ll be meeting with startups. In the next few weeks, they’ll be selecting the startups they’d like to meet, while others will be hosting open office hours.

MEET The Press
TechCrunch and The Next Web will have studios on site, Bloomberg TV will have a presence. Wired, The Wall Street Journal and blogs from right across Europe including Venture Village in Germany and Webrazzi in Turkey. The Irish press will be represented too with both RTE and the Irish Times on site.

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SAP Startup Focus Program – Big Data

Enterprise Ireland’s Global Sourcing team see this as a good opportunity for companies to work closely with SAP to enhance their products. SAP’s new database technology SAP HANA, is in essence a tool for companies needing to manipulate large volumes of data at speed.

If you want your products to conquer big data, enable your customers run faster and make smarter decisions then the SAP Startup Focus Program could be a great opportunity to enhance your products with SAP HANA in-memory technologies and make your products run hundred thousand times faster.

Why join?

If you are a startup or a company with revenue under 40M and you have a product that could benefit from in-memory technologies then join the program and get up to 65K in licenses, IP and supporting activities to build a proof of concept.

SAP is one of the top brands in the world. Based on how compelling is the proof of concept further opportunities could include co-branded positioning, demand generation and general awareness. We will be actively recommending most promising startups to SAP Ventures.

How do I start?

Come to our first SAP Startup Focus Forum, an event where you can present your products, discuss big data trends, learn how in-memory technologies can make a difference for you and explore support options and funding opportunities for your startup.

When: September 6^th 2012 from 9:00 –18:00

Where: SAP AppHaus, Waterside, Kingswood Avenue, City West Business Campus, Dublin 24.

Cost: No charge to attend, exhibit and present.

Contact us to register: E-mail, LinkedIn Page, Web

What happens next?

From the forum, six to ten promising firms will be invited to join a development accelerator. The objective is to help you to build a Proof of Concept and, eventually, a product with explicit business value. Startups are selected based on desirability, feasibility and viability of their products.

The accelerator kicks off with an intensive boot camp on SAP HANA development topics. Once development is underway, we support participants with regular architecture reviews, technical support and consulting. We offer scheduled ‘office hours’ for technical teams to dial-in, an inclusive network of HANA experts and a private community to discuss challenges and share experiences.

The SAP Startup Focus is working closely with SAP Ventures to identify and cultivate groundbreaking startups who can deliver high quality solutions to real-world problems using HANA. While the Startup Focus does not fund startups (other than with program support) and participation in the program does not guarantee venture funding, the program will actively be recommending promising startups to SAP Ventures.

Learn more about SAP In Memory technologies and SAP HANA success stories:

https://www.experiencesaphana.com/

Andrei Grigoriev

SAP Startup Focus Manager for Ireland

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