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Cloud awareness events for Irish SMEs

Cloud Adoption Event Series (Photo by Mel Maclaine)

Cloud services are reshaping the way companies manage their information and do business and open up tremendous opportunities for Irish companies. The Irish Internet Association, in partnership with Enterprise Ireland and sponsored by Microsoft, is holding a series of Cloud Awareness and Adoption events for summer 2013 aimed at helping Irish SMEs (from all sectors) assess the potential of using cloud-based business models to support their export growth – the first event takes place in Galway on Thursday 30^th May.

These Cloud Awareness Events are specifically designed to help companies to assess the benefits of cloud computing while managing any potential risks. The IIA Cloud Working Group developed the Swift10 Guide as a tool to help companies do this. Delegates will hear from other SMEs on how, why and what they moved to the cloud as well as from security and service contract experts who will guide delegates through the process.

Dates for events are as follows:

•             30th May – ClaytonHotel, Galway
•             5th June – NCI, Dublin
•             13th June – Cork (TBA)
•             Sept/Oct event, (TBA) Dublin

EI clients who wish to drive competitiveness, operational effectiveness and efficiency within their companies using the Cloud and the Swift10 Report as a guide can receive funding under the Lean Start programme and should contact their Development Advisor for more information.

There is no charge for EI clients attending these events and they can register directly with the IIA at 01-5424154

The Second National Conference on Cloud Computing and Commerce

Posted by Andrew Peet on 9 April, 2013 in Cloud Computing | Conference | Innovation | Saas | Uncategorized - (Be the first to comment)

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)

Cloud Workshops in Excel @ Export Selling

Posted by Andrew Peet on 4 April, 2013 in Cloud Computing | Event | Saas - (Be the first to comment)

Excel at Export Selling banner Cloud-Series

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

Interested in attending Microsoft WPC or VMworld 2013 ??

Enterprise Ireland wishes to determine the level of interest among our client companies to attend Microsoft WPC (July 7-11), VMworld (August 26-29) 2013.

Each of these events

deals with technology internal to your company
targets companies in the US and worldwide market
gives you an opportunity to sell your products both directly and through partnerships
offers access to networking events

Company participation at these events may be part-funded by Enterprise Ireland (subject to eligibility – eligibility will be assessed on a first come first served basis, by the extent of previous EI support for similar events, etc). More details on potential funding will be available at a later date.

If you are a client of Enterprise Ireland and are interested in attending either of these events as part of an Enterprise Ireland group, please fill out this Expression of Interest form before Thursday 28^th March.

A Morning Seminar on Cloud Metrics, Tuesday 5 March

Posted by Andrew Peet on 10 February, 2013 in Cloud Computing | Conference | Saas | Software | VC - (Be the first to comment)

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

IC4 needs your help!

Posted by Andrew Peet on 5 February, 2013 in Cloud Computing | Innovation | Saas | Software | Uncategorized - (Be the first to comment)

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

Live Streaming – Dublin Web Summit 17-18 October, 2012

Watch the Dublin Web Summit ‘Live’ here on Wednesday 17^th & Thursday 18^th October 2012.

Over 200 international speakers and 3,000 plus attendees from 50+ countries will descend on Dublin. This event is sponsored by Enterprise Ireland. There are 5 concurrent sessions which you can watch live from 9:15am - Main Event, Cloud Session, Digital Marketing Stream, Developer Stream and Interviews.

For the first time there will be a dedicated Digital Marketing Stream .

Digital Marketing Stream Schedule

Wednesday
09:15 – Cillian Kieran, Founder & CEO of Folio & CKSK
09:30 – Alan Coleman, CEO of Wolfgang Digital
09:45 – Andrzej Moyseowicz, Strategy & Innovation Director at Saatchi & Saatchi
10:00 - Ronan Harris, Senior Director at Google
10:15 - Joshua March, Co-founder & CEO of Conversocial
10:30 – Hubert Grealish, Global Head of Brand Communications at Diageo
10:45 – Mark Henderson, General Manager of LivingSocial Ireland

11:00 - BREAK

11:30 - Niall Harbison, Co-founder of Simply Zesty
11:45 - Dharmesh Shah, Co- founder & CTO of Hubspot
12:00 - Stephen O’Leary, O’Leary Analytics
12:15 - Joe Stepniewski, Co-Founder of Skimlinks
12:30 - Jon Myers, Commercial Director at Marin Software
12:45: Silje Vallestad, CEO & Founder of Bipper

13:00 - LUNCH

14:00 – Gregor Poynton, Political Director (UK) at Blue State Digital
14:15 – Alexis Dormandy, Founder & CEO of LoveThis
14:30 – Mark Dewings, Brand & Marketing Communications for SoundCloud
14:45 – Aubrey Sabala, VP of Marketing & Communications at Sailthru
15:00 – Scott Belsky, Founder & CEO of Behance
15:15 – Mark Kornfilt, Co-founder of Livestream

Thursday

09:15 - Joanna Lord, VP of Growth Marketing at SEOmoz
09:30 - Caroline Ghosn, Founder & CEO of The Levo League
09:45 - Maya Baratz, Senior Product Manager at ABC News
10:00 - Bas Van Den Beld, Founder & Chief Editor of State of Search
10:15 - Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite

10:30 - BREAK

11:00 – Sarah Wood, Co-founder & COO of Unruly Media
11:15 - Rachel Tipograph, Director, Global Digital & Social Media at Gap Inc.
11:30 - Kathryn Parsons, Co-founder of Decoded
11:45 - Jan Rezab, CEO of SocialBakers
12:00 - Cindy Gallop, Founder of Make Love Not Porn & IfWeRanTheWorld
12:15 - Brian Wong, Co-founder & CEO of Kiip
12:30 - Omid Ashtari, Director of Business Development at Foursquare

Revolutionary Technology for Web based applications

This is a guest post from Cian Ó Maidín, of Irish Mobile Web and Apps development company Nearform. Cian is promoting a conference called NodeDublin on 18-19th October (www.nodedublin.com) which should be of interest to many EI client companies in ICT.

What is Node.js?

Node.js is a revolutionary new system for building cloud based services, Node.js uses the JavaScript programming language.

Revolutionary – how?

(1) Node.js allows JavaScript (the common programming language of the web) to be used to develop cloud services, enabling web programmers to do much more than ever before.
(2) Services built using Node.js have performance characteristics which are in line with the C programming language.
(3) Node.js utilises tiny amounts of computer system resources when compared with other systems like .NET and Java, this means that services written in Node cost significantly less to run.
(4) Node.js will run on everything from a low power device to a big server which means it can be deployed in a huge range of environments.
(5) Node.js is designed for building high volume high concurrency cloud services

It considered the perfect system for implementing real-time-web applications, which are at the forefront of the next generation of start-up web companies.

Matthew Ernesse (Lead Node.js Engineer for Yammer), speaking shortly after Microsoft acquired Yammer for $ 1.3bn said;

“We would like to thank the Node.js project, as we can directly attribute a large amount of our acquisition value to our widespread use of the Node.js system. Node.js allowed us to outpace our competitors (iterating faster) which ultimately lead to the acquisition of Yammer by Microsoft.”

Other companies using Node include Linkedin, Joyent, EngineYard, AppFog, Amazon Microsoft (the Windows Azure team) as well as some Irish startups.

Why NodeDublin?

There is no other major Node.js conference in Europe in 2012. All the major names in the worlds Node.js community are coming to Dublin to talk to the European Node.js community for 2 days – establishing Ireland as the focus point for the Node.js community in Europe.

Who’s Attending?

Key influencers in the future of cloud and online services such as Google, Microsoft, Joyent, Mozilla, Engine Yard, Intel, and many others will be there. The conference will be held in an intimate setting where both speakers and attendees will be able to hang out together.

Use the Code EIBCON for a €100 discount on a ticket to NodeDublin on October 18-19th (www.nodedublin.com). Contact details for Cian on that the site for more information.

Node

Are you ready to bridge the skills shortage?

Posted by Andrew Peet on 26 September, 2012 in Cloud Computing | Software | Training - (Be the first to comment)

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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