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 30th 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 (NC4) is a free national conference on cloud computing and commerce taking place on Tuesday, 16th 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)
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 28th March.
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
Watch the Dublin Web Summit ‘Live’ here on Wednesday 17th & Thursday 18th 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
This year Dublin Web Summit will take place on Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th 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.
This is a guest post by Damien Joyce, of HP in Galway. Damien is working in conjunction with GMIT Galway to host the CloudBusting event on the 14th of September. For more news, follow @DamienJoyce on Twitter.
 http://www.facebook.com/CloudBusting2012
CloudBusting a FREE day-long tech conference hosted in association with ITAG ,GMIT and supported by HP will be held on the GMIT Galway campus (http://www.gmit.ie/), aims to tackle that question examining the technologies and services offered in the cloud.
Despite cloud computing’s growth in popularity, many IT professionals are still unsure of all the available benefits this platform offers.
This day will give attendees insight on essential cloud topics including available delivery models, market trends and benefits you can achieve by implementing a cloud solution.
Learn about Cloud offerings from Private, hybrid, to public cloud and understand the differences between IaaS, PaaS, SaaS .
Where ever you are on your journey to the cloud there should be something of interest for you across the day which features five distinct tracks (start-ups, web, social media, DevOps,music) and over twenty sessions that attendees can pick and choose content to fit their unique needs.
There will also be a chance to listen to and meet with some of the new exciting Irish start-up companies working in the cloud as they share their experiences.
The goal of this cross-over community day is that attendees leave understanding what is necessary for the different ways to architect, develop and deploy applications and IT solutions in the cloud.
More details on our Facebook page including speakers. Link to the eventbrite page for registration, which is mandatory if you wish to attend
Cloud, Galway, GMIT
Enterprise Ireland, the Trade, Technology and VC agency of the Irish Government, will host the Ireland@MicrosoftWPC2012 booth, showcasing some of Ireland’s most innovative Microsoft platform vendor solutions. Enterprise Ireland, through a global network of 32 offices, including four in North America, works with Irish Software companies to identify channel partners, end-customers and creates technology partnerships across multiple platforms. Enterprise Ireland is the Microsoft Bizspark partner in Ireland.
Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference. Gain insights into Microsoft’s business and technology roadmap for 2012, learn how to expand your possibilities with Cloud services, Windows® 7, Windows Phone and experience the latest in solution innovations.
These Irish companies (below) will join the scene in Toronto this July 8-12 to share their business-ready solutions with the Microsoft reseller channel. Each ISV is committed to expanding their network of reselling partners and will be “meeting and greeting” in person at the conference. More information can be found on each of these companies on their websites:
- QUMAS - Compliance Management Solutions
Enterprise Ireland and the Department of Finance are hosting the World Bank / IFC in Dublin next Tuesday 19 June for a Business Opportunities in Emerging Markets seminar. The focus of this event is investment and procurement opportunities within the World Bank group of organisations.
The event will be held on Tuesday 19 June 2012, 08.30h to 17.30h in the Alexander Hotel, Dublin 2 and will be opened by the Minister for Finance, Mr Michael Noonan TD.
This seminar will be of interest to companies who are interested to learn more about:
- Emerging market trends and opportunities
- The World Bank Group
- Introduction to the IFC – its role, objectives, value proposition, financial products and services
- The role of MIGA
- How Enterprise Ireland, IFC and MIGA can support Irish companies in the emerging markets
- Procurement opportunities at the World Bank Group
There is no charge for this event; registration is on-line at https://www.eventsforce.net/enterpriseireland/493/register
ICT is the focus of one of the parallel sessions at 13.30. Jennifer Condon (Divisional Manager, International Traded Services & Software) is facilitating and presenting sector profile & EI supports at this session.
Agenda
08:15 Registration and Coffee
08:50 Opening Remarks, Department of Finance
09:00 Key Note Address: Opportunities for Investment and Growth in Global Markets, Mr Michael Noonan, TD, Minister for Finance
09:15 Welcoming remarks, World Bank
09:30 Trends and opportunities in Emerging Markets, IFC
10:15 Introducing the IFC
11:30 The Role of MIGA
12:15 Enterprise Ireland
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Parallel Break-out Sessions (Opportunities in the ICT sector/Agri-business sector/Energy sector)
15:00 Parallel Break-out Sessions (Procurement Opportunities with the World Bank Group / Opportunities in Africa / Opportunities inAsia
16:00 Networking
For further information, please contact Evelyn Smith (01) 727 2717
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!
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