Bridge Borders and win Business – Event Belfast May 5th

Posted by Jan Gerritsen on 26 April, 2011 in Conference | Event | France | Links - (Be the first to comment)

Update: Registration for the conference is now open

The bringing together of regional clusters of companies focused on specific technology and/or market sectors is seen as an important solution to improve competitiveness and increase productivity. It’s good news, then, of the announcement of a one day conference in Belfast in early May.

Bridging Borders will gather – from a variety of regions, including across Ireland and Paris, France – clusters of ICT and Digital Content technology companies in order to outline the most efficient benefits of best practices and collaborations. In tandem with this is a focus on the application of software development and digital content technologies to expanding solutions that address market sectors such as Green Energy, Smart Grid, Financial Services and Telecommunications (including mobile).

Supporting agencies for this conference include Enterprise Europe Network (which highlights opportunities that the European market place presents) and, from Paris, cluster facilitation organisations Systematic and Cap-Digital.

The conference takes place at The Holiday Inn, Belfast, on May 5th, from 9am-4pm. Admission is free, but numbers are limited. All email enquiries to Debbie Vance here with more information availabel on the Bridging Borders LinkedIn group. (more…)

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LeWeb Paris – PinPoints, Worky, Gruupy.com, Realex, LouderVoice, Weedle, MXSweep, FeedHenry at Enterprise Ireland Stand

Posted by Paul Browne on 16 December, 2010 in eMarketing | France | Internet | Links | Mobile - (Be the first to comment)

The guys over at Web2Ireland have got great coverage of the Irish presence at LeWeb, Europe’s biggest internet conference.

In the video below , Karen Hallez  talks about why EI is involved in LeWeb conference, and introduces some of the Irish companies (PinPoints, Worky, GruUpy.com, Realex Payments, LouderVoice, Weedle, MXSweep, FeedHenry) that showcased on the Enterprise Ireland Stand at LeWeb 2010.

More at http://www.web2ireland.org/tag/leweb10/, Original video kindly shared by Web2Ireland – Interview with Karen Hallez of Enterprise Ireland Paris @ #leweb

Saint-Gobain Start-Ups Competition

Posted by David Smith on 10 October, 2010 in France | Links | startup - (Be the first to comment)

Admit it – we all love competitions, and there’s a great one coming up that rewards innovations from start-up companies in the energy, environment and habitat fields. Why are we featuring it here? I feel that Irish Software companies have important ideas to add to this space.

Organized by Saint-Gobain (a worldwide leader in construction markets offering innovative solutions to the challenges of growth, energy and the environment), the selection of candidates will be based on the strength of their ideas (in both service and product) as well as the synergetic potential with Saint-Gobain activities. This year, for the first time, start-ups globally can participate.

The deadline for submissions is coming up very quickly – October 15th – so you’d best be sharp about applying. The selection of finalists occurs early December, with the final itself taking place at the Saint-Gobain booth at the Trade Fair BAU, Munich, January 18th. Here, the most promising start-ups (up to a dozen) will participate in a ‘speed-dating’ style session. Competition winners will receive prizes to the value of €25,000, as well as an exploratory work session with a team from NOVA External Venturing.

If you wish to download the competition rules, click here

International Markets Week – 1,660 Meetings with 660 Irish Exporters

Posted by Evelyn Smith on 20 September, 2010 in Event | France | Germany | India | Japan | Links | Netherlands | spain | UK | US - (Be the first to comment)

The RDS has seen many big events over the years; Rugby Internationals,  Horse Shows and even Bruce Springsteen concerts. But perhaps the biggest event, at least from the viewpoint of the Irish Economy, is happening next week; Enterprise Ireland’s International Markets week where (at the time of writing) 660 EI clients will meet my overseas colleagues all with aim of gaining more exports, and export led jobs.

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Will Irish companies make the cut at the Microsoft BizSpark European Summit?

Posted by Paul Browne on 23 May, 2010 in France | Investment | Microsoft | Saas | startup | Uncategorized - (1 Comments)

If you’ve been following this blog a while, you’ll know that many EI Software clients use Microsoft technologies, and Microsoft is a key part of the route to market for those companies. You’ll also know that EI, EI Client Companies and Microsoft have been working together for some time to make this happen more effectively.

Following on from the Dublin BizSparkCamp in March, the Europe wide series of Microsoft events is reaching it’s finale in Paris tomorrow.  We’re waiting to find out which, if any, of the Irish companies that pitched at the Dublin event back in March have made it to the final shortlist.

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Gearoid Mooney from Enterprise Ireland will be one of the speakers on the Panels during the day.

Update: This event is now sold out, but you can follow the announcements and the keynotes (including Kawasaki talking about Startup Trends, how to innovate, and the panel discussion on ‘Investing in the cloud’) here.

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