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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

Event GMIT Galway 14th September – CloudBusting Dispelling the myth of the Cloud

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

Upping Your Game – 29th May, Athlone, Hodson Bay Hotel

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.

http://www.gototender.com/news/5-upping-your-game

Business Transition to the Cloud

Posted by Andrew Peet on 11 May, 2012 in Cloud Computing | Saas - (Be the first to comment)

Excel at Export Selling banner

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

London Web Summit

Following on from the success of the Dublin Web Summit in 2011, the 19th of March will see two of the best know web events for start ups join forces for the first time. GeeknRolla and the Dublin Web Summit, are merging to create the London Web Summit.

TechCrunch Europe Editor Mike Butcher will co-curate the Summit with Paddy Cosgrave of the Dublin Web Summit. With a focus at the summit on Trends in Local, Social and Mobile, Growth and Investment Strategies for Start Ups and Insights on Cloud and Data, speakers at the Summit include an array of exciting speakers including Matthew Prince Founder, CloudFlare, Jason Goldberg, Founder of Fab.com, Mark Read, CEO of WPP Digital, Jessica Powell, CMO of Badoo and many more.

“We’re really delighted to be teaming up with the Dublin Web Summit lads. They’ve managed to do it again and put together a fantastic lineup of incredible speakers. Hopefully we’ll have a bit of that Irish magic in London for the London Web Summit”

-TechCrunch Europe Editor Mike Butcher

There is a lot of buzz around the event with over 350 people registering to attend within the first 3 days of registration. Paddy Cosgrave encourages Irish startups to get get over to the event:

“We’re offering Irish startups an opportunity to exhibit at the London Web Summit and we’ve seen quite a number of investors sign up, people from Accel, Atomico, Balderton, Index, Graylock and many more, so its a great opportunity to meet some of the top investors in London. For any startups under two years old we’re also running a startup competition to find the top five startups who’ll present in front of an audience of 800 at the end of the day.”

For more information about the event and the opportunity to showcase your company as one of Europe’s hottest start ups, see the startup competition entry.

Enterprise Ireland will be supporting the event and the London Web Summit have agreed a rate of £995 + VAT to any Irish companies who wish to exhibit at the event.

To avail of this special exhibition rate, please contact the London Web Summit directly on bronagh@websummit.net

Trade fair support from Enterprise Ireland may be available to Enterprise Ireland client companies only (subject to eligibility) up to the value of 50%. For more information, Enterprise Ireland clients need to discuss their eligibility with their Development Advisor directly.

For general information, please contact Claire Bodys on Claire.bodys@enterprise-ireland.com

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