is meeting on Wednesday the
2nd of December 2009
at 11am
in the
Innovation in Business Centre (IiBC/GMIT)
Nursing Practice Suite of the GMIT,
in Castlebar
Guest speaker is Johnny Beirne, facilitator of the Leitrim Business Network and Roscommon Business Network
Based outside Carrick on Shannon, Johnny is CEO of JB Training and Consultancy and provides training & mentoring in professional networking, social media and conversation marketing (blogging for business), innovation and is a sought after public speaker. He is the facilitator of the Leitrim Business Network and Roscommon Business Network and has 14 years experience in business management, ICT and innovation including founding and developing downloadmusic.ie and TEXT A TRACK. Prior to establishing JB Training & Consultancy, Johnny was the Innovation Officer for Leitrim County Enterprise Board.
Please bring friends and leave a comment if you plan to attend, thx. See you there.
Directions: When you enter the GMIT main reception you need to go left, go through double doors and then straight (through another set of double doors). Continue forward and take stair case on the right. Room is up those stairs on the right (says Nursing Practise Suite on the door).
We ask all attendees to allow 20 Minutes for Parking. As you might have experienced yourself, parking on the GMIT/IiBC Grounds are a very valuable commodity, please plan your arrival early, so that we can begin on time.
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“You can shape the future
if you can first imagine it”
Charles Handy
Mayo Science & Technology Festival – now in it’s third year – has organised an innovative night of presentations, discussion and debate on the types of technology that might be in use in 30 years time and how these will affect our lives and that of our children. Entitled Mayo 2040, the night is aimed at entrepreneurs, business people, teachers, parents and anyone with an interest in what Mayo might be like in 30 years time.
30 years is considered by scientists as the average period of time between the advent of new and innovative technologies and their widespread uptake and use by the general population. The question is: “how will the technologies that scientists are developing today impact on our lives in 2040”?
Mayo Science & Technology Festival now wants to begin a discussion about the types of technology we might be using in 2040 and how these will affect our lives. For example, advances in medical technology have led to estimations that a child born today can expect to live to the age of 100 and that their children might be able to live for much longer again. How might this affect life in Mayo? Advances in renewable energy technologies will have profound implications for Ireland. Can Mayo be to the forefront of these developments?
The event will take place in GMIT, Castlebar on Thursday 12th November, starting at 7pm.
Speakers:
A series of speakers will present their ideas of what the future in Mayo will look like. Speakers include:
- Bill McDaniel, Head of the Innovative Technology Unit at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway who will speak on “The Future of Information: The Web and You in 2040”:
- The National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science, NUIG, which is at the cutting edge of developing the medical technologies of tomorrow;
- What will Mayo actually look like in 2040? Peter Hynes, Director of Services, Mayo County Council;
- “Mayo as an energy exporter?”: Ben Wrafter, Business Consultant. Could Mayo and West of Ireland actually become an energy exporter?
The evening will be chaired by Barbara Burns, Head of GMIT. A panel discussion will take place after the presentations.
Speaking this week about the upcoming event John Magee of the Mayo Science & Technology Festival said he was very excited about the Mayo 2040 event. “This promises to be a fascinating look into the future. The pace of technological change is incredible and technologies and applications currently being developed will have a tremendous impact on our lives in the coming decades. What are the potential business opportunities that might arise in the future? Lets start talking about these things!”
Further details on the Mayo Science & Technology Festival are available at www.mayoscience.ie
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The Innovation in Business Centre has an open evening on the 26th of November 2009
Are you planning to set up your business? Then come and see how the IiBC in Castlebar can help you to achieve your goal.
The IiBC also offers low cost office space (starting at 45 euro per week) and support services to help grow and develop your business.
Everybody is welcome!
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is meeting on Wednesday the
4th of November 2009
at 11am
in the
Innovation in Business Centre (IiBC/GMIT),
in Castlebar
Guest speaker is Peter Glynn from Castlebar Chamber of Commerce. He will speak on ‘Castlebar – Everyone’s Invited’ and the Chamber’s vision for Castlebar in 2020. It should prove a very interesting and stimulating discussion.
Please bring friends and leave a comment if you plan to attend, thx. See you there.
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From Heather James, Sligo Open Coffee Club:
The plans for that conference in November are shaping up.
At the moment there is a temporary site at http://northwestconnects.ie/ and we are using Google Groups to communicate, so if you would like to join: http://groups.google.com/group/north-west-connect/
“The organisers include Kevin Peyton, Justin Knecht from Centre for Design Innovation, and a few others (Johnny Beirne came to the last meeting). At the moment we are developing a speakers list. It’s not really a bar-camp as we are going to start by aiming at certain people to give presentations. People who are entrepreneurs and hopefully can share some insight, tell some stories, and hopefully we can all learn something. We realise taht at the moment we have a very Sligo/Letirim-centric list, but we want to get people from all over the northwest. – please join and you can see the discussions, and maybe add in your own thoughts.”
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