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• Mon

  29

  Sep

  2014

  InterTradeIreland 2014 All-Island Innovation Conference

  
  

  UCD O’Brien Centre for Science, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4

  
  

  The InterTradeIreland 2014 All-Island Innovation Conference forms part of the InterTradeIreland All-Island Innovation Programme which aims to promote and encourage innovation across the island of Ireland via a series of innovation lectures, seminars, master classes and an annual conference. This Programme is organised by InterTradeIreland, University College Dublin, Queen’s University Belfast, University College Cork and NUI Galway.
   
  The title of the conference is ‘Harnessing the Innovation Potential of Your Team’ and the international guest speaker is Dr Trish Gorman.

  The afternoon session of the conference will include a series of industry case study presentations related to the overall topic of the conference which will be delivered by Andrew Bolster, founder, Farset Labs; Clare Dillon, Developer Experience Group Lead, Microsoft Ireland; Dr Conor Hanley, President, Cardiology, Strategic Business Unit, ResMed Inc.; Breda Moore, Technical Director, T.E. Laboratories Ltd; Christine Nangle, Product Compliance Director, eDocs and Dr Johnny Ryan, Executive Director, UCD Innovation Academy.

  Dr Chris van Egeraat, NUI Maynooth will close the conference with a presentation entitled ‘The Benefits to Business of Clustering – A Cross-Border View’.

  During his talk Dr van Egeraat will show a more meaningful way of identifying spatial clustering by firms and to demonstrate the potential benefits to the businesses and the wider economies on the island from operating a small number of clusters on a cross-border basis.

  Further information on the conference is available via: http://goo.gl/7Z0avL