Over 300 events will take place in across in Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Limerick and Galway as part of The Startup Gathering 2015.
Led by the not-for-profit organisation Startup Ireland events will take place from 5-10 October with additional programmes for the North East and North West.
Participants will have an opportunity to showcase their start-ups, learn about avaialable supports and services, take part in networking opportunities and collaborate with other start-ups and corporates.
Among the flagship events taking place are an Open Forum conference event, inviting the startup ecosystem to come together to discuss the big ideas that will turn their location into a start-up hub. These sessions will be facilitated by Oscar Ramirez of Startup Commons Global which specialises in online solution for governments to manage, measure and monitor start-up ecosystems.
The StartUp Gathering will also play host to 12 visiting companies from the inaugural ChallengeUP programme, a joint incubation programme supported by Intel, Cisco and Deutsche Telekom. These early stage companies were selected from over 300 applicants across Europe, Middle East and Africa and are visiting the StartUp Gathering as part of a learning and networking experience offered by the Programme.
Attending the official launch yesterday, Minister of State for Business & Employment and chair of the steering committee of Startup Gathering Ged Nash said: “We know that Ireland has lots of ambitious entrepreneurs and we are looking for even more of them to come forward and build a Startup revolution. With more than 300 events taking place across the country in the Startup Gathering I would encourage Ireland’s entrepreneurs, investors and mentors to get involved, make connections, and strengthen Ireland’s startup ecosystem right across the country.”
Eoin Costello, co-founder of Startup Ireland, said: “Ireland simply doesn’t have time for a gradual evolution of our startup industry, the increasing rate of change brought about by technology requires a ‘startup revolution’ if Ireland is to continue to be a high growth economy in the next 10 years. Startup Gathering 2015 is more than just an awareness campaign. It’s about driving real change across the startup sector, creating better networks, connections and collaborations… As the Forbes’ best country in the world for business, Ireland has lots in its favour with an enviable presence of leading international companies, good rankings in the Global Innovation Index, a skilled workforce, good accelerators and incubators for early stage companies and well-established support systems from State agencies.”
Startup Gathering is supported by the Dept of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation and Bank of Ireland.
The full programme of events is at www.startupgathering.ie.
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