NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at UCD is holding an Open Morning on Tuesday March 23 as part of the 2010 Dun-Laoghaire-Rathdown Enterprise Week.
Keeping positive about business and start-up growth is the upbeat message from Irish business leaders and support organisations, including NovaUCD, who are involved with this Enterprise Week, Dublin's largest pro-enterprise initiative.
The Enterprise Week features 5-days of activities (March 22 - March 26) taking place in various locations throughout the county. The week is aimed at entrepreneurs, micro-enterprises, the recently unemployed and other people thinking of setting up a business. A busy calendar of events includes innovation and e-Business seminars, networking evenings, open days and idea generation talks. An estimated 2,000 people are expected to attend the fourteen scheduled events, most of which are completely free of charge.
The aim of the NovaUCD Open Morning is to give budding high-tech entrepreneurs an opportunity to drop into NovaUCD, to discover the unique services, supports and facilities available and to meet members of NovaUCD's successful community of entrepreneurs.
The guest speaker at the NovaUCD Open Morning will be Ray Nolan, founder of Web Reservations International and Worky.com who will deliver a lunchtime NovaUCD 'Entrepreneurs Live!' seminar.
NovaUCD Open Morning - Agenda
| Event | Time |
|---|---|
| Overview of NovaUCD This session will present the history of NovaUCD and give an overview of NovaUCD's activites and recent successes. |
10:15-10:40am Room 0.23 |
| Support for new Enterprises at NovaUCD This session will outline the various supports and activities available for knowledge-intensive start-up companies at NovaUCD. The role of the NovaUCD sponsors and other state agencies will also be discussed. |
10:45-11:10 Room 0.23 |
| Tour of NovaUCD's Facilty | 11:15-11:30am |
| Latest Start-ups Emerging from NovaUCD Meet memebers of NovaUCD's community of entrepreneurs David Seavers, Aonta Technologies Owen O'Connor, Cernam Dr Emmeline Hill, Equinome incl: Q&A session |
11:30-12:30 pm Room 0.23 |
| Light Lunch Available | 12:30-1pm Room 0.30 |
| NovaUCD 'Entrepreneurs Live!' Seminar Ray Nolan, founder, Web Reservations International and Worky.com Ray Nolan founded Web Reservations International (WRI) in 1999 when he identified an opportunity to introduce online bookings to the hostel industry, a sector which had previously been ignored by mainstream online travel companies. Today WRI provides online confirmed reservations to over 50,000 accommodation providers, directly and through more than 2,500 global affiliate partners. A serial IT entrepreneur, Ray has been instrumental in the success of a number of companies in the Irish technology sector. He founded Raven Computing (subsequently Coretime Ltd) in 1989 to develop bespoke software solutions for the legal, and hospitality sectors, before subsequently developing a leading time and billing management system. He sold Coretime Ltd, to Sage in 2004. WRI was sold in November 2009 to San Francisco-based private equity investor Hellman and Friedman for $340 million. Ray was presented with the Ernst and Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 Award 2003 and the Irish Internet Association Net Visionary 2006 Award. Ray is currently involved in a number of new start-ups, including Worky.com , a new hiring network which aims to transform the way employers recruit staff and the way people find jobs and Cloudsplit . |
1-2pm Room 0.23 |
| Tour of NovaUCD's Facility | 2-2:30pm |
| End of NovaUCD's Open Day | 2:30pm |
Contact: Please contact miceal.whelan@ucd.ie if you are planning to visit NovaUCD on the Open Morning to attend any of the planned events.
Location: The vehicular entrance to NovaUCD is located on Fosters Avenue, approximately 200m from the Stillorgan dual carriageway (N11). The road from this gate leads directly towards NovaUCD. Car parking for visitors is on the right hand side of the road, before reaching NovaUCD. The main entrance to the NovaUCD Reception is through the front door of the building as indicated in the map.
The organisations sponsoring DLR Enterprise Week are Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Enterprise Board, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Enterprise Ireland and Bank of Ireland Business Banking. In addition to NovaUCD other supporting organisations include, IADT, Southside Partnership DLR, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Chamber, Dundrum Credit Union, the Irish Internet Association and the Dún Laoghaire Community Enterprise Centre.