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Over 60 percent of tickets to Dublin Event Now GONE!

Thanks everyone, 60% of tickets have gone in the first day. This means we can really push on to finalise the speakers, meeting plan and final sponsors. It is amazing to think all this craziness is going on in the world and yet people are still motivated to make things happen.

Thanks!

Get tickets : http://siliconirelandnov22.eventbrite.com/

Tickets for Dublin Now LIVE!

Well at last we have our ticket section up and running. So please get them while you can - because when there gone they are gone. We will be outlining the speakers on Friday and also details of our other features.

Please also follow the daily goings on of the team at http://www.twitter.com/siliconireland

Look forward to seeing you at the event!

Sponsors for Dublin event

Thanks to our sponsors for the Dublin Event!

New Sponsors for Dublin Event

We would like to announce the following Partner Sponsors for the Dublin event: Thank you to them for making this event happen.

BlogCamp announced for the Dublin Event Nov 08

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We are announcing a workshop at the Dublin event to allow people to get involved in blogging. We are inviting Irish blogger's to come and talk at the event. Numbers are limited. Tickets will be available tomorrow.

Belfast Event 12th Dec 2008

We are also announcing a Belfast event for the 12th of December. This event will be an evening event and further details will be issued by the end of the week.

We are looking to meet some of the new Digital Masters of the Northern Ireland scene.

Tickets, sponsors and further info will be available soon.

Dublin Event Launched Nov 22nd 2008

We will be holding our next event in Dublin on 22nd November 2008. Tickets will be available at the end of the week. We will also be providing a full list of Corporate and Partner Sponsors.

We are finalising the details for this event but we will aim for the 'star's', even with the current economic downturn.

We are still looking for partner sponsors to cover cost of Drinks and refreshments.

Sponsors Needed for Next event Dublin Nov 2008

We are looking for some 5 sponsors - Since times are hard, we thought that E100 Euro per sponsor seemed like a fair price. We are looking to cover venue, drinks etc. For a select group of Dublin's Finest. If you would like to sponsor and have your company splashed about at the event and on this blog and anywhere else we can think off, then please, please just get in touch on siliconireland(at)gmail(dot)com and we will see how to best accomodate you and your business.

IT(at)Cork Annual Conference Announced

(Thanks to Web2Ireland for this content)

Its title is “GREEN IT: Reduce CO2, Raise Profits” and it’s on November 26 in the lovely Radisson SAS Hotel in Cork.

The line-up looks like an excellent mix with the focus being clearly on Green as it relates to IT and Business. I particularly like the profit angle given the turmoil the world is going through right now

The is an Early Bird Discount available – Book on or before October 31 and it’s €250 for members, €350 for non members.

The agenda is as follows:

07.30 – Heads of IT breakfast sponsored by Certification Europe

08.00 – Arrival coffee & registration

08.45 – Welcome from Donal Manning, Chairman, it@cork

08.55 – SETTING THE SCENE – George Lee, Economics Editor, RTE

09.35 - Green IT: Moving Beyond the 2% Solution, Douglas Neal, Research Fellow, Leading Edge Programme

10.05 - SMART2020: ICT and climate change. Opportunities or Threat? Chris Tuppen, Director Sustainable Development, BT

10.35 – Q&A Moderated by Tom Raftery. Lead analyst, energy and sustainability practice, Redmonk

10.50 – Coffee sponsored by Complete Telecom

11 20 - Virtual Worlds: making organizations greener, Pierre-Olivier Carles, Co-Chief Stonfield InWorld

11.40 - Measuring the energy footprint of everything on Earth, Gavin Starks, Director, AMEE

12.00 - The Electric Grid 2.0, Fergus Wheatly, General Manager, Allied Solar Ltd

12.20 - Q&A Moderated by Damien Mulley, Mulley Communications

12.35 – LUNCH sponsored by Lenovo

13.45 - Situation normal, everything must change, Simon Wardley, Independent Consultant

14.35 – The Business Challenges of the Future Low Carbon Economy, Niall Brady, Green Sigma Technical Development Manager, IBM

14. 55 – Green IT @ STRATO, Rene Weinholtz, Executive Director for IT & Innovation, STRATO

15.15 – Q&A Moderated by Dan Barry, Enterprise Ireland

15.30 – Coffee Sponsored by Premiere Global Services

16.00 – Green Computing - A leadership role, Tom Moriarty, EMEA Regulatory and Environmental Manager, DELL

16.30 – Green ICT - How ICT will help deliver ESB’s Sustainability Strategy, Padraig McManus, CEO, ESB

17.00 – Q&A Moderated by Tom Raftery followed by drinks reception sponsored by Smart Telecom

After October 31st, the rate is €300 for members and €400 for non members.

Join us on Twitter! For our latest ramblings

Well we have found Twitter to be a great tool in keeping thoughts, daily or otherwise alive. So you can follow the daily 'ramblings' from there. We thank all the followers and hope that we can build on this to make Silicon Ireland stronger in the future.

Changes to what we do!

We have long thought about how to best manage this service, so in October we have finally agreed what that will be!

Keep checking back for details