The Irish Technology Leadership Group has been recognised by the Public Relations Consultants Association of Ireland in their Awards for Excellence in Public Relations 2011 for generating positive international publicity for Ireland during the depths of the negative media coverage surrounding the EU/IMF bailout last November.

The award, shared with PR firm Financial Dynamics (FD), was in the category of Best Corporate Communication Campaign to Protect, Promote & Enhance the Reputation or Profile of a Corporate Entity, for the ITLG’s publicity campaign surrounding their “Silicon Valley Comes to Ireland” event.

ITLG and the Irish Innovation Center won distinction awards from The 2011 Communicator Awards. The International Academy of the Visual Arts announced the winners on May 30, 2011.. With thousands of entries received from across the US and around the world, the Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring the creative excellence for communications professionals. ITLG in partnership with their preferred creative service provider, Blue Planet Studio, received two distinction awards for the "Silicon Valley Comes to Ireland" Limerick event pages and the Irish Innovation Center won two distinction awards for their website and brochure. Please visit www.communicatorawards.com to view the full winners list.

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The success of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) in creating links between Silicon Valley and Ireland was acknowledged on Saturday when John Hartnett, founder of the ITLG, was awarded the 2011 Spirit of Ireland Award at the culmination of a week of events around the San José-Dublin sister city initiative. Click Here for Image Gallery

Dublin-born Conrad Burke founded Innovalight as a solar energy company in 2005. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, the company manufactures and sells a proprietary nanotechnology-based silicon ink and licenses a printing process to solar cell manufacturing companies.