Cian Hughes
Dublin, Ireland Office
+353 87 2610420
cianhughes@itlg.org
Silicon Valley Global Forum
& May 14th and 15th, 2013 |
Man on a Mission - Forging a special relationship between Ireland and Silicon Valley
The Hub |
Riding the tailwinds of the “lean in” movement, Chelsea Clinton and a panel of female tech entrepreneurs urged the Women in the World audience to encourage more girls to study computer science—and take over Silicon Valley.
The Daily Beast |
Depending on who you believe, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ is either a significant turning point in the feminist debate or a book that presents women with unattainable goals. We asked a group of women (and men) for their verdict on the controversial bestseller. In conversation with Róisín Ingle Irish Times | Irish Times Magazine |
The Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) has launched a new ‘Women in Leadership Group’ to complement its growing network of technology leaders. Silicon Republic |
Silicon Valley Investors urge Entrepreneurs to "Go Big" with Data
Cameo Communications - Print |
ITLG - Global Technology Leader Summit - Think Visually Presentation
By Naomi Fein |
Silicon minds descend on Cork.
Business Plus - Print |
The Real Capital needs real capital to blossom.
Evening Echo - Print |
Marathon now open to youth relay teams.
Evening Echo - Special Supplement - Print |
Cork welcomes Global Technology Leaders at ITLG Summit.
East Cork Journal - Print |
Time for our leaders to do some heavy lifting.
Irish Examiner |
Tanaiste in Cork to address IT Summit.
Evening Echo |
Technology should be used to improve teaching methods in primary school classrooms, according to the director of the Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN) Seán Cottrell, who was speaking today at the annual summit of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) in Cork.
Business & Leadership |
Fifty companies from around Ireland pitched to leading Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists yesterday and the chance for the 20 best to travel to California to secure funding. The Irish Technology Leadership Group pitch camp was the speed dating of business finance, with companies forced to condense years of hard work into six-minute presentations.
Irish Examiner |
Speaking on the event, chief executive of Magnet Networks Mark Kellett said: “I’m delighted to have the opportunity of introducing such an esteemed panel featuring; EMC, INTEL, Disney, Facebook, Elan and BOI at ITLG. “The aim of the discussion will focus on the challenges of big data, but also on the emergence of mega data, its impact on the cloud and the new employment opportunities it presents for Ireland Inc,” he said. Irish Times |
Cork native Barry O’Sullivan is senior vice-president in charge of tech giant Cisco’s US$2bn a year voice products business. The latest addition to RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den divides his time evenly between Silicon Valley and his home in Galway and returns to Cork this week to join the ITLG ‘Gathering’ in the city. Some of the most prominent Irish and Irish-American executives in Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Wall Street will form their own version of the ‘Gathering’. Silicon Republic |
Top Cork IT Firms being lined up for Visit to Silicon Valley. Evening Echo | Cork's Top 20 |
Summit to 'sell' Cork as Ireland's Silicon Valley. Irish Examiner | Evening Echo |
SOME of the biggest names in technology will descend on Cork tomorrow for a summit on the sector and education. The Global Technology Leaders Summit will be streamed live on Independent.ie through AerTV. The summit will feature some of the best known investors and executives in the business, including the likes of PCH chief executive Liam Casey and James Whelton – the founder of computer coding movement CoderDojo. Independent.ie |
A Thousand Welcomes
Innovation Ireland Review |
Sunday Independent Business |
Venture capitalists and investors from the USA, China and Russia will be reviewing Irish start-ups in Dragons’ Den-style pitch sessions later this month. The event is an integral part of the Irish Technology Leadership Group summit, the first and largest business Gathering event, which will be held Monday, January 21st and Tuesday, January 22nd. TheCorkNews.ie |
Technology Executives from the U.S., China and Russia are to discuss Cork's growing reputation as a technology capital. Irish Examiner |
Gathering Event Provides Investment Opportunity East Cork Journal |
Can the Salinas Valley connect with Silicon Valley? KSBW.com | Steinbeck Innovation |
Irish-based start-ups are being offered the chance to pitch to seasoned investors from the US, China and Russia, as well as RTÉ 'dragons' Barry O’Sullivan and Sean O’Sullivan at the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) annual summit, which takes place in Cork on 21 and 22 January Silicon Republic |
IRELAND'S biggest-ever 'Dragons' Den'-type business pitch session is due to roll out in Cork later this month, with hundreds of Irish start-ups invited to the city to sell their ideas and businesses to global entrepreneurial heavyweights. Independent.ie |
Global Technology Leaders Summit in Cork this month signifies first business Gathering event... The first business Gathering event is set to take place in Cork on 21 and 22 January when a number of international investors will convene in Cork for the Global Technology Leaders Summit. An integral part of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) summit, it will see venture capitalists and investors from the US, China and Russia reviewing Irish start-ups and early stage companies in Dragons' Den style pitch sessions. Business & Leadership |
Cork tech cluster has major plans for development of ICT sector IT@Cork has already had success in attracting interest for the ICT sector in Cork through the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) Silicon Valley, which will hold its annual summit in Cork in January as part of The Gathering. Business leaders from Europe, China, Russia, India and across the Americas will speak at and attend the event.
TechCentral.ie |
West Cork to fore for Gathering. Southern Star | Mallow Star & Vale Star | Evening Echo |
How Sean O’Sullivan helped to hire a new dragon for RTE’s den. The Irish Mail |
Mcor was a finalist in the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG)'s Company of the Year awards in April and recently secured a US$1m investment from the Irish Diaspora Innovation Fund, the angel investment fund headed up by technology entrepreneur John Hartnett. Silicon Republic |
The forum saw the launch of a number of initiatives including the Gathering 2013 and the Global Irish Contacts programme, which links the diaspora to Irish firms wishing to expand overseas. Irish Examiner |
Tech start-up Vicinity Systems was yesterday named the Irish winner at the European Space Agency’s satnav technology awards, the Galileo Masters, which were presented in Munich. As well as winning the regional prize, Vicinity Systems was shortlisted for the ESA Special Prize for Innovation, and was runner up for the Global Technology award. Business & Leadership | Press Release |
The Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) Silicon Valley will hold its annual summit in Cork in 2013 as part of The Gathering 2013 on 21 and 22 January. The two day event will feature business leaders from Europe, China, Russia, India and across the Americas, with confirmed speakers such as Craig Barrett, ITLG chairman and former chairman and CEO, Intel, Barry O'Sullivan, senior VP, Cisco, Liam Casey, CEO, PCH, James Herlihy, MD, Deutsche Bank, Sean O'Donoghue, CTO, Madison Square Garden, Rory McInerney, Intel and Una Fox, VP, Disney. |
The (Irish Technology Leadership Group) ITLG Silicon Valley Comes to Ireland summit is a two day gathering of top executives, entrepreneurs, and venture capital investors operating in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and US East Coast, who will travel to Cork to meet Ireland’s top technology and innovative companies. |
The Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) will gather global CEOs and leading Irish executives in some of the world’s biggest technology companies in Cork in January in a Gathering-themed shindig. The aim will be to help local tech companies and entrepreneurs succeed on the global stage. Silicon Republic | Business in Leadership |
A major of summit of global business leaders, high level executives, entrepreneurs and investors from the US and Ireland will take place in Cork in January as part of The Gathering. RTE NEWS |
It is 2012 and as the future of Hollywood is increasingly linked with that of Silicon Valley, the impact of the Irish and Irish-Americans on these two iconic centres of industry on the US west coast became strongly apparent last week. Silicon Republic | Independent.ie |
LOS ANGELES - The spread of CoderDojo in just one year to nearly every geography on the planet has been fascinating to watch. But an unexpected pleasure to emerge from the Irish Technology Leadership Group’s annual Hollywood 50 event was the hosting of the very first dojo in a Hollywood studio. Silicon Republic |
The Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) has the 'Hollywood 50' highlighting global Irish-American executives making a significant impact within their field of technology. Announcing the prestigious list John Hartnett, president and founder of the ITLG said these individuals exhibit the creativity, intelligence, dedication and determination necessary to compete and succeed in the competitive world of technology. Silicon Republic |
A stellar cast of some of the leading digital entertainment professionals in the world will join the panel at the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG)’s Innovation in Entertainment event at Sony Pictures, led by Robert Nashak, executive vice-president for digital entertainment and games at BBC Worldwide. Silicon Republic |
As the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) prepares to publish its ITLG Hollywood 50 listing as part of the annual Innovation in Entertainment event in Hollywood, the fact that the region punches well above its weight in entertainment, software and financial services is becoming apparent. Silicon Republic |
From the forests of Endor to the wastes of Tatooine, Dubliner Colum Slevin – listed this year among the ITLG Hollywood 50 – was as transfixed as any youngster by the Star Wars franchise that began with Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Like many of his generation, he absorbed comic books like 2000 AD and watched movies like Blade Runner and always wanted to know more about the worlds portrayed there. Silicon Republic |
Welsh creative industry companies are being given the chance to showcase their technologies to major Hollywood film and entertainment companies at an event in Los Angeles next month. The Welsh Government is providing overseas trade support to help companies attend the Innovation in Entertainment event at Sony Studios, Los Angeles, on September 27th which is organised by the Irish Technology Leadership Group. NewsWales |
LIMERICK-BASED Gary Neville and David Hickey are avid golfers who have turned their passion for the game into a new business. The company has received some support from Enterprise Ireland and has recently moved into the Hartnett Centre at Limerick Institute of Technology which was set up by John Hartnett, the founder of the Irish Technology Leadership Group based in Silicon Valley. Irish Times |
Ireland’s development agency IDA Ireland has revealed that more than 5,000 new jobs were created in the first six months of 2012 in the face of mounting global competition. Falling office rents, energy prices and labour costs are playing a key role. Silicon Republic |
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny has welcomed confirmation that Cork City is to be one of the first places in Ireland to hold a ‘Gathering’ as the national initiative kicks off in 2013. A Cork consortium will host the 5th Annual Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) ‘Silicon Valley Comes to Ireland’ event on 21st and 22nd January next year. Hospitalitenews |
Irish clean-tech start-up InfiniLED has forged an access agreement with Tyndall National Institute in Cork to use the institute's semiconductor cleanrooms in order to work on developing its MicroLED technology Silicon Republic |
San Francisco and the Bay Area are now, of course, the centre of the global technology sector. Silicon Valley employs many Irish and Irish-Americans. Possibly the best-known Irish business organisation is the Irish Technology Leadership Group, founded in 2007 by John Hartnett The Irish Times |
An informed perspective on technology and US-Irish links is guaranteed at next Wednesday’s Cork Chamber business breakfast in the Imperial Hotel at 7.30am, at which the influential Silicon Valley-based technology investor John Hartnett is guest speaker.
The Cork News |
FORMER INTEL chief executive Craig Barrett has joined the list of international executives offering to sit on Irish State boards free of charge. Mr Barrett was at the helm of Intel when it first invested in Ireland in 1989, employing thousands in one of the world’s best-known technology companies.
Irish Times | Irish Central |
A NEW seed fund for start-up businesses attached to the Limerick Institute of Technology could, in time, help create up to 250 jobs in the Mid-West, college president Dr Maria Hinfelaar has predicted.
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Silicon Valley venture capitalist Richard A Moran says innovators who have an idea and construct a company around it will help rebuild the Irish economy: here he lays out some 'bullets' to pump air into the tyres of our business people.
Sunday Independent |