8.15    Registration

8.45    Opening Address
           H.E Peteris Karlis Elferts,
           Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia in Ireland

8.50    Kristine Metuzale, Deputy Head 
           Representative Office of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia - UK
           'Doing Business in Latvia'

9.15    Keynote address: Mr. Michael Bourke
           Chairman, Supervisory Council, Parex Bank, Latvia
           Risk Advisor, Central Bank of Ireland
           'Financial Services Industry in Latvia'

9.45   Alan Gilbert, Chief Operations Officer
          Case Study: 'Investing in Latvia - the KEDCO Plc experience'

10.15  Q&A

10.30  Event End


About the Speakers

Kristine Metuzale
Kristine has been working for the last 5 years for the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia’s representative office in the UK advising British and Irish companies on opportunities of doing business in Latvia.She previously gained experience in business development and sales working in major international companies both in Latvia and Germany. Kristine holds a Master's degree in business administration and a post graduate degree in European Business Management.

Michael Bourke
Michael is the former CEO of Rietumu Bank (Latvia’s fourth-largest bank for nine years) and former honorary consul of Ireland to Latvia. Michael retired from Rietumu in 2006 and is now on the board of Latvian bank Parex. In June 2010, Michael was appointed as a Risk Adviser to Ireland's Central Bank.
Having started out in the Irish Central Bank, he has worked with the IMF, advising the Central Bank of Egypt on its debt restructuring back in the 1980s. He ran workshops for the IMF with several central banks of former USSR republics. He was an advisor to the Bank of Lithuania in the early 1990s, before doing work for the Bank of Latvia.

Alan Gilbert
Alan joined Kedco in 2006 as chief operations officer. He is responsible for operations of Vudlande and its explosive growth with limited use of capital, turnover of €8m for the most recent financial year 2009/2010. Before joining Kedco Alan worked for Kerry Group Plc for 9 years mostly in the area of operations in the consumer foods division. Alan has a degree in Agricultural Science from UCD and a Diploma in Business Management from IMI.

Cost: This event is complementary to Dublin Chamber of Commerce members but registration is compulsory

For further information or to register please contact Marion@dublinchamber.ie

This event is organized by the Enterprise Europe Network at Dublin Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Embassy of Latvia in Ireland and the Latvian Investment and Development Agency.

9.30-11.00
“Powerful strategies to succeed in business: All you need to know about female entrepreneurship”

The briefing aims to identify the stumbling blocks that all entrepreneurs face and more specifically the unique hurdles faced by female entrepreneurs when setting up a new business. The speaker, Susan Hayes will then provide the audience with the tools to tackle them.

Topics will include:

• Business Support Services
• Mentoring
• Training: Matching your skills with business
• Financial resourcing: How to find and manage money
• Outsourcing
• Stress Management

11.00-11.15: Coffee Break

11.30-13.00: “Ideas Generation” workshop
The workshop will begin with 3 minute presentations by the Chambers Ambassadors for Female Entrepreneurship focusing on their own entrepreneurial experiences. Susan will provide examples of how people have developed successful products and services. The workshop will provide a forum for attendees to interact and to teach them how to channel their business ideas into business realities.

To book your place please contact Marion@dublinchamber.ie. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

About the Speaker
Susan Hayes is an entrepreneur, economist, media commentator and investor.
She has a BSc (Hons) Financial Maths & Economics and recently passed Level 2 of the CFA designation (Chartered Financial Analyst). She has her own company training people how to generate an income from a stock market portfolio through options. She comments on economic, banking and investment matters regularly on national and regional radio stations as well as forming part of a number of expert groups working with the Department of Education in relation to Economics, Accounting and Business subjects taught up to Leaving Cert. She has introduced "Wall Street to the Classroom" through creating an investing resource for business studies teachers. Finally, she is a successful investor with a particular interest in value stocks and options trading.

About the Network of Ambassadors
About Grainne Byrne
Grainne founded gbc Public Relations in 2006 but has been working for herself for the past 14 years. She has worked in PR for over 25 years in London and Dublin. Her company is part of a worldwide association of boutique PR companies.

About Nicola Byrne
Nicola is the founder and CEO of 11890 Directory Enquiries. A graduate of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, Nicola previously specialised in outdoor advertising, managing Dublin based Stenics Media. She has also worked with the Research Company AC Nielsen and was formerly a brand manager with Bank of Ireland.

About Triona Campbell
Triona is a founder and director of CR Entertainment Ltd. most recently known for her work on the ground breaking cross media series “Sofia’s Diary” for Sony Pictures and Television International in association with Bebo. Triona is also the first producer outside North America to win the prestigious Tribeca First Look Award for the children’s feature film THE CROOKED MILE. She is a director of Be Entertainment Ltd in Belfast Northern Ireland and a recent nominee for the Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the year (2009)

About Krishna De
Krishna De (www.bizgrowthnews.com) is an award winning digital marketing, brand engagement and social media author, speaker, commentator and mentor. Her expertise in personal branding and leveraging online marketing and social media is featured in several highly acclaimed books including ‘World Wide Rave’ published by Wiley and ‘The Career Doctor: How To Get And Keep The Job You Want’.

About the sponsor
Vodafone is Ireland's leading total communications provider with 2.15 million mobile customers comprising business and personal subscribers.
In addition, the company has 197,859 fixed line and DSL customers bringing Vodafone Ireland's total telecoms base to 2.35 million.
Vodafone remains at the forefront of innovation in Ireland and continues to lead the market with the introduction of best in class products and services. Most recently, Vodafone announced it was the first operator in Ireland to enable HSPA+, or 3.5G technology, and has subsequently accelerated its rollout enabling users to access a range of data intensive products and services on the best performing network.

Vodafone is the world's leading international mobile communications group with approximately 346 million proportionate customers as at 30th June 2010. Vodafone currently has equity interests in 31 countries across five continents and around 40 partner networks worldwide. For more information, please visit www.vodafone.com.

About the European Network of Ambassadors for Female Entrepreneurship
The Ambassadors programme is an initiative of the European Commission to highlight and promote women entrepreneurs as a key to economic growth and job creation. Four female entrepreneurship ambassadors have been appointed for the Leinster area: Grainne Byrne (gbc Public Relations), Nicola Byrne (11890), Triona Campbell (CR Entertainment) and Krishna De (BizGrowth Media). These businesswomen are all leaders in their field and have been selected to provide insight as advisors to future female entrepreneurs.

 

The exhibition will include a host of enterprise support agencies who will be available to inform people about support, funding and opportunities available to them through the agencies.  The "Start and Grow Enterprise Expo" is an initiative of the Laois County Enterprise Board, Enterprise Ireland, Laois Chamber, Laois Partnership Company and Laois County Council.

At the brokerage event companies will have the opportunity to meet other companies from the sector for face to face pre-arranged meetings with a view to completing technology and business partnerships.
 

For only €195 per participant, you can meet with up to 440 businesses, and key representatives of foreign markets, during a programme of one-to-one meetings, a business dinner, and a half-day conference session.  All of this, combined with numerous opportunities to meet with potential clients over lunch and coffee breaks makes participating in CORKMEET 2010 a must for your business. 

The Enterprise Europe Network at Dublin Chamber will bring a delegation of member companies to CORKMEET 2010. 

Dublin based companies who wish to learn more about this event can join us at this information morning!

Date: Thursday 9th September 2010
Time: 8.00 - 9.30
Venue: Dublin Chamber of Commerce, 7 Clare Street, Dublin 2
Cost: This event is complementary but registration is compulsory

For further information or to register please contact Marion@dublinchamber.ie

In addition to the brokerage event, Biospain will feature a trade exhibition with around 200 international exhibitors, an investment forum, the Spanish Society of Biotechnology Scientific Conference, several Plenary Sessions, as well as a career fair.

The Patents Office, in cooperation with The Enterprise Europe Network, Enterprise Ireland and the County Enterprise Boards have launched a series of one-day seminars, aimed at the ‘small business’ community, entrepreneurs and inventors, on the theme of ‘Building a Business on Your Ideas’.

The seminars will commence on 23rd September 2010 in the Mill Park Hotel, Donegal Town and will run for the following nine months, in cities and towns across the country. Admission to the seminars is free but pre-registration with the local County Enterprise Board is required.

The seminars will focus on:-

how business should be aware of and can exploit the value of Intellectual Property (Patents, Trade Marks, Designs and Copyright) and the support structures that are available for small businesses and start-ups from the State and Europe.

Expert speakers from the private sector include a Patent Attorney, a representative from ‘Technology from Ideas’, a representative from the Industry, Research and Development Group and a local entrepreneur. Speakers from the public sector include representatives from the Patents Office, Enterprise Ireland, the County Enterprise Boards and the Enterprise Europe Network.

This year there is an opportunity to participate in a Brokerage Event organised by Enterprise Europe Network Latvia. The Brokerage Event will enable its participants to make fruitful contacts with potential business and research partners from all over Europe, especially Baltic countries.

Participants are invited to publish their technology profiles in an online catalogue. Individual bilateral meetings will be booked in advance and will be pre-arranged and assisted by Enterprise Europe Network Latvia staff.

CORKMEET 2010 is a three-day international business networking forum taking place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Cork, from 6 - 8 October 2010.

The event will give companies from Ireland and abroad the opportunity to participate in face-to-face meetings, social networking events and a business seminar.  Last year's CORKMEET event was the first large-scale business networking event ever to be held in Ireland, and almost 400 participants from 8 different countries took part in the event.

To see what companies have to say about last year's event or to find out more about CORKMEET 2010 go to www.corkmeet.ie or email: enquiries@corkmeet.ie.

(CORKMEET 2010 is funded and organised by Trading Link Cork, a partnership for business between Cork County Council, Cork County & City Enterprise Boards and the Enterprise Europe Network at Cork Chamber.)

The Conference will focus on trends in waste management practice, in terms of new legislation and business development.  There will be parallel sessions to include presentations on specific emerging technologies, case studies, and calls for partners in R&D.

The informal networking sessions will provide opportunities for one-to-one meetings focusing on technology & business partnering. Organisations that wish to grow their business through technology licensing, (in or out), or through joint venture or other strategic partnership, can offer their specific resources, or select those of interest, by requesting meetings at the informal networking sessions.

Who should attend:
Industrial & Waste organisations involved in Waste to Resource 
Enterprise Europe Network host organisations and Sector Groups in Environment and Renewable Energy. 
Local/Regional National Authorities and utility companies

Conference Highlights
Ministerial Address
John Gormley T.D. Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Ireland.
Keynote Address
Bartosz Zambrzycki, Biowaste Policy Officer, DG Environment, European Commission

Event Features
Technology Networking Facility One-to-One Meetings
Parallel Technology Sessions
Networking Reception

Registration
To register for the CONFERENCE go to;
www.enterprise-ireland.com/wastetoresource