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Regional Winners from around the globe headed to
Dublin in November

Enterprise Ireland congratulates the five finalists in the Silicon Valley IBM SmartCamp final(below). IBM’s SmartCamp is a global program being held in seven cities around the world in 2010. The program culminates with one selected company from each city being invited to SmartCamp week in Dublin (Ireland) in November. There one will be named “The World’s Smartest Start-up”.

Enterprise Ireland is keen to talk to high tech entrepreneurs who are interested in setting up part of their business in Ireland. Enterprise Ireland is working with IBM and will be delighted to welcome the winners to Dublin for finals week in November.

Final winners will be offered an Incentive Package to give them the opportunity to spend 3 months in Dublin to explore the advantages of setting up a part of their business in Ireland. The package includes financial support in the region of €20,000 and a mentor support programme provided by top class highly experienced entrepreneurs and business people and access to incubation space.

Check back with us on Thursday afternoon as we feature video presentations of each of the finalist below. Read the rest of this entry »

Published September 8th, 2010 by admin in Archive, Awards, CleanTech, Consumer, Consumer/Retail, Digital Media & Entertainment, Entrepreneurship, Programs/Events, SmartCamp, Software/Services, Telecom/Mobil | Post a Comment »

The Schneider Electric Award has been won by a team from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in Ireland for their Solar Change project as part of the Shanghai 2010 Award for “Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable City”. The aim of the Solar Change project was to address the challenge of supplying electricity in slums. The team’s solution is a tree-like structure called SCTree – a stand-alone solar power unit with a single stable pillar and solar panels at the crown – which can be placed at the center of the slum. The business model offers local entrepreneurs support from a micro-finance organization to purchase the SCTree and cover their costs by selling the electricity generated to inhabitants based on a monthly subscription.

The Shanghai Expo 2010 awarded the students with a €3,600 cash prize, an all-expenses three-night stay in Shanghai (including access to the World Expo) and mentoring with representatives of leading international companies.

Celebrating their win the team, Kai Hermsen, Tineke Franssen and Karel Vanacker, jointly said, “We all have different backgrounds and nationalities, share the affinity for entrepreneurship and saw this competition as a unique opportunity to combine our skills in order to create a sustainable venture for megacities. We enjoyed the process leading to our final business proposal very much because it was an outstanding chance to learn a lot about the challenges of megacities and to become creative in finding problems to solve these.”

“UCD Smurfit School is proud to be part of the CEMS alliance and to be Ireland’s only university to offer the world’s no. 1 Master in Management program,” said Prof Tom Begley, Dean, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. “We congratulate the winning team on their fantastic achievement and their success is testimony of the quality and calibre of students this prestigious programme attracts.”

Involving more than 150 universities from around the world and focusing on the Shanghai Expo theme of “Better City, Better Life”, the aim of the competition was to raise awareness among business students of sustainable urban development and to identify and promote new business models contributing to a better, more sustainable life in the city. As one of the event’s partners, Schneider Electric presented an award to the most innovative project selected from within its own areas of expertise.

“The Schneider Electric Foundation challenged students to come up with innovative energy solutions which could be implemented right away. Schneider Electric is particularly proud to be involved with the Shanghai 2010 Award and to reward such an innovative project as Solar Change”, said Claude Breining, in charge of European Affairs at Schneider Electric, who represented the Group on the judging panel. “What is more, sponsoring this type of project will promote strong, confident relations between Schneider Electric and a new generation of young, talented entrepreneurs, called into action to face the current energy challenges and fully cognisant of our values”

The aim of the Solar Change project was to address the challenge of supplying electricity in slums. The team designed an innovative system which is safe, affordable, green and based on a business model adapted to the issues and problems experienced by people at the base of the pyramid. The ingenious solution is a tree-like structure called SCTree – a stand-alone solar power unit with a single stable pillar and solar panels at the crown – which can be placed at the centre of the slum. The business model offers local entrepreneurs support from a micro-finance organization to purchase the SCTree and cover their costs by selling the electricity generated to inhabitants based on a monthly subscription.

Published August 3rd, 2010 by admin in Archive, Awards, CleanTech, Entrepreneurship, News Press | Post a Comment »

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We are looking for smart entrepreneurs, with businesses less than 5 years old, to help us build a smarter planet. Does your solution address problems the world is facing in energy, healthcare, telecommunications or any other of the 19 areas related to smarter planet? If that sounds like you, then apply to participate in SmartCamp Silicon Valley on September 8th & 9th.

SmartCamp is an exclusive global event bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and experienced mentors who want to build a Smarter Planet. SmartCamp provides selected startups access to world-class advisors plus a direct route to seed and venture capital. Read the rest of this entry »

Published July 21st, 2010 by admin in Archive, Awards, Programs/Events, SmartCamp | Post a Comment »

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This is a great opportunity for telecoms start-ups to exhibit at CTIA with our partner organization, The Telecoms Council.

The Telecom Council is working with the CTIA to promote innovation, startups, and entrepreneurs in the wireless industry by highlighting them at this year’s CTIA Enterprise and Applications Tradeshow on the show floor and with stage time.

Companies invited to be part of the Telecom Council’s Innovation Showcase will be offered highly subsidized exhibitor packages, stage time, and lots of publicity around CTIA.

15 startups and entrepreneurs will be selected to participate in the showcase, which includes:

• 1 Demo Table on the CTIA Show Floor (in the Innovation Showcase booth 908, 1st floor, near entrance)
• Daily Stage Time on Show Floor
• 5 Exhibit Passes
• Advertising
• Publicity in the Show Guide
• Access to CTIA Press

To be considered for this showcase, your company must be any ONE or more of the following:

• Younger than 3 years old
• Fewer than 100 people
• Funded by venture or angel capital Read the rest of this entry »

Published July 15th, 2010 by davidsmith in Archive, Awards, CTIA 2011, Digital Media & Entertainment, Telecom/Mobil | Post a Comment »

Enterprise Ireland client Norkom Technologies today announced that Chartis Research, a leading analyst firm, has ranked Norkom’s enterprise-wide financial crime risk management solution highest in the industry in terms of “completeness of offering” for the second consecutive year in its latest report, Financial Crime Risk Management Systems 2010: Market Analysis.

This ranking means that Norkom Technologies achieved the highest aggregate score among global providers of financial crime risk management technologies for breadth of financial crime coverage (which includes, but is not limited to, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), internal fraud, credit fraud, card fraud, online fraud), advanced analytics, usability, configurability, data management and integration, case management and workflow, integrated financial crime reporting and platform.

“With fraud and money laundering continuing to be the most common crimes within financial services, Norkom remains as one of the leading vendors with the vision, insight and technologies that enable financial institutions to deploy a true enterprise-wide financial crime risk management solution”, says Peyman Mestchian, Managing Partner at Chartis Research. Read the rest of this entry »

Published July 12th, 2010 by admin in Archive, Awards, EI Client News, InfoSecurity, News Press | Post a Comment »