Category: speaking

  • More prestigious speaking engagements

    More prestigious speaking engagements

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    I recently received an invitation to address the bi-annual meeting of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) in Athens. CEPIS, if you are not familiar with it is a non-profit organisation seeking to improve and promote a high standard among ICT professionals, in recognition of the impact that ICT has on employment, business and…

  • ISA and IWTC conferences next week

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    I’m speaking at both the ISA and the IWTC conferences next week! At the ISA conference, the topic title is “Local companies, Global Successes” and I’m on at 12:40 on the Thursday (Feb 28th). At the IWTC conference I am speaking on the Friday (Feb 29th) at 11am on the advantages of blogging for businesses.…

  • ISA Conference discount

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    The Irish Software Association are holding a half-day conference this year on February 28th. Speakers at the conference include Guy Kawasaki, Anthony Williams, and my good self! As a speaker I get a 15% discount on 10 tickets. I won’t be using them, so the first 10 people who register to attend will get 15%…

  • Phew!

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    These next few weeks and months are manic busy. I am giving a Keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin on November 7th. I am on a Web 2.0 panel at TechEd in Barcelona on November 8th I am chair of the organising committee of this year’s amazing it@cork conference on November 28th I…

  • I am such an idiot!

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    We were flying to Madrid this morning. Everything was set. Bags were packed. Ticket printed. Accommodation arranged. The lot. My wife lived in Madrid for six years so we have friends here who we had arranged to met up with. Needless to say we were looking forward to the weekend for a long time. We…

  • Just arrived in Copenhagen

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    I have just arrived in Copenhagen for Reboot 9.0. I’m giving a talk tomorrow at 12:20 on “Reducing Information Technology’s ever-increasing carbon footprint”. This is in the context of the work we are doing building a hyper energy-efficient data centre in CIX. There’s a meetup organised for tonight which I will be going along to.…

  • Lot of travel coming up!

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    In the next few weeks I am flying to Bilbao where I have been selected to be on the prestigious jury forStartup 2.0 – an international competition judging startup companies. Then I am off to Copenhagen for Reboot 2.0 where my suggestion for a talk about the energy efficiencies in the CIX data centre has…

  • Thanks Sarah!

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    Sarah Carroll, the uber-organiser of the Events Day Conference wrote me a lovely email this morning to thank me for speaking at the conference yesterday. In the email she said: You were absolutely terrific, I’ll send you on some quotes later from the delegates so as you know it’s not just me in your fan…