Enterprise Show 2014
The Enterprise Experience Show for Transition Year Students
1st October 2014
Presented by the Local Enterprise Office with thanks to:
Enterprise Show 2014
The Enterprise Experience Show for Transition Year Students
1st October 2014
The Enterprise Show 2014 is hosted by the Local Enterprise Office as part of Carlow
County Council and aims to engage and inform transition year students about the world
of enterprise and the National Student Enterprise Awards. The show is hosted in the
magical GB Shaw Theatre in Visual and features a range of speakers with experience
at local, national and international level.
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9.15am
Registration
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9.30am
Welcome to the Enterprise Show
MC: Anna Byrne – Sr. Enterprise Development Officer
– Local Enterprise Office
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10.00am
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10.30am
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11.00am
11.15am
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11.45am
The Enterprise Breakdown
Who is in the fish bowl ?
Solving a problem and telling the story ?
Kieran Comerford – Head of Local Enterprise
Local Enterprise Office – Carlow County Council
Staying ahead of the curve
Henry Shefflin – Bank of Ireland
Break (In Theatre)
Who's Ted ? and why are people gathering ?
Noel Davidson – QED
Inventive Times
Innovation in the Business World with IT Carlow
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12.00pm
Case Study: Hear a Local Business Story
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12.20pm
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12.30pm
The next chapter?
What to do next with your Micro Enterprise ?
Kieran Comerford – Head of Local Enterprise
Local Enterprise Office
Close
Speaker & MC Profiles
Anna Byrne
Anna Byrne
Local Enterprise Office
Anna Byrne is Business Advisor with the Local Enterprise Office Carlow having worked
in the Community & Enterprise Section of Carlow County Council for over a decade.
Her work in Community & Enterprise involved working with individuals and teams at
local, regional, national and international level. Anna was also involved in the
Business Support function of the local authority assisting with the strategic development
of County Carlow via the work of the Economic Forum. Anna has worked on a variety
of Enterprise Projects in association with Carlow CEB including the Student Concept
Competition, Experience Carlow @ NPA , Bizfest and Carlow Town Team.
Anna’s role involves the advisement of start up clients up to 18 months in business and
the operations of the offices soft support scheme which includes the provision of the
Student Enterprise Programme and Female Entrepreneurship Network. Anna has
significant experience in a variety of area’s including research, funding and financial
management and has acted as a facilitator and mentor during her career.
Prior to joining the public service Anna worked for over ten years as an Energy Advisor
with the Electricity Supply Board, based in Sligo.
Kieran Comerford
Noel Davidson
Henry Shefflin
Noel Davidson
QED
QED General Manager and Senior Trainer - Specialist in Social Media, E-Marketing,
Information Technology, Marketing and Sales Promotion, Business Improvement,
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Noel Davidson is a business owner, mentor and trainer and General Manager of QED
Training. He is an expert in social and digital media and is an Apple Product &
Integration Professional as well as an Apple Certified Trainer (ACT).
Between 2008 and 2010 Noel was employed with Sigma Telecom as Apple/Digital
Lifestyle Product Manager with responsibility for their ICT sales team, developing new
business, managing existing clients & product portfolios, setting and exceeding sales
targets.
Noel has worked with QED Training since early 2010 and has proven highly successful
in bringing start-up and small business owners through the challenges of marketing,
sales and digital media for the benefit of their business. Noel has extensive experience
in person-facing roles in a number of industries including confectionary, hospitality, retail
and leisure.
Noel has conducted Idea Generation, Marketing and Social Media Workshops such as
social media and digital marketing, social media for business, getting Irish business
online, beginners and advanced social media workshops, small business websites,
business apps, E-marketing, etc. to SME’s all over Ireland.
Kieran Comerford
Local Enterprise Office
Kieran is the Head of the Local Enterprise Office Carlow having worked as Chief
Executive Officer of Carlow County Enterprise Board. Kieran has worked in a variety of
roles from retailing, banking, information technology and in the training sector during
his career and has worked in the Enterprise Development sector since 2002.
Kieran is a Director of Carlow Community Enterprise Centres Ltd which is a social
enterprise that provides incubation and development space to Start Up and developing
SMEs and has overseen 3 stages of expansion with a budget of over 2.2m euros.
The centre now hosts 28 companies with over 130 staff daily across a variety of sectors.
He is a graduate of the Quinn School of Business in UCD and also holds a post
graduate qualification from IT Carlow and has lectured for the IATA in the areas of
Management, Accounting & IT.
Henry Shefflin
Bank of Ireland
Henry Shefflin (born 11 January 1979) is an Irish hurler who plays as a centre-forward
for the Kilkenny senior team and is Enterprise Development Manager for the South East
Region for Bank of Ireland
A native of Ballyhale, County Kilkenny, Shefflin first excelled at hurling whilst at school
in St. Kieran's College. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen
when he first linked up with the Kilkenny minor team, before later lining out with the
under-21 side. He made his senior debut in the 1999 championship. Shefflin has since
gone on to play a key role in the forwards for Kilkenny, and has won a record nine AllIreland medals on the field of play.[1]
Shefflin is widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers in the history of the game, with
many ranking him as the number one player of all-time.[5] He has won a recordbreaking eleven All-Star awards, as well as being the only player to be named Hurler of
the Year on three occasions. He has been repeatedly voted onto teams made up of the
sport's greats, including on a special Leinster Hurling Team