The workshops, which are open to the public are free of charge and one will take place in Cork as follows:

Cork: 9th April 11.00 am, National Software Centre Campus, Mahon.

The workshop will last for about two hours and promises to be a lot of fun as well as being informative and helpful.

If you would like to attend, please leave a comment below this post so we can get an idea of numbers of people to seat and give tea and coffee to!

The workshops are being run in conjunction with Jump!, Cork Open Coffee and The Irish Times.

Who should attend?

• People interested in innovation or ideation
• People considering entering an idea into Your Country, Your Call
• Business owners
• People thinking of starting a business

An event is also taking place in Dublin, if that suits you better:

Dublin: 15th April, 6.00pm, Irish Times Headquarters, Tara Street, Dublin 2.

A huge Thank you to the National Software centre (directions) who will be hosting the talk on the 9th, see you all there. It promises to be a great event with plenty of people and fun too!

Hi OCCers!

This weeks Cork Open Coffee Club is on in the Rubicon Centre in Bishopstown, near CIT Campus. Please note that parking is limited at the moment due to building works so you may have to park in the CIT overflow car park.

Usual time: 10am – 12pm.

Roland Steinmetz from Shared Visions will be running Virtual Open Coffee (VOCC) again this week after the success of the last session.

If you can’t attend in person, be there virtually! You will have to accept a download and if you want to participate, plug in headset and camera before entering the meeting. This is PC only – no Mac or Linux at the moment unfortunately. Here is the link for the #vocc for Friday: http://www.nefsis.com/join.html?dn=OCC

Roland will talk briefly at the beginning of the session to introd! uce the concept (he has promised us he won’t do sales!) just neutral benefits about savings in time, expenses and high end remote communication.

Speakers:

We are always looking for speakers for our demo slots so if you (or anyone you know) has a new start up business idea and wants to get feedback from like-minded entrepreneurs, please do get in touch. We request that no sales-pitches are done in these sessions, but they are used as a way to brainstorm about your idea/technology and make suggestions. These usually last no more than 15/20 mins presentation and 10/15 mins Q&A.

Looking forward to seeing you all there on Friday. Don’t forget, we are now on twitter so you can follow @CorkOpenCoffee for updates

Many thanks,

Ciara Crossan

It was an excellent presentation, David covered a lot of very relevant topics focused on those in commercial software development in a short time.

Davids presentation was called The Creation, Protection and Exploitation of Software – A Practical and Non-Harming Legal Review and covered the following areas:

- Legal background to ownership of software – VCs and The Exit Strategy
- Protection and Infringement of software
- Exploitation of software – how to get it right from the very start

A practical and commercial legal review aimed at software developers and those dealing in IT contracts.

Davids talk was also available online thanks to Shared Visions. Roland Steinmetz set up the room with a camera and speakers allowing the online viewers to participate from their offices, one user joined us from Munich!

Thank you all for attending.

Friday 17th April 10am – 12pm.

No formal demos planned as we are in a coffee shop, but open networking and idea-sharing will abound as always

Hope to see you all there tomorrow and feel free to bring any friends or other interested parties, ALL WELCOME.

Kindest Regards,

Ciara

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Ciara Crossan
Founder
www.weddingdates.ie
Rubicon Center
Bishopstown
Cork
021-4928993
087-9577733

Companies depend on innovation, yet how do you find this if you are thinking of starting or expanding a company? UCC may have the answer.

The government has been funding many research projects with the
university over the past five years. Most of these have been
established with the objective of a commercial outcome, yet the
Intellectual Property (IP), software and ideas can only be taken so far
within a university environment. It is the role of the University’s
Technology Transfer Office to bring these inventions out into the
commercial market place. This presents a real challenge, linking
entrepreneurs with ready available fully developed IP, which could
provide the seed for a start-up company, the refocus of an existing
company or an additional product to an established one.

James will outline the current mechanism within UCC for accessing and negotiating IP while disclosing one or two examples.

When?  Friday 6th March 10am – 12pm

Where? Rubicon Centre, Bishopstown, Cork

See you all there!

Ciara Crossan

The first OCC of 2009 is on this Friday, the 9th January  in the Rubicon Centre in CIT at our usual time of 10am-12pm.

We want to have a brainstorming session for ideas for improvements for the group itself or ideas of events/additions that we can implement in 2009. So have a think over the next few days and come armed with fresh ideas!

If anyone would like to take the demo slot, please leave a comment below.

Looking forward to seeing you all there. As always, OCC is OPEN, so  if you know of any other businesses or individuals who might be interested in coming along, please forward them this post.

See you Friday!

Ciara

• OCC only works because of the attendees. Thanks to everyone who even attended one session this year.
• Ciara and Gordon are doing a fantastic job re-invigorating OCC. I should have asked for their help earlier!
• I’ll post at least three months of dates for 2009 shortly. The Rubicon ones will obviously be fixed location. The other ones will continue to rotate between locations like Luigi’s and NSC etc.
• We’ll run one brainstorming OCC soon where everyone’s ideas for improving OCC can be discussed
• Phoebe Bright has come up with the great idea of collecting a list of common challenges (e.g. SEO) and running group self-help sessions on them.
• We’ll have more one-off special OCCs like the Tom Keane one during the year. Details TBA. Thanks again to John Fitzgerald for arranging the Tom one.
• Thanks to everyone who sponsored coffee and hosted events during the year.
• An extra special thanks to the Rubicon Centre for being our base. That’s Paul, Margaret, Maeve and Felix.
• Don’t forget the Demo Slots. They can be used to propose product/business ideas too, you don’t have to have anything to show.
• Have a great New Year.

As was announced previously by Conor, myself and Gordon are now sharing the load of coordinating the OCC events.  As someone who has benefitted greatly from OpenCoffee in the few months I have been attending, I was delighted to be asked to get more involved and help out a bit more.

The beauty of OpenCoffee is just that, its openness; however I will endeavour to follow the format that Conor has adopted and do a quick round-the-table (we’re talking 30 seconds here guys!) and then open it up to a demo and Q&A and then general networking and sharing of ideas.

The next OCC is on this Friday in the Rubicon Centre in CIT at our usual time of 10am-12.  If anyone would like to take the demo slot, please leave a comment.  If not, I will take the opportunity to showcase my site weddingdates.ie which launched a month ago and would be delighted to hear all your feedback.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.  Also – if you know of any other businesses or individuals who might be interested in coming along, please invite them to come along – the more the merrier!

Many thanks,
Ciara Crossan