Thursday 26th June – Startup Day?

10am – OpenCoffee Dublin

10am to 12pm in the Digital Depot on Thomas Street. The opencoffee meetups are alway a great relaxed way of meeting people interested in new technologies. Come along and meet with all sorts of interesting tech folk.

9:30am – 4:30pm – Silicon Ireland Events – Startup Event

In the City North Hotel, Gormanstown, Co. Meath. Details on the event are available here. The event hasn’t really got much publicity but they are offering a 2000 euro prize in a pitching competition for startups.

7pm – CrunchLudd – TechCrunch & TechLudd Mashup event

Hi there folks! In case you hadn’t heard TechCrunch the massive international tech blog and Techludd the Irish Startup networking event have come together to give you CrunchLudd tomorrow night the 26th of June at 4 Dame lane in Dublin.

Mike Butcher editor of TechCrunch UK & Ireland will be there looking to talk to Irish startups about what they’re doing and products they’re launching and will probably be happy to discuss the latest happenings in the tech world as well.

The event kicks off at 7pm-ish and there’ll be 7 or 8 top class startups demoing on the night as well. Feel free to register here

Friday 27th June – DarkLight

10 am – Letting it all hang out – Privacy in the Virtual World

Film Base, 10 – 11.30 am
For a new generation of ‘digital natives’ privacy is no longer a requirement. Web 2.0 has brought with it a transformation in how we view the need for privacy and engage with the public realm – but at what cost? The discussion will be prefaced by a keynote address from Daniel J. Solove, Associate Professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, and the author of The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy In The Information Age. Chaired by solicitor and digital rights expert Caroline Campbell, the panel also features journalist Jim Carroll, Hotline.ie director Cormac Callanan, Relevant Media owner Niall Larkin and Irish blogging guru Damien Mulley.

12pm – Web 3.0: Where Next For The Internet?

Film Base, 12 – 1.30 pm
This panel discussion will look at what is the next stage of development for the World Wide Web – and it’s parent, the internet. Cloud Computing, Rich Media applications, Mobile internet, 3D internet, Semantic web, The Grid, wirelessly-enabled appliances and sensors… All these concepts will be analysed, discussed and explained and given context for the creative community and general public alike. Chaired by Anton Mannering (Digital Media Forum), participants will include Bill McDaniel (DERI, Galway) Chris Howard (Head of 3D Internet, IBM) and Joe Dromgoole (PutPlace).