Digital Media Island

In partnership with the Media Cube at IADT, we are organising a national Mini-conference, networking event and breakfast for digital media companies focusing on those who have come through the many incubation centres around the country.

When: Wednesday the 17th of December commencing at 8.00 a.m. There is no attendance fee and breakfast will be provided.

Where: The Media Cube, IADT, Dun Laoghaire.

The event is designed to provide a way for digital media related companies around the country to network, so if you’re involved in Web, mobile, games, animation or content creation and delivery here’s a chance to network and meet other people in early stage digital media companies.

Our intention is that the event generates real business for the companies who attend and that those attending will have the opportunity to hear about startup programs and benefits from the likes of Microsoft, EI, Intertrade Ireland, and business angels focused on the sector will also be there.

A full schedule will be available shortly.

Expo: A limited number of presentation podiums are available to companies if they want to to demo their products and services. We are also in the process of working out an incentivised hotel deal for those who wish to stay over the night before and can provide more details on this to interested companies.

Click here to register to demo in the Expo.

Please register below if you are you wish to attend. Thanks and we’ll see you there.

I saw this tweet from Ryan Carson and I had to give him a call to ask him the story about it.

Ryans been a big Fan of the Irish Scene since the FOWA roadtrip and Web2ireland Demobar last year. So I guess he final got himself an excuse to come back.

When: Future of Web Apps comes to Dublin Friday March 6th 2009! 10am - 5pm

Where: Liberty Hall Theatre Eden Quay, Dublin

After Party: The Dandelion Club and Digital Island Meetup should be doing something with them for that.

There will be a limited number of seats at €115 on a first come first served basis then it goes up to €175.

This is the event link but it’s not live till tomorrow (Thursday 13th): http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2009/dublin

They really have some great speakers too!

• David Heinemeier Hansson - 37signals and Ruby on Rails
• Blaine Cook - ex Twitter & Yahoo! Brickhouse
• Mike Butcher - TechCrunch
• UK Contrast.ie - UseQwitter.com
• Ryan Carson - Carsonified and DropSend
• Matt Ogle - Last.fm Simon
• Simon Willison - Co-creator of the Django web framework
• Emma Persky - TrampolineSystems.com

It’s great to see these kind of conferences coming to Ireland and shining a light on some of the really great things going on here. I hope to see you there.

Ok folks two things. First of all there’s a change of venue for the Digital Island Meetup on the 6th of November. We’re heading to the (very posh) Four Seasons Hotel in Ballsbridge for the meetup. Sorry for the late change but it’ll be worth it.

The second thing is that Microsoft will be launching a new program for startups at the Digital Island Meetup. Details of the program are under wraps at the moment but Paul Rellis, GM Microsoft Ireland and Cliff Reeves, GM Microsoft Global Emerging Business Team will be there to tell us about the program. So we can safely assume that this is a big announcement for Microsoft.

Here’s some of the admittedly vague details of the program. The announcement is at 6:30pm so get their early to get all the juicy bits and don’t worry it won’t drag on.

Members of the program will get

1. All the software and tools they need to both develop and deploy their solution,
2. Technical and business support
3. Lots more visibility to potential customers, partners and investors.
4. The program also offers start-ups in Ireland and Northern Ireland some great discounts on hardware and hosting packages

After they do the launchy thing we’ll be having a short panel discussion on fostering start-ups and innovation in Ireland, featuring some local start-ups, and representatives from industry bodies and even a few VCs as well. Come along and grill them if you like…

Then we’re back to MoMo territory with some short presentations from three mobile startups and then we’re into OpenDemo and networking.

Go signup to come along now so we know who’s coming.

Hi there folks I’m delighted to announce the launch of the Digital Media Breakfast events which will roll out to smaller places over the next while.

Where: Cafe Urbano, IFSC, Dublin – Tuesday, 4th November, 7:30am-ish

We do evening events regularly but we want to offer more. We want to run a smaller event at the other end of the day for Digital people who can’t make it in the evenings.

The theme of the event is open for now but there will be a Q&A about the progress of the network project and the Digital Media Forum and I’d love your suggestions ideas and inputs for future events and initiatives.

We will be running another breakfast in Dublin for Enterprise week on Friday 21st on the theme of “Funding in a tightening economy” more details to follow on that one.

The format will initially be relatively free flowing with some networking and informal discussions. That’s not fixed though so we’re open to the idea of this becoming seminar based or otherwise. We’d love your input into what type of event this eventually becomes. So come along and add your views.

Coffee and pastries will be provided and some good networking to boot. See you there…

Please leave a comment below if you’re coming. (Gives us an idea of numbers)

Thanks to:

We’re delighted to partner with MoMoDublin to bring you another of our joint events. Digital Island Meetup combined with Mobile Monday Dublin on a Thursday night of great mobile, web and Digital Media in general.

From Digital Media Forum and the Digital Circle and partnering for the first time with Mobile Monday Dublin, and open to anyone who wants to attend. There may even be cash behind the bar on the night! Come along and meet new people, and make new contacts and have some fun too.

Update:

Because we’re having the Launchy Thing with Microsoft at the start of the night we’re going to have a discussion panel where I’ll be joined by Brian Caulfield, Cliff Reeves - Microsoft Head of Global Emerging Business, Pat Phelan – CEO Cubic Telecom and some Startup CEOs to talk about technology and innovation in Ireland, this is one not to be missed.

We’ll still have the Mobile speakers too. Some of them will be speaking from around 7:30pm and may be Demoing during OpenDemo running from about 8pm along with other startups. With networking till late…

When & Where:
Thursday 6th November from 6:30PM • Updated: The Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge • Dublin
Dress code, for people who care about such things, is whatever you like.

OpenDemo is now a fixture at DIM for those who want feedback on cool stuff they’re doing right now, only 8 spaces but if a lot of people are interested we’ll expand it. Go register to demo now slots are allocated on a first come first served basis.

Sponsors:
Sponsors get to support a great event but also will get promotion with links and logos via posts on Digital Media Island and via announcements at the event itself although we’re flexible and willing to work with people to run the best events possible.

We’re always looking for new partners and sponsors so please drop me a line at anton [at] digitalmediaforum [dot] net for details.

Who’s coming?

Name	Company	Talk to me about…
Anton Mannering	Digital Media Forum.	Digital Media Forum, Events, Udoogoo, Benchd. Sport, Networking and social network theory and the future of search and social networks. Oh and of course what you’re doing and what you need…
Jimmy Costello		Content, innovation, mentoring and the outlook for Drogheda United with Anton as a center back…
Neil Leyden	Digital Media Forum	Digital Media Forum or my own company Calico Media – a digital media consultancy for content creators. Check out my site: www.calico.ie
Eddie Callaghan	Jinny	Mobile marketing and advertising
Cian Ginty
Keith Bohanna	dbTwang	raising money, pre-startups, a non-tech in a tech world
Paschal Nee	Mobile Travel Technologies	Mobile travel technologies
Jessica Mannering		Holistic Nutrition, natural health, Udoogoo, and what you’re up to…
Peter Crowley		sharing with me a good idea that I can get involved with
Pieter Oonk	Locle	The price of butter
Frederic Herrera	Institute of Art Design & Technology Dun Laoghaire	Collaborations with media and design college in relation to planned business development/training and mentoring. – R&D collaborations with media and design college.
Neil McCall	Digicc	Flash / actionscripting. CSS / XHTML, php/mysql, Adobe products.
Timothy Hawkins	RevaHealth	Clouds
Cristina Suarez	Digital CC	CSS, HTML, standards, usability, accessability, Javascript, Ajax, Design, programming, social, media, free booze…
Naomi Kelly		The recession. And… Front-end dev, twitter.
Marie Carroll	cvizz.com	eh, anything, my first time at this event so i’ll talk to anyone…about anything
Stan Kuznetsov	MiTAG	Mobile technologies. Contacts with MNOs
Adrian Cafferky	MiTAG	Mobile technologies. Contacts with MNOs
Mark Cahill	Consult Mark	Business strategy, IT strategy, online Social networks and marketing.Software, Web 2.0
Matt Johnston	Infurious	Digital Comics / Multimedia delivery on the iPhone, iPod touch, Android. The Digital Content Sector in Northern Ireland. Co-Working.
Irene Kavanagh	Digital Media Forum	Digital Literacy - Learning
J.D. Fitz.Gerald		bears
Pat Phelan	MAXRoam	Mobile tech, emerging mobile tech and telecoms
Liam Lowe	PayByMobile	mobile & payments
Fergal Breen		Mobile & Technology
Conor Lynch	connector.ie	making connections online & offline
Liam Connoly	Small World	Mobile Advertising
Oran Kelly	PayByMobile	Paybymobile, Java, Spring.
Niall Smart	Cloudsync.fm	Ruby, clouds, music, 42, and of course, Ireland’s newest tech startup: CloudSync.fm
Russel Cooper	Changing Worlds	The mobile internet. Or anything else.
David Kelly	Digital Signs	Digital Signage Content and installations.
Ronan Higgins	Locle	your solution for mobile app provisioning over-the-air
David Doherty	3G Doctor	Mobile Health and Lifestyle technologies
Robin Blandford	ByteSurgery	Social Innovation
Karl Deeter	irish mortgage brokers	finance/blogging/ideas
Michael Walsh	GlobalDMX	Digital Media Exchange – trading legal content online
David Hayes	Edenbee	collaboration, carbon calculation, social networking, Ruby, development
Eamon Leonard	echolibre	Building web apps & coworking
Barry Alistair	IrishDev	At IrishDev.com we publish Tech news – Your News
David Coallier	echolibre	Technology, Voip, APIs, Architecture, Music (Traditional),Travelling… Something interesting really.
Ben Sykes	Module Minis	Creating rich user (human) experiences using flash, and javascript based web applications.
Paul Philllip		how the recession will make me richer
Daniel Becker	GlowDay	What ever you like… Ideas/Challenges/Web2.0/Widgets/Technology
Niall Harbison	iFoods	What the food is like!
Ronan Skehill	Cauwill Technologies	Smartphones, PinPoints, GPS and everything related!
Joseph Johnson		IMS, fixed and mobile telecommunications
Campbell Scott	IGOpeople	social media, marketing, mobile, food and beer
johnny Beirne	Opportune Media Ltd.	Selling music via text message, Internet start-up International, Expansion Networking
Ian Rice	Cauwill Technologies	location based services
Iarlaith Kelly	Webstrong Ltd	Building web applications, running your own business, blogging and how to avoid the big ‘R’.
Ger Hartnett	coClarity Ltd	coordination technology, collaboration, startups, funding, ruby rails, adding to coclarity team
Darragh Doyle	Blogger	Charities, using Social media to promote what you do, how posh the Four Seasons is and how out of place I look.
Niamh Smith		Start-ups - advice, necessities and interests.
Enda Madden	Outcomeinformed.com	health 2.0
Brendan Madden	Outcomeinformed.com	Health 2.0, applications, facilitating patient feedback on progress in treatment
James O’Sullivan	Gymlockr	Online Marketing, social media, sport..
Ronan Cremin	dotMobi	mobile internet, anything
Marie Boran	Silicon Republic	anything. I’m listening. Although it helps if you’re also on Twitter!
James O’Leary	Gymlockr	Getting your site SEO friendly quickly or die trying compdadre!
Christian Le Jalle	Ericsson	mobile technologies
Ciaran Bradley	Sentry Wireless	mobile, SIMs. Any cool stuff you are doing in mobile.
Diego Solorzano	Locle	The amazing Locle architecture

RSVP:
This event is absolutely free as always so please register below so you can let us know you are coming and we can ensure we know who you are. Thanks, and we’ll see you there..

Not so many companies demoing new stuff this month. But we do have Sophia Search to check out.

Belfast based Sophia Search is, according to David Patterson who’ll be taking us through it on the night, an enterprise search and discovery tool that understands the different contexts that exist for queries and helps users understand the nature of information found. I’m looking forward to hearing more tomorrow night.

Have your own piece of Technology to Demo?

Be it a website, web app, an advertising concept or even a piece of hardware (We’ve had all of these before) then come along and get some feedback.

Just go register to Demo today and we’ll add you to this post and see you there tomorrow night.

For anyone travelling up to the meetup on Wednesday who may not be familiar with Belfast. The Ten Square hotel is VERY easy to find. It’s on the corner of Donegall Square Couth and Linenhall Street. Which means that is directly behind Belfast City hall. Easy-peasy.

If you’re coming from Dublin or are on that route and you don’t want to drive there are trains and buses. A 16:50 train from Connolly will get you to Belfast for about 7pm and it’s a short hop from the train station to Donegall Square. The next train is at 7pm and get’s in around 9:30pm.

If you want to go the bus route there are buses on the hour from busaras. The 5pm bus get’s you in around 7:30pm.

The last train back is at 20:10 so won’t suit if you’re attending but buses run until 2am. The 9pm bus would get you back to Dublin around 11:30pm.

More information on the public transport into Belfast is available on the translink website or from the individual services websites.

Hope that helps folks and hope to see you there.

So we’re heading to beautiful Belfast for a meetup at the end of September. The guys in Belfast are great and this should be a bit of a buzz. It’s on in the VERY cool Ten Square Hotel in the heart of the city. Come along…

What:
Digital Island Meetups are completely free thanks to the Digital Media Forum and the Digital Circle and the generosity of our sponsors, and open to anyone who wants to attend. There may even be cash behind the bar on the night! Come along and meet new people, and make new contacts and have some fun too.

When & Where:
Wednesday 24th September from 7:30PM • Ten Square Hotel • Belfast
Dress code, for people who care about such things, is whatever you like.

The OpenDemo will return for those who want feedback on cool stuff they’re doing right now only 8 spaces but if a lot of people are interested we might expand it. Go register to demo now slots are allocated on a first come first served basis.

Sponsors:
Sponsors get to support a great event but also will get promotion with links and logos via posts on Digital Media Island and via announcements at the event itself although we’re flexible and willing to work with people to run the best events possible.

We’re looking for sponsors right now so please drop me a line at anton [at] digitalmediaforum [dot] net for details.

Who’s coming?

RSVP:
This event is absolutely free as always so please register below so you can let us know you are coming and we can ensure we know who you are.  Thanks, and we’ll see you there

The Digital Media Forum would like to invite you to attend an event on September 16th, at 7:00 pm in the Odessa Club, 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2 to meet Trina Vargo, president of the US-Ireland Alliance to discuss the Alliance’s annual event in Hollywood called Oscar Wilde:  Honoring the Irish in Film. 

Trina would like to learn if people in the Digital Media industry are interested in (1) supporting and attending this event and (2) expanding the event beyond it’s current scope.

This is an ideal opportunity for Digital Media companies who wish to network within the entertainment industry in the US.

If you think you would have an interest in attending the Information Meeting in the Odessa Club, please RSVP to info@digitalmediaforum.net.

More info on the Oscar Wilde event:

Three years ago the Alliance started this an annual event in Los Angeles (the Thursday before the Academy Awards).  In the first year, they honored Jim Sheridan, Neil Jordan, and David Holmes.  Last year: Van Morrison, Terry George and Bill Monahan (who won the Oscar three nights later for The Departed). In February, we honored James L. Brooks, Fiona Shaw and Colm Meaney. Duke Special and Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova performed (Glen and Marketa also won a few nights later).
The easiest way to get a sense of the event is to look at these couple of minutes of video highlights at:
http://us-irelandalliance.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=814
Stories and photos from the events are at these links:
http://www.us-irelandalliance.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=4
http://www.us-irelandalliance.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=622
http://www.us-irelandalliance.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=514

The purpose of the event has been to:

1. honor the Irish in film;

2. create a networking event for people in the film industries in Ireland and the US;

3. be the Irish party on the Thursday before the Academy Awards.

Sponsors are provided with branding opportunities and tickets to an exclusive event that is by invitation only.

Last year, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter competed to be the media partner for this event.  Trina recently returned from Los Angeles and Variety said it would like to be the media sponsor again.
There are 350-400 guests — invitation only — film execs, financiers, writers, directors, producers, actors, press, corporate executives sponsors and their guests.   Guests have included years included Al Pacino; Jodie Foster; Anjelica Huston; Dick Cook, Chairman of the Walt Disney Studios; Mark Burnett & Roma Downey; Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend; JJ Abrams, Hans Zimmer, Orlando Bloom; Terrence Howard; Daryl Hannah; Colm Meaney; Rachel Griffiths; multi-Grammy Award winning music producer David Foster; Jeffrey Caine, nominated for an Academy Award® for screenwriting The Constant Gardener, Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh; Samantha Mumba; Damien Rice; and David Friendly, Oscar-nominated producer of Little Miss Sunshine.

Casual event.  No boring, black-tie, sit-down dinner where guests are trapped between two people all night.  Celebs walk the ‘green’ carpet while other guests arrive for a reception. Everyone goes to one room for the presentation part of the program, which is kept to about ∏ hour.  Then everyone mingles through a couple of rooms and a courtyard.  There is a performance period and food and drinks are served throughout the evening. 

There is one thing that gets me buzzing before events is seeing new products and services for the first time. So we’re very lucky as we’re in Cork tonight and three, YES THREE new services will, as I understand it, be demoed for the first time at the event.

SnapScribe - SnapScribe turns your photos into beautiful books. It is an online service which lets you turn your photo collection into a beautiful photobook. The software is currently at ‘Alpha’ stage

Decisions for Heroes - Helping emergency services save more lives by making better decisions. The service is aimed at helping rescue services make better logistical decisions.

TweetTweet - Tweet Tweet is a WordPress plugin that archives the Twitter conversation, and also sends notification texts when replies or direct messages are received.

I’ll be talking to the people behind them tonight and I’ll be bringing you some more info and reviews and maybe even an interview or two.