MIT Mullingar is pleased to announce that Joan Mulvihill, CEO of the Irish Internet Association, will be giving a talk entitled “Tilting the Viewfinder” on Tuesday 25th August in the Annebrook House Hotel at 7pm.
Joan’s talk will focus on Irelands search for our very own technology giant and how we should expand the opportunity to all sectors – food, health, education and energy.
The talk is free of charge and open to all, just email us to let us know you are coming.
Aviva are looking for any disruptive tech idea has an application to the insurance industry. The event is free and there is a 5,000 euro prize to be won for best idea. The primary purpose of the weekend will be for idea owners to try and validate their business model with bonus points if they get some tech built also. A couple of us from Cartell be there in a general mentoring/data supply capacity. Even if you don’t have an idea, why not come along, maybe you can join a newly formed team and get some serious startup experience!
Register and more info:
http://www.ndrc.ie/aviva/
Westmeath County Council under the CEDRA Rural Innovation and Development fund has established six community e-Working centres across the county of Westmeath. The centres will be located in Mullingar, Castlepollard, Rochfortbridge, Delvin, Killucan, and Kinnegad. The towns were chosen to act as strategic hubs within the REDZ framework plan.
For bookings please contact Bernie Ginnell [email protected]
This months meetup will be quite informal as a result and will probably be held in the bar over a coffee/pint.
Topics for discussion:
For our next MIT meetup we have been tasked by the Mullingar Chamber of Commerce to see if the MIT group could make recommendations to streamline the processing of their Shopping Vouchers http://mullingarchamber.ie/buy-vouchers/
Some members of the Chamber will be present on the night to outline the current process as well as to provide guidance on proposed strawman solutions.
Not wanting to sound like a job-spec but if you have experience in Architecture, System Design, Coding, Banking, Database, Frontend, Internet, Security, App Development, Cloud, Testing, Hosting, Payments,UX…. etc we want to hear what you have to say!
This session is open to MIT members that would like to be part of this
unique opportunity to shape the future of business in Mullingar.
Let us know if you are able to make it!
We are mid holiday season and with so many people away it’s probably not a good idea to organise a formal speaker/presentation.
Happy to meet up for a coffee/pint if anyone is interested? Just ping the LinkedIn group list to let everyone know….
Next Mullingar meetup is on Tuesday 30th June at a new time of 7pm, Old Reading Room, Annebrook House hotel, Mullingar.
MIT are delighted to announce that Gerard Keena head of CoderDojo Mullingar will give an introductory class in programming with the Scratch Programming Language.
The class is geared towards adults that would like to see what ‘programming is all about’ as well as IT professionals that would like to try something new and interesting.
This class is open to the public and free of charge. All are welcome, especially parents considering sending their children to CoderDojo in future.
Bring a laptop if you would like to give it a try, this is optional, it’s OK if you just want to watch and learn. Remember, it’s not that difficult, if an eight year old can do it so can you!
More information on Scratch can be found at https://scratch.mit.edu/, and it can be installed beforehand from https://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/.
The download version runs on most versions of Windows, Mac OS X, Mac OS 10.5 & Older and Linux, but not Tablets. Alternatively we can help you install it on your laptop on the night and take you through it step by step.
MIT Mullingar next meetup is on Tuesday May 26th 18:30 Old Reading room in the Annebrook House hotel.
We have the pleasure of a guest speaker on the night, Dean Gammell CEO DG Ventures Limited, Winner of Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur 2014.
Dean’s LinkedIn profile – https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dean-gammell/15/8b0/407
Dean, an MIT member, will be giving a talk on the ups and downs of starting and growing a successful international online business from the midlands.
We are opening this session to the public, and will organise a sponsor for some Tea/Coffee and Biscuits.
Please lets us know if you are interested in attending!
Lots to catch up on, especially with Eddies cool MIT project planner (expect a demo ha ha!) and recent updates.
As usual shout:
(Happy to alter/scrap food option, there was a lot left over last time! – maybe we were too busy yapping!)
MIT next meetup Tuesday 31st March 18:30-20:00, Old Reading room, Annebrook house hotel.
Finger food (Cocktail Sausages/Pizza slices/Goujons etc.) optional 7 Euro per head.
To help us organise could you please let us know
Looking forward to catching up with everyone!