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NISP Events

 
  • FRAMEWORKS: Strategic Alliances
    Date - 11 December 2008
    Licenses, collaborations and other alliances are often key to venture-backed life science and technology start-ups. By means of strategic alliance or joint venture, companies can gain access to new technologies and/or markets and realise real benefits to Northern Irish businesses, but what is involved?
  • Reducing Enterprise IT Risks & Costs: What you need to know
    Date - 29 October 2008
    This workshop addresses the thorny subject of better integration of Business and IT to reduce the risks & costs of major programmes and projects for change that are largely IT dependent. The workshop is primarily targeted at senior and middle management having responsibility for either Business (non-IT) or IT within medium-size to large-scale organisations operating on the island of Ireland.
  • “The Royal Society Enterprise Fund” INVITATION ONLY
    Date - 10 September 2008
    THIS EVENT IS INVITATION ONLY The presentation will outline the Royal Society thinking behind the creation of the fund, the method of approach to potential donors and the proposed operation of the fund, which is now starting to review its first investment opportunities.
  • EVENING SERIES: The Meridio Story
    Date - 18 June 2008
    A start-up in 2001 with a successful high multiple trade sale exit in 2007 The real story on how a local technology success story started-up, built the team, won business and raised capital
  • ‘THE VENTURE CAPITAL PROCESS’
    Date - 16 April 2008
    THIS EVENT IS FULL ‘THE VENTURE CAPITAL PROCESS’ will give an insight into the process of gaining VC Funding. The workshop will cover: ‘The Art of the Termsheet’ ‘Venture funds and Venture Finances' ‘The views of an entrepreneur that has gone through the VC process.
  • Protection: Intellectual Property tactics for start-ups
    Date - 13 March 2008
    Today’s competitive environment has made it increasingly difficult and important to stay ahead of the competition by adapting a coherent approach to Intellectual Property and the exploitation of the advantages IP can provide them with. In order to exploit this in the companies favour, it is essential the basis of IP is known and identified. The workshop will help to demystify any problems concerned with IP and give a broad understanding of the topic.
  • Opinion Dinner on NISP CONNECT
    Date - 15 November 2007
    Mary Walshok, founder of the CONNECT model will attend the dinner to hear of the plans to build and evolve the CONNECT model for Northern Ireland.
  • Entrepreneurs Lunch
    Date - 19 October 2007
    Greg Horowitt, Executive Director of Global CONNECT based out of the University of California San Diego will be joining us for lunch in the Northern Ireland Science Park. Greg is leading the development of a portfolio of expertise linking regional networks and enterprises to global markets and customer channels. Effectively bridging the networks encompassing university and private research, global trade organizations, capital providers, entrepreneurs, and business services, Global CONNECT helps
  • £25k Awards Gala Dinner
    Date - 18 October 2007
    The £25k Awards Gala dinner is the awards ceremony to announce the winners of the student entrepreneurship competition held with University of Ulster and Queens University Belfast. The dinner will showcase the top ten teams and announce the winners of the top prize of £10,000.
  • CEO Lunch with Bank of England
    Date - 10 October 2007
    Kate Barker, member of the Monetary Policy Committee within the Bank of England will be presenting as part of the Northern Ireland Science Park’s CEO lunch series. Kate will be speaking on the current views held by the Bank of England on monetary policy and will then open up the floor for questions and discussion.
  • BioConnect Ireland - 'The Space Race'
    Date - 03 October 2007
    This event will examine innovative options for creating appropriate, affordable, environments for science-based companies to flourish.