Web 2 Ireland

Trinity Entrepreneurial Society (TES) is running a “Speed Networking” event  tomorrow in the Atrium in TCD at 2.45pm.

This is the penultimate leg of the global speed networking tour. The event is aimed at entrepreneurs, academics, students and all members of the business community. The speed networking tour is designed to unleash energy, share ideas and make connections fast.

The global speed networking tour has visited over 6 continents in the past 3 weeks including places such as Hong Kong, Mexico City, Toronto, Johannesburg, Botswana, Singapore, Santiago, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney and San Francisco. You can find out more on the site.

The event will be hosted by Oli Barrett an expert speed networker who has travelled around the world in the past few weeks.

Sounds like a lot of fun and handy for practicing the elevator pitch.

Trinity College , Dublin are holding a free Open Demo event of ICT stuff developed by researchers – that is available for commercial use [startup guys take note...]

This is an “unconference ” in that the format is very informal with no powerpoint!

It will be held on the evening of November 6th 2008 in the Science Gallery. For more information checkTrinity OpenDemo

Examples of the types of technologies to be shown include:

* web 2.0 animation tool
* automatic image annotation through cross modal learning
* software defined radio toolkit for next generation cognitive radio networks
* hand wash monitoring device for hospitals and food industry
* p2p video streaming on t’interweb
* video based adaptive e-learning
* token based payments system for VOIP on WiFi
* building a wholesale hosting exchange
* spam prevention through email microcharging
* game authoring tool for mental health therapies
* sentiment index for financial markets
* p2p web search
* immersive experiential selling tool

and lots more…..