National Women's Enterprise Day - 19/10/2023

Empowering Business Together 

Venue:      Newbay House Hotel, Newbay, Wexford Y35NN52
Date:         Thursday, 19 October 2023
Time:         8.30 am – 2.00 pm
Guests:     Strictly limited to 120 guests

Includes light breakfast on arrival and 2 course “Love Local” Lunch.

Join us to celebrate National Women’s Enterprise Day in the company of a dynamic, innovative and inspirational panel of speakers. Each of our speakers are leaders in their fields and are prominent figures in once-traditional male disciplines.

Hear how resilience, adaptability and strong leadership has empowered these women to build careers in sectors as diverse as scientific healthcare, aquaculture, dairy processing, digital marketing, artificial intelligence and local government provision.

Our Keynote Speaker for NWED Wexford 2023, Wexford native Theresa Grant OBE, will share her story of delivering high-value outcomes for communities and local government across the UK. Generating a positive organisational culture while restoring public finances from severe bankruptcy were just two key actions in the role that led her to be recognised with an OBE for her work in 2021. Theresa’s belief in the influence and role of leadership in any organisation is powerful and compelling.

Our MC and Panel Facilitator for the day Maryrose Lyons is a seasoned digital marketing expert and the founder of Brightspark Consulting. Well known for her uncanny ability to predict future digital trends, Maryrose has been at the forefront of the digital marketing revolution and has been helping Irish businesses to thrive online for over two decades.  She is now to the forefront of Generative AI, helping businesses learn, harness and adapt the power of ChatGPT, Mid Journey and other tools for their businesses.

Kate Dempsey is from an Irish fishing family and first applied for an aquaculture licence when she was 22. Having returned home to Arklow post college she realised the marine activity in her home harbour had much reduced and hoped that a new business would help to regenerate the area. Getting that first licence to allow her new venture to operate took over ten years. In that time Kate put her professional skills in licencing and law together with her fishing background to good use by establishing Aqualicense - a marine and offshore windfarm consultancy firm who offer client services in large scale offshore aquaculture, offshore renewable energy and innovation.  In 2022 Aqualicense Ltd. won the Overall Winner Award at the LEO National Enterprise Awards.

Deborah Brock is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nua Fertility - a pioneering Irish fertility health company based in Delgany County Wicklow. Realising that gut microbiome and nutrition had a powerful effect on fertility health, Deborah and her team have developed innovative, scientifically sound, fertility-supporting supplements with a microbiome focus for both men and women.

Nua Fertility launched its first product NuaBiome for Women, a first-of-its-kind natural pre-natal fertility supplement in August 2020 online. This is now stocked and selling across pharmacies, health food stores, and fertility clinics in Ireland and the UK, with a number of other innovative products in the development pipeline.

Local Wexford NWED Ambassador Pauline Dunne of Killowen Farm is a leading actor in the dairy manufacturing sector and has experience in growing a family dairy farm into a thriving award-winning international business with significant exports and a forceful growth strategy. Pauline is well-known as a food ambassador for county Wexford and was recently elected as President of The Wexford Food Family.