Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Join us for the our second day of Enterprise Week 2021!
Begin the day with a national event 'Building the New' - a dynamic morning session focusing on innovation and opportunity. Then join us for an afternoon networking session where we will come together to help solve some of the challenges your businesses are facing.
Finish the day strong with 'The Power of the Crowd'.
If you're sharing your experience online, please use the hashtag #MakingItHappen
Time | Venue | Event Details | Speaker | Fee |
10.00am - 11.30am | Online via Zoom | The Power of the Crowd | Chris Burge
Spark Crowdfunding | Free |
 | Trying to get your head around crowdfunding and how it could benefit your business? This is the workshop for you if you're a start-up or early-stage company. Crowdfunding is a method of raising capital through a group of individuals and/or businesses. Join this interactive webinar as Chris gives you an insider's guide to successful equity crowdfunding. Topics covered; - How does equity crowdfunding work?
- What companies is it suitable for?
- How to prepare a successful equity crowdfunding campaign
- Running your crowdfunding campaign and the pitfalls to avoid
Chris Burge is CEO of Spark CrowdFunding, an equity investment platform based in Dublin. The platform facilitates investment into SMEs and start-ups by a wide range of private investors, known as 'the crowd'. Chris has been an active investor in start-up businesses over the years and also provides mentor advice to a number of early-stage companies. He has started a number of successful businesses of his own over the years, notably in the energy sector. With over 25 years commercial experience, Chris also has a Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering and a Master’s degree in Energy Management. |
Time | Venue | Event Details | Speaker | Fee |
10am - 1pm | Online via Zoom | Building The New | Damien Young National Design Innovation Hub | Free |
 | A dynamic morning session focusing on innovation and opportunity. This event features a selection of new businesses, including those which began as a result of Covid-19 and those which have had to innovate. Speakers include Damian Young of the National Design Innovation Hub, Gourmet Tart Company and Dough Bros. |
Time | Venue | Event Details | Speaker | Fee |
1.00pm - 2.30pm | Online via Zoom | Tackling Your Biggest Challenge (Network Event) | Dearbhalla Baviera
Clearbird Coaching & Consulting | Free |
 | It wouldn't be Enterprise Week without a Networking Event! This session is an opportunity to connect with other business owners and discuss some of the common challenges that trip us up time and again. No matter what the business, we find in our networks that there is a huge commonality to those challenges. In these times, when we miss face to face networking, this session allows participants to connect, share and learn together in an authentic way. Facilitated by Dearbhalla Baviera, we'll aim to uncover the common challenges currently facing Irish businesses and tap in to the group wisdom to find sustainable solutions. This will be a highly interactive event and we encourage all businesses from all sectors and industries to join us. - All stages and business types welcome
- Exchange ideas and share experiences with other entrepreneurs
- Avail of opportunities to build contacts and win business
- Increase your confidence
- No fee
BOOK NOW Renowned for her truly valued and transformational work, Dearbhalla Baviera is a Coach, Speaker, Consultant, Facilitator and Trainer with 25+ years of management consultancy and coaching experience. Bringing together her professional experience as a management consultant (strategic planning, change management, project management, communications, training) with powerful coaching skills to diversity and leadership coaching, Dearbhalla brings her full self to both organisations and individual clients to bring them through a change or indeed transformational experience. Clients value Dearbhalla’s energetic, empathetic and engaging approach combined with a driven, professional and practical attitude that she brings to a coaching relationship. As a motivational speaker and trainer, Dearbhalla has an engaging and personal style which touches a cord with the audience. She tells it from the heart so that it makes sense to the head. |
Time | Venue | Event Details | Speaker | Fee |
2pm - 4pm | Online via Zoom | Growing Lean: One Small Step or One Giant Leap, Getting Started with Lean | Stuart Nelson Jigsaw Better Business | Free |
 | The biggest challenge which many business owners face, is how to get started with LEAN. The event will set out the many supports available as well as an introduction to Lean Thinking, which will cover the basics and how it is applied. It will also feature a selection of business people who will share their experience of introducing LEAN into their businesses. |
Southside Partnership Events
Time | Venue | Event Details | Speaker | Fee |
10.00am - 1pm | Online via Zoom | Introduction to Self-Employment | Peter Cronin Ardú | Free Book NowEmail Esther
esther.mcgearty@sspship.ie or call 087 237 7361 |
 | Are you unemployed and living in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown? Would you like to know more about becoming self-employed? Topics covered will include: - Moving from Social Welfare to self-employment;
- Business structures;
- Introduction to the Business Plan;
- Personal management strategies for business owners
BOOK NOWEmail Esther
esther.mcgearty@sspship.ie or call 087 237 7361 Peter Cronin is Managing Director and Lead Trainer of Ardú. Peter has over 25 years of business & personal development training experience. Most of that with start-ups, particularly the BTWEA client. Peter’s style is facilitative and utilizes collaborative adult learning styles rather than old style chalk and talk. He is heavily involved in Mentoring and Business Coaching for start-ups and micro enterprises. He is a regular contributor to the Up Starts programme on Dublin City FM. He has written and delivered training in Business, finance, communication, facilitation, leadership, management & tendering among many topics and has a track record of writing successful proposals for C/E schemes and working with Partnerships nationwide. |
