Schedule of Events

1.45pm

Registration

Panel Discussion

2.15pm - 3.45pm

'Where can I get Funding'

Find out what your funding options are. Listen to people who can help with funding and support schemes for start-ups and existing businesses.

Panellists Include:

• Tom O’Reilly, Sales, Linked Finance
• Ken Dobson, Credit Operations Manager, Microfinance Ireland
• Dave Brennan, Business Taxes Policy & Legislation, Revenue
• Peter Geoghegan,  Department of Social Protection
• Eibhlin Curley, Head of Enterprise, Local Enterprise Office
• Deirdre O’Neill, Enterprise Ireland
• Michael Culligan, HALO Business Angel Network
• Bryan Maybury, Bibio Consultants Ltd

Key note address

4.00pm - 5.15pm

'Managing Change, Resilience and Being at your Best'

Be inspired – don’t miss this opportunity to hear one of Ireland’s most respected, trusted and well-liked commentators on personal development and organisation, cultural and societal change. Gain an insight in how to be at your best in our changing and challenging world. Full of practical solutions based on scientific knowledge and experience this is a ‘must hear’ event.

Presented by Maureen Gaffney

Maureen Gaffney is a clinical psychologist by profession, has worked for many years in Trinity College Dublin as Director of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology and a former Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Society at University College Dublin.

Over the past ten years she has divided her time between her own consultancy business and a number of state and other boards. She works with companies on developing programmes of leadership and emotional intelligence; managing diversity, change and transitions; and offers a programme of Executive Coaching. She has worked with companies in Ireland, the UK, Israel, and the US.

Drawing on her vast experience of working with people and organisations, and on a fascinating body of recent research, She has also written ‘Flourishing’ published by Penguin, a gripping, stimulating and inspiring manifesto on how to flourish and why we need to.

5.30pm - 6.30pm

Followed by Networking & Refreshments

Trailblazers! Meet our Enterprise Pioneers

National Enterprise Awards : Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Final

Our 6x County Finalist Businesses compete for a place at the National Finals of the LEO Enterprise Awards taking place this May!

The awards showcase and celebrate the achievements of small business owners from
across the country.