If you are in business or thinking of starting up a business and want to know more about how to innovate, commercialise and protect your Intellectual Property, then this seminar is for you.

2.00 pm Geraldine Beirne, LEO Offaly - Welcome and introduction 
2.15 pm Mark Atterbury, Enterprise Ireland – Supporting Innovation in Offaly
2.30 pm Patents Office - Intellectual property and how to protect it
3.00 pm Natalia Shiel, Design Hub – Startup development - product design, sourcing and production

3.15 pm Tea/Coffee Break

3.30 pm Hugh Henry, Director of Innovation & R&D, Bord na Mona  - Innovation - Creating a Competitive Edge
3.50 pm Q&A
4.15 pm Chance to visit stands

- Patents Office
- Local Enterprise Office
- Enterprise Ireland
- Design Hub

Offaly Innovators

- Bord na Mona
- Caballis Equine
- Applied Concepts
- Future Ticketing
- Euro Stallions