Networking Event & Business Seminar

Local Enterprise Office Westmeath invites you to attend the Launch of Enterprise Week 2016 and County Enterprise Awards Ceremony 2016

Key note speaker Norah Casey will address the delegates on her experiences around the motivation to grow your business, ways of promoting your business and keeping your business relevant to the customer.

Date:               Monday, 7^th March 2016

Time:              Registration from 11.45am

Location:       Mullingar Park Hotel, Mullingar

Cost:              This is a free event but booking is essential

 Booking:       Places are very limited for this event and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis – book online at www.localenterprise.ie/westmeath                                   

Event Details

Agenda:

11:45am          Registration

12:00pm          Opening address, Noel O Farrell, MC

12:05pm          Welcome & Launch of Enterprise Week 2016 by Pat Gallagher, CE, Westmeath County Council

12:15pm          Keynote Address – Ms. Norah Casey

1:00pm            Address by Cathaoirleach of Westmeath County Council, Cllr Paul Daly

1:05pm            Awards Ceremony – Profile and presentation to 2016 Finalists

1:20pm            Announcement of the Winner of the Westmeath County Enterprise Awards 2016

1:30pm            Event close and light lunch will be served with informal networking opportunities

Profile of Key note speaker: - Norah Casey

Broadcaster and publishing entrepreneur Norah Casey currently presents her own show, MindFeed, on Newstalk and is filming a new series of The Takeover with RTE.

She is owner and Chairwoman of Harmonia, Ireland's largest magazine publishing company, printing over four million magazines annually for the Irish, British and US market.

She was anchor of the successful daily radio Breakfast Show on Newstalk until recently and co-hosted The Today Show on RTE 1 every Friday during the 2012/2013 season. She is a former Dragon on Dragons’ Den, the successful business entrepreneur show on RTE 1 and she presented a recent six-part series called The Takeover on RTE2 - transforming business through staff mentorship. She is currently writing a book with Penguin Ireland.

Having run many successful publishing companies in London, Norah bought her own business, Harmonia, in 2004 with a strong portfolio of brands and events in Ireland, the USA and more recently in China.  In Ireland she publishes a range of market leading magazines including strong women's brands, Irish Tatler, Woman's Way, U Magazine and specialist titles such as FOOD&WINE, Woman’s Way CookBook, Irish Tatler Man, Eat Out, Auto Ireland and Ireland of the Welcomes.

Her investment portfolio is diverse and includes online and traditional media businesses.

A journalist and former nurse, Norah has been Ireland’s Publisher of the Year no fewer than four times. She has served on numerous boards and is currently a member of the Press Council of Ireland, the London-based Women's Irish Network and The International Women's Forum. She is a former Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year.

FULL DETAILS OF ENTERPRISE WEEK CAN BE FOUND ON WWW.LOCALENTERPRISE.IE/WESTMEATH