Date: Friday, 17^th April
Time: 12.30pm – 3.00pm
Venue: Kingsley Hotel Cork
Cost: €60 Cork Chamber / Network Cork members
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Cork Chamber in association with Network Cork is hosting an Executive Lunch on Friday 17th April in The Kingsley Hotel, focusing on Women in Leadership and featuring Dee Forbes, President & Managing Director of Discovery Networks Northern Europe as the guest speaker.

Headquartered in London, Dee manages all commercial and channel activities for Discovery Networks Northern Europe’s business covering 27 TV brands in 18 markets and territories. Discovery's footprint reaches over 276 million cumulative TV households across Northern Europe each month including the UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands.

Places for this event are extremely limited, so please BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment.

Date: Wednesday, 22nd April
Time: 08:30 - 12:30
Venue: Cork Chamber, Fitzgerald House, Summerhill North, Cork
Cost: Free, however registration is essential 
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The Enterprise Europe Network is hosting an informative workshop on the ISO 50001 Energy Management System in association with Energia.  Using energy efficiently helps organisations to save money as well as helping to conserve resources and tackle climate change. The European Commission is encouraging SMEs to become more energy-aware and thereby contribute to the overall reduction of energy consumption, as well as promoting the development and uptake of innovative new technologies in the energy sector. 

One way of making your business more energy aware is by implementing an ISO 50001 Energy Management System. 

For more information contact  Katherine.  To book click here.

Are you a start-up or an already established SME?

The Cork Chamber Business Owners Hub is where a small group of business owners meet regularly, in a safe and confidential environment to share ideas, issues and experiences, helping each other and themselves with the daily challenges facing businesses today. The hubs are fully facilitated by Cork Chamber and also offer members the opportunity to focus on some key areas for their business including finance, legal, sales and marketing topics.  To fully benefit, participants are asked to commit to all four dates in the series.  The dates for the upcoming series are:

• Tues 21^st April – 4.00pm – 5.30pm
• Tues 28^th April – 4.30pm – 6.00pm
• Tues 5^th May – 4.30pm – 6.00pm
• Tues 12^th May – 4.30pm – 6.00pm

CLICK HERE to apply for the Business Owners Hub

Date: Wednesday 29^th April
Time: 7.30am – 9.00am
Venue: Maryborough Hotel
Cost: €25 members / €35 non members
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Cork Chamber’s April Business Breakfast will feature David Owens, Senior VP Finance and International Operations of SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT performance management software.  With its International Headquarters in Citygate, Mahon.  SolarWinds has received many accolades and awards and recently scooped the coveted “Cork Company of the Year Award”. 

David joined SolarWinds in 2007, having previously worked for Red Hat.  Of the SolarWinds base in Cork, David Owens said “Establishing our EMEA HQ in Cork has enabled us to grow existing markets and enter new ones across the region.  We recognise our Cork office as a center of excellence for the services and levels of support delivered to our customers throughout the region”.

David will give Cork Chamber members some insight into the decision to bring the EMEA headquarters for SolarWinds to Cork, the journey so far, what the future holds and why winning the Cork Company of the Year award has meant so much to the team, both here and worldwide.


In association with Irish Examiner.

In Budget 2015 the Government committed to rolling out an Integrated Export Finance Strategy to support SME’s. In order to ensure that best practice is followed and that this integrated policy is based on clear evidence from the market the Department of Finance and Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation are seeking your input to this process by Friday 17^th April 2015. Please click here to read a letter from Minister for Finance Michael Noonan regarding the survey the Departments are conducting on the Export Finance Strategy. The survey can be accessed here.   

How to manage people

How to build your team

How to drive their performance

Certificate in Supervisory Management Course, starting on 14^th April next:

• Build & engage effective teams
• Determine & delegate workload
• Direct & Drive Performance
• Identify best practices

P.S.! Jazz up your presentations with Prezi Presentation Skills! This half-day course is running on the 8^th April next, don’t miss this opportunity to turn your presentation into something your audience won’t forget!!

Revenue has announced that the new Electronic Manifest System (EMS) will go live on 1^st July 2015. The announcement means that from that date, a customs declaration (SAD) in AEP will not be fully processed, and therefore goods will not be cleared for release until a match is made in Revenue’s systems between the manifest and SAD data.

Revenue highlighted that there is currently a high degree of non-matching customs declarations and Manifest data and if no improvements are made in the coming months, there will be significant non-clearance of goods after July 1^st. Therefore it is vital that exporters and importers prepare for the EMS going live.

A leading German SME specialised in 3D-Animation -Technology and Software Development is looking for partners with expertise in 3D animation and/or User Interface Design in order to submit a proposal within the upcoming Fast Track to Innovation EU funded call.

• Leading Family Law solicitor announced as finalist for prestigious Law Awards - read more here
• New Sales Director Appointed At Horizon Energy Group  - read more here
• Cork Company Asystec named partner of the year by EM - read more here
• National Fundraising Team of the Year Award for the Cork Association for Autism - read more here
• A.S.A. Marketing marks 30 Years in Business at its 2015 Ideas Showcase - read more here
• Bibby appoints three senior executives to support regional SMEs - read more here
• The Bon Secours Hospital Cork hosts a GP Education Evening on Cardiology and introduces new Consultant Cardiologist Dr. Heiko Kindler - read more here
• Over €10,000 raised for Irish Heart Foundation at sell-out Marketing Ball - read more here
• Lifetime Achievement Award for City Life's, Ted Dwyer at Irish Brokers Association's Life Pension & Investment (LPI) Awards - read more here
• Norah Casey hosts inaugural Irish Tatler Working Lunch to a packed crowd in Cork - read more here
• Cork is Brewing up a storm - read more here 
• Network Cork and Cork Chamber celebrate "Women in Leadership" - read more here
• Xanadu Announces Appointment of Michael O'Gorman as chief information officer - read more here

Date: Thursday, 9th April 

Time: 7:30am – 9:30am

Venue: Blackrock Castle Observatory

Book: E: Annette Coburn here 

it@cork in association with IBM is hosting a Big Data breakfast briefing.

Noel Garry, Insurance Analytics Leader IBM EMEA will outline how organisations are transforming their business through the use of Big Data and Analytics. He will talk about how organisations are getting started and some of the findings from the latest research. He will provide a number of real examples from a variety of industries.