Book Your Seats For The Ryanair Customer Transformation Journey

Date: Wednesday 21^st January
Time: 5.30pm – 7.00pm
Venue: Clarion Hotel, Cork City
Cost: €15 Cork Chamber & MII members / €25 non members
To book: HERE

Ryanair is changing the way that it does business. CEO Michael O’Leary recently stated, “It’s not enough to be the cheapest anymore. We need to be the cheapest, the best and the friendliest.”  Cork Chamber and the Marketing Institute of Ireland – Southern Region are proud to bring you “the Sky is the Limit” event on 21^st January, where Ryanair’s Chief Marketing Officer, Kenny Jacobs, will talk us through the transformation of this global giant. 

Kenny will share his thoughts on what has been a dramatic shift in perspective with regard to the role of the customer and the importance of continuous customer intelligence gathering as a key business driver. Ryanair truly believes that the customer must be placed front and centre of the business and is the primary source of Ryanair’s enhanced value proposition to ensure customers continue to actively choose Ryanair. This event is kindly sponsored by Bank of Ireland.

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Date: Tuesday 10^th February
Time: 7.30am – 9.00am
Venue: Oriel House Hotel
Cost: €25 members / €35 non members

Cork Chamber is proud to bring you the first Business Breakfast of 2015, kicking off with a business breakfast featuring Tim Lucey, recently appointed Chief Executive of Cork County.

Tim Lucey has been Chief Executive of Cork County Council since 1^st May 2014 following a three and a half year term as Cork City Manager.  If you are interested in hearing about what plans Cork County Council have for the future, then this is a must attend event for you.

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The Festive Season is behind us and it’s time to embrace all that 2015 has to offer! We’re back to business here at the Cork Chamber Business School with a full schedule of courses for the coming months.

Here are the course that we have running this January!

MS Excel Intermediate – 13^th January

Personal Productivity using MS Outlook – 14^th January

MS Excel Advanced – 20^th January

Effective Presentation Skills – 27^th January

On Friday 9th January from 9.30am to 12pm we would like to invite you to Cork Chamber Offices on Summerhill North. Open to both members and non-members you will have an opportunity to meet with key members of the team to learn the specific ways in which Cork Chamber can help your business.
 
Please forward this information to anyone who would be interested in learning more about Cork Chamber or feel free to pop in for a cup of coffee on the day. Contact us on 021-4509044 to book ahead.

• International Green Week Brokerage Event, 19th-20th January, Berlin, Germany

The Enterprise Europe Network in Berlin will organise a business matchmaking event over two consecutive days during the International Green Week (IGW) Exhibition and will offer companies the opportunity to find new overseas business partners, technological partners and EU project partners across the food, agricultural and horticultural industries.

• Digital Health Assembly Brokerage Event, 10th-12th February, Cardiff, UK

The ‘Digital Health Assembly: Open Innovation’ 2015 Conference is targeted towards digital health professionals from across the world. The themes of the conference are: big data; empowering patients and staff; and innovative business models. The Enterprise Europe Network Wales will run a B2B business matchmaking event during the course of the conference.

• Ecobuild Matchmaking 2015, 04th March 2014, London, UK

Enterprise Europe South East is organisaing a B2B matchmaking event which will take place during Ecobuild, the biggest event in the world for sustainable construction. With pre-arranged one-to-one meetings, exhibitors and visitors can find potential commercial and technology partners from across Europe.

‘See read more’ for more information on all of the above. 

The Beamish and Crawford brewery site has been selected as the preferred site for a new multi-functional events centre for Cork. The planned €50m, 6,000 capacity event centre which will be located on South Main Street is expected to be a major economic driver for the city.

Speaking on the announcement Conor Healy, Cork Chamber CEO said, “We are delighted that Government and Cork City Council had the foresight to help fund the development of a multi-functional events centre in Cork which will have a hugely positive impact on the tourism and hospitality sectors and will serve as a key catalyst in Cork’s economic development in the short-term.”

The award-winning entrepreneurship initiative, Cork innovates which has previously been recognised by the European Commission as a model for driving entrepreneurship, promoted the work of Irish entrepreneurs, particularly, women in business, in New York recently.

Cork County Mayor, Cllr Alan Coleman, the ‘positive economist’ and 2014 inBusiness inCork Showcase Moderator, Susan Hayes, and IDME founder, Dee O’Leary accompanied Siobhan Finn, Executive Director of Cork innovates. The group met with a number of relevant Irish American Organisation leaders, influencers and stakeholders, during the visit.  

Cost:Corporate Packages available for all Chamber Members.
To book: Call Sonia 021 482 0649 or email here

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