We run over 100 events annually designed to give you opportunities to meet with business leaders, network with your peers and develop meaningful business connections.

As we develop our calendar of events for 2019 and beyond we want your feedback on how we’re getting on, where we could improve and what kind of events bring the most value to you and your business. Please take five minutes to complete this survey, your feedback will provide us with invaluable insights that will help to us to shape the future of Cork Chamber events.

The Local Enterprise Office, Cork City is offering a Customer Service Charter programme for Cork City based retail and hospitality owners/managers.

The programme comprises of a briefing Session for owners/managers and Train the Trainer Workshop for key senior staff who will then be equipped to deliver the training to other staff/teams in the business. This inaugural training session is being offered at a reduced cost of just €25 per business (valued at over €300), this includes Briefing, Workshop, Training Materials, Mystery Shopper Visits and Feedback.

​​The Local Agenda 21 Environmental Partnership Fund, promotes sustainable development by assisting small-scale environmental projects at local level.The initiative is now open for applications. Funding is typically for small scale community projects that encourage sustainability and/or have an environmental theme.

Closing date for applications is 20 June at 5pm. Examples of previously funded projects can be found here.

At this free exclusive member event on Thursday 14 June we’ll be exploring the hospitality industry, from the traditional to the ultra-modern, discussing how the two are fused together to create convenience in its most luxurious form.

Make the most of the longest day of the year by joining us for Clock Out & Connect on 21 June in the renowned Franciscan Well Brewery and Brew Pub. You’ll get to mingle with fellow members while sharing a slice of Pompeii pizza and sampling some of the craft beers on offer!

This July we’ll be rolling out the bunting and letting down our hair for our brand new Summer Garden Party! We will have chilled cocktails, smooth Summer sounds, fabulous fusion food, brewskis on ice and selfie fun, we just need some Summer vibes and you!

Join us for 1.5 hour session with fellow members to learn how to build your company profile by promoting member offers, upcoming events, posting job vacancies and press releases, through using the Members Area (Member Information Centre.) 

Our next edition of ChamberLink is scheduled to be on desks towards the end of June, if you would like to promote your business through the many advertising / editorial opportunities available contact Deborah / 021 - 4530149 today.

Make sure all your business details are up to date in our Members Area, to ensure fellow members can connect and do business with you. In here you can share press releases, details of upcoming events, offers for chamber members, new appointments along with current job vacancies you have available. Login today! 

The forum will cover:

• Employment Legislation Update
• GDPR- The effect of the new data protection legislation in 2018- How are you managing it?
• Case Law 2017 Examples. Why are they important? What are the learnings?
• Attraction & Retention- What are the priorities?
• Top Tips

You will be able to:

• Identify key changes in the Data Protection legislation and how they will impact your organisation
• Identify individual rights and your organisations obligations under the regulation
• Obtaining consent and knowing your legal basis for processing
• Awareness of liabilities and penalties under GDPR
• How to effectively conduct a data audit for your business
• Raising staff awareness

• Putting Cork on the map
• Over 50,000 to travel through Cork Airport across June Bank Holiday Weekend
• Soul in the City’ returns to the Victorian Quarter Cork this June Bank Holiday weekend
• Air France celebrates its inaugural flight to Cork
• Cork Summer Show a celebration of farm life for all to experience and enjoy, takes place 16 & 17 June
• Yoga in the Park Returns to Cork
• What does ‘brilliant disruption’ mean for the future of work?
• Regional Manager Post - South Munster MABS Region
• Ireland’s drop in Competitiveness ranking illustrates need for swift remedial action
• Cork Harbour Festival’s Ocean to City - An Rás Mor is back this year for the full harbour race!
• Cycle to Work Charette at UCC
• Opening of Cork hurler Damien Cahalane's Bar this June Bank Holiday
• Fota Island Adventure wins “Sports Business of the Year” award at the Irish Sports Industry Awards

• Nespresso Professional: exclusive offer for members. 
• Blackwater Valley Opera Festival: Special Ticket Packages
• Campion Insurance: Excellent Staff Discounts for Cork Chamber  members
• Musgrave Marketplace:  Staff Pass & Current Offers
• Work2BWell:  25% Off Initial Medical Consultations
• Tom Connolly and Associates: Train 20 people for €3000
• Hayfield Manor Hotel: Summer Lunch Special - 2 for €22

All offers can be submitted through the Member's Area of our website.

• Enable Ireland Cork: Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Gala Evening 30 May 
• The Crawford: Padraig Spillane: Phillip Toledano- artist response – FREE public talk 31 May
• Kilkenny Shop: Meet Orla Kiely at Nassau Street, 2 June
• UCC Innovation Workshop: Strategic Digital Marketing for the SME, 5 June
• Think Visual: Goal Setting and Visual Planning with Think Visual & Pat Lynch, 6 June
• NRF: World Employment Conference, 7 & 8 June
• Grant Thornton: Corporate 5K Team Challenge, 13 June 
• Cork Midsummer Festival, 15 - 24 June
• The Metropole Hotel & Cork Midsummer Festival:  Masquerade Ball, 16 June
• Cork Summer Show: A Celebration of Farmlife for all to experience and enjoy, 16 & 17 June 
• IT Governance Europe: Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation Foundation (GDPR) Training Course, 18 June
• LW Management: First Aid Response 3 Day Training Course, 25 - 28 June
• FREE GDPR Conference hosted by Seán Kelly MEP 25 June
• Blackstone Launchpad UCC: Entrepreneurship Summer Camps - Registration closes 15 June
• Mardyke Arena UCC: Sponsorship Opportunity: European Senior Women Basketball Championships - 26 June -1 July
• Crawford Art Gallery:  Sundays Free Family Programme 

The ‘Innovation in HealthTech’ event will bring together a wide array of stakeholders to discuss the design and development of new medical device solutions to healthcare problems. The event is enabled jointly by the Ireland – Wales EU INTERREG operation CALIN and the H2020 Erasmus+ MedInvent project, in collaboration with Health Innovation Hub Ireland, University College Cork Medical Education Unit and Assert. 

Free to attend, registration is essential. 

CIT will host the Ireland India Business Association’s (IIBA) Technology & Entrepreneurship event on Monday 25 June at 6pm. This evening will bring together IIBA’s network in Cork to discuss technology and the success of entrepreneurs in the region, as they go about engaging with the Indian market.