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.

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.

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

Cope Foundation is hosting Job Shadow Day on April 22nd, in conjunction with Irish Association of Supported Employment. Cope Foundation invites the Cork Business Community to join them in their campaign to promote equal employment opportunities in the workplace.

Job Shadow Day is a nationwide initiative which bring people with disabilities and local employers together for one day to highlight the valuable contribution people with disabilities can, and do, make at work.  

Would your business like to take part in this initiative? If so, then contact Marian Hennessy at Telephone 021 - 4643160 or Email here 

Cork Chamber recognises the vast economic potential of the Maritime Sector for Cork businesses and is currently participating in a European Project funded through the ‘Regions of Knowledge’ Seventh Framework Programme called the Resource Efficiency Maritime Capacity Project (REMCAP). REMCAP is a collaborative project involving 14 partner organisations from six European maritime clusters The main objective of REMCAP is  to develop the clusters' ability to promote innovation and enable sustainable growth across the key markets of offshore wind; ocean energy; algae; fishing; aquaculture; blue biotech; aggregates and dredging and sea bed mining.

Cork Chamber has worked in collaboration with the other project partners to develop the second newsletter which updates the reader on the achievements and outputs of the project to date and also highlights the project activities that will be undertaken in the next period. To view the second newsletter please click here. For more information please visit the REMCAP website by clicking here or contact  Claire here .

This course is designed to help you get more customers and leads for your business using Digital Marketing and Social Media.

• Advanced Facebook for Business - 30^th April
• Advanced Twitter for Business - 7^th May
• Advanced LinkedIn for Business - 15^th May
• Lead Generation using Social Media - 21^st May

Depending on the needs of your business, you can book the course as a whole (€440) or simply attend a specific day of interest (€140). BOOK NOW!!

• Building a Business on Your Ideas Seminar, IT Tralee, 16^th April, 9.15 am to 12.40 pm
  Learn about the value of Intellectual Property and the support structures that are available for small businesses and start-ups from the State and Europe.  

• Meet Potential Customers, Suppliers or Partners at the World’s Largest Seafood Fair, Seafood Expo Global, Brussels, 21^st to 22^nd April.
  Benefit from targeted networking and explore new business opportunities during pre-arranged meetings at an Enterprise Europe Network brokerage event. 

• Technology Gateway Network Industry Showcase, Silversprings Moran Hotel, 18^th May. Learn about the research skills that are available to Ireland’s industry at the Technology Gateway Showcase which will take place on Monday, 18th May. The showcase will outline how technology gateways can help SMEs on their innovation journey. 

• Open Access and Research Data Management: Horizon 2020 and Beyond,  Boole Library UCC, Cork, 14th-15th April. This 2 day seminar on Open Access in Horizon 2020 is being organised by University College Cork (Ireland), Repository Network of Ireland and Teagasc. 

An updated Dual Use Regulation  - Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1382/2014 of 22 October 2014 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items has come into force. Dual-use items are goods, software and technology normally used for civilian purposes but which may have military applications, or may contribute to the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The Regulation is directly applicable in all Member States and can be found here.


The update incorporates some 400 changes as a result of decisions made by the international export control regimes. The document ‘comprehensive change note summary for Council Regulation (EU) No. 428/2009’ provides a summary of these changes and can be found here.

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4. Donna Patrice Reidy appointed Account Executive at CAMEO Communications - Read More HERE
5. Growing Success: UCC courses up for Postgrad Awards - Read More HERE
6. Shine Ireland Launches Social Skills For Autism App - Read More HERE