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Awards & Events News
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February 22, 2012 |  |
 Thursday 16th February saw the inaugural meeting of the IT Events Network Belfast at The Merchant Hotel. Brightwater, the leading recruitment specialists, hosted the event in association with BCS and SyncNI, which saw two of the province’s most innovative and successful technologists addressing an audience of over 100 local IT professionals, with demand for places on the evening exceeding capacity.
Celebrating Our Engineering Traditions
“This series of networking events has been a response to the overwhelming demand in the local technology community to provide an open networking forum amongst like-minded professionals”, commented Michelle Kearns, Commercial Director of Brightwater NI.
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Budding entrepreneurs among University of Ulster staff and students are being encouraged to take part in a leading competition.
The Northern Ireland Science Park's £25K competition is designed to encourage researchers and individuals to act on their talents, ideas and energy to produce tomorrow’s leading commercial opportunities in Hi-tech, Biotech, CleanTech and Digital Media and Software categories.
The programme helps identify, qualify, prepare and present the best knowledge-based ideas and intellectual property from publicly funded research bases in Northern Ireland with the most commercial potential. |
February 16, 2012 |  |
 Allstate Northern Ireland is celebrating again after receiving the Investors in People Health & Wellbeing Award recently, this in addition to the Investors in People Gold Status that the company had previously received in 2009. Golf, Badminton, Football, Yoga, Surfing, Cycling, Gym, Rambling, these are only some of the sports clubs that are on offer at Allstate Northern Ireland which allow employees to maintain a healthy worklife balance.
This award recognizes the time and resources that Allstate invests in health & well-being strategies, initiatives and activities. |
 This month marks the beginning of the last six months of my four year tenure as Vice President for Business and Education in the Institute of Physics; so I hope you will forgive a plug and a small retrospective. As a charitable learned body, when I became involved in the leadership, IOP was just beginning to digest the consequences of the changes to charity law. In particular, it was still reeling from the shock that, as a membership body solely in support of Physics and Physicists, it was forced to lose its “Corporate Members”, organisations highly dependent on Physics and which had been the main-stay of its interaction with industry and business. |
February 07, 2012 |  |
MetaCompliance, the user awareness and policy management software company in Londonderry has won a major global award from Hypatia Research, the Boston-based research company, for its innovative software.
Based at the North West Business Complex, MetaCompliance was one of just five companies, the only one in Northern Ireland, to gain Hypatia’s endorsement for its leading-edge technology.
MetaCompliance provides its clients with cost-effective ‘commercial off-the-shelf’ compliance software.
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 11th Annual InterTradeIreland Venture Capital Conference will help companies
unlock investment opportunities
Business Angel Funds of up to £70m/€85m are currently available to start-up companies across the island, Margaret Hearty, Director of Business Services and Programmes, InterTradeIreland, has estimated.
Speaking at the launch of the InterTradeIreland Venture Capital Conference, she said that with a total of almost £41m/ €50m investment in funding partnerships since the Halo networks were set up, there is an even greater opportunity for companies and that it is a crucial time for start-ups to become ‘investor ready’.
The 11th annual InterTradeIreland Venture Capital Conference, which will take place at Belfast City Hall on Wednesday 7th March, is designed to facilitate networking between Ireland’s leading venture capitalists, business angels and start ups that are seeking funding from across the island. |
February 03, 2012 |  |
 Belfast-based ICT solutions provider, Novosco Ltd has launched its latest range of cloud-based services and solutions to the UK market, with support from Invest Northern Ireland. Pictured (L-R) are Patrick McAliskey, Novosco’s Managing Director and Stephen Wightman of Invest NI.
Belfast-based ICT solutions provider, Novosco Ltd has launched its latest range of cloud-based services and solutions to the UK market, with support from Invest Northern Ireland. |
February 02, 2012 |  |
 Tibus has been awarded the accolade of Global Site of the Year 2011 for their discoverireland.ie site.
"Tibus is delighted that Discoverireland. |
February 02, 2012 |  |
 Aurion Learning was celebrating today at the news that NetDimensions learning management solutions has won the Brandon Hall Gold Award in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology category with NetDimensions EKP (Enterprise Knowledge Platform) for Extended Enterprise Management.
Aurion Learning is a certified reseller for NetDimensions award-wining learning & talent management products in Ireland and the United Kingdom.Speaking about the news, Gavin Woods, Sales Manager at Aurion Learning, said:
“NetDimensions is undoubtedly a global leader in performance, knowledge and learning management systems. |
 For the third consecutive year, a University of Ulster researcher has won the All Ireland final of the prestigious Institute of Materials World Lecture competition. Twenty six years old Cormac Flynn, who is a third year PhD student in the School of Engineering at Ulster’s Jordanstown campus, will now represent Ireland in the World Finals of the competition later this year.
Originally from County Clare, Cormac graduated with an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from National University of Ireland, Galway. |
 The high achievement of entrepreneurial local companies has been celebrated at a prestigious awards event in Belfast.
Eight Ulster firms, including new businesses and successful exporters, have been presented with prizes in the provincial stage of the Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards, run in association with Invest Northern Ireland and InterTradeIreland, and supported by the Belfast Telegraph.
Seven firms from across Northern Ireland and one from Donegal were on stage at Riddel Hall in Stranmillis (Queen’s University Belfast’s Executive Education Centre of which Ulster Bank is a member of the Founders Club) on Thursday (January 26th) to collect their awards in the Ulster final of the all-island scheme. |
January 30, 2012 |  |
 NACCO Materials Handling led the way for the local business community in a prestigious recognition scheme, winning the Northern Ireland Quality Award alongside three impressive public and voluntary sector organisations.
The Craigavon-based manufacturer of forklift trucks collected the accolade at a ceremony in Belfast City Hall alongside the Triangle Housing Association, St Mary's College in the North West, and the Human Resources, Organisational Development and Chief Executive's Department at Belfast City Council.
The Northern Ireland Quality Awards recognition process and the gala event are administered by the Centre for Competitiveness (CforC) on behalf of the sponsors: Invest Northern Ireland, Hewlett Packard (HP), the Department of Finance and Personnel, Northern Ireland Electricity, and Translink. |
 Ulster Bank, Invest Northern Ireland and UKTI link up to back NI exporters. Encouraging Northern Ireland companies to explore the potential to do business in Asia are Ian Jordan, head of business and commercial banking, Northern Ireland, at Ulster Bank and Vicki Kell, Invest NI’s Trade Director.
Northern Ireland companies with the potential to export to Asia will hear from some of the world’s leading experts on trading with the continent’s key markets during an Ulster Bank-backed event in Belfast next month. |
January 26, 2012 |  |
 NEWRY based television production company, Big Mountain Productions, has been nominated for the IFTA’s (Irish Film and Television Awards), to be held in the convention centre Dublin on February 11 for their 4 part series THE TENEMENTS, presented by actor Bryan Murray.
The series was a massive hit for TV3 when broadcast last August and being nominated is a great honour for the company and the production. “Fingers crossed, we’ll do well on the night but to be nominated by our peers in this hugely competitive awards is great,” MD Philip McGovern. |
January 26, 2012 |  |
 Ballymena Student Rewarded with £2000 of latest technologies to further His ‘App’ Career!
A student from the University of Ulster’s Magee campus has won the coveted ‘2011 Awesome App’ award after the application (app) he developed while on the inaugural Kainos App Camp was downloaded over 10,500 times!Glenn Sayers, a Computer Science student from Ballymena, was one of eight high-flyers who took part in Ireland’s inaugural ‘App Camp’, a programme developed by leading technology company Kainos. |
 Leading figures in the world of education, science, business, the arts and sport are among those who will be honoured at University of Ulster graduation ceremonies this year.
US Open Golf Champion Rory McIlroy, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, actor Sir Ian McKellen and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody head a distinguished line-up of peacemakers, musicians, media personalities and other outstanding individuals who will receive honorary doctorates.
Sir Alex Ferguson, who has gained a reputation as one of the world’s most admired, respected and successful football managers, is to receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) in recognition of his services to football. |
 Since I converted from science to business or at least from the science of science to the business of science, the most important thing I learned was that there is no plagiarism in business. Good ideas are valuable from wherever they spring and emulation is an acceptable form of flattery. (Incidentally, this is the origin of the eastern predilection for copying and its misunderstanding in the west. |
 There’s still time to enter The Belfast Telegraph Northern Ireland Business Awards 2012 in association with British Midland International (bmi).
Taking place on Tuesday, April 24, at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Shaw's Bridge, there will be 12 categories this year including the re-introduction of the Corporate Social Responsibility category, to recognise the positive impact businesses are making in the community amid tough times.
You can download your entry form and read a full list of the rationale, criteria, rules and conditions at www. |
 Businesses have come out in force to highlight their good work in this year’s Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards.
Almost 400 entries have been received for the prestigious scheme, with strong entry levels in categories such as ‘International Business’; ‘Best Business Start-Up’; and ‘Innovation and Emerging Technology’.
Judging has now taken place, with the Ulster awards final happening on January 26 in Riddel Hall, the new Post Graduate and Executive Education Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. |
 Omagh-based Waste Systems Ltd is leading the way in innovation as the local manufacturing company has been announced as a finalist of the Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards 2012.
Waste Systems Ltd, which designs, manufactures and supplies turnkey systems and standalone machinery for the waste separation and recycling industries, has been shortlisted in the Green-tech Innovation category and will compete with two other companies across the island of Ireland for the prestigious category title.
Now in its third year, the competition aims to recognise and promote the best service, product or operational innovations throughout the island. |
 A final-year student from Queen’s University Belfast has outshone more than 3,000 competitors to be crowned the UK’s Universities Brightest Business Brain.
David Galbraith, from east Belfast, a final year student in Computing Information Technology, topped the leaderboard to take the title and the £1,000 prize in the grand final at Cass Business School in London.
Launched in September, the competition saw more than 3,000 students register and take four online exercises designed to assess their competencies, traits and aptitudes, and identify their commercial awareness. |
 2012 is the Chinese year of the Dragon and we pretty much all know what ‘Dragon’ investors look like from watching the infamous TV show. However there are other ‘creatures’ we should also get familiar with according to Alan Watts of Halo, the business angel network which is a joint initiative of InvestNI and InterTradeIreland based at the NI Science Park. He explained at a recent seminar held at NISP that not all Dragons breathe fire – some are in fact more friendly and ‘Angel’ like! |
First Minister the Rt. Hon. Peter D. |
January 13, 2012 | |
 Hot off the press! It has just been announced that we are one of three finalists shortlisted to win Best Travel Site for the development of discoverireland.ie, in the Kentico Site of the Year Awards. |
 Links between industry and academia has always been a high priority for South West College and over the years, prior to, and since the merger of Omagh, Dungannon and Fermanagh Colleges, it has been incredibly successful in providing a highly skilled workforce for local, national and international businesses.
Having two-way relationships with industry has meant South West College has been able to ensure students leave the College with essential and desirable skills required by businesses. The College also provides highly recognised training and access to facilities for businesses across all sectors. |
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