Two hundred experts and Irish business people from home and abroad are joining forces in Galway to learn about some of the most current and critical contributing factors to business growth.
Spearheaded by Shantalla man John Keogh, who now lives in Toronto in Canada, the inaugural Irish Executive Summit takes place today at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Galway.
The event will feature key international speakers on innovation creation, networking, technology, cloud computing, social media and leadership and how these can change the future for Ireland.
The line-up includes one of the foremost international thinkers on leadership and innovation, Peter Hinssen, as well as more local contributions such as that of Networking Matters founder Kingsley Aikens and live satellite link-ups with Irish adventurers in the Gobi Desert.
Irish Executives is a 7,000 member virtual network on LinkedIn, the social media site for business people. Since its inception in 2008 by John Keogh, a range of online comments debating the business affairs of Ireland has stretched from Ballsbridge to Bangkok and back again.
“What is different and important about this gathering is the momentum of ideas and the wealth of expertise that business people want to share and put to use,” says John Keogh. “It is also a not-for-profit event, run by volunteers from the Irish Executives Network, which keeps it very real, very close to the pulse of what businesses in Ireland today really want. With the support of Enterprise Ireland, the Western Development Commission as well as local businesses are all helping. It’s great to have something of this scale coming out of the west and mid-west.”
