Industry & Business

TechConnect Live, which is Ireland’s largest annual business and technology exhibition for Micro, SME and Enterprise level companies, is being held on Thursday, May 30th at the RDS in Dublin. With its comprehensive programme of free workshops and key note speakers combined with a vast array of exhibitors displaying the latest technological solutions available, TechConnect Live will cover all aspects of the technology for business sector in Ireland. The annual conference and exhibition serves as a unique forum for technology companies, start-ups, investors and the largest Irish and global end users of technology and services to meet in order to facilitate investment, innovation, collaboration and the fostering of new commercial relationships.

Co-located Events

TechConnect Live incorporates a number of co-located, complementary events including:

* The IOT and Industry 4.0 Expo;

* The GDPR Summit;

* Grow SME – Ireland’s largest conference and exhibition dedicated to the SME sector;

* The IT, Data and Software Summit;

* The Arkphire Mobile Tech Summit;

* The Elavon Growing Your Business Online Conference and Exhibition;

* The National Finance Summit;

* The CXO Summit;

* The National Sales and Marketing Summit;

* The Office Expo;

* The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Summit;

* The Blockchain Summit.

TechConnect Live and its co-located events will showcase the latest technologies that are impacting and transforming the way small businesses and large global enterprises work. For example, the IOT & Industry 4.0 Expo will attempt to demystify and whole area of IoT and highlight its increasing use in industrial and commercial applications, to significantly improve efficiency, save both time and money while also reducing waste and increasing safety at work. The IoT & Industry 4.0 Expo will show how Irish businesses of all sizes can improve the way they deliver products and services on a daily basis.

Sales and Marketing

Similarly, the National Sales and Marketing Summit will highlight how advances in technologies, such as data analytics, customer data platforms (CDPs) and programmatic artificial intelligence and machine learning, are revolutionizing the traditional sales and marketing function. It is designed to provide visitors with an insight into the rapidly changing marketing technology ecosystem, and will display the latest technological advancements that are enable marketing to become simultaneously more automated as well as more effective. The National Sales and Marketing Summit will also provide advice to visitors on how to adopt and tailor data-based customer-centric strategies and customer lifetime value (CLV) models to meet their specific business needs.

IT, Data and Software

The inaugural IT, Data and Software Summit will cover key areas such as: data mining, statistical analysis, forecasting, text analytics, optimisation and simulation, and advanced analytics software. The event will provide practical advice on how to simplify data preparation, quickly build better models, access easy-to-use analytics tools, and use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate processes and augment user intelligence.

Impressive Array of Speakers

An impressive list of speakers has been assembled to address the various conferences and seminars spread across the vast main hall of the RDS and to cover topics of interest, to highlight challenges facing Irish business and to suggest practical solutions. The Conference speakers have been carefully selected from well respected figures, within Irish business, academia and State organisations, who all have proven expertise in their respective fields.

Some of the themes to be discussed at TechConnect Live include: the Fifth Generation revolution in Ireland; Data Age 2020; Women in Tech; Future of Work; DARQ: distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence, extended reality and quantum computing; Digital Transformation; and Cyber Security and Risk Compliance.

Visitors are able to move freely between the various conference stages and seminar areas, which cover the latest technology available to all sectors of Irish industry and business, including Fintech, Healthtech, Data, Cloud Computing, Content, Mobile, Cleantech, Enterprise Technology, Apps, Software, Gaming, Factory Technology, Telecommunications, IT, Internet, IOT, Sports Technology, Distributive Technologies, Marketing, Start-ups, Investment & Funding, and Careers.

To register to attend for free, visit www.techconnect-live.com.