Web 2.0 Ireland

Stella Power just let us know that Drupal Ireland is organising a day long conference on the open source Drupal CMS. It’s taking place this Saturday (15th November) in DIT, Kevin St, Dublin 2 and will run from 9:30am to 4:30pm.  Registration is free but please sign up here so they can gauge numbers.

In case you’re not already aware, Drupal is a powerful open source content management system which allows users to easily publish, manage and share a wide variety of content on the internet.  There is a great
demand for people who know this software and demand is growing.

Drupal’s many features and add-ons allow it to be used for a variety of website needs; including for marketing, internal communications, informational websites, and for social networking purposes.

The event is being organised by the Drupal Ireland user group, which is a volunteer membership group.  The group is comprised of developers who use Drupal everyday; who contribute to Drupal core,  documentation and maintain popular modules.  If you’re interested in attending, more information on the sessions and the schedule can be found at http://groups.drupal.org/node/15895.

The it@cork annual conference has just been announced. Its title is “GREEN IT: Reduce CO2, Raise Profits” and it’s on November 26 in the lovely Radisson SAS Hotel in Cork.

The line-up looks like an excellent mix with the focus being clearly on Green as it relates to IT and Business. I particularly like the profit angle given the turmoil the world is going through right now

The is an Early Bird Discount available – Book on or before October 31 and it’s €250 for members, €350 for non members.

The agenda is as follows:

07.30 – Heads of IT breakfast sponsored by Certification Europe

08.00 – Arrival coffee & registration

08.45 – Welcome from Donal Manning, Chairman, it@cork

08.55 – SETTING THE SCENE – George Lee, Economics Editor, RTE

09.35 - Green IT: Moving Beyond the 2% Solution, Douglas Neal, Research Fellow, Leading Edge Programme

10.05 - SMART2020: ICT and climate change. Opportunities or Threat? Chris Tuppen, Director Sustainable Development, BT

10.35 – Q&A Moderated by Tom Raftery. Lead analyst, energy and sustainability practice, Redmonk

10.50 – Coffee sponsored by Complete Telecom

11 20 - Virtual Worlds: making organizations greener, Pierre-Olivier Carles, Co-Chief Stonfield InWorld

11.40 - Measuring the energy footprint of everything on Earth, Gavin Starks, Director, AMEE

12.00 - The Electric Grid 2.0, Fergus Wheatly, General Manager, Allied Solar Ltd

12.20 - Q&A Moderated by Damien Mulley, Mulley Communications

12.35 – LUNCH sponsored by Lenovo

13.45 - Situation normal, everything must change, Simon Wardley, Independent Consultant

14.35 – The Business Challenges of the Future Low Carbon Economy, Niall Brady, Green Sigma Technical Development Manager, IBM

14. 55 – Green IT @ STRATO, Rene Weinholtz, Executive Director for IT & Innovation, STRATO

15.15 – Q&A Moderated by Dan Barry, Enterprise Ireland

15.30 – Coffee Sponsored by Premiere Global Services

16.00 – Green Computing - A leadership role, Tom Moriarty, EMEA Regulatory and Environmental Manager, DELL

16.30 – Green ICT - How ICT will help deliver ESB’s Sustainability Strategy, Padraig McManus, CEO, ESB

17.00 – Q&A Moderated by Tom Raftery followed by drinks reception sponsored by Smart Telecom

After October 31st, the rate is €300 for members and €400 for non members.

See you there!

We have a couple of invites left for the experimental Telco 2.0 roadtrip to Dublin, happening on Friday 30th May (yes, Friday-week).

Mail me at sos “at” dial2do “dot” com for an invite. Outline details are here.