I’ve never been to a BizCamp but heard great things about how it works. Thanks for heads up Fran. I’m registered. http://www.bizcamp.ie

The event is on all day on Saturday, Sept 19th in the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin.

From the adhoc description of what I heard, it sounds like a free-for-all, speakers everywhere and people can go to what they want to hear.

They have a video of what happened last March – RTE News footage.
http://www.bizcamp.ie/2009/07/rte-coverage-of-the-last-bizcamp/

Where the industry can share experiences and help each other, it’s a worthy event for me.

Two events of interest in the coming weeks – interactive lunchtime sessions in the NSC Boardroom: (limited seats available)

1) Tuesday June 9th 11:30 – International Services Success with Pat McGrath of PM Group and Jim Costello of SouthWestern (SWS BPO)
register on the it@Cork website – http://www.itcork.ie/index.cfm?page=events&eventId=156

2) Tuesday June 23rd 11:30 International Product Success with Denis Kennelly of Tivoli at IBM and Richard Cooke of Lincor
register on the it@Cork website – http://www.itcork.ie/index.cfm?page=events&eventId=157

Register here https://www.eventelephant.com/SalesLeadershipIreland

The Changing World in Sales – “Buyers Are Not Buying”

This is a meet event organised by the Sales Leadership Ireland LinkedIn Group. This is a not-for-profit initiative.

A practical look at how companies and sales people might respond to the current challenges and opportunities in the market.

SECTION 1: Interactive sessions with Speakers (45 minutes)
1) Introduction to Sales Leadership Ireland- Niall Devitt, B2B Training

2) “Removing the New Bottlenecks in today’s Sales Processes” – 10 minutes
Niall Devitt of B2BTraining will lead a discussion on how sales challenges are always changing with changing markets, how to identify these changes and how to respond.

3) “Partnering into New Markets” – 10 minutes
Donagh Kiernan of Maidsfield Associates will present a case study of how corporate partnering is an effective method of entering new sectoral or regional markets.

4) “Engaging with Customers through New Media” – 20 minutes
Damien Mulley of Mulley Communications will discuss how new media can be used to communicate with your market and gain new business.

Register here https://www.eventelephant.com/SalesLeadershipIreland

SECTION 2: Key Challenges Roundtables (1 hour)
Maximum attendees 30 – 3 round tables of 10

A number of identified Key Challenges in the industry today will be discussed and debated to share insights on how challenges can and are be met by members. The key challenges will be collected from the Sales Leadership Ireland – Linked-In Discussion Group.

Structure:
a) Introduce identified “Key Challenges” – (5 Minutes)
b) One “Key Challenge” will be assigned to each roundtable. Each table will select a spokesperson to chair a discussion and collect suggested actions to meet these challenges, taking notes on a flipchart page (30 Minutes)
c) Each table’s spokesperson will present their findings to the whole group (30 Minutes)
d) Session Summary and Close

COFFEE & NETWORKING

A session report will be submitted to the Sales Leadership Ireland LinkedIn Group Discussion

Register here https://www.eventelephant.com/SalesLeadershipIreland