Systems and Infrastructure Engineer with C Infinity.

Derek is a business consultant and expert taxation advisor with Russell Brennan Keane. With 50 years of experience providing professional advisory services to a range of clients in the mid to large corporate market in Ireland, Russell Brennan Keane are one of the most established companies in terms of providing practical, commercial advice and cost effective strategic business solutions.

Derek will be speaking about tax minimisation, dealing with VAT/PAYE, tax-efficient income, asset protection, personal guarantees, R&D tax credits, dealing with Revenue among other topics.

I’ll be centering my talk on the importance of branding "You" in your business! I will discuss how I have promoted my business and ultimately myself since starting out. I’ll share my successes and failures to date and welcome your stories and input throughout.

I set up Careers Coach with the aim of assisting people with their career transition. In these challenging times I believe that in order to excel in life and business we need to think and act smarter than before. The economy and media has knocked our confidence and engulfed many of us in fear. I believe that if we can overcome our FEAR and think and act smart we are all capable of excelling in any situation

Terminal entrepreneur. After limited success in founding 3 start ups over 10 years, now tech transfer case manager at Trinity College, Dublin
John Whelan holds a BSc in Applied Physics and Electronics and a PhD in Applied Geophysics, both from NUI, Galway. Upon graduation he worked in software design and development for a range of companies in financial services, based in Ireland and Japan. These include Davy Stockbrokers and Daiwa Securities. He went on to found and raise venture capital for a number of successful start ups, including the world\'s first mobile betting exchange, and subsequently a specialist developer of mobile multimedia applications. Most recently he ran an independent IT consultancy whose clients included Vodafone and Hutchison Three.

Marie Walsh has been advising entrepreneurs on their intellectual property rights, patents and trademarks for the past 20 years. Marie has provided training seminars on IP to innovators at presentations such at the Open University alumni group, and at the Greenhouse Limerick business start-up’s camp in October 2009. Marie is also a speaker in the IP Diploma course being run by the Law Society of Ireland.

Marie’s presentation at the Greenhouse Business camp is on “protecting your business products and trade names” and will describe the advantages of having patents to obtain a monopoly for your new/improved products or processes. Marie will also discuss the advantages to having a registered trade mark for your trade name. Marie plans on alerting entrepreneurs to what she calls “patent pitfalls” and “trade mark trip-ups”. Marie will be happy to answer any questions that you may have on these topics.

Mark has been a radio and TV journalist with RTE for over 18 years. In that time he has been rewarded for his reports on Afghanistan, and is currently presenter of Prime Time. A former Washington correspondent, he has authored three books about US and world affairs.

I've been writing advertising and direct marketing copy since 1990 and online content since 2005. I've written radio, TV and print ads for an extensive list of blue chip clients in automotive, pharmaceutical, retail, fmcg, food & beverage and government communications.

I’m also a web content provider, special needs blogger and social media advocate. On top of all that I am the writer, performer and one sixth of the political satirist team The Emergency.

Pat Phelan is the founder and director of products and innovation at Cubic Telecom, one of the leading voices of Voice 2.0. Cubic Telecom has developed MAXroam, a global roaming product which reduces users roaming cellular bill on both voice and data by over 80%.

Pat sees himself as a ‘telecoms disrupter’ and has been blogging here on a variety of subjects including how brands should embrace the internet and where telecoms are headed over the coming years.

Sabrina Dent is a veteran web designer and blogger who designs and builds websites fuelled by coffee, cigarettes and insomnia from a smoke-filled turret in deepest Ireland.

After barely surviving the big agency culture of London in the 90's, she now works almost exclusively with small internet startups and bootstrapped companies to produce sites on virtually no budget.

Her bookcase features some nice awards, and she is a regular fixture at technology conferences and on panels.