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Vision2020 DublinForum

October 10th 2014

Dublin to be a global tech startup hub

by 2020



Welcome

When competing internationally the cultural infrastructure of a city isoften more important than the quality of the physical infrastructure. Acity’s sense of shared commitment and destiny, which transcends day today business rivalries, is not easy to manufacture but is essential to therequired joint sense of purpose.

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Momentum is building in Dublin towards the goal of becoming a globaltech startup hub. Essential building blocks are in place such as theActivating Dublin report, the adoption by our Government of the rstIrish Entrepreneurship Policy Statement and the new Commissioner forStartups. The density of large tech companies in Dublin continues tointensify with 8 of the world’s 10 biggest international technology playershaving signicant operations in our city.

However, competition around the world for the signicant benets of

being a global tech startup hub is intense. With just ve years to 2020a strategic plan for Dublin needs to be implemented which will bringtogether in a coordinated way the wide range of public and privatesector stakeholders needed for success.

As a member of the international Startup Nations network our focus is onthose framework conditions at the strategic level needed for success.This was our motivation in organising today’s Vision2020 Dublin Forum,bringing together Dublin’s key players to help identify those actionsneeded to maximise Dublin’s potential to become a global tech startuphub within the next ve years. The measure of success of today’s Forum will be the jobs, wealth andinnovation that the tech startup sector will create in Dublin in the comingyears.

We hope you will help play your role in making this happen.

Eoin Costello

CoFounder, Startup Ireland



Vision2020 Dublin Forum AgendaFriday, October 10th, 8.30am - 1pm, Barrow St, Dublin

8:30 a.m. Light Networking Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Welcome by Paddy Flynn, Director Google9:05 a.m. Mark Little, CEO Storyful9:10 a.m. Philip Browne, CEO Irish Rugby Football Union9:20 a.m. Eoin Costello, Co-Founder Startup Ireland9:30 a.m. Seán O’Sullivan, CEO SOS Ventures

9:40 a.m. Damien English, Minister of State for Skills, Research and Innovation9:50 a.m. Derry Gray, Vice President Dublin Chamber of Commerce10.00 a.m. Professor of Entrepreneurship Thomas Cooney, Dublin Institute of Technology

10.10 a.m. Coffee and Tea Break

10:40 a.m. Gerard O’Neill, Chairman Amárach Research10:55 a.m. Niamh Bushnell, Startup Commissioner for Dublin11:00 a.m. Brian Hayes, Member of the European Parliament for Dublin11:10 a.m. John Murphy, Director PWC11:20 a.m. Louise Kelly, Director Deloitte

11.30 a.m. Breakout Session

12:10 p.m. David Lowe, Director Goodbody’s Stockbrokers12:20 p.m. Richard Bruton, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation12:35 p.m. Panel Discussion – Chaired by Paul Hayes (Beachhut PR) with Julie Sinnamon (Enterprise Ireland), Brian MacCraith (DCU), Paddy Flynn (Google), Liam McLaughlin (Bank of Ireland), Barry O'Dowd (IDA), Liam Halpin (Dell) and Myra Garrett (William Fry).

1:00 p.m. Light Networking Lunch



Paddy FlynnDirector of Product Quality Operations for EMEA

and APAC, Google

Paddy Flynn joined Google in 2009 and is the Directorof Product Quality Operations for EMEA and APAC. Thisinvolves managing a multi-market team who work acrossGoogle’s core products. Paddy graduated from University

College Cork as an Electrical Engineer and started hiscareer at Accenture. Over the past 3 years Paddy hasled Google Ireland’s engagement with the Irish startupcommunity through Google’s G4E platform, drivingengagement through events, mentorship and global/localpartnerships.

Mark Little CEO Storyful

Mark Little has been a journalist for more than 20 years.He was Foreign Affairs Correspondent, WashingtonCorrespondent and news anchor for RTE, the Irish nationalbroadcaster. He left RTE in December 2009 to set upthe social news agency, Storyful, which extracts newsfrom the social media noise. Storyful discovers, veriesand delivers the most valuable and authentic content onsocial media platforms and works with some of the world’sleading news brands.

Philip Browne Chief Executive of the IRFU

Philip has been with the IRFU since 1992 and its ChiefExecutive since 1998. He is responsible for the overalldevelopment and growth of rugby within Ireland fromgrassroots through to the professional game. Philip is theChairman of the Board of the Aviva Stadium. Before joiningthe IRFU, Philip held positions at the Institute of Clinical

Pharmacology and Andersen Consulting. Philip holds anMBA, a Ph.D. and a BA from Trinity College Dublin

Vision 2020 Dublin ForumSpeakers



Seán O’SullivanManaging Director of SOSventures International

Sean O’Sullivan is managing director of SOSventuresInternational and has invested in over 100 companies.In 1985, upon graduation from Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute, he founded MapInfo which became a $200million public company with over 1,000 employeesworldwide. Sean’s rst internet company was NetCentricand he has been recognised as the co-creator of the term“cloud computing”. An advocate of STEM education, hehas funded organizations such as the Khan Academy andCoderDojo

Damien English

Minister for Skills, Research and InnovationDamien English is a Fine Gael TD Party representingMeath West. From 2002-2007, Damien was a member ofthe British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. Damien servedas Fine Gael’s deputy spokesperson on Enterprisefrom 2007-2010. From 2010-2011 he was party deputyspokesperson on Finance. He has held the position ofChairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee for Jobs,Enterprise & Innovation and he was previously Chairmanof the Oireachtas Joint Committee for Jobs, Social

Protection & Education.

Eoin CostelloCo Founder Startup Ireland

Eoin has worked on all sides of the business of startups,launching them as CEO (Novara Technology (t/a Register.ie/Host.ie–20 staff), Omniserve (4 staff), Costello Jewellers(10 staff)), growing them successfully to exit, studyingthem (University of Ulster Masters Dissertation presentedto the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation), investingin them (fund manager at Legal&General Investments UK)

and supporting them through his role at DIT HothouseIncubation Centre and cofounding Startup Ireland.



Derry GrayVice President, Dublin Chamber of Commerce

Derry is Deputy Vice President of Dublin Chamber

and Partner of BDO in Ireland. Derry has worked inengineering and management and has led BDO’s team asleading business advisors in the hotel, leisure, healthcareand large project sectors. He has a particular interest inhelping businesses startup and scale. An active memberof the Council of Chamber since 2008, Derry has a

particular interest in developing the Chambers’ Inuencingagenda through programmes such as Activating Dublin.

Prof Thomas CooneyProfessor of Entrepreneurship at Dublin Institute

of Technology

Prof Thomas Cooney is Professor of Entrepreneurshipat DIT and Director of the DIT Institute for Minority

Entrepreneurship. He is also Visiting Professor at theUniversity of Turku and has been a member of policyadvisory groups for the Irish Government, EuropeanCommission and OECD. He has researched, publishedand presented widely on the topic of entrepreneurship andfurther details can be found at www.thomascconey.com.

Gerard O’Neill

Chairman of Amárach ResearchGerard O’Neill is Chairman of Amárach Research andis a graduate of LSE. He has served as a director of theIrish Internet Association and chairman of the MarketingSociety. Gerard was a co founder of Hireland.ie, thejob creation initiative. He is a Fellow of the MarketingInstitute of Ireland and a member of the National StatisticsBoard. His book – 2016: A New Proclamation for A NewGeneration – is published by Mercier Press.



Brian HayesMember of the European Parliament

Brian has been the National Youth & Education Ofcer toFine Gael, delegation secretary to Fine Gael during the

Peace & Reconciliation forum and a TD from 1997-2002and from 2007-2014. He was Leader of the Oppositionin Seanad Eireann from 2002-2007. Brian was Ministerof State at the Departments of Finance and PublicExpenditure & Reform until his election as MEP in 2014. AsMinister of State his responsibilities included procurementreform and public sector reform.

John Murphy Tax Director at PwC

John Murphy is a director in PwC’s domestic tax group.He works with Irish headquartered companies of all sizesto maximise their business model efciency and managetheir tax liabilities. John is particularly interested in thedomestic technology sector and works with a numberof tech companies and incubators. John’s experienceincludes tax efcient funding of capital projects, advisingon tax affairs for overseas expansions and implementingtax efcient incentives for management and staff.

Niamh Bushnell Commissioner for StartupsNiamh Bushnell is Dublin’s rst Commissioner forStartups, a role created by the Activating Dublin reportspearheaded by Dublin Chamber of Commerce andDublin City Council and funded by DCU Ryan Academy.Niamh’s mission as Commissioner is to develop Dublinas a great startup city in conjunction with state/semi-statebodies. Niamh is a co founder of IDIRUS, a networking/ mentor platform. She was Entrepreneur in Residence atTalent Tech Labs (NYC) and is an angel investor/ mentorat ERANYC.



Louise Kelly Tax Director at Deloitte & ToucheLouise Kelly is a tax director with Deloitte specialising incorporate and international tax. Louise led Deloitte’s Irishdesk in New York during 2011 and 2012. She advises Irishand multinational companies on effective tax structures forboth inbound and outbound transactions and has beeninvolved in group restructures minimising overall group taxliability. She has advised a number of startup companieson tax efcient business models, particularly technologyand life sciences.

David Lowe Director of Business

Development at Goodbody Corporate Finance

David Lowe is Director of Business Development atGoodbody Corporate Finance. As Head of Research in the

late 1990s, David spearheaded Goodbody’s successfulmove into the technology sector, where the companycontinues to have a strong franchise. He works with awide range of companies raising funds or involved in M&Aactivity. He is a former member of the Expert Group onFuture Skills Needs and Board Member of the Institute ofTechnology at Blanchardstown.

Richard BrutonMinister for Jobs, Enterprise and InnovationEducated in UCD and Oxford, Minister Bruton is aResearch Economist by profession. He was Minister forEnterprise and Employment from 1994-1997 and Ministerof State at the Department of Industry and Commerce,1986-87. The Minister’s current portfolio encompassesenterprise and industrial development, trade, innovation,labour affairs and consumer and competition policy. In2012 he launched the rst annual Action Plan for Jobs.

The Plan’s high level target is to create 100,000 net newjobs by 2016.



Panelists

Paul Hayes

CEOBeachhut Ltd

Liam McLaughlin

Chief ExecutiveRetail Ireland

Bank of Ireland

Julie Sinnamon

CEO Enterprise Ireland

Myra Garrett

Managing PartnerWilliam Fry

Barry O’DowdHead of EmergingBusiness Division

IDA Ireland

Paddy FlynnDirector of ProductQuality Operations

for EMEA and APACGoogle

Liam Halpin

Irish GeneralManager

Dell

Brian MacCraithPresidentDublin City University



John Coolican Accenture

Vicky Godolphin Accenture

John O’Dwyer AIB

Michael McLoughlin Amarach ResearchGerard O’Neill Amarach Research

Miriam O’Keeffe American Chamber of Commerce

Cian O’Cuilleanain Bailey Advisors

Liam McLaughlin Bank of Ireland

David Tighe Bank of Ireland

Gerry Prizeman Bank of Ireland

Garvan Callan Bank of Ireland

Derry Grey BDO IrelandPaul Hayes Beachhut Ltd

Máire Cunningham Beauchamps Solicitors

Majella Crennan Beauchamps Solicitors

Edward Evans Beauchamps Solicitors

Alan Leddy Bell Labs

Paddy Conlon CBRE

Mervyn Greene CHQ Dublin Ltd.

Ken Moore Citi BankDave Fleming Citi Bank

Aidan McCullen Communicorp Digital

Andrea Linehan Connect Ireland

Síobháin Finn Cork Innovates

Eoghan Stack DCU Ryan Academy

Ann Horan DCU Ryan Academy

Liam Halpin Dell

Aisha Robinson DellLouise Kelly Deloitte

Richard Howard Deloitte

Dan Murray Deloitte

David Bowles Delta Capital Partners

Dermot Berkery Delta Capital Partners

Maurice Roche Delta Capital Partners

Caroline McHale Department of Education

Wendy Gray Department of Jobs, Enterprise & InnovationPatrick King Dublin Chamber of Commerce

Brian MacCraith Dublin City University

Attendees



Tom Cooney Dublin Institute of Technology

Brian O’Neill Dublin Institute of Technology

Tom Flanaghan Dublin Institute of Technology

Julie Sinnamon Enterprise Ireland

Declan Lyons Enterprise Ireland

Lorcan O’Sullivan Enterprise IrelandGearóid Mooney Enterprise Ireland

Edel Flynn Entrepreneur

Patrick Walsh Entrepreneur

Gerard Ryan Eversheds

Kevin Cahill Eversheds

John Lamphiere Facebook

Shay Garvey Frontline VC

Fionnuala Healy Garavogue ConsultingDavid Lowe Goodbody

Martin Harte Goodbody

Don Harrington Goodbody

Paddy Flynn Google

Martine Kempers Google

Anatoly Lebedev Google

Barry O’Dowd IDA Ireland

Fionnuala O’Leary Independent NewsJohnny Ryan Innovation Academy

Brendan Butler InterTradeIreland

Drew O’Sullivan InterTradeIreland

Russell Banks Investor Sheet/Dublin Beta

Andrew Parish IP Activation Group

Philip Browne IRFU

Alan Finneran Irish Domain Registry

Angela Butler Irish Domain RegistrySinead Heneghan Irish Institute of Training & Development

Natasha McDowell Irish Management Institute

Michael Lee Irish National Treasury Management Agency

Fergal McAleavey Irish National Treasury Management Agency

James Brennan Irish National Treasury Management Agency

Michael Clyne Irish Stock Exchange

Aileen O’Donoghue Irish Stock Exchange

Eoin Casey KPMGPeter O’Mahony Linked Finance

Ian Lucey Lucey Technology



Jeanne Kelly Mason Hayes & Curran

Brian Hayes Member of the European Parliament

Richard Bruton Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Damien English Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation

Anthony Sweetman National Asset Management Agency

Hugh McCann National Asset Management AgencyGary Leyden NDRC

Amy Neale NDRC

Dermot Casey Near Future

Cody Mayoh Nova UCD

Sean Blancheld Page Fair/Scale Front

Louise Phelan Paypal

John Murphy PwC

Joe Tynan PwCJohn W Pryor Rocket Space

Muirne Laffen RTE Digital

Alan Costello Ruby Consultanting

Stephen Mason Salesforce

Kate Gaynor Salesforce

Rachel Kingston SAP Startup Focus

James Crawford SAP Startup Focus

Mark Ferguson Science Foundation IrelandSean O’Sullivan SOS Ventures

Gene Murphy Start Local, FCR Media Ireland

Niamh Bushnell Startup Commissioner

Aine Collins T.D. and Member of the Oireachtas

Committee on Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation

Eamonn Leonard The Web Summit

Conor Stanley Tribal VC

Vinny Cahill Trinity College DublinKarl Aherne Wayra Ireland

Myra Garrett William Fry

Andrew McIntyre William Fry

Ivor Banim William Fry



Foreign Direct Investment



€6.3bnUNITED KINGDOM€2.0bn

USA AND CANADA

€0.2bnLATIN AMERICA

€1.2bnASIA/PACIFIC

€3.6bnNORTHERN EUROPE

ENTERPRISE IRELAND CLIENT EXPORTS BY TERRITORY 2013

€0.8bnSALES TO IRISHDAIRY BOARD

€0.7bnCENTRAL EUROPE,CIS AND RUSSIA

€2.0bnSOUTHERN EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST,AFRICA AND INDIA (SEMEAI)

€0.3bnUNSPECIFIED

SUPPORTING IRISH COMPANIES

EMPLOYED IN ENTERPRISEIRELAND CLIENT COMPANIESAT THE END OF 2013

149,718

FULL-TIME

26,032PART-TIME €20.28bn

2013 SPEND IN THE IRISH ECONOMY BYENTERPRISE IRELAND CLIENT COMPANIES



Startup Ireland Projects 2015Entrepreneur Careers Fair

Monday 17th November in the Mansion House

“If we want to increase the pipeline of people choosing an entrepreneurialcareer, then Ireland must encourage entrepreneurship as a norm rather than anexception.”

Entrepreneurship Forum Report 2014

Culture Change: Increasing the pipeline of entrepreneurs in Ireland throughculture change is essential to Ireland’s prosperity. As the opening event of‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ the fair will provide structured information fromenterprise support agencies on the supports available for entrepreneurshipto the public, students, careers guidance professionals. This will becomplemented by a parallel series of talks by entrepreneurs on why they choseentrepreneurship as a career.

Students 2 StartupsBringing students and startups together

“The potential career path of entrepreneurship must be inspired from a person’searly years within the education system.”

Entrepreneurship Forum Report 2014

Education: Entrepreneurship is a ‘learning by doing’ activity and one of the

best ways to develop entrepreneurial capabilities is through direct exposureto entrepreneurship by working with a startup. Startup Ireland currently helpmatch student interns and student projects with appropriate startups through ourwebsite database.

Helping provide an environment conducive toentrepreneurship

PreBudget Submission: We produce an annual detailed preBudgetsubmission on behalf of the startup sector to help provide an environment thatis pro-startup and reduces some of the risks associated with becoming anentrepreneur. Our submission is put out to public consultation to receive theinput of the stakeholders in the startup sector. Our submission also reectsinternational best practice through our membership of the Startup Nationsnetwork.

“Startup Island” Annual SurveyAccurate Data on Ireland’s startup sector: The need for reliable statistics onthe Irish startup sector to help inform policy was highlighted by the ActivatingDublin report in 2013 and by the Report of the Entrepreneurship Forum in 2014.Startup Ireland’s rst ‘Startup Island’ annual survey was completed in 2014 andwill be an annual project to help provide quantitative data on Ireland’s startupsector.



“Startup Island” Annual AwardsStrengthening the Ecosystem: The purpose of these awards is to act as

a catalyst to those providing support services to the startup sector (startupincubator/accelerators, mentors, angel investors, accountants, lawyers,patent experts, networking groups, co-working space etc.) to help strengthenand deepen the ecosystem. The objective is to encourage Ireland’s biggestcorporates and professional service providers to allocate resources and strategicfocus within their organisations to supporting the startup sector towards the goalof making Ireland a global startup hub by 2020.

Guides for StartupsResource Guides: We provide a one-stop portal containing guides for startupsin search of services through our Startup Ireland websites and infographics.Startup Ireland’s online presence includes websites for each city (such as www.startupdublin.ie, www.startupcork.ie etc.), infographics on over 150 resourcesavailable to startups in Ireland and a Linkedin Group of 5,000 members andTwitter account of 10,000 followers.

Startup GatheringAn international startup competition promoting Ireland’s startupecosystem

International Profle: Promoting Ireland as an international destination forstartups is essential to raising the prole of Ireland’s innovation ecosystem on theinternational stage. The Startup Gathering will help showcase Ireland’s innovationecosystem to the world by running an annual startup competition under thesector headings that match the industry hubs that are developing in each of ourcities.

Corporate2Startups Working GroupCollaboration: Better linkages between the startup sector and the multinationalslocated in Ireland is essential to help cross fertilisation and to grow world classstartups. The crucial spillover benets of effective clusters of multinationals andstartups are essential for innovation and attracting more R&D jobs to Ireland.This working group will include representatives from both sides of the innovationinterface and will work towards practical measures to improve synergy and

interfaces between corporates and startups in Ireland.

Startup Ireland Projects 2015



Startup Ireland Team

Eoin CostelloCo Founder Startup IrelandEoin has worked on all sides of the business of startups,launching them as CEO (Novara Technology (t/a Register.ie/Host.ie–20 staff), Omniserve (4 staff), Costello Jewellers(10 staff)), growing them successfully to exit, studyingthem (University of Ulster Masters Dissertation presentedto the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation), investingin them (fund manager at Legal&General Investments UK)

and supporting them through his role at DIT HothouseIncubation Centre and co founding Startup Ireland.

Fionnuala HealyTech entrepreneur/consultantAn active member of the startup community, Fionnualais a qualied Engineer with a Masters in IT and a MBA.

She has over 16 years’ experience including 6 yearsrunning an ICT consultancy. She has led and deliveredcomplex engineering and IT global projects and workedfrom concept to MVP with several startups. As CTO ofGotcha Ninjas, an EdTech startup, Fionnuala developeda particular interest in effectively using big data and theresulting data security, protection, and privacy issues.

Karl AherneManaging Director, Wayra IrelandKarl launched Wayra Ireland in 2012 investing in leadingstartups and entrepreneurs to accelerate their commercialdevelopment. Previously responsible for innovation inTelefonica Ireland, Karl built successful multi-millioneuro revenue businesses including Ireland’s O2 Moneycard (winner 2012 Best Global Prepaid Card), Ireland’srst Carrier Billing platform and Telefonica Group’s rst

App Development business.Founder of two startups andboard advisor to several others, Karl is also a director ofBoardmatch Ireland and Teln Limited..



Thank You

Many thanks to our Vision2020 ProjectManager Deirdre Murphy. Deirdre tookwhat was an embryonic project and,

through a lot of hard work, focus andcommitment, made it into a fantasticevent. Startup Ireland relies oncommitted volunteers such as Deirdre,we are very grateful for her input.

A big thank you to Karl Aherne, AmyHore, Gavan Drohan, James O’Brien-Moran and all the team at WayraIreland for all their support andresources.

Thanks to Paddy Flynn, Valerie Legrand

and Google Ireland for their supportand providing us with a fantastic facilityto host our Vision2020 Dublin forum.



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