Chris Horn At Irish Software Show 

Irish & International Software Developers Converge on Dublin for the 2nd Annual Irish Software Show, epicenter 2010

Dr Chris Horn, the co-founder and CEO of one of Ireland's greatest software success stories, IONA Technologies, is to open the 2nd Annual Irish Software Show, epicenter 2010, which is taking place in Trinity College Dublin between June 8th and 11th.

Chris is best known as the IONA helmsman the world over, having taken the company to the fifth largest IPO in the history of the NASDAQ in 1997. After a short period of retirement, Chris then came back and negotiated IONA's sale to Progress Systems, which fortunately concluded the week that its brokers Lehman Bros went bust.

But it is his latest work with the Irish Government's Innovation Taskforce, the strategic committee that  researched and produced a report on Ireland's readiness to battle for Smart knowledge supremacy, which will be the focus of his keynote at the Irish Software Show.

Chris, who has since been appointed to the Innovation Taskforce Implementation Group, will share intimate information regarding the report and its resulting strategy, indicating what this means for Irish software companies. Hopefully, CEOs will receive clues on how they should position their businesses in order to ride the coming  wave of global innovation.

Talking to IrishDev.com yesterday, Dr Chris Horn said, "I very much look forward to meeting everyone at epicenter, Ireland's largest software conference, and hope that people get value from my explanation of the rationale behind the Innovation Taskforce recommendations."

Over 50 technology rockstars are travelling into Ireland from around the world to take part in the conference. It sees 80 tutorial based sessions covering enterprise and client server software, web design, development and security, mobile application development and colud technologies. The conference's objective is to assist the expected 800 Irish software professionals attendees, to build upon their creativity and innovation leading to competitiveness in the global software markets.

Attendees can listen and learn the tips about C#, Java, Visual Studio, IBM Rational, Clojure, JQuery UI , iPhone Objective-C, Groovy & Grails, Ruby, Rails 3, ASP.net, Semantic Web,, F#, IronRuby, HTML 5, REST, Silverlight 4, Windows  Phone 7, SQL Modelling Services, and numerous cloud technologies including Servicemix, Gaelyk, Configuration Management, Infrastructure, GWT and Azure.

The conference also includes non-technical sessions that address best practice such as Software Project Management, Application Lifecycle Management, and software design and architecture.

On Wednesday Matt Raible, a leading Web Framework expert from the US, will firstly introduce the future of the framework, and then join a panel of Rails, Grails .NET and Griffin experts for a live debate compered by the former CEO of the Irish Internet Association, Fergal O'Byrne, now CEO of SONRU, an upcoming web video company for recruitment interviewing.

Also being released at the Irish Software Show, are the results a global cloud technology survey which has been conducted by Trinity start-up CloudICT.  CEO  Fergal O'Connor said, "There's much talk and hype surrounding cloud technologies, but what does it really mean, and more importantly, what do users want from it? After conducting an extensive survey of thousands of CIO's I can now reveal the analysis which will help Irish software companies to closely align their offerings to the opinion of global users."

Taking place from Tuesday 8th June to Friday 11th June, start-ups and SMB's under 30 people in size can attend the four days of epicenter for €185.00, made possible by the support of the Software Skillnet.

See http://epicenter.ie for more information.
 

 
Photo: Dr Chris Horn who will present on the Government's Innovation Taskforce recommendations.
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