Upcoming Entrepreneurship Events

Towards Acquisition - The Logentries Journey

18.00, Thursday 25th February
Lawrence Crowley Boardroom

A rare opportunity to listen to Trevor Parsons recount his story of the journey from a computer science PhD student at UCD to co-founder and CEO of Logentries which he sold to Rapid7 last year for €68m - one of the biggest spinouts ever from UCD.
http://www.independent.ie/ business/irish/parsing-trevor- how-a-boy-from-blanch- hockeyed-the-competition- 34221575.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/ business/2015/1014/734675- logentries-deal/

http://www.irishtimes.com/ business/technology/ucd-spin- out-firm-logentries-acquired- by-rapid7-for-68m-1.2391425

Register here: http://25022016.eventbrite.ie


UCD Startup Stars Preparation Workshop
09.30-12.30, Monday 29th February
A lean canvas-focused workshop to help prepare students who are entering the UCD Startup Stars competition

Register here: http://startupstars29022016.eventbrite.ie


Startup Grind Dublin 
18.30, Monday 29th February
Google Ireland, Barrow St, D4
Hosting Claire McHugh, CEO of Axonista

Register here: discount code "smurfit_2016_feb"  https://www.startupgrind.com/ events/details/startup-grind- dublin-presents-claire-mchugh- axonista-1#/


Startups 101 for Students
17.00, Wednesday 2nd March
Dogpatch Labs
Join the Dublin Startup Commissioner's Office and Frontline Ventures for a short talk and Q&A on how to break into startups

Register here: https://ti.to/frontline/ startups-101-for-students/ 

IT Fair - Discover IT

UCD IT Services are delighted to announce that we will be hosting an IT Fair Discover IT: Behind the Scenes on Tuesday 8th March, in O’Reilly Hall, Belfield, from 11am to 3pm.

http://www.ucd.ie/itservices/itfair/

There will be over 30 stands showcasing our services, demonstrations and displays. Along with promoting the services we provide such as IT Security, Research IT and Web Services, we will also be joined by a number of our external partners including Dell, Amazon, IBM and others plus our colleagues in UCD Registry and the Library.

Prizes! There will be plenty of prizes to be won such as a Dell laptop, Apple iPad, a Kindle Fire and many more, plus pick up a goody bag on your way out! There will also be an opportunity to get a professional photo taken and see how IT security savvy you are by taking a quick Phishing quiz.

Refreshments will be provided for attendees. The IT Fair takes place from 11am to 3pm, Tuesday 8th March in O’Reilly Hall. All staff and students are invited. We look forward to seeing you on the day!

More information can be found on our website.


Kind Regards

Seamus Shaw, Chief Technology Officer, UCD IT Services

ICIS 2016 Dublin

The call for ICIS 2016 has been announced, key dates and the call for papers is online (see http://icis2016.aisnet.org/). See social updates at #icis2016 on Twitter

This year's conference theme is “Digital Innovation at the Crossroads.”
Research tracks include:

• Conference Theme Track: Digital Innovation at the Crossroads
• Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding, Blockchain and the Sharing Economy
• Data Science and Business Analytics
• E-Business and E-Government
• Economics and Value of IS
• General IS Topics
• Human Behavior in IS
• Human-Computer Interaction
• IS Curriculum and Education
• IS Design and Business Process Management
• IS in Healthcare
• IS in Organizations and Society
• IS Security and Privacy
• IS Strategy, Governance, and Sourcing
• IT Implementation, Adoption, and Use
• Managing IS Projects and IS Development
• Methodological and Philosophical Foundations of IS
• Panels
• Practice-oriented Research
• Social Media and Digital Collaboration
• Sustainability and Societal Impacts of IS

Completed research papers are full-length papers of completed research projects. Accepted completed research papers will be presented at ICIS 2016, and published in the ICIS 2016 proceedings. Research-in-progress submissions are also encouraged. These are papers developed from promising but incomplete research projects that will benefit from the feedback of other ICIS participants. Accepted research-in-progress papers will be presented as posters at ICIS 2016, and published in the ICIS 2016 proceedings. Furthermore, posters will be grouped by track (see track titles above) and made available for the duration of the conference.

Important dates:

• Scholar One open for submission 31 January 2016
• Deadline for paper submissions 6 May 2016 - Midnight Int’l Dateline West (UTC-12:00)
• Scholar One opens to reviewers 10 May 2016
• Deadline for all reviews 15 June 2016
• Initial decision notifications to authors 8 August 2016
• Deadline for revised, camera-ready papers 8 September 2016
• Final decision notifications of acceptances 22 September 2016
• ICIS 2016 Conference dates 11-14 December 2016

Conference Co-Chairs: Brian Fitzgerald and John Mooney
Program Co-Chairs: Pär Ågerfalk, Natalia Levina and Sia Siew Kien
Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs: Mary-Beth Watson-Manheim, Patrick Finnegan and Stefan Klein
Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Niamh O Riordan, Allen Higgins
Local Organizing Committee: Brian Donnellan, Fergal Mc Caffery, Frederic Adam, Aidan Duane, Fergal McGrath, Gabriel Costello, Kevin Curran.
Local Arrangements Doctoral Symposium: Lisa van der Werff.
Junior Faculty Symposium: Izak Benbasat, Susan Scott, Bernard Tan,
Treasurer: Lorraine Morgan
Communications Co-Chairs: Klaas-Jan Stol, Theo Lynn.
Sponsorship Co-Chairs: Tom Butler, Kieran Conboy, Theo Lynn.
Social Arrangements: Graham Hunt, Brian O Flaherty.
Review Chair: Klaas-Jan Stol.
Volunteer Coordinator: Roisin Lyons

What's in a one page research idea?

After reading the proposal and talking about it we should be able to answer the following questions.

• Do we know what you propose investigating? (a one sentence statement, often the title)
• Motivation, why is it interesting? (might be something puzzling at work or a question you have)
• What sources of data do you think will you use? (speculation is ok)
• What kind of data do you expect to gather and how will the data be gathered? (speculation is ok)
• In what theory, knowledge area, discipline do you start from? (provide some references to theory)

Basic structure as follows:

TITLE (a couple of words, a phrase or a short sentence)
ABSTRACT (- around 300 words - a very short 'story' from which answers to the questions above can be inferred )
REFERENCES (3 TO 8)

1. Justify your idea using at least three academic references (not magazine articles, web posts or news items).
2. Justify the most important statements using citation (see note above).
3. Do not include spurious references in the bibliography, that is, only include a reference if you have cited it in the text.
4. For an abstract: three references is about right, more than ten is too many. None is too few.
5. An abstract should fit on a single page (including title, author's name and references).

Submission closing for the 2016 IAM Conference, Dublin Aug 31- Sept 2nd

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the 2016 Irish Academy of Management Conference is February 29th.

The 2016 Irish Academy of Management Conference is being hosted by the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, Dublin, from Aug 31st to Sept 2nd, 2016.

The conference theme is ‘Ireland 2016: Re-imagining business and the role of ethics’. 2016 is an historic year for Ireland as we commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising. The official commemorations invite us to remember our past and imagine a better future. As part of these commemorations, the 2016 IAM Conference will examine ethics in business - past, present and future. We invite papers and roundtable symposiums that explore the concept of ethics in its broadest sense and across multiple levels – individual, organisational, sectoral, national and international – and enhance our understanding of building a sustainable and ethical economy and society.

We welcome contributions from within business and management schools, but also from other disciplines across academia and from civil society, NGOs and practitioners.

While the conference will have a strong Irish and ethical focus, we warmly welcome international scholars and papers from all business disciplines on a wide range of topics.

Abstracts of 1500 words are due by February 29th for papers and roundtable symposiums. If accepted, full papers (6,000-8,000 words) will be due by June 30th. Submission details and further information about the conference can be found on the conference website. http://www.iamireland.ie/annual-conference/2016-annual-conference-ucd.html

A Doctoral Colloquium will also form part of the conference and we welcome submissions from PhD students at all stages of their doctoral studies. Abstracts of 500 words are required to be submitted by February 29th.

The deadline for all abstract submissions is February 29th 2016. All abstracts will be double peer-reviewed. More information is available on the conference website:

http://www.iamireland.ie/annual-conference/2016-annual-conference-ucd.html

We look forward to welcoming you to Dublin!

Dr Colm McLaughlin
Conference Chair
UCD College of Business
E-mail: IAM2016@ucd.ie

Overlapping ideas; outsourcing and value chain mapping

Simon Wardley links the value chain mapping idea and extends it with the technology adoption lifecycle product maturity model. His opinion piece on Computer Weekly includes a really nice illustration of how this can be applied to a 'sourcing' analysis (link).

An illustration of Wardley's strategic mapping applied for sourcing analysis (link)

Do Irish government policies and supports help or hinter entrepreneurs?

Tuesday 9th February, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, Blackrock.

Invitation to an industry panel debating the topic "Do Irish government policies and supports help or hinter entrepreneurs?"

Panel of Niamh Bushnell (Dublin Commissioner for Start-ups), Chris Horn (co-founder and former CEO Iona Technologies, now Venture Partner at Atlantic Bridge Ventures) and Brendan Cremen (UCD Director of Enterprise and Commercialisation). (link to register).

@ucddi for Digital Innovation

As part of the newly changed programme title, MSc Digital Innovation, we will use the @ucddi Twitter account for items of public interest and mindshare for the student body.

Do please @ucddi for items on your own Twitter feed you think would be of interest to Digital Innovation.