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International Women’s Day - Celebrating Women in Irish Food
2021-03-08 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Ludgate Virtual Event, Ireland
Join Sally McKenna, McKenna Guides and Jacinta Dalton GMIT for a discussion with some of Ireland’s leading lights in food & hospitality.
This 2 hour event will feature 3 panel discussions and 10 breakout rooms where we will be talking resilience, recovery and above all virtually networking, whilst celebrating the best Ireland has to offer.
This International Women’s Day we’re going digital. Whilst we can’t bring women together in our usual way, this gives us the opportunity to have more attendees than ever before!This online interactive event will take place on International Women’s Day, Monday 8th March 2021, from 11am – 13.00pm.
Attendees will hear from a range of contributors and key speakers who will discuss their experiences over the past year and their hopes for what a post-COVID Ireland will look like for women in Food. This will be followed by interactive breakout rooms allowing our attendees to network .
Below is a list of our Panel discussions with our key speakers:
The Farm Revisited with Caroline Hennessey, Siobhan ni Gharbhaith, Mags Riordan, Eva Milka, Aisling Flanagan , Maria Flynn .
Resilience: with Leslie Williams , Aishling Moore , Mary Grealish ,Marita Collier , Judith Boyle.
Re-building with Olivia Duff , Elaina Fitzgerald , Gina Murphy ,Grainne Mullins , Dervla Conlon

Promoting your business in uncertain times.
2021-02-26 10:45 - 11:30 | Ludgate Virtual Event, Ireland

Mental Health & Well-being at Christmas
2020-12-10 11:00 - 11:45 | Ludgate Virtual Event, Ireland
We are delighted to confirm Priscilla Lynch, Head of Service Health & Wellbeing, Cork Kerry Community Healthcare and Fiona O Donnell, Fiona O’Donnell Nutrition and Health as guest speakers at our December virtual event.

Both Priscilla and Fiona are experts in their fields and both are passionate about spreading awareness about mental health and well-being.
The overall aim of the event is to inform attendees of ways to enhance Christmas by looking after their mental and physical well-being.

The Future Of Agriculture
2020-11-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Cork
Topic: The future of Agriculture

Aim: To identify the opportunity and innovation within the Agriculture industry at present by building sustainable, resilient agricultural supply chains thereby reducing climate impacts and adopting more sustainable business strategies.

Event MC:
Justin McCarthy, Editor & Chief Executive of the Irish Farmers Journal.
Speakers

Tara McCarthy, CEO Bord Bia
Antoine Pajot, AgriTech Centre Director, UCD Research and Innovation NovaUCD.
Phil Hogan Former TD and European Commissioner.

Panellists:

Professor Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy at Trinity College Dublin.
Pippa Hacket, Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity.

William Kingston, Dairy Farmer.

Financial Support Insights
2020-11-03 11:00 - 13:00 | Cork
This practical webinar will explore Financial packages which are available through both AIB and your Local Enterprise Office to enable businesses navigate through the uncertain times of Covid-19. Government aids for small to medium size businesses will be explored together with the qualifying criteria associated with these aids. The ultimate aim of this event is to raise awareness around financial aids for businesses in Covid-19.
Speakers: Maeve Buckley, AIB Branch Manager, Skibbereen
Deirdre O’Mahony, Senior Business Development Officer, West Cork Local Enterprise Office.
