Event details
Technology drives business competitiveness
| Time: | 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start |
| Date: | Thursday 3 September 2009 |
| Venue: | Lakeside, Mansfield Road, Arnold |
We heard from two business leaders who have pushed the boundaries to create successful and innovative business ventures.
Ryan O'Meara, Founder, Independent Digital Media Ltd
Independent Digital Media helps businesses embrace the 'digital way' of doing business with specific focus on utilising digital media to reduce costs and grow the bottom line. IDM works with a company to understand its core business activities and offers advice and direction on how existing processes can be improved by utilising digital media techniques. IDM provides simple, down to earth solutions on everything from sourcing reliable, quality suppliers using the web, to how to get massive, targeted customer enquiries through digital media such as Facebook, YouTube or Twitter.
Independent Digital Media is the brainchild of Ryan O'Meara, the entrepreneur behind media firms, K9 Media Ltd (Europe's largest pet publishing company) and ViVo Media Ltd (the UK's first ultra-local, ultra-luxury publisher). Ryan currently owns 40 web sites and publishes four magazines with over 11 million readers.
Ben Randal, CEO, OuterArc
OuterArc wants to make the world a more energy efficient place to live by asking, "How much energy are you using?" OuterArc leverages some of the latest advances in the socialweb, mobile platforms and real-time device connectivity to help create the future vision of the smart grid and meet the world's future energy needs. Their applications can be used by businesses of all sizes plus organisations with large customer bases such as energy utility companies.
A young start up company, OuterArc is based in the innovation centre at BioCity and has received funding for research and development from emda.