BizCamp Belfast

Speakers (19)

Starting Up — Basically my aspirations of starting up and things that triggered my path to opening my own cafe from around 2000, when I started studying in University as a radiotherapist.

— Graeme Finegan (@Grounded_Graeme)

Adventures of community and the mobile startup — A few stories and theories about doing a startup in Northern Ireland. Will flesh out gritty detail of it all later.

— Jase Bell (@jasebell)

Unconventional Entrepreneurship — I'll be talking about funky business models, strange startups and unusually creative entrepreneurs - inspiration for unconventional entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to be.

— Mark Nagurski (@iddictive)

Successful Web Projects – A Guide For Clients. — Demystifying the web design process by taking a look at things from the perspective of you, the client.

— Eamonn Murphy (@vectorfunk)

The future of SME's — I am gonna talk about why sme's should be using our experience to help ourselves

— Rob Mart (@MarrRob)

Mobile Gaming & Galactic Racer — Background to development of mobile games (iPhone, iPad, other phones) and preview of the world's most anticipated iPhone game - Galactic Racer

— Liam McGarry (@WeeManStudios)

“Here’s How You Improve The Success of Your Business in 2010” — A straight to the point no nonsense approach in improving the success of your business in 2010.

I will show you why FEAR is a bottleneck on your road to success. More specifically fear of failure and self limiting beliefs.

These two factors above a lack of marketing knowledge or organisational development are the real knives in the back of your business success.

When "Fear of Failure" becomes "Let's Do It!" and "Self Limiting Beliefs" become "Self Empowering Beliefs", that's when success really happens.

Then and only then do business owners focus on their business and personal goals instead of focusing on their problems.

— Mike Fountain (@Mike_Fountain)

Mind Your Business — The core factor that will decide the success or failure of your business - and your experience of it - is how you think about it. Does thinking about your business make you feel energised? Alive? Excited?
Or tired, stressed-out and jaded?

Recognise any of the following?

- It's impossible to do well in these economically-troubled times.
- It's difficult being an entrepreneur.
- Why, when I'm so busy, do I feel like I'm getting nothing done?
- I've bitten off more than I can chew!
- I'll never be any good at the [insert dreaded word here] side of my business...
- There's no-one to support you as an entrepreneur; you have to do it on your own.
- I'll get back to enjoying my personal/social life when the business is more established. Yes, I know I said that last year too...

Change your thoughts and you change your world: action without the right thoughts behind it is at best, dependent on luck, and at worst, futile.

This talk will be about getting yourself back into peak mental shape and then taking thoughtful action to lift your business to where you want it to be.

Misery loves company - but who wants THAT company, eh? People with a desire for success only, please. ;)

— Tracy Dempsey (@tracydempsey)

SocialLocal - LocalSocial — A light overview of some of the thinking on what makes a good social network application and what might be missing to make them work for our budding businesses. Some thoughts on where the local web meets the social web, and how we can together develop alternatives, more local sourcing, and crowdsource a sourcebook of, by and, for creatives [and their portfolios] across the isle.

— Tim Kelley (@timspeak)

More sales through Landing Pages — Stories, case studies and examples of how a few tweaks to your website landing page can increase sales by over 200%

— Alan O'Rourke (@alanorourke)

Busting Loose from The Business Game — You learned the rules and you've been faithful to them, thinking you can win. But you can't really win the Business Game, because it's designed to be unwinnable - that is as long as you play by the rules you were taught. The only way to truly win is to bust lose from the "old" game and start playing new game with a new set of rules.

Based on the book, "Busting Loose from The Business Game by Robert Scheinfeld

— Hugh Burgess (@TBusinessMentor)

Envisioning the Future — Using creative envisioning tools to innovate future business models.

This hands-on, paper-based workshop will introduce futurecasting models pioneered by service design company live|work and developed by NESTA with the University of Ulster's MA Multidisciplinary Design programme. We'll look at how individuals can embrace creative envisioning tools to innovate out of creative dead ends and map out engaging products, services and strategies.

— Christopher Murphy (@standardistas)

Google AdWords — Google AdWords (and Pay Per Click in general) can seriously increase your bottom line.
Not enough businesses in N.Ireland are using it properly yet.
I'll show you the potential, and also mention a few free tools and other stuff that Google provides...

— Jordan McClements (@PPCNI)

Bad Apples or Bad Basket — A practical guide on managing difficult people.

I am an Business Psychologist specialising in Performance Improvement, Training & Development & Change.

— Ruth Thompson (@behavioureye)

MatchMedia — MatchMedia Ireland Ltd will be giving a short demonstration/explanation of our two current products
1.)'Appographs'
2.)'FroggiFeet'
and ask the question?
'How can you get involved?'

— Philip Wilson (@internetsense)

More sales with email marketing: 10 steps, 10 tips — Using email marketing creatively, I will outline a simple, step by step checklist to grow your sales and increase your ROI. I will share war stories from our experience and best international practice.

— Mary Carty (@marycarty)

Considering strategy — I'm going to give a talk on the importance of changing your strategy in business. If you're banging your head up against a brick wall, it's for a reason: you need to change your strategy!

— Lyra McKee (@lyramckee)

Partnerships with techies — Many entrepreneurial projects involve finding and managing technical partners. Having worked on both sides of the fence, I've picked up experience of how a creative technical partner can deliver projects on spec / budget / deadline. I'd like share experiences with others on how projects can do this - and how they can fail to do it if the wrong supplier is chosen or the wrong processes are used

— Paul Evans (@paul0evans1)

10 Obsticals To Overcome When Running a Web Business — I gave this talk for the first time @bizcampnewry and it seemed to go down well. It's about the the reasons why we choose not to start a business and how we should overcome them.

I have started several businesses in parallel over the last 11 years, some worked, some didn't. The talk is about the fundamental challenges entrepreneurs face and how taking a different perspective on the challenges can change your outcome.

I have to go early to dress as a Barney for a neighbors kids birthday party, so if I a have purple paws, you know the reason :-)

— Niall McKeown (@niallmckeown)