About this Event

Technovation, Ireland Chapter (Phase Innovate) is graciously hosting a Technovation information day to kick-off the 2019 season.

All mentors , teachers and students who wish to participate in the program are cordially invited to an information and brainstorming session to guide participants on tips for creating successful ideation session and details about the technovation programme.

Background:

Technovation offers girls around the world the opportunity to learn the skills they need to emerge as tech entrepreneurs and leaders. Every year they invite girls to identify a problem in their community and then challenge them to solve it.

Girls work in teams to build both a mobile app and a business plan to launch that app, supported by mentors and guided by our curriculum.

For more information, visit:

https://technovationchallenge.org/

Main Speaker: Dr Fergal Brophy

Fergal Brophy is an entrepreneurial specialist at UCD Innovation Academy.

A serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the corporate sector. He co-founded Open Financial Services in 2000 and sold it in 2014. He has held sales and marketing roles with Pepsi, Nivea and Kellogg’s. Fergal has led innovation training programmes for ESB, Enterprise Ireland, Deloitte, Irish Stock Exchange and facilitated Hackathons for US Embassy, SciComm and New Ireland.

Host: Evelyn Nomayo- Regional Ambassador, Technovation, Ireland.