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The second annual dot conf, promoted as a free one-day event for anyone with an interest in the internet, is set to take place on Thursday, 2 June.

The line-up of speakers has just been announced and you can also check the full running order for the day. If your company is looking for an interesting sponsorship option – it quite a diverse audience is expected.
Organisers say it is aimed at everyone from third level students and educators to designers, engineers, bloggers and entrepreneurs.
Held at National College of Ireland (NCI) at the IFSC, this year’s event follows a successful first outing in 2010.

The good news is the event is free again this year. You can’t get tickets but registration is limited, and numbers are expected to fill up quickly on the day. Registration opens from 8.20am, with the first speaker on at 9.30am. The dot conf will finish up at 5.35pm, and a party held afterwards.

A new one-day conference to be held in Dublin next week will feature speakers from “the Holy Trinity” of the web and digital media economy.

The dot conf conference which is being run in National College of Ireland, in association with the Irish Internet Association, on Thursday, July 22 will highlight the opportunities available in the digital economy. The college’s new full-time and part-time MSc in Web Technologies is also to be launched on the day.
Speaking Robert Ward, Director of Marketing and Student Recruitment at the National College of Ireland, says “You’ve got people from what you might call the Holy Trinity of this type of thing: looking at the business side, looking at the user experience side and looking at the technology. Those three areas are key elements in the course and we try to echo that through the day.”
Ward says these three elements are very useful to people either wanting to set up a business or operating in this space already. “We’re very active as a college in this space through our School of Computing so we want to have this conference as a way for people in the very broad-based web and social media community to come together to share experiences. We also think in terms of the overall economy that the web and digital media is a real area of opportunity in terms of new business.”
The conference has already received a good response from start-ups and people who are interested in social media in any type of business.
The dot conf, he says, will provide massive networking opportunities for the broad spectrum of the web community. For jobseekers – people either already in or wanting to get into this area it will be a chance to meet people in this sector as well as gaining from the talks on the day.
“It’s bringing together some of the key players, in Ireland and internationally, so there’s huge advantages for somebody who’s on a job search or looking for opportunities in that area.”
The dot conf will also provide attendees with new skills. The line up includes Deep Dives sessions, which Ward describes as ‘how to’ sessions where people will get real skills through practical workshops.
If you’re still not sure whether the dot conf is for you, take a look at its promo video on YouTube featuring Lego.

But don’t delay, as the dot conf is free and spaces have filled up already. If you want to put your name on the waiting list see http://thedotconf.wordpress.com/book-it