In Dublin speaking about the web as a way to improve market intelligence in the Open Economy

Tomorrow I will be flying to Dublin, where I will be speaking at the "SMART CONSTRUCTION - DOING BUSINESS IN THE NETHERLANDS" seminar, organized by Enterprise Ireland, the Government's agency for the development and promotion of Irish business sector.

The seminar will take place at Enterprise Ireland HQ in Dublin, next Tuesday February 23rd 2010, from 08.45, where the registration starts, to 15:30, where the pre-booked one-to-one meetings are expected to end. This event is one of the activities organized for the Ireland Construct community, created with the objective to help Irish construction companies achieve strong positions in global market, and in this case will focus on the Dutch Construction industry.

I have been kindly invited by EI in my position of CEO at Gateway SCS which as you know owns the internet property Euroalert.net, a well know brand in Europe in the public procurement information services field.

I will be speaking around noon and I will share the morning panel with several experts in the Netherlands building environment sector:

• Bas van der Veen, Professor at Innovative Entrepreneurship in Construction at Saxion University who will present "The future of the Construction Industry in the Netherlands"
• Pieter van Boom, Managing Director at Bartels consulting engineers,who will speak about "Partnering opportunities – the realities in the Dutch market"
  
• Peter van de Boogaard, owner of NewCon Vastgoed bv, who will share "The expectations of a Dutch buyer in the Construction industry", and
  
• Martin Bourgonje, from Synergy Management, who will contribute with "Doing Business in the Netherlands – the small print"
  

I will try to contribute with Euroalert.net expertise in helping individual SMEs across the European Union, to compete with biggest companies, by providing more accurate, and fastest information on tenders in Europe or with market intelligence tools on public procurement opportunities like 10ders Observatory

In my presentation "Digging business leads out of the internet", I will mix the concepts of public procurement as an affordable way to export for SMEs, and the levelling factor of the web that brings more cost-effective tools to market intelligence on public procurement. The web is reshaping every aspect of our life and businesses have the opportunity to perform better in this Open Economy, by using improved tools to do old tasks. I hope Euroalert's modest contribution will help with useful tips in this at-the-gate-of-recovery scenery. Please, feel free to review and comment on the full presentation:
Digging business leads out of the internet

If you are in Dublin these days, please contact me, so perhaps we can share a pint of Guinness in the evening ;-)