The first event of Meath Enterprise was an Enterprise Event titled Trending for the Future for students of VTOS Navan and LMETB in Athboy. We were treated to a morning of excellent presentations from Gary O’Meara General Manager of Meath Enterprise, Joe English Head of the Local Enterprise Office, Matt Tully from the Dept. of Social Protection, Patrick Everit, Mary Crilly and Jan Carroll of LMETB/VTOS.

Joe English kicked off the morning with a very informative presentation on how to start and grow a business in Meath with information on all the services and supports the Local Enterprise Office can provide, followed by plenty of excellent questions from a very interested audience. He was followed by the Manager of Meath Enterprise- Gary O’Meara who discussed what supports were available to new businesses as well as how important it is to Meath Enterprise Week to involve VTOS/LMETB students as they are potentially going to be entrepreneurs of the future.

We then heard from Matt Tully about how the Department of Social Welfare strives to support those seeking to start up a new business.

Patrick Everit followed presenting a fascinating presentation on Digital Marketing and used Donald Trump as proof of the power of digital marketing which really caught everyone’s attention! Mary Crilly then educated us on Entrepreneurship and how important it is to take risks! Jan Carroll finished off a wonderful morning with some helpful tips on applying the new GDPR directives into business going forward.

Overall this was a thoroughly interesting and very informative morning for all involved and we are delighted to collaborate with the VTOS/LMETB for Meath Enterprise Week and throughout the year. A huge thank you to Angela Cahill the coordinator for VTOS/LMETB for her part in organising the event and we look forward to further collaboration in the future!

A small bit of information on Meath Enterprise. Our goals are to-

• To establish business clusters by providing infrastructure to enable new and existing businesses to scale and succeed.
• To facilitate enterprise development, collaboration and innovation through effective learning, mentoring and networking.
• To collaborate with local, regional and national bodies to drive entrepreneurship, innovation and business development.

We manage an 85,000 sq. foot facility in Navan which is home to new and existing businesses across multiple sectors such as food, digital and tech. We also manage a 25,000-sq. foot high spec office space in Kells which will become the home of the new international Technology Startup and Scale up Hub known as Kells Tech. Meath Enterprise is proposing to develop the Navan Digital Hub alongside the existing Meath Enterprise Centre in Navan. The proposed Boyne Valley Food Innovation District is being project managed by Meath Enterprise. The BVFID aims to be to food what Silicon Valley is to technology. Our purpose is to facilitate the scalable expansion of new and existing food companies to exploit the global opportunity in the food sector by providing guidance, support, resources and facilities which will enable economic and social benefits for Ireland at a regional and national level.

For more information on Meath Enterprise please contact us-

info@meathenterprise.ie

www.meathenterprise.ie

+353 46 9073753