3rd December 2019

Aishling Monaghan

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Kells Tech Hub Members on a Business Opportunity Mission to Berlin

Two of our Kells Tech Hub members, Eugene Cahill 5D Design and John McGowan Unicorn Magic, will join a number of other recruited SMEs from the Newry Mourne Down/Louth/Meath transfrontier region to participate on a business opportunity mission to Berlin.

During this trip our two Kells Tech members will have the opportunity to:

investigate business collaboration opportunities in Germany afforded by new technology.
establish business to business links and business to education/research links with German joint venture partners.
assess new management methods and best practices
be exposed to the required capabilities which access to the German market demands.

The Vision Works, a Berlin-based team of business support specialists has been appointed to act as the ‘concierge’ for the Programme in the German capital, arranging one-to-one meetings and ensuring that the group of 21 owner/managers and support staff from the east transfrontier region will have a well organised, productive and hassle-free experience when in Berlin.

They will also meet with the Irish Ambassador to Germany, Dr. Nicholas O’Brien who has served in this role since August 2019.

John McGowan is a new business start up at Kells Tech Hub in the Kells Enterprise Centre with Automagical Apps. Automagical Apps are a portfolio of Google Add-ons created by John and Deanna McGowan as part of Unicorn Magic. They are math teachers who have taught around the world. John is a certified Google Education Trainer and the creator of g(Math), which had over 13 million worldwide users before it retired in January 2018. A math teacher of over 15 years, he loved to adapt the fail-forward mentality and push the bounds of technology integration in the math classroom. Automagical apps are the portfolio of other Add-ons that John developed and launched at the same time as g(Math) to help teacher workflow and amplify effectiveness. John said of his trip:

I am looking to scale up my business and this is a huge opportunity for me to do so.

Eugene Cahill is a new business start up with his company 5D Design at Kells Enterprise and Technology Centre. 5D Design provides 3D Solid Modelling services to support the Mechanical and Plastic Parts Industries with particular expertise in Injection Moulding.
5D Design can also provide you with a Design and Modelling service for all your mechanical assembly requirements for Sheet Metal, Fabrication and Profile cutting. At 5D Design they have practical hands-on experience of fabrication, equipment assembly and maintenance. This ensures that they always provide ‘real world’ solutions to your design requirements.

I am really looking forward to this trip and meeting other businesses that are in the same field as myself.

We wish both of our great tenants a successful trip in the European Capital and look forward to learning more on their return.