{"id":5783,"date":"2013-05-21T13:44:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T12:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2013-05-21T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T12:44:30","slug":"ilex-on-board-as-ebn-congress-principal-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2013\/05\/ilex-on-board-as-ebn-congress-principal-sponsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilex on board as EBN Congress Principal Sponsor:"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ilex has joined Invest NI and DCAL as a principal sponsor of EBN Congress, the biggest international innovation conference in Northern Ireland this year, which is being organised by NORIBIC (Northern Ireland Business and Innovation Centre).<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC_0445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5784\" title=\"DSC_0445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC_0445-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Matt McNulty, Interim Chair of Ilex and Dr Bernard Toal, Chief Executive of NORIBIC, were pictured making the announcement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Bernard Toal, chief executive of NORIBIC says that given Ilex\u2019s strategic role in the economic growth of North West, Ilex\u2019s support is particularly welcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe congress focuses on the three key areas of the \u2018One Plan\u2019 for the regeneration of the city that Ilex has driven \u2013 social innovation, cultural innovation and digital innovation. So Ilex\u2019s support for the congress is both extremely welcome and very significant,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Matt McNulty, Interim Chair of Ilex added: \u201cIlex is delighted to support the EBN Congress in Derry~Londonderry.\u00a0 Not only will this conference draw people from around the world to the city, it will positively promote its regeneration in line with our ambition of the One Plan. It will also project the city as a location of choice for investment and will have a substantial economic impact, generating over \u00a3700,000 for the local economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Topping the programme for the three day conference (29<sup>th<\/sup>-31<sup>st<\/sup> May) will be Steve Wozniak, who has been a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years.\u00a0 In 1976, Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer Inc with Steve Jobs, helping to shape the computing industry with his design of Apple\u2019s first line of products.<\/p>\n<p>EBN Congress 2013 will include a series of events and exhibitions including the Digital, Cultural and Social Innovation networking Villages.\u00a0 It will begin on 29<sup>th<\/sup> May with a civic reception hosted by the Mayor of Derry, followed by a cultural welcome event in the Craft Village.\u00a0 The Millennium Forum will then stage the main conference on 30<sup>th<\/sup> and 31<sup>st<\/sup> May with a Gala Dinner and Concert showcasing many local acts at The Venue at Ebrington on the Thursday evening (30<sup>th<\/sup> May).<\/p>\n<p>Further information about EBN Congress is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noribic.com\/ebncongress\">www.noribic.com\/ebncongress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ilex urc was established to promote the physical, economic and social regeneration of Derry~Londonderry and has specific responsibility to manage and re-develop former military base Ebrington (26 acres) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilex-urc.com\">www.ilex-urc.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilex has joined Invest NI and DCAL as a principal sponsor of EBN Congress, the biggest international innovation conference in Northern Ireland this year, which is being organised by NORIBIC (Northern Ireland Business and Innovation Centre). Matt McNulty, Interim Chair of Ilex and Dr Bernard Toal, Chief Executive of NORIBIC, were pictured making the announcement. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2013\/05\/ilex-on-board-as-ebn-congress-principal-sponsor\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}