Feedback from Previous Winners
Feedback from Previous Winners
Emerging Company Award winner 2007 Pat Phelan, Cubic Telecom: “Winning the award enhanced our profile amazingly, being recognised by your peers is very important, it is great to have a Cork award for a Cork company which was also noticed by our international partners.”
High Potential Award winner 2007 Ger Fitzgerald, Abtran: “The event was very well managed; winning the award enhanced our profile and led to increased press coverage”
R&D Project Award Winners 2007 Enda Keane, Treemetrics: “Credibility is very important for start-ups; winning the it@corkR&D Project Award gave us that credibility. Validation from your peers is a great boost to staff morale. Our customers noticed that we had won the award and it increased confidence in our product.”
And James Little, Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4Cs): “There was a lot of buzz about the project on the awards night; winning the Leaders Award has helped us showcase how academia and industry can work together for the benefit of the Irish economy."
IT Department Winner 2007 Ruairi Roddy, Thomas Crosbie Holdings: "After a tough but rewarding year, to be recognised by fellow IT people as getting it right was a huge boost for us all.”
R&D Project Award Winners 2008
Lena Ni Mhurchu, SafetyEYE Project Manager with Pilz Ireland: "
Winning helped raise the profile of Pilz Ireland in Cork, it was highly appreciated by the Cork team and great motivation. Working in the area of Industrial Automation, the high standard of software tools we produce can be overlooked - to have the product acknowledged by the software industry helped Pilz Ireland gain recognition within the worldwide Pilz group."
IT Department Award Winners 2008 James Fogarty, Cork County Council: "The award resulted in very good publicity for Cork County Council and raised the awareness and appreciation both internally and externally of the work we do to increase the efficiency of the services the Council provides."