THE ever successful and prominent Senator Mary Ann O’Brien will be the focus and keynote speaker at a Women in Business networking event to be hosted in Limerick next month.
Both the city and county enterprise boards will present a “Women in business” networking event on Wednesday May 2 next where the from 6 to 9pm the Carlton Castletroy park Hotel will play backdrop for “The Story of Lily O’Brien Chocolates”.

SHANNON Applied Biotechnology Centre (Shannon ABC), a research, development and innovation centre based in Munster, is hosting a conference on Open Innovation this Thursday and Friday at LIT. The conference will be attended by Minister of State Brian Hayes and will be officially opened by Dr Maria Hinfelaar, President of LIT. Open innovation is a concept that assumes that firms can and should use external as well as internal ideas and paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.