Salim Ismail Salim Ismail speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference. Thanks for the name check Salim 🙂

Eamonn Fallon Eamonn Fallon of Irish property site Daft.ie speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Tony Kenny Tony Kenny speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference. He’s the IT manager at Beaumont Hospital. His experiences with introducing Open Source software such as Linux and Star Office into the hospital make for a very interesting talk.

Jeff Nolan Jeff Nolan speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference.

Jacques-Etienne Grandjean Jacques-Etienne Grandjean speaking at the 2006 it@cork National Technology & Business Conference. Tom Raftery blogged about his talk and while he’s right that no search competitors of Microsoft were mentioned, he did say that search isn’t very sticky. I’m sure he’s hoping that people will abandon Google and jump on board MS Live.