By: RnM Team
Source: http://www.radioandmusic.com
Category: Film School Online
MUMBAI: Starting today, representatives from 30 Irish companies will converge in Austin to participate in South by Southwest (SXSW), the world's premier film, music and interactive conference. Here, where technology intersects with the arts, legions of thinkers, inventors and musicians spark discussions, catalyze ideas and forge connections. Like Twitter, Foursquare and others, many have used the venue to launch technologies that transform how we work and socialize.
With the Irish delegation is Ireland's Minister for Innovation, Mr. Sean Sherlock. The delegation is supported by Enterprise Ireland (EI), the government agency responsible for the growth and development of Irish companies in international markets. EI is joined at the conference again this year by IDA Ireland and the Irish Film Board.
Speaking at the event, Minister Sherlock said, "SXSW is synonymous with uncovering 'the next best thing' so it's an excellent venue to showcase Ireland's technology and creative flair. Today's Irish entrepreneurs are reaching into our strong cultural traditions to build inventive, socially relevant, useful and entertaining digital media products. Highly driven and competitive, they've shaped a start-up culture that's made Ireland a magnet for the digital media luminaries that converge at popular annual gatherings like F.ounders and the Dublin Web Summit. In Austin this week, I'm looking forward to engaging, sharing ideas and joining the inspiring conversations."
Minister Sherlock will attend the conference and participate in an early St. Patrick's Day event on Saturday for delegates and their guests. Collectively, the Irish will stage their presence at booth #1307 in Exhibit Hall 4.
Ireland's web, gaming, digital media and film ingenuity will shine in myriad ways throughout the event. For Storyful which uses social networks to create an authentic and socially useful journalism, SXSW is the latest stop on its US market roll-out campaign. This week the company named Erica Berger as head of its new Americas operation. Berger previously reported for The Economist from her NYC base. At Storyful, she will manage relationships with publications like the New York Times and The Economist, and tech companies like Google and YouTube. Also this week, the new Storyful Direct app landed in Apple's App store. The app helps citizens connect their content with news organizations.
Other Irish standouts at the show include:
Relevenz which will launch its plan-sharing social app for the Android smart phone.
VendorShop, a provider of Facebook shopping cart solutions recently scored a seed round which it will use
Source: http://www.radioandmusic.com/content/editorial/news-releases/irelands-interactive-technology-founders-shine-sxsw-2012
