I had an e-mail from Gerard Butler at EI telling me about the forthcoming Informatics Showcase event in Dublin on Wednesday, October 3rd. The event features presentations by researchers on commercial opportunities from their informatics research: typically technology license or campus company investment opportunities.

I’d be interested in attending but will be on leave that week, as the Zimbie and Millifeed projects are both quite interesting to me. Here’s the blurb from the site:

This event is designed to bring people together from the venture capital, business and research community to create mutually-profitable partnerships.

Since the informatics team started bringing researchers and industry together in 2005, Enterprise Ireland has worked closely with the commercialisation specialists in the research community. This has resulted in 12 technologies licensed to Irish companies with an additional 8 deals on track in 2007.

We have also supported the start up of three companies in the last two years, with another four due in 2007. 160 research projects in the informatics area have been funded to date and this event provides the opportunity to hear from 8 researchers who are currently bringing their technologies to market.

Potential investors or licensors of the technologies on show can also schedule a one-to-one meeting on the day with the researchers in advance. To arrange this you need to register. Click here to register