With a 63% increase in employment in the last five years, and 13,000 workers currently employed in 61 IDA-supported companies, Cork is positioning itself as a city of tech supremacy.

One of Cork’s most prestigious annual events, it@cork’s Tech Summit, takes place at City Hall on Thursday. Reporter Pádraig Hoare speaks to newly elected it@cork chairCaroline O’Driscoll about the event

Three of Cork’s most ‘Outstanding People of the Year’ were honoured at an awards ceremony in the Vienna Woods Hotel last night.

New trade, education, research and cultural links will be forged between Cork and another large Chinese city after a formal agreement was signed yesterday.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s comments about unemployed people have drawn sharp criticism, IT group it@Cork is seeking Government funding for an initiative that could create 1,300 jobs, Man United have signed Memphis Depay and today’s Lusitania Centenary events live. These are some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

The detective, who is heading up the investigation into the murder of Cork nurse Karen Buckley, has thanked the Irish public for their support, plans to cut unemployed people’s welfare payments for not paying their water charge bills have been criticised and three things we learned from Barca v Bayern. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

The IT sector’s representative body in the south of the country, it@Cork, has submitted an application to the Government seeking funding for an initiative that could create 1,300 jobs over the coming years.

Cork’s leading tech cluster has struck a deal for local businesses that quite literally opens the door to thousands of potential partner firms across Europe.

Treemetrics continues to grow with it@Cork award

A rural community has united to enter the digital age.

Cork is losing out on substantial foreign direct investment due to insufficient technology infrastructure, according to a leading technology expert.

An Irish woman who has risen to the top echelons of Twitter’s global executive ranks will address a special tech conference in Cork next month.

No matter how sophisticated a company’s IT security is, there will always remain a weak point — human beings — according to global VP of security research with Trend Micro, Rik Ferguson.

A gathering of some of the world’s leading tech players will take place in the Cork City Hall tomorrow with speakers from Amazon, IBM, Trend Micro, and Opentext all set to address the European Tech Summit.

Global innovators will offer insights into how future technologies will transform business, at the it@cork European Tech Cluster Summit in Cork on May 15.

The search for the next entrepreneurs to resuscitate the economy hasbegun, with Enterprise Ireland, the National Research and Design Centre LaunchPad programme, and it@cork announcing a new batch of start-ups.

IT@Cork is holding a seminar that plans to eliminate Ireland’s budget deficit and create jobs for the future.

IT companies can generate six jobs in the general economy for every one high-tech job created, according to it@cork analysis.

THE IT industry is alive and well in Ireland and will continue to grow.

BUDDING technology entrepreneurs and small hi-tech and internet businesses in Cork are being offered a chance to show their wares on a trade mission to Chicago next year.

A NEW initiative, entitled Innovation That Matters, has been launched by it@cork, in association with Cork County Council and Barlogue Consultancy Services.

MUNSTER’S leaders in technology have been celebrated for their contribution to the technology sector in an award ceremony for those who are driving success in the area.

TECHNOLOGY, competitive focus and enhanced trading ties with China can speed up Ireland’s recovery, according to leading industry analysts.

Learning how to blog is the theme of a course being run by the it@cork IT network (www.itcork.ie).

IT@CORK has launched the National Technology and Business Conference, which takes place on Wednesday, November 29, in the Rochestown Park Hotel.

MANAGEMENT thought guru, Charles Handy, will be the keynote speaker at the it@cork national conference on November 30.