Teamwork.com founders Daniel Mackey and Peter Coppinger are only getting started in representing Cork business on the world stage, writes Pádraig Hoare.

Founders of outsourcing firm Voxpro, Dan and Linda Kiely, have been named joint ‘Tech Person of the Year’ at the IT@Cork Awards.

IT@Cork, the voluntary group which represents more than 200 companies working within tech in the Cork region, has launched its annual Leaders Awards.

The bosses of a company whose burgeoning global reputation has attracted clients such as Disney, PayPal, eBay, and Spotify have been named as Cork’s Tech Persons of the Year by their peers.

New uses, or even owners, for what was once Cork city’s largest employment base, the Dwyer family’s Sunbeam Wolsey textile plant are being sought.

Peter O’Dwyer casts an eye over the nominated firms in the emerging category in the Cork Company of The Year Awards 2016.

Here’s a quick summary of some of the events that you could go along to during the Startup Gathering in the coming week.

Cork needs to become a city where ideas can be tested and nurtured and less of a city of start-up office space, according to a leading tech entrepreneur.