By @SimonCocking. Another great month for interesting and varied content. Here is the first selection from April that you may have missed to digest over the weekend.

Drone Expo is here! A primer for the weekend

Can technology save us from itself? By Daniel James Coll and Vahur Orrin

Pat Carroll, Bank of Ireland Startup Community Manager for Limerick interviewed by Niall O’Gorman

Prioritising and The Importance of Saying “No”

Worlds first ever Island BioBlitz to take place on Irish offshore islands June 2016. Liam Lysaght, National Biodiversity Data Centre explains more

Blockchain tech will be widely adopted in finserv industry. FinTech insights by Pascal Bouvier, Santander InnoVentures

Samsung Galaxy s7 and s7 Edge Launch “A new perspective”, by David Akinsanya

Sony launches RX10 III with extended super-telephoto zoom lens covering 24-600mm

Rethinking Marketplaces and Why ‘The Uber of’ in Hair and Beauty is a Fallacy, by Conor Keppel

The future of fintech will be collaboration between traditional banks and fintech startups. Ron Shevlin, Cornerstone Advisors, Smarter Bank author

Love what you do, you will do a lot of it! Startup tips from Keith Ferrazzi #1 NY Times Bestselling Author

Keep pushing the boundaries and always, always embrace humour! Jillian Godsill to speak at HERizon event, April 28 – 30th

Virtual Reality. The New Medium for Everything? By Damian Cranney

Mobile Banking, Evolution or Revolution by Bernardo Nicoletti

10 key tips for digital agencies starting out. Rob Reid, Senior consultant for Advertising M&A, chairman of Startup Van

Talk is cheap, startup failure and how to avoid it. Advice for startups by Leanne Ross

Design a logo for nasa andlaunch it to outer space

Four big ideas emerge from PageFair global stakeholder roundtable, by Johnny Ryan

Craggy island festival, July 15 – 17th

Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics, book and training course available

Irish Surf Film Festival Moves West to County Sligo for 2016

#GaryVeeDublin, Gary Vaynerchuk in words and pictures


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