iQ Content sponsors Irish Internet Association’s Internet Congress

 – posted June 2nd, 2006 by Ann-Marie Smith     No comments

iQ Content sponsored this year’s IIA Internet Congress on May 25th in Killiney Castle, Dublin. The sell-out event centred around ‘Monetising the Internet’ and featured key note presentations from eBay, MSN, Yahoo!, Google, Bebo and Kennys.ie. Here’s a selection of photos from the day:

Speakers:

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The Congress Speakers

Congress Speakers: Peter Cobley, Yahoo! - Regional Account Director; Jim Scheinman, Bebo - VP Business Development & Sales; David Jesse, eBay Ireland - Managing Director; Colm Lyon, Realex - Founder & MD and John Herlihy, Google - Direct Online Sales & Operations

(Missing from the picture: Mark Charkin, MSN - Head of EMEA Regional Sales and Des Kenny Jr., Kennys.ie - Co-owner )

The iQ Team:

The iQ Team

The iQ Team: John Wood, Senior Analyst, Ann-Marie Smith, Marketing Manager and Gary Cosgrave, Commercial Manager demonstrating our recent partnership with Google.

New partnership:

Fergal O'Byrne and Ann-Marie Smith discussing the new partnership

Fergal O’Byrne, CEO, Irish Internet Association (IIA) and Ann-Marie Smith, Marketing Manager, iQ Content signing the ‘Masterclass training partnership‘.

The iQ Sweepstake:

The iQ sweepstakes winners

Morgan McKeagney, MD, iQ Content with Anthony Collins (on behalf of Dermot McNally, DirectSki) and Ruth MacPartlin, Fluid Rock, receiving their cheques for second and third place in the iQ Sweepstake.

Our competition on the day – The iQ Sweep Stake – gave attendees the chance to win cash prizes of €500, €100 and €50.

iQ Sweepstake participants placed a free online bet on specified race with Paddypower.com and Boylesports.com. Participants blindly drew their horse and placed their bet, while we captured their user-experience with our portable user testing lab. Read about our lab.

The race was televised at the event and the lucky winners collected their cash.

The results:

  • 1st place: €500 - Graham Ross, Betfair
  • 2nd place: €100 - Ruth MacPartlin, Fluid Rock
  • 3rd place: €50 - Dermot McNally, DirectSki

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