In the category of ICS Skills ECDL Candidate of the Year 2010, the award goes to:

• James Lynch of O’Carolan College

ECDL Candidate of the Year - James Lynch

ICS Skills ECDL Teacher of the Year 2010 Award goes to:

• Marcus Cosgrave of St. Mac Dara’s Community College

ECDL Teacher of the Year - Marcus Cosgrave

ICS Skills ECDL Trainer of the Year 2010 Award goes to:

• Pat Colfer of FÁS Dundalk (received on Pat Colfers behalf by Una Halliday, FÁS co-ordinator)

ECDL Trainer of the Year - Pat Colfer

ICS Skills CTP Trainer of the Year 2010 is:

• Michelle Mathews

CTP Trainer of the Year - Michelle Mathews

ICS Skills Training Environment of the Year 2010 is awarded to:

• The Computer Workshop, Mountjoy Prison

Training Environment of the Year - The Computer Workshop, Mountjoy Prison

ICS Skills Best Practice in ATS 2010 award goes to:

• Moate Community School

Best Practice in ATS - Moate Community School. Received by Aoife Halligan, co-ordinartor

In the ICS Skills ‘Best Practice’ category our winners are:
(in no particular order)

• The Nagle Centre
• The Computer Workshop, Mountjoy Prison
• NUI Maynooth Computer Centre
• IT Centre, Mountmellick Development Association
• Co. Cavan VEC, Adult Education Services
• Cork County Council
• West Cork Business and Computer Training Limited

Best Practice Winners - The Nagle Centre.
Received by Sr. Josephine Deegan, co-ordinartor

Best Practice Winners - The Computer Workshop, Mountjoy Prison. Received by Anlette o' Connell and Valerie Bryne

Best Practice Winners - NUI Maynooth Computer Centre. Received by Eberhard Albrecht

Best Practice Winners - IT Centre, Mountmellick Development Association. Received by Imelda Burke

Best Practice Winners - Co. Cavan VEC Adult Education Services. Received by Noelette Dolan

Best Practice Winners - West Cork Business Centre.
Received by Angela Murphy

ICS Skills Green ICT Centre of the Year 2010 goes to:

• Ashbourne Community School (received on their behalf by Eileen Glackin)

Green ICT Centre of the Year - Ashbourne Community School

and finally, in the Category of ICS Skills Best Test Centre of the Year 2010, the winner is:

• NUI Maynooth Computer Centre

ICS Skills Best Centre 2010 - NUI Maynooth Computer Centre. Received by Eberhard Albrecht

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Training professionals, test centre managers, educators, training consultants, corporate HR and training managers converge for this unique one-day conference dedicated to the IT training profession.

•  Listen to leading industry speakers discussing “cutting edge” ideas, methods and theories 
• Partake in unparalleled networking opportunities
•  Gain insight into the newest industry developments
•  Browse courseware and testing providers

If you’re a training or human resources professional you won’t want to miss this conference.

A very special thanks to our sponsors!

You said: “Perhaps a hotel venue would be better [than the RDS].”

We said: “You’re right, let’s have it at the Clarion Liffey Valley. It’s classier, the accoustics and audio visuals are better, the lighting is better, it’s more accessible…the list goes on…”

You said: “Why don’t you have an event blog?”

We said: “Great idea!”

You said: “The lunch sack sandwiches weren’t very good.”

We said: “You’re right, they were expensive for what they were – we were disappointed, too, in their quality. This year we’re replacing the brown paper bags with a full, hot meal in the Clarion’s eatery downstairs from the conference. Yum.”

You said: “I wish there was more time to talk to other attendees and speakers.”

We said: “This year we’ve scaled back our speaker time to 45 minutes so that you would have more time to network, network, network.”

You said: “It’d be nice to have more info on the speakers in the delegate packs”

We said: “Very good idea, we’ll work on providing more detail about the speakers and their expertise.”

keynote: The Future of eCommerce and How it Will Affect Training Providers

Patrick explores emerging eCommerce trends, explains how eBay delivers for buyers and sellers and provides insight into how future trends will be important from both the perspective of the training provider and the client.

Rory O’Connor, Director, True Potential

Who Moved My Cheese – Rory delivers an abbreviated version of this outrageously popular training programme for developing Change Skills. True Potential provides a range of world-class Creativity, Innovation, and Change Management services.

Theo Lynn, Lecturer in Management, DCU Business School

Bridging the digital divide: implications for the IT Training sector

Theo probes the current state of the digital divide: the challenges and opportunities before trainers today.

Roy Jackson, International Trainer Provider

Change, e-facilitation and communications

Roy discusses change, e-Facilitation and communications (or rather miscommunications) within a company. Roy shows us with proper training in these domains, companies can save tens of thousands of euro per year.

The 11th National IT Training Conference brought to you by ICS Skills is back!
10th April 2008 at the Clarion Hotel in Liffey Valley