2009 Press Releases
UCC Teams win All-Island Enterprise Awards
12.06.2009
Two Teams from University College Cork (UCC) were awarded top prizes at the 2009 Enterprise Ireland Student Enterprise Awards, Ireland’s biggest third level business awards.
12.06.2009
Two Teams from University College Cork (UCC) were awarded top prizes at the 2009 Enterprise Ireland Student Enterprise Awards, Ireland’s biggest third level business awards.
The award ceremony, sponsored by Enterprise Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland and Cruickshank Intellectual Property Attorneys, was held in the University of Ulster, Coleraine. This year marks the 26th anniversary of the Enterprise Ireland Student Enterprise Awards, an all island competition that offers third level student teams from the island of Ireland the chance to explore business ideas and realise their entrepreneurial ambitions.
UCC’s ‘G-One Trading’ team won the Export Capability Award, while ‘Epitome IT’ won an Award of Merit, securing €10,000 in prize money between the UCC entries.
G-One Trading received significant guidance from their industry mentor Mary Byrne (CEO, Statistical Solutions). While Epitome IT were supported by Dr Geraldine Boylan and Dr Louise Burgoyne (Both Neonatal Research Group, School of Medicine, UCC) and Industry Mentor Ed Crosbie (ATMS). The two UCC teams are students from the MBS(BIS) programme and their Innovation module is directed by Dr. Brian O’Flaherty and Dr. John O’Donoghue.
Team Summaries
G-One Trading – University College Cork (UCC)
Tommy Brophy, Barry Houlihan, Sean Duggan, Richard Barrett & Niall Douglas
Export Capability Award
G-One Trading are the proud developers of a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool called WebATDL for remotely or locally generating and maintaining industry standard FIXatdl trading algorithm interfaces for the algorithmic trading financial services industry. This allows clients to reduce by up to 20% the operational costs of maintaining algorithm implementations across bespoke trading environments. Their platform-agnostic Web 2.0 FIXatdl editor leverages cutting edge industry standard web browser technologies such as AJAX, XML, Javascript and XSLT to provide an intuitive and immersive editing experience which surpasses all other alternatives in a convenient and flexible fashion.
Epitome IT – University College Cork (UCC)
Cliona Moore, Aisling Gleeson, Stephen Connolly, Mark O’Donovan & William Quigley
Award of Merit
Epitome IT is developing a web-based service for Neonatal Units for the online diagnosis of seizures in premature babies. Newborn babies, highly susceptible to brain seizures, require EEG brain scan interpretation and seizure treatment, ideally within 6 hours of seizure occurrence. A lack of specialists with EEG reporting skills on hand, often results in delayed diagnosis. This service will allow neonatal specialists to upload an EEG scan where a consultant with EEG reporting skills can view and report on an EEG resulting in faster reporting of seizures and faster administration of effective treatment, therefore helping to prevent the long term problems and costs associated with untreated brain seizures.
Photograph shows the UCC teams with Richard Murphy, Head of Regional Development, Enterprise Ireland.
1140MMcS
UCC’s ‘G-One Trading’ team won the Export Capability Award, while ‘Epitome IT’ won an Award of Merit, securing €10,000 in prize money between the UCC entries.
G-One Trading received significant guidance from their industry mentor Mary Byrne (CEO, Statistical Solutions). While Epitome IT were supported by Dr Geraldine Boylan and Dr Louise Burgoyne (Both Neonatal Research Group, School of Medicine, UCC) and Industry Mentor Ed Crosbie (ATMS). The two UCC teams are students from the MBS(BIS) programme and their Innovation module is directed by Dr. Brian O’Flaherty and Dr. John O’Donoghue.
Team Summaries
G-One Trading – University College Cork (UCC)
Tommy Brophy, Barry Houlihan, Sean Duggan, Richard Barrett & Niall Douglas
Export Capability Award
G-One Trading are the proud developers of a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool called WebATDL for remotely or locally generating and maintaining industry standard FIXatdl trading algorithm interfaces for the algorithmic trading financial services industry. This allows clients to reduce by up to 20% the operational costs of maintaining algorithm implementations across bespoke trading environments. Their platform-agnostic Web 2.0 FIXatdl editor leverages cutting edge industry standard web browser technologies such as AJAX, XML, Javascript and XSLT to provide an intuitive and immersive editing experience which surpasses all other alternatives in a convenient and flexible fashion.
Epitome IT – University College Cork (UCC)
Cliona Moore, Aisling Gleeson, Stephen Connolly, Mark O’Donovan & William Quigley
Award of Merit
Epitome IT is developing a web-based service for Neonatal Units for the online diagnosis of seizures in premature babies. Newborn babies, highly susceptible to brain seizures, require EEG brain scan interpretation and seizure treatment, ideally within 6 hours of seizure occurrence. A lack of specialists with EEG reporting skills on hand, often results in delayed diagnosis. This service will allow neonatal specialists to upload an EEG scan where a consultant with EEG reporting skills can view and report on an EEG resulting in faster reporting of seizures and faster administration of effective treatment, therefore helping to prevent the long term problems and costs associated with untreated brain seizures.
Photograph shows the UCC teams with Richard Murphy, Head of Regional Development, Enterprise Ireland.
1140MMcS