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Gateway to productdevelopment success

500 PM, November 21st, 2024

Inishowen Innovation (ii) hub

St. Oran’s Road, Buncrana, Inishowen

Join us at the Inishowen Innovation (ii) hub

Join us at the Inishowen Innovation (ii) hub on November 21st

Join us at the Inishowen Innovation (ii) hub on November 21st for a unique free workshop and Q&A session where we'll explore the opportunities and challenges of developing your own software product. This is your chance to ask questions, share your experiences, learn from others, and discover new solutions to drive your business forward.

  • Do you have a business challenge you think a custom digital product could solve?
  • Did you develop your product without proper user research and are you struggling to fix it?
  • Ready to turn your product vision into a reality?
  • If you had the right team to collaborate with, what digital product would you create?

Submit your product development challenges, issues, or ideas in advance, and with the help of our expert panel we will discuss potential solutions during the workshop. Whether you're struggling with user research, outsourcing, or overcoming common development obstacles, you’ll get valuable insights and guidance to help you achieve success.

Sign up and submit your challenge

Sign up for the event and submit your current product development challenge or idea here, and we’ll discuss potential solutions together at the workshop.

We'll be there

Ryan Bradley

Ryan Bradley

expert

Ryan has over 14 years in the IT Industry, working in several support and consulting positions within local government, retail ticketing and IT consulting. Ryan specialises in design, architecture and support of virtualisation, storage, network and private cloud infrastructure. Ryan's position within FireCloud365 is to define the overall technology strategy for the company.

Patrick Lynch

Patrick Lynch

expert

Patrick Lynch is the founder and CEO of Bioledger, a tool for the traceability of sustainable biofuels. He founded the company in 2019 supported by Techstars, NDRC and Cambridge University accelerators, after spending a decade delivering the international supply chain compliance programme for Greenergy, the UK's largest biofuel blender and Europe's biggest producer of waste based biodiesel.

Michalina Drozd

Michalina Drozd

speaker

Michalina is an experienced Product Owner with a passion for technology and an extensive track record in the software industry. She's led projects and delivery teams in startups and scaleups. As a PO/PM Team Lead at Gorrion, she has two major goals: to improve company project management standards and to remove obstacles that face her team. Personally, Michalina loves specialty coffees, her dog Milka, and tennis.

Dominik Guzy

Dominik Guzy

speaker

Dominik is the Chief Innovation Officer at Gorrion and a full-stack software developer by both heart and trade. He is passionate about new technologies, teaching, and open-source. Sharing knowledge is what truly drives him, so you’ll often find him speaking at conferences and meet-ups. After work, he tends to work even more, but he also likes boxing, cycling, and bartending.

Anne Marie McLaughlin

Anne Marie McLaughlin

host

Anne Marie is an Inishowen native who held senior roles in software development and innovation in the U.S. for 20 years before returning to enjoy the quality of life and opportunities Inishowen has to offer. She is passionate about achieving the ii's goals of advancing emerging tech knowledge, innovation and opportunity in the peninsula.

Organisers

  • Inishowen Innovation

    Inishowen Innovation

    globe theii.com

    Your gateway to growth and scaling opportunities, with access to world-class technological knowledge, and state-of-the-art co-working facilities.

  • Gorrion

    Gorrion

    globe gorrion.io

    Expert software development company with 15 years of experience helping ambitious entrepreneurs and companies – including several based in the North West – turn their vision into reality with remarkable software.

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500 PM, November 21st, 2024

Inishowen Innovation (ii) hub

St. Oran’s Road, Buncrana, Inishowen

Free admission, refreshments provided

Have a topic to discuss?

We’ll be discussing the most valuable lessons learned from our own experiences in digital product development and sharing solutions to common challenges. If you want your story to be discussed, tell us more about it below.

What others have said

What is the is the most efficient and effective way (in terms of time, money and resources) to deploy a micro SaaS solution for an MVP?
How can we market our digital products online without a physical product to showcase?
How can early-stage founders get meaningful user feedback on their prototypes without an established user base? Without a pre-existing user group, gathering genuine feedback on a prototype can be challenging. Real user insights are essential for refining a product and ensuring it meets user needs, but finding engaged users in the early stages can be a major hurdle. What are some effective strategies for reaching users and collecting valuable feedback?
How can non-technical founders effectively identify and hire the right engineers for their startups? Struggling with this challange often leads to delays, cost overruns, and even failed projects. Given the high stakes—time, money, and the founder’s vision—what strategies and safeguards can help non-technical founders avoid costly missteps in hiring and managing engineering talent?
How can we quickly build a functional, visually appealing prototype under time constraints? What are the best tools or frameworks to create a fast, cohesive prototype? What are some tips for prioritizing key features and avoiding over-polishing during rapid prototyping?
I struggle with the time need for development. I always think it should be quicker to reach the end point than what it is in reality. How can we improve communication regarding the reality of development time?
Not all outsourced development teams are the same. Many people have been 'burned' in the past. What type of advice would you give an early stage start-up to help them review an outsource dev company before engaging them?
Software development is a major investment for any company. Ultimately, you will need a return on that investment, For a start-up, that will be customers and/or revenue. To be able to drive revenue from the product, you will need to be able to invest enough in the software for it to deliver quality. Start-up should be realistic about the cost of software development. An outsourced team will bring multiple skillsets that a sole in-house employee is unlikely to match.
In my experience overlooking technical debt and not including it in your roadmap planning from the outset can cause development timelines to slip. Technical debt needs to be addressed proactively rather than becoming a bottleneck.