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Online registration is available until: Thursday ^7th November

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The IT Tralee Business Studies Department celebrates 40 years as one of the major Business education providers in the South West this September. From our initial beginnings with seven NCEA National Certificate in Business Studies graduates in 1975, the department has grown from strength to strength and now offers a range of awards from Higher Certificate to Master’s degree level. Over the years there have been over 4000 business graduates; who are now in significant roles within companies regionally, elsewhere in Ireland and internationally.

To mark the occasion, the Business Studies Department invites its Business graduates to the Tralee RTC/ IT Tralee Business Graduate Gathering 2013 taking place on 9^th November.  This will comprise a series of networking events and tours within the IT Tralee North and South campuses during the day and a gala dinner at Ballygarry House Hotel and Spa in the evening. Dinner menu available for you to view: Tralee RTC IT Tralee Business Gala Ball Details of the networking events to follow.

We encourage all our graduates to attend what promises to be a fabulous graduate occasion. Connect with past colleagues by joining the IT Tralee Business Alumni Linkedin Group.

Ballygarry House Hotel and Spa is offering accommodation at special rates for this event – BOOK NOW

Special accommodation rates are also available from the Brandon Hotel (066) 712 3333, Manor West Hotel Spa & Leisure Club (066) 719 4500 and the Meadowlands Hotel (066) 718 0444 by mentioning Tralee RTC/ IT Tralee Business Graduate Gathering 2013

Queries: Ms Jackie Gavaghan Tel: 066 7191913 Email: business.graduate.gathering@ittralee.ie
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“Connecting and Sharing Lessons”

RTC/IT Tralee Business Graduate Gathering - Networking Event

Schedule

10.30am          Registration                                                                           

10.45am          Conference Opening

                       Chairperson Mr Cyril Gavaghan – Marketing Lecturer, IT Tralee

10.50am          Dr Oliver Murphy - IT Tralee President

                        Welcome Address

10.55am          Ms Aoife Hannon – Couture Milliner

                       Turning her passion into a Business

11.15am          Mr Sean Murphy - Co-Founder Murphy’s Ice Cream

                        Building a Brand “Ice Cream that Knows where it’s coming from…”

11.25am          Time to Network

11.45am          Mr Niall O’Connell Managing Partner Midpoint HR

                       Scaling a Business on a National & International Stage

11.55am          Mr Wayne Donovan - Export Sales Manager, Kepak Group

                       Growth, Innovation and Smart Capital

12.05pm          Dr Edmond Harty CEO & Technical director Dairymaster 

                        The Story of Dairymaster       

12.25pm          Mr Ogie Moran - Foundation Director, IT Tralee

                        Introducing Kerry Technology Park

12.35pm          Q & A with Panel                                                                  

1.00pm            Lunch                                                                                     

2.00pm            College Tours with Tadgh O’Shea

                       Economics Lecturer School Of Business IT Tralee    

Tralee RTC/ I T Tralee Business Studies Department Milestones

1973 First intake of Business Studies students. The appointment of the Dr Joe McGarry and Dr Sean Nagle as the first two lecturers.

1975 Seven NCEA National Certificate in Business Studies graduates.

1977 Designated as a Regional Technical College.

1982 First graduates of National Diploma in Business Studies (Agri-Business)

1986 South Campus building opens – 1,000 full-time students.

1988 Kerry Innovation Centre opens in South Campus.

1989 First graduates of the National Diploma in Business Studies

1990 First graduates of National Diploma in Business Studies (Accounting and Finance)

First graduates of the National Certificate in Advanced Business Studies.

1993 Tralee RTC gets autonomy under the RTC Act and First National Diploma (Level 7) in Business Studies Marketing (28 graduates) and Accounting (29 graduates).

1994 First Bachelor of Business Studies Honours (33 graduates).

1995 National Forbairt Student Enterprise Award won by Tralee RTC: 4 Business students (John Downes, Patrick Mescall, Susan Barry, Ivor Browne McAuliffe) and Science student Sinead Hallihan.

CIMA Colleges Management Game won by Tralee RTC Business Students: Justin McCarthy, Breffini Murphy, Paddy Flaherty and Fabien Rousseau.

1997 College designated as an Institute of Technology.

1998 First Master of Business Studies by Research graduate (Patrick McElligott).

2001 Business Studies Department relocates to the new North Campus building on site shared with Shannon Development’s Kerry Technology Park.

2004 IT Tralee receives delegated authority to confer awards to Master’s degree level.

2007 First Newstalk Student Enterprise Case Competition participants (Jerry Kelliher, Eamon Fitzgerald, Maxime Couturier and Roderick Glahn). First Bachelor of Business Studies (Honours) in Management (19 graduates) and First Master of Business Studies (taught programme) (13 graduates).

2009 MBA graduates conferred for the first time (15 graduates).

2010 First Business PhD (Dr Deirdre Bane).

2013 Sharon O’Donoghue, Brook Catering and IT Tralee graduate of BBS (Marketing) 1999, wins Network Ireland Business Woman of the Year for Established Business