Ronan Lyons – Economic Realities Presentation

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Colm McCarthy and Ronan Lyons On The Economy

Arter an inspirational personal story from Richard Farleigh, Colm Lyon and Ronan Lyons had the task of brining us up to date with the challenges of the economy.

Here are some of the soundbites that were Tweeted:

krishnade: Colm McCarthy suggests that property related taxes led the collapse in the Irish economy #futurefocus

rogergalligan: #futurefocus McCarthy – property related taxes led to collapse in exchequer revenue €8bn -> €2bn due to fall in property transactions.

rogergalligan: #futurefocus McCarthy – property related taxes led to collapse in exchequer revenue €8bn -> €2bn due to fall in property transactions.

rogergalligan: #futurefocus McCarthy without 4 interventions debt would rise by 15% of gdp.Now it will be circa 10%. Will remain at 10% unless more changes

krishnade: 6 billion of hole in the exchequer in Ireland down to property and Colm McCarthy suggests UK will also have to take more action #futurefocus

krishnade: Colm McCarthy comments that Government spending will be up 6.9% on last year despite cuts #futurefocus

krishnade: Colm McCarthy “borrowing needs to be contained in 2009 and reduced decisively in 2010″ #futurefocus

fredchannel: Ronan: “4 Irish Elephants hiding at the back of the room: : Banking, budget, unemployment, property” #futurefocus

rogergalligan: #futurefocus Ronan Lyons, economist, now on feet. Green shoots of recovery…purchasing managers index is moving back upwards towards 50.

rogergalligan: #futurefocus quick question for audience…voting on when they think economy going to grow.. most plumb for “not for another year at least”.

krishnade: Comment that there has never been a more exciting time to start a new business due to technology says @ronanlyons #futurefocus

Here are some final statistics shared by Colm McCarthy:

Real GDP 8.6% in 1995- 2002 vs 5.3% in 2002-2008

Real GNP 7.2% in 1995- 2002 vs 5.2% in 2002-2008

Real GNDI 7.0% in 1995- 2002 vs 3.5% in 2002-2008

The message in summary is that we are still in for difficult challenges in the next few years here in Ireland. So how can technology and innovation help us navigate the uncertain times?

Well that’s the subject the audience is waiting to hear about in the sessions at Future Focus Dublin on communications and future technology.

By the way you will find Ronan Lyons on Twitter – @ronanlyons.

Author: Krishna De speaks, writes and consults on brand engagement and communications to build your visibility, reputation and profits through traditional and social media;  follow her on Twitter @krishnade.

Future Focus Dublin: Have You A Question For The Speakers?

Future Focus takes place in Dublin on 16 June and it is going to be a terrific day with industry experts and speakers from the UK and Ireland taking part.

The venue is the Guinness Storehouse and the day starts at 12.30pm.

The Chair of the event is James Bellini who describes himself as ‘an historian of the future’ and is interested in the key strategic challenges facing current and future business up to Horizon 2025, stretching to 2050.

I am delighted to have been approached by the Future Focus team to be a guest blogger, so I will be doing my best to capture insights from the event.

If you have not booked a place yet it is still not too late to book – HERE.

I also hope to catch up with a few speakers during the course of the day and capture an audio or video podcast which we can share later.

Be sure to watch out for the Twitter hashtag #futurefocus as I am sure there will be a few people Twittering. I’ll do my best to do so too – but it might be a bit challenging – you can find me at @krishnade.

And if you have questions for the speakers be sure to either Tweet me, DM me or leave a comment for me here and I’ll do my best to see if I can put your questions to the panels discussions during the day.

Just checking on Twitter Search and I see that two of the people attending tomorrow are @green_goddess (aka Caroline Taylor, an IBM executive – IBM being one of the sponsors of the Future Focus series) and @ronanlyons (Ronan Lyons is an economist and will be speaking at the conference).

I hope you will follow and join in the #futurefocus conversation.

I hope that my commentary will provide a useful summary of the event especially for people who are unable to attend.

And if you are unsure about how to follow conversations on Twitter with hashtags, here is a video I created a little while ago to explain how to use them:

1. You don’t need to have an account on Twitter to follow the conversation – you can watch it HERE

2. To participate in the conversation on Twitter you need to register your account on Twitter – here is a video that shows you how to get started on Twitter

3. You might like to use Tweetchat to filter all the #futurefocus conversations – it will automatically add #futurefocus at the end of your Tweet. You just need to register with your Twitter ID and password then enter the room #futurefocus.

Disclosure: I am not an employee of IBM or The Telegraph Business Club and all the opinions that I share here are my own – am also not paid to blog this event.

Author: Krishna De speaks, writes and consults on brand engagement and communications to build your visibility, reputation and profits through traditional and social media;  follow her on Twitter @krishnade.

VLOG 16: Future Focus Edinburgh – Ronan Lyons interview

Ronan Lyons, freelance economist, discusses the current economic climate and the use of personal computing and social media to create business value.