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Friday 11 April 2014

Winners! Leaders of Tomorrow 2014

Nubi Kayode and Alex Keaney were chosen as winners with OnePlace.
From Alex's FB photos: Pitching for the penultimate time to Accenture leaders and competition.
"Bring on the final — with Nubi Kay at Accenture Grand Canal Plaza."
OnePlace is an application to make messaging simple again. OnePlace aggregates all of your messaging apps, allows for smart sending (so you send to active and priority recipient accounts), and consolidate in-bound messages from multiple platforms for better context.
They will travel to Accenture’s New York Digital Innovation Centre and have the opportunity to pursue their business idea in a dedicated space on the NDRC Launchpad programme, Ireland’s leading digital accelerator platform. They will receive expert mentorship, weekly workshops and more to make their idea their future and become a Leader of Tomorrow. They also have the option of a 6 month Leadership Internship with Accenture.
The Leaders of Tomorrow competition aims to identify, foster and recognise leadership potential and innovative thinking amongst aspiring entrepreneurs in Ireland.

Wednesday 9 April 2014

Leaders of Tomorrow Award 2014


Kayode Nubi and Alex Keaney at the LoT Pitch Meeting

Four students on the MSc iBusiness - Innovation through ICT programme entered this year's "Leaders of Tomorrow" competition.
Cathal McNamara and Darragh Leahy with QR-Stamp, a system for making post easy; and Nubi Kayode and Alex Keaney with OnePlace, an application to make messaging simple again.
Kayode Nubi and Alex Keaney were selected as finalists, while Cathal and Darragh made it through to the second round.
The winner from the top six finalists will be announced at the 2014 LoT award ceremony, Thursday April 10th, 6pm at Accenture, 4th floor, 1 Grand Canal Square.
The Leaders of Tomorrow competition aims to identify, foster and recognise leadership potential and innovative thinking amongst aspiring entrepreneurs in Ireland.