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Welcome Reception by Aoife Budd, Vice Consul, Universities as Economic Engines O V E

Consulate General of Ireland in New England Chair: James Davitt Rooney, Rooney Associates LLC M B

Prof. Mark Durkin Executive Dean of the Ulster E (535 Boylston Street, Boston) By Invitation only Panel: R

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6pm: Céad Míle Fáilte : Aoife Budd, Vice Consul of Ireland Rob McCarron, SVP, Association of Independent Colleges 1 8 /

Welcome to the Capital of Irish America : Rep. Daniel J. Ryan and Universities Massachusetts

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6:15pm: Launch of Cósta Chonamara & Árainn Dr Steve Spinelli, President, Philadelphia, University w w . i r i

Maeve Seoighe, Destination Tourism Manager, Údarás na Gaeltachta 11:35am Golden Bridges Soapbox: Coming Home: s h e

Bringing the Great Hunger Art Collection to Derry c h o . Ryan Mahony, Executive Director, Ireland's c

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Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, CT 11:45am Fostering Enterprise in Peripheral Regions - The Gaeltacht Experience Chair: John Foley, Foley Law Offices, Boston Mark de Faoite, Údarás na Gaeltachta Moynihan Laura Hamilton Panel: Principal, Executive Vice President, US Joe Connolly, West Galway Distillery - Branding the Gaeltacht The Moynihan Group Operations, RxCelerate Kieran Mulhern, Tríona Design, Donegal Tweed Friday, November 16th 2018 Michael Tunney, Head of Enterprise and Economic Development, Donegal County Councl 7:45am : Registration (Cityview Ballroom, World Trade Center, Boston) 12:10pm Golden Bridges Soapbox: Donegal Connect 2019 8am : Business Breakfast (Plated breakfast) Joanne Kilmartin, Donegal Diaspora Executive 8:20am Maintaining the Momentum: 12:20pm Golden Bridges Soapbox: A Resurgent Northwest Ireland Garvan O’Doherty: Queen’s Quay Plaza, Derry Chair: Ray O’Hanlon, Editor, The Irish Echo 12:30pm Reimagining our Cities: Panel: John Kelpie, CEO, Derry City and Strabane District Council Driving an Agenda of Transformation Seamus Neely, CEO, Donegal County Council Chair: Katie Stebbins, Vice-President of Economic 9am : Official Opening: Shane Cahill, Consul General of Ireland, Development, University of Massachusetts New England Panel: Garvan O’Doherty, Garvan O’Doherty Group 9:05am: Welcome: Mayor John Boyle, Derry City and June Matte, Managing Director, PFM, Boston Strabane District Council Golden, Director, Boston Planning and Mayor Seamus Ó Domhnaill, Donegal County Council Development Agency 9:25am Rolling out the Red Carpet: Fulfilling the Tourism Thomas McGee, Mayor of Lynn, MA Potential of the Northwest Eunan Quinn, Community Enterprise & Planning Services, Chair: Nuala Friel-Wright Donegal County Council Panel : Billy Condon, VP Marketing, Tourism Ireland 12:55pm Conference Close Stephen Gillespie, Director of Business & Culture, DCSDC Seoighe, Destination Tourism Manager, Údarás na Gaeltachta Golden Bridges Awards Luncheon. Garry Martin, Director of Economic Development, (The Harborview Ballroom, World Trade Center ) Donegal County Council 12:30pm Wine Reception and Registration 9:50am: Golden Bridges Soapbox: Irish Cultural Center of New England 1pm Awards & Lunch 10am : Driving Business Success in the Northwest Host: Ray O’Hanlon, Editor, The Irish Echo Chair: Therese Murray, President and CEO, MassIgnite Guest Speaker: Senator Rush, Panel: Peter Barber, Director, Allstate NI, Derry State Senate of Massachusetts Adrian McMorrow, Site Director, Abbott Diabetes Care, Donegal Honorees: Abbott Diabetes Care Donegal, Katie Coyle, Randox Laboratories Represented by Adrian McMorrow, Site Director, Donegal 10:25am Golden Bridges Soapbox: Mary Sugrue, Allstate represented by Peter Barber, Director, Allstate NI CEO Irish American Partnership McGloin 10:35am Talent First: A Northwest Solution to a Global Problem Dave Barrett, Director, ICCNE, Recipient of Dave Burke Award Chair: Maureen Bennett, Partner, Jones Day Monahan (Irish Echo Labor Leader 2018) Panel: Garry Martin, Director of Economic Development, Margaret Lynch, Irish American Archives Society, Cleveland, Ohio Donegal County Council Tim Murray, Worcester Chamber of Commerce Kevin O’Connor, Head of Business, Dr Steve Spinelli, President, Philadelphia University Derry City and Strabane District Council Victoria Denoon Susan Whoriskey, Biotech Entrepreneur, MA Vinny O’Malley, Executive Director, Maine Irish Heritage Cente Ciaran Hynes, Managing Partner, Cosimo, Ventures Eddie Friel, Director of Development & Alumni, Ulster University 11am Golden Bridges Soapbox: A hybrid future for Northern Ireland: a vision from Ulster University Business School. Prof. Mark Durkin, Executive Dean of the Ulster University Business School Mayor John Boyle, Mayor Seamus Ó Domhnaill, Derry City and Strabane Donegal County Council District Council